Microsoft's Nuance reveals clinician note-taking tool with GPT-4
Mobi Health News
MARCH 21, 2023
Nuance Communications said the app creates notes based on patient conversations that clinicians can then review.
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Only 1 in 4 People Over 50 Use a Mobile Health App – And They Tend to Be Healthier and Wealthier
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
use at least one mobile health app, and 56% of older people have never used one. Among older people who do not use health apps, half say it is because of their lack of interest, we learn from the research in Mobile Health App Use Among Older Adults from the University of Michigan’s National Poll on Healthy Aging, sponsored by AARP.
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People Using Health Apps and Wearable Tech Most Likely Track Exercise and Heart Rate, Sleep and Weight – But Cost Is Still A Barrier
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
consumers use a health app or wearable technology device to track some aspect of their health. “The public’s use of health apps and wearables has increased in recent years but digital health still has room to grow,” a new poll from Morning Consul t asserts, published today. Over one in three U.S.
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The Old Gays Working with Walgreens on TikTok: Breaking Down Stereotypes and Having Fun with Health
Health Populi
JULY 20, 2022
content to learn about how people can benefit from using the company’s app … for, Ordering prescriptions (90-day supply). So they turn to one of their smartphones for help: “Let’s use the 24/7 chat service…it’s on the Walgreens app…they’ll know what to do.” A whole lot!
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Digital Health Tools Are Finding Business Models – IQVIA’s 2021 Read on the Health of Digital Health
Health Populi
JULY 22, 2021
In the Age of COVID, over 90,000 new health apps were released, as the supply of digital therapeutics and wearables grew in 2020. Then, IQVIA evaluated the universe of about 40,000 apps available in the iTunes store.
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NextGen Investing in Mobile App, Cybersecurity, and Mirth…yes Mirth!
Healthcare IT Today
APRIL 23, 2024
1) How are they improving their mobile app? (2) NextGen Mobile App The team at Venice Family Clinic takes care of many unhoused patients and they depend on NextGen’s mobile app to add notes into their EHR. There were three burning questions we wanted to ask NextGen’s CEO David Sides. (1) 2) What’s happening with Mirth? (3)
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Leveraging Trust, Showing Humility: How Health Care Organizations Can Serve Consumers – A New Read from McKinsey
Health Populi
APRIL 23, 2024
That’s the current read from McKinsey & Company’s team noting that Consumers rule: Driving healthcare growth with a consumer-led strategy. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Generally speaking, products and services have to “earn” their way into consumers’ lives.
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Mental Health at CES 2022 – The Consumer’s Context for Wellbeing in the New Year
Health Populi
JANUARY 3, 2022
And about one-in-three Americans has made a 2022 New Year’s resolution involving some aspect of mental health, the American Psychiatric Association noted approaching the 2021 winter holiday season. Mindfulness and meditation apps, food and nutrition, are also well known by over 50% of U.S.
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Health Note Updates the Tired Old Patient Questionnaire
Healthcare IT Today
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
This article discusses the service provided by Health Note , which illustrates the capabilities of modern patient interaction using AI and integration with the EHR. But Health Note can do much better. A web-based app allows the patient to answer the questionnaire. Appropriate fields of the EHR are also filled in by Health Note.
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Consumers’ Use of Digital Health is Just Part of Mainstream Life Now
Health Populi
MAY 8, 2023
Using the Internet and mobile health apps are as mainstream as swiping left for a date and researching features in a new car, based on the Digital 2023 Global Overview Report from Meltwater. Note that these data are mostly global and not US or other nation-specific unless otherwise detailed.
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Technology Is Playing a Growing Role in Wellness and Healthy Aging – AARP’s Latest Look Into the 50+ Tech Consumer
Health Populi
DECEMBER 28, 2023
Beyond devices, older adults also use digital services via apps and websites. ” RTI has explored ageism in health/ care, noting that seniors face health inequities at a rate never before seen. “Ageism in healthcare is prevalent but can appear subtle.
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How Comprehend PT Takes Clinical Notes Out of Physical Therapists’ Hands
Healthcare IT Today
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
Comprehend PT uniquely meets the PT’s needs and allows the therapist to create notes in their particular tone and style just by speaking while they work. Not only are notes stored automatically in the EHR, but the app can extract patient data and context from the EHR to inform note taking.
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Health Is Social, With More People Using Apps for Physical and Emotional Wellbeing
Health Populi
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
People who need people aren’t just the luckiest people in the world: they derive greater benefits through monitoring their health via apps that make it easier to make healthy choices. 40% of people are using smartwatches to monitor health; 53% only use smartphones for health apps.
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What to Expect For Health/Care at CES 2024
Health Populi
JANUARY 2, 2024
While the North Hall of the LVCC will have a dedicated digital health area featuring at least 540 exhibits as listed in the CES 2024 app directory, I’ll find health beyond this area of the convention center all over town. Note that one of CES 2024 keynote speakers is Elevance Health’s President and CEO Gail Boudreaux.
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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.
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Apple scaling back employees-only virtual care app, says Insider
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 23, 2021
As reported by Insider 's Blake Dodge, the app, called HealthHabit, is the biggest project to come from Apple's health clinics following their 2018 acquisition from Crossover Health. The strategy was similar to that of Amazon Care, which spun up a primary care app for employees before expanding nationwide this year.
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Five Dementia Care Offerings in 2023
Aging in Place Technology Watch
AUGUST 2, 2023
Notably, the GUIDE Model currently does not note or suggest any of the available technology , including home automation, that could improve dementia care. As the needs for care resources change when the disease progresses, our app is there to locate hyperlocal, vetted resources. Learn more at Amicus Brain. BoundaryCare. TaprootElla. “
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Hospitals Employ Artificial Intelligence to Address Physician Burnout
Digital Health Global
AUGUST 9, 2023
To reduce administrative redundancies and allow healthcare professionals to focus on high-complexity tasks, hospitals are now using AI-powered applications like Microsoft Nuance’s DAX app. Physicians at Baptist Health in Jacksonville, Florida, have been using DAX since last year.
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ACP, ATA, ORCHA announce new framework supporting health app safety
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MAY 4, 2022
The Digital Health Assessment Framework will help analyze technologies including mobile apps and web-based tools used by professionals and consumers. As noted on the framework's website , more than 86 million people in the United States currently use a health or fitness app. Mire, ACP president, in a statement.
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The Self-Prescribing Consumer: DIY Comes to Prescriptions via GLP-1s, the OPill, and Dexcom’s CGM
Health Populi
MARCH 25, 2024
Three major milestones marked March 2024 which compel us to note the growing role of patients-as-consumers — especially for self-prescribing medicines and medical devices. If consumers choose, they can access Amazon Pharmacy clinical pharmacists on a 24/7 basis to ask questions about medications or their conditions.
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Suki partners with Amwell on telehealth AI
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 5, 2024
Amwell's Converge does not require patients to app downloads and features chat-based support, mental health services and in-visit enrollment for clinical programs, according to Suki's announcement. Suki Assistant leverages natural language processing to help clinicians complete notes 72% faster on average, according to the company.
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New Epowar Smartwatch App Revolutionizes Women’s Safety
Digital Health Global
AUGUST 21, 2023
University of Bath Graduates Develop App to Enhance Personal Safety for Women Graduates from the University of Bath have introduced a groundbreaking women’s safety smartwatch app, Epowar , that employs heart rate and body motion monitoring to detect distress and automatically send an emergency alert in the event of an attack.
Connected Care -- Changing the work process with technology
Aging in Place Technology Watch
JUNE 7, 2022
Conceived by Andrea Cohen, Founder and Vice-Chair of HouseWorks, a Boston-area Home Care agency, and as Andrea noted, "When employed to its fullest, remote care technology improves every aspect of how care is delivered in the home. Check emails and voicemails; sift through scattered notes. Reach out via mobile app communication portal.
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Our Mobile Health Data: Shared, Identifiable, and Privacy-Deprived
Health Populi
MARCH 28, 2019
As more mobile app users — consumers, patients, and caregivers — use these handy digital health tools, much of the data we share can be re-identified and monetized by third parties well beyond those we believe we’re sharing with. User names were identified by one in five apps studied.
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Useful Wellness and Mental Health Apps for Coping with Anxiety
Health and Wellness Blog | Uplifting People To Live A Healthier Life
JUNE 21, 2023
Wellness and mental health apps have become increasingly popular in recent years, as more people seek out convenient, accessible, and affordable ways to manage their mental health. Fortunately, conversations about mental health are plentiful, and plenty of apps can help you cope with anxiety and its symptoms.
GNC Offers “Free Healthcare” — Telehealth, Generic Meds, and Loyalty in the Retail Health Ecosystem
Health Populi
JULY 24, 2023
Before we explore the details and what’s under the hood of the offer, note the price and how it’s communicated in this snippet from the program’s website: the health consumer can “unlock $400 in value for just $39.99.” The website notes that there is a 12-visit maximum under this plan.
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Older People Are Digital Migrants, and Best Buy Health Is Paving the Road for the Journey
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
The company notes the top three features and services that older people seek in a mobile phone are emergency notifications, voice assistance, and access to telehealth. The GreatCall link app for family caregivers. The GreatCall link app for family caregivers. Brain Games by Posit Science, among other apps and tools.
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MeldRx Is Making Healthcare App Development and FHIR Data Access Easy
Healthcare IT Today
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
When someone wants to create a healthcare app, they often think that getting the data they need to make their app work will be easy. Schiess noted how most systems only support read access and not write access. Or maybe they hear about this new more modern FHIR standard that will give them access to that data.
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Ethics for AI in Health – A View From The World Health Organization
Health Populi
JANUARY 24, 2024
WHO calls out the power of LMMs’ ability to take in all kinds of data for health and medical care — text, images, videos, all available in people’s medical records, radiology imaging systems, prescription drug databases, and consumers’ own self-generated data based in health-app clouds and GPS check-ins.
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A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds
Health Populi
JULY 20, 2020
Topline, consumers “faced difficult choices,” Accenture notes in the report, choosing whether and how to continue their personal health care seeking to limit their risks of exposure to COVID-19. Over 90% of patients using a new device or app rated the experience “good or excellent” and wanted to continue to use them.
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“Complexity is Profitable” in U.S. Healthcare – How to Save a Quarter-Trillion Dollars
Health Populi
OCTOBER 22, 2021
The team noted in their JAMA viewpoint that over 1 million administrative employees were added to U.S. As it turns out, the health plans that served up the best digital experiences via well designed apps and websites garnered higher experience scores.
Connected Wellness Growing As Consumers Face Tighter Home Economics
Health Populi
OCTOBER 3, 2022
Note that those people using digital health tech on a daily basis increased from 9.4% of consumers were using a website or app to track food intake, weight, blood pressure, or other health metrics by August 2022 at least weekly, up from 20% in November 2021. Two-thirds earn over $100K a year, and. 7 in 10 have college educations.
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Ten apps to help those with hearing loss
Aging in Place Technology Watch
MARCH 17, 2022
Hearing aid users need smartphones and apps. Audiologists support the use of multiple types of apps for those with hearing loss, particularly those apps that come from the hearing aid manufacturers themselves. Experts note that these apps enable the user to tailor their experience to their own needs. Learn more.
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A New Health Literacy Pillar: Personal Data Stewardship
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 15, 2021
Alissa Knight , an expert on hacking and cybersecurity, conducted this research by first downloading 30 mHealth apps in collaboration with the companies, to do penetration testing of their apps and APIs. mHealth companies should implement a “zero-trust” approach to securing apps and APIs.
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Most Workers and their Employers Want to Receive Digital Healthcare On-Demand
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
Fully one-half of employees would be keen on apps to help find a doctor or care when and where needed, and just about 1 in 2 workers would like an app that helps find expert physicians anywhere in the world (think: specialists via telehealth) as well as electronic and portable personal health records.
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Digital health literacy as a social determinant of health
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
" "There have been issues with who's able to use virtual health," Bates continued, noting the wide range of studies about varying levels of access to telehealth during the pandemic. Bates noted that in some states , the reliance on web-based COVID-19 vaccination registration systems has shut even more people out.
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Most Health Consumers Expect Technology To Play a Larger Role As Tech-Angst & Privacy Concerns Grow
Health Populi
NOVEMBER 18, 2019
Note that the data discussed in this post include responses from consumers residing in both the U.S. The ability to order prescription refills through a smartphone app, 48%. A health tracking app to help manage my help, 42%. and United Kingdom. A symptom checker to help decide whether to see a doctor, 45%.
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Post-Pandemic, U.S. Healthcare is Entering a “Provide More Care For Less” Era – Pondering PwC’s 2022 Forecast
Health Populi
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. In 2021, 4 in 5 providers and nurses see EHRs as important, and increasingly demand digital interactions with patients.
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Americans Grew Digital Health-Data Muscles in the Pandemic – New Insights from the Pew Charitable Trusts
Health Populi
AUGUST 5, 2021
Eight in ten health consumers would access their physician and clinical notes (an area addressed in the past several years by the ground-breaking OpenNotes project ), insurance billing and claims, allergies, advance directives, and family medical history. As with other aspects of U.S. One pillar of that trust is privacy.
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The Tech User Experience for Older Adults Needs A Reboot
Aging in Place Technology Watch
JANUARY 31, 2024
But there’s a problem: AARP’s tech trends survey from 2024 and their 2023 guidance from AARP on inclusive design practices, it’s clear and as the AARP report notes, “No one prefers badly designed, over-complicated products.” They used relatively few apps and the login processes were simple and passwords were short and easily reused.
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Remote patient monitoring in an app boosts quality at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 24, 2022
"Previously, we were using an app that was built primarily as a weight management intervention," said Dr. Jamy Ard, co-director at the Weight Management Center at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist. We wanted to provide an app that patients liked to use as a part of their weight management experience." THE PROBLEM.
Emme, smart birth control case company, launches telemedicine service
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 2, 2021
Emme, a health tech company that launched a birth control tracking smart case and app this past August, has now expanded its offerings into prescription delivery and telemedicine. Emme representatives say the service aims to be a fully integrated contraception system, including the case and app, telemedicine, and prescription delivery.
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Amazon looks to bring telehealth, in-person care to 20 more cities
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Amazon is reportedly looking to launch its app-based home visits in 20 major U.S. This past September, Amazon announced it would allow employees to access the app-based care throughout Washington state. cities through 2022. Louis in 2022. THE LARGER TREND.
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The Smartphone Is the Consumer’s Personal Health Platform – Implications from Deloitte’s 2018 Survey
Health Populi
NOVEMBER 15, 2018
Quite recently, health-tech app developers were frustrated by lack of smartphone penetration among older people — lots of the very folks who could benefit from self-tracking data that can be useful for managing chronic conditions. [I Note the ten percent decline in use of fitness bands. In 2018, one in five U.S.
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