Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 16, 2025

The most recent extension of COVID-19 flexibilities for prescribing runs through 2025. They have said that the agency has a responsibility to create one under the 2018 Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act or SUPPORT Act.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The California Consumer Privacy Act, passed in 2018, aims to give consumers more control over their online personal information. After interviewing 19 digital privacy and information system experts, researchers found that professionals perceived legal and technological challenges for healthcare organizations in complying with CCPA.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2020

million more to aid COVID-19 telehealth deployment as part of its $200 million aid program for qualifying providers. Nearly half of physicians are now using telehealth technology , up from just 18% in 2018, according to a nationwide survey of 842 physicians conducted by physician search firm Merritt Hawkins.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 7, 2021

It's no secret, at this point, that telehealth rates exploded in response to the COVID-19 crisis. "No one could have predicted COVID-19, so it is no surprise that all vendors initially struggled to manage the rapid increase in telehealth adoption," said KLAS researchers. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

" The agency said in the data brief it used HINTS to assess progress in patient access amidst the implementation of Cures Rule provisions during the COVID-19 pandemic, "which likely increased demand for access to online medical records." in 2018 and 25.6%

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 13, 2020

A qualitative RAND Corporation study finds that psychiatrists offering telemedicine for the first time during the COVID-19 pandemic have had largely positive perceptions of the transition. Before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, a variety of logistical and regulatory hurdles prevented many psychiatrists from using telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 5, 2020

Before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, Greene County General Hospital in Linton, Indiana, faced challenges in providing access to care because the area has transportation barriers. When COVID-19 flared up, Greene County General faced a whole new set of challenges. THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 17, 2020

These symptoms included anxiety disorder, depressive disorder, COVID-19 related trauma- or stress-related disorder (TSRD), substance use (either starting or increasing), and serious consideration of suicide in the past 30 days. reported COVID-19 related trauma- or stress-related disorder (TSRD). adults 18 and over.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network compared patient messaging among ambulatory physicians before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, finding they were mostly documenting visits and not messaging patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 19, 2020

A 2018 study found that loneliness is closely associated with depression and suicidal ideation among veterans in primary care. For veterans in high-risk groups such as seniors or people with disabilities the distancing measures necessitated by the COVID-19 crisis may be exacerbating existing feelings of isolation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 15, 2021

In 2018, Tanner Health launched a telemedicine program using vendor InTouch Health's technologies. In addition, an important benefit of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic is that it enables Tanner providers to treat patients while maintaining physical separation, thereby minimizing the risk of further transmission.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 5, 2021

The children live nationwide but the focus is on areas heavily impacted by COVID-19, such as the Northeast and the central and southeastern U.S. Transplant activity at UPMC Children's Hospital was able to be safely maintained during the COVID-19 pandemic. THE PROBLEM. " RESULTS.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 16, 2023

COVID-19 forced Oak Orchard Health, a health system based in Brockport, New York, to change the way it did almost everything at its health centers – beginning with its inability to see patients face to face. THE PROBLEM But services were needed more than ever.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Patients have largely reported satisfaction with telehealth services amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, with a few particular companies making recurring appearances in the higher rankings. Meanwhile, Teladoc faced early COVID-19 hiccups, but recovered, despite "struggles to scale" on its Teladoc Health Licensed Platform.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Before COVID-19, this was in the form of weekly, in-person group therapy. In November 2018, Groups Recover Together's clinic operations in Northern California were forced to shift to virtual care as the Camp Fire wildfires in Butte County displaced most members and staff. THE PROBLEM. Addiction is a disease of isolation.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2021

These dynamics and these young health citizens’ coping mechanisms are captured in the report, Coping with COVID-19: How Young People Use Digital Media to Manage Their Mental Health. The first chart details what younger people, ages 14 to 22, searched online in 2018 compared with 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 26, 2020

As the COVID-19 crisis has made evident, telehealth can be a useful tool to help connect patients with services remotely. Throughout 2018 and 2019, Northwell Health piloted small-scale programs in partnership with the Gary and Mary West Health Institute Collaboration to bring medical services virtually to the homes of their patients.

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Mobi Health News

AUGUST 24, 2020

This brings Castor's total funding to over $18 million, following an earlier investment from INKEF Capital in 2018. Two Sigma Ventures led the round with participation from Hambrecht Ducera Growth Ventures and existing investor INKEF Capital. WHAT IT DOES

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2021

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the team had begun to roll out a telehealth program aimed at helping patients access care without having to leave their residences. PHP has seen significant outcomes after implementing its telehealth program, with both hospital admissions and emergency room visits decreasing since 2018.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 7, 2022

As the letter outlines, during the COVID-19 public health emergency, the DEA waived the prior in-person evaluation requirement for patients being prescribed controlled substances via telehealth. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 27, 2021

According to court documents, the defendants set up a telemedicine scheme in which one company, HealthRight, solicited insurance coverage information and prescriptions from consumers across the country from 2015 through 2018. Like Smith, Roix could be sentenced to up to 10 years in prison. Attorney J. Douglas Overbey in a statement.

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APRIL 19, 2022

However, since the COVID-19 pandemic, the health system shifted its focus to telehealth, seeing a greater than 2,000% increase in virtual patient encounters. Lastly, several providers at Geisinger were asked to self-quarantine due to potential exposure to a COVID-19 positive patient. " RESULTS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

In the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, connected health and RPM are more important than ever, because they enable physicians to monitor patients without having to come into contact with them, thus preventing the spread of the novel coronavirus.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 20, 2020

Las Vegas-based CarePointe and Tempe, Arizona-based USHS, founded in 2015 and 2018, respectively, bring data-driven care-coordination tools to the table, which help value-based organizations lower costs and boost quality. Actionable Intelligence. Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN. Email the writer: mike.miliard@himssmedia.com.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 1, 2020

In 2018, the FCC developed new rules to help accommodate that increase in demand: Increasing the annual program funding cap for the first time in the Rural Health Care Program's history. "In 2018, the FCC took swift action to ensure that the Rural Health Care Program better reflected the needs of and advances in connected care.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Workers’ earnings increased 27% in the period and inflation, 19%. In 2020, KFF found that 89% of large companies offered a telemedicine benefit, compared with 82% in 2019 and 74% in 2018. 2018 – As Workers’ Healthcare Costs Increase, Employers Look to Telehealth and Wearable Tech to Manage Cost & Health Risks.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

in September 2018. "Research conducted over the past year illustrated telehealth's role in allowing patients to retain access to care during the COVID-19 pandemic," wrote Carol K. ON THE RECORD. Kane, AMA's director of economic and health policy research.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 25, 2022

Medicaid Expenditures and Estimated Rebates on Line Extension Drugs, 2010-2018. 2022 Feb 19. Emergency Use Authorizations of COVID-19-Related Medical Products. New EU regulation on health technology assessment of cancer medicines. Lancet Oncol. 2022 Feb;23(2):e58. PMID: 35114127. Hwang TJ, Feng J, Maini L, Kesselheim AS.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

.” The study of older Americans found that, About 60% believe their cell phone has made them feel more connected to family/friends during the COVID-19 pandemic. 43% of older adults use their cell phone more frequently than before COVID-19.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2020

Since 2018, the American Society for Clinical Pathology's Partners for Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Initiative has used MoticFlow to connect hospitals, primarily in Africa, with pathology experts in the United States. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2022

In 2018, Maimonides' leadership established digital health as a strategic priority for the medical center. "It is impossible to describe what came next without the context of COVID-19," Cimino said. THE PROBLEM. At the time, Maimonides was not engaged in any telemedicine or other digital health initiatives.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2020

“Digital transformation” was the mantra for all industries before we heard about the COVID-19 virus. had adopted wearable technology for health tracking, a nearly 50% decline from 2019 (from 33% in 2018 to 18% in late 2019). The pandemic drove U.S. consumers were not confident their data would be appropriately used.

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Bill of Health

JULY 20, 2022

decline in inpatient utilization (partially reflecting the sharp 2020 drop in overall hospital utilization due to COVID-19). According to the Health Cost Institute, from 2016 to 2020, overall inpatient hospital spending increased 5.4%, driven by a 24.6% increase in hospital prices and offset by a 15.4%

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 2, 2022

The Stony Brook Medicine health system, which, before COVID-19, had already grown from a two-hospital system to a four-hospital system with the inclusion of Eastern Long Island Hospital and Southampton Hospital, reflects a diverse and geographically widespread patient population of more than 1.4 Accelerating adoption of the technology.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2021

From 2010 to 2018, emissions from the U.S. "Prior to the pandemic, despite rising total visit volume, transportation-associated emissions were already declining due to a greater proportion of telehealth visits," observed the researchers. WHY IT MATTERS. healthcare industry increased by 6 percent.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In 2018, it made strategic moves to more easily meet the needs of its patients and communities by investing in telehealth. Then COVID-19 emerged. City of Hope, based near Los Angeles, is a research and treatment organization for cancer, diabetes and other life-threatening diseases. THE PROBLEM.

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