Telehealth has quickly transformed the healthcare industry. Rather than scheduling an appointment, waiting up to a few weeks, and going to a doctor's office or another healthcare facility, we can now access many types of care from the convenience of our smartphones.
However, telehealth has also brought in its own set of new challenges that must be overcome for it to be successful in the long term. Below, we explore five of the biggest issues telemedicine faces and offer insights on how
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Open APIs in Healthcare: The Future of Data Integration Report
What You Should Know:
- The latest Chilmark Research report examines how data-oriented APIs are contributing to development and integration efforts across healthcare from the perspective of the developer.
- Reeling from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and
seeking more effective ways to implement new functionality, healthcare
enterprises of all kinds are looking to alternatives for prevailing development
and integration practices.
Unlocking value
from the data scattered across
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Avoid COVID-19 Modeling Pitfalls by Eliminating Bias, Using Good Data
COVID-19 models are being used every day to predict the course and short- and long-term impacts of the pandemic. And we’ll be using these COVID-19 models for months to come. While many of us in healthcare are not epidemiologists or data scientists, we’re all sifting through the data to get a handle on how many people are going to get sick, how many will end up in the hospital or on a ventilator, and ultimately, how many people will die.
Government agencies are using models to set public
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Sharecare Acquires WhiteHatAI to Enhance Healthcare Payment Integrity
What You Should Know:
- Sharecare acquires WhiteHatAI to provide health plan
and provider clients with additional capabilities to ensure healthcare payment
integrity
- WhiteHatAI’s ability to detect erroneous claims before
they are paid will help Sharecare’s health plan partners reduce costs
associated with FWA.
- Sharecare will integrate WhiteHatAI’s capabilities to
foster deeper engagement by enabling patients to both verify recent medical
procedures and report
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Virtual Behavioral Health Could Reduce Costs, Improve Patient Outcomes, Report Finds
What You Should Know:
- A new Accenture report called “Breakthrough Behavioral
Health Access: Think Virtual” finds that the use of virtual behavioral health could
expand care for more than 53 million Americans facing these conditions.
- Demand for behavioral health specialists significantly outweighs current availability; in addition to severe wait times of 25 days for first clinical appointments, we are projected to have a shortage of 250,000 behavioral health and mental health
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Healthify, Ride Health Partner to Offer SDOH-Driven Transportation to Vulnerable Populations
What You Should Know:
Healthify, a social determinants of health company
(SDOH), announced a national partnership with Ride Health to offer
transportation to medical and non-medical services for people faced with
transportation barriers.
- Each year, an estimated 3.6 million Americans do not
obtain medical care due to transportation issues such as cost, lack of access
to vehicles and inadequate public transportation. These barriers are
particularly prevalent among poor communities,
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Curavi Health, CarePointe, U.S. Health Systems Merge to Form Arkos Health to Power Virtual Care for Seniors
Curavi Health, CarePointe, U.S. Health Systems announced a merger agreement to form Arkos Health. Arkos Health will provide virtual care solutions and health insights to vulnerable populations across the United States. These three entities will become wholly-owned subsidiaries of Arkos Health, and the executive leadership teams will be merged. UPMC will continue to own a financial stake in Arkos Health, while remaining both a customer and service provider.
CarePointe, founded in 2015 and
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Emtiro Health Taps Innovaccer to Leverage the FHIR-Enabled Data Activation Platform
What You Should Know:
- Emtiro Health, an
innovative population health company in North Carolina has selected Innovaccer
to deliver data-powered solutions to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness
of care delivery.
- Powered by Innovaccer’s FHIR-enabled Data Activation
Platform, Emtiro Health will create unified patient records that drive
comprehensive, whole-person care management, no matter where they are on the
care continuum. The FHIR-enabled Data Activation Platform will also
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4 Ways Healthcare Organizations Can Establish Partnerships to Drive Innovation
With public and private healthcare spending significantly outpacing that of other countries, U.S. hospitals face intense pressure to find new ways to capture greater value. More and more, organizations are finding that partnerships with existing vendors can help unlock next-level performance gains in a transformative environment.
Take Nebraska Medicine, for example. In the early 2000s, the health system created multidisciplinary committees to boost revenue integrity and adopted new revenue
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8 in 10 Consumers Stated COVID-19 Made Telehealth “Indispensable” in Healthcare Delivery
What You Should Know:
- 8 in 10 consumers said COVID-19 made telehealth “an indispensable part of the healthcare system, according to a new study commissioned by Change Healthcare.
- 2020 Change Healthcare - Harris Poll Consumer
Experience Index reveals 65% said they plan to use telehealth more after the
pandemic, and 78% said COVID-19 has shown how badly the U.S. needs more
telehealth options.
A majority of consumers agreed COVID-19 will
fundamentally change healthcare delivery
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