Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 20, 2020

Pittsburgh-based Curavi, which develops telehealth technology tailored for post-acute and long-term care settings, was launched in 2016 as a spin-off from UPMC (which will continue to be an investor in Arkos Health) and has built itself up with acquisitions since then. WHY IT MATTERS. " ON THE RECORD. Actionable Intelligence.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 7, 2020

Use of virtual care technologies had already doubled between 2016 to 2019 , and since the COVID-19 public health emergency, more and more overtaxed health systems have been availing themselves of tools that enable care to be delivered remotely, keeping patients and healthcare professionals away from potential infection.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

It's no surprise at this point that the COVID-19 pandemic turned the digital healthcare world (and the rest of the world) inside-out, accelerating the use of telemedicine while throwing a wrench into the plans of anyone depending on a somewhat predictable 2020. "More and more people are becoming health-aware.

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AIHC

MARCH 31, 2025

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Health Populi

APRIL 20, 2020

The percent of Americans worried about the threat of infectious disease grew fast from 2016, with 52% of people seeing the major threat in Pew’s survey that year, to 79% in March 2020. COVID-19 has revealed deep cracks in the foundations therein. As the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, New York, faced several challenges in rolling out an effective telemedicine strategy, many of which were unrelated to COVID-19. If anything, COVID-19 served as an accelerant to solving many of the challenges, since the organization had no alternative but to move forward.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Since 2016, AHRQ has funded a series of projects focused on defining, refining and improving the uptake of patient-centered outcomes research through technology-enabled clinical decision support tools. COVID-19 remote monitoring apps that collect and use patient-reported data (e.g.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The new iPad initiative has its roots in the VA's Connected Tablet program , which launched in 2016 and, research shows, has created a more satisfying patient experience and made veterans less likely to miss appointments. " Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN. Email the writer: mike.miliard@himssmedia.com.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 20, 2023

A bipartisan group of legislators has reintroduced the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies for Health Act – first introduced in 2016 – to expand opportunities and coverage for telehealth through Medicare. This is the second time the bill has been reintroduced.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Established in 2016, My Emergency Doctor has been providing acute care after hours via video and phone across regional Australia. Under this arrangement, senior specialist physicians from My Emergency Doctor will conduct board rounds during the overnight period, maintaining "efficient" patient management. THE LARGER TREND.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Workers’ earnings increased 27% in the period and inflation, 19%. 2016 – Employer Health Insurance Costs Reach $18,142. Workers receiving health insurance through their jobs have seen their portfolio of benefits changing over the years.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2021

I’ve tracked this survey for over a decade here on Health Populi, and updated the annual chart shown here to reflect a $40,000 increase in retiree costs since 2016. Now in the context of the post-COVID-19-pandemic era, one in five employees in the U.S. is “accelerating plans” to quit work, Fidelity learned.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 12, 2024

In the current healthcare landscape, hospitals and health systems are navigating challenging times, with financial pressures exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic's lasting effects. How can hospitals and health systems harness ChatGPT and other LLM-based technologies to improve patient care?

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Bill of Health

JULY 20, 2022

According to the Health Cost Institute, from 2016 to 2020, overall inpatient hospital spending increased 5.4%, driven by a 24.6% decline in inpatient utilization (partially reflecting the sharp 2020 drop in overall hospital utilization due to COVID-19). billion, reaching $6.3 billion and accounting for a third of U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 12, 2022

In 2016, the Veterans Health Administration implemented the VA National Telestroke Program, which represents both urban and rural facilities spread out over a diverse geographic landscape. "I like to say that we met our five-year goals for telehealth in the first month of the pandemic, and we’re not looking back," said Dr.

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Jane Sarashon

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The AMA first conducted research with physicians and their views on digital health in July 2016. This year’s study was designed to compare current clinicians’ perspectives with those garnered in the 2016 and 2019 studies. ” There was an 8-point growth in those seeing “definite advantages” since 2019.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 8, 2022

in 2015 that resulted in the unauthorized accessing of the records of 80 million health plan subscribers, Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center paid an unheard-of ransom of $17,000 in 2016 following a ransomware attack, and the WannaCry exploits affected more than 200,000 systems in 2017.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 6, 2024

THE PROBLEM Memorial began offering on-demand virtual urgent care to its employees and patients via a third-party vendor in 2016. With the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Memorial launched telehealth for all its primary care and specialty centers, and today conducts about 100,000 virtual visits per year.

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Health Populi

JULY 25, 2022

Health Populi’s Hot Points: When we published HealthConsuming in 2019, exactly one year before the World Health Organization called the coronavirus a “pandemic,” these forces were already in play… since then, accelerated by our collective COVID-19 experience. healthcare system.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

At the height of the COVID pandemic in 2020, several hospitals across the country were targeted in ransomware attacks. In a report from the NIH looking at cyberattacks on hospitals from 2016 to 2021, nearly 20% of healthcare organizations were able to restore their data from backups after a ransomware infection.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 16, 2022

The meta-analysis , which examined 12 studies published in English and Turkish from 2016 through 2021, sought to examine how virtual care apps could affect maternal and neonatal health outcomes, as well as costs.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Founded in 2016, Solv connects patients to a national network of convenient healthcare providers, empowering consumers to simplify their everyday healthcare needs. Just as the financial crisis changed consumer expectations and drove innovation in fintech, we are seeing the same trends in healthcare because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 29, 2023

Despite its decline from 2020 to 2021, national telehealth utilization grew 5,017 percent nationally from 2016 to 2021. This high rate of growth was due in large part to widespread limits on in-office services imposed at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. percent of all medical claim lines nationally.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 25, 2021

– Founded in 2016 by Danish Nagada, MD and Jeff Gamble, Ph.D., The COVID-19 pandemic sparked rapid adoption of telehealth while the number of primary care visits declined. seed funding. The seed funding was led by Unseen Capital , with participation from Techstars , Headwater VC , The Council, and The Living Fund. .

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

While the volume of telehealth visits, after spiking during the Covid-19 pandemic, has declined since its peak , it remains an essential option for tens of millions of people.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

In the pre-election ballots cast, the number of ballots cast has surpassed total 2016 voter turnout. concerned about state citizens’ public health in the era of COVID-19. Take Texas: Texans’ voting engagement leading up to Election Day has shattered records.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

That family health plan premium reached $22,221, an increase of 22% since 2016, we learn in the annual report from Kaiser Family Foundation, 2021 Employer Health Benefits Survey. This 2021 update takes into account the impacts and influence of COVID-19 on workers’ wellness, access to services, and of course, the cost of health plans.

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Kaiser Health News

JANUARY 28, 2022

The three-day inpatient hospital stay requirement is temporarily suspended due to the covid-19 pandemic.). He spent three days in a nearby hospital for an intestinal infection in 2016. The latest details are available on the Center for Medicare Advocacy’s website.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 11, 2021

hospitals manage the crush of new patients as the COVID-19 crisis worsens. "During the past few years, we have been working with Brigham and Women's Hospital to provide the remote monitoring technology for Brigham Health Home Hospital, a program they started in 2016," he said.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 27, 2024

Nationwide shortage During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, 40 percent of adults reported symptoms of anxiety or depression, according to data from the Kaiser Family Foundation. AI and Remote Care Solutions The COVID-19 pandemic catalyzed the transition from in-person to remote mental health care, from 39.4

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Compliancy Group

DECEMBER 20, 2024

OCR investigated the claim and found that from May of 2016 to January of 2019, the ePHI of roughly 1.5 WCCCs assertion that it was dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. In November of 2018, a complainant alleged that ePHI of Inmediata patients was left unsecured on the Internet findable through search engines like Google.

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Jane Sarashon

JANUARY 19, 2024

Health Populi’s Hot Points: In an essay I wrote for The Huffington Post back in July 2016, I asserted that broadband connectivity was a social determinant of health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 25, 2023

"In 2016, we introduced video visits to several community hospitals, for consults by cardiology and psych," he continued. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit and payers allowed patients to remain in their home, the use of video visits became far more widespread.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Media reports indicated the number of Israeli women utilizing SEF has grown by ten times in 6 years (2011-16) , reaching almost 1000 per year in 2016. Furthermore, it is assessed that during the COVID-19 pandemic, numbers increased and the average age of women using the service decreased.

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Health Populi

JULY 3, 2020

As a sidebar, I am mindful that Taiwan’s leader is President Tsai Ing-wen , the first female leader of the nation elected in 2016. You can see the position of the U.S. in April 2020; with universal mask-wearing, the U.S. could shift up and to the left toward the positive example of Taiwan in the first quarter of 2020. [As

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

One of the most impactful advancements is telehealth, which received a significant boost during the COVID-19 pandemic. The convenience of telehealth has led to significant adoption increases, with 80% of physicians using virtual visits in 2022, up from just 14% in 2016.

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2021

Five years ago, in 2016, the W2O Group said that, “Relevance is reputation.” Those issues were COVID-19, the 2020 Election, health care policy, racial divides, and equity and access. 2020 changed everything, the W2O team asserts, now issuing its latest look into the issue through the Relevance Quotient.

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