Telehealth is the future but it is obscured by a dismal present
KevinMD
JULY 11, 2020
In so far as our current public health emergency is concerned, telehealth has obvious, indisputable benefits.
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Telehealth Is Just Healthcare Now – One Post-COVID Certainty, Three Reports
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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Congress should include telehealth in year-end funding, say ATA, HIMSS
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
DECEMBER 14, 2020
The American Telemedicine Association, the Connected Health Initiative and other industry groups issued a letter to Congress on Friday urging legislators to extend temporary telehealth flexibilities until the end of 2021. Giving HHS the authority to determine appropriate telehealth services and providers. THE LARGER TREND.
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Telehealth resource centers nationwide aid providers at no cost
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 17, 2020
In 2019, the National Consortium of Telehealth Resource Centers received 4,039 requests, total, from providers looking for technical assistance or for more information about telehealth. This year, the Mid-Atlantic Telehealth Resource Center, one of the 14 U.S.
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Cleveland Clinic, RAND hope to tackle telehealth's digital divide
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 26, 2021
Telehealth has the potential to expand access to care to previously underserved populations. However, it also has the possible side effect of worsening health disparities – and it's vital, stakeholders say, to make changes to address that dynamic as soon as possible.
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Legislators and healthcare orgs rally in favor of bipartisan telehealth bill
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 23, 2020
Several healthcare organizations and elected officials came together on Thursday in support of legislation safeguarding access to telehealth after the pandemic. "We have seen the positive impact of telehealth across the nation," said Jen Covich Bordenick, CEO at eHealth Initiative. " "Telehealth is not new.
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Senate HELP Committee weighs the future of telehealth
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 17, 2020
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, federal policymakers have enacted 31 changes to enable greater access to telehealth. "Today we have the opportunity to consider how we can deploy telehealth to expand access to healthcare for everyone," said Sen. " Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn. HELP Committee Chairman Sen.
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Senator Tina Smith: 'We have to learn from our experiences' on telehealth
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 19, 2020
A bipartisan group of senators on Thursday introduced legislation to inventory telehealth programs nationwide and evaluate ways to plan for public health emergencies using virtual care. " “Telehealth has been instrumental in connecting patients and health care professionals during COVID-19. " Sen.
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Epic EHR-linked telehealth skyrockets at Children’s Colorado
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 3, 2020
” Phase One was mobilization, ramping up telehealth services quickly to meet patient and family needs. "We overhauled our telehealth training and onboarding effort to ensure provider acceptance, knowledge and compliance with best practice standards for tele-enabled practice." " John F. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.
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How Grocery and Retail Companies Are Delivering Health and Healthcare
Health Populi
MARCH 25, 2021
It was the COVID-19 pandemic that accelerated some early-adopting health consumers viewing their home as their ultimate site for self-care and health care. Brian Owens noted on our call on the evolving wellness consumer that, “health and hygiene will emerge as the next digital.”
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Epic research shows telehealth efficacy, makes case for more reimbursement
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
DECEMBER 15, 2022
A dual team study of in-person, same-specialty follow-up rates after telehealth appointments published by Epic Research examined the cadence of care and found virtual medicine to be an effective tool. million telehealth visits during the study period, nearly 3.7 million adults found telehealth comparable for chronic conditions.
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Deep dive: Tracking the past 12 months of telehealth at Yale New Haven Health
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 3, 2021
It is affiliated with the Yale School of Medicine and its clinical faculty practice, Yale Medicine, which provides a depth and breadth of clinical expertise to support much of the health system's telemedicine programs and provides existing infrastructure that supports joint development of telehealth programs. The crisis sets in.
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MedPAC members weigh future of telehealth coverage
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
In a virtual public meeting this past Friday, members of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission discussed how – and whether – to permanently expand telehealth in Medicare. Before the pandemic, Medicare's physician fee schedule covered a limited set of telehealth services in rural locations.
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The Healthcare and Macro-Economic Impacts of Living with Endemic COVID – Listening to Fitch
Health Populi
JUNE 24, 2021
In the larger public and population health context, on the patient side, we can expect the burden of disease beyond COVID to increase due to postponed care and treatment backlogs. This has been found to be the case in the U.S., for example, for heart disease and cardiovascular complications as well as for cancers.
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Waking Up a Health Consumer in the COVID-19 Era
Health Populi
MARCH 12, 2020
Here is a link to the President’s full remarks from the White House website, presented at about 9 pm on 11 March 2020. FYI, Dr. Anderson was co-author with Uwe Reinhardt of “It’s the Prices Stupid,” the landmark Health Affairs essay from 2003 that pointed out the key difference between U.S.
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AMA & other med groups express 'dismay' at prospect of waivers made permanent
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 28, 2020
Lots of industry groups want to see the temporary government waivers enacted early on during the COVID-19 public health emergency – the ones enabling the vast expansion of telehealth and remote patient monitoring over the past four months – to be made permanent once the storm has subsided. " THE LARGER TREND.
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Budget 2024: Private hospitals tapped to provide psychiatric telehealth amid crisis
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MAY 21, 2024
The Australian mental health system has reached a crisis point where psychiatrists and other mental health professionals are leaving the sector in droves due to burnout and inadequate support, leaving patients to wait for long to receive care or delay their treatment and risk further deterioration.
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The Economics of the Pandemic Put Costs at the Top of Americans’ Health Reform Priorities
Health Populi
MARCH 4, 2021
That may be largely due to the fact that more younger people than older workers lost jobs in the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as losing health insurance. A recent TraunsUnion study found that more younger than older Americans’ health care behaviors shifted in the public health crisis. population).
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Mayo Clinic uses $1M in FCC funds for connected devices to expand telehealth
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 27, 2020
The particular telemedicine solution depends on the need presented. ” The volume of video interactions May Clinic supports on a daily basis greatly exceeds what it had done prior to the public health emergency, and signals a great patient desire to get their needed care conveniently and safely during this time, he added.
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Audio-only telehealth benefits patients in need, study finds
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 2, 2022
A recent University of California study of telehealth implementation at community health centers found that although phone visits were beneficial to historically marginalized patients, continued virtual care use depends on increased technological resources. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. ON THE RECORD.
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These are the compliance issues providers should be preparing for, post-PHE
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 8, 2022
The Department of Health and Human Services once again (for the ninth time) extended the public health emergency this past month , stretching it beyond mid-July. But sooner or later, that provision of the Public Health Service Act will draw to a close. Here's what she had to say.
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IoT and The Rise of the Machines in Healthcare
Health Populi
AUGUST 12, 2021
In health care, outdated operating systems present some of the greatest risks: 15% of medical devices and 32% of medical imaging tools run on outdated operating systems. “During the chaos and confusion, threat actors launched cyberattacks,” Ordr observed in the wake of the public health crisis.
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Sun River Health shifts 67% of its visits to telehealth
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
DECEMBER 28, 2020
Sun River's 64 health center sites (including both directly operated FQHCs and sub-recipient sites) serve more than 245,000 patients annually in both urban and rural medically underserved communities. THE PROBLEM.
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M Health Fairview goes all in on telehealth with $600K in FCC funds
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
OCTOBER 6, 2021
" They could complete assessments of the patient's condition with or without the local nursing team helping with the exam and even invite a family member at home to hear the updates to their care when they were not present.
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Down in the Delta – Up in Telehealth: MTA 2020
South Central Telehealth Resource Center
FEBRUARY 28, 2020
Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves kicked off the Mississippi Telehealth Association (MTA) 2020 Annual Conference on Monday, February 24 th by describing much of Mississippi living “small town ways” as a blanket description of many state residents. Basically anyone involved or interested in digital health.
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Providence CISO offers tips for a 'pandemic-ready' cyber strategy
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 11, 2021
The health system quickly stood up an array of new clinical innovations to deal with the public health emergency, and pivoted its consumer-facing tools to help manage its response to COVID-19. Seattle-based Providence was forced to learn quickly in spring of 2020, with Washington State one of the early U.S.
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Carium, OMNY among HHS-backed tech accelerator picks
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
DECEMBER 21, 2021
The PandemicX Accelerator, co-led by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, is tasked with using digital tools and publicly accessible data to reduce the disparities and inequity worsened by the novel coronavirus. WHY IT MATTERS. The cohort includes: Carium.
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Telemedicine during COVID-19: Benefits, limitations, burdens, adaptation
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 19, 2020
But telehealth technologies do have certain limitations when it comes to treating patients during a pandemic. But hospitals are learning to adapt to telehealth during a pandemic. Critically, hospitals are quickly adopting telehealth to treat quarantined patients infected with COVID-19, he added. ” A telehealth surge.
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Technology can help diagnose, contain COVID-19 – within limits
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 5, 2020
Digital tools such as telehealth, remote patient monitoring, data analytics and even consumer-facing AI-based chatbots could play a key role in containing the outbreak of COVID-19 and help people who think they've been exposed to the novel coronavirus – but experts warn that such tools are not a cure-all.
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Women’s and Children’s Health Network launches Australia's first virtual gynaecological service
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
OCTOBER 2, 2023
This allows women experiencing pain or bleeding in early pregnancy to no longer present and wait in an emergency department " during such a challenging time," SA Health said in a statement. Enterprise Taxonomy: Population and Public Health Telehealth Care Patient Access
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Behavioral health has a supply-demand issue. Can virtual care help?
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 3, 2021
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers and clinicians have pointed to behavioral health as a particularly effective use case for telehealth and virtual care. But what about after the public health emergency?
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Taking stock of the sudden evolution of telemedicine
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
Telehealth continues to grow as a crucial part of patient care, especially when supporting patients who live in remote areas and senior citizens. Research firm Frost & Sullivan forecasts a sevenfold growth in telehealth by 2025 – a five-year compound annual growth rate of 38%.
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New survey sheds light on providers' embrace of telemedicine
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 26, 2023
Healthcare IT News sat down with Virginia Telehealth Network's Mara Servaites, executive director, and Robin Cummings, special projects director, to dig into the results and find out the status of telemedicine in the state. These are just some of the impressive results from the new survey. Why do you think this is?
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DEA moves to extend telehealth prescribing flexibilities after voluminous stakeholder feedback
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MAY 4, 2023
With the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency set to expire on May 11, the U.S. At issue for a large number in the telehealth, behavioral health and medical communities as well as some policymakers would be the barriers to care access many patients experienced before the pandemic.
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COVID-19 and the future of care delivery
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 18, 2020
The opportunity to deliver a session for new healthcare students on the subject of telehealth is an enjoyable one. Discussion on the definitions for telehealth, telecare, telemedicine and other terms under the digital health and care umbrella is always required, and will be discussed in greater detail during the HIMSS & Health 2.0
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Cancer in the Age of COVID: Delayed Care May Reverse Survival Gains Particular Among Black People
Health Populi
JUNE 2, 2020
The drop in deaths from cancer in America was indeed positive during the current public health COVID-19 pandemic, a public health data story easily lost in an overwhelmingly tough week in the U.S.:
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19Labs Hosts Thai Public Health Leaders for Telehealth Demonstration with USTDA and Zoom
19 Labs
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) Reverse Trade Mission, hosting 20 esteemed public health leaders and government officials from Thailand. The highlight of our presentation was a live connection with community health workers in Guyana. We are thrilled to share highlights from our participation in a U.S.
Advancing Behavioral Health Care Through AI Integration
Healthcare IT Today
NOVEMBER 29, 2024
The following is a guest article by Andy Flanagan , CEO at Iris Telehealth The U.S. behavioral health system faces unprecedented strain as patient demand continues to outpace provider availability. The integration of AI in behavioral health care presents compelling opportunities for improved care delivery and patient outcomes.
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NUS Medicine introducing holographic GI care training and more briefs
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
OCTOBER 26, 2023
GigXR's HoloScenarios: Gastrointestinal module on the Gig Immersive Learning Platform presents a holographic simulation of a clinical setting featuring patients, medical equipment, instructors, and learners.
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Bringing Telehealth to the Rehabilitation Industry
Advanced Medical Reviews
MAY 2, 2019
The future of telehealth continues to build interest due to its convenience and cost-effectiveness. Not only does it increase access to care and reduce travel time—especially for people living in rural areas—but telehealth also decreases the number of hospital stays and can improve communication between clinicians. utilize telehealth.
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URAC CEO talks virtual care access, tele-mental health, post-COVID regs
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 26, 2022
Telehealth and remote patient monitoring have proven themselves to be not only convenient but necessary tools for patient care during the COVID-19 pandemic. URAC is an independent, nonprofit accreditation organization – and one of the most influential telehealth accreditors in the world. Dr. Shawn P.
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South Korea begins nationwide telemedicine pilot
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
In June, the government downgraded its public health alert, which meant the end of the temporary conduct of telemedicine after three years. Enterprise Taxonomy: Telehealth Patient Access Care In response, the ministry is keen to mete out sanctions for future violations, such as reducing claims and issuing refunds.
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Color Me Healthy – Pantone’s Forecast on Post-Pandemic Well-Being and Design
Health Populi
JUNE 25, 2021
Post-pandemic, the consumer’s priority purchases are grocery, nesting, and health, according to David Shah, a leading thinker about social and design trends. David presented the latest Pantone forecast on color and society in NewTopia – A Balance of Color Opposites – Color for a Post-COVID World this week.
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Penn Medicine CISO offers tips for COVID-19 cybersecurity response
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
APRIL 15, 2020
Healthcare IT News spoke recently with Dan Costantino, Chief Information Security Officer at Penn Medicine, who offered some insights into how his infosec staff has adjusted its strategies to support the health system during the public health emergency. And remote care presents another whole set of security challenges.
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