Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2021

Patients seem to like the convenience of telehealth, as well as the ability to remain safe from COVID-19 transmission – especially before the vaccine rollout in the United States. When it came to engagement specifically, the vast majority of patients (nearly 93%) said their virtual visit clinician was interested in them as a person.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 13, 2025

The study summary report is titled, “Americans’ Ratings of U.S. adults ranked nurses high or very high in the study, followed by 61% of people giving grade-school teachers a high/very high mark. .” That 15 point difference is historically among the largest gaps between 1st and 2nd place in this study.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

This year’s study was designed to compare current clinicians’ perspectives with those garnered in the 2016 and 2019 studies. 93% of physicians see advantages in digital health tools for patient care, split by 44% seeing “definite advantages” and 49% seeing “some advantage.”

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 16, 2024

adults plans to purchase at least one health and wellness digital health technology product to gift during the winter 2024 holiday season, according to the 2024 Consumer Technology Holiday Purchase Patterns study served up by CTA, the Consumer Technology Association — aka the annual host of CES. One in two U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2025

The Propel study’s insights build on what we know is a growing ethos among health consumers seeking to take more control over their health care and the rising costs of medical bills and out-of-pocket expenses. Most people in the U.S. use at least one medical device at home — likely a blood pressure monitor.

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FierceHealthIT

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Accountable care organizations do not positively influence treatment and outcomes for chronic mental health conditions for Medicare patients, according to a study in Health Affairs. | A new study pours water on the belief that ACOs are well-suited to handle chronic mental health conditions its patients experience.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points : Consider just the line item of “customer and patient services,” and one of all of our least-favorite patient experiences: the dreaded call center. This last graphic from the McKinsey report illustrates the pain points for patients engaging with payers’ call centers.

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Health Populi

JULY 23, 2020

Parks Associates fielded this study the second half of May 2020, surveying 5,008 heads-of-broadband households balancing the sample of respondents for age, gender, income, and education. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Familiarity with virtual care breeds demand, based on the Parks Associates study.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 2, 2021

The article discusses the promises and problems with a growing supply of new companies targeting the patient billing, payment, and revenue-cycle management space, most of which are painted with the brush of improving “patient experience.”

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Health Populi

AUGUST 9, 2021

What builds empathy and trust, the first graphic from the study details, are medical providers who clearly explain a patient’s conditions and treatments, as well as that provider listening, understanding needs, and providing emotional support. Finally, trust was the fourth aspect on U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Most consumers using digital health devices felt more trust in the technology when coupled with doctors’ office reviews — another lens on the importance of trust-equity between patients and physicians. For the study, Propel Software engaged Talker Research to conduct a survey among 2,000 U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 22, 2024

This opened the door to inconsistencies in processes that could lead to delays and affect the patient experience. By reducing the need for patients to travel and wait for advanced imaging , staff knew they could make a significant impact. "The quality of our imaging studies improved remarkably," Ichite reported.

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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2020

Patients perceived care was at least as good or better than traditional face-to-face encounters, and. Virtual care bolstered ongoing clinical trials, a large focus of this study. We’re calling it Consumer Directed Virtual Care.”.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Start with over-arching finding that, “Three out of four patients believe the U.S. healthcare system is broken and there is a strong sense of distrust,” Lavidge asserts right at the top of the study’s press release. The erosion in trust among U.S. The post 3 in 4 U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

A new study by The Permanente Medical Group (part of Kaiser Permanente) offers confidence that ambient voice transcriptions can save time and improve the patient experience by generating clinical notes about patient visits. This article summarizes the key findings in that study.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Harleah Buck of the University of Iowa has researched the impact of gratitude on cardiovascular and other aspects of health, including a meta-analysis of 13 studies covering about 4,000 patients. The studies together demonstrated that gratitude reduced inflammation markers linked to heart disease (e.g.,

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 15, 2025

Now with PocketHealth, patients can access and share their imaging studies digitally, directly online. Both wanted to provide patients and staff with seamless, friction-free imaging experiences that went beyond the four walls of the facility. That means over 60% of recommendations are ignored by patients!

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

There’s a lot of proof supporting arts-as-medicine, WHO details in this paper, which synthesizes research published in over 3,000 studies. These outcomes were the results considered across the studies, falling into the two categories of prevention and promotion, and management and treatment, shown in the second chart from the report.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

"For RPM, shifting to this new care model means using collected vital signs and other patient data more strategically and efficiently," he continued. " Dicks has been conducting RPM work along all these lines with real-world patients – meeting these needs he has outlined.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2025

Business, in general, is the most-trusted across the institutions studied, albeit in India NGOs are less trusted and in the US, NGOs are tied with business (with 26% of people in the U.S. These trust levels are much lower than those in the other 3 countries studied. COVID also eroded peoples’ trust in media. ” In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Unique to this study is the patient sample polled: Software Advice surveyed 876 patients in September 2023 to gauge their perspectives on wearable tech and health. ” Software Advice wondered.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 10, 2021

Researchers from West Virginia University have set out to determine the optimal frequency of telehealth appointments for patients with chronic conditions. In a study published in E-Health Telecommunication Systems and Networks , the team reviewed other work concerning telehealth and chronic conditions. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 14, 2024

As the population ages and life expectancy increases, delivering high-quality care that achieves optimal health outcomes, enhances patient experiences, and reduces costs is essential for the future of healthcare in the U.S. How will outcomes improve with the addition of these healthcare technologies?

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

A CDC study on healthcare worker burnout concluded clinicians reported less burnout when they had enough time to complete their work and be productive. Utilizing AI tools will create an environment where providers spend more time with patients and less on paperwork.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 5, 2020

But as the report’s title asserts, most telehealth users experienced obstacles to accessing and using virtual care platforms that drove less positive consumer experiences. Power has studied including health insurance, insurance and financial services. In the study, J.D. The study was fielded in June-July 2020 among 4,302 U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 3, 2024

that people — both patients and the health care workforce — feel less safe, discussed in Safety in Healthcare 2024 from Press Ganey. It anchors all experiences — for patients and the workforce,” the report summarizes. of patients saying staff protected me well in ambulatory care compared with 68.2%

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

By 2018, Medscape conducted a separate study from the Lifestyle report, titled the National Physician Burnout & Depression Report. This issue has ranked high in the Medscape study for a while, exacerbated during the implementation of electronic health records and other administrative burdens like prior authorizations.

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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. Most older patients who had a telehealth visit perceived the quality of an office visit was higher (56%) and offered better communication opportunity with the clinician (54%).

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

For the study, Accenture surveyed 720 health care providers in general practice, oncology, immunology, and cardiology working in China, France, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the U.S., Expanding support services, especially as more care moves into patients’ hands as self-care in the home. in May and June 2020.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

Rock Health has conducted a consumer digital health study for several years, giving us the ability to compare longitudinal findings from year to year. This and other studies have tracked consumers’ growing use of digital tech and wearables during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the 10% point growth from 2019 to 2020 is notable.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

The study polled U.S. AARP conducted the study between February 24 and March 3, 2022, among 1,149 adults ages 50+ employing the NORC at the University of Chicago’s Foresight 50+ Consumer Omnibus sample. This future expectation varies by race, the implications of which I discuss below in the Hot Points. .

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Health Populi

MAY 30, 2022

The American Psychological Association study I cited in that post from 2020 found that financial stress was indeed contributing to Americans’ sense of anxiety and depression. in 2022, billing and medical payments are now embedded in patients’ experience, regardless of the type of payor. It’s true to say that in the U.S.

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Digital Health Wire

MARCH 10, 2025

Providers are lining up to see if ambient AI can live up to its promise of decreasing burnout while improving the patient experience and researchers are starting to wonder the same thing. Over the course of the study, ambient scribe use was associated with: 20.4% Heres what they found. minutes) 9.3% to 72.4%) 30.0%

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

By building an immutable blockchain-registered audit trial with Triall's Veritable Proof API, Mayo Clinic will test end-to-end clinical data integrity – from start-up to post-study evaluations. Integration with medical devices supports remote data collection, and mobile access to the platform will help Mayo Clinic manage the study.

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Health Populi

MAY 21, 2020

Nearly every respondent in the study reported having health insurance coverage. That anxiety comes from the fact that most folks in this study believed it likely there would be a resurgence of COVID-19 in the fall or winter. ACHP and AMCP polled 1,263 U.S. adults 18 to 74 years of age in the first week of May 2020.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Being Philips, what underpins that quality and experience is technology; Philips explored telehealth, AI, digital health records (DHRs), and other digital health tools that can engage patients. This is a very important pillar for health consumer engagement and patient experience.

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JUNE 6, 2021

Two studies published in May 2021 illustrate the value and importance of telehealth to patients in 2020, and a disconnect among many C-level executives working in hospitals, academic medical centers, and other care provider organizations. Commercial Member Health Plan Study. Commercial Member Plan Study for the past 15 years.

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