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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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.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2022

Thus, millions of Americans continue to lack access to primary care compared with peers in other nations, according to a report from The Commonwealth Fund. The 2022 Fund report, P rimary Care in High-Income Countries: How the U.S. primary care teams may be a function of underinvestment in certain types of social services.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

Will the coronavirus inspire greater adoption of telehealth in the U.S.? I asked myself, then went to my Oracle of Telehealth: Ann Mond Johnson, CEO of ATA (once named the American Telemedicine Association). In fact, today, we’re seeing telehealth reimagine care in a more profound and meaningful way than we’ve seen historically.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 16, 2022

The most common telehealth solution involves primary care consultations that take place online (e.g., In Singapore, approximately ten telehealth companies are active in this space and employ inhouse doctors or a panel of doctors to offer the service. What more should/can be done in telehealth? billion by 2026.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 2, 2021

House Committee on Energy and Commerce convened Tuesday to discuss the future of virtual care. Policymakers and stakeholders emphasized the importance of balancing access to care with addressing concerns around fraud and overutilization. Witnesses offered a variety of strategies for effectively addressing the future of telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 3, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated a new era in medicine in which telehealth appointments are a core aspect of the patient-provider relationship and provide broader access to healthcare. Q: In your experience, what was telehealth adoption like over the past 12 months? million appointments held by 60,000 providers.

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Health Populi

MAY 29, 2018

How to be responsible, equitable, transparent as a good AI citizen? For healthcare, these platforms enable virtual and telehealth in new ways that transcend bricks-and-mortar settings, getting care and new forms of it to people where they live, work, and play. That’s part of “doing no harm” with data in healthcare.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 28, 2020

United Methodist faced two different problems: One was falls in its skilled nursing environment and the other was effective telehealth visits for residents. Skilled nursing facilities take care of the frailest of the country’s elders. The other problem it was looking to solve was inefficient telehealth visits.

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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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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Health systems should prepare for the future today and start thinking not only about how to manage their traditional business model but also how to invest in and create new competing business models at the same time… Decision-makers could do better to turn their focus away from inpatient settings.”

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Health Populi

JANUARY 13, 2021

Most of the 2021 Fjord Trends, listed in the first graphic shown here from the report, support health citizens’ self-care at home or closer-to-home. ” In their forecast on “what’s next” for the trend, Fjord IDs health care as a key opportunity area, with the proviso that inclusive design must be a priority. .”

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Congress can’t agree on much before the 2024 summer recess, there’s one bipartisan stroke of political pens in Washington, DC, that could provide some satisfaction for both patients and doctors: bring telehealth back to patients and providers permanently. S 2016) and second, re-introduce and sign the Telehealth Modernization Act.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

But I don't think there's a single system, really, that we've talked to, that didn't see exponential growth in terms of the number of uses of telehealth and other digital health solutions," Wolf continued. They're not necessarily sitting there, one in a hospital, one in primary care. "It's here.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic essentially forced healthcare provider organizations, the government and payers to embrace telehealth as an essential way to enable physicians to see patients. This put a lot of pressure on the physicians who oversee telehealth programs at these providers: the telehealth managers. " Dr. Lisa R.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2024

Health care access is a challenge in rural and urban areas, cities and suburbs, and across more demographic groups than you might realize, as we see wait times grow for appointments, primary care shortages, and delays in screening plaguing health systems around the world. ” The post How to Get Better Care to More People?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 21, 2021

Q: What role will digital health and telehealth play in the structuring and building of a healthcare system resilient to pandemics and other shocks in the future? Digital technologies also have a key role to play across the continuum of care with blended applications and support across pre-acute, acute and post-acute care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2021

"For us, that familiarity helped when the public health emergency hit because many of our patients understood not only how to use it, but why it worked for connecting with their doctor." The tools also integrated with Raleigh Medical Group's telehealth solutions and Phreesia check-in platform.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

physicians were using telehealth to care for patients at the end of 2021. Among those doctors who were not providing telehealth by late 2021, just over one half never did so during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the 2021 Telehealth Survey Report from the AMA. Specialty care. Care coordination and continuity.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2022

We spoke with a heavy hitter in the world of telehealth, Dr. Roy Schoenberg, president and CEO of Amwell, one of the big players in telemedicine technology and services, to get his views on how his predictions from last year turned out and where virtual care is headed in 2023.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In a virtual public meeting this past Friday, members of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission discussed how – and whether – to permanently expand telehealth in Medicare. Before the pandemic, Medicare's physician fee schedule covered a limited set of telehealth services in rural locations.

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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. Telehealth in 2019.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 2, 2023

The program aims to improve the cancer diagnostic process in telemedicine-enabled primary care settings by strengthening safety culture and helping practices to close the loop on care transitions and other vulnerable processes along the cancer diagnostic pathway. Dr. Hardeep Singh is principal investigator.

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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

APRIL 18, 2022

Access to primary care has been an issue for Baptist for the last eight years, and that got Oliver thinking of other ways to become more efficient with workflows. Asynchronous telehealth really appealed to Oliver because of its 24/7 access, anytime, with a low burden on clinicians.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 19, 2022

"We achieved URAC Consumer-to-Provider Telehealth Accreditation for the Virtual Walk-In in December 2019 and hold the distinction of being the first health system to receive that designation. "As the pandemic arrived, we used the Virtual Walk-In as the primary access point for care of suspected COVID patients," he added.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

This second graphic diagrams a patient journey map for the coronavirus, across the continuum of care settings from the community and home to primary care, emergency, hospital, and post-acute. We had to reinvent how to engage, monitor, and treat” patients with new approaches both in and outside the acute care setting.

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Health Populi

JULY 16, 2019

Most Millennials have postponed health care due to cost, and nearly half of younger consumers between 18 and 29 don’t have an ongoing primary care medical home. These patients lookf or care in an episodic way, KPMG notes. There’s a continuum of care that we all age into… eventually.

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Iris Telehealth

DECEMBER 11, 2024

However, one transformation stands out among the rest: the integration of virtual behavioral health services into primary care settings. This groundbreaking shift is not only changing the way we provide care, but it is also fundamentally altering patient outcomes and reshaping the structure of our entire healthcare system.

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Iris Telehealth

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Over the last several years, it’s become clear that telehealth is here to stay. According to the American Psychiatric Association, nearly 60% of Americans would use telehealth for mental healthcare , and 43% currently want to continue using telehealth services when the pandemic is over.

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Iris Telehealth

MAY 1, 2023

Thankfully, telehealth can help bridge the gap and connect this community to culturally competent behavioral health services that meet them where they are. Want to know how your organization can help increase access to care for this population?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2020

The novel problem that COVID-19 delivered to everyone who takes care of patients was that in the early days of the disease, caregivers did not know much about how a patient’s course would progress. THE PROBLEM. Caregivers did not know if patients would gradually become sicker, or if there would be a sudden decline.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 22, 2020

So a patient will have to travel to a primary care or clinic setting and the on-site providers will set up a telemedicine cart within their room. " Staff had to figure out, fast, how to integrate this new model of care in a HIPAA-compliant model. " Integrating telehealth into the EHR.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Virtual care can be a game-changer for people in rural communities and healthcare deserts. A recent study by the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research found telehealth is nearly as effective as in-person primary care visits when it comes to addressing patient needs. However, the digital divide prevents millions of U.S.

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Mend

APRIL 5, 2022

Do you need to maximize the effectiveness of your telehealth program? Here are the top 6 telehealth KPIs every CIO should know & track for success this year. Are you wondering which telehealth KPIs you should be using to measure the success of your telehealth program? Download the Full Infographic. No-Show/Drop Rates.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, the integration of virtual care has become pivotal in reshaping patient experiences. This approach not only improves access to care but also empowers patients to become more actively involved in managing their health, leading to better outcomes and higher patient satisfaction.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 13, 2020

" Tullman said the merger news excited clients and members, "because for the first time there was one place to have all of your healthcare needs taken care of and yet not lose the empathy, not lose the human touch, and not lose the connection to physicians," he said.

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