Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 22, 2020

As many as 20% of primary care practices predict they could close within four weeks because of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a survey conducted between April 10 and April 13 by the non-profit Primary Care Collaborative. For example, during the COVID-19 pandemic, business at Gastro Health in Miami came to a halt.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

"By providing patients with an automated care navigation assistant when they feel more vulnerable, we have been able to qualify patients early and direct them to the right level of care: telemedicine, primary care and pediatrics, or the emergency room," he continued. 9,312 completed assessments in 12 months.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

A report released Tuesday by Foley & Lardner LLP found that the COVID-19 pandemic compelled state and federal policymakers to remove restrictions on and expand reimbursement for telehealth and virtual care at unprecedented rates. "The public health emergency did not create the telemedicine industry. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 4, 2020

Paddy Padmanabhan In the immediate aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, health systems saw dramatic spikes in virtual visits and telehealth adoption in the patient population. Danville, Pennsylvania-based Geisinger saw a 500% increase in telehealth visits in the first couple of weeks after the COVID-19 outbreak.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 14, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic is changing consumer perspectives towards telehealth. Those were among the results of a Black Book and Sage Growth Partners survey of 591 U.S. However, data indicates groups facing the greatest risks right now, including older people and those with lower incomes, are not sharing in these benefits equally.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Private healthcare providers in the Southeast Asia region have been pushing telemedicine services given the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, either through their internally developed apps or partnering with telehealth companies in the case of Columbia Asia. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

In the Fear of Going Out Era spawned by the COVID-19 pandemic, many patients were loath to go to the doctor’s office for medical care, and even less keen on entering a hospital clinic’s doors. Virtual care will be a lifeline for many older people who cannot leave home or do not want to do so.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Michael Gorton, CEO of Recuro Health Telemedicine has helped improve the quality of life of patients in every corner of the world and has been successfully utilized to provide convenient care to people with limited or no access to health services. It has been a remarkable journey for the innovators who pioneered telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2020

As healthcare has had to adapt to COVID-19, one of the areas impacted most was how and when patients schedule appointments.

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Mobi Health News

MAY 7, 2020

The instant doctor appointment booking platform fast-tracked its release in response to the growing need for remote healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2020

As we wrestle with just “what” health care will look like “after COVID,” there’s one certainty that we can embrace in our health planning and forecasting efforts: that’s the persistence of telehealth and virtual care into health care work- and life-flows, for clinicians and consumers alike and aligned.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

A new survey has found that despite setbacks created by the COVID-19 pandemic, AI use is common in healthcare organizations, and could be all but universal within five years.

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Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2021

consumers to gauge five generations of peoples’ perspectives on connected life in the context of COVID. I’ll focus on these latter aspects in this post, but check out the full report that covers a lot on technology and human factors leveraged and impacted by what Deloitte terms our collective “COVID-19 beta test.”

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Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2021

Dowling keynoted on the theme of “Leading for the Future,” sharing his lessons learned during COVID-19. He kicked off his lessons focusing in on a theme that would resonate with the HIMSS audience: “COVID changed our relationship with technology forever.”. Dowling leads one of the largest health systems in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2021

consumers in 2021 into the positive zone of 64 points, just one point behind food and beverage (an industry which is fundamentally at the base of every human’s Maslow Hierarchy of [Basic] Needs, coming through for people during the Year of COVID). Trust underpins health engagement, especially critical in a public health crisis.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 28, 2021

There are numerous vendors of telemedicine technology on the health IT market today. The patients seamlessly booked appointments with her through the platform and used their phones to have a video visit with her from home. "The COVID-19 pandemic created a lot of uncertainty for a lot of people," she observed.

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Health Populi

MAY 12, 2020

“We’re not getting back to business as usual any time soon,” Sage Growth Partners and Blackbook Research introduce their latest report on the COVID-19 pandemic, As the Country Reopens Safety Concerns Rise. Virtual visit (telemedicine). consumers on April 28 and 29, 2020. Millions of U.S. Text messaging.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 25, 2022

With the onset of COVID-19, the team also needed a way to provide support in a safe, socially distanced manner, ideally enabling patients to receive treatment from the comfort of their own homes. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 16, 2021

Telemedicine can have long-term health equity benefits, including allowing providers to reach more patients in remote regions without travel requirements and see an increased number of patients in need who have historically avoided care due to stigma. Everything is free including our word games and therapy books.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

.” The study of older Americans found that, About 60% believe their cell phone has made them feel more connected to family/friends during the COVID-19 pandemic. 43% of older adults use their cell phone more frequently than before COVID-19.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2020

revealed many weakness in the American health care system, one of which has been health inequities faced by millions of people — especially black Americans, who have sustained higher rates morbidity and mortality for COVID-19. But the emergence of the coronavirus in the U.S. Health Populi’s Hot Points: As the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Key Takeaways Telemynd uses Salesforce for patient intake and all patient-facing engagement (notifications, communications, appointment booking, etc.). A Collaboration Born Out of the COVID-19 Pandemic Murray explained that the partnership with CharmHealth began as a response to the COVID-19 lockdowns.

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Health Populi

JULY 10, 2020

Three months into the COVID-19 crisis, how have patients felt about these telehealth visits? 14% of consumers sought virtual care to address COVID-19 symptoms such as cough, fever, or shortness of breath. Within days of the coronavirus pandemic emerging in the U.S., What about physicians?

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Health Populi

MAY 19, 2020

Health Populi’s Hot Points: The COVID-19 pandemic will dramatically impact the U.S. Some hospitals have emerged as de facto COVID-19 treatment centers; other inpatient providers have not, with the phrase “ghost town” used in media to describe these organizations.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

COVID-19 forced healthcare organizations to make a huge leap forward in their digital transformation roadmaps. Although many companies had plans on the books to advance telemedicine, the crisis revealed that virtual care is not only possible but in many cases is also preferred by patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 17, 2020

All of the data I’ve seen so far suggest that while doctors may have been leery of getting involved in telehealth services, COVID-19 forced the matter and has fostered the widespread adoption of these technologies.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

But to think that 5G technology is only valuable for making our data speeds faster is like saying that electricity is great because it allows us to read books before bed. Expanded Telemedicine and Real-Time Monitoring. Sure, both are favorable side effects, but the impacts of each invention are far more widespread than that.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 24, 2022

More recently, with COVID-19 infiltrating every aspect of the healthcare system, telehealth use is proving to be another example of the 80/20 rule – or, the law of small numbers – at work. Is the telephone telemedicine, too? She is the author of the newly released book “The New Health Economy: Ground Rules for Leaders.”

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

I called this out in my 2019 book, HealthConsuming: from health consumer to health citizen. The COVID-19 crisis has bolstered peoples’ concerned embrace of tech: in the pandemic, more consumers have lost confidence in sharing data with both government and Big Tech. ” The coronavirus pandemic has shown U.S.

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Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This feels especially apt right “now” as we enter 2022, Year 3 of the COVID-19 pandemic, with people mentally stressed, anxious, and shrugging off the Omicron variant – while taking on more DIY life-flows, self-care and desire for (more) control. COVID-19 exacerbated food insecurity as another side-effect of the public health crisis.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 23, 2022

Keeping up with the rising number of COVID-19 patients while continuing care for the public has left clinicians and IT leaders with a lot more to keep track of (not to mention some serious burnout.) So, how will the cloud change healthcare IT? How can cloud help? By providing ease for HDOs while empowering patients.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has, in fact, had a positive impact on spending per se given the volume-based nature of U.S. The COVID-19 pandemic revealed many weaknesses in U.S. hospitals have taken a huge hit — financial and in terms of human capital front-line clinicians — in the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 6, 2024

Telehealth Telehealth (or telemedicine) covers any aspect of healthcare where services are relayed or implemented via telecommunications technology. Their usage increased heavily during the COVID-19 pandemic. An overview of patient-focused IT platforms shows that 88.8% improve patient responses to treatment plans and 82.9%

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 27, 2023

According to a McKinsey report , t elehealth utilization is 38 times higher than before COVID-19. That dynamic encompasses not only telemedicine but a range of other digital experiences like health apps and wearable devices. Our site offers a way to book appointments online, but does it really work?

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2023

Book Care with One Click: As technology advances across industries, people are seeking the same convenient booking processes in healthcare that they are accustomed to with other services. 2) adoption of digital health and telemedicine, especially due to COVID-19.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 28, 2024

She sits on the board of the American Telemedicine Association. Nayyar's most recent USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling book, Dead Wrong: Diagnosing and Treating Healthcare's Misinformation Illness , explores the profound personal and public health risks associated with digitally propagated mis- and disinformation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 18, 2021

The need to quickly integrate telemedicine, and an opportunity for a better patient care model, caused a digital transformation roadmap to get accelerated. The COVID-19 crisis put a laser focus on how apparent it is that data and advanced analytics can be powerful weapons in the fight against pandemics.

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