Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

With patients afraid to seek care in person and social distancing necessitating as little face-to-face contact as possible, many clinicians pivoted to telehealth – some with more success than others. At the same time, the researchers noted, several hurdles remain for primary care providers when it comes to integrating telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 17, 2021

The Verizon virtual care product BlueJeans Telehealth announced this past week that it had enabled integration with the Apple Health app with the aim of allowing patients to share data with clinicians during telemedicine visits. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2023

The fast-growing adoption of telemedicine and remote patient monitoring from the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic led to hospitals and health systems launching new or expanding existing virtual care programs to accommodate a new reality for work-flow and patient care. hospital and health system leaders in March 2023.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

There’s more evidence that doctors and patients, both, want to use telehealth after the COVID-19 pandemic fades. Doximity’s second report on telemedicine explores both physicians’ and patients’ views on virtual care, finding most doctors and health consumers on the same page of virtual care adoption.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 17, 2023

Thanks to the conditions brought about by the pandemic, telemedicine is now an increasingly popular format for diagnosing and treating a variety of conditions. Just a few years ago, the telemedicine market had a size of about $42 billion. Just a few years ago, the telemedicine market had a size of about $42 billion.

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Med Law Blog

JULY 21, 2022

The US Office of Inspector General (OIG) released another in a series of Special Fraud Alerts on July 20, 2022, this one directed to potentially fraudulent telehealth, telemedicine, and telemarketing service fraud schemes, collectively referred to as “Telemedicine Companies”. Genetic testing. Wound care items.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Cloud Computing Network Infrastructure Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Delivering virtual care via community broadband offers big financial and quality of life benefits, says our contributing writer, opening avenues to both digital equity and health equity. These networks profit the people they serve. Strategically speaking.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 9, 2022

Smart phones, wearable devices, telemedicine platforms, artificial intelligence software, internet applications, and other digital health technologies are advancing and transforming disease diagnosis, therapy, and other medical practices by physicians, direct-to-consumer services for better health and well-being, and other healthcare services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The COVID-19 crisis has spotlighted the vital role telehealth can play in ensuring seamless access to care. But until recently, much attention has been paid to how telehealth could imitate in-person services. "Telehealth is turning a corner right in front of our eyes," said Schoenberg in a statement to Healthcare IT News.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 5, 2020

In the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth was a “bright spot in the ‘new normal,’” according to a report from J.D. Power, Telehealth Patient Satisfaction Surges During Pandemic but Barriers to Access Persist. Power assessed two categories of telehealth vendors: direct-to-consumer (DTC) and payer-provided.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 28, 2019

"The requirements have changed dramatically and telemedicine now needs to influence clinical, operational and financial outcomes." Burke sought the help of Dr. Avrim Fishkind, then the CEO of JSA Health, which was recently acquired by telemedicine vendor SOC Telemed. From there, an emergency care model was born. MARKETPLACE.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

As such, the team has been involved in digital health financing and innovation for 24 years, well before the kind of platforms, APIs, and cloud computing now enabling telehealth and care, everywhere. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services. In 2019, J.D.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 28, 2022

Some health systems see a need to unify their virtual care capabilities across an integrated platform, telemedicine vendor Teladoc Health observes. What is the state of telemedicine technology at hospitals and health systems today? You suggest that integration is the answer to this problem. Please explain exactly how.

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Redox

JUNE 30, 2023

Top stories Digital tech categories in the danger zone Dissatisfied with their pandemic-incited purchases, many health systems are ready to rip and replace their telemedicine and RPM solutions. Read more New from Redox Where do 3rd-party tech pitches miss the mark? You don’t want to miss it.) Save your seat Was this forwarded to you?

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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.

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Jane Sarashon

MAY 17, 2022

While telehealth, mobile health apps, and wearable technology are all growing for mainstream consumers, there are gaps in adoption based on where a person lives, their health insurance plan type, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender. The report examines three areas of digital health adoption: Live video telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 5, 2020

At HIMSS20, prominent telemedicine technology vendor American Well will preview its new home TV system, dubbed CarePort, which will be commercially available at a date yet to be announced. "One of the biggest opportunities for telehealth is to make a significant impact in the later stages of life," Schoenberg stated.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The practice aims to improve access for necessary in-person care and procedures while offering patients complementary proven interventions ideally suited for telemedicine. "Frequent touchpoints with a registered dietitian or a GI psychologist are easier to deliver via telehealth , much to patients' convenience," Pavlou noted.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2020

For decades, Chinatown Service Center of Los Angeles, a federally qualified health center community clinic, relied on the ubiquitous faxing of patients’ medical records from local hospitals and physician offices, as well as patients bringing their most recent doctor visits’ paperwork outside of CSC to their appointments. THE PROBLEM.

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2023

Our pets can be personal and family drivers of health and health care cost savings, according to a new study from according to a new report from researchers at George Mason University published in their paper, Health Care Cost Savings of Pet Ownership. through the pandemic during which one-sixth of pet owners obtained a new pet.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

When it comes to policy changes that could help bridge the gap, report authors pointed to ensuring health coverage, investing in social services, reducing administrative burdens and improving service delivery – including via telemedicine and licensure modernization. healthcare system.

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Healthcare Law Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Starting January 1, 2023, Medicare will cover telehealth-based treatment services delivered by federally-accredited opioid treatment programs (OTPs), commonly referred to as “methadone clinics.” To this end, CMS added several expansion opportunities for OTPs, including telehealth coverage.

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New Jersey Healthcare Blog

MARCH 8, 2022

248(a), the Department of Health, Division of Certificate of Need and Licensing, Office of Healthcare Financing proposed the readoption and amendments establishing standards to assess and collect fees applicable to certain categories of licensed ambulatory care facilities based on those facilities’ annual gross receipts. Orders Nos.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Musculoskeletal (MSK) is routinely one of the three most expensive categories of care (along with cardio-metabolic disease and cancer care). Dr. Steve Schutzer, an orthopedic surgeon for 34 years, is working on this pain point as cofounder and COO of Upswing Health, a virtual clinic for MSK/orthopedic problems.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 3, 2021

"Although we never thought telehealth would be a core part of our business, the pandemic quickly upended that notion and shifted our priorities. It became important to roll telemedicine out as quickly as possible. To that end, enhancing patient self-management and automating screeners and paper processes is a key goal.

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NY Health Law

APRIL 15, 2021

Perhaps the most significant of these is in the area of telehealth. The remote delivery of healthcare and health-related services has tremendous implications for patient access to care and quality of outcomes, and stakeholders across the country are actively examining how best to leverage telehealth technology to achieve those goals.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 4, 2022

Looking back to the first chart above under the digital health category, we see wearables, mental wellness, digital therapeutics, and provider solutions. As examples of this, Steve pointed to three CES attendees’ products that speak to self-care empowerment: For telehealth and remote patient management (RPM), Essence’s VitalOn.

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Healthcare Law Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Meanwhile, Congress’s recent approval of the 2023 Consolidated Appropriations Act extended important flexibilities for telehealth provisions, and even as venture dollars dwindle in the market at large, health tech and digital health startups have the ability shift focus from dealmaking to partnerships.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

With President Trump’s somber speech from the Oval Office last night, we wake up on 12th March 2020 to a ban on most travel from Europe to the U.S., recommendations for hygiene, and call to come together in America. His remarks focused largely on an immigration and travel policy versus science, triaging, testing and treatment of the virus itself.

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Healthcare Law Today

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

On November 1, 2022, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized new policies related to remote therapeutic monitoring (RTM) services reimbursed under the Medicare program. The changes, part of the 2023 Physician Fee Schedule final rule , clarify CMS’ position on how it interprets requirements for RTM services.

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Health Populi

JULY 28, 2020

Twelve years ago, when I began to attend CES, digital health was a nascent category featured with products featured in a couple of aisles in exhibit booths then dominated by Fitbit, Nike and UnderArmour. On 27th July, CTA announced the Association’s launch of the Public Health Tech Initiative.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The American Telemedicine Association joined 375 industry stakeholders in urging the U.S. The American Telemedicine Association joined 375 industry stakeholders in urging the U.S. Senate to permanently extend the telehealth flexibilities and waivers put in place during the public health emergency. News and Studies.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 19, 2023

Interestingly, the two categories of respondents most likely to say the pace of innovation is “much too slow” were patients (17%) and C-level executives (15%). Remote monitoring firm Health Recovery Solutions and CommonWealth Purchasing Group are collaborating to bring telehealth to nearly 1,000 community health centers and FQHCs.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2018

But only one in four people had used wearable technology for health, and one in five had participated in a live video telemedicine encounter. Six in 10 Americans looked for reviews of healthcare providers online, another new-normal consumer digital health activity. ” . .” adults; the poll was fielded in 2017.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 1, 2023

Precision engagement is an emerging development within digital therapeutics One of the fast-growing categories within medicine today is digital therapeutics (DTx), which is the delivery of evidence-based treatment through digital solutions that help prevent, manage, or treat a disorder or disease. Enter precision engagement.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 21, 2018

They said that the technologies that would have the largest disruptive impact would be telemedicine, artificial intelligence, interoperability, and data analytics. Googling the words “disruption” and “healthcare” today yielded 33.8 This emerged out of Christensen’s 1997 book, The Innovator’s Dilemma.

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Jane Sarashon

JULY 29, 2022

Power’s top customer satisfactoin rank in the brick-and-mortar supermarket pharmacy category, noted for the grocer’s high Net Promoter Score for customer loyalty. DG has been exploring its health-and-wellness offerings and has enlisted four physicians to advise the company’s strategy.

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