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The next investment priorities for telehealth, RPM and connected health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

When it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic and health IT, if there's just one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that telehealth has gone mainstream. Thanks to new regulations from the government and subsequent new rules from commercial payers, telemedicine services are being reimbursed.

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Consumers’ Embrace of Digital Health Tech Stalls, and Privacy Concerns Prevail – Accenture’s 2020 Research

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Millions of dollars and developers’ time have been invested in conceiving and making digital health tools. Use of mobile apps to track personal health activity fell from nearly 1 in 2 consumers to 1 in 3. Use of wearable tech nearly halved, from 33% to 18%, between 2018 and 2020.

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WVU Medicine uses $781K grant to greatly boost telehealth to rural patients

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The state is 24,320 square miles and is the only state located entirely in the area known as Appalachia, which faces gaps in educational achievement, employment and income as well as a variety of negative health consequences compared with the rest of the country. These services also are limited in scope. THE PROBLEM.

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CIOs at children's hospitals share lessons from a year of turmoil

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

creating all kinds of chaos for CIOs and other health IT leaders to contend with. These executives include: Lisa Grisim, RN, vice president and associate CIO, Stanford Children's Health, Palo Alto, California. ( @LisaGrisim ). This latest feature story has a special focus: children's hospitals. Adaptive and agile teamwork.

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A deep dive into PrimaryOne Health's virtual care journey

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

PrimaryOne Health is a federally qualified health center located in Central Ohio and is one of the largest FQHCs in the state. PrimaryOne Health provides comprehensive primary and preventive healthcare services in accordance with the U.S.

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How a single COVID-19 telehealth grant will help one provider for years to come

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

From the time Burrell Behavioral Health in Springfield, Missouri, received initial reports of the COVID-19 pandemic reaching the surrounding areas, clients and staff members became concerned about their physical health and wellbeing. " Darren Johnson, Burrell Behavioral Health. THE PROBLEM. PROPOSAL.

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UPMC CMIO talks telehealth's new normal, EHR workflow, pharmacogenomics and more

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

We were one of those organizations that flipped over to telemedicine pretty seamlessly. We probably had about 3,000 people who were authenticated to deliver and use our telemedicine platform. During the last two weeks of March in 2020 plan and the first two weeks of April, we went up to about 16,000.