Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 2, 2022

It uses telehealth technology to connect specialists and clinicians to areas of need, help monitor patients' health status and behavior remotely, promote timely and efficient care, and help providers reach previously isolated populations of patients. The opportunities telemedicine provides. Dr. Gerald J. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, health care spending in the U.S. This year, medical cost trend will rise by 7.0%, expected to decline a bit in 2022 according to the annual study from PwC Health Research Institute , Medical Cost Trend: Behind the Numbers 2022. during the public health crisis. increased by a relatively low 6.0%

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

As the HLTH conference convenes over 6,000 digital health innovators live, in person, in Boston in the wake of the delta variant, what should attendees keep in mind to help HLTH make health? The top-line in the report, and the bottom-line for health citizens, was that 38% of U.S.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Today, nearly 48 million people provided unpaid care for adults in 2020, up 16.6% – About 23 percent of caregivers say caregiving has made their own health worse , up from 17 percent in 2015. The good news is that support for family caregivers appears to be growing among public and private healthcare payers.

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Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Digital health as a category has been a growing feature at CES for over a decade, starting with the early wearable tech era of Fitbit, Nike, OMRON and UnderArmour, early exhibitors at CES representing the category.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 23, 2021

And he described how health systems should be prioritizing their investments: patient-facing tools and technologies, command centers, delivery services, administrative support, IT infrastructure and more. Q: Telehealth obviously made some remarkable strides in 2020 and has vast potential for growth. So there's a time limit on it.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

Telehealth always has been a key pillar of technology-enabled care delivery that helps hospitals, health systems and group practices deliver quality care at a distance – and often also gain efficiencies, improve patient and provider satisfaction and save costs. First Stop Health.

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Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Dr. Wallensky and other public health officials acknowledged “vaccine fatigue” and the relatively low uptake of vaccinations for fending off the coronavirus and the flu as well as other infectious diseases. One gift of the pandemic was a mass recognition of and empathy for mental health – in oneself and in the larger community.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

Editor’s Note: This feature story initially was published on May 6, 2020. They provide health measures of patients and transmit them back to providers – or in some cases are reported back to providers – to facilitate healthcare decisions from afar. The platform also is designed for direct-to-patient telemedicine.

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Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 13, 2021

We’ve seen more financial and money-focused media bringing health care cost stories under their mastheads. So have investment banks, ratings agencies, and large financial services companies, as the pandemic has cast every industry’s eyes to public health and health spending.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Since the COVID-19 public health emergency was declared in 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services has renewed the legislation every 90 days. What's at stake. There has been mounting pressure from the Republican Party, including a September 19 letter from Sen. Telehealth in legislative limbo.

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Hall Render

JULY 29, 2022

340B DSH Hospitals Provided $41B in Uncompensated Care in 2020. 6 Major Trends Boosting the Telemedicine Market in Health Care. ‘District’s Doctor’ reflects on the health of the city and service during COVID. Delaware Expands Access to Maternal, Infant Health Care. NJ and Del. NORTH CAROLINA.

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Hall Render

JUNE 2, 2023

of Maryland medical school opens addiction research institute in Baltimore MedStar Health breaks even in Q1 as revenues near $2B MASSACHUSETTS Boston Hospital Pays $5.7

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