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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Bill of Health

JANUARY 10, 2022

As the National Academy of Sciences explained in a 2019 report , these two medications reduce risk of death by up to 50 percent and are associated with numerous other benefits, including improved quality of life, reduced rates of use of other opioids, and reduced risk of contracting illnesses including HIV and hepatitis C.

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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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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 - Telehealth

JULY 18, 2022

"In 2019, UVA Health created a multi-stakeholder strategic plan for telemedicine." UVA Health's response to COVID-19 has been multipronged. Pre-COVID-19 programs focused on specialty care access. "We were forced to teach and train our partners from a distance. '" PROPOSAL.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 24, 2023

Contrary to perception, access to broadband and mobile phones are not the greatest barrier to digital health among Medicaid recipients. The COVID-19 pandemic flipped the role of telehealth delivery from an afterthought to a primary consideration in many cases. population.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 19, 2020

" “Telehealth has been instrumental in connecting patients and health care professionals during COVID-19. "COVID is not the great equalizer," Smith said, pointing out that communities of color have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic. Tina Smith, D-Minn., Bill Cassidy, R-La.,

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Health Populi

JULY 30, 2020

it’s clear that COVID-19 has wreaked a greater mortality and morbidity impact on people of color than on white adults. A new Gallup-West Health poll found that the coronavirus also concerns more non-white Americans than whites when it comes to the cost of health care and medicines to deal with the effects of COVID-19.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 6, 2020

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) took additional actions to ensure America’s patients, healthcare facilities and clinical laboratories are prepared to respond to the 2019-Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

He said that in January 2019 – more than a year before the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated, in short order, an even bigger, more sustained and more widespread scaling up of virtual care services than could ever have been imagined two years ago. How to navigate a new policy landscape.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2022

It is Brooklyn's tertiary care hub serving diverse communities with large Medicaid, Medicare and uninsured populations. "By late 2019, we created a definition of digital health to differentiate our responsibilities from those of our colleagues in IT and marketing, with whom we collaborate to align objectives, assets and resources.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 25, 2022

Anticipated efficiencies, real costs: Medicaid managed care organizations and the pharmacy benefit. US Food and Drug Administration-mandated postmarketing studies for high-risk cardiovascular devices approved 2015-2019. A full posting of abstracts/summaries of these articles may be found on our website. Bendicksen L, Kesselheim AS.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 7, 2020

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has delivered near $34 billion in the past week to the healthcare providers on the frontlines battling the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited.

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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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Health Populi

JUNE 23, 2023

A critical insight that’s quite clear from this chart from the report is that deaths from preventable and treatable causes substantially rose especially in certain states between 2019 and 2021 in the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic. “Women faced particularly severe challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2022

The second bar chart illustrates the per member/per month (PMPM) spend for commercially insured workers, showing growth of over 7% from 2018 to 2019, and nearly 7% drop from 2019 to 2020 in the first year of the pandemic. from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019 to 1.29

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Caravan Health President and CEO Tim Gronniger previously was chief of staff and director of delivery system reform at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. In 2019 and 2020, its partners earned $300 million in Medicare savings, more than $120 million in shared savings, and quality scores exceeding 97%, the company reported.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 11, 2024

Hoping payers will 'step up' On the payer side, ONC said it worked closely with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in creating voluntary certification requirements, for "greater assuredness that systems that go through that certification process will actually be able to interoperate with the provider organizations.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Census Bureau found that the level of health insurance enrollment fell by 1 million people in 2019 , with about 30 million Americans not covered by health insurance. Nearly 7 million Americans lost health coverage due to COVID-19, a national survey from Civis Analytics found, in The State of Health Insurance in COVID-19 America.

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McBrayer Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Posted In COVID-19 , Health Care Fraud , Healthcare Regulation , Telehealth The shift to telemedicine in the United States predates the pandemic, but COVID-19 has accelerated its widespread use.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has only served to exacerbate the issue – throughout the past year, eating disorders surged 70% and hospital admissions have doubled. In 2019, Kristina Saffran and Dr. Erin Parks founded Equip, with a dream of making sure that everyone had access to evidence-based treatment for eating disorders.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2021

TRU Community Care, based in Lafayette, Colorado, had a vision for incorporating a telehealth/remote patient monitoring program: to meet the needs of patients in the new Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services "Seriously Ill Population" (SIP) program. THE PROBLEM. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT. Email the writer: bsiwicki@himss.org.

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Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2022

Here for 2022, the second chart tracks the “stark toll” of the COVID-19 pandemic and the excess deaths experienced for each state since the pandemic emerged in February 2020. deaths per 100,000 population between 2019 and 2020. The overall death rates for this scenario increased from 83.8

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 27, 2022

COVID-19 transformed the delivery of care, making the use of telehealth tools highly beneficial – and a priority area for research. Also recently, you published a study that found the unprecedented availability of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic did not lead to an increase in unnecessary primary care sessions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 29, 2022

With a shortage of physicians to address the growing need for care, a lack of providers who accept Medicaid, and access issues due to transportation or office hour challenges, healthcare organizations are looking to technology to help bridge the gap. Addressing the increasing need for behavioral health services is a nationwide challenge.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

View Point Health, based in Lawrenceville, Georgia, is a community behavioral health agency serving individuals with Medicaid and uninsured and under-insured individuals. As such, it has limited resources to purchase new equipment and devices for telemedicine and also experiences limited functionality and features in its existing technology.

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Healthcare Law Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

On April 1, 2022 , the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) announced states may seek to extend Medicaid postpartum coverage from 60 days to one year through a new state plan option offered by the American Rescue Plan Act (“ARPA”). In states that have not expanded Medicaid, however, many postpartum women lose coverage.

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Health Care Law Brief

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Although the COVID-19 pandemic is still active worldwide, health care industry leaders and regulators have already begun to think about how to implement post-pandemic changes to health care delivery based on lessons learned during the global emergency of the past year and a half.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Children in America were increasingly struggling with mental health before COVID-19, but the pandemic compounded an already growing crisis. get their health coverage through Medicaid, this is absolutely essential to ensure healthcare equity. Today in the U.S., nearly one in five children experience a mental health disorder.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

As the public health emergency of COVID is ending, state regulations are changing and fortunately telepsychiatry will still exist as part of a hybrid model. When telepsychiatry was first in higher demand due to COVID, it is estimated in February 2019, 4% of survey respondents indicated using telehealth services.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 26, 2023

Nationwide Discretion Announced during the COVID-19 Pandemic During the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare providers had to deal with a nationwide public health crisis, the likes of which had never been seen before.

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Hall Render

JULY 18, 2022

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has given itself an extra year to review and assess skilled nursing facility proposed regulations issued in 2019. Since the beginning of the COVID?19 Areas Addressed in 2019 Proposed Rule. Background. Extra Time.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2021

On the consumer demand side, patients’ growing use of telehealth in the COVID-19 pandemic along with more frequent digital contacts with health plans bolstered member satisfaction, discovered by t he J.D. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, 60% of providers told BDO they are adding new digital projects in 2021.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

COVID-19 forced healthcare organizations to make a huge leap forward in their digital transformation roadmaps. – Investment in the digital health space in the first half of 2021 reached nearly $15 billion , surpassing 2020 and doubling the amount in 2019. Larry English, President & cofounder of Centric Consulting.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

As the COVID-19 pandemic has proved, having sufficient hospital bed capacity can mean the difference between life or death. In 2019, nearly 30 million people across the U.S. Even in large cities like Houston, hospital closures can lead to hospital deserts. Hospital Bed Deserts. visited an HRSA health center.

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HIPAA Journal

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently conducted a review of Medicare telehealth services provided during the COVID-19 pandemic, when a waiver was in place that greatly expanded access to telehealth and virtual visits. Between April and December 2019, 5 million Medicare telehealth visits were conducted.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 24, 2022

More recently, with COVID-19 infiltrating every aspect of the healthcare system, telehealth use is proving to be another example of the 80/20 rule – or, the law of small numbers – at work. the chronically ill) driving the majority of care utilization and costs. And it brings up some pointed questions: 1.

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