Telehealth News and Market Developments
CNET: Samsung's New Telemedicine App Connects Remote Doctors via Your TV and Watch (1/5) – Samsung announced a new Samsung Telemedicine app that allows those who are ill to be able to get at-home care on their TVs. After users choose from a list of symptoms and input how long they've been ill, the app "will show relevant available doctors." Samsung will then create a link between the doctor and the at-home patient. The company says its service will "generally" connect a doctor "within 60 seconds." After being connected, the doctor will be able to "conduct an exam through video conferencing via the app" using a camera attached to the TV.
Forbes: Telemedicine: Filling In The Hospital Care Gap In America (1/5) – In this guest column, Jason Povio, president and Chief Operating Officer for Eagle Telemedicine, shares the business case for telemedicine in addressing the workforce shortage. Specifically, hospitals need to make in-patient telemedicine a standard part of the spectrum of health care services. Telemedicine can provide significant cost savings to a hospital system, often costing a fraction of a full-time staff physician. When used in a hospital system, the telemedicine costs can also be shared by multiple hospitals, making the cost less for any one hospital’s bottom line. With the right program model and training, telemedicine can be one answer to the physician shortage.
Healthcare IT News: Can Telemedicine Produce A Successful Preventative Care Program? (1/4) – Telehealth services can offer health care providers the opportunity and the capability to reach broader populations and be used as disease prevention tools. Telemedicine tools can ensure physicians and their care teams can better manage patient care, and the associated workflow, to help their patients stay their healthiest. Gary Hamilton, CEO of InteliChart, a vendor of a patient-engagement platform, shares his thoughts with Healthcare IT News on how telehealth can be the key to creating successful preventative care programs, how virtual care can be a disease prevention tool, and how telehealth fits into the importance of preventative care in value-based care reimbursement models.
Healio: Remote Patient Monitoring is Part of Our Future (1/4) – According to a presentation at the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Annual Scientific Meeting, remote patient monitoring for allergy and asthma treatment is here and will only grow in the future. In November 2021, ACAAI and AMA partnered to survey clinicians about their use of telemedicine, including 136 providers who identified as allergists. When asked how they were using telehealth, 83 percent of 116 respondents said they were using it for treatment or therapy; 78 percent reported using it for screenings, assessments or diagnosis; and 76 percent indicated they used it for follow-up care, such as post-surgical or chronic care.
Kaiser Health News: Telehealth Brings Expert Sexual Assault Exams to Rural Patients (1/3) – Rural sexual assault patients face a mountain of obstacles, sometimes even needing to travel to a hospital in another county for care. TeleSANE, a telehealth company, allows rural nurses to connect with nurse examiners who have extensive training in how to care for assault survivors and collect evidence for possible criminal prosecution. Research shows SANE programs encourage psychological healing, provide comprehensive health care, allow for professional evidence collection, and improve the chance of a successful prosecution.
Medical Economics: Medical Groups Praise Telehealth Flexibilities (1/3) – Telehealth, physician payment, training more doctors, and pandemic preparedness are among the health care provisions in the federal government’s $1.7 trillion budget for 2023. The federal spending plan had “several provisions that move our nation closer to our goal of ensuring affordable, equitable and comprehensive care for all,” Alliance Advisory Board Member AAFP President Tochi Iroku-Malize said. “We applaud the extension of Medicare telehealth flexibilities, including audio-only telehealth, through the end of 2024. This preserves patients’ access to virtual care and offers predictability for physicians.”
Healthcare IT News: Mercy Virtual Care Center (1/3) – Mercy Virtual Care Center announced a new virtual care model of remote patient monitoring for patients living with complex conditions. Physicians at the center noticed their ambulatory virtual programs managed complex chronically ill patients. There was an additional need for these patients to be managed alongside their primary care physician and specialists throughout their entire care journey. As part of treating their chronic illnesses, staff help them to become comfortable maintaining their own self-care in the home. From the initial pilot of 50 patients in 2015 to today, Mercy Virtual's vEngagement remote patient monitoring program has grown and scaled exponentially.
Medical Economics: Telehealth in 2023: What Physicians Need to Know
(1/3) – Increased use of digital health technology has expanded the physician’s toolkit heading into 2023. Widespread adoption and patient satisfaction with virtual care means physicians have to prepare for patients requesting video visits and other telehealth services. Physicians need to understand those changes heading into 2023. This article aims to help physicians “issue-spot,” and identify the questions that they should be asking, as they offer virtual care in 2023.
Forbes: Telehealth Technology: Not Only a Pandemic Mainstream but The Future of Health Care (1/3) – Telemedicine services are a breakthrough for health services, especially as many people live in areas where there are few specialized doctors or necessary medical devices. With telehealth, these people can receive the care and treatment they need while, at the same time, contributing to the standardization of digital health care. Pavel Orlov, cofounder of Innowise Group, a telehealth software company, discusses the different types of telehealth: asynchronous, synchronous, and remote patient monitoring.
Equities: Telemedicine and Telehealth: A Sector With More Than a Pulse (1/1) – Jeff Kagan, a telecom, technology and wireless industry analyst and consultant, shares that attitude towards telehealth is beginning to change. The comfort levels of elderly and less tech-savvy patient cohorts are slowly adopting telehealth into their daily care. The list of players in telehealth and telemedicine is growing. Kagan reviews the companies of the telehealth industry, including Alliance Board Member Amwell, MDLive, and Walmart.
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