Digital Health Global

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Key highlights from the publication: The model—which was built using anonymized patient data from 16,917 real-world primary care clinical cases—was designed and validated to help physicians personalize treatment and stabilize patients with hypertension at the point of care. Vice President of Data Science at K Health.

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Iris Telehealth

MARCH 4, 2024

The role of behavioral health in primary care Behavioral health factors have a strong influence on patient morbidity and mortality. In fact, according to the American Academy of Family Physicians , as many as 75% of primary care visits include mental or behavioral health components. And they don’t have to.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The most common conditions employers, plans, and health systems are covering via digital tools are diabetes, among two-thirds of the purchasers; primary care, for 62%; and mental health, preventive care, and cardiovascular conditions for over 50% of purchasers.

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MeMD

APRIL 26, 2022

This is especially true of primary care. Indeed, virtual primary care plans are popping up all over as healthcare companies race to introduce new products and capture market share. This quick shift has led to care plans that often are piecemeal and don’t provide the full spectrum of primary care services.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Eve Cunningham, MD, MBA, GVP, Chief of Virtual Care and Digital Health at Providence Health presented a few AI use cases including an impactful example which empowers PCPs for better care decisions. Given the shortage of primary care doctors and specialists, optimization of the referral process is critical to access to care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 22, 2020

As many as 20% of primary care practices predict they could close within four weeks because of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a survey conducted between April 10 and April 13 by the non-profit Primary Care Collaborative. For example, during the COVID-19 pandemic, business at Gastro Health in Miami came to a halt.

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Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Flare Capital Partners' Ian Chiang describes the key capabilities of a value-based care enablement platform for providers, highlights successful platform examples and offers a framework for entrepreneurs seeking a provider partner.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Leveraging telehealth and telemedicine technologies, patients can receive primary care or specialized consultations virtually, regardless of location. For example, they can offer personalized and coherent experiences for members to access different virtual services. This is invaluable for everyone in the U.S.,

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Wearable devices can improve patient care, track personal health data remotely, and even prevent patient deterioration or health problems before they occur. We will discuss the benefits later but let’s first talk about the 5 examples of wearable medical devices currently being used in this industry. Wearable Biosensors.

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American Well

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Here are telemedicine examples from two top health systems and a top employer, all of which demonstrate their unique approach to telehealth implementation. Southwest Medical is another unique telemedicine example. Adecco offers a great telemedicine example for employers.

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American Well

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Here are telemedicine examples from two top health systems and a top employer, all of which demonstrate their unique approach to telehealth implementation. Southwest Medical is another unique telemedicine example. Adecco offers a great telemedicine example for employers.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

For example, according to a new research paper appearing in the Journal […]. Most of us know that these technologies have a very promising future, but until recently it hasn’t been clear just when practical applications will emerge. That could be changing, though.

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Lloyd Price

JULY 19, 2019

Second, primary care meaningfully improves one’s health and longevity by virtue of prevention, early treatment and effective on-going management of acute and chronic issues. But lastly, and perhaps most importantly, high quality primary care can now be augmented with deep technology and delivered via a smartphone.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 27, 2022

This latest award is a $2 million grant that will allow our applied researchers to establish a patient safety learning laboratory over a four-year funding period, applying a cross-disciplinary, human factors and systems engineering approach to connected care enhancements. Since health systems across the U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 22, 2022

That report spoke to the importance of connecting the disconnected health care landscape, including primary care, pharmacy, diagnostics, secondary care/hospitals, health technology providers, insurers, and information stewards, among other stakeholders in the fragmented health/care ecosystem.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

WHY IT MATTERS With billions of dollars invested this past year, such as CVS Health's purchase of Signify Health , the AHA report highlights retail healthcare companies having grabbed significant market share in primary care, concierge medicine, virtual care and in-home medical services. One example is Amazon.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Geisinger plans to open more clinics for primary care, senior care, and convenient/retail care. Virtual first and direct primary care for faster on-ramps to care. patients still delaying care is lack of easy access to primary care , especially risky for patients dealing with chronic conditions.

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KevinMD

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

health care, so far. Artificial intelligence, for example, outperforms physicians in many complex tasks (like reading mammograms and analyzing chest X-rays), yet AI remains woefully underused. Big Tech has had a surprisingly small impact on U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The services address primary care, outpatient specialty consults, emergency or urgent care, hospital, and outpatient mental and behavioral health — capabilities already in place that need to scale. What factors must underpin this Holy Grail of care at home, or “anywhere?”

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iSALUS Healthcare

MAY 22, 2018

Much of the conversation surrounding telehealth is centered on primary care and how physicians can utilize telehealth to reach patients and improve their practice. Everything that is being said is absolutely true - telecommunication technology is revolutionizing patient care for doctors. Additionally, 80.7%

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 5, 2024

Panelists will explore the buy versus build dilemma, including the integration of in-house clinicians and external providers, as well as the evolving primary care landscape and infrastructure optimization for virtual care expansion. HIMSS24 is scheduled to take place March 11-15 in Orlando. Learn more and register.

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Health Populi

JUNE 20, 2022

These two companies have their roots and original business models in retail pharmacy… today, they are morphing into health/care providers and service organizations, especially in an increasingly crowded and creative primary care market-space. That’s on the supply side.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 18, 2021

A wide-ranging study published in the Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare this past month found that telehealth can be an effective modality of care for patients over 60, particularly when deployed in the confines of their existing primary care provider. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

This is especially true in primary care where there are not enough physicians to meet the growing patient demand. Pharmacists, for example, are trained and licensed to prescribe and renew a small number of medications. This is leading to access challenges and to burnout.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

health care” citing the example of weight loss medications — in short, the uptake of GLP-1 drugs to address Type 2 diabetes first, and subsequently obesity. “If the U.S. Dr. Cutler, distinguished economics professor at Harvard, talks about “the pathology of U.S.

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GlobalMed

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Software such as Skype or Zoom is used for primary care, follow-up visits, prescription management, chronic illness assessments, and psychotherapy sessions. Together these two dynamics can make telemedicine a valuable part of everyday care for the geriatric population.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 3, 2023

.” The H-a-H Framework is illustrated here, with the patient’s home environment is positioned at the center of the circle which identifies various care services including: Ambulatory care, covering primary care, chronic care, specialty care, mental and behavioral health, oncology-at-home, dialysis, infusion On-demand and urgent care, which (..)

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

"Nationwide averages also obscure the variation among states and territories; for example, Arizona has only 8.5% of its psychiatric health care needs met and would need 227 psychiatrists to meet 100% of these needs.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2024

For health care in 2030, I’ve thought about each driving force and then gotten more granular in the second column focusing a bit deeper on the factor and how it might play out in 2030.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 31, 2023

Consider the extent to which employers and health plans are pouring resources into virtual primary care. Today, 40% of employers plan to implement a virtual primary care benefit model this year, according to Mercer. Meanwhile, health insurers are ramping up virtual-first models for members, including for primary care.

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: How to mitigate the supply-and-demand gap between growing health citizen needs for care as we age, and a shortage of doctors? Consider a subset of physician shortage shown here in the third chart — that is the shortage expected for primary care doctors.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 6, 2024

With the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Memorial launched telehealth for all its primary care and specialty centers, and today conducts about 100,000 virtual visits per year. "Upon completion of the visit, the encounter information is automatically sent to Memorial via Epic's Care Everywhere and Telehealth Anywhere functionality.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

One big reason for this is the availability of smart capabilities such as Bluetooth enablement (for example, Bluetooth-enabled digital scales or a digital glucometer that can measure total cholesterol, glucose and triglycerides, and transmit this information into a personal health record). Several examples come to mind here.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 5, 2022

Younger generations had larger proportions of innovators and early adopters, as did behavioral health and primary care physicians. Of the 3,473 physicians, 13.8% were innovators, 45.0% were early adopters, 35.6% were in "the majority" and 5.6% were persistent non-adopters. THE LARGER TREND.

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Health Populi

JULY 10, 2023

Look for other health-related deals, too; for example, Amazon’s announcement served up “[savings] up to 40% on Peloton Bike, Bike+, Guide, accessories, and select apparel.” In this case, it’s about virtual primary care that’s convenient and relatively inexpensive.

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Iris Telehealth

JULY 3, 2023

Integrated mental health services acknowledge that mental health and physical health don’t exist in silos and make high-quality care a reality for patients across the country. Additionally, it can also increase patient satisfaction in various primary care settings, including rural and urban communities.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

In one section of the report, McKinsey focuses on the behavioral health impacts of the pandemic, noting the costs of these are additive to the physical an acute care effects of COVID-19. Data indicate greater rates of binge drinking and insomnia, for example. health care system in terms of workflow and payment parity.

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