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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OCTOBER 11, 2021

COVID-19 exacted a toll on health citizens’ mental health, worsening a public health challenge that was already acute before the pandemic. It’s World Mental Health Day , an event marked by global and local stakeholders across the mental health ecosystem.

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MAY 10, 2022

“Telehealth certainly appears to be here to stay,” the AARP forecasts in An Updated Look at Telehealth Use Among U.S. adults over 50 said they or someone in their family had used telehealth. adults 50 and over in February and March 2022, to gauge older peoples’ views on virtual care now and in the future.

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Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2019

Kaveh was brainstorming the future of telehealth a decade from “now,” with three innovators attending #ATA19: Deepthi Bathina of Humana, Matthew Holt of Catalyst Health (and Co-Founder of Health 2.0), and Kim Swafford of Providence St. Deepthi from Humana offered three considerations concerning how care will transform.

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Health Populi

JULY 23, 2020

the use of telehealth services tripled in the past year, as healthcare providers limited patients from in-person visits for care and patients sought to avoid exposure to the coronavirus in medical settings. But even so, roughly 50% of people experiencing no symptoms still found the various telehealth concepts attractive.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 31, 2023

WHY IT MATTERS To identify common facilitators and barriers to telehealth implementation, researchers evaluated practice leaders' perspectives on 32 aspects of telemedicine in their practices, according to a new report published in the Annals of Family Medicine. They self-identified their point of maturation.

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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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Health Populi

OCTOBER 30, 2023

About one-half of clinicians’ enterprises are looking to increase automation for patient communication, expand telehealth options to patients, and grow full-time headcount. And third, investing in clinician mental health resources garnered 42% of clinicians’ interest in the BDO survey. BDO notes that only 2 in 3 U.S.

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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

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. Telehealth. Retail health.

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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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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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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

APRIL 29, 2020

A new report from PwC looks at peoples’ changes in health behaviors in the first two months of the pandemic, asking whether these changes will stick “after” the pandemic fades. But feeling isolated was surely the most impacted health risk, as the dotted line in the first chart graphs. In the COVID-19 era in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2020

One-half of doctors plan to increase their use of telemedicine in the next 12 months, the survey learned, across both primary care and specialty practices. Four in five large employers believe virtual health will play a significant role in how care is delivered int he future, up from 64% in 2019 and 52% in 2018.

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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. This diagram illustrates aspects of the “surround sound” concept of care around the patient, namely ‘You.”

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The ability to book an doctor’s appointment ASAP, care available in-person and via telehealth, and control over my care — these are key factors Zocdoc explains in the company’s What Patients Want report published this week. pap smear, gyn exam), dermatology, and mental health issues.

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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

APRIL 12, 2021

adults ready to receiving ongoing treatment for a chronic condition via virtual care compared with less than half that percent of provider execs open to managing chronic conditions virtually in terms of the effectiveness of doing so. Similarly, there is a gap between the 37% of 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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Harbor is a nonprofit mental health and substance use disorder treatment provider based in Toledo, Ohio, that has been addressing community needs for more than 100 years. Lighthouse Telehealth is a subsidiary of Harbor, formed in 2018 to meet the growing demand for telehealth. " Sandy Hall, Lighthouse Telehealth.

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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.

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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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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

“This surge of people experiencing acute behavioral health problems…has the potential to further impact the healthcare system for years to come,” a report from McKinsey expects looking at the hidden costs of COVID-19’s impact on U.S. health care. health care system in terms of workflow and payment parity.

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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. Technology , too, is a factor in medical trend.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

TripleTree is an investment bank that has advised health care transactions since 1997. As such, the team has been involved in digital health financing and innovation for 24 years, well before the kind of platforms, APIs, and cloud computing now enabling telehealth and care, everywhere.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Hims & Hers has grown rapidly across both of its lines – for men and for women – supporting care for many conditions that patients often feel uncomfortable talking about, including sexual health, mental health, contraception and hair loss. First we launched primary care.

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2022

Castlight published the full research findings in April in the company’s 2022 Workforce Health Index. The full report speaks to medical spending and utilization trends for preventive care, telehealth, and behavioral health. Take preventive services across the entire national commercial population in the study.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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. WHY IT MATTERS. From 2010 to 2018, emissions from the U.S.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 28, 2021

along with health disparities and inequities. Telehealth will help many people meet up with health care access — but not necessarily universally or equitably. Mental health will continue to be the epidemic beyond the pandemic. Mortality will be up in the U.S.

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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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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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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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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 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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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

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. That decline in face-to-face physician visits was supplanted, in part, by hockey-stick growth for telemedicine visits.

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