Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

"I am proud to sign this legislation which promotes telehealth services that have become vital during this pandemic, expands access to high-quality, affordable care, takes steps to protect consumers from surprise medical bills, and preserves access to COVID-19 testing and treatment," said Baker in a statement.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

As patients continue take on financial risk for paying for health care, now as medical bill payers and health consumers, these are the UX-designed experiences for health care people want to frequent (when they choose to access health care services).

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Commercial payers lag behind Medicare in covering nearly all aspects of digital medicine , and coverage policies are inconsistent and not transparent, according to an American Medical Association report. When digital services are available, they’re often disconnected from primary care.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The consumer-as-medical-bill-payor is now looking at foods with health benefits, first and foremost for heart health. That’s because these countries have strong primary care backbones, spend more on social care relative to health care spending, and have other policies that bake in health well beyond medical care.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

By unbundling key billing codes, introducing Advanced Primary Care Management (APCM) services, and refining telehealth policies, CMS enables these facilities to modernize care delivery, improve patient outcomes, and streamline billing practices. Personalized care planning. Non-visit-based coordination.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Given that over the past two years most of my medical visits have been via telemedicine anyway, it’s been natural to begin to […].

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FierceHealthIT

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

New research from Duke University School of Medicine puts a price tag on collecting medical bills, and it's not cheap. Indeed, the cost of collecting payments for a single primary-care doctor who is affiliated with a big academic medical center is $99,000 a year and represents roughly 1 in 7 dollars collected.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Several factors underpin the adoption of telehealth in 2019: Consumers’ demand for accessible, lower-cost health care services as people face greater financial responsibility for paying the medical bill (via high-deductible health plans and greater out-of-pocket costs for co-payments).

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2018

A report published in May this year by the Commonwealth Fund learned that one-half of working-age Americans would not have the money to pay an unexpected $1,000 medical bill within 30 days. The second chart illustrates patient-borne costs for early stage breast cancer. The ASCO story is such good news.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 2, 2023

Products ChristianaCare launched Virtual Primary Care , a subscription-based service available to residents of Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Jersey. Hint Health debuted Hint All-in-One , an EHR, practice management, and patient communications app for direct primary care.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

adults had problems paying medical bills, largely delaying care due to cost for a visit or for prescription drugs. In May, only one-half of patients were interested in returning for an office visit with their primary care provider. The first chart here shows that one in four U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Patients-as-consumers increasingly expect retail-enchanting service levels from health care – especially as patients pay medical bills increasingly out-of-pocket. Convenience isn’t just a nice-to-have: it has economic ROI.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Dr. David Berg, cofounder and chairman of the board of Redirect Health, a primary care national healthcare organization featuring telemedicine and mobile health, believes the healthcare industry should reduce unnecessary inconveniences – such as extensive travel or wait times – from the healthcare experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 30, 2023

The announced noted that M*Modal parent company 3M Health Information Systems, virtual primary care provider Babylon, and ScribeEMR are early adopters of HealthScribe. One culprit is staffing in post-acute care – 87% of nursing homes report moderate to high staffing shortages. Nearly two-thirds (63%) of U.S.

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NiftyHMS

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The patient has booked primary care physician appointments on Whatsapp and gets confirmation quickly. Schedules routine in-person wellness appointment with primary care physician (PCP) in an office. Remote consulting was done via WhatsApp and delivered A1C tests were in advance to send back via mail at home.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2022

In 2019, Find Care expanded services for consumers to manage chronic health conditions addressing asthma, COPD, and diabetes. And they have helped people co-create health outcomes as quantified in the cancer care experience slide shown here.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Bonus Features for October 29, 2023: 66% of patients prefer email or text for reminders about medical bills, plus 94% of clinicians said lack of timely access to insights within EHR impacts patient care. Digital engagement vendor Uniguest acquired pCare , a patient engagement company.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

Continued consolidation in primary care There will continue to be consolidation in primary care. Optum Care is becoming a model for big companies. Over the last few years, significant private capital has flowed to innovative primary care-led ventures. Ted Shannon, CFO at Strive Health.

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Mend

OCTOBER 25, 2022

For those working indirectly with patients (call centers, billing and coding, IT, accounting and HR), remote work became the norm. Yet those working in direct patient care (primary care offices) were still able to leverage technology to deliver care. Conclusion.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

are more likely to avoid care than men in America, Deloitte found in the consulting firm’s latest survey on consumers and health care. Women in the U.S. Deloitte coins this phenomenon as a “triple-threat” that women face in the U.S.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

APRIL 6, 2022

I had already been working in health literacy a few years when I received a bill for a recent visit to my primary care physician. Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes are a series of numerical billing codes used to identify medical services and procedures. Wasn’t an annual well visit covered at 100 percent?

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ACA Times

MAY 21, 2015

Compared to those with older non-group plans that are not ACA-compliant, enrollees in marketplace plans are less likely to say they are satisfied with their plan’s choice of primary care doctors and hospitals, but somewhat more likely to express satisfaction with their monthly premiums and annual deductibles.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 18, 2024

Putting enhanced tools like these in the hands of primary care providers will allow them to provide better care sooner and more easily, which will benefit patients enormously. Up to 80% of medical bills contain errors, leading to systemic waste. An additional use for AI and ML is improving payment integrity.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The transformation is happening, and care management technology is a powerful mechanism, but it alone can’t make this shift, especially for primary care practices and those on the front lines caring for underserved communities with some of the most complex patients.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 21, 2020

While most of those individuals expected to receive care within the next three months, about a third said they planned to wait longer or not seek it at all. While the survey didn’t ask people why they were putting off care, there is ample evidence that medical bills can be a powerful deterrent. “We

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2025

The growth of wearable technology, need and desire for real-world evidence and patient feedback, and especially patients’ growing role in paying for health care (think: high deductibles, co-insurance, and the challenge of medical debt) all drive the need to enhance the health care experience for patients in consumer and retail grades.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Enhanced Reimbursement Streams In 2015, the CMS launched CCM services to improve care coordination for Medicare beneficiaries with chronic conditions. Within the first two years, over 684,000 beneficiaries received these services, primarily managed by primary care physicians (PCPs), who handled 68% of the claims.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Without a health plan, an uninsured person in America is far more likely to file for bankruptcy due to medical costs, and lack access to needed health care (and especially primary care). ” This is the current state of play for health citizens and health care payments in America, circa 2022.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

health care corresponds to the nation’s tremendous waste baked into the system when it comes to administration, fragmentation and dis-continuity of care, unsafe prescribing regimens, and under-investment in a strong primary care backbone. Our OECD peers generally invest more in primary care access than America does.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Most transcription services and AI medical scribes aim to reproduce the SOAP note that has been the mainstay of patient visit records since the days of paper. ” This video explains how River Records is working towards that vision.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In healthcare, patients and health consumers are looking for more convenient, accessible, less-costly health care services in light of their growing health economic awareness. patients are increasingly accepting retail health sites for accessing and receiving care, found in this New England Journal of Medicine study.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 5, 2023

Whether it is integrating Apple Watch data, shortening emergency department wait times or providing better concierge care, these interventions can be helpful, or even great. (We And many of us can’t get into our primary care doctors, either). We do need to automate data collection, who wants to sit in an ER?

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Sales Bone & Joint of Albany implemented athenahealth for EHR, medical billing, and patient engagement. Mass General Brigham tapped Concert Health to offer behavioral health services through primary care. Intermountain Health chose ClearSense for data archiving.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 24, 2022

WELL Health is acquiring CloudMD’s Cloud Practice entity which includes OSCAR based Juno EMR or “Electronic Medical Record” and ClinicAid billing Software applications as well as three primary care clinics located in the province of British Columbia. About WELL Health Technologies Corp.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 18, 2024

have lower life expectancy, greater risks of heart disease, and more likely to face medical bills and self-rationing due to costs, we learn in the latest look into Health Care for Women: How the U.S. more likely to consume multiple prescription drugs on a regular basis; Access to care, with the U.S. Women in the U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

I show this market basket of the four sectors as health consumers look for services — say, vaccinations, primary care, over-the-counter medicines, health and wellness products, fitness and wearable technology — beyond doctors’ offices, hospitals, clinics, and health plans.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

Campbell County Health is a health system with 1,244 employees across its 90-bed acute care hospital, 160-bed skilled nursing facility, inpatient behavioral health unit, ASC, and 14 outpatient primary care and specialty clinics. National Medical Billing Services (St. Intermountain Healthcare (Salt Lake City).

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