Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 2, 2023

To explore the efficacy of primary care telehealth, a recent Epic Research study examined the frequency of in-person physician visits that followed 18,636,522 primary care telemedicine appointments. However, 55% of the time, patients did not have an in-person follow-up visit – regardless of coverage.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 22, 2022

She contends that telehealth is far more than a pandemic trend. In a discussion with Healthcare IT News , Fobare spells out the role telemedicine has grown to play during the pandemic, where healthcare goes with telehealth, how change may affect physicians and what virtual care might look like 10 years from now.

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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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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. THE LARGER TREND.

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JANUARY 13, 2021

Yoga classes, concerts and weddings were streamed via Zoom,” Fjord Trends 2021 from Accenture Interactive observes. Fjord points out that health care is no longer “something that happens to people,” but instead is a pursuit where people are playing a more active role.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Michael Gorton is founder and CEO of Recuro Health, a virtual care company that offers Digital Medical Home, which enables members in all 50 states to virtually access comprehensive healthcare services, including virtual primary and urgent care, behavioral health, at-home lab testing, genomics testing, as well as a suite of supplemental benefits.

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JUNE 24, 2020

Whether healthcare spending in 2021 increases by double-digits or falls by one-third directly depends on how the coronavirus pandemic will play out over the rest of 2020, based on PwC’s annual report on medical cost trends for 2021. Patients Forgo Care Until 2021.” ” A high scenario of medical trend calculates a 10.0%

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 14, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic is changing consumer perspectives towards telehealth. According to the study, only 36% of people making less than $25,000 say they have access to telehealth, but this age rises as income rises. "We also expect to see telehealth use grow for primary care, urgent care and chronic care management," he said.

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JUNE 27, 2022

The full report speaks to medical spending and utilization trends for preventive care, telehealth, and behavioral health. For example, women in low-income areas are projected to undergo 10% fewer mammograms in 2022, based on trend rates found in mammography since 2018. compared with 916,7 visits per 1000 members in 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In an earnings report released this week from Teladoc Health, the telehealth giant reported 81% year-over-year revenue growth in the third quarter to $522 million. The company also pointed to what it called "significant new agreements" with CVS Health and Centene to provide its primary care offering, Primary360.

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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. THE LARGER TREND. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 2, 2020

The team also discusses the state of telehealth more broadly, including the trends Kat observed at last week's congressional hearing. Subscribe to HITN's new Telehealth Connect newsletter here. Hundreds of industry groups call on Congress to advance permanent telehealth reform.

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JANUARY 12, 2021

CTA unveiled the 2021 key trends we’ll see presented this week through the online exhibition hall and in educational sessions on the CES.Tech platform. Wearables were developed beyond the wrist (a trend I spotted at CES back in 2013, discussed here through my #CES2013 lens ). For the U.S.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 8, 2021

Instead, the preparation regards the retail giant's pending acquisition of telehealth vendor MeMD earlier this year. First, Walmart has rolled out in-person clinics that offer a range of services including primary care, optometry, dental and hearing in Arkansas, Georgia and Illinois. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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MARCH 17, 2021

Starting this summer, Amazon Care will also expand its virtual care to companies and Amazon employees in all 50 states. THE LARGER TREND. With the announcement, Amazon will join the many other telehealth apps jockeying for position on the national stage. In-home visits incur a fee. ON THE RECORD.

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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. Team members looked back at the total number of in-person and telehealth visits from 2015 through 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 10, 2021

NowRx is expanding into telehealth, the digital retail pharmacy and prescription delivery company announced Wednesday. NowRx Telehealth will enable provider-patient, app-based interactions, in addition to same-hour or same-day prescription medication deliveries, according to the company. THE LARGER TREND. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2020

introduced new legislation this week that would provide for permanent Medicare payments for telehealth services at federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics. " "Access to telehealth has become more than just a convenience, but rather a critical necessity in America," said Butterfield in a statement.

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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. THE LARGER TREND. " Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 5, 2022

Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital retrospectively analyzed data from all 3,473 physicians providing ambulatory care through Mass General Brigham, which includes 12 hospitals. Early adopters (those who adopted telehealth during the week of March 15). THE LARGER TREND. WHY IT MATTERS. Of the 3,473 physicians, 13.8%

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 2, 2024

While telehealth alone doesn't appear to add significantly to a primary care physician's workload, mixing modalities – telehealth and in-person hybrid care environments – led to a 6% increase in time spent with documentary and EHR work, new research shows.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Cigna announced this week that it is expanding access to telehealth services via the virtual care company MDLIVE. Cigna also announced the launch of a "virtual-first" health plan to select employers, which include $0 copays with MDLIVE primary care providers, comprehensive chronic condition management and care navigation.

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MARCH 25, 2021

The pace of market signals happening in medical and wellness over the past month bolsters the trend that many consumers are shifting their focus of a preferred site of health care from brick-and-mortar health care providers and systems to places closer to home or at-home — via retail-, community- and home-based services.

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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 1, 2020

Epic Systems has tapped San Francisco-based communications tech startup Twilio to provide the video-communication backend for Epic’s new telehealth platform. THE LARGER TREND. million more to aid COVID-19 telehealth deployment as part of its $200 million aid program for qualifying providers. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 13, 2020

Three-quarters of patients who obtained healthcare virtually during the pandemic said they want it to be a standard part of care in the future. The result lends weight to the ongoing conversation around telehealth. THE LARGER TREND. The majority said they'd recommend it to a friend or colleague. ON THE RECORD.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 19, 2020

Louis Healthcare System announced this week that it has contracted with the telecommunications vendor Uniper Care for a pilot program providing veterans access to telehealth and social engagement services. As part of the pilot program, 40 to 50 veterans would have access to the Uniper Care service at no charge, a VA St.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2022

The requirements of the contagious COVID-19 and the subsequent loosening of governmental regulations and commercial payer rules have finally propelled telehealth into the mainstream. healthcare provider organization today and its teams are conducting some kind of telehealth. I would point out three promising trends.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Before COVID-19, many practices were hardly using telehealth for anything. During COVID-19, many practices had to use telehealth for nearly everything. The next era in telehealth will be about picking and choosing the right use cases for telehealth. How COVID-19 forced telehealth adoption. Like what you hear?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 16, 2022

The most common telehealth solution involves primary care consultations that take place online (e.g., In Singapore, approximately ten telehealth companies are active in this space and employ inhouse doctors or a panel of doctors to offer the service. What more should/can be done in telehealth? billion by 2026.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

Power has undertaken a survey on consumer satisfaction with 31 telehealth providers across 15 measures, which will be published in November 2019. In advance of the full report, the organization released a summary on telehealth access and satisfaction, which I’ll discuss in this post. Power polled 1,000 consumers in June 2019.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 1, 2020

Although telehealth can be used to address that gap, write experts from the University of California, Los Angeles in a new report, policymakers must consider the ways in which vulnerable people are left behind by technological advances. THE LARGER TREND. Seven million Californians live in a region with a shortage of physicians.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

The Center for Connected Health Policy has published a 21-page guide intended to help providers with telehealth-based Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements. The distant site for purposes of telehealth can be different from the administrative location. THE LARGER TREND. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 15, 2021

As part of the reported expansion, Amazon Care plans to provide telehealth to its employees in all 50 states. It may also announce that it's working with one or two more companies to provide Amazon Care to their employees, although it is not clear whether home services will be a part of this package. .; THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

Using the electronic health record, the team extracted demographic information for adult patients scheduled at UPenn's health system’s primary care and medical specialty clinics for telemedicine care in the first few months of the pandemic. " THE LARGER TREND. Otherwise telehealth won't work."

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