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Telehealth Bolsters Patient Satisfaction (J.D. Power), and Providers Are Working to Catch Up (BDO)

Health Populi

Two studies published in May 2021 illustrate the value and importance of telehealth to patients in 2020, and a disconnect among many C-level executives working in hospitals, academic medical centers, and other care provider organizations. Commercial Member Health Plan Study. Together, the two reports from J.D. Power 2021 U.S.

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As 'telehealth cliff' looms, hundreds of healthcare orgs urge Congress to act

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

If they don't act before the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency, the groups said, Medicare beneficiaries "will lose access to virtual care options which have become a lifeline to many." "Unfortunately, this progress is in jeopardy," they wrote.

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A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds

Health Populi

Patients embraced virtual care and communications at very high rates in the first months of the pandemic, and want to continue to use telehealth platforms after the pandemic ends. Accenture polled 2,700 patients around the world, 450 participants each from China, France, Germany, Japan, the U.K., and the U.S.

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Epic EHR-linked telehealth skyrockets at Children’s Colorado

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telemedicine has been particularly important because of the large, multistate service region with many rural and frontier patients, mountain passes and snow that complicate travel, and limited numbers of pediatric subspecialists in the Rocky Mountain region outside of Denver. THE PROBLEM. To read this special report, click here.

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Sun River Health shifts 67% of its visits to telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Sun River's 64 health center sites (including both directly operated FQHCs and sub-recipient sites) serve more than 245,000 patients annually in both urban and rural medically underserved communities. The advent of COVID-19 radically disrupted the paradigm in which Sun River Health was operating. THE PROBLEM.

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During pandemic, telehealth visits soar from 10 per week to 300 at group practice

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

“A little over two years ago, I developed the policies and practice around telehealth, but it was not well-promoted or used by many, in contrast to the explosion of use we have experienced since the COVID-19 pandemic.” Click here for the feature story on telemedicine vendors in the age of COVID-19.

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CIOs plan on refined telehealth, faster deployments, more collaborative tools

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

It has set the stage for CIOs and other health IT executives to rethink their approach to accomplishing new tasks. This is the sixth instalment in Healthcare IT News ' feature story series, "Health IT Lessons Learned During the COVID-19 Era." The new importance of telemedicine.

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