Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Among the key findings, Software Advice learned that, 9 in 10 patients (again, health-engaged wearable tech-adopters) were interested in sharing data from their devices with their physicians. This proportion of folks interested in sharing their wearable health data grew from 56% in 2021 to 91% in 2023.

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Digital Health Global

JANUARY 25, 2024

Oversubscribed Seed round led by Meridian Street Capital and B Capital NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Isaac Health, a digital health company emerging as a national leader for brain health, announced today the successful completion of its oversubscribed $5.7 million Seed round. BMJ Open 2017;7:e011146.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

Among these visits, 76% were with a primary care provider, 32% with a specialty care provider, and 18% with a mental health provider, the study found. Four in ten older people who had experienced telehealth also said they would be interested in telehealth for mental health care in the future.

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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. Two-thirds of all patients had at least one telemedicine visit in 2021, compared with 42% in 2020 and 25% before the pandemic.

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Continue Education Journal

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Reimbursement: Some reimbursement changes from the pandemic have been made permanent, such as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ expansion of reimbursable telehealth codes for the 2021 physician fee schedule. There is still uncertainty of the fate of other services as the public health emergency ends. Gilbert, G.,

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 18, 2023

Value-based care makes care more affordable for patients while rewarding clinicians for improved care, and the industry recognizes the value. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has expanded Medicare Advantage through 2023 to make the shift, and digital health tools are crucial for support.

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Digital Health Global

DECEMBER 12, 2023

worsened by 40 percent from 2020 to 2021. While all ages and races saw an increase in maternal mortality in 2021, many inequities still exist due to a variety of factors, including but not limited to access to quality care, socioeconomic status, race and education level. Contacts Julia Cremin jcremin@pcipr.com 331-333-2928

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Digital Health Global

JULY 31, 2023

–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Kandu Health , Inc., a digital health company that is changing the course of stroke recovery and post-acute care, today announced preliminary outcomes from the first 40 stroke survivors served by its program. 2021 Dec 7; 10(23): e023394. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2018.05.035.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 17, 2023

CCA specializes in managing complex care for individuals dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid, as well as those who narrowly miss the threshold for Medicaid. We expect this number to grow as we continue to scale our virtual care program in the coming years. Seventy-seven percent of those were repeat users since 2021.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

And with the Public Health Emergency (PHE) set to expire in January, stakeholders are urgently calling upon Congress to pass the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID-19 Act of 2021. Both are life-saving measures for delivering mental and behavioral health services and treating people with substance use disorders.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2022

Biofourmis continues to buck health tech funding trends with this Series D extension, which comes during a downturn in digital health investment. According to a recent Rock Health report , the first half of 2022 saw 329 digital health funding deals totaling $10.3 billion—down from $14.7

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2020

Payors, both commercial and public sector (Medicare, Medicaid), have relaxed rules and regulations for telehealth across platforms (from purpose-built telemedicine programs to HIPAA-relaxed approvals for using FaceTime, Zoom, and other commercial channels), and have various plans to pay for virtual care visits between clinicians and patients.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

But for those of us working with and innovating solutions for health and health care, #CES2021 was baked with health goodness , in and beyond “digital health” categories. In my consumer-facing health care work, I’ve adopted the mantra that our homes are our health hubs.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

A 2021 report by the Department of Health and Human Services estimates that the number of medical visits via telehealth grew from 840,000 in 2019 to 52.7 This could be data like lab results from a patient’s rheumatologist not being sent to their primary care doctor. Personalized healthcare can take many different forms.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

At the start of CES 2021, I had the opportunity to catch up with Karsten Russell-Wood, Portfolio Marketing Leader, Post Acute & Home, Connected Care at Philips. We brainstormed just as CES 2021 was going to “open,” virtually, for the consumer electronics conference’s first all-virtual meeting.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

Emergency departments and urgent cares are over capacity nationwide, and patients often wait weeks to see their primary care physician. According to a recent industry survey by Sunwave Health, 91% of behavioral health providers said they experience moderate to severe staffing shortages.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 2023

The biggest news for healthcare IT was the extension of telehealth expansion under Medicare through the end of 2024. The first quarterly Healthcare IT Market Report from Pivot Point Consulting hinted at a continued need for providers to develop long-term strategies around virtual care, customer relationship management, and RCM optimization.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 28, 2023

Other notable consolidations include the finalization of tech-giant Amazon’s purchase of One Medical , a primary care network. And Optum, one of the largest conglomerates that is a subsidiary of United Health Group, increased its net revenue growth by 25% to $54.1 billion in 2022, a 57 percent year-over-year drop.

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Docnotes

JANUARY 30, 2022

G oal #1: Building a more resilient, flexible and integrated delivery system that reduces racial disparities, promotes health equity, and supports the delivery of social care. We’ll get the same “we’re trying, it’s so hard” excuses. Leverage Ongoing Primary Care Investments. That’s progressive.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Between 2017 to 2021, there was also significant movement in a few other areas: identity and self-esteem (up 11 points from 2017), as well as control and reality (up 7 points between 2017 to 2021). We segue then to a view from Kaiser Family Foundation’s Health Tracking Poll focusing on the cost of health care and prescription drugs.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2023

In 2023, new approaches to personalized consumer engagement, whole person care, and precision medicine will be catalyzed using deidentified, patient-level real-world data. For the past decade, we’ve seen two macros, yet largely parallel, healthcare trends: 1) understanding impacts of social drivers of health and.

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