Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

million from the Canadian firm WELL Health Technologies. Because Circle Medical is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco, and on contract with most major insurance companies, the representatives said, the company can bill the relevant insurer. WHY IT MATTERS. "This acquisition will provide both U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Financial health is part of peoples’ overall health. Twenty-seven days before the 2020 elections, 7 in 10 Americans say their financial health will influence their votes this year, according to the doxoINSIGHTS survey which shows personal financial health as a key voter consideration in the Presidential election.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The American Medical Association this week resolved to continue advocating for telehealth after the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly among underserved communities. The resolution comes on the heels of the release of a clinician survey by the COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition Telehealth Workgroup, of which the AMA is a part.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2020

remain home for the immediate term, our home economics blur into their personal health economics in the #COVID19 era in several respects: physically, to be sure; fiscally; and emotionally. The physical impact of COVID-19 is the first-line requiring quarantine in the #StayHomeSaveLives mode. As people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

consumer in the COVID-19 moment…a moment that may last most of the rest of the months of 2020. First, foremost, Americans are concerned about the impact of a disease outbreak on their health, personal finances and the U.S. 43% of Americans are concerned they will contract COVID-19. 20-21 and Feb.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 20, 2020

The COVID-19 global crisis has undoubtedly brought about huge changes in healthcare systems all over the world. In the Philippines, a huge amount of emphasis was placed on corporate health. With the onset of COVID-19, doctors were open-minded and fast thinking which allowed for the smooth and swift transition to telehealth.

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Electronic Health Reporter

OCTOBER 16, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. The COVID-19 pandemic likely has Medicare members thinking ahead when it comes to their insurance plan and questioning whether they would be covered if they contract […]. Illegal copying is prohibited.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

At few times in recent memory has the resolve of hospitals and health systems across the U.S. An all-hands-on-deck push from heroic physicians and nurses to save the lives of as many COVID-19 inpatients as possible. Telemedicine during COVID-19: Benefits, limitations, burdens, adaptation.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2020

The Physicians Foundation surveyed 3,513 physicians in July 2020 on their perspectives on COVID-19 and how the pandemic has impacted practices and patients. This post in Health Populi covers the first of 3 parts, on patient impacts. One-half of physicians in the U.S. One-half of physicians in the U.S.

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 9, 2020

Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd (Ping An) launched its COVID-19 smart image-reading system on February 19, which was developed by Ping An Smart Healthcare, the smart health care team of subsidiary Ping An Smart City.

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2020

In 2021, spending would return to pre-COVID projections. A low scenario envisions medical trend growth of 4.0%, based on a second wave of COVID-19 emerging in late 2020 extending into 2021. medical cost trend, assuming one wave of COVID-19 resolving as regular healthcare spending resolves by January 2021.

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Health Populi

APRIL 24, 2020

The fear and risk-management of contracting the COVID-19 virus, for ourselves and our families. The economic shock or either losing our jobs, seeing our savings eroding from 401(k) plans, losing our health insurance, or all of the above. Exercising is down, smoking is up. Here’s a link to the post.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

epicenters of the COVID-19 crisis, were some of the first to feel the brunt of the disease's effects. Shelley, a professor in the Department of Policy and Public Health Management at the New York University School of Global Public Health. "My health insurance may have coverage for telemedicine, and yours may not."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 27, 2020

Whole Life Health Care in Newington, New Hampshire, is a family practice providing conventional medicine and complementary therapies. It needed advice on best practices to adjust to life during COVID-19 and continue treating patients safely and effectively. " Amy Coombs, Whole Life Health Care. THE PROBLEM.

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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. For example, during the COVID-19 pandemic, business at Gastro Health in Miami came to a halt.

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Health Populi

MAY 1, 2020

The Coronavirus has impacted every aspect of human life: first, the direct biological impact of COVID-19 on people, as of today the cause of over 63,000 deaths in the U.S. Mental health impacts will persist as a pandemic after the Coronavirus pandemic, I’ve previously detailed here in Health Populi.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Department of Health and Human Services to issue guidance to states about how to increase access to telehealth under Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program. Recommended voluntary billing codes, modifiers and place-of-service designations for telehealth and other virtual health care services.

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Health Populi

JULY 10, 2020

health care providers set up virtual care arrangements to convene with patients. Three months into the COVID-19 crisis, how have patients felt about these telehealth visits? Each of these health consumers had at least one virtual care visit between February and May 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 14, 2020

Accountable Care Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Workflow More than ever, the system selected to provide telemedicine services must provide added controls to overcome factors that are outside the control of the provider. Telemedicine has added factors in care delivery. Collaboration is key in vendor selection.

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Health Populi

MAY 19, 2020

Welcome to the annual Milliman Medical Index (MMI) , which gauges the yearly price of an employer-sponsored preferred-provider organization (PPO) health insurance plan for a hypothetical American family and an N of 1 employee. The table details the health care cost share for both the individual person and the family of four.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2020

As COVID-19 diagnoses reached 200,000 in the U.S. ” Health Populi’s Hot Points: To further inform insights from the Gallup poll, I looked at a study From GfK on Navigating COVID-19, exploring changing consumers. in April 2020, Gallup gauged that barely 1 in 2 people felt they were thriving.

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Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2020

Beyond the physical and clinical aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic are financial hits that people are taking in the shutdown of large parts of the U.S. economy, impacting jobs, wages, and health insurance rolls. health consumers in and beyond 2020. Some 1 in 2 people in the U.S. Some 1 in 2 people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2020

healthcare system, first and foremost the nation’s patchwork public health infrastructure and health inequities in mortality rates due to COVID-19. healthcare: the cost of health insurance relative to working Americans’ relatively flat incomes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

As COVID-19 continues to hammer the U.S., According to a study published last week in the Journal of the American Informatics Association, virtual urgent care visits at NYU Langone Health grew by 683%, and non-urgent virtual-care visits grew by a staggering 4,345% percent between March 2 and April 14.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 4, 2020

Along with the life-threatening impact of the coronavirus on physical health, and the accompanying mental health distress activated by self-distancing comes a third unintended consequence with the pandemic: a hard hit on women’s personal economies. These jobs are also less likely to come with health insurance.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This is according to a new annual report from research and consulting giant PwC entitled “Top health industry issues of 2021: Will a shocked system emerge stronger?” “Some specialties, such as mental health, may find stronger footing via virtual visits. Healthcare right-sizes after the telemedicine explosion.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 23, 2020

As patients returned to in-person, brick-and-mortar health care settings after the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic, they re-enter the health care system with heightened consumer expectations, according to the Beryl Institute – Ipsos Px Pulse report, Consumer Perspectives on Patient Experience in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2020

COVID-19 spurred Houston-based AccessHealth to quickly scale up its telemedicine offerings, just as it did with most other health systems nationwide. And just like those other health systems, AccessHealth faced numerous challenges at first, in trying to adapt to this new normal. THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

“This surge of people experiencing acute behavioral health problems…has the potential to further impact the healthcare system for years to come,” a report from McKinsey expects looking at the hidden costs of COVID-19’s impact on U.S. health care. could have a behavioral health need in 2021.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2020

"We’ve seen the undue burden and hardship these restrictions create during COVID-19, especially in communities hit hardest by the pandemic," said Skye Perryman, chief legal officer at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, which was a coplaintiff in the case.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 2, 2020

Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma to provide a written plan for permanent changes to Medicare, Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program rules around telehealth. WHY IT MATTERS. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The Taskforce on Telehealth Policy released a final report on Tuesday outlining its findings and recommendations around safeguarding the future of telehealth after the COVID-19 pandemic. Regina Benjamin, founder and CEO of the Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic and former Surgeon General of the United States, to Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Southwestern Health Resources in Dallas, Texas, is a clinically integrated network with 5,500 community providers and more than 700,000 covered lives in North Texas. As a value-based care organization, it provides population health management for its parent organizations, Texas Health Resources and UT Southwestern Medical Center.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2020

Everyday factors can make a big difference in a person’s current and future health risks and needs, we’re learning in the COVID-19 pandemic, detailed in a new Welltok research report, Social Determinants of Health Matter: Voice of the Consumer. Welltok explored U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 17, 2020

It made getting kids in for needed appointments difficult, especially when they often are for behavioral health issues that need regular follow-up. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology on the health IT marketplace today. Click here for the feature story on telemedicine vendors in the age of COVID-19.

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Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2020

I’ll be midwifing a panel this afternoon at 440 pm Eastern time, initially focused on how health care can garner patient loyalty. I’ll set the context for our discussion with a few key data points describing consumers-patients-caregivers being re-shaped through the COVID-19 pandemic. With the great lockdown, the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

“The expansion of telehealth and the offering of new telehealth services that were not previously covered really enabled physicians to care for their patients in the midst of this crisis,” said Todd Askew, the AMA’s senior vice president of advocacy, during a recent “AMA COVID-19 Update.”

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