Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Instead, digital health startups should try need-driven innovation. A decade ago, a wave of companies promised to transform people’s health by allowing them to track data about their eating, sleep, exercise, and other habits. The “move fast and break things” approach that works in tech doesn’t translate well to healthcare.

Digital Health 76

Digital Health Health Technology Primary Care Medical Technology 76

Lloyd Price

JUNE 6, 2018

Push Doctor, the UK’s largest digital health provider, opens a new Digital Health Campus to act as a focal point for the development of digital health in the UK. Push Doctor has grown rapidly from four employees in January 2016 to 118 today, and is expected to reach 170 by the end of 2018.

Digital Health 40

Digital Health Primary Care 40

Health Populi

JANUARY 10, 2020

The digital health presence at CES 2020 is the fastest-growing segment of consumer technologies at the Show this year, increasing by 25% over 2019. In fact, in our search for devices and tools underpinned with clinical proof, evidence is growing for consumer-facing technology for heart-health, demonstrated by this year’s CES.

Digital Health 221

Digital Health Interoperability EHR Health Data 221

Health Populi

JANUARY 31, 2018

Omron has been one of the few consumer-facing digital health companies that has taken the long-view and done the work to file for FDA clearance for a medical-grade technology that mainstream consumers can use. After mental health and diabetes, heart apps rank as the third largest categories for medical apps on the market in 2017.

Digital Health 204

Digital Health Connected Health Public Health Mental health 204

GlobalMed

AUGUST 3, 2021

Technical literacy, such as knowing how to use devices and interact with electronic health record (EHR) portals and video interfaces. These three components are known as digital health readiness – and when it comes to underserved patients, much of their readiness is limited by social determinants of health.

Telemedicine 111

Telemedicine Mental health Telehealth Digital Health 111

Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2018

California, home to start-ups, mature tech platform companies (like Apple, Facebook and Google), and countless digital health developers, is in a particularly strategic place to fight the FCC and, now, the Department of Justice. Nearly two dozen other states are looking to write net neutrality laws following Governor Brown’s example.

Public Health 225

Public Health Primary Care Digital Health Telehealth 225

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 2, 2020

The education of healthcare professionals must include digital health. Citizens’ digital health literacy must also increase,” she said. A whole suite of digital tools is available to the Portuguese to help them manage their health, with relatively high use rates. More than 10.6

Telehealth 108

Telehealth Telecare Primary Care Interoperability 108

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?

Telehealth 193

Telehealth Mental health Public Health Medical Billing 193

Health Populi

MARCH 18, 2021

The lack of access to mental and behavioral health services has been a health inequity in the U.S. The lack of payment for mental health services in primary care and health plans is a barrier to people getting these services overall. Stress is US: Health Care is the #1 Stressor in America.

Mental health 156

Mental health Primary Care Telehealth Public Health 156

Digital Health Global

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Healthtech can play a fundamental role in the enhancement of preventative care, as discussed previously. With the majority of disease-specific PSP apps produced by pharma companies failing in terms of usage and user satisfaction, smartpatient’s bet on the “operating system” model has so far proven to be successful 8. [1] DiMasi, H.G.

Drug Development 88

Drug Development Pharmaceuticals Public Health Telehealth 88

Lloyd Price

JULY 17, 2023

In 2022, SoftBank Vision Fund 2 invested $1 billion in Alto Pharmacy, a digital pharmacy that delivers prescription drugs to patients. The company also invested $500 million in Ro Health, a telehealth company that provides primary care services to patients nationwide.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Digital Health Life Science Telehealth 52

Health Populi

JANUARY 17, 2019

Lyn and Frances tested three assumptions that they believed linked housing and health: that housing contributes to health; that housing is not routinely included in health or social planning;’ and that the potential contribution of primary care is wasted.

Mental health 165

Mental health Primary Care Public Health Medical Technology 165

Meaningful HIT News

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Yes, it was Topol who dropped his stethoscope in the trash on stage at TEDMED 2009 and suggested that the handheld ultrasound should become the standard of care by the time the 200th anniversary of the stethoscope rolled around in 2016. A new one will still set you back $7,900.

Connected Health 28

Connected Health Primary Care Mobile Health Telehealth 28

Henry Kotula

JANUARY 21, 2019

On the policy front, newly-installed Democrats in Congress (and the party’s 2020 presidential candidates) will be pushing for more comprehensive health coverage plans while the GOP considers tougher Medicaid restrictions at the state, and potentially federal, level. Providers: Behavioral care goes primary, investment in digital.

Medicare 32

Medicare Telemedicine Digital Health Telehealth 32

Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

Public perception has not caught up to the reality that the lines between health care companies are so blurred at this point that it is becoming nearly impossible to tell the insurers from the providers from the pharma/medtech manufacturers from the retailers from the tech and data analytics companies. Should it be?

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Pharmaceuticals HIPAA BioTech Patient Experience 216