Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In a summary of a Sunday presentation on the radiology workforce shortage, Danny Hughes, economist and professor at Arizona State University's College of Health Solutions, said that between 2013 and 2023, more than 130 rural hospitals closed.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

But as health systems have turned to telemedicine to bridge the gap between in-person services and at-home needs, stakeholders stress the importance of optimizing access for a broad range of patients. Even as nationwide utilization of telemedicine decreased , Terrell says volumes were sustained in 2021.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 22, 2021

– The acquisition adds Lemonaid Health’s innovative telemedicine and prescription drug delivery services to 23andMe’s consumer business. Founded in 2013 by Co-Founders Ian Van Every and Paul Johnson, Lemonaid Health offers patients direct access to the care they need, from consultation through treatment nationally across the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2021

" According to a similar survey in 2013, where healthcare consumers (1,547) were pooled from around the world, 74% of them were comfortable with virtual doctor visits. ancillary telemedicine services like telepathology and telepharmacology). " "I kinda like this, this is the collateral beauty of the pandemic."

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 1, 2022

Founded in 2013, Hint Health is redesigning the way healthcare is paid for and delivered. At a median cost as low as $75 per month, patients within the DPC model get unlimited access to primary care, telemedicine, and urgent care. increase 241% from 2017 to 2021.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 19, 2021

Click here to read a comprehensive report from Healthcare IT News on telemedicine vendors. Progressive Therapeutics has been using Azalea's EHR-integrated telehealth solution since 2013. MARKETPLACE. There are numerous telehealth systems on the health IT market today. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 12, 2021

Increase in virtual telemedicine appointments increased ten times in 15 days. Wearables were developed beyond the wrist (a trend I spotted at CES back in 2013, discussed here through my #CES2013 lens ). Remote learning pivoted 250 million students to move to online learning over 2 weeks, and. For the U.S.,

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Health Populi

AUGUST 12, 2021

I noted the Yin-and-Yang-and the Blur of this health data ecosystem in 2013 when I attended CES, HIMSS and South-by-Southwest in a matter of weeks, kicking tires on digital health developments at all three events. Back to the Ordr report, noting the rise of also the Internet of Stranger Things, abounding.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 17, 2023

LONG-TERM SOLUTIONS Many longer-term solutions start with using telemedicine and digital health services. One academic study published in December 2022 states that use of telemedicine -based care: 1. This is a viable strategy for pregnancy care, which benefits from being a defined episode with well-established care measures.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In 2013, Cincinnati Children's Hospital wanted to establish a Center for Telehealth. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. THE PROBLEM. This hybrid workflow was also a remaining challenge. MARKETPLACE. To read this special report, click here.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 10, 2024

For example, the platform cannot be used to collect payments for insurance services that include medical benefit packages, for telemedicine and telehealth services, or prescription-only pharmaceuticals and regulated medical devices. It is not performing a function or activity for, or on behalf of, a covered entity.”

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 20, 2022

The study included 113,452 adult patients who received care from 2003 through 2013, making this one of the largest studies of its kind. The uses included computer-based cognitive behavior therapy, telemedicine, and Web-based communication. emergency department visits, compared to 23.5

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Rock Health’s research has tracked peoples’ use of telemedicine, wearable technology, digital health tracking, and online health information since 2015, and the results this round show relative flattening of adoption across these various tools. ” How not-so-far we have come, right? What do health trackers track, then?

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 20, 2025

WI Business Associate 4,112,892 Hacking/IT Incident 24 2023 Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing CO Health Plan 4,091,794 Hacking/IT Incident 25 2013 Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation, d/b/a Advocate Medical Group IL Healthcare Provider 4,029,530 Theft 26 2024 Concentra Health Services, Inc.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 7, 2022

Cybersecurity company Surfshark found the number of government requests for user data increased 4x from 2013 to 2020 among Apple, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft. While 7 out of 10,000 may not seem like a lot, a large hospital with up to 20 connected devices per patient room could have several devices at risk.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 10, 2019

Virtual care, telemedicine and remote monitoring are leading the change in how care is delivered and who can deliver it, ushering in the potential for huge savings in time, cost and efficiency while widening access to care for the patients who need it most. jobs will be automated. The technology makes it possible to do things at home.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2024

Ten years ago here in Health Populi , I wrote about New Year’s Resolutions for Health and the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show. I talked about the “battle of the (wrist)bands” witnessed at CES 2013, and spotted the early hints of the consumer’s connected home for health.

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HIPAA Journal

JULY 4, 2024

When large scale changes occur – such as happened in 2013 with the HIPAA Omnibus Rule – almost every covered entity and business associate is impacted by the changes. Fortunately, the changes since 2013 have been limited in scale (i.e., the NIC amendment to the Privacy Rule) or regular in nature (i.e., HCPCS code updates).

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2020

To give you a sense of how health and wellness at CES have grown since 2013, consider Asthmapolis, a pioneer in digital respiratory health. At CES 2013, David Van Sickle, CEO and founder of Asthmapolis, spoke in a CES keynote panel about the usefulness of health data in the cloud.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Abner then went to Mexico and witnessed the emergence of telemedicine there. He envisioned ConsejoSano as a telemedicine company that could address this challenge and he raised angel funding, creating a minimum viable product. But in 2013, health equity wasn’t on anyone’s agenda.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 31, 2023

About Anish Sebastian Anish Sebastian co-founded Babyscripts in 2013 with the vision that internet enabled medical devices and big data would transform the delivery of pregnancy care. Since the company’s inception, they have raised more than $37M.

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New Jersey Healthcare Blog

JANUARY 12, 2022

2013(a), the Department of Law and Public Safety, Division of Consumer Affairs, State Board of Medical Examiners adopted amendments, adopted a new rule and repealed a rule related to Surgery, Special Procedures, Anesthesia Services Performed in an Office Setting. The Department is making technical changes throughout N.J.A.C.

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Hall Render

JULY 22, 2022

Telemedicine exec among 36 charged in $1.2B Advocates concerned about Alabama’s telemedicine law. New York confirms 1st national polio case since 2013. Private practices rethink approach amid changing pay models. HHS orders additional 2.5 million doses of monkeypox vaccine. cancer, cardio lab fraud. NORTH CAROLINA.

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Drug & Device Law

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

On appeal, the Fifth Circuit overturned the District Court’s nullification of the FDA’s approvals of both branded and generic versions of mifepristone but affirmed that court’s voiding of both the 2016 risk evaluation and mitigation strategy (“REMS”) and 2021 non-enforcement decision that allowed telemedicine prescription of mifepristone.

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Drug & Device Law

OCTOBER 6, 2023

472 (2013), and (3) express OTC drug preemption under 21 U.S.C. Hence their drive to overturn FDA approval of mifepristone and other abortifacient drugs, or at least to turn back the FDA clock to prevent their use in telemedicine. Bexis concluded that three forms of preemption, (1) obstacle preemption under Buckman Co.

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