Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2020

The Physicians Foundation surveyed 3,513 physicians in July 2020 on their perspectives on COVID-19 and how the pandemic has impacted practices and patients. Part 2 will cover the impact of COVID-19 on physician well-being, and Part 3, on the impact of the coronavirus on the health care system.

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Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2021

Within just a couple of months of COVID-19 emerging in America, it became clear that health disparities were evident in outcomes due to complications from the coronavirus. who had received 1 or more doses of COVID-19 vaccines by race/ethnicity were: 66% of White, non-Hispanic people (60% of U.S. In the U.S., population).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 21, 2020

However during the COVID-19 pandemic period, it became the hospital which handled the highest number of COVID-19 related patients in Thailand with a total of 6066 Patients Under Investigation (PUI) and total of 214 confirmed cases of COVID-19 at the end of May. Shortage of and rising prices of PPEs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 14, 2021

Even before COVID-19, Baptist Health, a health system based in Louisville, Kentucky, had a system-wide initiative to provide more patient-centric care, part of which included providing patient care on patients' terms. Between March and November 2020, Baptist Health enrolled 270 COVID-19 patients into its remote care program.

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Health Populi

JULY 16, 2020

The median charge for hospitalizing a patient with COVID-19 ranged from $34,662 for people 23 to 30, and $45,683 for people between 51 and 60 years of age, according to FAIR Health’s research brief, Key Characteristics of COVID-19 Patients published July 14th, 2020. One in five were diagnosed somewhere else.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 5, 2020

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jordan Valley Community Health Center in Springfield, Missouri, was facing the problem of providing quality patient care in a safe environment while most of its patient base was staying home. When COVID-19 hit, the organization was required to use telehealth in a much broader sense.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 20, 2020

The MA FQHC Telehealth Consortium needed to get telehealth right, and believed that through the consortium it could leverage collective strengths to increase telehealth training and resources to better serve Massachusetts’ most vulnerable patients and provide them with quality care during the COVID-19 crisis. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 18, 2022

What has been one digital health investment trend during the COVID-19 pandemic, and why is it important? Before COVID-19, a few companies, such as Livongo, made a splash in the digital health community by going public – Livongo in July 2019.

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Mobi Health News

AUGUST 31, 2020

More people experienced high blood pressure in response to the COVID-19 pandemic compared to before, according to new research from chronic care management company Livongo.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

HIMSS cancelled the conference just days before it was to commence… due to the great disruption of COVID-19. COVID is a terrible pandemic,” he noted as his team is, “learning our way through it. Fast forward to the COVID-19 era: an ecosystem where you take care settings outside the walls of hospitals into homes.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In The Wellness Gap , the health and wellness team at Ogilvy explores the mindsets of consumers in 14 countries to learn peoples’ perspectives on wellness brands and how COVID-19 has impacted consumers’ priorities. ” The COVID-19 crisis exacerbated consumers’ financial stress: in the U.S.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Friday found a 154% increase in telehealth visits during the last week of March 2020, compared with the same time period in 2019. " This was 50% higher than the approximately 1 million encounters during the same period in 2019.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2021

A cohort study of more than 36 million people in the United States found a dramatic increase in telehealth use during the first four months of the COVID-19 pandemic. of contacts in 2019. Rates were also higher in states with high rates of COVID-19 during the study and in urban locations. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

In 2019, Cleveland-based University Hospitals saw an opportunity to use automation and digital care technologies to improve patient engagement, clinical care and outcomes. "We put a digital screening tool in place for consumers who were concerned they had COVID-19," he continued.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 26, 2022

Incarcerated individuals need health care more than ever in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has disproportionately affected those within correctional facilities. A similar bill was introduced in the Senate in October 2019, the Equity and Pretrial Medicaid Coverage Act (S.2628). 3514) are particularly critical. 3514 and S.2628

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Sparrow Health System in Lansing, Michigan, began developing a virtual care strategy in October 2019 – well before COVID-19 struck – with the hope of leveraging the technology as a tool to support patient care and the organizational strategy, rather than as a stand-alone strategy in and of itself. – 8 a.m.)

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The Global Health Data Exchange : “The world’s most comprehensive catalog of surveys, censuses, vital statistics, and other health-related data,” including data from 1990 to 2019 on mortality and morbidity in 204 countries and territories, which spans 369 diseases, injuries, and impairments, and 87 risk factors.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

In other words, the statistics include patient portal use before the COVID-19 pandemic – and before the final rule implementing key patient access provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act. As ONC notes, these data points are from the Health Information National Trends Survey, which was fielded from January through April 2020.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

WHY IT MATTERS This week the VA announced that it is proposing to amend a regulation – the Commander John Scott Hannon Veterans Mental Healthcare Improvement Act of 2019 – to exempt all telehealth services from the law's copayment requirements.

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

During its latest earnings call, the remote care company highlighted its new offerings for enterprise customers and discussed how it's been preparing for an increase in infectious disease cases.

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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. In 2019, our providers saw 49 students. THE PROBLEM.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 27, 2021

The study compared mentions of pneumonia in the winter of 2019-2020 to those of previous winters.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

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. WHY IT MATTERS. " ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2021

That study, Who Is (and Isn't) Receiving Telemedicine Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic , adds to an already substantial body of evidence that the public health emergency is exacerbating disparities in access and use of technology-enabled healthcare. " THE LARGER TREND. Robin Kelly, D-Ill.,

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The launch of the department echoes Mount Sinai's new Institute for Digital Health in 2019. At the time, officials hoped the endeavor would "usher in a new era of digital health at Mount Sinai that advances the field of precision medicine."

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 2, 2022

One of the lasting lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic is the insidious and corrosive power of mis- and disinformation to undermine public health efforts. Fraud and the Gates foundation stand to make billions from a forced COVID vaccine!" " "Dr. " "Behind every rushed drug in history is a trail of death."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Although a new report suggests that the healthcare industry slightly improved its security posture this year compared to last, it warns that increased provider reliance on telehealth since the COVID-19 pandemic now presents a new slate of risks to patient data. WHY IT MATTERS. "However. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

As the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a massive uptick in telehealth use around the country, hard-hit nursing homes also turned to the tool to try and keep patients safe. A University of Missouri study published this past week found that the turn to virtual care reduced stress for residents and helped increase access to services.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 13, 2021

In 2019, Google showed that artificial intelligence can detect lung cancer more accurately than radiologists with eight years of experience. And last year, a COVID-19 vaccine was researched, developed and deployed almost four years ahead of the normal timeline for a new vaccine. "That same year, FDA approved smart pills.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 5, 2022

These programmes – National University Health System’s NUHS @ Home, Singapore General Hospital’s SGH @ Home and Yishun Health Medical Home – are now providing eligible patients with general medical conditions, such as skin infections, urinary tract infections, and COVID-19, with an option to be admitted to a virtual ward.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 2, 2020

Despite the uncertainty of COVID-19, funding deals during the last three months were generally on par with those of Q1 2020 and Q2 2019.

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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. The survey was conducted online in June 2020 among 2,074 U.S. adults ages 50 to 80 years of age. AARP sponsored the poll.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has been an eye-opener for what really matters in both personal and professional life. 19 Telehealth opportunities and remote care options can create a variety of these touchpoints in a personalized and case-specific way, ranging from an overview of patient consultations to implantable cardiac monitors.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 15, 2022

For instance, in 2019, the AMA urged Congress to remove the very caps on Medicare-funded residency slots it helped create. Indeed, in 2020 and 2021, the AMA touted more advocacy efforts related to scope of practice that it did for any other issue — including COVID-19. But the AMA has held out in one important respect.

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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 7, 2021

might be finally turning a corner in the COVID-19 pandemic. Overall, the COVID-19 pandemic has catapulted the importance of data analytics and data in general, said Lupu of Sanford Health. The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said recently that the U.S. " Dr. Roxana Lupu, Sanford Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 5, 2021

A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network Open found that while telehealth grew across surgical specialties in response to the COVID-10 pandemic, rates have declined as in-person care resumed. It's fairly clear, then, that the astronomic rise in telehealth rates extended to surgical specialties.

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