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

MAY 31, 2023

The participating primary care practices, all part of Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute’s clinical research network, were either general, family, ambulatory internal medicine, preventive medicine or geriatric medicine practices. The study revealed mixed opinions on how telehealth affected physician burnout.

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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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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Over the past several years, Humana has made significant strides in growing its senior-focused primary care business, and a new study highlights areas where it's seeing success in this model.

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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., In this first research study Zocdoc has conducted on patients’ perspectives on health care, the company commissioned an online survey of 1,000 U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 15, 2024

Primary care physicians are the heart of healthcare delivery in the United States. Virtual primary care, experts say, can address challenges in traditional care by filling existing care gaps and offering various benefits to healthcare organizations, providers and patients.

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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. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 18, 2021

A wide-ranging study published in the Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare this past month found that telehealth can be an effective modality of care for patients over 60, particularly when deployed in the confines of their existing primary care provider. WHY IT MATTERS. of the time across the three organizations.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Specialty care was significantly more likely to result in concordant diagnoses between telehealth and in-person appointments, compared with primary care.

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Younger generations are less likely to have a primary care doctor. However, on the whole, virtual care and walk-in clinics are on the rise.

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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. The study identified several key concerns about telehealth visits, shown in the graphic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

The Chinese government is promoting the family doctor service to make high-quality primary care services more accessible to the general population and help decongest hospitals. In recent years, there have been challenges in promoting these contractual services despite helping bridge access to quality care.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

It was a pleasant surprise to see Direct Primary Care (DPC) well represented at the recent #HLTH2022 conference. There is real momentum building for this alternate form of care. Two leading DPC technology innovators, were prominent in the exhibit hall and on the main stage: Hint Health and Elation Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network compared patient messaging among ambulatory physicians before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, finding they were mostly documenting visits and not messaging patients. hours in September 2021, according to the study. before the pandemic to 8.18

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Integration of a practitioner-developed mobile health system within a primary care setting was well-received by substance use disorder (SUD) patients and generally improved outcomes, according to a study recently published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

While consumers’ satisfaction with inpatient care experiences improved a few points over the past year, health insurance and hospitals still fall in the bottom-third of all industries with which people interact, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) Insurance and Health Care Study 2021-2022.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

More patients view telemedicine’s quality on-par or better than receiving care in-person, the study found. This was especially true for patients managing chronic health issues, 63% of whom felt virtual care provided equivalent or superior quality of care versus in-person visits. .”

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DigitalHealth

DECEMBER 3, 2024

A study in Northumbria has found that digital health interventions show promise in helping patients manage comorbid hypertension and anxiety.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

health care. In that introductory editorial, Ending Structural Racism in the US Health Care System to Eliminate Health Care Inequities, Ortega and Roby write that, “3 studies in this issue of JAMA show that access to and utilization of services is not merely predicated on health insurance or the availability of health care.

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Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2019

On the consumer side, younger people — namely, Millennials and Gen Z cohorts — are behaving today as if they do not value a primary care medical home, instead, favoring an on-demand, just-in-time-on-my-timeline mode. healthcare system.

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Mobi Health News

MAY 24, 2018

A recent study of hypertension patients suggests follow-up visits conducted virtually are just as effective in maintaining blood pressure control as those conducted in person.

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2018

These sobering statistics were published in Health Care Spending in the Untied States and Other High-Income Countries this week in JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association. The study points to salaries of generalist and specialty physicians in the U.S. as in the U.K. and Germany.

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Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2022

If you live in Mississippi, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Texas, Missouri, Alabama, Georgia, or Arkansas, your health care and outcomes are less likely to be top-notch, the Fund’s research concluded. states set the bar higher for their health citizens’ well-being. The Fund’s bottom line.

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Health Populi

MAY 2, 2024

And one-half of people in this study said they had experienced depression, anxiety, or another mental or emotional condition in the past 12 months. Gallup and West Health conducted the study in early February 2024 among 2,266 U.S. Quite the opposite, 3 in 4 Americans say mental health is treated worse. adults 18 and older.

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KevinMD

JUNE 14, 2022

After all the late nights studying, the endless exams and selfless sacrifice, it’s human nature to expect a historically stable career as the reward — right? The health care system will cause its own physician shortage originally appeared in KevinMD.com. I mean, weren’t we. Read more….

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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. As the study notes, the healthcare sector is a "significant source" of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The emergence of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting surge in the adoption of telemedicine are helping address patients’ needs without major signs of safety concerns, according to a study by Kaiser Permanente. WHY IT MATTERS The study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, analyzed more than 1.5

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Health Populi

JUNE 29, 2020

The third chart presents various ranges of satisfaction for patients, primary care providers, and specialists. Milbank concluded that there is strong support for the use of eConsults to scale health care without sacrificing quality, patient, or clinician satisfaction. meta-analyses).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

A study published this week in the American Heart Association journal Hypertension found that 12 months of pharmacist-managed home blood pressure telemonitoring and pharmacist management lowered hypertension for two years. For the Hypertension study, researchers combined home blood pressure telemonitoring with pharmacist care management.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2024

PHTI surveyed 322 digital health decision makers working in employers, health plans, and health systems, fielding the study in July and August 2024. For employers, the areas most focused for digital health spending are primary care and mental health.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

I covered depression impacts due to COVID-19 here in Health Populi yesterday , and wanted to follow that up with this McKinsey study to connect some dots. In one section of the report, McKinsey focuses on the behavioral health impacts of the pandemic, noting the costs of these are additive to the physical an acute care effects of COVID-19.

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Digital Health Global

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Key highlights from the publication: The model—which was built using anonymized patient data from 16,917 real-world primary care clinical cases—was designed and validated to help physicians personalize treatment and stabilize patients with hypertension at the point of care. Vice President of Data Science at K Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 5, 2022

A study published this past week in JAMA Network Open found that while the vast majority of physicians in a large regional healthcare system had transitioned to include virtual care in their practice by December 2020, some were more likely to be early adopters than others. Of the 3,473 physicians, 13.8% were innovators, 45.0%

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Primary care physicians who become associated with health systems more often steer their patients toward the organization’s services, increasing both utilization and care spending, according to a s | Recent study data outline physicians' tendency to point patients toward their associated health system's specialists, EDs and hospitals after (..)

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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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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

The study polled U.S. adults 50 and over in February and March 2022, to gauge older peoples’ views on virtual care now and in the future. 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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

ECRI's Partnership for Health IT Patient Safety is working with the HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association chart some of the common challenges involved in integrating behavioral health systems with primary care EHRs. Optimize clinical documentation for behavioral health and primary care integration.

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