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Telehealth Platforms: Building Blocks for Omnichannel, Networked Healthcare

Health Populi

One of the public health hallmarks of the pandemic era has been stress, documented by the American Psychological Association’s Stress in America survey. That further enhances patient experience, and further enables the patient to self-manage care at home where it’s safe, hygienic, and risk-managed.

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Real-Time Versus Store-and-Forward Telehealth Technology

AMD Telemedicine

They provide remote healthcare providers with live access to the exam site, not just with video conferencing technologies but also via live streaming medical images, documents, and video. These fields usually involve doctors and nurses relying on documented information and images rather than physical examinations.

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Rebel Health: The Personal and Professional Passion of Susannah Fox

Health Populi

Susannah Fox has collected over twenty years of notes recording patients’ and caregivers’ experiences which, collectively, document the growing phenomenon of peer-to-peer healthcare she observed early in her career working on the Internet and health.

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Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

Health Populi

In my new book on Health Citizenship , to be published in September 2020, I document the growing ethos among many health consumers I coin as the “fear of going out” — the opposite life-flow to some peoples’ “fear of missing out,” or FOMO.

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Time To Travel And Wait In Health Care: The Opportunity For Self-Care At Home

Health Populi

The Accenture health care team shared this with me at HIMSS19 in the context of their research into consumer demands for alternate sites of medical services, from retail clinics to virtual platforms. “The positive, salutary effects of having a USC have been documented for decades,” the authors note.

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From Yorkshire Lad to Global Design for Health: A Profile of Sean Carney of Philips

Health Populi

The consulting team assesses both patient experience and care pathways, beyond just the historical role of selling medical devices to health care providers. To give you an example of this process, here’s one of my favorite examples of Philips’ design-ful approach in a health care setting.

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

Health Populi

The coronavirus pandemic accelerated digital transformation of organizations, including health care providers.