Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Seeking health information online along with researching other patients’ perspectives on doctors are now as common as booking dinner reservations and reading restaurant reviews, based on Rock Health’s latest health consumer survey, Beyond Wellness for the Healthy: Digital Health Consumer Adoption 2018.

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Health Populi

APRIL 9, 2019

This speaks to the fact that in emerging countries, health citizens are often leap-frogging health access using digital health tools, compared with patients and consumers in wealthier nations which have capital-intensive, bricks-and-mortar built medical care infrastructures.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Address social determinants of health. Accelerate digital health. Secure health data (updating privacy/HIPAA). Note that WHO’s approach to digital health adoption includes equity, access, palliative care, privacy, and security. Help our children achieve their potential. Innovate long-term care.

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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. On average, U.S. On average, U.S.

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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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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The “concerned” aspect of the tech-embrace in health care means consumers are also keen to have privacy data protections and procedures in place to prevent their PHI from traveling outside of trusted health care circles. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Earlier this year, Accenture found that U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The report calls out one big barrier to early adoption especially among hospitals and physicians: concerns about privacy and HIPAA compliance. The top interest health care categories for voice assistants are asking about illness symptoms above all, cited by one-third of consumers.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 27, 2022

But trust is in short supply when it comes to consumers openness to share their personal information we learn through a new study published in JAMA , Consumer Willingness to Share Personal Digital Information for Health-Related Uses. From Kaspersky, Telehealth take-up: the risks and opportunities , December 2021. In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Being Philips, what underpins that quality and experience is technology; Philips explored telehealth, AI, digital health records (DHRs), and other digital health tools that can engage patients. Patients view their health care professionals as “sherpas” to digital health data.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 10, 2021

Ron cited three early learnings that he’s applying now in this bullish telehealth era: The experience of both patients and clinicians are key to building adoption and use of virtual care, respecting patient and clinician satisfaction; Clinical efficacy and how well care can be done from a distance; and, Cost-effectiveness and sustainability.

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E-CareManagement

JUNE 27, 2021

Robert Havasy, Senior Director, Connected Health, HIMSS. Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Economist, Advisor, Trend Weaver, THINK-Health & Founder, Health Populi blog. Mark Savage, Director, Center for Digital Health Innovation, University of California, San Francisco. Steven R. .

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2018

9 in 10 hospitals and health systems prioritize improving the consumer/patient experience, but only 30% of providers are building these capabilities, I wrote in the Health Populi blog discussing Kaufman Hall’s research. But it appears that while healthcare providers’ spirits are willing, their flesh (that is, actions) are weak.

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E-CareManagement

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Robert Havasy, Senior Director, Connected Health, HIMSS. Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Economist, Advisor, Trend Weaver, THINK-Health & Founder, Health Populi blog. Mark Savage, Director, Center for Digital Health Innovation, University of California, San Francisco. Steven R. .

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Health Populi

MARCH 27, 2018

Here’s what we-know-we know about health care, privacy, and security: briefly, • HIPAA covers patients’ PHI that is held by covered entities and shared with contracted business associates. Cyber-breaches are a new-normal in health care. billion active monthly accounts.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

This gets to transparency, regarding how these companies communicate privacy policies to users; and, for health care, this speaks to patients’ concerns about their healthcare privacy. Many personal information flows don’t fall under the HIPAA umbrella if the company isn’t a business associate.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MAY 11, 2022

leader in connected health technology innovator, today announced its CEO Dr. Kelly Nguyen was selected as one of the key judges in the 2022 “Top Eight That Innovate” Diversity Alliance for Science (DA4S) annual competition. BUENA PARK, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, May 6, 2022— DrKumo Inc., About DrKumo, Inc.

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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. Bardy Diagnostics.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

The frequency of cybersecurity breaches in health systems is a risk factor eroding patient trust. To that end, it is interesting to note that Amazon is seeking a privacy professional experienced with HIPAA. Finally, healthcare costs are top-of-mind for patients in the U.S.

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Lloyd Price

JANUARY 30, 2019

The startup uses Google Home, Amazon Echo and other smart speakers to engage patients and the elderly and connect them with their caregivers. Last summer, Best Buy put down $800 million in cash to acquire GreatCall, a mobile device that connects health and emergency response services to older people and their caregivers.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Kroger will expand its food-as-medicine platform, deploying tele-nutrition with registered dietitians and growing evidence-base for prescribing a Mediterranean (or DASH) diet for heart-health, among other eating styles. Growing adoption of “broad-spectrum” self-care – including digital health tools.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 4, 2023

Millions of global health citizens have taken to telehealth who never used a health care “digital front door” before. Other patients adopted remote health monitoring to avoid perennial visits to doctors for managing chronic conditions like diabetes or heart disease.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

But for those of us working with and innovating solutions for health and health care, #CES2021 was baked with health goodness , in and beyond “digital health” categories. In my consumer-facing health care work, I’ve adopted the mantra that our homes are our health hubs.

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Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2018

I leave you with one proviso which could be a barrier to patients engaging with digitized health information: in the wake of Facebook/Cambridge Analytica, there is a wake-up call for consumers to become more mindful about the security of their personal data online.

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2019

For health care privacy, Americans’ HIPAA provisions surely don’t cover personal information that informs health beyond the healthcare claim the way Europeans’ GDPR or the soon-to-be-implemented California Consumer Privacy Act of 2020 do. 2015 – Musings with Mary Meeker on the Digital/Health Nexus.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2021

For all of us in tech, and especially in the health/care ecosystem, this is our opportunity to embrace this multi-pronged pandemic-era challenge for all health citizens and ensure that the technology and innovations we develop serve each other and the world.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 25, 2018

We are also witnessing green shoots of understanding across the many layers of health literacy for: Personal health financial literacy, a greater appreciation among consumers about the tax benefits of conserving funds in a health savings account, and what “coinsurance” shares mean.

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