Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Population Health Precision Medicine Telehealth Workforce From vaccines to virtual care, enterprise imaging to precision medicine, these are the growth areas that will shape the direction of healthcare, this year and beyond. This development will also drive growth in virtual care.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Clinicians from Scripps Research and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine collaborated on this work, calling out the relatively fast adoption of HaH programs during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Varda Shalev of Team8 discussed prospects for Care At Home Transformed tag-teaming with Deborah Di Sanzo, President of Best Buy Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

By Bill Siwicki | July 13, 2023 News Telehealth proves successful for opioid use disorder treatment Virtual care provider Ophelia found 56% of its OUD patients remained in treatment for six months. with home-based virtual care Also through its Virtual Care at Home program, Augusta has been able to show a reduced readmission.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Advance academic medicine. In the description of #7, Realizing the Promise of Virtual Health (in shorthand above, “Accelerating Digital Health”) Manatt includes this snippet/paragraph from the World Health Organization , spelling out digital health in a way that uncannily encompasses the team’s ten goals.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 23, 2021

My friend and digital health entrepreneur Sherri Douville, whose post on LinkedIn went viral, summed it up like this: "If companies misunderstand evidence-based medicine, they have no business bringing technology into medicine at all (as opposed to consumer or administrative use)." Region Tag: Global Edition.

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Three mega-trends bubbled up on the platform for health — telemedicine and virtual care, broadband access, and mental health, discussed in a Birdseye Report Industry Deep Dive into Health from Brandwatch, partnering with Twitter. Tweets related to “broadband” were noted within the telemedicine/virtual health Twitter streams.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 17, 2020

“There were significant barriers to patients coming in,” said Dr. Laurie Douglass, director of pediatric epilepsy and EEG at Boston Medical Center and associate professor of pediatrics and neurology at Boston University School of Medicine. It has helped eliminate phone tag by providing a secure place to message.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2021

Health systems are rapidly transforming their healthcare delivery models with online access and patient engagement tools, remote monitoring and other virtual care modalities. Region Tag: Global Edition. What the explosion in VC funding data doesn't tell us, however, is how all these heavily-funded startups are doing in the market.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

With much of the country shut down earlier this year, the typical number of weekly virtual care visits grew from dozens, to hundreds, to thousands at hospitals and health systems across the country. Bardack, medical director of CareMount Medical and chair of the department of internal medicine/endocrine/rheumatology.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

While Congress and CMS have considered permanently expanding access to telehealth and virtual care, there is a big price tag attached. Health providers quickly pivoted to make the most of temporary telehealth flexibilities when the COVID-19 public health emergency started in 2020. are persistent and not easily fixed.

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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

” That could include such data tags as cookie identifiers, device identifiers, and IP addresses. The Act defines “consumers” as people residing in Washington state as well as people whose health data is collected in Washington and those identified through quote, “unique identifiers.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 23, 2022

"The platform uses clinical care paths, adaptive education, personalized goal setting and virtual physical therapy to drive a smooth and efficient recuperation," Lovewell explained. Today, 22 of 27 of the center's surgeons are on the platform, including all sports medicine, spine and total joint surgeons.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2021

Telehealth An occupational medicine physician offered his patients a poll with a single question. Here's what he's learned so far about their feelings on virtual care. A brief background about myself and my practice: I am an occupational medicine physician working under a not-for-profit health care system.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 4, 2022

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Precision Medicine Telehealth Workforce AI, augmented reality, biomedical sensors and beyond – by mapping out a clear vision now, we can widen our ambitions and improve modernization strategies to better harness the vast potential offered by technology advances. Advanced medicine through analytics.

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Health Populi

MARCH 19, 2019

Since George Washington curated a list of medicines for his troops, in search of tinctures and oils for dealing with the harsh environment and challenging battlegrounds, to today’s challenges of ecommerce and new products like CBD oils disrupting today’s marketplace, the concept of self-care continues to evolve.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

.” A key message of Eyeconic is their value proposition of connecting you, the patient-consumer, with a real-living doctor, not a chatbot, an app, or virtual human. As I reflected on Eyeconic and what it means for the vision consumer, I told the group about Dr. Eric Topol’s latest book, Deep Medicine ( reviewed here in Health Populi ).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2020

Paddy Padmanabhan A recent estimate by consulting firm McKinsey suggests that $250 billion in healthcare spending could shift to virtual care models in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. My work with healthcare enterprises suggests that 80-90% of all outpatient visits could become "virtualized" in some way.

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 1, 2023

1 Nurses at Seattle Children’s request management’s help in quelling violence Providence posts $310M operating loss in Q3 Swedish embarks on massive First Hill expansion UW Medicine names interim CEO Dr. Corewell Health reports 1.4%

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

Any abnormal responses or vital stats are tagged and reported to: a healthcare organization partnering with the employer, a clinician on the employer’s staff, or a human resources professional, for a referral to a COVID-19 testing site to confirm an infection and prevent spreading the virus in the workplace.

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SQA

MAY 24, 2021

Upon arriving at our hotel, altitude was getting to me a bit so I needed something for a small headache, I searched my medicine bag and grabbed the product of yet another SQA client, some Bayer aspirin which helped me ease into the evening. SQA had a fun time building our virtual booth to support the PDA Annual meeting in March.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Vincent nurses file complaints over ‘abhorrent’ conditions at for-profit hospital State to conduct cost probe of proposed Dana-Farber, Beth Israel deal Steward Health Care looking to sell 4 hospitals in Massachusetts as soon as possible Steward Health Care’s dire finances have government leaders worried about shutdowns Tufts Medicine (..)

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Hall Render

MARCH 22, 2024

To qualify, facilities must close their beds Amazon’s physician acquisition strategy As Many Hospitals Continue to Face Significant Financial Challenges, MedPAC Recommends Highest Ever Medicare Payment Update Change competitors step in but breaking up may be hard to do CMS to launch new primary care ACO program Congress unveils $1.2T

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

hospitals made America’s 250 Best list. Joe’s to buy part of big Onondaga County orthopedic surgery center for $25 million NewYork-Presbyterian nurses push back on alleged doubling of retiree healthcare costs New York hospital names 1st surgeon CEO Northwell VC arm backs company detecting emotions with AI in $12.7M

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

million center CT group fights deadly disparity in healthcare ‘Stuck’ in the emergency room: Hundreds of CT kids can’t get mental health services they need D.C. families rally behind bill to require insurance to cover infertility treatment Allina to adjust services at Mercy campuses Allina losses plummet to $352.6M, margin at -6.2%

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