Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

What was the strategy behind incorporating full-blown telemedicine into your business? Telemedicine has always been at the core of Hims & Hers' business. The 2008 economic crisis spurred the sharing economy. It's the concept that got us off the ground and in front of consumers since the get-go.

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Health Law Advisor

MARCH 1, 2023

At the federal level, the Ryan Haight Online Pharmacy Consumer Protection Act of 2008 (the “Ryan Haight Act”) made certain amendments to the Controlled Substances Act that established controls on the remote prescribing of controlled substances. 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § Under 21 U.S.C. § 802(54), including circumstances designated by the U.S.

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Healthcare Law Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In July 2022, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) issue a Special Fraud Alert alerting practitioners to exercise caution when entering into arrangements with telemedicine companies. in healthcare fraud for fraudulent telemedicine schemes. Ryan Haight Act. Looking Forward.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Over the past decade the share of workers in plans with annual deductibles has grown from 59% in 2008 to 85% in 2018. Three in four large firms covers telemedicine in 2018, KFF found. This coverage line item is fast-growing, from the 27% low mark in 2015 of large companies covering telemedicine to 63% in 2017 and 74% in 2018.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Warren Buffett wrote Berkshire Hathaway shareholders in 2008, asserting that, “Price is what you pay. ” I ask in an essay published today on Crossover Health’s website titled Value-Based Care: Driving a Social Contract of Trust and Health. The answer: embrace value-based care. Value is what you get.” ” The U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 28, 2020

Since launching in 2008, Withings has developed a portfolio of well-designed, consumer-facing digital health tools such as weight scales, blood pressure monitors, and digital thermometers. More recently, Withings has offered virtual health and telemedicine services, applications that have been fast-growing from the emerging pandemic in 2020.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 20, 2022

Since the passage of the Medicare Improvements for Patients & Providers Act in 2008, the U.S. The uses included computer-based cognitive behavior therapy, telemedicine, and Web-based communication. Tom Zaubler, MD, Chief Medical Officer of NeuroFlow.

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Health Populi

JULY 9, 2020

.” To gain insights on health consumer trust, the company analyzed millions of patient encounters among people who had been hospital inpatients, been admitted to emergency departments, seen clinicians in ambulatory care practices, and experienced telemedicine visits over six weeks between March and April 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 22, 2020

It's already responsible for the biggest telemedicine infrastructure in the nation, and use of its telehealth services is surging. Since its inception in June of 2008, more than 86 million VA Secure Messages have been initiated by VA patients or their care teams. Indeed, telehealth continues to be a major priority for the VA.

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Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2021

Dr. Fendrick was part of a team that wrote one of the first research articles on the effects of increasing patient cost sharing on health disparities — published in 2008 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. .” Out of the mouths of Mom’s, right?!

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Health Populi

JUNE 25, 2021

.” In this trend, we can re-visit the key finding in the 2010 Edelman Health Engagement Barometer noting that most consumers looked to all industries to engage with for health… learned back eleven years ago, just following the Great Recession of 2008. This model received 30,000 pre-orders, David said, before its launch.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 18, 2021

Before shifting gears to telemedicine, the technology infrastructure of Southwest Mississippi Mental Health Complex in McComb, Mississippi, was very old and extremely limited. The last computers purchased across the agency were acquired in 2008. THE PROBLEM. "At best, services were offered telephonically. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

History of EPCS Kyle Zebley, head of public policy American Telemedicine Association (ATA) , says that Congress called on the DEA to implement a policy for a special controlled substance registration process in 2008. This requirement languished for the past 15 years, probably because the DEA had a multitude of competing priorities.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 18, 2022

Out of the $15 billion invested in digital health in 2020 and $29 billion in 2021, on-demand healthcare – including telemedicine streaming video or text-based visits with a healthcare provider – has been the single largest trend, although it is still just the tip of the iceberg with all of the funding activity occurring now.

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Health Law Advisor

AUGUST 7, 2023

As covered in one of our previous posts , DEA announced proposed permanent rules around prescribing controlled substances via telemedicine in February 2023. The listening sessions will be open to the public, and those who anticipate attending must register through DEA’s Diversion Control website.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 14, 2020

"Remote telemedicine clinics outside the primary catchment area were also established to serve the mountain communities of Quincy, Portola, Loyalton, and South Lake Tahoe, California," wrote Heifetz and his coauthors in the abstract.

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New Jersey Healthcare Blog

JANUARY 12, 2022

2008(a), the Department of Health issued a notice of readoption of Licensure Standards for Mental Health Programs with technical changes and recodification of N.J.A.C. On December 6, 2021, at 53 N.J.R. 13:35-6.20A for radiologist assistants performing procedures. On December 6, 2021, at 53 N.J.R. 10:101 as N.J.A.C. Effective December 6, 2021.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 5, 2022

We have also studied the impact of telehealth on the quality of our care, and found that our telemedicine outcomes have been equivalent to our brick-and-mortar ones (the results are under peer review). Telemedicine is poised to address these access gaps if it remains legal as public-health emergency orders expire.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2023

Drug Enforcement Administration's proposed permanent changes to the e-prescribing of controlled medications, the American Telemedicine Association and its ATA Action sent its final comments this week in two letters. Following up on its February 27 statement opposing the U.S.

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Hall Render

JUNE 30, 2023

for physician referral scheme In Los Angeles, hospital CEO pay could be capped Kaiser Permanente ratings affirmed amid healthy financial profile Nurses vote ‘no confidence’ in California hospital administration, board Nursing facility, management company settle physician kickback allegations for $3.8M

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HIT Consultant

JULY 28, 2022

Since 2008, the US economy functioned with remarkably low inflation and interest rates. For instance, while 25% of the observed telemedicine companies received 10.0x Executive Summary. Act III of COVID: Navigating the Crosscurrents of Post-Inflation. Between 2010 and 2020, the NASDAQ experienced a 17.1% revenue at exit.

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Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 22, 2022

As we observed in the wake of the Great Recession of 2008, more DIY care came to people’s self-care at home. COVID-19 and working from/learning from/exercising from/praying from/cooking from home accelerated, our homes have been morphing into our personal “HealthQuarters,” I recently discussed here in Health Populi.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 14, 2020

"Many areas we provide care to did not have much recovery since [the economic crash of] 2008," said Marshfield Clinic Health System CEO Dr. Susan Turney. They also pointed out that providers can use telemedicine to communicate with others when patients are too sick to be transported.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 9, 2020

Six in ten people told Kantar that privacy concerns like data breaches prevent them from using wearable tracking devices or using telemedicine services. And Trust is a precursor to peoples’ health engagement, we learned in the first Edelman Health Engagement Barometer study conducted in 2008.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 17, 2022

During a recent American Telemedicine Association policy update, the ATA's federal and state-level telehealth policy experts described efforts to develop a consistent regulatory framework so telehealth can be deployed across states and fully leveraged and address the patchwork of 50 different state requirements. What's at stake.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JUNE 15, 2023

Even though the FDA conducted a comprehensive scientific analysis of Mifepristone, and the Government Accountability Office published a 2008 report finding that FDA operated within their authority under Subpart H to approve the drug, the District Court chose not to defer to the FDA’s expertise.

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