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.

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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. AARP sponsored the poll.

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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.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

One universal experience health systems around the globe have witnessed in the first months of the coronavirus pandemic has been the dramatic pivot to telehealth and virtual care platforms. In the first six months of the pandemic, the tale of telehealth as told via media coverage and virtual conference content has been quite bullish.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It’s Telehealth Awareness Week , led by the ATA. I celebrate and support the effort; this Health Populi post explains the Association’s mantra that Telehealth is Health, and that telehealth is firmly embedded into healthcare’s omnichannel imperative. So why omnichannel healthcare, and why now?

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 5, 2020

In the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth was a “bright spot in the ‘new normal,’” according to a report from J.D. Power, Telehealth Patient Satisfaction Surges During Pandemic but Barriers to Access Persist. Power has studied including health insurance, insurance and financial services. In the study, J.D.

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Digital Health Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

Efforts to extend regulatory flexibilities for virtual care gained some wind in their sails from a new study in Health Affairs that linked telehealth use to significant quality improvements and a relatively modest bump in spending. compared to systems in the lowest quartile of telehealth use (9.5% patients, 576 systems).

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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.

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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.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves kicked off the Mississippi Telehealth Association (MTA) 2020 Annual Conference on Monday, February 24 th by describing much of Mississippi living “small town ways” as a blanket description of many state residents. Basically anyone involved or interested in digital health.

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Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2020

As we wrestle with just “what” health care will look like “after COVID,” there’s one certainty that we can embrace in our health planning and forecasting efforts: that’s the persistence of telehealth and virtual care into health care work- and life-flows, for clinicians and consumers alike and aligned.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2021

A large-scale study recently published in The Journal of Climate Change and Health found that an increase in telehealth use in the Pacific Northwest corresponded to a dramatic decrease in transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions. WHY IT MATTERS. From 2010 to 2018, emissions from the U.S.

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Continue Education Journal

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

For example, 56% of counties in the US do not have a psychiatrist, 64% of counties have a shortage of mental health providers, and 70% of counties are without a child psychiatrist according to McKinsey & Company. There is still uncertainty of the fate of other services as the public health emergency ends.

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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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The Future Health Index (FHI) Insights: COVID-19 and Younger Healthcare Professionals survey supplements the main FHI 2020 global report, The Age of Opportunity. The survey reveals that during COVID-19, younger doctors changed their attitudes towards the relative benefits of different health technologies.

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American Well

JANUARY 7, 2020

From the ability to immediately connect an individual with a physician based on a smart watch’s detection of irregular heart rhythm to virtual group counseling to aid in our country’s opioid crisis, advancements in technology and new approaches to care are pushing the boundaries of telehealth far beyond a sore throat or rash.

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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. On the “pro” side of the equation are, Immediate access to real-time health data. Note that Cigna and Humana both had a visible presences at CES 2020.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

There’s more evidence that doctors and patients, both, want to use telehealth after the COVID-19 pandemic fades. 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.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

AUGUST 11, 2020

The South Central Telehealth Resource Center will be hosting a series of events focused on Mississippi and the telehealth landscape in that region. The following topics will be covered: Telehealth 101, Telehealth Grant Writing, Telehealth Billing, and Real World Examples of Telehealth.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

At the same time, CTA has published a paper on Advancing Health Equity Through Technology which complements and reinforces the PHTI announcement and objective. At the same time, CTA has published a paper on Advancing Health Equity Through Technology which complements and reinforces the PHTI announcement and objective.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

These include GreatCall’s new Lively Flip phone with voice services and the announcement that Amazon’s Alexa has added 80,000 answers to healthcare questions through a partnership with Digital Health company Sharecare. Here are five from Argentum 2020: CareMerge Voice. Also on the Argentum site is a product category listing.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

Will the coronavirus inspire greater adoption of telehealth in the U.S.? They are likely to stay there,” asserts “ The smartphone will see you now ,” an article in the March 7th 2020 issue of The Economist. I’d seen ATA’s initial statement on the coronavirus published on March 3 2020, so I knew Ann was on this issue.

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Lloyd Price

APRIL 13, 2023

Executive Summary While there are some successful digital health companies that have gone public, many have struggled to maintain their valuations and generate sustained profitability. Limited adoption: While there is significant hype and excitement around digital health, adoption rates have been relatively slow in some cases.

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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

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Most doctors see the advantages of digital health tools like telehealth, consumers’ access to their health information, and point-of-care workflow solutions, the American Medical Association found in a survey of 1300 physicians, published in September 2022. Supports value-based care. Supports heath equity.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2021

Two studies published in May 2021 illustrate the value and importance of telehealth to patients in 2020, and a disconnect among many C-level executives working in hospitals, academic medical centers, and other care provider organizations. Power and BDO illustrate some mis-alignment between the demand and supply side of telehealth.

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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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 1, 2021

By now, it's become a truism that telehealth use saw an enormous jump in 2020 , spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic and enabled by the relaxation of federal regulations. What were some of the changes you saw at CareCloud during the pandemic when it came to telehealth? Did some specialties see a greater increase in numbers?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2021

Connected Health Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Mergers & Acquisitions Network Infrastructure Telehealth Health system CIOs are reducing their tech footprint and consolidating their IT systems for agility and efficiency. At nearly $15 billion, the funding surpasses the amount for the full year 2020.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Hari Eswaran thanking those involved and HRSA’s Deputy Associate Administrator, Heather Dimeris, speaking about the current telehealth landscape. Dr. Bill England began by discussing the wide range of resources available at HRSA with his presentation, “Telehealth and Research at HRSA. The opening plenary focused on funding.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

These codes also represent one of the latest advancements to modernize reimbursement for digital health. Nevertheless, new categories of digital health reimbursement have become increasingly clear. RTM can potentially offer more convenient ways for patients to engage with health systems.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

TripleTree is an investment bank that has advised health care transactions since 1997. As such, the team has been involved in digital health financing and innovation for 24 years, well before the kind of platforms, APIs, and cloud computing now enabling telehealth and care, everywhere. In 2019, J.D.

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Digital Health Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Telehealth is great for a lot of things, but reducing physician EHR burdens isn’t one of them, according to a new study in JAMA Internal Medicine. Comparing the pre- and post-pandemic windows, telehealth use increased from 3.1% The post Telehealth Linked to Physician EHR Burden appeared first on Digital Health Wire.

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American Well

JANUARY 7, 2020

From the ability to immediately connect an individual with a physician based on a smart watch’s detection of irregular heart rhythm to virtual group counseling to aid in our country’s opioid crisis, advancements in technology and new approaches to care are pushing the boundaries of telehealth far beyond a sore throat or rash.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2022

It was an early adopter of electronic health records and sponsored one of New York State's first health information exchanges. In 2018, Maimonides' leadership established digital health as a strategic priority for the medical center. THE PROBLEM. And then March came. USING FCC AWARD FUNDS.

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Lloyd Price

MAY 6, 2023

Digital health funding pre pandemic: 2018 Digital health companies raised a total of $8.1 There were 368 deals in the digital health space in 2018, with an average deal size of $22.2 Other areas that received significant investment included telemedicine, digital therapeutics, and health insurance technology.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

These include GreatCall’s new Lively Flip phone with voice services and the announcement that Amazon’s Alexa has added 80,000 answers to healthcare questions through a partnership with Digital Health company Sharecare. Here are five other posts: Will telehealth help the oldest adults during Covid-19?

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