By Les Masterson | May 3, 2018 Kaiser Permanente and UnitedHealthcare are using telehealth for primary care visits and quick patient consultations. Virtual care, once on the fringes for providers and patients alike, is becoming more of a reality, and is increasingly used for low-acuity needs. Kaiser Permanente and UnitedHealthcare [...]
By Laura Lovett | May 03,2018 Most patients today are also consumers used to getting what they need, when they need it. This, coupled with the demand for more healthcare services, means that the way healthcare is provided is going to change in the future. As providers struggle to keep up [...]
By Eric Wicklund | April 13, 2018 When choosing to launch a virtual visit service, small healthcare providers need to think carefully about telehealth technology, patient needs and realistic goals. For a small practice or solo physician, launching a virtual care platform might seem like a waste of time and [...]
By Joanne Finnegan | April 12, 2018 With more practices offering telemedicine services, there’s now a survey designed specifically to measure patient satisfaction during those encounters. Press Ganey, the country's leading provider of patient satisfaction surveys, has just come out with new surveys to measure patients’ experience after a virtual visit [...]
By Beth Jones Sanborn | April 3, 2018 It is no secret that millennials are a driving force in society today, and a new survey shows that their demands and behaviors differ from baby boomer and Gen Xers, and could reshape the healthcare industry especially when it comes to primary [...]
By Eric Wicklund | March 28, 2018 Hospitals and health systems are increasingly moving away from small telemedicine and telehealth programs and embracing enterprise-wide platforms, even as they face issues with EMR integration and reimbursement. March 28, 2018 - Healthcare providers are moving away from individual telehealth and telemedicine programs and [...]
