Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Digital health and digital front doors can be an effective means of providing any patient with access to a medical or mental health care provider, removing barriers by allowing patients to connect via phone, chat, video or even asynchronously. And with care available on demand, no appointment is necessary.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Through telemedicine. After so much care went online during COVID-19, patients of all ages and backgrounds have completed a crash course in virtual care – and they are liking the results. Sidel’s background includes working in clinical environments of behavioral health, primary care and quality improvement.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 12, 2025

However, this generally conflicts with CMS requirements for 24-hour nursing care availability. In February, the in-home care advocacy group Moving Health Home sent a letter to Congress urging a five-year extension for the waiver. The funding patch includes limited health care extensions and funding.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 21, 2022

The New York-based MedArrive is an at-home care provider and coordinator. It works with health systems and health plans to enable at-home care, leveraging non-traditional workers on the way, such as emergency medical services (EMS) professionals. And then from here, it’s about what more we can do. Telehealth 1.0

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 3, 2023

" The company says the HIPAA-compliant system can help patients avoid the skyrocketing costs of assisted living and in-home care and help address caregiver shortages, and claims the virtual caregiver offers better oversight and care coordination. "It's kind of like an extra person in the house.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 3, 2025

” Inside the model The initial joint venture, Home Recovery Care LLC, provided all essential components of inpatient hospital care within the home through telemedicine, in-home providers and comprehensive care management oversight.

Hospitals 111

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Home Health Care

APRIL 11, 2023

The at-home care startup MedArrive has raised $8 million more in funding, the company announced Tuesday. MedArrive partners with both providers and payers to enable care services in the home. To do so, it leverages EMS professionals as well as physician-led telemedicine.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Much more than mere video chats, telehealth uses intranets and the internet networks to observe, diagnose, initiate or otherwise medically intervene, administer, monitor, record, and/or report on the continuum of care people receive when ill, injured or wanting to stay well.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Through the program, which recently kicked off in Charlotte, North Carolina, Bright Health is tapping MedArrive’s network of highly skilled EMS professionals within the community to conduct in-home preventive health visits coupled with physician-led telemedicine oversight to improve outcomes for more than 10,000 new members.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 20, 2022

Telehealth opens up many new avenues to expand access to care, streamline the delivery of care, create new workflows and improve patient outcomes. Hopefully the Congress and state legislatures will act soon to ensure the temporary reimbursement expansions for telemedicine will continue after the public health emergency ends.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

What You Should Know: – Home care startup MedArrive raises $25M in Series A funding led by Section 32 to accelerate platform buildout, network expansion to bring affordable at-home care to vulnerable populations across the country. In-Person, At Home, On-Demand. With 40% of U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

But the big growth areas were for live video telemedicine, wearable tech, and digital health tracking. This represents a shift more to “me care” in 2020 with the sharp uptake of digital platforms and wearable tech.

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Health Populi

MARCH 30, 2021

Looking at the disruptive oval (grey), see telemedicine broken into physical and mental — with intent to use physical telemedicine post-COVID-19 among 50% of U.S. User growth rates for both telemedicine segments are forecasted over 60%. consumers, and for mental/behavioral health by some 54% of people.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 5, 2022

Behavioural Health and Telemedicine: The Behavioural Health subsector was down 18.4% Telemedicine leader Teladoc tumbled 54% in the quarter as the pandemic continues to subside and patients are no longer sheltering in place, electing instead to partake in in-person visits. The proposed changes would reduce the conversion factor by 4.4%

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Health Populi

MAY 5, 2021

A closer look at this activity points to a key trend that will persist post-pandemic: that telehealth and the broader theme of virtual care is re-shaping how health care is delivered. This graphic comes out of my current thinking about telehealth across the continuum of care.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

“Yes,” we concurred on our session convened by the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) EDGE session today. We covered, The theory that telemedicine should increase health equity — where are we and what are the barriers to getting there? Understanding the health inequities borne by “telemedicine.

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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.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The New York State Health Home program is designed for the neediest Medicaid patients and aims to reduce overall healthcare costs by decreasing inpatient costs (and utilization) by addressing social determinants of health such as housing, transportation and food. THE PROBLEM. All of this will be applied to healthcare."

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2023

The fast-growing adoption of telemedicine and remote patient monitoring from the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic led to hospitals and health systems launching new or expanding existing virtual care programs to accommodate a new reality for work-flow and patient care.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Abo-Hamzy sat down with Home Health Care News to talk about the emerging home-based care models that will be driving the health care-to-home trend in the future. Ultimately, I believe home care represents the future of health care. What drew you to this industry? Empowering.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2019

“ATA” is the new three-letter acronym for the American Telemedicine Association, meeting today through Tuesday at the Convention Center in New Orleans. Ann Mond Johnson assumed the helm of CEO of ATA in 2018, and she’s issued a call-to-action across the health/care ecosystem for a delivery system upgrade.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Doximity’s second report on telemedicine explores both physicians’ and patients’ views on virtual care, finding most doctors and health consumers on the same page of virtual care adoption. Telemedicine use did not vary much across physician age groups.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

That care navigation tool is very attractive to us. If it’s something we can’t assist with in the home setting — Sollis has those relationships.” Alliance’s clients will gain access to Sollis centers, telemedicine, same-day appointments, on-site comprehensive lab services, care navigation and more.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 2, 2022

“We always knew that there was a silver lining out there as baby boomers were getting to the age where they needed home care services, but we have not ever seen it this pronounced,” Rutledge said. In home health care, an example of the former is the nationwide expansion of the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) Model.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Through the partnership, MedArrive will offer its services to those 40,000 or so Superior patients, many of which have very complex health care needs. The idea is that, through MedArrive’s capabilities and offerings in the home, care gaps will be closed, and social drivers of health will be addressed.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

We must be mindful that hospitals, health systems and physicians quickly stood up and adopted virtual care, especially telemedicine programs, in March and April 2020. In 2019, J.D. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services. Describing that low-utilization in their report, J.D.

Hospitals 156

Hospitals Life Sciences Telemedicine Primary Care 156

Health Populi

JANUARY 12, 2021

Increase in virtual telemedicine appointments increased ten times in 15 days. Consumers digitally transformed as a fast response to mandates to #StayHome, #WorkFromHome, go to school from home, and quarantine to avoid exposure to the tricky virulent coronavirus.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 30, 2023

They’re realizing that a lot of the missing link that they have a hard time filling is just good primary care. They have lots of benefits, like telemedicine and urgent care without relationships, without continuity.” Patina’s care delivery model combines virtual visits, phone calls and at-home visits. “We

Primary Care 98

Primary Care Urgent Care Telemedicine Medicare 98

Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2020

As we wrestle with just “what” health care will look like “after COVID,” there’s one certainty that we can embrace in our health planning and forecasting efforts: that’s the persistence of telehealth and virtual care into health care work- and life-flows, for clinicians and consumers alike and aligned.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

2020 saw three factors combine to define the future of “Hospital at Home” care in a way that will become a new care reality over the coming years. Growing Acceptance of Telemedicine by Patients. Arik Ben Ishay, CEO & Co-Founder of Biobeat. Changing Patient Attitudes.

Hospitals 98

Hospitals Telemedicine Nursing Health Data 98

Home Health Care

JULY 5, 2023

We have the ability to work from home, remotely, with telemedicine. While the workforce is still fatigued coming out of a pandemic, the average patient in home health care is also looking different. Patients discharged to home health care are more complex than they were five years ago, for instance.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

This new work-flow for clinicians led to fast-adoption of virtual care platforms – telemedicine, tele-conferencing with patients via apps like Zoom and Skype along with commercially-built telehealth channels, and the prescription and use of remote health monitoring devices placed in patients’ homes.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 14, 2023

Healthcare providers began to utilize technology and expanded care teams so that treatment could be administered outside of the traditional healthcare setting. During COVID, at-home healthcare services and the number of agencies providing treatment in the home or via telemedicine appointments became more commonplace.

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Healthcare Telemedicine Nursing Home Care 75

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Oh, what a difference a pandemic can make in consumers’ life-flows for ecommerce and health care.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 5, 2018

In the U.S., the highest levels of unemployment are in places that often have the lowest access to broadband connectivity.

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Telemedicine Doctors Hospitals Healthcare 102

Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2020

I explore this growing concept in my latest essay on Medecision’s Liberation blog, How the Pandemic Is Accelerating the Hospital-At-Home Concept. The key points are that: Hospital-at-home services (H-a-H) combine home visits with virtual care and remote monitoring.

Hospitals 118

Hospitals Home Care Health Technology Patient Experience 118

Home Health Care

JANUARY 18, 2022

Supreme Court on Thursday threw its support behind the nationwide COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers, while simultaneously axing a vaccine-or-test rule for large employers. Last week’s developments shouldn’t shock the in-home care operators that have been following the U.S.

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