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Emory Healthcare (EHC) today announced a partnership with NeuroFlow to support and improve the delivery of psychiatric services for both patients and providers at their Brain Health Center and several sites across Georgia.NeuroFlow, which offers a cloud-based registry and enterprise platform to help facilitate collaborative care, will support EHC clinical services’ data-driven approach to patient care, with a sharpened focus on improving communication
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Audio-Only Telehealth Remains Common at Safety Net Clinics, Study Finds
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Audio-only telehealth visits for both primary care and mental health services remained common at safety net clinics in California since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new RAND Corporation study.
The RAND study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that in August 2022 audio-only visits still accounted for 1 in 5 primary care visits and 2 in 5 behavioral health visits among people who received care at Federally
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NTT DATA Survey Reveals Lack Of Awareness Around Healthcare-At-Home Options & Preference for Telehealth
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- A new NTT DATA survey reveals that 52% of U.S. adults did not know that healthcare providers are testing or working towards providing in-home medical care as opposed to requiring an in-office or hospital visit. Of those respondents, more than one out of three (35%) noted they currently would prefer to receive care in their home.
- Garnering responses from 1,000 U.S.-based adults, the survey data uncovers that while the general consumer population is
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Consumers Prefer Telehealth to In-Person Visits While Traveling
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- New KeyCare survey finds nearly 7 in 10 (68%) of consumers who needed minor but urgent medical services while traveling in the prior year received care via telehealth visits with their regular physicians or affiliated members of their physicians’ care teams, outpacing all other care-delivery options.
- Results are based on a survey of 400 consumers who have previously scheduled and
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Included Health, Solv Partner to Connect Virtual & In-Person Care
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- Solv today announced the launch of Solv Final Mile Network, the first solution to bridge the gap from online navigation and virtual care to in-person, local medical care across the country.
- Built on the scale of Solv’s national network of providers, Solv Final Mile technology makes continuity of the patient care journey possible, by eliminating the friction between digital care and same-day, in-office visits for providers and their patients. Included Health, a
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Patient Engagement Survey Reveals Current Patient Preferences for Access and Convenience
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- Stericycle Communication Solutions (acquired by Carenet Health in December 2022), an industry leader in patient engagement technology and solutions and a service of Stericycle, Inc. (Nasdaq: SRCL), recently announced the findings of its third annual U.S. Consumer Trends in Patient Engagement Survey, conducted by Ipsos, which surveyed 1,004 U.S. adults aged 18 and older.
- The survey examined patients’ current preferences when engaging with their medical providers,
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Why Speech Therapy is an Effective Treatment to Counter the Health Challenge of Social Determinants of Health (SDoH)
Over recent years, the virtual speech therapy delivery model has intersected with a host of healthcare disruptions -- value-based care delivery, the COVID-19 pandemic and the influence of social determinants of health (SDoH) have reshaped healthcare delivery. There has been a seismic move away from a provider-centric delivery model to a patient-centric model. This innovation has been made much easier with the ever-present catalyst of technology and its increased patient acceptance.
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Kahun Taps MediOrbis to Offer AI-Powered Digital Intake and Triage Services
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- MediOrbis, a multi-specialty telehealth company today announces a strategic partnership with Kahun, the clinical reasoning tool that performs dynamic clinical assessments at scale.
- The strategic partnership will enable MediOrbis to offer Kahun’s proprietary AI-driven digital intake tool as a part of its comprehensive telehealth platform.
- By offering Kahun’s proprietary AI-driven digital intake tool as a part of its comprehensive
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Willingness to Use Video Telehealth Increased During Pandemic, Study Finds
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- Americans’ use and willingness to use video telehealth has increased since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, rising most sharply among Black Americans and people with less education, according to a new RAND Corporation study.
- Following a representative survey panel of Americans from March 2019 through March 2021, researchers found that the willingness to use video telehealth increased overall from 51% in February 2019 to 62% in March 2021.
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Consumers Prefer Telehealth Over In-Office Visits for Routine Care
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- The popularity of telehealth remains strong – and even the top choice among consumers needing routine medical care, according to a recent survey of individuals who previously had at least one telehealth visit.
- Regardless of the type of virtual care, nearly all participants of the survey, sponsored by KeyCare, stated it was important that both their regular doctor and their telehealth provider had access to their health records for sharing critical data such
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