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Health IT Trends for 2019

Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 30, 2019

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. The article Health IT Trends for 2019 appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. Healthcare technology continues to proliferate the sector, the developments almost too many to track. The coming year will be no different.

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Health IT Industry Outlook Survey Reveals Six Key Leadership Trends for 2019

Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 20, 2019

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. In the seventh annual Health IT Industry Outlook Survey conducted by Stoltenberg Consulting Inc., In the seventh annual Health IT Industry Outlook Survey conducted by Stoltenberg Consulting Inc.,

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How Twitter Revealed Consumer Health Care Trends in the Pandemic

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

During the pandemic, millions of people connected with Twitter to share thoughts and feelings about the pandemic…and their health. Tweets related to “broadband” were noted within the telemedicine/virtual health Twitter streams. For this report, Brandwatch utilized only English-language public Twitter data.

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Consumers Are So Over Their Paper Chase in Health Care Payments

Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2024

Morgan’s InstaMed team to analyze health care payments data, describing the experiences of consumers, providers and payers in the Trends in Healthcare Payments Fourteenth Annual Report. The overall takeaway for patients in this study is that health care is disconnected from consumers, in the words of the JPM/InstaMed report.

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Safety in Health Care Ties Closely to Workforce Well-Being – Updates from Press Ganey and ECRI

Health Populi

APRIL 3, 2024

in health care. The phrase “patient safety” summons up a list of common sources such as medication errors, surgical errors, health care-associated infections, diagnostic errors, among other adverse events and harms people experience in the course of receiving health care. “First, do no harm” is a key M.O.

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The 2023 Health Economy – The Evolving Primary Care and Retail Health Convergence Through Trilliant Health’s Lens

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

health care’s negative-sum game, stakeholders who survive and win that game will have to deliver value-for-money, we learn from Trilliant Health’s 2023 Trends Shaping the Health Economy Report. practicing providers” largely found in Trilliant Health’s data trove. health care financing.

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Use of Preventive Health Services Declined Among Commercially Insured People – With Big Differences in Telehealth for Non-White People, Castlight Finds

Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2022

Declines in preventive care services like cancer screenings and blood glucose testing concern employers, whose continued to cover health insurance for employees during the pandemic. Castlight published the full research findings in April in the company’s 2022 Workforce Health Index. in 2021.

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Joint Commission intros new Telehealth Accreditation Program

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 25, 2024

THE LARGER TREND The independent, nonprofit Joint Commission is the nation's oldest (founded in 1951) and largest standards-setting and accrediting body in healthcare, accrediting and certifying more than 22,000 healthcare organizations and programs across the United States.

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The Cost of Treating Patients is On the Rise: PwC Goes What’s Behind the 2024 Medical Spending Numbers

Health Populi

JUNE 30, 2023

Health care cost trend will spike up another percentage point to 7.0% in 2024, according to the annual report from the PwC Health Research Institute, Medical cost trend: Behind the numbers 2024. As the first line chart illustrates, the peak of medical trend in the last 18 years was in 2007 when the U.S.

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Optum Virtual Care said to be closing down

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 26, 2024

million in 2019. It was a 2,500% year-over-year increase, Kristi Henderson, a former Optum senior vice president for digital transformation and CEO of Optum Virtual Care, who is now chief executive officer of Confluent Health, has said. of medical claims since use skyrocketed during the pandemic.

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EHR documentation burdens increasing with virtual care expansion, says study

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

WHY IT MATTERS The study proposed that if telemedicine expansion indicates physicians spending more overall time in EHRs, health systems and policymakers may need to alter productivity expectations and their reimbursement policies. THE LARGER TREND In the throes of the pandemic, the study's primary author, A.

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A Public Health Wake-Up Call: Reading Between the Lines in IQVIA’s 2023 Use of Medicines Report

Health Populi

MAY 4, 2023

It’s a volume speaking volumes on the current picture of prescribed meds, spending and revenues, health care utilization trends, and a forecast looking out to 2027. health care: “Wake up, public health!” IQVIA attributes this to patients’ avoiding interactions with the health care system.

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JWT’s Future 100 Tells Us Tomorrow Is All About Health

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

From culture to travel, food and drink to retail and beauty, health will be baked into consumer goods and experiences in 2019. Welcome to The Future 100: 2019 from The Innovation Group at JWT. In the 100 emerging trends across ten categories, the future is clearly health-driven, according to the tea-leaf readers at JWT.a.

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The Latest Health Technology Vision and Consumer Behavior Insights From Accenture

Health Populi

AUGUST 18, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic hastened digital transformation for both the health care industry and for individuals — as health consumers, patients, caregivers, and health citizens. The 2020 tech vision for health is summarized here, tying to Accenture’s previous two years of forecasts. The Dilemma of Smart Things.

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Most Health Consumers Expect Technology To Play a Larger Role As Tech-Angst & Privacy Concerns Grow

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

As technology continues to re-shape consumers’ experiences and expectations with health/care, retail, travel and work, peoples’ concerns about data privacy are also growing as observed by a 2020 consumer trends forecast from GlobalWebIndex, Connecting the dots. The ability to access all of my health information online, 51%.

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AI: Patients Included

Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

Patients, their care partners, caregivers, and advocates are already utilizing AI powered tools and creating their own LLMs in ways that the average physician, healthcare executive, and health IT vendors would not believe. There are other aspects of AI applied to health care about which U.S. ” Cordovano further explained to me.

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Self-Care Is Healthcare In Consumers’ Hands, Peaking on Google Trends

Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2019

Today, the number of searches on Google using the phrase “self-care” reached a high, shown in the line graph I created on Google Trends and marked up in red. in December 2007, and tracked “self-care” searches to today, 15 March 2019. A Google search overall yielded over 2 billion results.

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A New Chevy Equinox SUV, a Year in Grad School, or Health Care for Four – The 2022 Milliman Medical Index

Health Populi

JUNE 1, 2022

or health care for a family of four. Welcome to this year’s 2022 Milliman Medical Index , which annually calculates the health care costs for a median family of 4 in the U.S. MMI 2019 Milliman Finds PPO for Family of 4 in 2019 Will Cost $28,386. At $30,260, you could pick one of these three options.

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What the Hell Is Going On with Healthcare Interoperability?

Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 14, 2019

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) filed its annual year-end report to Congress at the start of 2019.

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What #CES2019 5 Tech Trends to Watch Mean for Health/Care

Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2019

As #CES2019 kicks off in Las Vegas with today’s first Media Day, the Consumer Technology Association presented its forecast on the 5 Technology Trends to Watch in 2019 — and they all play into health, wellness, and medical care. The five trends are: Artificial Intelligence on the Rise.

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The Pandemic Accelerated Consumers’ Digital Health Tech Ownership As Big Tech Morphs To Big Health

Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2021

The pandemic ushered in millions of peoples’ first digital health experiences, many of which will persist according to the 23rd Annual U.S. 20% of people used online health services, and 20% intent to keep using them. 20% of people used online health services, and 20% intent to keep using them. in the next 12 months.

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Healthcare Just Got SMAC’ed – Accenture’s Post-Digital Era for Health

Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2019

Social, mobile, analytics and the cloud now underpin the health care industry. We’ve been SMAC’ed, and Accenture’s Digital Health Tech Vision 2019 believes we’re in a post-digital era ripe with opportunity. Get to Know Me is the use of technology to develop and deepen relationships with people.

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World Health Day 2019: Let’s Celebrate Food, Climate, Insurance Coverage and Connectivity

Health Populi

APRIL 7, 2019

Today, 7 April, is World Health Day. With that in mind, I devote this post to three key social determinants of health (SDOH) that are top-of-mind for me these days: food for health, climate change, and universal health coverage. UHC happens to be WHO’s focus for World Health Day 2019. [As

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Your State as a Determinant of Health: Sharecare’s 2021 Community Well-Being Index

Health Populi

JULY 14, 2022

People whose sense of well-being shifted positively in the past two years are finding greater personal purpose and financial health, we see in Sharecare’s Community Well-Being Index – 2021 State Rankings Report. Check out the changes in the national score chart, assessing the Well-Being domains and the Determinants of Health.

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AMA sees surge in health IT adoption, 'rise of the digital-native physician'

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Physicians' use and appreciation of information technology and digital health tools has seen a big uptick over the past five years, according to a new survey from the American Medical Association. The new AMA Digital Health Research sees attitudes and expectations changing among the physicians it surveyed. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Employers Take on Health Activism, Embracing Behavioral Health, Virtual Care, AI, and Transparency

Health Populi

AUGUST 7, 2018

employers are growing activist roles as stakeholders in the healthcare system, according to the 2019 Large Employers Health Care Strategy and Plan Design Survey from the National Business Group on Health (NBGH). One of the most concerning rising cost components in medical trend come from the pharmaceutical supply chain.

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Amazon looks to bring telehealth, in-person care to 20 more cities

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Amazon Care has grown rapidly since it was first offered exclusively to the tech giant's Seattle-based employees in 2019. Dodge also notes that Amazon has been attempting to make inroads at health plans, which would open up the service to insured people in addition to employer clients. THE LARGER TREND. cities through 2022.

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From Evolution to Innovation, from Health Care to Health: How Health Plans With Collaborators Are Re-Defining the Industry

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

As a constant observer and advisor across the health/care ecosystem, for me the concept of a “health plan” in the U.S. Furthermore, health plan members now see themselves as medical bill payers, seeking value and consumer-level services for their health insurance premium investment. is getting fuzzier by the day.

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VA offers $1B telehealth contract opportunity

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Optional items include health and fitness trackers and talking weight scales. THE LARGER TREND. In 2019, the agency delivered more than 2.6 Proposals are due on October 12. Proposals are due on October 12. WHY IT MATTERS. military veterans. The maximum value, to be spread over four potential vendors, is $1.032 billion.

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Cerebral says 3M affected by a patient data breach

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 13, 2023

A patient information disclosure has impacted more than 3 million patients who use online virtual mental health platform Cerebral, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights. It also is advising those affected to monitor credit statements and change Cerebral account passwords.

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As Medical Cost Trend Remains Flat, Patients Face Growing Health Consumer Financial Stress

Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2018

That’s how media outlets will cover the top-line of PwC’s report Medical cost trend: Behind the numbers 2019. medical trend growth projected for 2019 that will impact healthcare providers, insurers, and suppliers to the industry. However, there are other forces underneath the stable-looking 6.0%

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Keep Your Eye on These 4 Emerging Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) Trends

Xealth

AUGUST 31, 2023

Here are 4 emerging RPM trends that signify where healthcare is headed and why the time to refine your digital health strategy is now. These technologies possess the capability to process vast amounts of patient data, identifying patterns, trends, and anomalies that may go unnoticed by human healthcare professionals.

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Trends Shaping the Health Economy: Behavioral Health

Digital Health Wire

MARCH 12, 2023

Trilliant Health published a new report that’s pretty close to required reading for anyone working in behavioral healthcare – Trends Shaping the Health Economy: Behavioral Health. Behavioral health volumes were 18.1% Behavioral health visits accounted for 63.8% of total telehealth visits in Q2 2022.

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Rock Health Q1 2024 Funding Recap

Digital Health Wire

APRIL 10, 2024

If Rock Health’s Q1 2024 Digital Health Funding Report makes one thing clear, it’s that the times of transition are behind us, and we’re now fully entrenched in a new digital health funding cycle. in digital health venture funding across 133 rounds, marking the lowest quarterly total seen since 2019.

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Study of 36.5M people reveals huge jump in pandemic telehealth use

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2021

Using data from Blue Health Intelligence data repository – an independent data and analytics company that is a licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association – researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health compared claims data from March through June 2019 with March through June 2020.

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Digital Health Trends To Watch In 2019

Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 27, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. The article Digital Health Trends To Watch In 2019 appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. Illegal copying is prohibited. Technology is the new creed that has literally touched almost every aspect of our life.

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CDC: Telehealth visits more than doubled in March 2020

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Friday found a 154% increase in telehealth visits during the last week of March 2020, compared with the same time period in 2019. Using de-identified patient data from Amwell, Teladoc Health, MDLive and Doctor On Demand, the CDC found that about 1.6 THE LARGER TREND.

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Amazon Clinic may delay its nationwide telehealth launch

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 27, 2023

Warren and Welch asked Amazon executives earlier this month about patient health data privacy and expressed concerns that the platform’s new healthcare service is putting users’ private health data at risk. They requested a detailed response to their concerns from Amazon by June 30.

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Dr. Roboto? Stanford Medicine Foresees Digital Doctors “Maturing”

Health Populi

JANUARY 15, 2020

Physicians are evolving as digital doctors, embracing the growing role of data generated in electronic health records as well as through their patients using wearable technologies and mobile health apps downloaded in ubiquitous smartphones, described in The Rise of the Data-Driven Physician , a 2020 Health Trends Report from Stanford Medicine.

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Verizon's BlueJeans Telehealth integrates with Apple Health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 17, 2021

The Verizon virtual care product BlueJeans Telehealth announced this past week that it had enabled integration with the Apple Health app with the aim of allowing patients to share data with clinicians during telemedicine visits. The provider will be able to observe trend lines or screen share it for use during the appointment.

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Health Care Costs Still Americans’ Top Financial Worry Among All Money Concerns

Health Populi

MAY 30, 2019

Health care costs rank ahead of Americans’ money-worries about low wages and availability of cash, paying for college, house payments, taxes, and debt, according to the latest Gallup poll on peoples’ most important family financial problems in 2019.

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Rock Health Q3 2023 Funding Recap

Digital Health Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Another quarter’s gone in a blink, which means our friends over at Rock Health are already on deck with another recap of the biggest digital health funding trends of Q3. Here’s Q3 by the numbers: US digital health funding totaled $2.5B Here’s Q3 by the numbers: US digital health funding totaled $2.5B

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Rock Health Q1 2023 Funding Recap

Digital Health Wire

APRIL 5, 2023

Rock Health’s Q1 2023 digital health funding report is out and its title couldn’t have put it any better: we’re investing like it’s 2019 again. Here are the numbers in a nutshell: US digital health funding totaled $3.4B Here are the numbers in a nutshell: US digital health funding totaled $3.4B

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CMS reports 34.5M telehealth services delivered March through June

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 21, 2020

million services were delivered via telehealth in Medicare and in the Children's Health Insurance Program from March through June. Telehealth rates skyrocketed following the relaxation of federal regulations around virtual care use at the start of the pandemic, and the CMS data reflects that trend. THE LARGER TREND.

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Health IT Trends for 2019

Health IT Industry Outlook Survey Reveals Six Key Leadership Trends for 2019

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How Twitter Revealed Consumer Health Care Trends in the Pandemic

Consumers Are So Over Their Paper Chase in Health Care Payments

Safety in Health Care Ties Closely to Workforce Well-Being – Updates from Press Ganey and ECRI

The 2023 Health Economy – The Evolving Primary Care and Retail Health Convergence Through Trilliant Health’s Lens

Use of Preventive Health Services Declined Among Commercially Insured People – With Big Differences in Telehealth for Non-White People, Castlight Finds

Joint Commission intros new Telehealth Accreditation Program

The Cost of Treating Patients is On the Rise: PwC Goes What’s Behind the 2024 Medical Spending Numbers

Optum Virtual Care said to be closing down

EHR documentation burdens increasing with virtual care expansion, says study

A Public Health Wake-Up Call: Reading Between the Lines in IQVIA’s 2023 Use of Medicines Report

JWT’s Future 100 Tells Us Tomorrow Is All About Health

The Latest Health Technology Vision and Consumer Behavior Insights From Accenture

Most Health Consumers Expect Technology To Play a Larger Role As Tech-Angst & Privacy Concerns Grow

AI: Patients Included

Self-Care Is Healthcare In Consumers’ Hands, Peaking on Google Trends

A New Chevy Equinox SUV, a Year in Grad School, or Health Care for Four – The 2022 Milliman Medical Index

What the Hell Is Going On with Healthcare Interoperability?

What #CES2019 5 Tech Trends to Watch Mean for Health/Care

The Pandemic Accelerated Consumers’ Digital Health Tech Ownership As Big Tech Morphs To Big Health

Healthcare Just Got SMAC’ed – Accenture’s Post-Digital Era for Health

World Health Day 2019: Let’s Celebrate Food, Climate, Insurance Coverage and Connectivity

Your State as a Determinant of Health: Sharecare’s 2021 Community Well-Being Index

AMA sees surge in health IT adoption, 'rise of the digital-native physician'

Employers Take on Health Activism, Embracing Behavioral Health, Virtual Care, AI, and Transparency

Amazon looks to bring telehealth, in-person care to 20 more cities

From Evolution to Innovation, from Health Care to Health: How Health Plans With Collaborators Are Re-Defining the Industry

VA offers $1B telehealth contract opportunity

Cerebral says 3M affected by a patient data breach

As Medical Cost Trend Remains Flat, Patients Face Growing Health Consumer Financial Stress

Keep Your Eye on These 4 Emerging Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) Trends

Trends Shaping the Health Economy: Behavioral Health

Rock Health Q1 2024 Funding Recap

Study of 36.5M people reveals huge jump in pandemic telehealth use

Digital Health Trends To Watch In 2019

CDC: Telehealth visits more than doubled in March 2020

Amazon Clinic may delay its nationwide telehealth launch

Dr. Roboto? Stanford Medicine Foresees Digital Doctors “Maturing”

Verizon's BlueJeans Telehealth integrates with Apple Health

Health Care Costs Still Americans’ Top Financial Worry Among All Money Concerns

Rock Health Q3 2023 Funding Recap

Rock Health Q1 2023 Funding Recap

CMS reports 34.5M telehealth services delivered March through June

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