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Report: Digital Health Firm Investments Skyrocketing
Investments in "digital health" companies--including firms in the health IT and wireless spaces--more than tripled in the first six months of 2012, according to a new report from Burrill & Co., a San Francisco financial services company. Read More »
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Reps. Mike Thompson, Scott Peters Introduce Bipartisan Bill Expanding Telehealth Services To Veterans, Active-Duty Servicemembers And Dependents
Today, U.S. Reps. Mike Thompson (CA-5) and Scott Peters (CA-52) introduced H.R. 3507, the 21st Century Care for Military & Veterans Act. This bipartisan legislation would expand coverage of telehealth services to active-duty servicemembers, their dependents, retirees, and veterans. [...] Read More »
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Role for Skype Proposed in Telemedicine Push
To improve healthcare services in the remote parts of the country, the Planning Commission has suggested adopting telemedicine by using software applications such as Skype in its report on health for the 12th Five-Year plan. Read More »
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Sequestration Can’t Halt Government’s ‘Historic’ Health IT Spending
Federal health IT spending grew 27 percent annually from fiscal 2011-2015, with the market jumping from $2 billion four years ago to $6.5 billion in fiscal 2015, according to research from big data and analytics firm Govini. Civilian health agencies fueled health IT spending the most. The Health and Human Services Department increased its annual health IT spend by a compound annual growth rate of 34 percent, with about half of its total obligations driven by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which is preparing for a major modernization effort and call center upgrade...
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Skilled Nursing Facilities Lag Acute Care Settings in EHR, HIE Use
The first nationally representative survey on electronic health record adoption and health information exchange among skilled nursing facilities has found that they are lagging behind acute care settings. While data released by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT shows that most SNFs (64 percent) used EHRs to manage patient health information last year and a fifth of facilities (18 percent) used both an EHR and a state or regional health information organization (HIO), a HIT gap persists with their acute care counterparts...
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Small Is Beautiful
The view from the top at EHI Live 2012 was clear and consistent: without IT the NHS cannot deliver the savings, efficiencies and quality gains demanded of it. Read More »
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Stone Phillips Reports on Mental Health Program Helping Underserved Veterans
A little-known government program providing expert mental health care to underserved veterans is the subject of a new report by Stone Phillips. Screen Time: How Telemental Health is Helping Underserved Veterans...reveals how high level mental health services are being delivered to veterans in even the most hard-to-reach places through videoconferencing, which connects clinicians in VA hospitals with veterans in local outpatient clinics. Read More »
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Surescripts Patient Survey Reveals Patient Demand Access to their Medical Records
Health data-sharing technology exists today, yet patients are increasingly frustrated with their healthcare experience, according to a recent survey by Surescripts, the nation’s leading health information network. The 2016 Connected Care and the Patient Experience survey found that patients are particularly dissatisfied with the lack of a central location for their health records as well as the difficulty in accessing and sharing those records. Plus, they’re expecting to see digitized care settings in the very near future through the use of telehealth and other technologies...
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Telehealth And The Intimacy Envelope
“Three years ago,” Roy Schoenberg said, “we were the crazy ones.” Crazy, that is, for saying that technology could “redistribute health care,” and bring patients closer to their doctors, wherever they may be, geographically-speaking, Schoenberg, MD, MPH, president and CEO of American Well Systems added. Read More »
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Telehealth Can Reduce Deaths by 45%, Study Shows
Last year, a report from Accenture showed that the rise of inexpensive Internet connectivity and smaller, cheaper and "smarter" health electronics should deliver better, more efficient health care. The U.K. Department of Health said its study was the first of its kind and one of the most complex and comprehensive studies it has ever undertaken. It involved about 6,000 chronically-ill patients at 238 healthcare practices across three counties in the UK. It took two years to complete.
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Telehealth From The Direct Service Provider Perspective
A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to attend the American Telemedicine Association Policy Summit in Washington, D.C. This turned into two very meaningful days for those of us who are involved in the industry, but I’m thinking the people who couldn’t go might appreciate what was said (or not said). Read More »
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Telehealth Groups Ask Burwell For Relief
A group of telemedicine and mHealth associations have reminded the new HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell that $36 billion in healthcare costs could be saved with remote monitoring -- providing better care, reduced hospitalizations and readmissions, complication avoidance and improved satisfaction among chronically ill patients...
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Telehealth Progress Requires Beefed Up Network Infrastructure
Federal agencies have applied telehealth technology in innovative ways to expand health care beyond the walls of veterans' hospitals and other care facilities. Current efforts allow caregivers to reach patients in their daily lives while clinicians and specialists can share and archive medical information...
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Telehealth Spurs Big Changes In Care
The face of telehealth is changing in ways that are becoming unrecognizable from just a few short years ago...It is now a substantive encounter that reflects the intimacy and personal nature of a face-to-face visit, providers of new-generation technology say...
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Telehealth To Grow Six-Fold By 2017
Remote patient monitoring will ramp up worldwide, largely driven by U.S hospitals working to reduce readmissions and avoid Medicare penalties, says InMedica study.
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