Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Their ten must-do’s for bending the cost curve while driving constructive change for a better health care system are to: Ensure access. Achieve health equity. Stability the safety net and rebuild public health. Address social determinants of health. Accelerate digital health. Innovate long-term care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Telemedicine has been gaining a lot of steam in recent years. As a result, provider organization CIOs and other health IT leaders have had their hands full finding and implementing new telemedicine technologies to help their organizations best reach as many patients as possible in the most efficient manner as possible.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 6, 2024

There are all kinds of specialist services provided by telemedicine – telepsychiatry, teleradiology, tele-ICU, just to name a few. But there's a unique telemedicine service that has been growing that merits attention: medical device prescriptions via virtual care. With the U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. TripleTree is an investment bank that has advised health care transactions since 1997. In 2019, J.D.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

” [i] “We have moved forward a decade in the use of telemedicine in this country, and it’s going to become and will remain an increasingly important part of physician practices going forward.” How can telehealth providers prepare for the changes expected to come at the end of the public health emergency?

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

The coronavirus spawned another kind of gift to China and the nation’s health citizens: telemedicine, the essay explains. COVID-19 accelerated telemedicine adoption, the story goes, being accessed mainstream through major regions of China. What can we expect to hear relevant to the public health challenge?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2022

Pennsylvania's Geisinger health system faces several challenges common to the healthcare industry, such as improving access to care, recruiting and retaining providers, and scaling technologies for rapid deployment across multiple campuses and dozens of medical specialties. THE PROBLEM. " David Fletcher, Geisinger. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center in New Haven, Connecticut, as a community health center, always had faced a range of treatment barriers that made it difficult, if not impossible, for patients to attend in-person appointments pre-COVID – and for which telemedicine would have been a viable alternative. THE PROBLEM.

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Continue Education Journal

JUNE 12, 2019

Telehealth and Telemedicine Definition. We often hear telehealth and telemedicine used interchangeably, so let’s set the record straight – telehealth is the umbrella term that refers to medical services that healthcare practitioners provide to patients from a distance.

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Health Populi

MAY 4, 2020

There remains a plethora of “testing deserts” throughout the U.S., “stemming from an overwhelmed supply chain and a disjointed public health system,” NPR observed. public health patchwork quilt. The private sector in the U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

“Yes,” we concurred on our session convened by the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) EDGE session today. Antoinette posed three questions for all of us to brainstorm, addressing various aspects of health equity. Understanding the health inequities borne by “telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 28, 2024

WHAT IT'S ABOUT During the groundbreaking ceremony, Health Minister Ong Ye Kung revealed that the EGH campus will be "digitally enabled from the start," particularly offering telemedicine. Enterprise Taxonomy: Telehealth Population and Public Health Patient Access Care

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2023

The fast-growing adoption of telemedicine and remote patient monitoring from the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic led to hospitals and health systems launching new or expanding existing virtual care programs to accommodate a new reality for work-flow and patient care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Sun River Health was among the first organizations to receive funding under the Federal Communications Commission COVID-19 Telehealth Program. Prior to implementing the telemedicine technology supported by the FCC program funds, Sun River Health had relatively limited and targeted capacity to support remote visits. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2022

A new study published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons sought to take a closer look at the patients who sought surgical consultations in-person and via telemedicine in 2020. "Importantly, telemedicine use patterns continue to evolve during the pandemic. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 16, 2022

For example, Babylon Health offers a symptom checker and AI/ML driven diagnosis recommendations to patients. It is no wonder that telehealth is a key focus seeing as the global telemedicine market size is forecasted to grow to USD175.5 A 60-70% surge in demand for these services was seen due to COVID-19. billion by 2026.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2020

Telemedicine has helped to bridge the access divide between the clinic’s rural and urban communities. The particular telemedicine solution depends on the need presented. Alternatively, direct-to-patient video telemedicine is used to offer follow-up care at a distance. ” MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

"CMS and state efforts to evaluate and oversee telehealth are critical to meeting Medicaid enrollees' behavioral health needs and to safeguarding the Medicaid program from potential fraud, waste and abuse," wrote OIG officials. In response to COVID-19, patients have regularly turned to telemedicine for behavioral health needs.

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Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2020

As we wrestle with just “what” health care will look like “after COVID,” there’s one certainty that we can embrace in our health planning and forecasting efforts: that’s the persistence of telehealth and virtual care into health care work- and life-flows, for clinicians and consumers alike and aligned.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Among the clearest economic development rationales for digital health is for expanding telehealth in rural America. This was the topic of a recent meet-up convened by NTCA – The Rural Broadband Association, discussing the economic returns of telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 18, 2020

Discussion on the definitions for telehealth, telecare, telemedicine and other terms under the digital health and care umbrella is always required, and will be discussed in greater detail during the HIMSS & Health 2.0 However, these sessions usually begin with a hurdle to be overcome – that of terminology.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The VA has been putting major emphasis and investing big resources on its telemedicine and virtual care offerings in recent years, and embarking on many private-sector partnerships. The technology also allows me to stay connected with my doctors when I am not near a Wi-Fi connection or near the VA medical center."

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

live under a broadband monopoly, explicitly pointing to Comcast as a prime example of an obstructive force in building out broadband to the last mile and citizen’s home. Among many reasons broadband continues to lag in certain parts of the U.S. is the monopoly power of ISPs: ILSR gauges that 83 million people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 9, 2020

Combine these new life-flows with conflicting information about the nature, severity, and life-span of COVID-19: From three levels of government leaders: The President and the Executive Branch at the Federal Level, Governors of States, and Mayors of cities; Public health agencies, especially the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

We can save so much money and time that's going into healthcare if we take full advantage of the telehealth and telemedicine tools. Public health in particular can leverage telehealth to great advantage. And don’t forget, it’s quite difficult to have telehealth without broadband. Strategically speaking.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced earlier this month , for example, that it would add 11 virtual services to its reimbursement list during the COVID-19 public health emergency – following in the footsteps of its earlier flexibilities for virtual care.

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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

MARCH 31, 2020

Gaming is up: Twitch and YouTube Gaming, for example, are benefiting from rising demand for online gaming, and Xbox Live and PlayStation Plus are gaining new adopters. Sidebar: this has been a criticism of a digital health divide based on socioeconomic status for some time]. Sling TV, YouTube TV). Stay well and stay home!

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2021

In the larger public and population health context, on the patient side, we can expect the burden of disease beyond COVID to increase due to postponed care and treatment backlogs. for example, for heart disease and cardiovascular complications as well as for cancers. This has been found to be the case in the U.S.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

For example, treating major chronic illnesses such as cardiovascular diseases or cancer requires continuously monitored data to optimize medication. Take an allergist, for example. Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare. BMC Public Health. Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare. Monagesh et al. Reay at al.

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GlobalMed

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

By making healthcare more accessible, telehealth ensures that more people receive timely medical attention, ultimately improving health outcomes. For example, via virtual consultations, patients are able to connect with their healthcare providers without ever leaving their home.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The American Telemedicine Association was among several groups this week that submitted comments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services regarding the 2021 Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule. "The ATA appreciates CMS’ efforts to expand access to telemedicine." THE LARGER TREND. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 2, 2021

However, the public health emergency also acted as an opportunity of sorts – namely, legislative and regulatory flexibilities around telehealth revealed how care can be expanded in new ways. And some health systems have relied on telemedicine during the pandemic to continue providing seamless care for patients with disabilities.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The truth is, many – if not most – of the most important health IT tools in use today have emerged from long periods of incubation and struggle rather than capsizing an entire industry. Take wearables, for example. Telemedicine also has a long history and has actually been in use for decades. I agree with Goldsmith.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 11, 2019

In that regard, Thailand has begun development of its telemedicine programme at 32 hospitals located in rural areas in eight provinces since March this year. Telemedicine services will be offered by the initial 32 hospitals as soon as by the fourth quarter of 2019.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 20, 2022

Hopefully the Congress and state legislatures will act soon to ensure the temporary reimbursement expansions for telemedicine will continue after the public health emergency ends. Other examples include virtual care in patients’ homes and assisted living communities.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 11, 2023

The Kaiser Family Foundation recently looked at state trends with regard to expanding access to telehealth-based behavioral care during the pandemic and found that states see telemedicine as a key component of maintaining access to behavioral healthcare for Medicaid enrollees. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication. WHY IT MATTERS.

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