Health Populi

MAY 5, 2021

A closer look at this activity points to a key trend that will persist post-pandemic: that telehealth and the broader theme of virtual care is re-shaping how health care is delivered. This graphic comes out of my current thinking about telehealth across the continuum of care.

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19 Labs

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Supported by a $2 million grant from Aetna Better Health , the West Virginia Primary Care Association (WVPCA) and 19Labs are partnering to expand healthcare access across West Virginia, benefiting over 570,000 patients, including some of the state's most vulnerable populations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The fitness company CrossFit announced earlier this month that it was launching a new primary care service aimed at providing an individualized approach to health. The company says it will also offer personalized, precision health and preventive medicine in addition to virtual primary care. Amazon Care is one such figure.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 13, 2022

Many healthcare consumers today are disconnecting from traditional primary care, since the current experience is not meeting consumers' expectations, some industry observers say. When consumers disengage, the promise of traditional primary care cannot be realized. You are big on reimagining primary care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Harbor Care Health and Wellness Center in Nashua, New Hampshire, provides primary care, behavioral health and dental services to a population that is either homeless or at risk of homelessness. Harbor Care Health is a Federally Qualified Community Center. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. MARKETPLACE. " RESULTS.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

I’ll be referring to the research, with gratitude, over the coming months for my own work with clients spanning the health/care ecosystem. health care financing. The line chart here illustrates one piece of the Report’s section on “Unraveling Health,” showing that primary care volumes in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 29, 2020

Health care providers stood up virtual health care services with lightning speed as the coronavirus pandemic emerged in the U.S. Note that this report focuses on asynchronous meet-ups, distinguished from other kinds of telehealth services shown in the first graphic. health citizens and providers alike.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

For Michigan Avenue Primary Care in Chicago, the most pressing need near the beginning of the pandemic was to find a way to adopt telemedicine as the primary service model during the COVID-19 lockdown, especially for mental health patients who suddenly were shut off from in-person support. " MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 9, 2020

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has put together further detailed guidance for how healthcare providers should be documenting and reporting electronic clinical quality measures for telehealth encounters. The 39 telehealth-eligible eCQMs for the 2021 performance period can be found here. " Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN.

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Health Populi

JULY 24, 2023

The retail health landscape continues to grow, now with GNC Health offering a new program featuring telehealth and “curated set” of 40+ generic prescription drugs commonly used in urgent care settings. GNC has been partnering with PursueCare for their telehealth provider network. for one year’s membership. .

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Clocktree

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Most people are familiar with telehealth services offered by their primary care doctor, therapist or other healthcare provider as a convenient alternative to an in-office visit. Telehealth has emerged as a standard, even expected, part of certain healthcare practices. Physical Therapy. Home Health 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

MAY 3, 2021

A study published in the Western Journal of Nursing Research found that patients using at-home monitoring systems for blood glucose and blood pressure levels received almost twice as many "nursing activities" as patients who received usual care. ON THE RECORD. " Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 10, 2020

Like other healthcare organizations, McLaren has had difficulty recruiting physician specialists to meet patients’ needs, particularly in the more rural areas of the state. 24/7 urgent care. “This program offers patients 24/7 access to primary care physicians for urgent care conditions.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

TriHealth providers preferred EHR integration, as it alleviates the operational burden for front office staff and healthcare providers conducting telehealth services. Technology that is difficult to use can create a critical barrier to adoption and, in the case of remote care, simply would not work, the health system felt. MARKETPLACE.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2021

For the last decade, Queen's Health Systems has been building telehealth services to meet these patient needs, beginning with hospital-based telemedicine and building out to direct-to-patient telehealth services. The FCC's telehealth fund has awarded Queen's Health Systems nearly $1 million.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

"Additionally, most telehealth implementation historically was focused on addressing the needs of rural communities for specialty care, which is a very different context than ours." " The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the implementation of telehealth for St. John's started implementing telehealth services.

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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. It often is challenging to organize a meeting date and time with family members and a care team.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2020

Epic Systems has tapped San Francisco-based communications tech startup Twilio to provide the video-communication backend for Epic’s new telehealth platform. million more to aid COVID-19 telehealth deployment as part of its $200 million aid program for qualifying providers. WHY IT MATTERS. The FCC recently doled out $3.7

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 5, 2021

Legacy Health had an established telehealth program, which involves specialty-care services providing remote consultations to a variety of facilities. Eight telehealth-equipped hospitals. "The telehealth team and operations leaders developed workflows, and training modules were designed to provide a standard practice."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

and four of their colleagues expressed support for the Drug Enforcement Administration's new engagement on a potential special registration for telehealth with this week's listening sessions hosted by the DEA's Drug Diversion Control Division, but said they had several concerns. Senators Mark Warner (D-Va.), John Thune (R-S.D.)

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

There’s more evidence that doctors and patients, both, want to use telehealth after the COVID-19 pandemic fades. Doximity’s second report on telemedicine explores both physicians’ and patients’ views on virtual care, finding most doctors and health consumers on the same page of virtual care adoption.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Cigna announced this week that it is expanding access to telehealth services via the virtual care company MDLIVE. Cigna also announced the launch of a "virtual-first" health plan to select employers, which include $0 copays with MDLIVE primary care providers, comprehensive chronic condition management and care navigation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 26, 2021

The Massachusetts Federally Qualified Health Center Telehealth Consortium announced this week that its dozens of members have conducted more than one million telehealth visits total since March 2020. At the same time, Consortium representatives note that telehealth expansion must not leave patients behind. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 9, 2020

A significant percentage of ambulatory care will never return to a clinic. My firm's work with health systems on their digital health and digital transformation programs suggests that while telehealth technologies have matured rapidly in the wake of the pandemic, the implementation of virtual care programs has been a struggle.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 14, 2020

“With the telemedicine solution, we could potentially serve our patients in all of our primary care centers from the comfort and safety of their homes,” said Jeffrey M. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. The eClinicalWorks telemedicine system was integrated directly into the EHR the primary care centers already were using.

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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

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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 10, 2023

As part of a new collaboration with the Connecticut Children's Care Network, Nest Collaborative will provide unlimited same-day telehealth appointments with certified lactation consultants for parents in need of prenatal and perinatal breastfeeding support. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 24, 2022

The American Telemedicine Association announced Friday that it had launched ATA Action, a new affiliated trade organization aimed at supporting the enactment of state and federal telehealth coverage throughout the United States. ATA Action Founding Advocacy Council Members currently include: Babylon. Best Buy Health. Bicycle Health.

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MARCH 6, 2024

THE PROBLEM Memorial began offering on-demand virtual urgent care to its employees and patients via a third-party vendor in 2016. With the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Memorial launched telehealth for all its primary care and specialty centers, and today conducts about 100,000 virtual visits per year.

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FierceHealthIT

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

To meet the demand for primary care services, Summer Health rolled out a new on-demand text message service for parents to connect with pediatricians, sleep coaches and lactation experts. Summer Health launched a year ago as a text-based service for parents to get answers to urgent needs from pediatricians.

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Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 21, 2024

Exec Summary: Amazon One Medical is a healthcare service that offers a combination of in-person primary care and virtual care options.It Typically, this approach can meet up to 20% of primary care demand. Typically, this approach can meet up to 20% of primary care demand.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 19, 2022

"Access to specialty care for many of our communities is scarce; these communities already are faced with primary care shortages, and for those who need to seek specialists and sub-specialists, long travels often are a costly and time-consuming reality," said Tejal A. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. " Tejal A.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Like many other moderately sized community hospitals with ambulatory clinics, Ellis Medicine in Schenectady, New York, is challenged with providing its patients and community with not only expanded and alternative methods of access to primary and specialty care, but also ensuring that care is provided in the right setting.

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