Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2022

A new study published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons sought to take a closer look at the patients who sought surgical consultations in-person and via telemedicine in 2020. A RAND study from March 2021 found that overall, pandemic-era telehealth grew most in wealthy and metro areas. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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DECEMBER 27, 2021

In October 2021, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced that Robert Ford, CEO and President of Abbott, would give a keynote speech at CES 2022, the world’s largest annual convention of the technology industry.

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JANUARY 4, 2022

To illustrate this, note that consumer-subscribers of subscription-video-on-demand (SVOD) grew by millions in 2021, with Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, and AppleTV all expanding their membership rosters. Connected wellness and lifestyle services also grew in subscriber bases in 2021 in the U.S. That’s on average.

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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.

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APRIL 6, 2021

Trust in the technology industry has crashed to an all-time low based on the 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer. Most industries lost citizens’ trust between 2020 and 2021, most notably, Technology, dropping the greatest margin at 9 points. As Richard Edelman, CEO, concisely asserted , “Tech loses its halo.”

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MARCH 2, 2021

But the big growth areas were for live video telemedicine, wearable tech, and digital health tracking. The second chart focuses in on telemedicine adoption by channel, comparing six years of Rock Health’s consumer research. Tech companies are much better capitalized than health systems.

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OCTOBER 6, 2021

Growing orders for Peloton and other connected exercise equipment were noted by CTA’s 2021 consumer-tech forecast , anticipating this as a trend that would mainstream as scale economies and competition expanded the market segment while prices fell.

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JANUARY 24, 2022

Their research shows growing demand for connected solutions for air quality, telehealth, independent living solutions, and other health-adjacent services: Consumer usage of telehealth services increased from 15 percent in Q2 2019 to 64 percent in 2021. 55 percent of U.S.

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JUNE 8, 2021

What enables those deflating cost-reducers is the growing adoption of digital health tools, from telehealth and virtual care to self-care in patients’ hands at home and on-the-go via mobile health apps. What a difference a decade makes for clinicians’ embrace of electronic health records.

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Lloyd Price

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The country has implemented a number of innovative digital health solutions, including: Telemedicine: Babyl Rwanda was a popular telemedicine platform that provided Rwandans with access to doctors and other healthcare professionals remotely. Digital health technologies have had a significant impact on healthcare in Rwanda.

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JULY 28, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has motivated health plans and employers to address greater consumer self-care in the Great Lockdown, along with strategizing for employees’ safe return-to-work. More recently, Withings has offered virtual health and telemedicine services, applications that have been fast-growing from the emerging pandemic in 2020.

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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).

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MARCH 25, 2022

” Health Populi’s Hot Points: The American Medical Association polled physicians in late 2021 to gauge doctors’ perspectives on telehealth. The report lays out physicians’ majority support for telehealth and key issues preventing further adoption and proliferation of use across the U.S.

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JUNE 16, 2021

In this year’s 2021 annual report by Deloitte into Connectivity & Mobile Trends, their report details How the pandemic has stress-tested the crowded digital home. Looking at the right side of the chart, note the pent-up demand for those who have used digital health tech versus those who would prefer to use them.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

On the consumerism front, UHC found that over one-half of people have gone online via either web search or mobile app to find medical services and seek price transparency. About 1 in 2 people said that the process of shopping for health care prompted them to change their health care provider.

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Digital Health Hub

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Last Update: January 27, 2023 Number Journal Name Impact Factor (2021) Publishing Options Publisher Country G1 The Lancet Digital Health 36.615 OA Elsevier Ltd. USA TELEHEALTH T1 Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare 6.344 Standard SAGE Publications Ltd UK T2 Telemedicine Journal and e-Health 5.033 Standard Mary Ann Liebert Inc.

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OCTOBER 12, 2022

Number Journal Name Impact Factor (2021) Publishing Options Publisher Country G1 The Lancet Digital Health 36.615 OA Elsevier Ltd. USA TELEHEALTH T1 Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare 6.344 Standard SAGE Publications Ltd UK T2 Telemedicine Journal and e-Health 5.033 Standard Mary Ann Liebert Inc.

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APRIL 5, 2021

For growth, Beazley learned that 90% of business were planning for growth in 2021, 62% were raising capital, and one-third were innovating new products and services. The two key risks were client complaints due to misrepresentation, and cyber-attack or system failure. Three in five said their growth was due to COVID-19.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Expect MDLive’s IPO in 2021. Note consumers’ embrace of tele-mental health, too, in the pandemic that CTA quantified. During the crisis, Ginger, the behavioral health provider, raised $50 million of funding, and Brightline, which provides behavioral health services in pediatrics, scored $20 million in a Series A round.

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OCTOBER 8, 2021

That ethos now pertains to post-pandemic health consumers’ growing use of wearable tech, remote health monitoring, and mobile apps for self-care and chronic condition management. adults in late September 2021, a year and a half into the COVID-19 pandemic. Morning Consult polled 2,200 U.S.

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iSALUS Healthcare

AUGUST 15, 2018

billion by 2021, growing at a compound annual rate of 27.5%. Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) Often used for seniors or in senior living areas, remote patient monitoring is the collection of a patient’s health data from a patient or resident in one location that is then electronically sent to a healthcare professional (provider, nurse, etc.)

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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.

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OCTOBER 12, 2020

Within the mega-deal trend, Rock Health pointed to three facets of the go-go digital health investment climate: expanding virtual care, research and development digital transformation, and fitness and wellness demand. Several of these organizations launched IPOs during the pandemic, and others plan to go public early in 2021.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

OCTOBER 27, 2020

” Ochsner has plans to grow their digital medicine programs in 2021. Our metrics of success are control measures for the disease (i.e. better blood pressure control, better diabetes control, etc.).”

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JANUARY 28, 2021

GWI identified nine major wellness trends for 2021: Hollywood and the entertainment industries jumping into wellness. The future of immune health. 2021 as the year of the travel-reset. ” The wellness category — and particularly, the ability to scale mental health services via digital technology — is promising.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 18, 2022

The Federal Trade Commission released an updated Mobile Health Apps Tool created with input from ONC, OCR, and the FDA. CB Insights released its Digital Health 150 list , with companies focused on remote monitoring and diagnostics taking 29 of the spots. Studie s.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 28, 2023

Attention to Health Equity: A notable aspect of the pandemic was the disparate impact it had on people of color and other marginalized groups. In 2021, President Joe Biden signed an executive order to focus federal resources and attention on reducing health disparities.

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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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