Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 15, 2024

Primary care physicians are the heart of healthcare delivery in the United States. In addition to providing many crucial health services, they are the traffic cop to all the other forms of healthcare throughout a health system. You contend virtual primary care can amplify value in several ways.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The most visible threat was seen from UnitedHealth Group, with 3 in 4 hospitals noting UHG as a formidable threat to their health system business. CVS Health/Aetna, Amazon, and Walmart rank in the next-most competitive group impacting hospitals, followed by new primary care models.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Zocdoc learned the top reasons consumers booked medical appointments were for primary care, such as getting an annual physical or women’s preventive care services (e.g., pap smear, gyn exam), dermatology, and mental health issues. We can also see the growing demand for omnichannel health care in this study.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 4, 2022

For 2022’s campaign, here are some key data about mental illness in the U.S. adults experience mental illness each year. adults experience serious mental illness each year. youth aged 6-17 experience a mental health disorder each year… a growing concern. health system for patients across demographics.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2021

CrossFit announced the company’s launch of CrossFit Precision Care, described as primary care that provides personalized, data-driven services for “lifelong health,” according to the press release for the program. The converging factors are: Primary care. Retail health. Telehealth.

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Health Populi

MAY 5, 2021

This graphic comes out of my current thinking about telehealth across the continuum of care. Before the pandemic, the dominant work-flow for telemedicine was for triage, primary care and pediatrics (think: your child registers a 105-degree fever on a Saturday night and the pediatrician’s office is closed).

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Health Populi

JANUARY 26, 2021

These companies targeting primary care components represent the “unbundling of the family doctor,” as CB Insights recently coined the market trend. health care system, or more aptly “non-system” as my old friend J.D. Fragmentation is a hallmark of the U.S. Kleinke noted in his book titled Oxymorons ….published

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The combined entity will offer primary care, mental health, occupational health, and pharmacy and musculoskeletal services to a combined base of 630 clients.

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FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 5, 2023

Teladoc unveils new app integrating services for primary care and mental health, expands Spanish language offerings. Thu, 01/05/2023 - 16:07.

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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. have a PCP relationship, compared with 71% of health citizens in Germany and the Netherlands.

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Health Populi

JUNE 17, 2020

employers worry about workers’ mental health and substance use as employees begin returning to work in the summer of 2020. Larger employers are more likely to deal head-on with behavioral health benefits. Larger employers are more likely to deal head-on with behavioral health benefits. About 4 in 5 U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2022

The survey covered peoples’ perspectives on mental health care, anxiety, COVID-19, children’s mental health, and the workplace. “The pandemic and its mental health effects are very much still with us.” The time is now to make mental health more accessible. 1 in 2 U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

Among these visits, 76% were with a primary care provider, 32% with a specialty care provider, and 18% with a mental health provider, the study found. Four in ten older people who had experienced telehealth also said they would be interested in telehealth for mental health care in the future.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

It is no secret that the United States is experiencing a mental health crisis due to aggravated conditions from the pandemic exacerbated by of a shortage of mental health professionals, especially psychiatrists. As many as 80% of individuals seeking mental health treatment in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Leveraging telehealth and telemedicine technologies, patients can receive primary care or specialized consultations virtually, regardless of location. They no longer need to travel long distances for essential care. This is invaluable for everyone in the U.S., This is invaluable for everyone in the U.S., Why is this important?

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: Bloomberg reported that Walmart’s projected visit volume for the company’s new health clinic in Duluth, Georgia, exceeded expectations. Indeed, outpatient and ambulatory care is the New Black for hospitals and health care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

COVID-19 has created another health crisis in this country – a massive increase in depression and other mental health issues associated with being isolated. " Dr. Joshua Merok, Michigan Avenue Primary Care. Further, the opioid crisis has worsened with an increase in addiction. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The Southwest Rural Health Research Center has identified mental health concerns and addiction as the first and second most important priorities for rural health stakeholders, according to a May 2023 policy brief. What is the problem with rural and partially rural areas and so few mental healthcare providers?

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Health Populi

MARCH 16, 2025

adults have also tapped into LLMs to source information about physical or mental health. ” Driving engaged health consumers, such as the 39% identified in the Center’s report above, are two key forces: Declining access to primary care, and, The shift to consumer-controlled health data.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 5, 2022

It should not be news to anyone in the healthcare industry that the nation is suffering a profound shortage of mental health professionals, which was exacerbated by the pandemic. What is news to many is the different ways various telemedicine technologies are being used to help chip away at the mental health-staffing problem.

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FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 31, 2023

CVS Health goes live with virtual care service with a focus on primary care, mental health hlandi Tue, 01/31/2023 - 13:54

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

There’s an 11th imperative I add to the ten called out here, and it’s attending to mental health with grace, public policies, and resource allocation. Achieving health equity, bringing mental health services to all who need them, ideally at parity with physical health services.

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KevinMD

DECEMBER 24, 2022

After becoming more familiar with telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic, a growing number of consumers today are realizing the value and convenience of virtual visits for minor urgent issues, chronic disease management, and mental health services. Read more…. What consumers want from telehealth originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2020

The second table from the PwC report details patients delaying care by consumer segment, health, and insurance status. In the first months of the pandemic, patients postponed many forms of care, including prevention, primary care, and even cancer care. This bar chart from the PwC study shows that U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

This year, APA has published four reports on consumers’ mental health in the pandemic. These numbers raise questions about peoples’ access to mental health services, particularly among people of color more disproportionately negatively affected by COVID-19: Black and LatinX health citizens.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

Among people 50 and over, the doctor’s visit for routine care is the top reason for using virtual care, among 2 in 3 older people. That’s an important behavior change to take into future planning for primary care services targeted to older peoples’ chronic care management and remote health monitoring.

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FierceHealthIT

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

When Florida Blue announced this week that it’s partnering with Sanitas Medical Center in Jacksonville to deliver primary care, officials with the company considered it in keeping with a healthcare | Among the primary care services to be offered at Sanitas Medical Center in Jacksonville are onsite pharmacy dispensing, chronic condition management, (..)

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 26, 2022

Advances in telehealth technology allow specialists and primary care providers to work together to treat patients even when the specialist is several hours away. When needed, a primary care physician can host a specialist via a video conference from their own office for patients to "see" the specialist.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

But on the upside, note that a growing percentage of health consumers were very satisfied with the virtual health encounter, up from 39% in 2021 to 56% very satisfied in 2023.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Over one-half of Americans would likely use virtual care for their healthcare services, and one in four people would actually prefer a virtual relationship with a primary care physician, according to the fifth annual 2020 Consumer Sentiment Survey from UnitedHealthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 1, 2024

million eligible patients through more than 680 health centers across 41 U.S. million eligible patients through more than 680 health centers across 41 U.S. Jeff Wells , MD, current Marathon Health CEO, and Ben Evans , current Marathon Health Executive Chairman, will continue to serve the Company going forward in their existing roles.

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Health Populi

MAY 14, 2020

Telehealth platforms enabled virtual visits most disruptively for mental health, GI, allergy, neurology, rheumatology, endocrinology, primary care, ENT and cardiology, as the bar chart illustrates. Lab tests across all sites of care sharply fell since early March, with fewer office visits and, thus, fewer diagnoses.

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Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2019

She asserts that leveraging AI and machine learning for low acuity issues can automate as much as 80% of care, for both physical and behavioral/mental health. Matthew talked about the “Flip the Stack” concept that he and Indu Subaiya, his partner in Health 2.0, Joe’s deploys telehealth in eight states.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 14, 2024

There are numerous facets on employer-sponsored health care to explore in the KFF report’s 220 pages, but I’m going to focus in on a few issues with which I’m working these days: on prescription drugs, telehealth, and mental health.

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Health Populi

JULY 15, 2022

Pertinent to CTA’s larger stakeholder community, areas of the home such as connected kitchens and cooking at home, smart bathrooms, the growing sleep category, and even connected cars are all taking on health and wellness features to meet the evolving home as peoples’ personal health hubs.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

Those “waves of demand” TripleTree described will impact every segment of care delivery and sponsor, including small to mid-sized physician practices, employers, behavioral/mental health, public/government-sponsored health care programs, and the pharma and life science industry.

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2025

Telehealth and remote health monitoring, virtually “seeing” and treatment patients in lower cost settings (such as the home) is one key strategy for value-based care. The 2025 Medscape Physician Mental Health & Well-Being Report found that nearly one-half of U.S. diabetes, obesity, blood pressure).

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