To accelerate the adoption of telehealth services and remote health platforms, the patient-centric design is a must. By paying attention to five key areas, you can develop a telehealth solution that works for the most important users: the patients.
There are several universal challenges in delivering telehealth solutions, including a lack of patient adoption. It’s a reasonable reluctance:
- Healthcare has always been delivered in-person.
- Trusting sensitive information to devices
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52% of Households Willing to Share Smartphone Data to aid in COVID-19 Contact Tracing
Over 50% of US broadband households are willing to share smartphone data to aid in COVID-19 contact tracing, while another 20% could be convinced provided privacy protections are in place, according to Parks Associates' new research, COVID-19: Impact on Telehealth Use and Perspectives. The research tracks changes in consumer attitudes and adoption of telehealth services as a result of COVID-19 and measure future interest in telehealth services beyond the pandemic.
Parks Associates' COVID-19:
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Call to Action: Restrictions Around Virtual Health Can’t Go Back to “Normal”
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government has passed several stimulus packages with the goal of helping employers keep their business in operation while office volume is down and, in some cases, practices are physically closed. The CARES Act, which included the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Provider Relief Fund, for example, has provided some relief to eligible healthcare providers, including low-interest rate loans to help providers pay staff salaries, rent, and other
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Telehealth and Cybersecurity: What You Should Know
Healthcare providers are seeing between 50 and 175 times (1) more patients via telehealth than before. Telehealth platforms* offer solutions for a wide array of different healthcare issues. An estimated 20 percent of all emergency room visits and 24 percent of routine office visits and outpatient volume could be delivered virtually via telehealth.
Telehealth is a win-win for providers and patients. It both increases the availability of care while also reducing costs. However, telemedicine
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VA, Philips to Create World’s Largest Tele-Critical Care System for Veterans
What You Should Know:
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs selects Philips to create the world’s largest tele-critical care system, further integrating tele-health and delivering quality care for veterans.
- The ten-year contract, which enables
VA to invest up to $100 million with Philips for
tele-critical care technology and services, leverages Philips history of innovation, including research into
technologies that can better support veterans, telehealth,
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What Therapists Need to Know about Telehealth Technology
Thousands of therapists who never intended to engage in telehealth are now doing exactly that – they are providing services to clients in lockdown using video-enabled platforms. While the technological landscape for psychotherapy is dramatically improved from even a few years ago, therapists rapidly transitioning to online services need to hold a few things in mind.
It’s not the same as in-person therapy
While online psychotherapy has been shown to be just as effective as in-person care,
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FCC Surpasses $100M in Approved COVID-19 Telehealth Program Applications
What You Should Know:
- FCC’s COVID-19 Telehealth Program, which was authorized by the CARES Act, has approved funding for 305 healthcare providers in 42 states plus Washington, D.C. for a total of $105M in funding.
The Federal Communications
Commission’s Wireline Competition Bureau today approved an additional 67 funding applications
for the COVID-19 Telehealth Program. Healthcare
providers in both urban and rural areas of the country will use this $16.87M in
funding to
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Telehealth After COVID-19: What’s Next for the Healthcare Industry?
Like the rest of the economy, healthcare has been upended by the coronavirus. Not just emergency rooms, but primary care physicians, specialists, and long-term care facilities, too.
Struggling to continue providing care in a time of social distancing, many have turned to telehealth in record numbers. Even providers who may have previously viewed telehealth skeptically – perhaps because of the technology’s perceived complexity or reimbursement challenges before COVID-19 – have now become
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Solve.Care Launches Blockchain-Powered Global Telehealth Exchange
What You Should Know:
- Healthcare platform Solve.Care has announced the launch of the Global Telehealth Exchange (GTHE), a first-of-its-kind landmark deployment of blockchain and digital currency aimed at tackling the challenges facing the global healthcare system today.
- The GTHE, a decentralized care network, removes the physical and geographical barriers associated with accessing healthcare services while also providing administrative, payment, and care coordination for
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FCC’s COVID-19 Telehealth Programs Surpasses $50M in Funding
What You Should Know:
- To date, the FCC’s COVID-19 Telehealth Program, which was authorized by the CARES Act, has approved funding for 132 healthcare providers across 33 states plus Washington, DC for a total of just over $50M in funding.
The Federal Communications
Commission’s Wireline Competition Bureau today approved an additional 43
funding applications for the COVID-19 Telehealth
Program. The seventh set of healthcare providers in both urban and
rural areas of the
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