Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

On this National Doctors Day , as the U.S. attempts to express gratitude even close to commensurate with the sacrifices and heroism shown by frontline medical staff during the COVID-19 pandemic, the American Medical Association is making available some new resources for physicians. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 1, 2021

Grimm wrote in a statement on Friday that the quick pivot to telemedicine amidst the COVID-19 pandemic makes oversight, transparency, accountability and program integrity all the more important. "OIG is conducting significant oversight work assessing telehealth services during the public health emergency.

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The Health Law Firm Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On July 15, 2022, the United States again renewed the COVID-19 public health emergency, allowing millions of Americans special access to free tests, vaccines, and treatments. The public health emergency was initially declared in January 2020, when the [.]

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 20, 2020

Government & Policy Patient Engagement Pharmacy Privacy & Security Telehealth COVID-19, otherwise known as coronavirus, has entered the lexicon as if it was always there. Sam Shah COVID-19 has been deadly, it’s infective and has posed the biggest public health risk to society in almost a hundred years.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 28, 2024

WHAT IT'S ABOUT During the groundbreaking ceremony, Health Minister Ong Ye Kung revealed that the EGH campus will be "digitally enabled from the start," particularly offering telemedicine. Enterprise Taxonomy: Telehealth Population and Public Health Patient Access Care

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 3, 2022

A research team from the University of Toronto's Dalla Lana School of Public Health is looking to implement telemedicine for managing chronic diseases in Pakistan to study whether it can be used by specialists in the cities to support health providers in rural communities. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 25, 2020

Social distancing is a key factor in reducing the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, and tele-visits can be a safe and secure means for providers to deliver certain types of care for their patients. Parker is using the Healow application by eClinicalWorks for its telemedicine program.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2021

The Australian government has made available two new subsidised telephone consult services for patients living in COVID-19 hotspot areas. In a statement on Thursday, Health Minister Greg Hunt said the new Medicare items will enable doctors to provide 20 minutes or more of telephone consultations. WHY IT MATTERS.

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The Health Law Firm Blog

JULY 18, 2022

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On July 15, 2022, the United States again renewed the COVID-19 public health emergency, allowing millions of Americans special access to free tests, vaccines, and treatments. The public health emergency was initially declared in January 2020, when the [.].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2020

South Korea has been lauded as a role model in its containment and flattening the curve of COVID-19 infections through a combination of rapid intervention, extensive testing for the virus, contact tracing/surveillance and enlisting the public’s health, according to a report by The New York Times. Challenges. (1)

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

These may be technologies used from the home or that a doctor uses to improve or support healthcare services. Telehealth providers saw a rapid rise in the need for remote services with the initial spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020. This allowed telehealth to be used to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has re-shaped consumers for work, school, fitness, cooking, and certainly for health care. Younger Americans prefer retail health settings for vaccines: retail clinics, urgent care sites, or retail pharmacies. preferring the medical office.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 6, 2022

COVID has shown us that telemedicine is effective and easy to use. But why limit the use of virtual care to public health emergencies? With providers and clinicians under increasing strain from staffing gaps and other issues, telemedicine is a valuable solution. Doug Duskin, CEO, Avel eCare.

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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.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

I covered the event here in Health Populi, as I have for most of the past decade, highlighting the growth of digital health and, this year, the expanding Internet of Healthy Things called-out by Dr. Joseph Kvedar in 2015. CTA conducted a survey among 2,000 U.S. adults ages 18 and over in the second half of July 2020.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Congress can’t agree on much before the 2024 summer recess, there’s one bipartisan stroke of political pens in Washington, DC, that could provide some satisfaction for both patients and doctors: bring telehealth back to patients and providers permanently. S 2016) and second, re-introduce and sign the Telehealth Modernization Act.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

Let’s travel to Shanghai, China where, “the covid-19 epidemic has brought millions of new patients online. The coronavirus spawned another kind of gift to China and the nation’s health citizens: telemedicine, the essay explains. The WeDoctor app, part of Tencent, deployed 20,000 online doctors donating time for free.

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American Medical Compliance

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an influx of doctor burnout. A recent study published in the medical journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings found that physician burnout increased during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic following a six-year drop that ended in 2020. doctors was 62.8%.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

I’d interviewed Roy at CES 2020 in Las Vegas in January to catch up on consumer health developments, and the March meeting was going to cover Philips’ innovations on the hospital and acute care side of the business, as well as to learn more about Roy’s new role as head of Connected Care.

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Health Populi

JULY 28, 2020

This week, announcements from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and Withings further bolster the case for the private sector bolstering public health in this pandemic…and future ones to come beyond the Age of the Coronavirus. On 27th July, CTA announced the Association’s launch of the Public Health Tech Initiative.

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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. The report covers the various life-flows of our repurposed “crowded digital homes,” including school remote work, and making health, wellness, and fitness where we live. ” In the U.S.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The expiration of such flexibilities, said the groups, could abruptly prevent some patients from seeing their doctors virtually – a particularly troubling matter for immunocompromised people still at risk for COVID-19. WHY IT MATTERS. The organizations asked state governors and legislatures. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 30, 2020

"Much of this transformation is dependent on temporary flexibilities extended to health systems and providers that are limited to the duration of the COVID-19 public health emergency declaration," the letter read.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 21, 2021

Greg Abbott signed a bill into law this week that formally authorized dentistry via telemedicine in the state. HB 2056, most of which will take effect on September 1, will prevent the Board from banning teledentistry and bring teledentistry in line with other telemedicine practices.

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Health Law Gurus

DECEMBER 31, 2020

During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (the “CMS”) relaxed some rules to expand access to telehealth, including through audio-only communication platforms. With the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, the public health emergency is expected to be brought to an end.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

epicenters of the COVID-19 crisis, were some of the first to feel the brunt of the disease's effects. Shelley, a professor in the Department of Policy and Public Health Management at the New York University School of Global Public Health. Primary care providers in New York City, one of the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 25, 2023

Pager offers AI automation and integrated concierge services, including triage, telemedicine, e-prescriptions, appointment scheduling, after-care follow-up, care advocacy and customer service. public health officials," added Nick Malhomme, the company's international development director.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2020

The Protecting Access to Post-COVID-19 Telehealth Act is co-sponsored by Rep. The legislation seeks to push forward with wider access to and use of telehealth – even beyond this public health emergency with its numerous waivers, allowances and temporary rule changes. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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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. ” The report’s revenue data is shown here in a table from Kaufman Hall’s analysis of the July 2020 data.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2021

So to give us some comfort in our collective foxhole, my last post for this week of immersion in #HIMSS21 is based on the keynote speech of Michael Dowling, CEO of Northwell Health. Dowling keynoted on the theme of “Leading for the Future,” sharing his lessons learned during COVID-19. Be agile and flexible.

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Health Populi

MAY 12, 2021

The top-line, shown in the first statement, represents the collective enthusiasm shared by digital health companies polled in the study. and intriguingly, “Health care professionals seem most excited about adopting consumer technologies that we already use.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In May, the DEA extended telehealth prescribing flexibilities and said listening sessions September 12-13 were an opportunity to provide input on prescribing controlled substances via telemedicine platforms, on detecting diversion and about implementing safeguards that can prevent and detect drug diversion.

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Health Populi

MAY 4, 2020

is also part of COVID-19 consumers’ coping mechanisms for hunting-and-gathering the stuff of survival. In the COVID-19 era, drive-through and drive-up curbside service have become important go-to tactics for dealing with everyday life outside of urban centers. public health patchwork quilt.

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Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2022

Access to the Internet has been a key determinant of health — or more aptly, death — during the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 were preventable. Housing problems were associated with greater COVID-19 incidence and mortality.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

According to the agency , the conspiracy involved paying a telemedicine company to arrange for doctors to authorize medically unnecessary genetic testing. The scheme, as outlined in court documents, exploited COVID-19-era amendments to telehealth restrictions. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 17, 2020

“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.” There are many vendors of telemedicine technology on the health IT marketplace today.

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