Healthcare It News

JUNE 20, 2022

Hopefully the Congress and state legislatures will act soon to ensure the temporary reimbursement expansions for telemedicine will continue after the public health emergency ends. We have heard from doctors who say that thanks to virtual rounding, they get more done and see more patients by not having to walk miles through hospital hallways.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

is "aging and stretched thin," with the country needing "thousands more primary care doctors." How exactly can telemedicine help solve each of these challenges? Please describe in detail an example of a patient receiving chronic care management via your company's telemedicine and the outcomes achieved.

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Healthcare Success

MAY 31, 2022

According to Avalere Health , nearly three in four doctors work for a hospital, health system, or corporate entity today. What’s more, female consumers are even more interested in consumer feedback, with almost 80% of women saying they read patient reviews before considering a new doctor. In other words, only 26.1%

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 13, 2021

We can save so much money and time that's going into healthcare if we take full advantage of the telehealth and telemedicine tools. Thursday, you go to a library telehealth kiosk for the doctor appointment because the doctor wants to review large files from the lab work with you and your home Internet connection is too slow.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 13, 2023

Pharmacies in America were once little more than glorified convenience stores, where one could pick up anything from dishwashing detergent to a Twix bar (and stop and get their medication at the same time), but they are moving to a more integral role in the American healthcare system.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Doctors remotely manage patient data without being tied to a specific medical facility. This became possible thanks to electronic health records, telemedicine, and cloud solutions. Technologies, laws, standards, and people contributing to data solutions are integral to this process. Pay only for the resources you use.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Rural communities may lack easy access to preventive care and screenings. Doctors have no access to data about the social determinants of health, hampering their ability to tailor care to patients. It’s not a stretch to say that your phone knows more about many of these key factors than your doctor. The costs are astronomical.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

One national telehealth organization covering 2,000 hospitals and 81,000 doctors, for example, experienced an 86% decrease in time needed to complete the patient onboarding process, and 92% of providers said they expect to continue video visits post-pandemic. It is the largest integrated health care system in the U.S.,

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

"Patients open up to Eleanor, often telling her things they won't even tell their doctor – but she can also detect worsening medical conditions from what they're not saying, too, including falls risk, behavioral health issues and more," Sahgal noted.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The classic example is the explosion in telemedicine, which was advanced by the need for remote care during lockdown. When the pandemic ends, 73% of physicians plan to use telehealth for chronic disease management, 64% for medical management, 60% for care coordination and 53% for preventative care. Patients, doctors like telehealth.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2020

“Delaying procedures, reducing spending on preventive care and chronic care, and decreasing adherence to medications may have negative long-term impacts on health status, although the extent is unknown,” PwC notes. 34% “thought twice” before asking their doctor for a prescription when they felt sick.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

hours/ day to serve their patients if they followed the national recommended guidelines for preventive and chronic care. Virtual visits that don’t solve capacity challenges or integrate into existing workflows need to change. It’s integral to physical health and should be treated as such. Mark Engelen, CEO of RXLive.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Michael Gorton, CEO of Recuro Health Telemedicine has helped improve the quality of life of patients in every corner of the world and has been successfully utilized to provide convenient care to people with limited or no access to health services. It has been a remarkable journey for the innovators who pioneered telemedicine.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

These include the use of online patient portals (for 57% of clinicians) along with digital devices and mobile apps that integrate with the EHR as well as health patients manage their health in self-care mode, shown in the bar chart labeled Figure 7. The post Post-Pandemic, U.S.

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Twistle

JULY 9, 2021

Over the past year we’ve experienced the important role of telemedicine in monitoring and managing patient health and wellness. When RPM data is integrated with patient engagement software, patients can receive real-time feedback, coaching, and encouragement. Increased Patient Knowledge. trillion in annual health care costs.

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Sheppard Health Law

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

If implemented, these proposals would incentivize payers and providers alike to track health data carefully, document reimbursements accurately, and take on a more proactive approach to improving health, signaling another trend towards preventive care. Particularly in the era following the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision of Dobbs v.

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Icanotes

MARCH 9, 2022

Mental health parity provides a sense of equality for those seeking medical treatment in the form of telemedicine. If a patient has an insurance plan with parity that would grant them unlimited medical visits in person, they have the right to equal treatment and care for their condition through telemedicine and telehealth.

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The Beryl Institute

OCTOBER 19, 2020

In recent days, with two teenagers who are back in school, I have started to catch up on scheduling their doctors’ visits, dentist checkups and orthodontist appointments that have been suspended these last few months. We have also seen providers deferring elective and preventative visits.

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Health Care Success

MARCH 22, 2022

However, I’d argue patient engagement also includes patients motivated to go beyond mere learning and instead take action in their own lives to make healthy lifestyle choices, prioritize wellness, and take advantage of preventive health services. This is about how we deliver quality care.”. Top 9 Patient Engagement Trends for 2022.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

This observation has not gone unnoticed by both new entrants and existing industry stakeholders such as health plans and pharmacies, many of which have added health care to their core businesses or have been vertically integrating their health care portfolios.

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Health Populi

JULY 13, 2020

Informing integrated communication, decisions, and processes. The top areas garnering greatest net positive responses for technology impacts were information management and sharing; quality of care; prevention; and satisfaction, closely followed by efficiency. Capturing and sharing interoperable and transparent data.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

But the road to implementing effective pop health strategies is laden with challenges: monitoring chronic illness rates and preventing community transmission, triaging emergencies over routine health care circumstances, and executing preventive services all require providers to alter their traditional fee-for-service workflow.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

hospitals and health systems have very quickly deployed a lot of telemedicine systems to take care of patients during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. As such, providers are starting to give more thought to their telemedicine technology deployments. During the last two years, U.S.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Issues including telemedicine, and the issues we discussed in this conversation, are all important issues, per Leslie, for CIOs to work on as they get engaged in the policy arena, and as they work collectively “to ensure that technology can be as great an asset as possible in improving healthcare.”.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Issues including telemedicine, and the issues we discussed in this conversation, are all important issues, per Leslie, for CIOs to work on as they get engaged in the policy arena, and as they work collectively “to ensure that technology can be as great an asset as possible in improving healthcare.”

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 30, 2022

Telemedicine has allowed specialists to deliver care for some patients who might otherwise have difficulty in accessing care. As a subset of telemedicine, RPM picked up steam in the past two years as more patients and providers were looking for more impactful and convenient ways to receive and deliver care.

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Healthcare Success

MAY 24, 2022

Doctors tell patients that an ounce of prevention beats a pound of cure. The best healthcare marketing plans integrate multi-channel, highly-targeted, and specific online and offline efforts to drive growth and engagement. How does your practice reach potential referring doctors? The same holds true for marketing.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Dan Brillman, CEO of Unite Us, and Melissa Sherry, vice president of social care integration at Unite Us, offer Healthcare IT News readers insights into how these and other challenges are likely to be handled in 2023. Q: The role of telemedicine is shifting. What are your predictions here for 2023?

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 16, 2023

Racial Bias in AI Algorithms: Since AI is frequently used in healthcare, it needs to be used with a code of ethics to prevent bias. As more digital medication management solutions gain FDA approval, there is an increased opportunity to integrate digital support as part of the medication process and reduce medication abandon rates.

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Healthcare Success

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Inspire your audience into action with unique and engaging campaigns that promote things like preventive care or address your most frequently asked questions. Take the leap with integrated marketing . Convenience Implement telemedicine services if you haven’t already. Add staff recruitment into the marketing budget.

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Vie Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

As Thomas asks, according to CDC data, patients only spend 15 hours in front of doctors in any given year, ‘’What happens to the other 8,745 hours?… They only spend 15 hours in a given year in front of their doctor. They see nine different doctors in a given year. His expertise is virtual care. I appreciate it.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

The heart has been a digital health focus at CES for several years as sensors got added to wristworn activity trackers and mobile apps married to medical technologies that were once only available for use in a doctor’s office or outpatient clinic. Home as hospital.

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