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South Central Legislative/Regulatory Update – November 2017

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

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). Title: Advanced Practice Registered Nurse. Agency: Board of Nursing. Amends rules regarding advanced practice registered nurses.

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Why are older adults demeaned by the health and tech industry?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Consider an upcoming HIMSS event in Orlando with the charming title: Monitoring Grandma: Adoption of Connected Health Tech by Seniors. Back to monitoring, connected health or otherwise. What is the point of sneering at older people? Because technology can be used for a purpose, inventors want to make it so.

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Consumers Changing the Channel on Where They Shop for Health

Health Populi

The two organizations have collaborated to launch a new benchmarking study into health-beauty-wellness (HBW) sales, launched this weekend at the GMDC HBW Conference in Orlando. Overall, 2017 to 2018 year-on-year, HBW sales were flat-to-no growth, notwithstanding the consumer and influencer buzz around the categories.

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Hospitals Work to Address Customer Experience Gap With Consumers, Kaufman Hall Finds

Health Populi

Deloitte calculated another way to measure the ROI of patient delight by looking at hospitals’ financial performance, finding that those providers who scored more highly on patient experience yielded better financial outcomes — highly correlated to patient-nurse engagement.

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Telehealth Research Used to Support New Policy Initiatives for Expansion

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That’s according to a number of recent reports focused on telehealth research within a few specific areas of telehealth implementation — one of them focused on primary care and mental health, the other on exploring the application of telehealth and remote care technology within skilled nursing facilities.

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Consumers’ Embrace of Digital Health Tech Stalls, and Privacy Concerns Prevail – Accenture’s 2020 Research

Health Populi

Overall, 75% of consumers trust medical doctors, and 69% trust nurse practitioners and physician assistants. There’s a nuance in trust that’s a key insight in this study regarding trust in clinicians overall, and trust when clinicians use technology. Let’s call out the two keywords in this phrase: Concern + Embrace. .

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Six Health and Aging Technology Blog Posts from October 2018

Aging in Place Technology Watch

There’s the 2017 AARP report that surveys caregivers about what they want from technology -- they are interested in but not currently using. Five Offerings from the Boston Connected Health Conference 2018. Help Yelp Serve Families with Information about Nursing Homes. A small percent live in nursing homes.

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