Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2022

"In a matter of weeks, Geisinger went from 20 specialties to more than 70 specialties and from about 200 providers to more than 2,000 providers using telemedicine to see patients in their homes, neighborhood clinics or local hospitals," he continued. " David Fletcher, Geisinger. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 26, 2020

In a new survey of U.S. specialists, 79% said that their use of telemedicine technology had increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. More than three-quarters of those surveyed said they would continue to use virtual care technology in the future. WHY IT MATTERS. But uncertainty about those regulations also dogs the industry.

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Continue Education Journal

JUNE 12, 2019

Telehealth and Telemedicine Definition. We often hear telehealth and telemedicine used interchangeably, so let’s set the record straight – telehealth is the umbrella term that refers to medical services that healthcare practitioners provide to patients from a distance. Telehealth in 2019.

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Health Populi

MAY 17, 2022

The report examines three areas of digital health adoption: Live video telemedicine. Digital health tracking. We all know the mantra that our ZIP code impacts our health and well-being more than our genetic code. This is especially evident for telemedicine and digital health tracking.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Telemedicine has been gaining a lot of steam in recent years. As a result, provider organization CIOs and other health IT leaders have had their hands full finding and implementing new telemedicine technologies to help their organizations best reach as many patients as possible in the most efficient manner as possible.

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2023

The fast-growing adoption of telemedicine and remote patient monitoring from the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic led to hospitals and health systems launching new or expanding existing virtual care programs to accommodate a new reality for work-flow and patient care. hospital and health system leaders in March 2023.

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GlobalMed

DECEMBER 16, 2019

If you’re active in the telemedicine world (or just paying attention to it), then you know that virtual care’s benefits aren’t always matched by its adoption rates. The potential to transform healthcare globally is there – but somehow the actual telemedicine deployments aren’t always happening where they can do the most good.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Shelley, a professor in the Department of Policy and Public Health Management at the New York University School of Global Public Health. At the same time, the researchers noted, several hurdles remain for primary care providers when it comes to integrating telemedicine. " If the U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

This drove health consumers to virtual care platforms in the first months of the public health crisis — including lots of older people who had never used telemedicine or even a mobile health app. The survey was conducted online in June 2020 among 2,074 U.S. adults ages 50 to 80 years of age.

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Health Populi

MARCH 30, 2021

This analysis was based on data generated through McKinsey’s COVID-19 US Consumer Pulse Survey conducted in mid-February 2021 among 2,000+ U.S. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The third chart illustrates McKinsey’s findings on U.S. consumers, and for mental/behavioral health by some 54% of people.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 20, 2023

Since 2011, I have been writing the Telehealth.org blog to inform behavioral health professionals of telehealth advocacy to support the permanent approval of telehealth and telemedicine reimbursement at state and federal levels. Remove unnecessary in-person visit requirements for telemental health services.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

Prudential surveyed U.S. First, foremost, Americans are concerned about the impact of a disease outbreak on their health, personal finances and the U.S. 20% are avoiding public spaces with large crowds, 15% avoiding public transit, a nd 12% staying home from work if they feel sick.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 18, 2019

The Guam Department of Public Health and Social Services has to cope with a very serious tuberculosis problem. To help overcome the challenges it faced with directly observed therapy, the Guam Department of Public Health and Social Services turned to a healthcare technology from emocha Mobile Health. THE PROBLEM.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

who benefits from health insurance at the workplace, the annual family premium will average $21,342 this year, according to the 2020 Employer Health Benefits Survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Workers receiving health insurance through their jobs have seen their portfolio of benefits changing over the years.

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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

MARCH 2, 2021

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 20, 2023

Since 2011, I have been writing the Telehealth.org blog to inform behavioral health professionals of telehealth advocacy to support the permanent approval of telehealth and telemedicine reimbursement at state and federal levels. Remove unnecessary in-person visit requirements for telemental health services.

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Digital Health Wire

MARCH 1, 2023

The latest report from Rock Health and the Stanford Center for Digital Health showed that not even the end of the public health emergency or a looming recession could put a dent in the adoption of new health tech. The post Consumer Adoption of Digital Health in 2022 appeared first on Digital Health Wire.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

In a survey based in the US, patients that experienced telehealth visits highly rated this type of healthcare (recommendations: > 80%) 5,6 , stating it was beneficial for their mental health as well. In a cross-sectional survey, 52.5% In a survey among telehealth patients in the UK conducted by Dhahri et al.,

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Health Populi

JULY 23, 2020

With this alignment of virtual care supply-and-demand, it is like telehealth will see “permanent usage increases,” according to Parks Associates’ survey report, COVID-19 – Impact on Telehealth Use and Perspectives.

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Lloyd Price

MARCH 21, 2020

As the COVID-19 virus wreaks havoc with the healthcare system, telemedicine is stepping up into the spotlight and helping healthcare provider organizations and caregivers better respond to the needs of Americans who have contracted the virus and Americans who need to touch base with their providers on the status of their health.

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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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GlobalMed

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

HIMSS20 is right around the corner – and GlobalMed is excited to be represented on stage on Thursday, March 12 in an education session “Transforming Africa’s Health Crisis with Telemedicine.” Transforming Africa’s Health Crisis with Telemedicine”. Africa confronts the world's most dramatic public health crisis.”

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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. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Sun River Health was among the first organizations to receive funding under the Federal Communications Commission COVID-19 Telehealth Program. Prior to implementing the telemedicine technology supported by the FCC program funds, Sun River Health had relatively limited and targeted capacity to support remote visits. THE PROBLEM.

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2021

.” That concerns varies by a person’s type of health coverage: those with private health insurance tend to be more worried about paying the high-deductible, as well as people of color, and those in poorer health. population).

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2022

If you made your living in commercial real estate — and especially, working with hospitals’ and health systems’ office space — would the concept of telehealth be freaking you out right now? If you heed the words of JLL’s 2022 Patient Consumer Survey , you’d chill (at least a bit).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General issued a data brief this month aimed at providing insight into state evaluations and oversight of tele-behavioral services. In response to COVID-19, patients have regularly turned to telemedicine for behavioral health needs. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Stressed Out By COVID and Civil Unrest – the APA’s Stress in America Survey, Part 2, June 2020. Health Populi’s Hot Points : Since well before the COVID-19 public health crisis, there has been a shortage of mental health providers in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2021

But since the start of the COVID-19 public health emergency, our organization has expanded its telehealth capabilities. To test this assumption, I surveyed my patients. There were no exclusions in this survey. About two-thirds of the patients I surveyed were follow-up patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2020

Mild patients were admitted to the community recovery center and treated through telemedicine, and only patients with moderate levels or higher were treated in the hospital. (2) Telemonitoring System for Community Recovery Center through RRS, PHR and Electronic Survey System. 1) Cooperation with government/public health authority.

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American Well

MARCH 7, 2016

The team at MyDocNow is pleased to announce their easy to use telemedicine platform is now available in the Philippines. The new service offers virtual medical services that connect medical professionals and patients seamlessly using a telemedicine portal that has been successful in the United States. About Avizia.

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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. In addition, the research also surveyed 153 provider executives, 124 pharmaceutical execs, and 128 health plan executives. A wellness visit or physician, likely among 75% of people.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

In September 2020, PwC surveyed consumers with employer-sponsored health insurance about their preferred locations to receive a COVID-19 vaccine within one year of its approval. during the public health crisis. Consumers expressed different vaccine site preferences depending on their ethnicity/race and age group.

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American Well

MARCH 7, 2016

The team at MyDocNow is pleased to announce their easy to use telemedicine platform is now available in the Philippines. The new service offers virtual medical services that connect medical professionals and patients seamlessly using a telemedicine portal that has been successful in the United States.

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