Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Connected Health Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Video visits, temperature sensors and wearables can replace the need for clinic visits. Video visits, infrared temperature sensors, mobile health, and wearables replace the need for clinic visits.

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Enzyme Health

JUNE 19, 2019

Here’s the essential telehealth terminology that will put you ahead of the curve. This quick telehealth glossary covers the basic terminology telemedicine clinicians should know. Get to know these, and you should be able to follow along with most telehealth industry conversations or lectures no problem.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 1, 2023

The use of RPM and telehealth has become increasingly popular in the U.S. to track patient health and wellness, which can help to improve health outcomes and reduce readmission rates. Telehealth – RPM is often used in conjunction with telehealth to provide virtual care to patients.

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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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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2018

Those consumers who have adopted some form of digital health tool, whether wearable tech, telehealth visit, or mobile app, seem satisfied with their experiences, which is another key aspect of the so-called “digital transition.” A longer-term solution would be for consumers to control their own health data in secure data lockers.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

To that end, it is interesting to note that Amazon is seeking a privacy professional experienced with HIPAA. Financial toxicity is a growing concern among oncologists treating patients with cancer, for example. Finally, healthcare costs are top-of-mind for patients in the U.S.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 17, 2022

By providing patients with the ability to monitor their own health and receive timely care when needed, RPM can help to improve overall health outcomes and reduce the need for more expensive interventions down the road. To ensure true patient safety, working with someone with experience in this arena is very important.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 17, 2022

By providing patients with the ability to monitor their own health and receive timely care when needed, RPM can help to improve overall health outcomes and reduce the need for more expensive interventions down the road. To ensure true patient safety, working with someone with experience in this arena is very important.

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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

Key to the plan’s success (crossing fingers) is that the participants must submit an equity plan that requires collecting data as well as developing measures to track success in meeting the goals for addressing social determinants of health. Getting to health equity is a team sport and requires collaboration.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

At last year’s 2020 CES, I wrote here in Health Populi that evidence and innovation was beginning to bridge health consumers keen to take on self-care for their hearts, and their physicians. Water weight retention connects to heart health, for example, and can also be an indicator for other acute conditions.

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2019

The health care section of Mary Meeker’s 334-page annual report, Internet Trends 2019 , comprises 24 of those pages (270 through 293). The blurring of mobile and digital into overall business process is a meta-trend for the global economy, and certainly for the health care ecosystem.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2021

For example, 57% of consumers share or forward news items they find interesting, but only 29% of these folks have good information hygiene (specifically, vetting the source and veracity of the shared story). Based on this index, only one in four people around the world have “good” information hygiene.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 25, 2018

An example of legislation newly-crafted to hit the House floor in January 2019 comes from Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) in the form of the Affordable Drug Manufacturing Act. So much of these data flows aren’t covered by HIPAA. This bill would create a government-run drug company to produce and distribute generic medicines.

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