Connected Health, Data, Medicare and Patient Experience

“My Doctor’s Office” Should Accept Wearable Tech Health Data, Most Patients Say

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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Medicare Members Are Health Consumers, Too – Our AHIP Talk About Aging, Digital Immigrants, and Personalizing Health/Care

Health Populi

DECEMBER 9, 2019

That program has the potential to change our Medicare members manage meds at home to ensure better adherence, supporting better health outcomes and personal feelings of efficacy and control. [As Those born before 1985 are generally considered as digital immigrants, so people aging into Medicare today are certainly in that cohort.

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Hospital at Home: Prospects and Challenges, and Learnings from Best Buy Health

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The first graphic shown here illustrates the authors’ view on the digital evolution of HaH from delivery of care (migrating from in-person to fully virtual), telecomms (from telephone to embedded HIPAA-compliant video conferencing), and remote monitoring, moving from patient-reported data of vital signs to wearable sensors.

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Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

Presidential elections to that point, and that the last retiring Baby Boomer enrolls in Medicare that year. Let’s take a walk with “Quincy” through each of the four worlds to see how their health care experience might play out across the key driving forces. In 2030, every Boomer will have been eligible for Medicare.

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Add Behavioral Data to Social Determinants For Better Patient Understanding

Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2018

“Health agencies will have to become at least as sophisticated as other consumer/retail industries in analyzing a variety of data that helps uncover root causes of human behavior,” Gartner recommended in 2017. That’s because “health” is not all pre-determined by our parent-given genetics.

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From Evolution to Innovation, from Health Care to Health: How Health Plans With Collaborators Are Re-Defining the Industry

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. This work started in 2023 involving Walmart Health clinics serving Medicare members and looking to partner with UnitedHealth plan members and others.

Primary Care

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The Economic Contours of the Change Healthcare Cyber Attack: Taking Stock So Far

Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2024

The cost of patient data spillage : We won’t know the estimate for this line-item for some time, but we must keep it in our accounting as a key line-item on patients’ minds and, potentially, in pocketbooks.

Medicare

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Home Is Where the Health Is: An Update on Connectivity, Food, and Retail

Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2022

And it’s crucial for incumbent health care suppliers — hospitals, pharma, devices and supplies, and health plans — to assess, learn, strategize and execute on the potential shift of $265 billion of care services that McKinsey expects to migrate to the home by 2025.

Primary Care

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Health systems are notching big wins with their IT investments

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

Sign Up for our daily or weekly newsletters Health IT Investment: The Next Five Years News Brooklyn provider automates patient experience tracking to spot health equity gaps At One Brooklyn Health System, tools such as the Brooklyn Health Equity Index survey are helping.

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Health/Care Everywhere – Re-Imagining Healthcare at ATA 2019

Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2019

Best Buy Health has been developing partnerships in healthcare, in B2B2C mode, channeling into peoples’ homes for healthy living and aging well “in place.” Joining us on the panel will be Kaiser-Permanente as a prospective partner in such a retail health-to-services-to-home vision, underpinned by data and predictive analytics.

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The Retail Health Battle Royale, Day 5 – Consumer Demands For a Health/Care Ecosystem (and What We Can Learn from Costco’s $1.50 Hot Dog)

Health Populi

JULY 29, 2022

Zocdoc launched a data ecosystem enabled through application programming interfaces to streamline care coordination and referrals between primary care providers and specialists, aiming to provide consumers with a better experience and more convenient care access. Here’s another lens on the Optum health consumer data.

Digital Health

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Closing the Digital Health Gap Between Consumers and Physicians

Health Populi

JULY 20, 2018

One-third of physicians have concerns about using virtual care services, such as medical errors that may result, access to technology, and data security. consumers are now tracking health via digital tools, and one-half of these share the data generated by their apps. One in two U.S.

Digital Health

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Telehealth and COVID-19 in the U.S.: A Conversation with Ann Mond Johnson, ATA CEO

Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

For example, only health care providers that have an existing relationship with a Medicare patient would be eligible per the requirements in the legislation. Check out this last public health poster about Medicare and COVID-19. That’s Medicare, Australia-style, adopting telehealth in this coronavirus era.

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Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

The latter have impacts on the former in terms of managing patient-density in physical spaces, scheduling time in procedure rooms, and dealing with high-risk patients who must mindfully risk-manage their exposure to the virus. Depending on the trajectory of the U.S.

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Telehealth Visits Can Improve Revenue, But They’re No Cornucopia

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Specifically, what if the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) rescinds the emergency orders it has put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic? Medicare created new codes to cover remote patient monitoring in January 2020, according to Anderson and Null. A boon for behavioral health.

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Can Consumer Electronics Help Stem the Decline of U.S. Life-Years? A Preface for #CES2023

Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

How can digital health and other consumer-facing technologies help our health? First, consider the stark data point(s), and then we can better respond to the question’s answer in the Hot Points , below. These will now be in place until the end of 2024.

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2019: Healthcare IT gains new ground

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Enhancing the patient experience with technology. This month, our coverage will continue a special focus on the patient experience. We'll talk to the thought leaders and first-movers reimagining the how and where of patient-friendly tech, and report on ways to activate, if not delight, the people they treat.

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Most Virtual Care Consumers, Satisfied With Visits in the COVID Era, Expect It for Future Care

Health Populi

JULY 10, 2020

Earlier in the SGP report, physicians listed key problems with telehealth, which included privacy (explaining policies to patients), cybersecurity risks, lack of data for care continuity, patient literacy with digital technology, and to be sure, reimbursement and payment parity, among other challenges.

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Heart Health at #CES2019 – Food and Tech as Medicine

Health Populi

JANUARY 7, 2019

Using food and tech as medicine can help people avoid going on medications like statins and others for heart health. An important example of this self-care approach is the evidence-based Ornish food regimen which is reimbursed by Medicare (as a form of cardiac rehabilitation).

Digital Health

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Northwell Health’s Patients engage with AI ChatBot for guidance & support through their care journey

Consumer eHealth Engagement

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Throughout the recent Connected Health Conference, the key theme was the need to balance technology with the human element. Think about a patient’s journey today. Pamela, a 78 year old Medicare patient has just been discharged from a Northwell Hospital for a heart failure episode.

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When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

health citizens face physical, financial, and mental health challenges of a syndemic, inflation, and stress – all of which will shape peoples’ demand side for health care and digital technology, and a supply side of providers challenged by tech-enabled organizations with design and data chops. Entering 2023, U.S.

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Boston Children’s, Brigham and Women’s & Northwell Health leverage virtual assistants for a better patient care experience

Consumer eHealth Engagement

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

During the World Congress Patient Experience & Engagement Summit in Boston, I led a panel with these innovative health systems, discussing how they are using virtual health assistants (e.g. AI Chatbots, Voice) to increase efficiency in care delivery and enhance the patient experience.

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Our Homes Are Health Delivery Platforms – The New Home Health/Care at CES 2021

Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

As iFit’s Bluetooth connected heart rate monitor connected with NordicTrack the device also connects with wearable tech from Garmin, Polar, Wahoo and WHOOP, an example of the growing data ecosystem emanating from consumer-generated health devices.

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The Digital Transformation of Home for Health – Brainstorming with Karsten Russell-Wood of Philips

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

See that their home is a one-story design in the connected health neighborhood, a good choice for a couple seeking to age well in their home without stairs. Jonathan also uses the DreamMapper sleep app that couples to the connected CPAP mask, allowing him to track his sleep trends over time. Take George and Audrey.

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Costs, Consumerism, Cyber and Care, Everywhere – The 2019 Health Populi TrendCast

Health Populi

DECEMBER 25, 2018

The announcement this week of Morgan Stanley’s capital influx into Medsphere, an EHR company, is a hint of what more is to come in 2019 as an example of investors’ expanded interest in health IT and new-and-improved healthcare services and business models. So much of these data flows aren’t covered by HIPAA.

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“My Doctor’s Office” Should Accept Wearable Tech Health Data, Most Patients Say

Medicare Members Are Health Consumers, Too – Our AHIP Talk About Aging, Digital Immigrants, and Personalizing Health/Care

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Hospital at Home: Prospects and Challenges, and Learnings from Best Buy Health

Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Add Behavioral Data to Social Determinants For Better Patient Understanding

From Evolution to Innovation, from Health Care to Health: How Health Plans With Collaborators Are Re-Defining the Industry

The Economic Contours of the Change Healthcare Cyber Attack: Taking Stock So Far

Home Is Where the Health Is: An Update on Connectivity, Food, and Retail

Health systems are notching big wins with their IT investments

Health/Care Everywhere – Re-Imagining Healthcare at ATA 2019

The Retail Health Battle Royale, Day 5 – Consumer Demands For a Health/Care Ecosystem (and What We Can Learn from Costco’s $1.50 Hot Dog)

Closing the Digital Health Gap Between Consumers and Physicians

Telehealth and COVID-19 in the U.S.: A Conversation with Ann Mond Johnson, ATA CEO

Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

Telehealth Visits Can Improve Revenue, But They’re No Cornucopia

Can Consumer Electronics Help Stem the Decline of U.S. Life-Years? A Preface for #CES2023

2019: Healthcare IT gains new ground

Most Virtual Care Consumers, Satisfied With Visits in the COVID Era, Expect It for Future Care

Heart Health at #CES2019 – Food and Tech as Medicine

Northwell Health’s Patients engage with AI ChatBot for guidance & support through their care journey

When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

Boston Children’s, Brigham and Women’s & Northwell Health leverage virtual assistants for a better patient care experience

Our Homes Are Health Delivery Platforms – The New Home Health/Care at CES 2021

The Digital Transformation of Home for Health – Brainstorming with Karsten Russell-Wood of Philips

Costs, Consumerism, Cyber and Care, Everywhere – The 2019 Health Populi TrendCast

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