Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Telehealth has increased access to mental health services, I’ve highlighted this Mental Illness Awareness Week here in Health Populi. But telehealth has also emerged as a preferred channel for routine health care services, we learn from J.D. Power’s 2022 Telehealth Satisfaction Study.

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JANUARY 31, 2023

Knowing the differences between real-time and store-and-forward telehealth is a matter of clinical appropriateness and will also have an impact on patient and provider experience. Patient experience, trust, and satisfaction are other significant benefits offered by live technology.

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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

JANUARY 2, 2023

We ended 2022 with this new, sobering statistic from the Centers tor Disease Control (CDC). In case you missed it in your pre-holiday wind-down, the CDC published two reports on declining life expectancy in America on December 22, 2022. Life expectancy in the U.S. Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 20021-2021.

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Health Populi

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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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2022

In 2019, Find Care expanded services for consumers to manage chronic health conditions addressing asthma, COPD, and diabetes. It is exciting to see this “band” back together working for the benefit of patients and clinicians — to, indeed, redesign health.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2024

Rumor has it via Wareable that the company could be expanding sales of the Lingo continuous glucose monitor (CGM) I discussed here during CES 2022 — currently available in the UK, and potentially expanding to the US — TBA at #CES2024 perhaps?

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Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2022

Patients have come to accept telehealth in their health care workflows when they value virtual care’s virtues: convenience, access, availability among other features. ” The patient is then connected to the Teladoc call center, and a virtual visit follow up for a non-emergency visit like suspected flu or allergy.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

Rock Health and Stanford commissioned an online survey among 7,980 U.S. adults from early September to early October 2020 to gauge peoples’ interest in and utilization of digital health tools and telehealth. Tech companies are much better capitalized than health systems.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Of particular note is the organization’s “promise of health assurance – care that is more proactive, accessible, and affordable to people everywhere.” Retail health-meets-Medicare. Walmart launched a ten-year collaboration with Optum in late 2022. Collaboration can help insure as well as assure health.

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Health Populi

JULY 25, 2022

for a couple of months, having lived in and worked from Brussels, Belgium, since October 2021 (save for about ten days in March 2022). We came to appreciate the connectivity was indeed a determinant of health (which I called out in the Huffington Post in July 2016). I’ve returned to the U.S. healthcare system.

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Health Populi

JULY 29, 2022

The red-boxed items here identify the three largest chasms between experience vs. expectations: for information about providers (say, their ethnicity, gender, and licenses), and abilities to schedule an appointment online or a telehealth encounter. Here’s another lens on the Optum health consumer data. Power 2022 U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Elsevier first conducted research among doctors and nurses for the Clinician of the Future report in 2022, following up this year’s survey research online among 2,607 clinicians working around the world: Elsevier polled 365 U.S. clinicians for the 2023 research (fielded in April and May 2023).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 25, 2023

"We were looking for an end-to-end system that offered patients more support, but also helped triage issues that needed direct physician intervention from those that would result in unnecessary office visits," he added. Simon is president of clinical services and chief medical officer at Community Health Systems. Dr. Lynn T.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

the title of the article updating the winter 2022-23 sick-season asked. Thus, the sage advice as we approach gatherings for Christmastime 2022: “Close your mouth and step away from the human,” by Katherine Wu of The Atlantic. We enter 2023 with home economics setting our tables as a context for our overall health and well-being.

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Mend

MAY 18, 2023

Mend announced today that it has supported its 10 millionth virtual care appointment on its leading patient engagement and telehealth platform. Launched in 2016, the Mend platform has provided healthcare organizations with technology that enables the delivery of patient-centric care across many specialties including mental health.

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Health Populi

JULY 26, 2021

Nine in ten clinicians have recommended digital health tools to patients, and 8 in 10 clinicians strongly concurred that the pandemic resulted in helpful changes including the adoption of telehealth. Still, the lack of interoperability remains a barrier hindering clinicians from using digital health tools.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 19, 2022

At CES 2023, OMRON will announce the company’s expanding efforts for remote heart-health monitoring (RHM) and clinical evidence generated through its launch of RHM. Withings expanded remote patient monitoring earlier in 2022, and began to collaborate on clinical trial data connections between consumers and researchers.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2022

Gary Shapiro, President and CEO of CTA, introduced today’s CES keynote speaker, Robert Ford, as the “ first-ever keynote speaker from health care” at CES, calling out the fact that Abbott’s Freestyle Libre System garnered one of CES 2022’s Innovation Awards. It’s “life care.”

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2022

in the seventh annual 2022 Brand Relevance Index from Prophet. The research developed a list of 50 companies representing what Prophet characterizes “the brands that people can’t live without in 2022.” Peloton, for connected fitness. Spotify, for health information as well as mis-information.

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