IDE Group, Kipuwex team up to develop new telehealth solutions
Mobi Health News
MAY 3, 2021
The partnership brings together IDE Group's medtech hardware design and development expertise and Kipuwex's telehealth know-how.
DEA plans to create a special telehealth registration for prescribers
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 16, 2025
To prevent patients from losing access to their telehealth-prescribed medications, the DEA is offering three types of special registration: Telemedicine Prescribing Registration - authorizes qualified clinician practitioners to prescribe Schedule III-V controlled substances.
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New Zealand Telehealth Services transfers to new cloud
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
OCTOBER 21, 2024
Whakarongorau Aotearoa (New Zealand Telehealth Services) is transferring to a new cloud host by the end of the year. Whakarongorau has been delivering free, government-funded, and round-the-clock national telehealth services across seven digital channels since 2015.
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Envisioning the delivery of true primary care telehealth
KevinMD
AUGUST 6, 2020
Before the pandemic, telehealth seemed to be a way to deliver urgent care for acute issues to a select group of tech-savvy patients. Almost overnight, the COVID-19 pandemic has completely disrupted how we deliver primary care to patients.
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CHIME along with 60 health systems urge lawmakers to take immediate action to extend telehealth policies
FierceHealthIT
DECEMBER 4, 2024
With only 27 days to go before COVID-era telehealth flexibilities expire, a major health IT group along with 62 healthcare organizations are urgently calling on Congress, again, to take immediate a | With only 27 days to go before COVID-era telehealth flexibilities expire, a major health IT group along with 62 healthcare organizations are urgently (..)
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Study reveals inequalities in telehealth usage across demographic groups
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 5, 2020
Researchers from Kantar Health suggest that as telehealth services continue to be used, inequalities in access and usage should be monitored to find ways to close healthcare gaps.
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Hundreds of groups ask governors to expand telehealth licensure flexibilities
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
More than 230 healthcare and industry organizations wrote a letter to governors across the country asking for expanded access to telehealth via licensure flexibilities. to keep licensure and telehealth flexibilities in place throughout the duration of the federal public health emergency. THE LARGER TREND.
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Apollo Hospitals to integrate AI copilots and more AI briefs
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 16, 2025
In a statement, the technology giant said it will help the hospital group develop and implement its AI roadmap, which will focus on expanding Apollo's remote healthcare platform worldwide and building new technology solutions. This engagement is part of a string of strategic partnerships Microsoft has entered in the new year in India.
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Australian startups team up to provide telehealth solution to aboriginal groups
Mobi Health News
APRIL 22, 2021
The companies hope the service will help improve health outcomes for aboriginal communities in Australia.
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Telehealth groups urge DEA to release virtual e-prescribing rules
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
APRIL 3, 2024
With current pandemic-era flexibilities for telemedicine set to expire at the end of 2024, several telehealth groups and major health systems are calling on the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to work faster in crafting a new proposed rule regulating the prescribing of controlled substances via telehealth.
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How Trauma-Informed Design Principles Can Be Health-Ful for All of Us – Learning from IKEA
Health Populi
DECEMBER 5, 2024
IKEA has clearly learned a lot with this program, in collaboration with WestEast Design Group (a Social Impact Studio), working with the Ingka Group , IKEA’s retail business partner. ” Here is a link to IKEA’s discussion of the project on the company’s website.
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What facilitated telehealth can do to improve care for high-need groups
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MAY 7, 2024
A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association finds significant association between the use of telehealth services and improved healthcare access and outcomes in communities negatively impacted by health disparities. How can increased telehealth services address and minimize this gap?
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No Surprises Act implementation includes telehealth
Mobi Health News
JANUARY 25, 2022
Independent physician groups, which include telehealth docs, must now accept a rate that someone else has negotiated, expert says.
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Physicians Practicing in the Age of COVID-19: Lower Incomes, More Telehealth
Health Populi
AUGUST 24, 2020
85% of doctors believe the use of telehealth will become much more widespread after the pandemic, with the majority of physicians cautioning that telemedicine’s persistence will depend on both parity for payment and lowering of administrative burdens. That’s the private sector bullish approach to telehealth after the pandemic.
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DEA and HHS extend virtual prescribing for controlled substances through 2025
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
Drug Enforcement Agency and Health and Human Services announced the Third Temporary Extension of COVID-19 Telemedicine Flexibilities for Prescription of Controlled Medications, preventing some patients from losing access to their telehealth-prescribed medications.
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Telehealth holds promise for people experiencing homelessness: Report
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 19, 2021
This group has difficulties accessing healthcare, resulting in risk of illness, hospitalization and death.
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Telehealth with a technician in the home reduces spend by 22% for Scottsdale Physician Group
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 21, 2022
In 2018, Scottsdale Physician Group in Scottsdale, Arizona, saw a need that simply was not being met. Scottsdale Physician Group believed there had to be a better way of taking care of the patients that was scalable and effective. " Blue Beckham, Scottsdale Physician Group. THE PROBLEM. It needed to see all of the vitals.
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Remote therapeutic monitoring reduces readmissions, academic research shows
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
DECEMBER 2, 2024
"I would like first to highlight that the two groups were similar in terms of baseline demographic characteristics, type of infection being treated, insurance coverage, comorbid conditions, prior healthcare utilization, duration of outpatient therapy, and number of antibiotic doses per day," Sassine noted. versus 31.6%).
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The Rise of Telehealth and its Role in Healthcare Today
GlobalMed
JANUARY 8, 2025
Telehealth has emerged as a transformative force in healthcare, fundamentally reshaping how patients and providers connect. While telehealth services have existed for decades, their adoption was relatively limited before the COVID-19 pandemic, with only 11% of consumers reporting use.
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HIMSSCast: ATA CEO says telehealth future is hybrid, outlines policy priorities and challenges
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 8, 2022
Ann Mond Johnson is one of the top telehealth experts in the country. The future of telehealth is a hybrid model with in-person care. What will be necessary to establish telehealth as a permanent modality in care delivery. Current telehealth policy priorities and challenges. Like what you hear?
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HIMSSCast: Henry Ford director of virtual care talks telehealth
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 30, 2022
What are some of the most important topics in telehealth today? Standardizing and optimizing telehealth integration into care pathways. Digital and telehealth literacy. Telehealth sustainability and government advocacy. Talking points: Standardizing and optimizing telehealth integration into care pathways.
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ATA releases SDOH toolkit to scale community telehealth delivery
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
New tools from the American Telemedicine Association can help assess a community's digital infrastructure and estimate the cost of telehealth-based clinical or social interventions to show how virtual care can impact healthcare disparities. " she said in a statement.
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The Post-COVID 19 Health Consumer: Ready for DIY Health Care and More Open to Telehealth
Health Populi
APRIL 12, 2021
Still, more provider executives are more open to providing certain types of care via telehealth –namely mental health (especially useful for younger health citizens during the pandemic), OB/GYN, and primary care such as family medicine and pediatrics. In America at Home , the market research group explained how people in the U.S.
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As 'telehealth cliff' looms, hundreds of healthcare orgs urge Congress to act
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 27, 2021
Leading healthcare industry stakeholders on Monday implored top leaders in the House and Senate to help ensure, among other imperatives, that "Medicare beneficiaries [don't] abruptly lose access to nearly all recently expanded coverage of telehealth." " WHY IT MATTERS.
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Female physicians more likely to adopt telehealth early
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 5, 2022
"Some physicians may have been nimbler than others in making the transition [to telehealth], potentially influencing patients' experience of physician access and availability," wrote the research team. Early adopters (those who adopted telehealth during the week of March 15). WHY IT MATTERS. Of the 3,473 physicians, 13.8%
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Tech difficulties pose telehealth barriers for patients of color
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
A systematic review of 28 studies published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association this week found that telehealth-delivered interventions for patients of color were mostly effective when it came to treating and managing many conditions. THE LARGER TREND.
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Broadband is the Achilles' heel of telehealth
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
Connected Health Government & Policy Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth The fate of virtual care adoption is tied to the fate of broadband expansion. Craig Settles Six years ago I had a stroke and telehealth saved my life. However, as wonderful as telehealth is, it has a serious Achilles' heel.
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DEA and HHS push off new telemedicine prescribing rules to end-of-year
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 24, 2025
The DEA has had a responsibility to create a telehealth prescribing registry under the 2018 Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act, known as the SUPPORT Act. Enterprise Taxonomy: Telehealth Patient Access Regulation Care Public Policy Kennedy, Jr.,
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ATA Action acquires Digital Therapeutics Alliance to launch new coalition
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
APRIL 1, 2025
The American Telemedicine Association this week announced that its ATA Action advocacy group has acquired the Digital Therapeutics Alliance, which focuses on driving uptake of software-based healthcare tools. Enterprise Taxonomy: Digital Health Patient Access Telehealth Emerging Technologies Technology Care healthcare system."
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Telehealth helps stop suicidal ideation for many patients, study finds
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
DECEMBER 29, 2022
Recently, the Journal of Medical Internet Research published some significant data highlighting the efficacy of psychiatric care delivered through telehealth: Those in the treatment group were 4.3 We spoke with Winsberg to get an in-depth look at this study and what the results mean for the future of telehealth and mental healthcare.
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Thailand-Russia cooperate for telehealth and more briefs
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Private providers in Thailand, Russia sign telehealth collab Two large private healthcare providers in Thailand and Russia have partnered to cooperate in such areas as telehealth and medical tourism.
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People in the U.S. Without the Internet Were More Likely To Die in the Pandemic
Health Populi
MARCH 25, 2022
” The researchers used spatial analysis to explore disproportionate mortality outcomes for COVID-19 experienced by different racial and ethnic groups: comparing overall death rates with those of Hispanic or Latinx, Non-Hispanic Black or African-American, and Non-Hispanic White populations. Underneath the overall statistic of 2.4
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American Hospital Association, Johns Hopkins and others launch pro-telehealth campaign
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
DECEMBER 7, 2021
A group of 16 provider and industry organizations this past week launched a campaign geared toward protecting and expanding access to telehealth. Telehealth Access for America is aimed at educating members of the public about the need to enact permanent legislation around virtual care services. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.
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Bipartisan House bill proposes permanent telehealth benefits
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 3, 2023
The Telehealth Benefit Expansion for Workers Act would amend the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income and Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow employers to treat benefits for telehealth services like excepted benefits. "We asked Congress and they listened.
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Doximity Study Finds Telehealth Is Health for Every Day Care
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
There’s more evidence that doctors and patients, both, want to use telehealth after the COVID-19 pandemic fades. Telemedicine use did not vary much across physician age groups. Even two-thirds of people without chronic illness plan to use telehealth post-pandemic.
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Most provider organizations boosting telehealth investments, survey finds
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
More than half (56%) of hospital and health system leaders say they are planning to increase their investment in telemedicine during the next two years, according to a new survey from telehealth vendor Amwell and HIMSS Analytics. What does your survey show in the area of expected growth and investment in telehealth?
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One physician's perspective on why patients prefer telehealth visits
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 16, 2021
Telehealth An occupational medicine physician offered his patients a poll with a single question. The world has turned upside down and, ironically, I am one of the providers who utilizes telehealth the most in my large organization. I estimate about 90% of my visits were telehealth visits during the first four months of the pandemic.
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What will the next year look like for telehealth? 'Well above pre-pandemic levels'
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
With the rise of the coronavirus Delta variant, two out of five American adults would use telehealth to get medical care, according to a recent Jarrard poll. And Americans, as the Jarrard poll shows, are still ready to go when it comes to telehealth. Use of virtual care spiked big-time last year, and remains in wide use today.
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Albert Einstein Medical Center serves up telehealth from 4 vendors with FCC grant
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
OCTOBER 12, 2021
At Philadelphia's Albert Einstein Medical Center, whose health system serves a large geographical area and offers complex quaternary care, telehealth has been an innovative solution to several care delivery problems. These can be categorized in three areas: patient/staff safety, communication and logistics. THE PROBLEM.
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How Harvard's telehealth program can be a guide toward success
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
Before the COVID-19 pandemic began to ripple across the world, Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center had only used telehealth in a limited capacity. But when the crisis made itself evident, explained HMFP Director of Telehealth?? Clinician engagement was also a major factor in the rollout.
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The New Employer Wellness Lens Includes Mental Health, Telehealth and Women’s Health
Health Populi
AUGUST 26, 2019
employers are tightening their focus on mental and behavioral health, addressing workers’ chronic conditions, emphasizing women’s health, and allocating more resources to digital and telehealth investments, we learn from Optum’s Ten Years of Health and Well-Being at Work: Learning from our past and reimagining the future.
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Why telehealth is more than just a pandemic trend
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 22, 2022
She contends that telehealth is far more than a pandemic trend. In a discussion with Healthcare IT News , Fobare spells out the role telemedicine has grown to play during the pandemic, where healthcare goes with telehealth, how change may affect physicians and what virtual care might look like 10 years from now.
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MedStar Health uses $2M AHRQ research grant to enhance telehealth
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
DECEMBER 27, 2022
COVID-19 transformed the delivery of care, making the use of telehealth tools highly beneficial – and a priority area for research. Healthcare IT News interviewed Booker and Ratwani to learn more about their work and how it can inform leaders following and advancing the future of telehealth. Since health systems across the U.S.
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What to expect in Asia-Pacific health IT in 2025?
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 8, 2025
The Principal Healthcare Group has developed a HIS that can be connected to most AI software. This program helps practices work with patient groups to offer recalls for health assessments. Meanwhile, government hospitals in Thailand have [started installing] telemedicine kiosks to [provide more] healthcare coverage.
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