Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 12, 2023

As providers move toward increasing virtual care options across the care continuum, AI-powered patient triage and medical diagnosis can potentially create proper channels of care that not only bridge the gap in health disparities and promote access but also create a better patient experience and better health outcomes.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2024

By now, most clued-in Americans know the score on the nation’s collective health status compared to other developed countries — especially striking differences between black people and whites in death rates and complications due to COVID-19. under 50 have poorer health outcomes than our cohorts in other developed countries.

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Health Populi

MAY 1, 2019

.” That’s the first sentence of Chapter 7 in my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen. That’s endnote #399 in the back of the book, one of 519 notes I use to support the plotline). To introduce the ideas in each chapter of the book, I ask big hairy “What If?”

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

It’s now possible ― and in some cases, necessary ― for hospitals and health systems to maintain an online library detached from a physical space. The Johns Hopkins case illustrates the critical need for doctors and nurses to have unfettered access to e-books, articles, and other relevant literature at a moment’s notice.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 16, 2023

By now, most clued-in Americans know the score on the nation’s collective health status compared to other developed countries — especially striking differences between black people and whites in death rates and complications due to COVID-19. under 50 have poorer health outcomes than our cohorts in other developed countries.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 3, 2024

Delivering a scalable, financially viable model that can actually provide the necessary impact on health outcomes would have transformative effects on the industry. Another critical challenge for Amazon will be delivering an actual impact on health outcomes.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

By now, most clued-in Americans know the score on the nation’s collective health status compared to other developed countries — especially striking differences between black people and whites in death rates and complications due to COVID-19. under 50 have poorer health outcomes than our cohorts in other developed countries.

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Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2020

Place matters for a person’s health,” I wrote in Chapter 7 of my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen.” The social determinants of health are conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live and age.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2020

By now, most clued-in Americans know the score on the nation’s collective health status compared to other developed countries: suffice it to say, We’re Still Not #1 for health outcomes, albeit we’re the biggest spender on healthcare, per health citizen, in the world.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 27, 2023

of the total market share due to increased adoption to manage chronic conditions and monitor health outcomes. OpenLoop White-Label Telehealth Solutions OpenLoop was founded with the mission to expand access to care and improve community health outcomes. Additionally, telehealth services hold 45.7%

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Healthcare It News

MAY 8, 2023

"We had a multi-faceted approach to just addressing patient access and engagement overall," Alison Connelly-Flores , chief medical information officer of Urban Health Plan, told Healthcare IT News. "This ultimately helps reduce the cost of healthcare and aid better patient outcomes." " Connelly-Flores said.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

National virtual-care organizations have not had a seamless way to book an appointment with local care providers, and thus have difficulty knowing if the patient completed the next step in their care journey. When patients are not able to complete the care journey, this can lead to disjointed care, poor health outcomes and higher costs.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 8, 2022

This can be anything from finding care, booking appointment and completing forms online, to availing of telehealth services and digital billing. In value-based care systems, there is a great emphasis on preventative services and reducing hospital readmissions, thus providing better health outcomes and reducing the overall cost of care.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

” The authors further point out that the resulting disproportionate access to health care can also explain disparities in other health outcomes such as chronic and infectious disease (e.g., disproportionate risks to mortality due to complications from COVID-19, which I discussed here in Health Populi).

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 15, 2023

OpenLoop White-Label Telehealth Solutions: OpenLoop was founded with the mission to expand access to care and improve community health outcomes. Clinicians can manage appointments, write prescriptions, chart notes and handle booking and payments all in one place.

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Health Populi

MARCH 28, 2022

Sidebar: Dr. Lustig’s book, Metabolical, is must-reading if you are keen to better understand the interrelationship between nutrition, metabolism, inflammation, and immunity). The philosophy underneath Foogal is that “Our health is in our hands,” and the best medicine we have is food.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 15, 2023

Yet, for those living with the most common chronic conditions, improved health outcomes are neither mysterious nor overly complex. It’s a simple formula: take your medications, get timely preventive care exams, see your doctors regularly, and keep track of vitals, and health outcomes will improve.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 22, 2022

One Medical combines in-person care in inviting offices across the country with digital health and virtual care services, making it easier for patients to schedule appointments, renew prescriptions, access up-to-date health records, and advance health outcomes.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Building Sprinter Health brings the last mile of healthcare into the modern age by sending fully-employed nurses or phlebotomists (“Sprinters”) into the home for quick and affordable lab draws, vitals checks, COVID-19 testing and more.

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Health Populi

MAY 16, 2019

A common theme at health care meetings these days is how and when health care will meet its Amazon, Apple, or Uber moment? Lately, one of my speaking topics is the “Amazon Prime-ing” of health consumers, which is also a chapter in my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 27, 2023

But the new LexisNexis Health Equity and Inclusion Insights offering adds new data and improves its quality. A recently released book that critiques data collection on individuals, The Hank Show by McKenzie Funk, connects the history of tracking individuals with current trends in analytics, AI, and facial recognition.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 2, 2023

The FCC is updating its Mapping Broadband Health in America platform to incorporate maternal health data , with the aim of identifying whether Internet connectivity is tied to disparities in maternal health outcomes and determining where interventions could have the greatest impact.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 5, 2023

The reality is our surroundings and environments, including income levels, educational background, access to healthcare, and social and community contexts are strong indicators for health outcomes. Many of the issues are systemic and impact people differently based on race, gender, age, and more.

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Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Such barriers lead to delays in care, skipped appointments, and missed medications, contributing to poor management of chronic illness, adverse health outcomes, and increased costs, ” RTI observed, calling ageist social determinants of health “ a call-to-action for the Baby Boomer population.”

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Jane Sarashon

MARCH 15, 2022

” Four years later in 2013, promoting his (then) new book Conscious Capitalism, Mackey did an interview with NPR, morphing the word “socialism” to “fascism” when speaking about the Affordable Care Act. For other takes on Mackey’s HIMSS keynote, check out… MedCity News here and.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The Sum of Us, a new book by Heather McGhee, details the many flavors of inequities that put the U.S. The Sum of Us, a new book by Heather McGhee, details the many flavors of inequities that put the U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 15, 2018

Health citizens living in states in New England, and then those west of Michigan and north of Missouri and Kansas, demonstrate better-than-average health outcomes. “Insurance coverage is a necessary but not sufficient condition” to improve health outcomes in America, the Fund asserts in its report summary.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 30, 2021

One of the most important reasons a patient might call a provider is to book an appointment. Conversational AI can help enhance the health outcomes for all patients in manifold ways and truly unlock the healthcare vision of "caring about and for people" as opposed to "treating the diseases."

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Read more… How Health Systems Can Benefit From 5G. John provided some takeaways from an e-Book from Corning, 4 Reasons Why 5G and Healthcare Make Sense. The main benefits are speed, capacity, and latency – but health systems can’t get started with 5G unless they start with a strong 5G infrastructure first.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2019

By now, most clued-in Americans know the score on the nation’s collective health status compared to other developed countries: suffice it to say, We’re Still Not #1 for health outcomes, albeit we’re the biggest spender on healthcare, per health citizen, in the world.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 5, 2023

Being able to process and analyze the data to identify the next best action allows the patient to have a thoughtful, coordinated and easy experience whether it’s booking an appointment, paying a bill or trying to arrange for in-home care. This allows for a true omni-channel experience, rather than a disconnected multi-channel experience.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Ironically, more social spending by the public sector could help address health outcomes for people, something for which we’ve had evidence for many years. This Health Affairs research published in 2015 made it clear that State spending on social health services builds citizens’ health beyond medical services.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 24, 2022

“The AWS Health Equity Initiative will strengthen WelTel’s mission to ensure that no person is left behind.”. There is a laptop in front of them and on the screen is the login screen for “WeTel” Roundtrip drives better health outcomes through better transportation access.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

So what’s an organization like CTA doing with AI and health care? Check out this graphic taken from my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen. In the best of all worlds, that can lead us to better health outcomes, more effective care, and lower costs. Let me connect the dots.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 13, 2023

We envision a world where DexCare powers the delivery of good-health outcomes, including access to preventative regiments, treatments, and education. health systems, and reaching more than 57 million patients across all 50 states. health systems, and reaching more than 57 million patients across all 50 states.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Research says that those Americans who live in rural communities have less access to care and subsequently worse health outcomes than those who live in non-rural communities. African American adults are more likely to report they cannot afford to see a doctor, leading to worse health outcomes.

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Health Populi

JULY 2, 2019

People scored “general health” on a five-point scale: excellent, very good, good, fair, and poor. Four measures of health equity were calculated: Black-white disparities. Health justice (the extent to which health outcomes were correlated with identified social attributes of sex, income and race/ethnicity).

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