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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 27, 2021

A study published this month in JMIR Human Factors from Syracuse University researchers found that physicians are in favor of expanding telehealth permanently. "On one hand, from this survey, I believe telehealth can increase access," she said. Patient-care visits conducted via telehealth also rose from 13.1%

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

“Telehealth certainly appears to be here to stay,” the AARP forecasts in An Updated Look at Telehealth Use Among U.S. adults over 50 said they or someone in their family had used telehealth. One in three people over 50 in America are most interested in telehealth, with another 30% somewhat interested.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JANUARY 26, 2023

Medicaid Telehealth has emerged as a crucial component in extending and facilitating access for individuals with behavioral health needs. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of telehealth to deliver healthcare services safely and effectively.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Increased telehealth utilization points to wider use as a diagnostic and triage tool, particularly among those with chronic conditions. The use of telehealth is especially evident among those with chronic conditions. Provider gender also affected patient adoption of telehealth. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2021

Telehealth An occupational medicine physician offered his patients a poll with a single question. The world has turned upside down and, ironically, I am one of the providers who utilizes telehealth the most in my large organization. I estimate about 90% of my visits were telehealth visits during the first four months of the pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

With patients afraid to seek care in person and social distancing necessitating as little face-to-face contact as possible, many clinicians pivoted to telehealth – some with more success than others. Shelley, a professor in the Department of Policy and Public Health Management at the New York University School of Global Public Health.

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Clocktree

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

A recent survey of 2,767 dentists in 20 states found that 34% of providers are currently using some form of telehealth to treat patients or plan to in the near future. Dentists with more than half Medicaid patents were 39% more likely to use telehealth platforms.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 26, 2020

In a new survey of U.S. The report, from data and analytics company GlobalData, found that fewer than half of the cardiology, gastroenterology, pulmonology and respiratory specialists surveyed were using telehealth before the pandemic. WHY IT MATTERS. But uncertainty about those regulations also dogs the industry.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 11, 2023

The Kaiser Family Foundation recently looked at state trends with regard to expanding access to telehealth-based behavioral care during the pandemic and found that states see telemedicine as a key component of maintaining access to behavioral healthcare for Medicaid enrollees. WHY IT MATTERS. " THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

These challenges gave telehealth the chance to grab the spotlight. The benefits of telehealth are striking, offering hospitals the chance to brand themselves as innovative and using cutting-edge technologically. Here, we summarize 8 reasons why you should consider telehealth to be part of the holistic health practice of your hospital.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 9, 2023

Based on current COVID-19 recovery trends, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that the US federal Public Health Emergency (PHE) waivers will end on May 11, 2023. Private payers, Medicaid, and Medicare initiated widespread telehealth reimbursement approvals.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has re-shaped consumers for work, school, fitness, cooking, and certainly for health care. PwC’s recommendation here is for the supply-side executives from providers, pharma and health plans to determine which virtual care services make “the most sense and for whom.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2021

senators has reintroduced the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act of 2021. The act would expand coverage of Medicare telehealth services and make some COVID-19 telehealth flexibilities permanent, among other provisions. A bipartisan group comprising half of U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2021

Leading healthcare industry stakeholders on Monday implored top leaders in the House and Senate to help ensure, among other imperatives, that "Medicare beneficiaries [don't] abruptly lose access to nearly all recently expanded coverage of telehealth." " WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The brief, which examined oversight efforts as of January and February 2020, stemmed from a survey of Medicaid directors from 37 states, as well as structured interviews with relevant stakeholders. In addition, only a few states have evaluated the effects of telehealth, said the agency; these states found increased access and reduced costs.

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2023

Now that the worst of the coronavirus acute impact is in our rear-view mirror, it appears medical care providers are reassessing these implementations and may “rip [out] and replace” those systems, according to The Great Shakeup, a survey report from Panda Health. hospital and health system leaders in March 2023.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

physicians were using telehealth to care for patients at the end of 2021. Among those doctors who were not providing telehealth by late 2021, just over one half never did so during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the 2021 Telehealth Survey Report from the AMA. Mental and behavioral health. Four in five U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2021

Two studies published in May 2021 illustrate the value and importance of telehealth to patients in 2020, and a disconnect among many C-level executives working in hospitals, academic medical centers, and other care provider organizations. Power and BDO illustrate some mis-alignment between the demand and supply side of telehealth.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Furthermore, voice technologies are “making noise,” according to Deloitte in A New Era in Mobile Continues, the 2018 Global Mobile Consumer Survey : US Edition. I’ve mined the US data of this global survey to divine insights for health/care. which 1 in 2 U.S. adults over 55 manage. [I

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

I covered the event here in Health Populi, as I have for most of the past decade, highlighting the growth of digital health and, this year, the expanding Internet of Healthy Things called-out by Dr. Joseph Kvedar in 2015. CTA conducted a survey among 2,000 U.S. adults ages 18 and over in the second half of July 2020.

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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

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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 9, 2021

When telehealth visits increased exponentially during the pandemic, patients at Mount Sinai Health System with limited English proficiency, or LEP, were at a great disadvantage to receive equal access to services because of the language barrier. Telehealth platforms were not originally set up with LEP patients in mind.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

With the rise of the coronavirus Delta variant, two out of five American adults would use telehealth to get medical care, according to a recent Jarrard poll. And Americans, as the Jarrard poll shows, are still ready to go when it comes to telehealth. Use of virtual care spiked big-time last year, and remains in wide use today.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 6, 2023

Survey results we released in May show that nearly 6 in 10 of active college students first accessed mental health services during their K-12 years and 42% experienced their first formal care in high school. Regardless of their health coverage status, Gen Z values the convenience of care access from any location.

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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2020

Patients embraced virtual care and communications at very high rates in the first months of the pandemic, and want to continue to use telehealth platforms after the pandemic ends. Fully one-third of patients starting using each of these 3 telehealth modalities during COVID-19. and the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2020

Connected Health Mobility Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth How contact tracing, contactless experiences and remote monitoring will redefine healthcare and public health. A study by non-profit group FAIR Health suggests a 4,000% increase in telehealth claims across the country.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Behavioral health issues are most prevalent in Medicaid enrollees, with Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) data from 2020 indicating that approximately 39% of Medicaid enrollees experience mental health or substance use disorders. Medicaid telehealth is positioned to provide solutions. Forty-four states responded to the survey.

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Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2022

.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: The American Medical Association polled physicians in late 2021 to gauge doctors’ perspectives on telehealth. The report lays out physicians’ majority support for telehealth and key issues preventing further adoption and proliferation of use across the U.S.

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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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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 27, 2023

Authors of a recent study published in Telemedicine and e-Health evaluated telehealth services supported healthcare access for transgender and gender-diverse (TDG) youth within Seattle Children’s Gender Clinic (SCGC) during the COVID-19 pandemic. More patients in the post-telehealth period used “they” pronouns.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Patients “yearn” for personalized services and relationships in health care — optimistic that technology can help deliver on that hope — we learn in Healthcare’s Future: Balancing Progress and Perception , a health consumer survey report from Lavidge.

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GlobalMed

JUNE 16, 2021

Then there are telehealth apps that cater to patients looking for quick one-off visits. Health plans are offering “virtual primary care plans,” which prioritize virtual visits with telehealth doctors over in-person visits to primary care providers. Medicare has also dramatically loosened its restrictions on telehealth coverage.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

News The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule continues many telehealth flexibilities first adopted during the public health emergency, such as an expanded scope of originating sites an expanded definition of qualified practitioners. As a result, these flexibilities will be in place until at least Dec. 1, 2024.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

Health systems finding ways to provide more care using less resources. What enables those deflating cost-reducers is the growing adoption of digital health tools, from telehealth and virtual care to self-care in patients’ hands at home and on-the-go via mobile health apps. during the public health crisis.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 20, 2021

Extreme heat has a significant impact on public health. The World Health Organisation (WHO) Europe Guide on Adaptation to Heat for Health provides the building blocks of a plan to ensure an effective heat response for local populations. Europe had its second warmest July on record this year, with temperatures 1.4

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