Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 26, 2020

Home-based primary care allows individuals with chronic conditions – especially older people – to stay in their homes longer, reducing hospitalization rates and improving quality of life. " The results, panelists said, were subpar : Due to technical difficulties, the overall video success rate was 49%.

Primary Care 202

Primary Care Telehealth Telemedicine Medicare 202

Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

This engaging video features commentary with researchers from U-M. 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. Quality of care not as good as in-person (among 67% of older people). AARP sponsored the poll.

Telehealth 427

Telehealth Primary Care Mental health Telemedicine 427

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

A wide-ranging study published this past week in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that older people, women, Black and Latinx individuals, and patients with lower household incomes were less likely to use video for telemedicine care during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Telehealth 217

Telehealth Telemedicine Primary Care Connected Health 217

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 7, 2020

Together, these centers provide roughly 650,000 visits annually, including critical primary care, behavioral health, dental care and care management services to more than 115,000 patients of all ages, regardless of their ability to pay. Most payers reimburse significantly less for a phone visit than a video visit."

Telehealth 217

Telehealth Primary Care Mental health Leadership 217

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

For Michigan Avenue Primary Care in Chicago, the most pressing need near the beginning of the pandemic was to find a way to adopt telemedicine as the primary service model during the COVID-19 lockdown, especially for mental health patients who suddenly were shut off from in-person support. THE PROBLEM. ADVICE FOR OTHERS.

Primary Care 154

Primary Care EHR Telemedicine Telehealth 154

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 6, 2025

New Zealand Health Minister Simeon Brown has announced a new 24/7 telehealth service to expand access to primary care amid the overcrowding of emergency departments.

Telehealth 107

Telehealth Primary Care General practice Nursing 107

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 22, 2020

As many as 20% of primary care practices predict they could close within four weeks because of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a survey conducted between April 10 and April 13 by the non-profit Primary Care Collaborative.

Primary Care 199

Primary Care Telehealth Telemedicine Healthcare IT 199

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

A study published this month in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine found that safety net providers in New York state reported positive experiences using telephone and video during the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, researchers noted, "When it comes to equity in access, telemedicine presents a double-edged sword."

Telemedicine 187

Telemedicine Telehealth Primary Care Nursing 187

KevinMD

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Virtual primary care, unlike virtual urgent care, involves doctors who take the time to get to know their patients, creating (and nurturing) trusted doctor-patient relationships. Virtual primary care requires that doctors be consistently available for providing ongoing care to their patients.

Primary Care 234

Primary Care Mobile Health 234

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 22, 2022

For the 95th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast , we’re talking about the future of primary care. We discuss the different challenges primary care is currently facing. Then we take a look at retail care and tech players to see how they can impact primary care. Google Podcasts.

Primary Care 97

Primary Care Healthcare IT Patient Experience Health IT 97

KevinMD

APRIL 15, 2019

Telehealth, using video to have an acute medical care visit, puts some of the power of choice back into our patient’s hands.

Telemedicine 417

Telemedicine Telehealth Primary Care Mobile Health 417

Mobi Health News

AUGUST 20, 2019

A new 10-year partnership between the two groups will investigate how best to deploy the ATENTIVmynd video game therapy to young ADHD patients receiving care.

Primary Care 142

Primary Care 142

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. The findings indicate that medication prescriptions were lower for video and telephone visits at 38.4% telephone visits.

Telehealth 206

Telehealth Primary Care Telemedicine Mental health 206

KevinMD

APRIL 21, 2023

In a Black Mirror-esque video I watched recently on YouTube, a young man with a persistent cough notices a booth labeled “Instant Doctor” as he’s waiting in a train station, and decides to give it a try. The somewhat pleasant robot voice immediately recognizes him and dutifully (creepily?)

Primary Care 397

Primary Care Health IT 397

KevinMD

JANUARY 25, 2022

It is no secret that telehealth adoption has skyrocketed as a result of the pandemic, and because of that, many health systems are in the process of shifting to a virtual-first hybrid care model. Unfortunately, video visits, which most will equate with telehealth, have done little to help with the age-old issues of patient access.

Telehealth 369

Telehealth Primary Care Health IT 369

Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

But the big growth areas were for live video telemedicine, wearable tech, and digital health tracking. This represents a shift more to “me care” in 2020 with the sharp uptake of digital platforms and wearable tech. Live video calls were used by most people across all age groups assessed (18-34, 35-54, and 55+).

Digital Health 436

Digital Health Mental health Health Data Telemedicine 436

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The bar chart arrays the CX values, starting with the plan’s mobile app’s quality and reliability, followed by access to primary care doctors, specialists, and hospitals, and website satisfaction. With that in mind, all health care feels like a retail experience, for better or worse, when the patient is the payor.

Primary Care 293

Primary Care 293

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Once the assessment is complete, the paramedic connects to a provider to complete the remainder of the visit via secure tele-video. While the paramedic is present in the patient's home, the provider assesses the patient by tele-video and includes input from the paramedic to continue the patient's care.

Nursing 166

Nursing Primary Care Telehealth EHR 166

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. Twilio also noted that it supports HIPAA-eligible workflows on Twilio SMS, voice, SIP and video-communication channels. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

Telehealth 209

Telehealth Interoperability EHR Primary Care 209

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 27, 2022

This latest award is a $2 million grant that will allow our applied researchers to establish a patient safety learning laboratory over a four-year funding period, applying a cross-disciplinary, human factors and systems engineering approach to connected care enhancements. Since health systems across the U.S.

Telehealth 198

Telehealth Primary Care Connected Care Healthcare IT 198

Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2020

The second table from the PwC report details patients delaying care by consumer segment, health, and insurance status. In the first months of the pandemic, patients postponed many forms of care, including prevention, primary care, and even cancer care. This bar chart from the PwC study shows that U.S.

Mental health 281

Mental health Primary Care Telehealth Public Health 281

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Telehealth has been an elegant solution to this and has allowed staff to hold family meetings where care providers can show their face via video and provide time to answer questions, she said. This also has been highly effective in coordinating multiple physicians caring for the same patient on one video call, she added.

Telehealth 210

Telehealth Primary Care Nursing HIPAA 210

Clocktree

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Most people are familiar with telehealth services offered by their primary care doctor, therapist or other healthcare provider as a convenient alternative to an in-office visit. Telehealth has emerged as a standard, even expected, part of certain healthcare practices.

Telehealth 211

Telehealth Primary Care 211

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 20, 2022

He sees three major developments: healthcare will become a digital-first system; decentralization will become a major theme for health and life sciences organizations; and video will be part of every healthcare experience. Traditional care delivery is not working for far too many consumers.

Life Science 203

Life Science Primary Care Mental health Drug Development 203

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 8, 2025

Janine Cox, Operations Director – Health System Integration and Innovation, Northern Queensland Primary Health Network (NQPHN), Australia We are hoping to see an improvement in the utilisation of video telehealth within residential aged care homes.

Health IT 184

Health IT General practice HIE Telemedicine 184

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Michigan's Henry Ford Health System offers a 100% virtual care program for behavioral health integration that is delivered to patients either directly in a primary care clinic or the patient's home. The keys to success of any virtual care program implementation are in the people, processes and technology.

Primary Care 148

Primary Care Mental health Patient Experience Healthcare IT 148

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 19, 2022

"Access to specialty care for many of our communities is scarce; these communities already are faced with primary care shortages, and for those who need to seek specialists and sub-specialists, long travels often are a costly and time-consuming reality," said Tejal A. THE PROBLEM. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

Telehealth 176

Telehealth Primary Care Telemedicine Nursing 176

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

“Furthermore, this allows CCRLC patients to connect with their primary care physician for routine office visits,” Schmitz said. “The Polycom device is similar to that of your laptop, in which it can video-conference to another device at another location,” Schmitz explained. ” USING FCC AWARD FUNDS.

Telehealth 214

Telehealth Mental health Telemedicine Primary Care 214

Health Populi

AUGUST 3, 2023

consumers found that only 5% of people had received in-home healthcare in the past year, while 89% of people received care at a doctor’s office or hospital/medical facility, in-person. The last chart arrays tasks that consumers would be comfortable performing for self-service health care — expressing their top two preferences.

Primary Care 296

Primary Care Nursing Telemedicine HIPAA 296

Health Populi

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Some of those obstacles are shown in the chart here, noting a shortage of the mental health workforce, affordability for accessing services along with limited insurance coverage, and a disconnect between primary care and the mental/behavioral health system. Sadly consistent with other aspects of the U.S.

Mental health 194

Mental health Primary Care Connected Health Public Health 194

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

There were significant opportunities for both telephone and video visits to be captured through telemedicine. Primary care and bariatrics were the first to successfully conduct video visits while behavioral health increased its telephone visits substantially. THE PROBLEM. " Colleen Hammond, Ellis Medicine.

Telehealth 190

Telehealth Telemedicine Primary Care Remote care 190

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 1, 2020

The team noted that the asynchronous capability provided by the Zipnosis platform proved crucial "due to very high patient volumes during which it would have been impossible to accommodate through video or chat functions." Some departments such as psychiatry and primary care were exceeding their pre-pandemic clinical volumes."

Telehealth 218

Telehealth Psychiatry Primary Care Medicare 218

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 14, 2020

“With the telemedicine solution, we could potentially serve our patients in all of our primary care centers from the comfort and safety of their homes,” said Jeffrey M. The eClinicalWorks telemedicine system was integrated directly into the EHR the primary care centers already were using.

EHR 187

EHR Telehealth Primary Care Telemedicine 187

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 17, 2021

Starting this summer, Amazon Care will also expand its virtual care to companies and Amazon employees in all 50 states. It is not yet clear how Amazon Care will work in conjunction with health insurance if it is provided by other companies. In-home visits incur a fee. ON THE RECORD.

Telehealth 218

Telehealth Primary Care Healthcare IT 218

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 11, 2020

It suggests that Doctor on Demand’s video-based visits are often leading to rewarding relationships between patients and physicians and to improved patient satisfaction. "In many cases, patients actually said, 'Why can't primary care be like this?' ' And I didn't expect that."

Telehealth 218

Telehealth Primary Care Telemedicine Patient Experience 218

Health Populi

JULY 15, 2022

drop from 2021, CTA expects software, gaming, video and audio streaming spending will grow by 3.5% However, there will be some bright spots of growth for consumer tech spending, for 5G smartphones, smart home applications, gaming, and health technologies, noted in the Consumer Technology Association’s CTA U.S. and hardware to fall by 1.4%

Connected Health 296

Connected Health Mental health Primary Care Health Technology 296

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Technology that is difficult to use can create a critical barrier to adoption and, in the case of remote care, simply would not work, the health system felt. "During the peak of the pandemic, primary care telehealth visits accounted for more than 50% of our volume." " Nick Kostoff, TriHealth.

Telehealth 207

Telehealth Primary Care EHR Telemedicine 207