2020, Connected Health, Digital Health and Telemedicine

“Digital Health Is An Ecosystem of Ecosystems” – CTA’s 2020 Trends to Watch Into the Data Age

Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2020

In CTA’s 2020 Consumer Tech Forecast launched yesterday at Media Day 1 at CES, Steve Koenig VP of Research, said that, “digital health is an ecosystem of ecosystems.”. Use cases bolster productivity, enhance workforce training (think Gray’s Anatomy in multiple dimensions or surgical training on digital humans). .

Digital Health

Digital Health Mental health Interoperability Telemedicine

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

Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

Millions of dollars and developers’ time have been invested in conceiving and making digital health tools. Use of mobile apps to track personal health activity fell from nearly 1 in 2 consumers to 1 in 3. Use of wearable tech nearly halved, from 33% to 18%, between 2018 and 2020.

Digital Health

Digital Health Health Data HIPAA Mental health

Out-of-Pocket and Prescription Drug Costs – Connecting Digital Health Dots at CES 2020

Health Populi

JANUARY 9, 2020

Apropos to my title of this post, the survey was sponsored by the Bipartisan Policy Center , whose mission is to promote, cross-party affiliations, “health, security and opportunity for all Americans.”. Health care is the top issue driving voters’ choices in the 2020 elections for most Americans.

Digital Health

Digital Health Primary Care Mental health Public Health

Faster Pace for Corporate Investments and Behavioral Health in COVID-Driven Digital Health Era

Health Populi

JULY 7, 2020

The pace of digital health investments quickened in the first half of 2020, based on Rock Health’s look at health-tech financing in mid-year. Digital health companies garnered $5.4 billion in the first half of the year, record-setting according to Rock Health. Consumer health information.

Digital Health

Digital Health Psychiatry Telehealth Mental health

Digital Health Funding Updates from FINN + Galen and Silicon Valley Bank – Context for JPM2023

Health Populi

JANUARY 9, 2023

The bar chart illustrates SVB’s data for the four healthcare sectors by region and years 2020, 2021 and 2022. We can clearly see the lower bars throughout four quarters of 2020 quite similar to those in the latter 3 quarters of 2022 with the bullish funding for healthcare in 2021 and the first quarter of 2022.

Digital Health

Digital Health Mental health Primary Care Telemedicine

Managing the Risks of Fast-Growing Digital Health

Health Populi

APRIL 5, 2021

Investments in the digital health sector have fast-grown in the past decade, reaching $14bn in 2020 based on Rock Health’s latest read on the market. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the field across many industry segments. Three in five said their growth was due to COVID-19.

Digital Health

Digital Health mHealth Telehealth Remote care

Health Happens at Home: Lessons from the Parks Connected Health Summit

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

To be sure, many of us who have been preaching that our ZIP codes are more impactful to our health than our genetic codes have known the evidence backing the social and behavioral determinants of health for a long time. I attended all three days’ worth of sessions in this well-planned and -executed virtual meeting.

Connected Health

Connected Health Telehealth Patient Experience Digital Health

For Health Consumers, Trust, Privacy, & Good Experience Must Be Baked Into Digital Health Care

Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2020

Accenture probes this question in a report published today asking, How Can Leaders Make Recent Digital Health Gains Last? had adopted wearable technology for health tracking, a nearly 50% decline from 2019 (from 33% in 2018 to 18% in late 2019). These establish a new baseline on the health consumer demand side for virtual care.

Digital Health

Digital Health Telehealth Mobile Health Telemedicine

The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

Digital Health

Digital Health Mental health Health Data Telemedicine

Advances in telemedicine are on the way in 2022

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 20, 2021

2020 and 2021 saw the mainstreaming of telehealth and the rise of remote patient monitoring. These changes to the healthcare landscape were helped partly by requirements of the COVID-19 pandemic and partly by the subsequent loosening of telemedicine reimbursement and licensure regulations by the government. Looking ahead at 2022.

Telemedicine

Telemedicine Telehealth Connected Health Healthcare IT

How Twitter Revealed Consumer Health Care Trends in the Pandemic

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

During the pandemic, millions of people connected with Twitter to share thoughts and feelings about the pandemic…and their health. Tweets related to “broadband” were noted within the telemedicine/virtual health Twitter streams. First, what did Twitter reveal about telemedicine?

Mental health

Mental health Telemedicine Telehealth Digital Health

Digital Health Gaps in the Pandemic Through the Eyes of Younger Physicians

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

More younger doctors recognize the “immediate value” of telehealth, Philips found: 61% of younger doctors said telehealth was among the top digital health technologies that would have most improved their experience during the pandemic. 53% of younger doctors said AI would have improved their pandemic experience.

Digital Health

Digital Health Telehealth Interoperability Mental health

COVID-19 Accelerated Digital Health Investments…But It Helps to Be Bigger, Mature and Scaling

Health Populi

MAY 12, 2021

“Compare digital health to airlines, cruise lines, and other industries” and the sector looks quite privileged, opined Matthew Holt in a discussion on a study diving deeply into the State of Digital Health , conducted by Catalyst @ Health 2.0 and sponsored by WIPFLI. million, with a median of $3.9

Digital Health

Digital Health Life Science Mental health Public Health

South Central Legislative/Regulatory Update – June 2020

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

JULY 14, 2020

The following attachment is a list of legislative and regulatory updates compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee). Click the image below to view the full PDF update.

Health Policy

Health Policy Connected Health Telemedicine Telehealth

Health Is Everywhere at #CES2021 – CTA’s CES 2021 Tech Trends to Watch

Health Populi

JANUARY 12, 2021

Spending on connected health monitoring devices in the U.S. Six major themes emerge at #CES2021: digital health, robotics and drones, 5G connectivity, vehicle technology, smart cities, and over all — digital transformation. Increase in virtual telemedicine appointments increased ten times in 15 days.

Connected Health

Connected Health Telemedicine Mental health Telehealth

News from the Consumer Technology Association and Withings Further Demonstrates Private Sector’s Role in the Pandemic and Public Health

Health Populi

JULY 28, 2020

This week, announcements from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and Withings further bolster the case for the private sector bolstering public health in this pandemic…and future ones to come beyond the Age of the Coronavirus. On 27th July, CTA announced the Association’s launch of the Public Health Tech Initiative.

Public Health

Public Health Digital Health Connected Health Health Technology

Dr. Roboto? Stanford Medicine Foresees Digital Doctors “Maturing”

Health Populi

JANUARY 15, 2020

Physicians are evolving as digital doctors, embracing the growing role of data generated in electronic health records as well as through their patients using wearable technologies and mobile health apps downloaded in ubiquitous smartphones, described in The Rise of the Data-Driven Physician , a 2020 Health Trends Report from Stanford Medicine.

Digital Health

Digital Health Telemedicine Mobile Health Telehealth

Physicians Lean In to Digital Health, Especially Telehealth and Remote Monitoring

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). Health Populi’s Hot Points: What’s underneath the immediate and near-term growth of telehealth and remote care modalities?

Digital Health

Digital Health Telehealth Remote care Primary Care

Economic Anxieties Rise, Medical and Vacation Plans Delayed: the COVID-19 Consumer in June 2020

Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2020

By late May 2020, 34% of black Americans had lost their jobs compared with 21% in late April, compared with 18% of white consumers, reported in The COVID-19 Pandemic’s Financial Impact on U.S. adults 18 and older on 28-29 May 2020. As of May 2020, shoppers went to 2.8 Consumers , survey research from TransUnion.

Telehealth

Telehealth Telemedicine Connected Health Health Policy

SEARCH 2020 – Day Two

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

He also mentioned two valid vendor directories: Digital Health Directory (ATA) [link] and University of Arizona/SWTRC telemedicine and telehealth service provider director [link]. The goal of identifying human factors is to optimize improved outcomes in telemedicine. “It’s a process,” Krupinski said.

Telehealth

Telehealth Telemedicine Primary Care Public Health

The Digital Consumer, Increasingly Connected to Health Devices; Parks Associates Kicking Off #CES2021

Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic drove U.S. But the coronavirus era also saw broadband households spending more on connecting health devices, with 42% of U.S. consumers owning digital health tech compared with 33% in 2015, according to research discussed in Supporting Today’s Connected Consumer from Parks Associates.

Connected Health

Connected Health Digital Health HIPAA Telemedicine

Telemedicine’s Reimbursement Outlook for 2020

GlobalMed

JANUARY 22, 2020

Telemedicine reimbursement is always changing. Specific statutes can shape telemedicine growth as well, such as encouraging specialty consults but not remote patient monitoring – depending on which service is best compensated. So what can we expect for 2020 ? Let’s take a look at what to expect this year.

Telemedicine

Telemedicine Telehealth Medicare Connected Health

What Health Plans, Hospitals and Health Systems Can Learn from CES 2020

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Check out the post on Medecision’s site to see what I saw, and why I feel this year at CES was a significant tipping point for consumer-, patient-, and caregiver-facing digital tech. The post What Health Plans, Hospitals and Health Systems Can Learn from CES 2020 appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

Connected Health

Connected Health Digital Health Telemedicine Telehealth

Doximity Study Finds Telehealth Is Health for Every Day Care

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Doximity’s second report on telemedicine explores both physicians’ and patients’ views on virtual care, finding most doctors and health consumers on the same page of virtual care adoption. For the physicians’ profile, Doximity examined 180,000 doctors’ who billed Medicare for telemedicine claims between January 2020 and June 2021.

Telehealth

Telehealth Telemedicine Primary Care Medicare

Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

This drove health consumers to virtual care platforms in the first months of the public health crisis — including lots of older people who had never used telemedicine or even a mobile health app. The survey was conducted online in June 2020 among 2,074 U.S. adults ages 50 to 80 years of age.

Telehealth

Telehealth Primary Care Mental health Telemedicine

Virtual Health Tech Enables the Continuum of Health from Hospital to Home

Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

The public health crisis accelerated “what’s next” for health care delivery, detailed in A New Era of Virtual Health, a report published by TripleTree. TripleTree is an investment bank that has advised health care transactions since 1997. In 2019, J.D.

Telehealth

Telehealth Public Health Life Science Primary Care

Ten In Ten: Manatt’s Healthcare Priorities to 2031

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Stability the safety net and rebuild public health. Address social determinants of health. Accelerate digital health. Secure health data (updating privacy/HIPAA). Note that WHO’s approach to digital health adoption includes equity, access, palliative care, privacy, and security.

Mental health

Mental health Digital Health Public Health Health Data

Joe Kvedar is new president-elect of American Telemedicine Association

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 25, 2019

The American Telemedicine Association has elected Dr. Joseph C. He'll start a year-long term in April 2020. Kvedar," said American Telemedicine Association CEO Ann Mond Johnson. Kvedar to be its next president. WHY IT MATTERS. "He brings a unique combination of history and a forward-thinking approach to ATA."

Telemedicine

Telemedicine Telehealth Connected Health Healthcare IT

The Rise of the Homebody Economy and Healthcare to the Home

Health Populi

MARCH 30, 2021

Looking at the disruptive oval (grey), see telemedicine broken into physical and mental — with intent to use physical telemedicine post-COVID-19 among 50% of U.S. consumers, and for mental/behavioral health by some 54% of people. User growth rates for both telemedicine segments are forecasted over 60%.

Telemedicine

Telemedicine Mental health Telehealth Primary Care

Remote patient monitoring and virtual care – a paradigm shift

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Remote patient monitoring The question of virtual care's post-pandemic staying power has been answered resoundingly: Telemedicine is here to stay. Signs point to yes – and mature remote patient monitoring and telemedicine tools will be key. Region Tag: Global Edition Hide Collection: 0 Primary topic: Connected Health

Connected Health

Connected Health Telehealth Telemedicine Remote care

Telehealth is Health: It’s Telehealth Awareness Week

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In April 2020, telemedicine morphed into mainstream medical care as hospitals and physicians risk-managed exposure to infection by meeting with patients, virtually, when possible. In 2020, 79% of U.S. physicians worked in a practice that used telehealth versus 25% who did so in 2018, based on a new survey from the AMA.

Telehealth

Telehealth General practice Primary Care Medicare

Trust-Busted: The Decline of Trust in Technology and What It Means for Health

Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2021

Most industries lost citizens’ trust between 2020 and 2021, most notably, Technology, dropping the greatest margin at 9 points. Healthcare experienced a bounce in the one year 2020-21, rising from 56 points of trust among U.S. By mid-2020, Edelman detected, “a decline in willingness to share personal data to fight the pandemic.

Public Health

Public Health Digital Health Health Technology Mobile Health

Lessons Learned from 2020 Provide a Springboard for Increased Telehealth Adoption

Joseph C. Kvedar, MD – Reinventing Healthcare

JUNE 22, 2021

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]While thinking about my keynote address at the 2021 American Telemedicine Association (ATA) annual conference, I kept coming back to Daniel Kahneman’s Nobel-prize-winning theory (his book is called Thinking Fast and Slow).

Telehealth

Telehealth Telemedicine Connected Health Mobile Health

The COVID-19 Era Has Grown Health Consumer Demand for Virtual Care

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Over one-half of Americans would likely use virtual care for their healthcare services, and one in four people would actually prefer a virtual relationship with a primary care physician, according to the fifth annual 2020 Consumer Sentiment Survey from UnitedHealthcare.

Mental health

Mental health Digital Health Public Health Telehealth

Consumers’ Health Concerns Grow in the Pandemic Across All Categories – And More Trust Virtual Care

Health Populi

MAY 3, 2021

While the “in-person” visit to a doctor or medical professional continues to rank first as consumers’ most-trusted information source, the virtual doc or clinician rose in trust during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Euromonitor’s latest read on Consumer Health: Changes in Consumer Behaviour during COVID-19.

Mental health

Mental health Mobile Health Digital Health Health Information

Why #CES2022 Will Be Keynoted By A Health Care Innovator for the First Time

Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

When announced, the news was a signal that health care and the larger tech-enabled ecosystem that supports health and well-being is embedded in peoples’ everyday lives. We can expect to see more women-related health tech featured at CES 2022, including on education panels and speaking platforms.

Digital Health

Digital Health Pharmaceuticals Mobile Health Life Science

Necessity is the Mother(board) – How COVID-19 Inspires Local Communities to Build Broadband

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Folks who couldn’t connect couldn’t work from home, go to school from home, connect with fitness and faith communities from home — essentially live in the year 2020 and beyond in a digitally-enabled home, community, society.

Digital Health

Digital Health Public Health Connected Health Health Policy

Health Consumers After COVID-19 – A View from the Consumer Technology Association

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

In January 2020, before we knew how to spell “coronavirus,” millions of consumers were already “Amazon-Primed” for everyday life-flows and consumer behaviors. What a difference a public health crisis makes, accelerating digital health beyond fitness geeks, Quantified Self adherents, and smartwatch adopters.

Mental health

Mental health Telehealth Public Health Digital Health

Integration is the New Innovation for Healthcare in 2023: Reflections on CES2023 and JPM2023

Health Populi

JANUARY 23, 2023

The peak of venture investment for digital health was in 2020 and 2021, precipitously declining later in 2022.

Digital Health

Digital Health Health Technology Connected Health Telemedicine

Still Struggling with Stress in America in 2021

Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2021

For parents, the strain has grown from 2020 into 2021: family responsibilities are a significant source of stress, and relationships are a source of stress. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Those pandemic-era headaches and sleep habit changes have been impacting more younger people than older people in America, shown in the last chart.

Mental health

Mental health Telemedicine Digital Health Public Health

Why CES 2022 Will Be Keynoted by a Health Care Executive

Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2021

This news is a signal that health care and the larger tech-enabled ecosystem that supports health and well-being is embedded in peoples’ everyday lives. We can expect to see more women-related health tech featured at CES 2022, including on education panels and speaking platforms.

Digital Health

Digital Health Pharmaceuticals Mobile Health Health Technology

Telehealth and COVID-19 in the U.S.: A Conversation with Ann Mond Johnson, ATA CEO

Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

They are likely to stay there,” asserts “ The smartphone will see you now ,” an article in the March 7th 2020 issue of The Economist. The coronavirus spawned another kind of gift to China and the nation’s health citizens: telemedicine, the essay explains. Congressional leadership on February 28 2020.

Telehealth

Telehealth Medicare Telemedicine Public Health

How Philips Has Pivoted In the COVID-19 Pandemic: Connected Care From Hospital to Home

Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

I was scheduled to meet with Roy Jakobs, Chief Business Leader of Connected Care at Philips, at HIMSS in Orlando on 9th March 2020. The company quickly learned that scaling in a pandemic can’t just be a physical phenomenon – the need to ramp up, so much so quickly, had to be grounded in digital solutions versus only physical ones (e.g.,

Connected Care

Connected Care Digital Health Telehealth Public Health

Be Mindful About What Makes Health at HLTH

Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

As the HLTH conference convenes over 6,000 digital health innovators live, in person, in Boston in the wake of the delta variant, what should attendees keep in mind to help HLTH make health? The top-line in the report, and the bottom-line for health citizens, was that 38% of U.S. One-half of U.S.

Digital Health

Digital Health Primary Care Mental health Public Health

“Digital Health Is An Ecosystem of Ecosystems” – CTA’s 2020 Trends to Watch Into the Data Age

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

Trending Sources

Out-of-Pocket and Prescription Drug Costs – Connecting Digital Health Dots at CES 2020

Faster Pace for Corporate Investments and Behavioral Health in COVID-Driven Digital Health Era

Digital Health Funding Updates from FINN + Galen and Silicon Valley Bank – Context for JPM2023

Managing the Risks of Fast-Growing Digital Health

Health Happens at Home: Lessons from the Parks Connected Health Summit

For Health Consumers, Trust, Privacy, & Good Experience Must Be Baked Into Digital Health Care

The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

Advances in telemedicine are on the way in 2022

How Twitter Revealed Consumer Health Care Trends in the Pandemic

Digital Health Gaps in the Pandemic Through the Eyes of Younger Physicians

COVID-19 Accelerated Digital Health Investments…But It Helps to Be Bigger, Mature and Scaling

South Central Legislative/Regulatory Update – June 2020

Health Is Everywhere at #CES2021 – CTA’s CES 2021 Tech Trends to Watch

News from the Consumer Technology Association and Withings Further Demonstrates Private Sector’s Role in the Pandemic and Public Health

Dr. Roboto? Stanford Medicine Foresees Digital Doctors “Maturing”

Physicians Lean In to Digital Health, Especially Telehealth and Remote Monitoring

Economic Anxieties Rise, Medical and Vacation Plans Delayed: the COVID-19 Consumer in June 2020

SEARCH 2020 – Day Two

The Digital Consumer, Increasingly Connected to Health Devices; Parks Associates Kicking Off #CES2021

Telemedicine’s Reimbursement Outlook for 2020

What Health Plans, Hospitals and Health Systems Can Learn from CES 2020

Doximity Study Finds Telehealth Is Health for Every Day Care

Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

Virtual Health Tech Enables the Continuum of Health from Hospital to Home

Ten In Ten: Manatt’s Healthcare Priorities to 2031

Joe Kvedar is new president-elect of American Telemedicine Association

The Rise of the Homebody Economy and Healthcare to the Home

Remote patient monitoring and virtual care – a paradigm shift

Telehealth is Health: It’s Telehealth Awareness Week

Trust-Busted: The Decline of Trust in Technology and What It Means for Health

Lessons Learned from 2020 Provide a Springboard for Increased Telehealth Adoption

The COVID-19 Era Has Grown Health Consumer Demand for Virtual Care

Consumers’ Health Concerns Grow in the Pandemic Across All Categories – And More Trust Virtual Care

Why #CES2022 Will Be Keynoted By A Health Care Innovator for the First Time

Necessity is the Mother(board) – How COVID-19 Inspires Local Communities to Build Broadband

Health Consumers After COVID-19 – A View from the Consumer Technology Association

Integration is the New Innovation for Healthcare in 2023: Reflections on CES2023 and JPM2023

Still Struggling with Stress in America in 2021

Why CES 2022 Will Be Keynoted by a Health Care Executive

Telehealth and COVID-19 in the U.S.: A Conversation with Ann Mond Johnson, ATA CEO

How Philips Has Pivoted In the COVID-19 Pandemic: Connected Care From Hospital to Home

Be Mindful About What Makes Health at HLTH

Stay Connected