Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

The vision/optical industry is one piece of the health/care ecosystem, but the segment has not been as directly impacted by patients’ new consumer muscles until just about now. I was grateful to have an opportunity to share my views with attendees on the vision patient as health consumer through the health economic lens.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 4, 2020

Telehealth In recent conversations with healthcare executives across the country, I hear the same story: The dramatic spikes in telehealth visits in March and April have dropped off, even as in-person visits have started climbing slowly. In recent conversations with healthcare executives across the country, I hear the same story.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Population Health Precision Medicine Telehealth Workforce From vaccines to virtual care, enterprise imaging to precision medicine, these are the growth areas that will shape the direction of healthcare, this year and beyond. The year 2020 has been a year unlike any other year in our history.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

"Broadband is now revered as the super-social determinant of health because it has a direct impact on all of the other social determinants of health." The FCC gave over $350 million in grants to healthcare organizations for telehealth capabilities – which was great! Region Tag: Global Edition.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 23, 2022

Columbia Orthopaedic Group in Missouri, like so many ambulatory surgery centers across the country, do procedures today that are far more complex than those it did five years ago. Columbia Orthopaedic Group felt it was representative of its quality and reputation to create a system that improved the care it offered patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 20, 2020

Amongst these tragic circumstances there has also been a lot of attention on technology in healthcare and public health. The doctor will see you now. It seems to have become part of everyone’s lives including the way in which we interact with doctors and other healthcare professionals. You seem a bit hot today.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 4, 2023

Lack of standardization of technology platforms – or lack of care platforms altogether – hobbled the care industries -- senior living, home care, home healthcare. Examples: Some believe family caregivers are a standalone group that does not use care services. For too many years, high quality data about care of seniors has been elusive.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Optum acquires DaVita Medical Group and Humana acquires Kindred Healthcare. So with 50 million people aged 65+ now, a Longevity Economy worth $7.6 A marketer of this tech told me recently that their traction and focus is in ‘healthcare’ – not aging. category tags: Aging technology , Aging , Boomer-Senior Tech Business.

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MeMD

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Millennials, the age group born between 1981 and 2000, now make up 35% of today’s employees. The oldest members of this generation are now entering the workforce en masse. It’s no surprise they’re largely dissatisfied with today’s healthcare system – it’s the opposite of easy and convenient. What Younger Employees Want.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

OCTOBER 15, 2015

This group is initiated by the OAuth / OpenID Connect / UMA communities. There are some key people involved from healthcare, more people are always welcome. It has taken input from various Healthcare initiatives including SMART, and Argonaut. I understand that this is further being developed now under Argonaut Project.

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American Well

JUNE 4, 2018

According to a study by the Health Management Academy, 100% of responding healthcare professionals either already are or at least intend to begin promoting telehealth services in 2018. Younger patients are already using them and older groups are also increasingly comfortable with technology. At the risk of a truism, you just do it.

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American Well

JUNE 4, 2018

According to a study by the Health Management Academy, 100% of responding healthcare professionals either already are or at least intend to begin promoting telehealth services in 2018. Younger patients are already using them and older groups are also increasingly comfortable with technology. At the risk of a truism, you just do it.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Interestingly, healthcare data breaches are largely caused by insiders and cost $400+ per user data record breached. So Optum acquires DaVita Medical Group and Humana acquires Kindred Healthcare. By now, and for most, no big deal, you may know that the Series 4 watch has fall detection. Gee, what do they do?

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American Well

DECEMBER 19, 2017

According to a study by the Health Management Academy, 100% of responding healthcare professionals either already are or at least intend to begin promoting telehealth services in 2018. Younger patients are already using them and older groups are also increasingly comfortable with technology. At the risk of a truism, you just do it.

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American Well

DECEMBER 19, 2017

According to a study by the Health Management Academy, 100% of responding healthcare professionals either already are or at least intend to begin promoting telehealth services in 2018. Younger patients are already using them and older groups are also increasingly comfortable with technology. At the risk of a truism, you just do it.

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Iris Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The question then is, how do you reach and connect with these individuals in need of the mental healthcare you provide? Perhaps now more than ever, social media is pervasive in the way people today are communicating and finding information, including about mental health. Purchase targeted Facebook ads.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Of course, that's been the case every year over the past decade since the first meaningful use checks were mailed out, kickstarting the digital healthcare age as we know it. by Healthcare IT News November 22, 2019. – Susan Morse, Senior Editor, Healthcare Finance News. Sign up for our daily and weekly newsletters.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 28, 2019

This hearing aid can now identify when its user has suffered a fall and send secure a warning notification to as many as three preselected emergency contacts. SoundMind is a web platform that allows assisted living facilities to easily manage groups of devices like Alexa to provide better care for their patients.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 25, 2018

Today though, demand is outstripping supply and healthcare staff are turning to WhatsApp to fulfil their requirements. " "The findings from this study demonstrate that smartphones have become increasingly popular among healthcare professionals who perceive them to be an excellent tool in supporting healthcare delivery. ."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic essentially forced healthcare provider organizations, the government and payers to embrace telehealth as an essential way to enable physicians to see patients. “I can now self-schedule, and see when the patient has checked in, and when they’re ready and waiting for me,” she said.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

JANUARY 16, 2013

I am however happy to use IHE-ATNA as the marketing tag. Community of Experts I have been involved in developing Security Audit Standards for Healthcare since I started working on Healthcare Standards. Back then there were a handful of people working on Security and Privacy standards for healthcare.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2020

Connected Health Mobility Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth How contact tracing, contactless experiences and remote monitoring will redefine healthcare and public health. A study by non-profit group FAIR Health suggests a 4,000% increase in telehealth claims across the country. Telehealth is here to stay.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 7, 2021

Food and beverage, healthcare, transportation, education and consumer packaged goods. According to Edelman: “The tech industry is now being held to account for all manner of societal ills -- from information bankruptcy to job loss, to human rights, to the mass-class divide. ". What categories were the most trusted? What’s this mean?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2021

My organization's leaders assumed at first that face-to-face interaction was the preferred healthcare experience, and that telehealth visits dehumanized the medical encounter. " "Virtual visits are nice considering the pandemic, but I'd like to be looked at and examined every now and then."

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 12, 2020

This gigantic parade of the international new and now possible can be perused online in detail (and perhaps more usefully) without walking a step or sniffing cigar smoke. Beyond Vision, a startup solution in the form of an AI healthcare product, CarePLUS. Essence Group Fall Detector Radar. Learn more from Essence Group."

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Dr. Geoff Rutledge, chief medical officer of HealthTap , says that variations in healthcare outcomes between adjacent counties can be huge. About 25% of the disparity can be attributed to difficulties getting access to healthcare. The Healthy People project of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) now incorporates SDoH.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Now, many patients and providers are asking: What will telehealth look like five or ten years from now? Claus Jensen, chief innovation officer at Teladoc Health, says the question isn't just about what other kinds of healthcare can be made virtual. We, as patients, make a lot of decisions in healthcare.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 1, 2019

The Pew document did not examine time spent online as screen time– but Facebook’s user base is growing among older adults , presumably balancing the sizable loss of young people as well as the 30 million who died during the company’s first eight years, now able to be memorialized through a new 'legacy' feature. But we digress. Only 16.4%

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

In an age when nearly everyone is digitally connected in some way – even many senior citizens, who are often characterized as technophobic – it only makes sense that the healthcare industry is seeing a lot of connected health devices and remote patient monitoring (RPM) technologies.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

DECEMBER 21, 2020

So, we elected to focus on testing – no reason beyond a possible common thread and the participation in our group of Michael Waters, a testing expert with the FDA. What followed was an exercise in classification, metadata, and tagging. Guidance for Healthcare Workers about COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) Testing. Data Element.

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