Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 30, 2025

Most adults aged 50 to 80 in the United States are now using digital health technologies (DHTs), with patient portals leading adoption rates, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

million from the Canadian firm WELL Health Technologies. The cash, says the company, will allow Circle and WELL to offer 200 million people in the United States support for the use of Circle's telehealth app either for no cost or a small co-pay. The telehealth platform is currently available for use in 35 states.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 12, 2022

The report , which grew out of an NCQA roundtable discussion on the future of telehealth, outlines existing barriers to equity and recommendations for improving care delivery. The spike in telehealth use triggered by COVID-19 has prompted examinations of its potential role in both expanding access to and enacting hurdles to care.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Buena Park, California- DrKumo, a global leader in Remote Patient Monitoring-Home Telehealth (RPM-HT) and innovative digital healthcare technology, is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Tyler De Jong as its newest Medical Advisor.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 5, 2021

Health technology company Solve.Care has announced the expansion of its Global Telehealth Exchange, a virtual health service platform, to India. In March last year, the Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare issued new guidelines for telemedicine practice which boosted the use of telehealth services in the country.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2021

Two studies published in May 2021 illustrate the value and importance of telehealth to patients in 2020, and a disconnect among many C-level executives working in hospitals, academic medical centers, and other care provider organizations. Power and BDO illustrate some mis-alignment between the demand and supply side of telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Primary topic: Population Health Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Using digital health technology to manage aging populations Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Europe/UK

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

Some studies have suggested, for example, that Black and Latino patients in New York City were less likely to use telehealth during the pandemic, while others have said Black people were more likely to use virtual care. Otherwise telehealth won't work." But it will take coverage parity too, she added. " ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic pushed telehealth into the spotlight with exponential adoption, helping to prove its value. On this note, Karsten Russell-Wood, portfolio leader for post-acute and home at Philips, shares his viewpoints with Healthcare IT News on the biggest priorities to ensure telehealth is sustained long term.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 20, 2021

Perhaps this preference for in-person is simply an acknowledgement that many health needs can’t be met by a telehealth visit," CareSide mentioned. The Australian government has been providing telehealth services since last year March. Enterprise Taxonomy: Digital Health Technology. THE LARGER TREND.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 19, 2023

At HIMSS23, Jodi Daniel, managing director of Crowell Health Solutions, discussed the evolving policy landscape for telehealth, remote patient monitoring and other digital health technologies as the public health emergency comes to a close.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 19, 2023

The Medical Software Industry Association has called on the Medical Board of Australia to think twice about imposing changes to telehealth rules, saying there could be "serious unintended" consequences. Enterprise Taxonomy: Telehealth Quality Care Patient Access Care

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 14, 2020

Consequently, the group felt healthcare delivery was moving away from the physician’s office and into the patient’s home, with services like routine check-ups via telehealth and remote patient monitoring. “During the first week of April, 74% of our visits were being conducted via telehealth. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 9, 2022

Smart phones, wearable devices, telemedicine platforms, artificial intelligence software, internet applications, and other digital health technologies are advancing and transforming disease diagnosis, therapy, and other medical practices by physicians, direct-to-consumer services for better health and well-being, and other healthcare services.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2025

I would expand that more generally to say that UX, CX, and service design principles should/must be baked into consumer-facing connected health technologies.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 11, 2021

Andrew Vanlandingham, senior counselor for Medicaid Policy and acting health IT lead at OIG, called attention to recent revisions to safe harbors under the Anti-Kickback Statute and Civil Monetary Penalty Rules around coordinated care. He also highlighted a major new priority at OIG: telehealth.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

One universal experience health systems around the globe have witnessed in the first months of the coronavirus pandemic has been the dramatic pivot to telehealth and virtual care platforms. In the first six months of the pandemic, the tale of telehealth as told via media coverage and virtual conference content has been quite bullish.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 8, 2025

How could digital health transformations proceed in the new year? Healthcare IT News sought predictions from and expectations of healthcare providers and technology vendors in APAC for health IT this 2025. Which trend in health technology in your country will you see continuing in 2025?

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Mobi Health News

JULY 12, 2018

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released its new proposed Physician Fee Schedule and Qualified Payment Program updates for 2019, and the announcement includes some big strides forward in promoting digital health technology, including widened telemedicine coverage, an overhaul of documentation requirements, and a new focus on interoperability. (..)

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2020

Think: advanced home care, enabled through virtual health technologies and wrap-around services both clinical and scaled social determinants support. Virtual care, post-COVID-19 pandemic, is a new patient expectation as millions of consumers gained access to telehealth in the crisis — and liked the user-experience.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 19, 2022

To accomplish this, Groups provided its members with a number of different digital health technologies that enabled them to continue their treatment virtually and do all of the form submissions, drug screens and insurance processes that are part of the Groups recovery program. It’s now a necessity." MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Blending years of analyst experience and more than a decade of in-depth research on the older adult technology market, this forward-looking study is illustrated with descriptive graphics, predictions, and quotations from interviewees.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The green circle diagram from Deloitte’s report documents a growing willingness among patients to use virtual health services, increasing from 80% of consumers willing to use telehealth in 2020, 84% in 2022, and 94% in 2024.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 5, 2021

The Philips Future Health Index 2021 report found that nearly two in three healthcare leaders are prioritizing investments in telehealth – but that priorities will shift to artificial intelligence in three years. by collaborating with other private hospitals and health technology companies. A whopping 89% of U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 14, 2022

Electronic Caregiver, a digital health technology and services company, is debuting Addison the Virtual Caregiver at HIMSS22. The company labels Addison the next generation of remote patient monitoring technology that offers a solution to the caregiver shortage by providing healthcare management outside a doctor's four walls.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 16, 2024

adults plans to purchase at least one health and wellness digital health technology product to gift during the winter 2024 holiday season, according to the 2024 Consumer Technology Holiday Purchase Patterns study served up by CTA, the Consumer Technology Association — aka the annual host of CES.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 12, 2022

In-home care, home health care , remote patient monitoring (RPM) , fall detection , and other services that help older adults age in their homes are critical. Regulation shift enabling capabilities in the home and emergency funding for telehealth will persist beyond COVID. Smart displays and voice-first interfaces will be ubiquitous.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 1, 2021

Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General recognized telehealth's potential while cautioning that steps must be taken to ensure virtual care will not be compromised by fraud. "OIG is conducting significant oversight work assessing telehealth services during the public health emergency.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 15, 2020

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Compared with other nations’ health citizens, Americans tend to be more bullish on using at-home tests and apps to track health, as gauged in the survey report, A consumer-centered future of health from Deloitte Insights.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 16, 2020

There's no doubt that telehealth has proven to be an integral tool to keeping healthcare accessible amid the COVID-19 pandemic. "Telehealth has continued to grow and has continued to really set the pace" for digital innovation, said CHIME president and CEO Russ Branzell. '" Mahoney continued.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 4, 2022

That AI-powered counsel can emanate from the digital health technologies, apps, and algorithms that people are increasingly using — choosing to do so on their own, as well as adopting new tools based on health care provider and wellness coach recommendations (or “prescriptions”).

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Here are five other posts: Will telehealth help the oldest adults during Covid-19? What happens when people avoid health-related in-person care? Family concerns about health and Covid-19 also continue to delay or prevent some move-ins to senior living communities. But is telehealth viable for the oldest?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The purpose of the survey, which measured across all ages and specialties, according to AMA, was to investigate physicians' motivations and requirements for onboarding digital health technologies and integrating them into their medical practices. The average number of digital health tools in use by a physician grew from 2.2

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 6, 2020

And it became increasingly likely that CMS would make telehealth access for older adults permanent. During the pandemic, telehealth use grew sharply in the care of older adults, enabled by CMS reimbursement changes that likely will be permanent. Half of those aged 75+ and one-third of the 65+ have hearing loss.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Home health technologies will have an increasingly larger role to play in healthcare delivery as the silver tsunami of the aging population strain the system. Home-based health technologies are any preventive care technology tool that elevates health.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Collaboration aims to integrate Digital H ealth technology and education with traditional practices. a leader in Digital health technology, and DrKumo Academy Inc. , “We are excited to work together to bring innovative health technologies to Native American Populations.” Los Angeles, CA DrKumo Inc. ,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 17, 2021

" Now, he pointed out, this problem is systemic, and it can't be solved by telehealth alone. At the same time, he said, it has potential as part of what he called an "omni-channel solution" – a holistic approach to health that relies on several different modalities, including telehealth. " he said.

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