Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

doctors are using digital health tools in patient care, with quickening adoption of telehealth and remote monitoring technology, according to a study from the American Medical Association (AMA). This survey, conducted in 2019 among 1,359 U.S. Readings are visible to patients and transmitted to the physician’s office.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

APRIL 23, 2018

The Society for Education and the Advancement of Research in Connected Health will hold its SEARCH 2018 symposium at the Roth Auditorium at the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine in La Jolla, (San Diego) California, on October 24-25. Register Today for SEARCH 2018! Submit your abstract online! Space is limited.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Those pens would do two things to modernize American health care for both patients and doctors: first, Congress would pass the CONNECT for Health Act (HR 4189. S 2016) and second, re-introduce and sign the Telehealth Modernization Act. Why this call-to-action on the 118 th U.S. Congress to address telehealth right now?

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

We weren’t surprised to note that younger patients took advantage of retail clinics and other on-demand channels for health care, older people, too, have been willing to use sites other than doctor’s offices and hospital clinics to receive health care services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2021

"We are pleased to support the CONNECT for Health Act as a significant step toward removing outdated barriers to Medicare’s coverage of live audio and video healthcare services for vulnerable populations," said Connected Health Initiative Executive Director Morgan Reed in a statement. A years-long effort.

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2019

A recent meta-analysis looking at interventions to reduce social isolation and loneliness among older people looked at 38 studies through January 2016 and found some promising interventions, albeit lacking as robust a field as the researchers would have liked to mine. How to mitigate loneliness, especially among older people?

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Health Populi

AUGUST 6, 2018

Compare the 2016 profit pools to those forecasted for 2026: in the current environment, the profit pools for PBMs, distributors, and payers fall ( colored in blue ). Rewards will accrue to the organizations that can scale such solutions. Over the same decade, see who wins?

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American Well

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Telehealth is on every healthcare exec’s 2016 agenda and this year’s HIMSS is the place to get a deeper dive into what’s next for online care. 29 – 8:30 AM – 4 PM: Connected Health Symposium. Here’s a teaser to tide you over until the conference kicks off Monday – yesterday we released the first-ever telehealth mobile SDK.

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American Well

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Telehealth is on every healthcare exec’s 2016 agenda and this year’s HIMSS is the place to get a deeper dive into what’s next for online care. 29 – 8:30 AM – 4 PM: Connected Health Symposium. Here’s a teaser to tide you over until the conference kicks off Monday – yesterday we released the first-ever telehealth mobile SDK.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2018

These policy recommendations are rooted in a tragedy: the murder of Jo Cox, the Labour MP who was murdered in 2016. And here is an important essay, quite timely to revisit from 2016, from The New Yorker on Jo Cox, the Brexit Vote, and the Politics of Murder. Jo had campaigned about loneliness, and had worked with Oxfam for many years.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Gabe , along with John Grohol, PsyD , founder of PsychCentral.com , will present “Talking Mental Health” at the Society for Participatory Medicine’s 2nd Annual Conference , which takes place Wednesday, October 17, in Boston, attached to the prestigious Connected Health conference.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 10, 2020

In Valencell’s recent survey of consumer wearable preferences , 55% of people said they’d like to monitor blood pressure, up from 46% in 2016 as shown in this bar chart from the study. One in two people would like to monitor stress and heart health, and 33% would like to monitor blood glucose levels.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Five Offerings from the Boston Connected Health Conference 2018. The Connected Health Conference is still a Health IT conference, owned by HIMSS, spruced up by the pre-conference Voice Health summit , task forces , and even onstage singing by health tech folk that may wish they were in show business.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 8, 2018

Earlier this year, Nokia hinted it wanted to offload Withings, the startup it had bought for 170 million euros ($200 million) in 2016 and rebranded as Nokia Digital Health, to prioritize its network infrastructure business instead. In May 2016, two years after Microsoft had bought Nokia’s handset business for $7.2

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Health Populi

MARCH 5, 2019

The OECD calls this out as unequal access to broadband of sufficient quality where the share of households with broadband connections in rural areas is less than the share in urban areas — a gap that is even more significant when accounting for connection speed (which represents the quality of the connection).

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Society for Participatory Medicine

JUNE 27, 2018

Some observers say there are ulterior motives – for instance see these 30 seconds of Yale cardiologist Harlan Krumholz at Connected Health 2016, on how a health system CEO told him flat out: “You don’t understand – why would we want to make it easy for people to get their health data?

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Digital Health Today

MARCH 4, 2020

Ada Lovelace: Founder of Scientific Computing , San Diego Supercomputer Center, 1997. Popova, Maria. “ How Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron’s Daughter, Became the World’s First Computer Programmer.” Brain Pickings , 4 Sept. Toole, Betty. “ Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace.” Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace , Agnes Scott College, 13 Nov.

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care innovations

OCTOBER 24, 2018

At the recently concluded Connected Health Conference in Boston, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai delivered a keynote speech expressing his agency’s dedication to expanding federal funding for key telehealth initiatives, along with a few new proposals for accomplishing them.

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American Well

MARCH 5, 2018

In fact, in 2016, 21% of those who earn $30k or less are smartphone dependent, meaning that they have a smartphone but not broadband internet at home. Since changes to reimbursement are happening all the time, it’s best to go to a site such at the Center for Connected Health Policy to find out what’s happening in your state.

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American Well

MARCH 5, 2018

In fact, in 2016, 21% of those who earn $30k or less are smartphone dependent, meaning that they have a smartphone but not broadband internet at home. Since changes to reimbursement are happening all the time, it’s best to go to a site such at the Center for Connected Health Policy to find out what’s happening in your state.

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mHealth Insight

MARCH 5, 2018

Tuesday 6 March (10:40am Bellini 2105/2106): CONNECTED HEALTH AND THE HUMAN ELEMENT: CREATING A BETTER HEALTH SYSTEM IN THE NEW MOBILE AGE. Speakers include: Joe Kvedar, Vice President, Connected Health, Partners Connected Health. The New Mobile Age, as described in Dr. Kvedar’s new book, is a busi.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

The following is a list of legislative activities compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (AR, MS, and TN). CCHP has a pending legislation/regulation webpage located at the following link: [link]. LEGISLATION. Passed Legislation.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The challenge of healthcare costs is also on my mind this week as the Milken Institute published their annual report on America’s Obesity Crisis , measuring the health and economic costs of excess weight in the U.S. The total costs of obesity and overweight exceeded $1.7

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Mend

MAY 18, 2023

Launched in 2016, the Mend platform has provided healthcare organizations with technology that enables the delivery of patient-centric care across many specialties including mental health. Additionally, Mend was honored with the “ Best Patient Experience ” award at the 2022 Connected Health Pulse MVP Awards.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

DECEMBER 3, 2015

In 2016, Stanford Medicine is looking to extend into specialty care. We also want to expand the use of connected health devices. We are planning to incorporate this health tracking into a program for a patient population (e.g. ClickWell Care is designed to be “longitudinal” and not episodic.

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mHealth Insight

DECEMBER 2, 2018

It’s interesting to note that this number is down 40% on the number in 2017 which itself was down 40% on 2016 (click here to view the events that were held in 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2 011 and 2010 ). The mHealth events that are happening are also now on the whole a lot smaller eg.

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Health Populi

MARCH 14, 2018

In 2016, after Fossil acquired Misfit, the Kate Spade brand (part of the Fossil Group) created whimsical watch faces that housed sensors to track steps. .” In the first years of activity tracking, when it came to female-focused devices, it was about fashion-meeting-sensors. Swarovski crystals surrounded a Misfit Shine.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 17, 2019

Congressman and House of Representatives Majority Leader ( with whom I collaborated at CES in 2016 ); Morad Fareed, (another CES collaborator of mine on that Wizards of Maternal Health panel )’ and David Pogue, who leads Corporate Responsibility at CBRE Group, among many other experts.

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Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

Yet the trust relationship with technology companies, even after the 2016 Cambridge Analytica event, is different and it’s clearly stronger than it is with health insurers. Should it be?

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Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

In addition to offering a generous employee benefits package, the hospital collaborated with the Massachusetts Nursing Association — its RNs’ collective bargaining arm — to offer employees up to $2,000 in incentives for maintaining their health. Boston Business Journal named the hospital a Best Place to Work in 2012, 2014 and 2016.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

MAY 1, 2017

She first learned from her employer about the Accolade platform and health advisor service last summer. It wasn’t until she reached out with a simple question to her health assistant that Sarah experienced the true value of having a healthcare advisor on her side. Harriet sent a text to Sam to inquire about his knee surgery.

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2019

This chart, on page 262, is important for healthcare delivery because a large proportion of the healthcare labor force is indeed foreign-born — at all levels of the system, from hyper-specialists in the operating room and research labs to home health aides helping elders with activities of daily living.

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Chilmark Research

JANUARY 21, 2016

Figure from Chilmark’s Connected Health Report). The results of a six-month study on the impact of connected devices on chronically ill patients are in – and they’re not good. In 2016, researchers deserve a SMAC the next time they propose studying patient engagement using claims data. On visits to the gym?

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

One on which I focus in my book is connectivity. For several years, I’ve called out telecom connections as a social determinant: for example, in this Huffington Post column written in July 2016, I asserted that broadband is a social determinant of health.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2018

The issue of net neutrality and Everyday Peoples’ access to connectivity and broadband lies at the heart of this intersection.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

OCTOBER 9, 2018

17 in Boston, attached to the prestigious Connected Health conference. So you can imagine how thrilled I was when, in 2016, she was appointed the next Director of America’s National Library of Medicine (NLM). Register here. Our #SPM2018 blog series has more about the speakers and activities.).

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

“Making health” is one of the action areas being worked on by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, where a “shared understanding” of health as a cultural value is embedded.

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