Health Populi

AUGUST 7, 2020

More use of primary care services also drove greater satisfaction and spending per consumer at a rate of $11 more spending per person. But Walmart has been expanding its primary care services — so we’ll watch to see in 2021’s J.D. The post Pharmacies Grow for Primary Care On-Ramps – And J.D.

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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. They also looked at the differences in the rate of in-person follow-up based on a patient’s insurance coverage.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The company also pointed to what it called "significant new agreements" with CVS Health and Centene to provide its primary care offering, Primary360. THE LARGER TREND.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 8, 2025

Which trend in health technology in your country will you see continuing in 2025? How about new trends to expect in the new year? We look forward to monitoring the progress nationally and identifying where primary care fits within this model of information sharing.

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Health Populi

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

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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Health Populi

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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Health Populi

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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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Consider telemedicine, the use of technology advancements for modern care protocols, and technologies that help people save money as areas where people believe in that “power” of tech for health care. Last week, the indefatigable Sanjula Jain, Ph.D.,

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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 14, 2020

D’Orazio said he was encouraged that providers in specialty care are taking the opportunity to embrace virtual care, beyond already accepted use cases like tele-stroke and telepsychiatry. "We also expect to see telehealth use grow for primary care, urgent care and chronic care management," he said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 17, 2024

To supplement last year's opinion data, researchers also conducted a survey of 1,171 of its physician and 131 nurse practitioner telemedicine users across 10 specialties – cardiology, dermatology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, neurology, oncology, primary care, psychiatry, pulmonology and rheumatology – in August.

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Lloyd Price

MARCH 1, 2025

Here are some of the recent trends in HealthTech M&A valuation multiples: Valuation multiples vary depending on the sub-sector of healthtech.For example, companies in the telehealth sector typically command higher valuation multiples than companies in the medical device sector. CVS Healths primary care push).

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Health Populi

JULY 12, 2021

“Self-care” took on new meaning and personal work-flows for people living in and through the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. Acosta recommends that retailers can capitalize on health and wellness trends driving loyalty to stores and programs built on solutions that are most meaningful to people. In the U.S.,

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In this roundup, we have a number of trends happening in healthcare and health IT that we wanted to highlight. It’s been quite a while since we did a Twitter roundup on here so I though it was time to do another one. Plus, we have lots of questions about each. So, share your thoughts […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 2, 2024

Now that telemedicine is a mainstream method for healthcare delivery, C-suite executives and health IT leaders at provider organizations must keep a sharp eye on trends in virtual care. We can expect to see tremendous growth and adoption in virtual primary care and hybrid care models in 2024. Please elaborate.

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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

AUGUST 23, 2021

Apple is reportedly reducing a key health division project that employees could use to track fitness goals, manage blood pressure and communicate with primary care clinicians. The strategy was similar to that of Amazon Care, which spun up a primary care app for employees before expanding nationwide this year.

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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. More related to this podcast: Telehealth: ATA president says 'we have a lot more work to do' The successes – and pitfalls – of using telehealth for home-based primary care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

More about this episode: How do providers strike the right balance between in-person care and telehealth ? How telemedicine can help everyone have a primary care physician. American Board of Telehealth launches certificate for virtual primary care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 24, 2023

million adult patients at Kaiser Permanente Northern California in 2021, and compared treatment and follow-up visits among primary care telemedicine (video and telephone) and in-person office visits. WHY IT MATTERS The study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, analyzed more than 1.5 telephone visits.

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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. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2023

A new health project in Adelaide seeks to provide virtually-delivered primary care services to patients with chronic conditions. In addition, the project will form a new digital health workforce by training doctors, nurses and allied health professionals in both hospital and primary care.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

These worries and concerns can be very isolating when the topic is trending with seemingly everyone else being excited for it. What health IT trend has you concerned? What health IT trend has you concerned? While everyone seems to be excited about it, you might be left with questions and concerns about what its impact will be.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 30, 2024

adults in October 2024 to gauge peoples’ views on digital health tools, buying trends, and trust. For the study, Propel Software engaged Talker Research to conduct a survey among 2,000 U.S. Start with the rate of 1 in 4 Americans’ experience having a personal medical device alerting them to a pending health issue.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The increase in telehealth adoption by physicians and patients alike continues to allow UPMC to develop new digital health tools that offer greater access to high-quality care from the comfort of their own home. UPMC launched a virtual-first, full-service primary care clinic offering a complete spectrum of care to patients aged 18 and above.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The pandemic has re-ignited self-care trends already in place at the start of 2020. In the COVID-19 era, consumers-as-patients are taking on more health care tasks we can do from home or close-to-home in retail health touch points physically separate from healthcare providers’ offices and hospital sites.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

" These include primary care and general practitioners who increasingly integrate behavioral health into their practices to improve access. This requirement could arbitrarily prevent qualified practitioners from effectively serving patients via telemedicine."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 8, 2021

Walmart Health's moves in this direction echo that of Amazon Care, which quietly filed to do business in dozens of states before publicly announcing its intention to provide app-based services in all 50 by this summer. THE LARGER TREND. As Livingston notes, it also plans to expand into Florida this year.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

WHY IT MATTERS With billions of dollars invested this past year, such as CVS Health's purchase of Signify Health , the AHA report highlights retail healthcare companies having grabbed significant market share in primary care, concierge medicine, virtual care and in-home medical services. One example is Amazon.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 10, 2021

THE LARGER TREND. Speaking of Amazon, it's also no stranger to app-based telehealth care: Amazon Care connects Washington state-based employees with providers for a wide variety of urgent and primary care needs. And that program may be expanding.

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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. Lab tests across all sites of care sharply fell since early March, with fewer office visits and, thus, fewer diagnoses.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

I’ve been tracking this study since its inception, when it focused on “Connectivity and Mobile Trends.” Most consumers who own smartwatches and health and fitness trackers also use those devices every day, as shown in the household penetration/usage chart here from the report.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Over the years we have learned this is the best place to find future trends and innovations in healthcare. While we were at the 2024 HLTH Conference #HLTH2024, we spoke with many companies that had interesting stories and announcements.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 22, 2023

“We are supporting a primary care-led future where providers have the choice to maintain their independence, and Zocdoc is an important tool for improving patient access – allowing practices to efficiently reach new patients and maintain schedule density," said Dr. Kyna Fong, cofounder and CEO of Elation Health, in a statement.

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