E-CareManagement

JUNE 27, 2021

While there have been many events on interoperability and data sharing, what’s unique here is our focus on the BUSINESS rationale for health data sharing. • The bases of competition in healthcare are shifting to competing on quality, cost, and patient experience. Dave Cassel, Executive Director, Carequality.

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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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E-CareManagement

OCTOBER 19, 2020

While there have been many events on interoperability and data sharing, what’s unique here is our focus on the BUSINESS rationale for health data sharing. • The bases of competition in healthcare are shifting to competing on quality, cost, and patient experience. Dave Cassel, Executive Director, Carequality.

Health Data 52

Health Data Interoperability HIPAA Public Health 52

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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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Fresenius Medical Care North America (FMCNA) is adopting and supporting new Connected Health technologies that empower patients to monitor, collect, and share health and treatment data with their physicians and care providers.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

We’ll see many more developments like this one as the health care industry continues to get more serious about its role in climate change, ESG, and public health. On the supply side, note that nearly one-half of radiologists report symptoms of burnout.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 18, 2020

That information control is a major issue for 70% of health care consumers, “concerned about data privacy and commercial tracking associated with ‘my’ online activities, behaviors, location and interests,” Accenture’s survey learned.

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Health Populi

MARCH 5, 2018

Health Populi’s Hot Points : Health is social: isolation is a social determinant for ill health. We learned from the first Edelman Health Engagement Barometer that the three top factors that consumers look for when health-engaging with any organization are trust, authenticity, and satisfaction. 46% of U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 9, 2021

health citizens’ minds, making people more aware of the value of their health data, privacy and security aspects. “Making healthcare more human begins with a step in the patient’s shoes,” Rich Birhanzel wrote in Accenture’s Humanizing Healthcare blog in July 2021.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2021

Expanding omni-channel, data-driven, cost-effective health care in the community, tailoring that care, and attending to mental health paint the picture of health through the lens of CVS Health. The company published the Health Trends Report 2021 today, calling out ten forces shaping health care this year.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

At few times in recent memory has the resolve of hospitals and health systems across the U.S. – and the wherewithal of the information systems and digital data that keep them running – been put to the test quite like it was in 2020. Major new federal rulemakings meant to enable more seamless data exchange in the future.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

But the coronavirus era also saw broadband households spending more on connecting health devices, with 42% of U.S. consumers owning digital health tech compared with 33% in 2015, according to research discussed in Supporting Today’s Connected Consumer from Parks Associates. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic drove U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

In the Fear of Going Out Era spawned by the COVID-19 pandemic, many patients were loath to go to the doctor’s office for medical care, and even less keen on entering a hospital clinic’s doors. Once adjusted for volumes, the higher expenses are more evident as hospitals struggle to hold down per-patient costs.”

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Anthony Fauci made what was probably his last speech from his NIH/White House bully pulpit speaking about stepping down from 54 years of public service serving Americans’ public health. ” In the COVID-19 public health emergency, the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Note the inclusion of the seat occupied on the plane; this allows the public health authorities to track and trace and contact passengers who might have been seated near another traveler who develops a positive COVID diagnosis. So I will head to a testing center over the weekend to get that test done.

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Public Health Digital Health Interoperability Patient Experience 203

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

As part of its National Health IT Week program, HIMSS presented a webinar this week exploring the advent of what it calls the "Smart Communities-Cities Movement." wellness" and more, said Gibbons — to say nothing of completely reshaping the patient experience. "They do not need to be in a hospital.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 19, 2024

Now we see the emergence of telecomms-as-medicine — or more specifically, a driver of health, access, and empowerment. To implement this program and get connectivity into consumers’ hands and homes, Elevance Health is collaborating with several telecomms companies including Verizon, AT&T, Samsung, and T-Mobile.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 28, 2021

.” As we enter Year 3 of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and civic chasms and economic uncertainty (inflation, health care costs, Great Resignations), I took this page out of Dr, Seuss in my last monthly post for Medecision’s Liberate Health blog. rare disease communities, or other gaps in health justice.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2021

For most young people, the public health crisis has been more about that social distancing from friends, a collective sense of isolation, and mental and behavioral health impacts. After a year of living with and “in” the coronavirus pandemic, younger people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2024

In kicking off #CES2024, CTA’s researchers noted the acceleration of global connectivity, with gaps in peoples’ ability to connect depending where they live: by region, the percent of people connected to the internet today are, according to CTA’s data, 92% in the U.S. 87% in the E.U.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Patients and health plan members continue evolving into medical bill payers, with their homes and budgets baked into the concept. The program resulted in a reduction of both trips to the emergency department and hospitalizations among patients dealing with congestive heart failure. Connectivity as a social determinant of health.

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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. Patients perceived care was at least as good or better than traditional face-to-face encounters, and.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

One-half of doctors uses telehealth for continuous monitoring of patients, Overwhelming, medical and chronic disease management are the workflows for telehealth, followed by one-half of physicians using virtual care for specialty visits and 44% for mental and behavioral health.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

How would you improve what’s in the bill to optimize the use of telehealth in this challenging public health moment? What can we expect to hear relevant to the public health challenge? Check out this last public health poster about Medicare and COVID-19. The President signed the $8.3

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2020

But while the new ONC rules may make it easier for health consumers to access personal health information, the Field of Dreams phenomenon subverts the noble goal: we may “build” a system for people to access health data (like Blue Button), but patients may not “come.”

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

This second graphic diagrams a patient journey map for the coronavirus, across the continuum of care settings from the community and home to primary care, emergency, hospital, and post-acute. Philips was involved early on in responding to health system demands in the ASEAN region, discussed here in Healthcare IT News.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

As the HLTH conference convenes over 6,000 digital health innovators live, in person, in Boston in the wake of the delta variant, what should attendees keep in mind to help HLTH make health?

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

While venture funding for digital health technology declined globally by 35% in the first three quarters of 2022 compared with 2021, this marks a “return to normal” based on the assessment in the Global State of Digital Health Report from FINN Partners and Galen Growth, published today and launched during the HLTH 2022 conference.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2019

Whether for drug discovery, preventing hospital readmissions, making sound human resource decisions, or addressing population health challenges, Big Data are flowing into more cognitive systems to mine information and inform clinicians’ decisions at the point of care and researchers’ ongoing search for better treatments.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

In an age when nearly everyone is digitally connected in some way – even many senior citizens, who are often characterized as technophobic – it only makes sense that the healthcare industry is seeing a lot of connected health devices and remote patient monitoring (RPM) technologies.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

I talked to Rick Anderson, president of Dario , which provides the basics of connected health—monitoring of health data and behaviors, messages to patients, and so forth—while deriving revenue from employers and other private payers. A boon for behavioral health.

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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.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2023

“Are we losing the battle against heart disease?” ” asks the lead article featured in the January 2023 issue of the AARP Bulletin.

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Health Populi

JUNE 26, 2018

She explained how a technology can start with earnest health-goals and result in ethical dilemmas: consider the potential for wearables to change how we improve our health, a “wonderful thing,” Sara said, enabling passive data collection. Then open up the Strava app, run on your military base and — oops! —

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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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Health Populi

JANUARY 7, 2019

With my public health hat on, I assert that smoking cessation is good for everyone (except perhaps for tobacco companies’ bottom lines). Beyond alcohol, the company is working on additional DTx categories including insomnia and depression, schizophrenia, traumatic brain injury, epilepsy, and PTSD, among other conditions.

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Medicine and Technology

APRIL 21, 2013

Mercy, a 31 hospital healthcare system serving hundreds of communities in the Midwest, is transforming the patient experience through comprehensive telemedicine and HIT services. Oracle is helping to transform the economics of healthcare by enabling patient-centered technology for health engagement.

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