HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Achieving health equity presents an urgent challenge that demands attention from all stakeholders. However, actual medical care accounts for 20% or less of what affects population health. There is no readily available database on the disease burden by population segment.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Population health management has become an important competency for hospitals and health systems. What are some of the challenges facing successful population health management programs today? More and more organizations are looking for ways to improve the health of the populations they serve.

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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 will not address the growing doctor and nursing shortage.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 29, 2022

An immediate effort was required to change all of our physician practices over to telemedicine visits right away. Physicians who were previously resistant to telemedicine and mobility solutions immediately began using their iPads and mobile phones to communicate with their patients so they could also be safe. So much is changing.

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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. The doctor creates the report, and parents must consent to its verification by a specific elementary school or multiple educational institutions.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services. In 2019, J.D.

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CiscoHealth

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

there will be a predicted shortage of 122,000 doctors by 2032. And in Europe, they could face a shortage of 230,000 doctors by next year. In Germany, this is becoming more critical because doctors are migrating to other countries, such as Switzerland, where they are offered higher salaries and more benefits. In the U.S.,

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Doctors Telemedicine Primary Care Population Health 59

HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Although many companies had plans on the books to advance telemedicine, the crisis revealed that virtual care is not only possible but in many cases is also preferred by patients. Say you have a virtual checkup, and your doctor orders a blood test. About Larry English.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

In September 2020, PwC surveyed consumers with employer-sponsored health insurance about their preferred locations to receive a COVID-19 vaccine within one year of its approval. Sites included: “My” doctor’s office, favored by more people who were White or Asian, and those 45 years or older. population health burden.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

As the healthcare world continues to rapidly adopt telemedicine, move toward value-based care, and combat rising pharmacy costs, HLTH 2022 will showcase digital health companies that embrace those trends: medication management solutions, telemedicine services, and population health analytics. In so doing, the U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 29, 2022

DG has been exploring its health-and-wellness offerings and has enlisted four physicians to advise the company’s strategy. One of the advisors, Dr. Von Nguyen, is the Clinical Lead of Public and Population Health at Google… tying back to yesterday’s post on Tech Giants in Healthcare.

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Health Populi

JUNE 15, 2023

Uber Health was established in 2018, by now amassing over 3,000 health care clients including Boston Medical Center which has leveraged Uber Health transportation to streamline sickle cell patients’ transport to doctors’ appointments, bolstering outcomes and families’ quality of life.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 21, 2018

Just this week, JAMA features a Viewpoint column titled, How Disruptive Innovation by Business and Technology Firms Could Improve Population Health. They said that the technologies that would have the largest disruptive impact would be telemedicine, artificial intelligence, interoperability, and data analytics.

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Sheppard Health Law

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In July 2022, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a Special Fraud Alert alerting practitioners to exercise caution when entering into arrangements with telemedicine companies. Particularly in the era following the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision of Dobbs v.

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Health Data Regulations Medicare Telemedicine 52

Twistle

JULY 9, 2021

Over the past year we’ve experienced the important role of telemedicine in monitoring and managing patient health and wellness. And, when expanded across service lines, can help build a data-driven strategy for improving overall population health. Scheduling challenges resulting in delayed appointments and follow-ups.

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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 It News

AUGUST 7, 2023

The expansion allows for people to start the cycle of primary care treatment and follow up on other treatment options that their doctor or primary provider has recommended for them, without having to worry about high costs, deductibles or transportation issues.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

CHIME is convening its first advocacy summit, seeking to promote the role of technology in health care and to motivate CIOs to be their own best advocates. Leslie Krigstein comes to the health IT policy arena both as the VP of CHIME for congressional affairs and as a family member of a cancer patient.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

CHIME is convening its first advocacy summit, seeking to promote the role of technology in health care and to motivate CIOs to be their own best advocates. Leslie Krigstein comes to the health IT policy arena both as the VP of CHIME for congressional affairs and as a family member of a cancer patient.

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Healthcare Healthcare Innovation Telemedicine Prevention 60

Vie Healthcare

JANUARY 28, 2022

Patients receiving JOGO treatment show better health outcomes than patients receiving standard treatments. Overcoming patient challenges with telemedicine, and the role of health coaches. Absolutely, Lisa, so, you know, telemedicine, although it sounds cool and nice, there’re a lot of challenges, right?

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Vie Healthcare

JANUARY 28, 2022

Patients receiving JOGO treatment show better health outcomes than patients receiving standard treatments. Overcoming patient challenges with telemedicine, and the role of health coaches. Absolutely, Lisa, so, you know, telemedicine, although it sounds cool and nice, there’re a lot of challenges, right?

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Physical Therapy Telemedicine Hospitals Healthcare 52

HIT Consultant

APRIL 7, 2023

Additionally, digitized health records have been used to make patient information more easily accessible, first to meet Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and HITECH mandates, and now, increasingly, to meet the 21st Century Cures Act ‘Final Rule’ mandate, requiring timely and standardized access to all patient data.

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