telehealth
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How Should Providers Adapt to Telehealth’s New Era?
Most patients prefer in-person care to virtual, according to a recent report. This finding should drive health systems to refine their telehealth experiences — they should determine which type of visits are best-suited for the modality, and they should ensure their virtual care environments adopt a more human-centric design.
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Which Digital Health Tools Will Be the Greatest Victim to Turnover from Hospitals?
Hospitals’ digital health adoption exploded during the pandemic, leading to many vendor contracts spanning three to five years. As these contracts reach their expiration dates over this year and next, a new report predicts that telemedicine platforms and remote patient monitoring tools face the highest risk of being turned over by hospitals.
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Payer’s Place: Dawn Maroney
Dawn Maroney, President, Markets of Alignment Health and CEO of Alignment Health Plan, to discuss how they are using technology to provide better service and care to consumers.
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How Penn Medicine’s Telemedicine Program Saved It $113 Per Patient Visit
Penn Medicine recently published a study on the economics of providing telemedicine — it showed that when the health system began offering virtual urgent care services to its employees, the visits ended up being 23% less expensive to conduct than in-person appointments.
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Payers Need Clear Outcomes Data to Reimburse Digital Health, Experts Argue
It’s clear that services like telehealth and remote patient monitoring have potential to provide value within the healthcare industry, but hospitals and digital health companies need to show payers clearer evidence of the outcomes these care modalities can produce in order to earn reimbursement, panelists argued during MedCity’s INVEST conference.
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Medicare Improperly Paid Providers $348M for Telehealth Psychotherapy Services
Out of the $1 billion in Medicare payments to providers for psychotherapy services in the first year of Covid-19, $580 million were improper payments, an audit by the Office of Inspector General found. This includes $348 million for telehealth services.
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Telehealth Companies Applaud DEA for Delaying Telemedicine Restrictions of Controlled Substances
The Drug Enforcement Administration received 38,000 comments on its proposed rule that would roll back Covid-19 flexibilities for the prescribing of controlled substances via telemedicine. In response, the DEA chose to temporarily extend the flexibilities, a decision telehealth companies like Bicycle Health and Mindbloom are in support of.
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Leverage Analytics and Technologies to Improve Quality of Care
MedCity News connected with Global Health Leader at EY, Aloha McBride, to share details on the company’s upcoming survey on what consumers are looking for in value-based care.
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Consumer / Employer, Health Tech
Hint Health Partners With Eden Health To Expand Direct Primary Care Network
Eden Health will join Hint Health’s Hint Connect platform, which is a network of independent direct primary care clinics. Through the partnership, employees of Hint Connect’s employer customers will be able to choose whether they want to receive care from a local DPC provider in their area (either in-person or virtually) or a virtual provider through Eden Health.
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Why Amwell’s CEO Isn’t Completely Discouraged By Its Stock Price
Amwell CEO Roy Schoenberg thinks the stock market has adopted a rather simplistic view of telehealth over the past year, reducing the care modality to a pandemic-era trend in which patients are no longer interested. But Schoenberg pointed out that providers are still committed to virtual care. Because of this, he thinks his company is in a better position to raise its stock price than others because it is partnering directly with providers to evolve telehealth delivery models.
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Applying Remote Patient Monitoring to Surgery Prep and Recovery, Oncology and Women’s Health
Join us to learn about the latest trends in remote monitoring and how to extend its benefits beyond chronic conditions to more patients – all while using fewer staff resources.
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‘The Stakes Couldn’t Be Higher’: How DEA’s Proposal Will Affect Telehealth Controlled Substance Prescribing
The DEA recently released proposed rules that would require an in-person visit before a patient can receive a telehealth prescription for a controlled substance. The DEA touts the change as a way to ensure patient safety, but several telehealth advocates argue it will greatly disrupt access for those who need the drugs — especially at a time when the mental health and substance use crisis is growing.
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Consumer / Employer, Health Tech, Hospitals, SYN
ChristianaCare Rolls Out DTC Virtual Primary Care Practice
ChristianaCare, a health system with headquarters in Delaware, recently launched a direct-to-consumer virtual primary care practice. The new service, which operates on a subscription model, was rolled out to help increase access to round-the-clock, convenient primary care. It’s currently offered in six states.
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FDA Clears TytoCare’s New Algorithm for Wheeze Detection
Virtual care company TytoCare has received FDA clearance for its wheeze detection algorithm, allowing the company to begin commercializing the product in the U.S. The new algorithm is an expansion of Tyto Insights, the company’s AI-powered diagnosis support software.
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MedCity Influencers, Health Tech
The Advancements That Let Us Know the Healthcare Revolution Is Here
The healthcare industry is one sector that can never grow stagnant. It’s constantly being inundated […]
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Transcarent To Acquire Part of 98point6 for $100M, Gain AI-powered Virtual Care Platform
The $100 million deal between Transcarent and 98point6 is expected to close March 31 and is a combination of equity and cash, said Glen Tullman, CEO of Transcarent. Through the acquisition, Transcarent will gain access to 98point6’s AI-powered text-based technology, affiliated provider group and client base.
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New Collaboration Brings Opioid Use Disorder Treatment to Formerly Incarcerated Patients
The collaboration, which was announced last week, is between Bicycle Health, Wellpath and the Federal Bureau of Prisons. It will provide virtual opioid use disorder services to those living in the Bureau’s residential reentry centers in 42 states.
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Payer’s Place: Dr. Anil Singh
Dr. Anil Singh shares his insights into the strategies employed by the organization to identify the most effective digital solutions for their members.
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Discover the Next-Gen Platform for Integrated Collaborative Care
Beyond EHRs and digital front doors, reducing the gaps in patient care journeys.
