Connected Health, Data, Public Health and Telehealth

Designing Digital Health for Public Health Preparedness and Equity: the Consumer Tech Association Doubles Down

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

At the same time, CTA has published a paper on Advancing Health Equity Through Technology which complements and reinforces the PHTI announcement and objective. That second point is illustrated by the first diagram, showing the interconnected nature of data sources that are generated by the U.S. Tribal health departments.

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News from the Consumer Technology Association and Withings Further Demonstrates Private Sector’s Role in the Pandemic and Public Health

Health Populi

JULY 28, 2020

This week, announcements from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and Withings further bolster the case for the private sector bolstering public health in this pandemic…and future ones to come beyond the Age of the Coronavirus. On 27th July, CTA announced the Association’s launch of the Public Health Tech Initiative.

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Telehealth Platforms: Building Blocks for Omnichannel, Networked Healthcare

Health Populi

JULY 23, 2020

the use of telehealth services tripled in the past year, as healthcare providers limited patients from in-person visits for care and patients sought to avoid exposure to the coronavirus in medical settings. What’s new in this fast-pivot to virtual care is the type of telehealth services used, shown in the first chart from the report.

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Billing Medicare and Private Payers for Telehealth Visits: What to Expect Post-Public Health Emergency

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

By Tyler Williams, Directory of Strategy, AR Optimization, ZOLL Data Systems. ” While the AMA and many others are advocating for continued support of telehealth post-pandemic, healthcare providers and practice leaders should anticipate and prepare for a return to more standardized regulation after the public health emergency (PHE).

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Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

Health Populi

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. But a telehealth encounter was seen as more convenient than an office visit by 56% of older people.

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As 'telehealth cliff' looms, hundreds of healthcare orgs urge Congress to act

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2021

Leading healthcare industry stakeholders on Monday implored top leaders in the House and Senate to help ensure, among other imperatives, that "Medicare beneficiaries [don't] abruptly lose access to nearly all recently expanded coverage of telehealth." " WHY IT MATTERS.

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A “Great Re-Set” for Telehealth and Remote Monitoring? Panda Health Says That’s a “Yes”

Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2023

Based on this research, the team developed “The Churn Index,” a heat map/thermometer arraying which of 24 digital health solutions would be likely to be replaced in the coming months. Telehealth was one of the most-influenced digital health adoption category in the pandemic, noted by 97% of providers.

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Thinking About Telehealth Through the Lens of Real Estate – Listening to JLL

Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2022

If you made your living in commercial real estate — and especially, working with hospitals’ and health systems’ office space — would the concept of telehealth be freaking you out right now? The firm asserts that, and I quote from the report, “telehealth is not replacing the physical office by any means.”

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Telehealth Update from the AMA – Setting the Context for ATA 2022

Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

physicians were using telehealth to care for patients at the end of 2021. Among those doctors who were not providing telehealth by late 2021, just over one half never did so during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the 2021 Telehealth Survey Report from the AMA. Four in five U.S. Care coordination and continuity.

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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

Will the coronavirus inspire greater adoption of telehealth in the U.S.? I asked myself, then went to my Oracle of Telehealth: Ann Mond Johnson, CEO of ATA (once named the American Telemedicine Association). It is clear that there’s no better use case for digital/tele/virtual health than what is unfolding right now.

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Trust-Busted: The Decline of Trust in Technology and What It Means for Health

Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2021

By mid-2020, Edelman detected, “a decline in willingness to share personal data to fight the pandemic. During the height of the pandemic, there was a predisposition to give up personal health and location tracing data to government to help control the spread of the disease. Now barely more than half are willing to do so….

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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

Their home is the site for most of their health care, with sensors in the kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, and in the car all informing Quincy’s digital phenotype that further populates data into their EHR which they control and audit. Telehealth happens across the U.S. as clinicians do not face issues of State licensure barriers.

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The Post-COVID 19 Health Consumer: Ready for DIY Health Care and More Open to Telehealth

Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has re-shaped consumers for work, school, fitness, cooking, and certainly for health care. PwC’s recommendation here is for the supply-side executives from providers, pharma and health plans to determine which virtual care services make “the most sense and for whom.”

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Dispatches from the Frontlines: Connected Health and COVID-19

Connected Health Initiative

JUNE 24, 2020

The Connected Health Initiative (CHI) and our members worked tirelessly with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Congress, and state officials to expand access to connected health solutions during COVID-19 pandemic. billion in 2018.

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Bipartisan bills gain support for telehealth reform, SDOH coordination

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Different pieces of legislation supporting expansion of technology-enabled access to care were the focus on Capitol Hill this week, with bipartisan bills that provide funding for connected social care networks and call for telehealth regulatory reform gained support on separate tracks. Aligning clinical care and social service.

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The Connected Health Initiative Applauds FCC Proposed Order to Provide More Telehealth Resources During COVID-19 Crisis

Connected Health Initiative

APRIL 3, 2020

Both the COVID-19 Telehealth Program and Connected Care Pilot represent key efforts to combat the current public health emergency, and to drive a much-needed transformation of the American healthcare system. “We For more information, see www.connectedhi.com.

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Health Consumers Value Sharing and Downloading Health Data, But Privacy Concerns Remain

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

are growing their health IT muscles and literacy, accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier.

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Health Consumers After COVID-19 – A View from the Consumer Technology Association

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

I covered the event here in Health Populi, as I have for most of the past decade, highlighting the growth of digital health and, this year, the expanding Internet of Healthy Things called-out by Dr. Joseph Kvedar in 2015. FYI, I am sharing these data with permission from CTA, grateful to be able to do so.

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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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The COVID-19 Era Has Grown Health Consumer Demand for Virtual Care

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

One in four people would consider online options as their first-line to evaluating personal health issues — a kind of “digital step therapy,” if you will. The home has emerged as our health hub in the pandemic, and that won’t be just a trend: that will persist.

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How Virtual Care Will Play Out in 2022 – a Look Post-CES and JPM

Health Populi

JANUARY 24, 2022

A new study from CIGNA and its subsidiary MDLive touts the cost-effectiveness of telehealth to improve health outcomes, reducing the need for unnecessary lab work, reducing duplication of care, and connecting patients with high-performing providers. We have some early data points we can weave into the answer to this question.

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Ten Forces Shaping Health Care in 2021: A View from CVS Health

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

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In the Spring of 2020, a number of institutions—health, education, judicial, and others—went through a wrenching technological transformation: To prevent the spread of COVID-19, they took refuge online. Clinical sites that had long ignored the appeals of telehealth advocates suddenly adopted virtual visits. Improved workflows.

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healthcare and technology leaders urge the 118th congress to continue the promise of digital health

Connected Health Initiative

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The Promise of Digital Health Exists, Connected Health Initiative Urges Congress to Achieve Potential January 31, 2023—Today, ACT | The App Association’s Connected Health Initiative (CHI) released its priorities for the 118 th Congress. Number of U.S. Full details of CHI congressional priorities can be read here.

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Health Data Unbound Virtual Conference

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. • Hoarding data is not only bad for business but can be catastrophic in a crisis. Hoarding data is not only bad for business but can be catastrophic in a crisis.

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Workforce Shortages and Health Care Cost Pressures Inspire RSNA 2023 (and yes, AI’s in the mix, too)

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Radiology and radiologists play starring roles in our health care, with he core work flow of diagnostic imaging supporting prevention, disease detection, diagnosis, delivering and monitoring therapy, linking specialists to other providers in telehealth, and as a medium for teaching clinicians, patients and caregivers.

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Ten In Ten: Manatt’s Healthcare Priorities to 2031

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Their ten must-do’s for bending the cost curve while driving constructive change for a better health care system are to: Ensure access. Achieve health equity. Stability the safety net and rebuild public health. Address social determinants of health. Accelerate digital health. Innovate long-term care.

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A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds

Health Populi

JULY 20, 2020

Patients embraced virtual care and communications at very high rates in the first months of the pandemic, and want to continue to use telehealth platforms after the pandemic ends. Fully one-third of patients starting using each of these 3 telehealth modalities during COVID-19.

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Fresenius Connected Health: Improving Patient Care Through New Technology

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. Connected Health and new technologies in health care don’t come without concerns and risks.

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Health Data Unbound Virtual Conference

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. • Hoarding data is not only bad for business but can be catastrophic in a crisis. Hoarding data is not only bad for business but can be catastrophic in a crisis.

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Consumers Embrace Tech But Privacy Remains a Concern – The Morning Consult Poll of Consumers and Tech

Health Populi

JANUARY 5, 2022

. “While brands may enjoy the initial buzz over these launches, it often takes a while for the public to become comfortable enough to fold them into their daily lives,” the Morning Consult analysts noted. And, men are more open to sharing their data than women.

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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

Evidence supporting the use of digital health tools if growing, tracked in Digital Health Trends 2021: Innovation, Evidence, Regulation, and Adoption from IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science.

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Managing the Risks of Fast-Growing Digital Health

Health Populi

APRIL 5, 2021

With such turbocharged growth on the supply side, Beazley, experts in specialty insurance, explores the risks of digital health and wellness in a new report, Digital health, telehealth and wellness: Attitudes to risk and insurance.

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How Twitter Revealed Consumer Health Care Trends in the Pandemic

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Three mega-trends bubbled up on the platform for health — telemedicine and virtual care, broadband access, and mental health, discussed in a Birdseye Report Industry Deep Dive into Health from Brandwatch, partnering with Twitter. For this report, Brandwatch utilized only English-language public Twitter data.

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Bringing Telehealth to the Rehabilitation Industry

Advanced Medical Reviews

MAY 2, 2019

The future of telehealth continues to build interest due to its convenience and cost-effectiveness. Not only does it increase access to care and reduce travel time—especially for people living in rural areas—but telehealth also decreases the number of hospital stays and can improve communication between clinicians. utilize telehealth.

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Depression and Anxiety are Toxic Side Effects of the Coronavirus Pandemic

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

treated more patients in the first six months of the coronavirus pandemic, shifting their practices to telehealth platforms. Health Populi’s Hot Points : Since well before the COVID-19 public health crisis, there has been a shortage of mental health providers in the U.S. Most psychologists in the U.S.

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The Latest Health Technology Vision and Consumer Behavior Insights From Accenture

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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Telehealth and Program Integrity

Connected Health Initiative

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Millions of Americans turned to live audio and video visits with healthcare providers during the COVID-19 pandemic, and Congress needs to make decisions that will permanently affect how Americans, in particular Medicare patients, may access these telehealth services on a permanent basis.

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Health Care Planning for 2022 – Start with a Pandemic, Then Pivot to Health and Happiness

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. along with health disparities and inequities.

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IoT and The Rise of the Machines in Healthcare

Health Populi

AUGUST 12, 2021

During the pandemic, health care providers needed to deal with the security of devices rapidly procured and deployed within institutions and also outside the walls of providers, such as in field hospitals meeting the surge of coronavirus patients. 32% of medical imaging devices were running on unsupported operating systems, and.

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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

Connecting from our homes — now our health hubs, workplaces, schools, entertainment centers, and gyms — is necessary like air and water for survival across daily life flows. Digital connectivity can ameliorate social isolation and anxiety, bolster mental health, and access needed medical care via telehealth channels.

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The Rise of the Homebody Economy and Healthcare to the Home

Health Populi

MARCH 30, 2021

Welcome to the “rebalancing of the homebody economy,” in the words of McKinsey, out with new data on consumer sentiment during the coronavirus crisis. This analysis was based on data generated through McKinsey’s COVID-19 US Consumer Pulse Survey conducted in mid-February 2021 among 2,000+ U.S. One-half of U.S.

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How Consumers and Physicians View Digital Health – An Update from the Consumer Technology Association

Health Populi

MARCH 6, 2023

Most consumers are bullish on the benefits that digital health technologies can play in their health. So assesses the Consumer Technology Association in the report, Driving Consumer Adoption of Digital Health Solutions , To paint this profile, CTA engaged Ipsos to poll 1,000 U.S. CTA sizes the market at $29.5

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Designing Digital Health for Public Health Preparedness and Equity: the Consumer Tech Association Doubles Down

News from the Consumer Technology Association and Withings Further Demonstrates Private Sector’s Role in the Pandemic and Public Health

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Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

As 'telehealth cliff' looms, hundreds of healthcare orgs urge Congress to act

A “Great Re-Set” for Telehealth and Remote Monitoring? Panda Health Says That’s a “Yes”

Thinking About Telehealth Through the Lens of Real Estate – Listening to JLL

Telehealth Update from the AMA – Setting the Context for ATA 2022

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

Trust-Busted: The Decline of Trust in Technology and What It Means for 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

The Post-COVID 19 Health Consumer: Ready for DIY Health Care and More Open to Telehealth

Dispatches from the Frontlines: Connected Health and COVID-19

Bipartisan bills gain support for telehealth reform, SDOH coordination

The Connected Health Initiative Applauds FCC Proposed Order to Provide More Telehealth Resources During COVID-19 Crisis

Health Consumers Value Sharing and Downloading Health Data, But Privacy Concerns Remain

Health Consumers After COVID-19 – A View from the Consumer Technology Association

The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

The COVID-19 Era Has Grown Health Consumer Demand for Virtual Care

How Virtual Care Will Play Out in 2022 – a Look Post-CES and JPM

Ten Forces Shaping Health Care in 2021: A View from CVS Health

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

healthcare and technology leaders urge the 118th congress to continue the promise of digital health

Health Data Unbound Virtual Conference

Workforce Shortages and Health Care Cost Pressures Inspire RSNA 2023 (and yes, AI’s in the mix, too)

Ten In Ten: Manatt’s Healthcare Priorities to 2031

A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds

Fresenius Connected Health: Improving Patient Care Through New Technology

Health Data Unbound Virtual Conference

Consumers Embrace Tech But Privacy Remains a Concern – The Morning Consult Poll of Consumers and Tech

Digital Health Tools Are Finding Business Models – IQVIA’s 2021 Read on the Health of Digital Health

Managing the Risks of Fast-Growing Digital Health

Top 10 Healthcare IT News stories of 2020

How Twitter Revealed Consumer Health Care Trends in the Pandemic

Bringing Telehealth to the Rehabilitation Industry

Depression and Anxiety are Toxic Side Effects of the Coronavirus Pandemic

The Latest Health Technology Vision and Consumer Behavior Insights From Accenture

Telehealth and Program Integrity

Health Care Planning for 2022 – Start with a Pandemic, Then Pivot to Health and Happiness

IoT and The Rise of the Machines in Healthcare

Older People Are Digital Migrants, and Best Buy Health Is Paving the Road for the Journey

The Rise of the Homebody Economy and Healthcare to the Home

How Consumers and Physicians View Digital Health – An Update from the Consumer Technology Association

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