Health Populi

JULY 20, 2020

Patients embraced virtual care and communications at very high rates in the first months of the pandemic, and want to continue to use telehealth platforms after the pandemic ends. Accenture polled 2,700 patients around the world, 450 participants each from China, France, Germany, Japan, the U.K., and the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 26, 2022

Even before COVID-19 placed a significant strain on hospitals in Singapore, health systems such as the National University Health System were looking at ways to move care away from the hospital and into a person's home or community. Patients' vital signs are also monitored to spot early signs of deterioration.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

National Nurses United and the California Nurses Association released a joint statement this past week criticizing Kaiser Permanente's aims to expand advanced hospital services into patients' homes. "Nurses, more than any other healthcare staff, spend the most time with patients," said the unions in the statement.

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Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2021

The Wall Street Journal featured the grocery chain Kroger in an article yesterday titled, COVID-19 Vaccinations, Tests Give Boost to Kroger’s Health Ambitions. It was the COVID-19 pandemic that accelerated some early-adopting health consumers viewing their home as their ultimate site for self-care and health care.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2021

Expanding omni-channel, data-driven, cost-effective health care in the community, tailoring that care, and attending to mental health paint the picture of health through the lens of CVS Health. The company published the Health Trends Report 2021 today, calling out ten forces shaping health care this year.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

treated more patients in the first six months of the coronavirus pandemic, shifting their practices to telehealth platforms. psychologists saw growing demand for patients seeking help to deal with anxiety disorders, depressive disorders, and trauma-and stress-related disorders. 21% saw more adolescent patients ages 13-17.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 5, 2021

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, it presented Portland, Oregon-based Legacy Health with a multitude of staffing challenges where clinicians and staff were unable to come to work safely in the hospitals and clinics. This allowed patients to continue to schedule and receive services without unnecessary exposure to COVID-19.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 8, 2022

The Department of Health and Human Services once again (for the ninth time) extended the public health emergency this past month , stretching it beyond mid-July. But even now, hospitals and health systems should be preparing proactively to meet the regulatory demands of a post-PHE future. We spoke recently with Allison M.

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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. Quality of care not as good as in-person (among 67% of older people). adults ages 50 to 80 years of age.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

I was scheduled to meet with Roy Jakobs, Chief Business Leader of Connected Care at Philips, at HIMSS in Orlando on 9th March 2020. HIMSS cancelled the conference just days before it was to commence… due to the great disruption of COVID-19. It’s also an enormous stress test of the [health care] system.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Rush was relying on the patient’s home internet connection to be good enough to connect, and five to six years ago it was common that home internet was not good enough to stream content, even in the big city environs of Chicago. THE PROBLEM. The Vidyo Connect workflow resolved the problems.

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Health Populi

MAY 4, 2020

And when food, hygiene supplies, and medical care can’t be delivered by Amazon or Instacart via FedEx, UPS, or the U.S. is also part of COVID-19 consumers’ coping mechanisms for hunting-and-gathering the stuff of survival. Enter health care into the drive-through and drive-up era.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic pushed telehealth into the spotlight with exponential adoption, helping to prove its value. The healthcare industry learned that, with the right solutions, care can extend outside hospital walls and be conducted anywhere.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

It serves predominately low-income and highly vulnerable patients living throughout a 16-county region of southeastern New York, encompassing the Hudson Valley, New York City and Long Island. Sun River Health was among the first organizations to receive funding under the Federal Communications Commission COVID-19 Telehealth Program.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2021

This is the latest in Healthcare IT News' series of feature stories on lessons learned during the COVID-19 era. Randy Gaboriault, senior vice president and chief digital and information officer at Christiana Care Health System in Wilmington, Delaware. And that happened to be the same day we had our first patient diagnosed.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 2, 2021

In this 11th installment in Healthcare IT News ' Health IT Lessons Learned in the COVID-19 Era feature series, we speak with three health IT leaders from points across the map, including: Dr. Beth Lindsay-Wood, CIO at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida. Both patients and providers prefer virtual for certain types of visits.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 21, 2020

Despite the significant pressures on services across the NHS associated with our COVID-19 response, and indeed because of them, there has been a significant acceleration of digital transformation across many areas of health in the UK. In the space of weeks, primary care services in the UK have switched from 1.2

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 19, 2022

But telehealth may be becoming an emerging strategy to help fill in gaps within hospitals and health systems , contended Chris Franklin, president of LocumTenens.com, a self-service job board and a full-service physician and advanced practice recruitment agency working in high-demand medical specialties. There currently are 3.5

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

“While in 2020 many healthcare organizations saw their financial plans obliterated, patient behaviors radically shift and virtual care explode, in 2021 they will work to put the system back together,” said PwC researchers. “Some specialties, such as mental health, may find stronger footing via virtual visits.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 13, 2021

As pressure eases, fundamental changes will last far beyond the pandemic. As COVID-19 began surging across the globe in the early months of 2020, it almost immediately flooded health care providers with challenges and demands the industry had never before seen. An urgent need for safety and knowledge.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 31, 2020

"One of the lessons of COVID-19 – meaningful data sharing – will continue unabated, made even more valuable as data becomes more accessible and machine learning provides deeper insights," said Michael Byczkowski, global VP and head of healthcare industry at SAP, the developer of enterprise application software.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Digital tools gained traction in care delivery during COVID. Now we are seeing rapid uptake in operational workflows that support care too. Using natural language understanding and intentional conversational dialogs, intelligent virtual assistants will guide website visitors to the answers and care they’re looking for.

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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. has highlighted the huge demand for health technology solutions.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 28, 2024

While our first big push into remote care was a leap into the unknown, this time we want to make sure that we are surveying the landscape to make this a safe, smart, and financially responsible decision. Currently, 100mm people live in primary care physician shortage areas and 160MM live in mental health provider shortage areas.

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

For telehealth, that S-curve has had a very long and fairly flat front-end of the “S” followed by a hockey stick trajectory in March and April 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic was an exogenous shock to in-person health care delivery. Access to care, covering both availability (e.g.,

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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. health care financing. You can read more about this fact here in Health Populi , most recently in this post ].

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Jane Sarashon

APRIL 18, 2023

Consider the key drivers of supply and demand in health care, globally, right now: On the medical delivery supply side, the shortage of staff is a limiting factor to continuing to deliver care based on the usual work-flows and payment models.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

Check out our community’s telehealth and RPM (Remote Patient Monitoring) predictions. Digitally-enabled care is the future of telehealth – “telehealth” has become industry norm since the start of the pandemic and used as a catchall term for everything from virtual doctor’s appointments to at-home testing kits.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Amongst mostly bustling halls, vendors reported very positive feedback on the volume and quality of customer meetings, with one prominent global imaging vendor citing “We’re signing deals here at the show again – things are looking up”. . – Increasing demand for imaging services, especially outside of the hospital .

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Jane Sarashon

JULY 29, 2022

” Well beyond our individual genetic codes, our health is made where we live, work, play, pray, learn, and shop… also well beyond hospitals and doctors’ offices in-between appointments, and often paid-for out-of-pocket quite separate from peoples’ health insurance plans. for the 7th consecutive year.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 17, 2022

A recent report from the Leapfrog Group found that patient experience scores at hospitals declined during the pandemic. Hospitals faced an incredible crucible during COVID-19 , with many still experiencing high levels of stress in their systems. Unifying patients and providers in the care process.

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Healthcare Law Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

In light of the increasing demand for mental health treatment and simultaneous provider shortages, the private insurance industry is rolling out targeted initiatives to increase mental health support for members by mitigating many of the barriers to entry facing the mental health industry today.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The major financial problems people faced in the past few months included making credit card and loan payments (among 1 in 5 people), affording medical care (for 17%), paying utilities, paying mortgage or rent, and affording food, shown in the first graph from the report (“Figure 4”). One-half of U.S. One-half of U.S.

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Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

ALABAMA American Family Care opens new health care center in Northeast Birmingham doctors secure $13.9M ALABAMA American Family Care opens new health care center in Northeast Birmingham doctors secure $13.9M Newsom announces distressed hospital loan program Kaiser Permanente frontline workers strike could begin Oct.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 26, 2021

As legislation, engagement and positive results continue to push digital patient care solutions forward, many healthcare organizations are not yet prepared for the increased adoption of these technologies. As a healthcare provider, how can you best ensure that you’re well-equipped to handle expansions in remote care scenarios? .

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Hall Render

MAY 20, 2022

5 things to know about HHS OIG’s patient harm report. $15 AMA, organizations launch effort to apply equity lens to patient care. COVID-19 public health emergency set to be extended. Covid-19 remains a public health emergency in US, administration says. Arkansas Gets $3.9M

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Data has become a critical asset for health care providers, arguably equivalent to currency, and in the digital age, failing to adequately protect patient data has become a major risk. During the COVID-19 pandemic, hackers targeted vulnerable health care systems with ransomware attacks, forcing multiple U.S.

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