Health Populi

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Themes addressed a range of digital health items such as access to medical information via smartphone, wearable health trackers, digital assistants, telemedicine, AI in medical treatment, robotics for medical care, and sharing health data, among other factors.

Medical Billing 431

Medical Billing Telemedicine Digital Health Health Data 431

Health Populi

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Family premiums for health insurance received at the workplace grew 5% in 2018: to $19,616, according to the 2018 KFF Employer Health Benefits Survey released today by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF). Over the past decade the share of workers in plans with annual deductibles has grown from 59% in 2008 to 85% in 2018.

Telehealth 157

Telehealth Telemedicine Medical Billing Health Data 157

Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

Yet with that bullish supply side of digital health, there was a marked decline in peoples’ use of them in the past two years, found by Accenture in their latest health consumer survey, Digital is Transforming Health, So Why is Consumer Adoption Stalling? On Monday 9th March 2020, at the start of this week, the U.S.

Digital Health 348

Digital Health Health Data HIPAA Mental health 348

Health Populi

MARCH 5, 2018

The median American uses 3 social networking platforms in 2018. Facebook is the primary platform for most Americans who use social media in 2018: two-thirds of U.S. adults age 18 and over in early January 2018 for this study. Health Populi’s Hot Points : Health is social: isolation is a social determinant for ill health.

Digital Health 174

Digital Health Health Data Health IT Patient Experience 174

Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2022

Walgreens launched Find Care Now in 2018. Health care (and cancer care in particular) is a team sport and takes a proverbial village to surround the patient, so Jasper, like Walgreens, has been building out its own family of alliances.

Mental health 156

Mental health Digital Health Patient Experience Connected Health 156

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

“Every company is a tech company,” Christopher Mimms asserted in the Wall Street Journal in December 2018. Connectivity, artificial intelligence, and automation are now competencies every company must master, Mimms explains.

Digital Health 220

Digital Health Health Data Patient Experience Connected Health 220

Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2018

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Trust is fundamental to a consumer’s health engagement. At the other end of the health data trust spectrum are government agencies and pharmaceutical companies, who rank low on consumer confidence for keeping personal health information secure.

Digital Health 128

Digital Health Health Information Health Data Telemedicine 128

Consumer eHealth Engagement

OCTOBER 23, 2018

BCH John Brownstein shares voice health use cases John Brownstein, Chief Innovation Officer at Boston Children’s Hospital is excited about the opportunity for healthcare to lead other verticals with this empowering technology which many of us use every day – Alexa tell me… Siri what is… ?

Pain management 28

Pain management Health Technology mHealth Patient Experience 28

Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

It’s National Health IT Week in the US, so I’m kicking off the week with this post focused on how digital health can bolster economic development. As the only health economist in the family of the 2018 HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors, this is a voice through which I can uniquely speak. GDP, in 2018.

Digital Health 154

Digital Health EHR Telehealth Health Information 154

Insulin Nation

MAY 8, 2018

April 24, 2018 – Smart Meter , an innovative diabetes management data, technology and solutions company, today announced that its iGlucose® Diabetes Care Solution meets the requirements for the newly created Remote Monitoring CPT Code, as defined by Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Health data is patient generated.

Remote care 40

Remote care Medicare Connected Health Health Data 40

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.

Connected Health 183

Connected Health Telehealth Pharmaceuticals EHR 183

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

“Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans,” the Wall Street Journal reported in today’s paper and on the WSJ.com website. health care. ” Note: this release was written after the Wall Street Journal published this story. Out-of-network costs?

BioTech 160

BioTech Medical Billing HIPAA Health Information 160

Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2019

Ann Mond Johnson assumed the helm of CEO of ATA in 2018, and she’s issued a call-to-action across the health/care ecosystem for a delivery system upgrade. “ATA” is the new three-letter acronym for the American Telemedicine Association, meeting today through Tuesday at the Convention Center in New Orleans.

Telehealth 227

Telehealth Telemedicine FHIR Medicare 227

InTouch Health

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Kentucky is in the process of crafting a new bill that would not only strengthen the state’s existing telehealth legislation, it would also create a cabinet-level department committee that would be responsible for overseeing and supporting all connected health programs, namely telehealth. Kentucky Doubles Down on Telehealth.

Telehealth 78

Telehealth Pain management Mental health Connected Health 78

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

“Our new data shows that the public has a definite opinion about what issues they feel companies should address and the social impact bar has been set high,” according to Amy Terpeluk, senior partner at Finn Partners. adults conducted in December 2017 into January 2018. The Index is based on a survey of 25,800 U.S.

Leadership 165

Leadership Health Information Health Data Connected Health 165

Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2018

For further information on loneliness in the UK, here was the New York Times’ take on the appointment of the Minister for Loneliness published in January 2018. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Maneesh snapped this photo of us as we were about to say so long, for now, in Covent Garden.

Public Health 255

Public Health Digital Health Mental health Health IT 255

Health Blawg

OCTOBER 29, 2018

My guest for this edition is Dave Ryan, Intel GM for Health and Life Sciences at its Internet of Things Group. We spoke at the Connected Health conference in Boston, an annual get-together of innovators in digital health and healthcare transformation which has long been on my list of regular stops on the conference circuit.

Remote care 60

Remote care Life Science Digital Health Healthcare Innovation 60

Health Populi

MAY 4, 2018

Health Forum, held at the Lansdowne Resort on 7-8 May 2018. I will be part of a segment called “Click for Better Health,” brainstorming digital health opportunities and consumer engagement with Jeff and Dr. Joshua Riff, CEO of Onduo. This report precedes the PwC 180?

Life Science 120

Life Science Digital Health healthcare technology Medical Technology 120

Health Blawg

OCTOBER 29, 2018

My guest for this edition is Dave Ryan, Intel GM for Health and Life Sciences at its Internet of Things Group. We spoke at the Connected Health conference in Boston, an annual get-together of innovators in digital health and healthcare transformation which has long been on my list of regular stops on the conference circuit.

Remote care 60

Remote care Life Science Digital Health Healthcare Innovation 60

Lloyd Price

JANUARY 30, 2019

The startup uses Google Home, Amazon Echo and other smart speakers to engage patients and the elderly and connect them with their caregivers. Last summer, Best Buy put down $800 million in cash to acquire GreatCall, a mobile device that connects health and emergency response services to older people and their caregivers.

Pharmaceuticals 67

Pharmaceuticals Health Technology Health Data Primary Care 67

Digital Health Today

APRIL 25, 2019

When CMS unveiled the first standalone reimbursement for Remote Patient Monitoring (“RPM”) by “unbundling” CPT Code 99091 in the 2018 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule , it opened the door to the widespread use of RPM services for patients and promised there was more to come.

Medicare 45

Medicare Digital Health Nursing Health Data 45

Health Populi

AUGUST 21, 2020

.” Self-care in the pandemic drove virtual health care visits up across generations due to elective procedures and primary care shifting to telehealth platforms, and some consumers’ concerns about heading back to brick-and-mortar health care settings for in-person high-touch care.

Public Health 258

Public Health Primary Care Interoperability Health Information 258

Consumer eHealth Engagement

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

When presenting their use cases for Virtual Health Assistants, panelists shared their specific business goals such as decreasing readmissions/ED visits and costs, increasing service utilization, improving care plan compliance and enhancing the patient experience. “It was easy for me to write the virtual health assistant script (i.e.

Patient Experience 28

Patient Experience Digital Health Nursing Healthcare Innovation 28

Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2018

It takes a good nudge from a provider to motivate a patient to access online medical records, found by ONC in their latest research into consumers’ use of EHRs detailed in Individuals’ use of online medical records and technology for health needs , the ONC Data Brief No. 40, published April 2018.

EHR 203

EHR Health IT Patient Experience HIPAA 203

Consumer eHealth Engagement

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

. “With the tremendous growth of chatbots and voice assistants, we decided to develop a virtual health assistant and begin to understand how to support the patients in their search for care”, explains Maryam Gholami, Chief Product Officer at Digital Innovations, Providence Health.

Patient Experience 36

Patient Experience Telehealth Digital Health Mobile Health 36

Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2024

JSK: You moved into the Amedisys organization in 2018 as Chief Information Security Officer. Internal Audit is uniquely positioned in an organization and getting the opportunity to see how a company operates and, most importantly, how C-Suites prioritize solutions, has been one of the best decisions I’ve made on the road to becoming a CISO.

Health Information 193

Health Information Nursing Healthcare Cybersecurity Patient Experience 193

Health Populi

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Here’s where you can do just that beginning on 8th November 2018 at Open Source Healthcare. Health Populi’s Hot Points: As I learned about the launch of Open Source Healthcare this week, I’m in Europe on a sort of EU and UK health care tour with clients and colleagues, brainstorming what European health care can learn from the U.S.,

Health Data 122

Health Data Digital Health Health Information Patient Experience 122

Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

Philips is also expanding tele-dentistry this year , being honored at CES 2021 for this program that connects consumers to dentists which has been especially useful in the COVID-19 pandemic. Sleep has been a key theme at CES, which I began to note in 2018 in this post on prescribing sleep for health at CES. Justice Department.

Digital Health 182

Digital Health Public Health Life Science Patient Experience 182

Health Populi

DECEMBER 19, 2022

So we can think about the home’s “HealthQuarters” by “room,” such as the bedroom (for sleep and healthy sex-lives), the bathroom (for weight and mood observed in the mirror, or the toilet as a collector of health data), the kitchen (for healthy food and cooking), and the overall home environment itself for air and water quality.

Digital Health 156

Digital Health Life Science Pharmaceuticals Connected Care 156

Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

A 2018 national survey found that 39% of U.S. teens and young adults say they have gone online to try to find people with health conditions similar to their own and 61% say they have read, listened to, or watched other people share about their health experiences online. They are willing to share a piece of themselves to do that.

Pharmaceuticals 216

Pharmaceuticals HIPAA BioTech Patient Experience 216

mHealth Insight

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

But I can’t help but recall similar attempts to create health data repositories for patients on their mobile devices. In 2012, Google shut down Google Health after just three years due to “lack of widespread adoption.” I dare say, no one does it better. Why haven’t these tech giants — and others — been successful?

Health Data 31

Health Data Mental health Interoperability mHealth 31

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.

eHealth 264

eHealth mHealth Public Health FHIR 264