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Before COVID, many practices were hardly using telehealth for anything. During COVID, many practices had to use telehealth for nearly everything. The next era in telehealth will be about picking and choosing the right use cases for telehealth. On today's HIMSSCast, Oak Street Health Regional Medical Director Dr. Laolu Fayanju joins Healthcare IT News Senior Editor Kat Jercich and host Jonah Comstock to discuss telehealth, remote patient monitoring, and choosing the right patients and use cases for virtual care.This episode is brought to you by BlueJeans.Talking points:A little about Laolu and Oak Street HealthHigh-touch doesn’t necessarily mean in-personHow COVID-19 forced telehealth adoptionOak Street’s telehealth operation, including tablet delivery and remote patient monitoringDeciding when to use telehealth and for whomRemote patient monitoring’s potential“It takes a village” - the importance of team-based careHealth equity and advocating for the patientEmbracing technology across different demographicsThe potential — and dangers — of consumer wearablesMore about this episode:How do providers strike the right balance between in-person care and telehealth?How telemedicine can help everyone have a primary care physicianAmerican Board of Telehealth launches certificate for virtual primary careWill virtual primary care become a new model of healthcare delivery?Zooming into the next phase of care delivery: 10 emerging trends in a post-COVID-19 worldContributed: Patients deserve virtual care that better integrates, and doesn’t compete with, in-person careOak Street Health decision support system reduces readmissions by 26%How virtual care can be refined to reach those who need it most

California union workers score raises in new contracts; Inspiration4 to collect data on effects of space flight. Also: Telehealth should focus on interoperability, usability.Links to the stories:Caregivers at three California Tenet Healthcare hospitals approve double-digit pay raises in new contractsInspiration4 mission expands health research on spaceflightStanford researchers: Telemedicine optimization requires training, interoperability

On today's HIMSSCast, we welcome Dr. Andrew Watson, medical director of telehealth for the UPMC health plan, and Susan Morse, Healthcare Finance News managing editor, to discuss the link between telehealth and value-based care: how new payment models can enable adoption of telehealth and how technologies like telehealth can push the industry towards new payment models, as well as the extent to which both of these things have happened during the COVID-19 pandemic.This podcast is part of our Workplace Re-entry series and is brought to you by Zoom for Healthcare. It is a companion piece to this HIMSS TV episode with Danielle Louder.Talking points:Does value-based care make payment parity irrelevant?Telehealth after COVID-19Telehealth is more than video visitsHow technology is driving us toward value-based careHow telehealth and value-based care are working at UPMCHow UPMC uses telehealth for urgent careThe utilization question and supply-induced demandThe future of reimbursementHow telehealth adoption post-COVID is goingTelehealth and behavioral healthAdvice for value-based care implementationMore about this episode:Future of telehealth for health systems depends on infrastructure and analyticsValue-based care gains traction during COVID-19CMS announces a new value-based payment model for rural healthcare providersHIMSSCast: The future of telehealth reimbursementTelehealth is expected to drive $29 billion in healthcare services in 2020athenahealth's VP predicts more value-based care, investor interest and an evening out of telehealth in 2021

Everyone is talking about value-based care, and everyone says it's coming soon. But how soon is soon? And what, specifically, is value-based care? You may be familiar with the concept,  but are you familiar enough that you'd know how to change your workflow if your hospital announced a shift to value-based care tomorrow?To address this information gap, Humana and the University of Houston launched a value-based care education course on Coursera earlier this year. Tray Cockerell, director of strategic relationships at Humana, and Avra Bowers, medical director at Humana, join host Jonah Comstock to discuss the course, how it came about, and why it's needed now.Talking points: How the value-based care course came about Defining value-based care as more than a payment methodValue-based care as team-based, coordinated carePro-active vs reactive care — preventing poor outcomesLimitations of fee for service around social determinants of healthWhat the course does and who it’s forPractical skills around value-based care for providersHow to use the course if your organization hasn’t switched to value-based care yetThe importance of measuring and communicating metricsThe role of technology in the future of value-based careTray and Avra’s parting thoughtsMore about this episode:Humana, University of Houston announce value-based care specialization programValue-based care Specialization on Coursera (the course in question)Humana collaborating with providers to offer value-based care for those with original Medicare2021 will bring more value-based careWe have reached a 'pivotal moment' for value-based careHealth leaders question how, not if, value-based care should be implementedCMS issues roadmap for states to accelerate adoption of value-based care

Feinberg’s departure, and Google’s strategic shift, has raised questions about whether big tech firms are truly equipped to take on the healthcare space.

FHIR, AI, and the cloud are reshaping healthcare, radically altering how organizations engage with patients. Learn how to embrace the changes, and drive more meaningful healthcare outcomes with MongoDB. Patients expect a more personal and digitally enabled healthcare experience. In this podcast, Jeff Needham, Principal, Healthcare Solutions and Robert Oberhofer, Head of Product Solutions at MongoDB discuss how the most successful providers and organizations will be those who embrace new technologies, like the cloud, and leverage data to deliver the best patient experiences and health outcomes.

For a long time, the standard of care in mental and behavioral health has been some combination of pharmaceuticals and talk therapy. But with FDA-cleared, rigorously vetted digital health apps, there's a new piece of the puzzle, and it has the potential to combine the advantages of therapy with the scalability of drugs.In this episode of HIMSSCast, Big Health CEO Peter Hames joins host Jonah Comstock to talk about the future of mental health and lessons learned so far.This episode is brought to you  by Carahsoft.Talking points:What Big Health is all aboutScalable mental health therapiesTreating algorithms and therapies like drugsEfficacy data and safety of digital therapeutics vs drugsHow pharma companies are responding to digital therapeuticsPredicting the future of mental health care Big Health’s partner relationshipsMental health stigma and digital therapeuticsDigital therapeutics have arrivedWhat’s next for Big Health?More about this episode:Sleep, stress app maker Big Health locks in $39M Series B raiseBig Health follows up Sleepio with Daylight, an app for anxietyCVS Health kicks off digital health-friendly service for PBM clients with Big Health’s SleepioSimulation model: Big Health's Sleepio drives greater cost savings than group CBT or drug therapyFrom Big Health:Sleepio randomized controlled trial showing 76% of patients achieved remission from insomnia. Daylight randomized controlled trial showing that 71% of patients achieved remission from clinical anxiety. Economic evaluation of a Fortune 500 employer showing $1,677 lower annualized healthcare costs per employee. JAMA study showing that Sleepio improves broad health outcomes including: functional health, psychological well-being, and sleep-related qualities. 

Healthcare IT is on the cusp of finally realizing the long-discussed, much-hyped, yet ever-elusive promise of true interoperability. Why now? Because of the cloud, and cloud vendors’ embrace of open standards in their APIs. The cloud also offers other potential benefits to healthcare IT – for instance, wider use of AI and robust analytics – but the real game-changer will be widespread system interoperability. In this podcast, PatientKeeper CTO John Kelly discusses how the migration of health IT to the cloud will make the vast trove of patient data that has been digitized over the past decade more broadly accessible and clinically useful.

This week the HIMSS global conference was back in person after the COVID-19 pandemic sidelined last year's event. After a week packed with hundreds of educational sessions, scores of vendor demonstrations and new meet and greets, the HIMSS Media editors sit down for a debrief on cybersecurity,  patient experience, public health, and more.Talking points:The mood and feel at HIMSS21New cyber attacks require innovations in cybersecurityMore attention paid to the voice of the patientPublic health infrastructure gaps exposed by the pandemicMore work still needed on interoperabilityIncorporating health equity and clinical trial diversity into the conversationAI/ML in a low-key but foundational roleStar Trek and the Jetsons -- models for healthcareSome keynote highlightsCOVID lessons, positive and negativeThe telehealth explosion and its aftermathValue-based care is coming, but when?Notes from the Pharma forumMore about this episode: ONC, CDC want to fix the fragmented public health system COVID-19 exposedHIMSS21 tech news: cloud, analytics and interoperability developmentsUpdates and lessons learned from AstraZeneca, MGH's AMAZE platformGovs. Chris Christie and Terry McAuliffe trade jabs at HIMSS21COVID-19 shined light on new opportunities for public health on social mediaAI is the new paradigm in forecasting infectious disease riskFormer ONC head Rucker: APIs will ‘empower totally new business models’Rainn Wilson makes us grateful for being number twoDHA director: Information and technology drive effective pandemic response

As technological advances continue to disrupt the traditional primary-care model, providers must find a way to reconcile patients’ expectations for personal attention and on-demand service with an increasingly tech-driven healthcare landscape.