Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2022

Consumers continued to invest in and use several technologies that supported self-care at home in 2021, with plans to purchase connected health devices, sports and fitness equipment in the next year. The percent of first-time tech purchases will increase “considerably” from 2021, on average 8 percentage points.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

to reveal trends on health care providers’ ability to collect patient service revenue. The first chart quantifies that bad debt attributable to patients’ self-pay payments after insurance kicks in: that category of bad debt grew by five times between 2018 and 2021, from 11% to nearly 58%.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 24, 2023

million adult patients at Kaiser Permanente Northern California in 2021, and compared treatment and follow-up visits among primary care telemedicine (video and telephone) and in-person office visits. Virtual care can help ease the rural mental health crisis , while teleneurology is improving access and care for veterans.

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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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Health Populi

AUGUST 2, 2022

When I talk about patient support programs (PSPs), I’m most often focused on supporting peoples’ access to medicines due to costs, bolstering health literacy, and addressing health citizens’ risks of drivers of health that can be obstacles to optimal health outcomes (those challenging social determinants of health).

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Health Populi

MARCH 16, 2021

Case and Deaton wrote the book on Deaths of Despair ( detailed here in Health Populi) , . Six years since that first study, Case and Deaton focus in on education in this 2021 article: specifically, the relationship between a person in the U.S. The trend lines for Black people without BA degrees in the U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 23, 2021

Financial Experience (let’s call it FX) is the next big thing in the world of patient experience and health care. Patients, as health consumers, have taken on more of the financial risk for health care payments. But that just isn’t happening.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Virtua Health's successful "get human fast" online engagement platform propelled patients to interact with staff and clinicians expanded to virtual consultations, chatbots and RPM. The enterprise health system created six distinct service lines supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

At the end of November, the tech world figuratively-speaking fell over when the staggeringly well-funded AI tool, ChatGPT, was launched by OpenA I , its sponsor and creator.Within five days, a million were giving the tool a try – and who knows how many by now (six weeks later, perhaps more powerful servers are required).

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Digital Health Global

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Telehealth Market Size, Share & Trends Analysis Report By Product Type (Hardware, Software, Services), By Delivery Mode (Web-based, Cloud-based, On-premises), By End-use (Payers, Patients), And Segment Forecasts, 2023 – 2030” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering. to USD 186.1

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

UPMC Central Pennsylvania, a hospital that in 2021 achieved Stage 7, the top of the HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model, has been a leader in telemedicine, with more than two dozen robust virtual care programs. UPMC in Central Pennsylvania is a large health system serving a wide geography covering more than 10 counties.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This is according to a new annual report from research and consulting giant PwC entitled “Top health industry issues of 2021: Will a shocked system emerge stronger? Healthcare right-sizes after the telemedicine explosion.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 10, 2021

In a study published in E-Health Telecommunication Systems and Networks , the team reviewed other work concerning telehealth and chronic conditions. They found that virtual care services benefited patients more if they continued for about a year rather than ending after six months. THE LARGER TREND.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 19, 2023

The increasing adoption of digital health technologies. In 2021, the value of healthtech M&A deals reached $60 billion, up from $40 billion in 2020. In 2021, the value of healthtech M&A deals reached $60 billion, up from $40 billion in 2020. This trend is expected to continue in the coming years.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. Digitally-enabled care is the future of telehealth – “telehealth” has become industry norm since the start of the pandemic and used as a catchall term for everything from virtual doctor’s appointments to at-home testing kits.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 26, 2021

Joseph Health Consortium, based in Renton, Washington, had a problem: maintaining access for its patients and needing to find creative ways to expand hospital and clinician capacity through virtual means versus traditional brick-and-mortar solutions. Joseph Health Consortium. Joseph Health Consortium. Providence St. THE PROBLEM.

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Lloyd Price

MAY 28, 2021

Mental health used to be a topic that few talked about, but the global pandemic opened the floodgates for discussion, and propelled startups focused on the sector with both renewed demand and venture capital investment. Among a Crunchbase list of global startups focused on mental health , investors have pumped $5.1

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Redox

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Investors have been pouring money into digital health for the past decade. At the close of every quarter, it seems we’re hit with a great Rock or Startup Health analysis describing how we’ve broken another set of records in dollars invested, deal sizes, quantities of deals, etc. But how has the pandemic changed this landscape?

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

At the start of CES 2021, I had the opportunity to catch up with Karsten Russell-Wood, Portfolio Marketing Leader, Post Acute & Home, Connected Care at Philips. We brainstormed just as CES 2021 was going to “open,” virtually, for the consumer electronics conference’s first all-virtual meeting.

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Xealth

APRIL 17, 2024

Note to readers: This is the fourth post in a six-part series exploring the perspectives of digital patient engagement. Mike Deegan, Director, Business Development Driven by staffing shortages , clinician and patient burnout, and dynamic regulatory environments , digital engagement emerges as a beacon of innovation and efficiency.

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Clear Arch Health

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In this post, we’ll look at some key factors such as improvements in patient care and outcomes as well as the possibilities of increased CMS reimbursements for your practice, home health agency, or healthcare organization. We’ll also cover some best practice suggestions and expected return on investment (ROI) on your RPM technology solution.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 24, 2022

As a leader in obstetrics at the medical center, her focus is on ensuring the facility's population has the resources needed to monitor patients at high risk of postpartum hypertension to reduce overall health risks in a way that doesn't disrupt the important early days of infant bonding at home. THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 19, 2022

On Thursday Amwell announced the launch of its new evidence-based and scalable behavioral health technology. The program enables healthcare organizations to offer virtual therapy and psychiatry, coaching, and digital mental health programs. THE LARGER TREND. WHY IT MATTERS. Some 60% of U.S. ON THE RECORD. ON THE RECORD.

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Xealth

APRIL 2, 2024

Note to readers: This is the second post in a six-part series exploring the perspectives of digital patient engagement. Healthcare’s ongoing transformation continues to be fueled by the rapid advancement of digital technology and changing patient expectations.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 28, 2023

[link] In January 2023, the Rockefeller Institute published a three-part blog series on trends to watch in healthcare in 2023. The series covered broad issues related to the healthcare workforce, economy, and health policy, and highlighted internal industry changes and trends in service delivery, quality, and equity.

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Waracle

JULY 22, 2021

COVID-19 brought forward a myriad of challenges on multiple fronts, for all industries, but none more so than the health insurance sector, who continue to battle to meet the changing expectations of their members. . Health Insurers, like any financial services organisation, want to address the cost to do business.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 13, 2021

I cannot recall a season when so many health consumer studies have been launched into my email inbox. This year-end/New Year 2022 post on my Health Populi blog will weave together many of the key findings from these consumer health/care reports that are most resonating with me and the work I’m doing….

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 12, 2023

News Three Democratic Senators have introduced legislation to expand protections for Americans’ personal health data privacy. The latest data brief from ONC shows that 87% of office-based physicians used telemedicine in 2021 , compared to just 15% in 2018 – though the majority (53%) used if for less than 25% of their total visit volume.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Today, Healthcare IT News presents the latest in its feature story series speaking with healthcare C-suite officers and other health IT leaders about the healthcare information technology and other lessons learned during the past year, and how they are applying those lessons this year and beyond. Nicholas J.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MAY 25, 2023

More Recent Sex & Abstinence Study In a 2022 report of the UCLA California Health Interview Survey, researchers also noted a decline in sexual activity among young adults in California. This figure increased to 29% in 2019 and 38% in 2021. Together, these factors account for about three-quarters of the observed decline.

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