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JANUARY 8, 2025

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? How about new trends to expect in the new year?

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FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Michael Gorton is founder and CEO of Recuro Health, a virtual care company that offers Digital Medical Home, which enables members in all 50 states to virtually access comprehensive healthcare services, including virtual primary and urgent care, behavioral health, at-home lab testing, genomics testing, as well as a suite of supplemental benefits.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The service gives patients of MedStar's Baltimore facilities a "seamless, monitored transition" home, according to Dr. Ethan Booker, MedStar's chief medical officer for telehealth. The company also offers same-day or next-day care upon referral from a telehealth visit, according to MedStar.

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JANUARY 23, 2023

This past year may very well have been the year the "new normal" was sealed for healthcare – one that includes a lot more telehealth, remote monitoring and other virtual care than ever before. You have identified three trends in telemedicine for 2023. With the adoption of telehealth comes increased competition.

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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. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. The Alliance for Connected Care asked U.S. Kennedy, Jr.,

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AUGUST 25, 2021

A new analysis suggests that downstream capture from telehealth as a "digital front door" does not suggest strong consumer loyalty. She found that, consistent with national trends, about 13% of individuals accessed telehealth within the system's market at least once in 2020. " THE LARGER TREND.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The Department of Veterans Affairs published a $1 billion contract opportunity this week aimed at procuring remote patient monitoring and telehealth services to meet the needs of veterans. THE LARGER TREND. The Department of Veterans Affairs has been relying on telehealth since before the pandemic. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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OCTOBER 22, 2024

"Teaming up with Cleveland Clinic advances our mission of improving the healthcare experience, bringing our human-centered and technology-powered model to individuals and employers in the greater Cleveland area," said Green. THE LARGER TREND While Amazon One Medical works with more than 10,000 employers throughout the U.S.

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JUNE 14, 2021

Demand for "on-demand" telehealth services will grow, technology will normalize access to health experts via telemedicine, virtual chronic care management is growing and personalization will influence telehealth engagement. One emerging trend is virtual, condition-specific coaching for patients with chronic disease.

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JANUARY 30, 2025

Nearly 140,000 healthcare organizations use Zoom for telehealth, the company noted in October when it announced its genAI clinical notes integration partnership in October. Anzaldua also said Suki's "exceptional growth and widespread adoption within healthcare systems" are valuable to the healthcare sector.

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MAY 27, 2021

A study published this month in JMIR Human Factors from Syracuse University researchers found that physicians are in favor of expanding telehealth permanently. "On one hand, from this survey, I believe telehealth can increase access," she said. Patient-care visits conducted via telehealth also rose from 13.1%

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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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JULY 8, 2024

There has been a lot of discussion around the ways in which artificial intelligence can be used in telehealth, balancing the need for efficiency with patient security and privacy. Howard Hu, CEO of Whereby, vendor of a videoconferencing API for telehealth platforms, knows quite a bit about this niche.

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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. Even so, only 11 conduct telehealth-specific monitoring and oversight. THE LARGER TREND.

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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. So where does healthcare go from here with the technology?

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APRIL 25, 2024

The Joint Commission this week announced its new Telehealth Accreditation Program for eligible hospitals, ambulatory and behavioral healthcare organizations. " Mike Miliard is executive editor of Healthcare IT News Email the writer: mike.miliard@himssmedia.com Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication.

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APRIL 1, 2025

Together, they say they'll create an advocacy organization, the Advancing Digital Health Coalition, designed to help ensure that telehealth, virtual care and DTx interventions become dependable options for care delivery. healthcare system." " Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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JUNE 10, 2021

Amazon Care has signed several companies to its telehealth service, an executive said during a Wall Street Journal event on Wednesday, as the consumer giant continues with plans to roll out the service to all 50 states by this summer. THE LARGER TREND. Amazon isn't the only major retailer getting into the telehealth game.

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AUGUST 3, 2021

A new report from CB Insights found that global telehealth investment rose for the fourth consecutive quarter in Q2 of 2021 – with teletherapy deals representing a substantial share. THE LARGER TREND. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

According to Insider 's Blake Dodge , Amazon Care will bring the "full package" of telehealth and in-person services to Philadelphia, Chicago, Dallas and Boston in 2021, with 16 more to follow the next year. THE LARGER TREND. " Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. WHY IT MATTERS.

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MAY 21, 2021

In a new report examining the rapidly evolving telehealth landscape, KLAS found that vendors self-reported a wide array of capabilities – and it noted that different companies can meet different customers' needs. THE LARGER TREND. " Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. WHY IT MATTERS.

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JUNE 8, 2021

Instead, the preparation regards the retail giant's pending acquisition of telehealth vendor MeMD earlier this year. Instead, as the spokesperson said, they are related to Walmart's interest in offering telehealth. THE LARGER TREND. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. ON THE RECORD.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The National Institute of Standards and Technology's National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence published its final guidance this week on securing telehealth and remote patient monitoring ecosystems. THE LARGER TREND. NIST has been offering tips around cybersecurity and telehealth deployments for years. Twitter: @kjercich.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

The American Board of Telehealth announced this week that it is launching a Teleprimary Care Certificate program, geared toward helping primary care providers develop future virtual health strategies. With a shortage of primary care providers, telehealth can offer patients expanded access to care. THE LARGER TREND.

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MAY 2, 2024

While telehealth alone doesn't appear to add significantly to a primary care physician's workload, mixing modalities – telehealth and in-person hybrid care environments – led to a 6% increase in time spent with documentary and EHR work, new research shows. more medical record review minutes. .'"

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JULY 8, 2021

A large-scale study recently published in The Journal of Climate Change and Health found that an increase in telehealth use in the Pacific Northwest corresponded to a dramatic decrease in transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions. As the study notes, the healthcare sector is a "significant source" of greenhouse gas emissions.

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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. THE LARGER TREND. WHY IT MATTERS.

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DECEMBER 18, 2023

Healthcare IT News sat down with the men to discuss main players in the U.S. telemedicine sector, merger and acquisition trends for telemedicine, main financial backers and investment dynamics, and short-term and long-term valuation trends. What are the M&A trends for telemedicine going into 2024?

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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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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). THE LARGER TREND. WHY IT MATTERS.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2024

However, here are some insights into the current market: Overall Trend: The average revenue multiple for HealthTech companies is generally higher than for other technology companies. This reflects the growing demand for innovative digital health solutions and the rapid growth of the healthcare market. Wellness companies: 4.2x

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MARCH 18, 2022

Healthcare IT News sat down with this digital health investor to talk about digital health investment trends during the pandemic and where he sees funding trending in 2022 and beyond. What has been one digital health investment trend during the COVID-19 pandemic, and why is it important? billion that year to $5.1

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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. " THE LARGER TREND. WHY IT MATTERS.

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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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MARCH 31, 2022

The proposed Telehealth Benefit Expansion for Workers Act would enable job creators to offer standalone telehealth service programs – not unlike dental and vision plans – in addition to existing health insurance plans. " THE LARGER TREND. WHY IT MATTERS. The legislation was introduced by Reps. ON THE RECORD.

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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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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. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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