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Vast majority of specialists increased use of telehealth tech during COVID-19 pandemic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

specialists, 79% said that their use of telemedicine technology had increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey adds yet another data point to the massive increase in telemedicine use amidst the novel coronavirus pandemic. The same report also found that telemedicine mobile app downloads had dramatically increased.

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Telehealth and COVID-19 in the U.S.: A Conversation with Ann Mond Johnson, ATA CEO

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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. Will the coronavirus inspire greater adoption of telehealth in the U.S.?

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Health Consumers Value Sharing and Downloading Health Data, But Privacy Concerns Remain

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This study re-confirms the current state of the health consumer who has a “concerned embrace” of technology. I called this out in my 2019 book, HealthConsuming: from health consumer to health citizen. More younger people would be interested in downloading personal health records compared with older people.

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FCC awards Massachusetts FQHC Telehealth Consortium $3.1M

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Massachusetts FQHC Telehealth Consortium has been awarded a grant from the Federal Communications Commission to increase telemedicine capacity in community health centers statewide. The consortium is made up of 35 federally qualified health centers. "Many of us already knew about the health inequities.

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A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds

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The new era of virtual care has begun and is here to stay, Accenture expects in its latest look at How COVID-19 will permanently alter patient behavior , a patient survey conducted in May 2020. Fully one-third of patients starting using each of these 3 telehealth modalities during COVID-19. and the U.S.

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VA working with Apple to broaden telehealth access for veterans

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Through the VA's Center for Strategic Partnerships, the agency is working with Apple to enhance the platform and optimize telehealth experience for veterans and their caregivers, according to the VA – which notes that the devices will also give patients the ability to view and download their own medical data using the Health Records app.

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Telehealth and community broadband, in sickness and in health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

We can save so much money and time that's going into healthcare if we take full advantage of the telehealth and telemedicine tools. Public health in particular can leverage telehealth to great advantage. In July, the White House recruited 1,000 barbershops and hair salons to be COVID vaccination centers.

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