Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 26, 2024

million in 2019. It was a 2,500% year-over-year increase, Kristi Henderson, a former Optum senior vice president for digital transformation and CEO of Optum Virtual Care, who is now chief executive officer of Confluent Health, has said. of medical claims since use skyrocketed during the pandemic.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 18, 2022

International collaboration through the sharing of health data is crucial for advancing human health. As countries aim to strike a difficult balance between furthering research and protecting national interests, recent trends indicate a shift toward tighter controls that could chill international collaborations.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 13, 2023

A patient information disclosure has impacted more than 3 million patients who use online virtual mental health platform Cerebral, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights. It also is advising those affected to monitor credit statements and change Cerebral account passwords.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

WHY IT MATTERS The study proposed that if telemedicine expansion indicates physicians spending more overall time in EHRs, health systems and policymakers may need to alter productivity expectations and their reimbursement policies. THE LARGER TREND In the throes of the pandemic, the study's primary author, A.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

With virtual mental health a trend during the exponential growth of remote care, AI and femtech, the survey focuses on three key areas that might increasingly shape future medical care. Looking back at 2021, the report notes a high demand for virtual mental health consultations. ” THE LARGER TREND. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

With virtual mental health a trend during the exponential growth of remote care, AI and femtech, the survey focuses on three key areas that might increasingly shape future medical care. Looking back at 2021, the report notes a high demand for virtual mental health consultations. ” THE LARGER TREND. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 13, 2023

The company provides cloud and other services, which integrate with electronic health records and other systems, and a full stack for developing digital applications. The company provides cloud and other services, which integrate with electronic health records and other systems, and a full stack for developing digital applications.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in Taoyuan City, Taiwan has become the second-highest-ranking organisation in the latest HIMSS Digital Health Indicator. The hospital offers self-health management tools like Health Care Express, Chang Gung e-Finger App, CGMH Mobile App, and NHI Care Express.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

A new project led by indigenous community leaders, together with researchers from the University of Queensland, seeks to link disparate health records of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders across health facilities to improve maternal and perinatal health outcomes. THE LARGER TREND. WHY IT MATTERS. per 100,000 women).

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has announced the launch of its Department of Artificial Intelligence and Human Health, aimed at enhancing opportunities for collaboration among medical and computer scientists. Fuchs, the school's dean for artificial intelligence and human health, in a statement. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 29, 2022

The aim of the programs is to reduce hospital readmissions and improve digital health risk assessments. THE LARGER TREND. Patient-reported outcomes are a critical way to assess the ongoing state of patient health and satisfaction, and a growing number of digital tools are helping them do so. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights announced this week that it had brought HIPAA-related enforcement actions against five healthcare providers. "Timely access to your health records is a powerful tool in staying healthy, patient privacy and it is your right under law," said OCR Director Lisa J.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

The Tasmanian government has recently released a four-year strategy to transform outpatient services across its public health system. Our digital capability will be significantly uplifted by the introduction of a Digital Outpatient Management Service and eReferrals," the Health department noted. THE LARGER TREND.

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

During the pandemic, millions of people connected with Twitter to share thoughts and feelings about the pandemic…and their health. Tweets related to “broadband” were noted within the telemedicine/virtual health Twitter streams. For this report, Brandwatch utilized only English-language public Twitter data.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 14, 2019

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) filed its annual year-end report to Congress at the start of 2019.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 18, 2022

University of Connecticut researchers will use a $392,994 award for a large-scale computational study of biased health information that focuses on bias reduction in the health domain. THE LARGER TREND. National Science Foundation and Amazon. WHY IT MATTERS. For this third round of Fairness in AI funding that totals $9.5

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The care coordination and healthcare navigation vendor Quantum Health announced this week that it had hired Zane Burke as chief executive officer and Board of Directors member. Burke's time at Livongo overlapped with the company's 2019 IPO , as well as its big-ticket merger with Teladoc. THE LARGER TREND. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

A new study published in this month's issue of Health Policy and Technology found, however, that healthcare organizations may face obstacles when it comes to complying with the law. THE LARGER TREND. The California Consumer Privacy Act, passed in 2018, aims to give consumers more control over their online personal information.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 9, 2023

Warner questions whether Google is "prioritizing the race to establish market share over patient well-being," and whether the company is "skirting health privacy as it trained diagnostic models on sensitive health data without patients' knowledge or consent." Have you tested Med-PaLM 2 for this failure mode?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Physicians' use and appreciation of information technology and digital health tools has seen a big uptick over the past five years, according to a new survey from the American Medical Association. The new AMA Digital Health Research sees attitudes and expectations changing among the physicians it surveyed. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Jane Sarashon

APRIL 1, 2024

Morgan’s InstaMed team to analyze health care payments data, describing the experiences of consumers, providers and payers in the Trends in Healthcare Payments Fourteenth Annual Report. The overall takeaway for patients in this study is that health care is disconnected from consumers, in the words of the JPM/InstaMed report.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 18, 2022

OCR's enforcement actions, which include some substantial monetary penalties for the following healthcare providers, and compelled them to furnish patients with timely copies of their health records: Peoria and Canton, Illinois-based ACPM Podiatry , failed to provide a former patient with his requested medical records, according to OCR.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Amazon Care has grown rapidly since it was first offered exclusively to the tech giant's Seattle-based employees in 2019. Dodge also notes that Amazon has been attempting to make inroads at health plans, which would open up the service to insured people in addition to employer clients. THE LARGER TREND. cities through 2022.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 18, 2024

While the Kenyan Constitution, adopted in 2010, allows for abortion when the pregnant person’s life or health is at risk under Article 26(4), the Kenyan Penal Code still criminalizes it—a legal grey area creating “ ambiguity, confusion, and stigma. PAK and Salim Mohammed v.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Optional items include health and fitness trackers and talking weight scales. THE LARGER TREND. In 2019, the agency delivered more than 2.6 Proposals are due on October 12. Proposals are due on October 12. WHY IT MATTERS. military veterans. The maximum value, to be spread over four potential vendors, is $1.032 billion.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Friday found a 154% increase in telehealth visits during the last week of March 2020, compared with the same time period in 2019. Using de-identified patient data from Amwell, Teladoc Health, MDLive and Doctor On Demand, the CDC found that about 1.6 THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2021

Using data from Blue Health Intelligence data repository – an independent data and analytics company that is a licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association – researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health compared claims data from March through June 2019 with March through June 2020.

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2022

Declines in preventive care services like cancer screenings and blood glucose testing concern employers, whose continued to cover health insurance for employees during the pandemic. Castlight published the full research findings in April in the company’s 2022 Workforce Health Index. in 2021.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 27, 2023

Warren and Welch asked Amazon executives earlier this month about patient health data privacy and expressed concerns that the platform’s new healthcare service is putting users’ private health data at risk. They requested a detailed response to their concerns from Amazon by June 30.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

health care’s negative-sum game, stakeholders who survive and win that game will have to deliver value-for-money, we learn from Trilliant Health’s 2023 Trends Shaping the Health Economy Report. practicing providers” largely found in Trilliant Health’s data trove. health care financing.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 27, 2023

. – The report, Health is Primary : Charting a Path to Equity and Sustainability reveals the United States has seen a consistent decrease in the number of primary care clinicians since 2014, caused by a decline in the number of clinicians entering primary care, burnout leading to retirement, and decreased direct patient care time.

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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. The provider will be able to observe trend lines or screen share it for use during the appointment.

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HealthIT Answers

JANUARY 23, 2023

By Alena Nikuliak - The challenges healthcare providers face in managing patient mental health are multitude. The mental health situation in America continues to trend in a concerning direction. 20% of Americans reported suffering from a mental illness in 2019 and 2020, making for roughly 50 million patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 21, 2020

million services were delivered via telehealth in Medicare and in the Children's Health Insurance Program from March through June. Telehealth rates skyrocketed following the relaxation of federal regulations around virtual care use at the start of the pandemic, and the CMS data reflects that trend. THE LARGER TREND.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 27, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. The article Digital Health Trends To Watch In 2019 appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. Illegal copying is prohibited. Technology is the new creed that has literally touched almost every aspect of our life.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2021

That study, Who Is (and Isn't) Receiving Telemedicine Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic , adds to an already substantial body of evidence that the public health emergency is exacerbating disparities in access and use of technology-enabled healthcare. " THE LARGER TREND. WHY IT MATTERS. Robin Kelly, D-Ill.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 3, 2023

The North Carolina Health Information Exchange Authority, housed within the state's Department of Information Technology, announced this week that it's working North Carolina's Department of Health and Human Services to launch the N.C. Stroke Registry.

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