Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2024

Once they are created, the intent is for health systems to test them across the country to evaluate clinical efficacy and financial sustainability. "Telehealth revolutionized access to primary care and mental health services," Ku noted. "PARADIGM will do the same for advanced hospital-level care."

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2022

Patients can track nutrition and food intake, mood and mental health, financial issues, transportation, and activity (such as steps). Together, these “data points” are our personal real world evidence of daily living – reflecting our risks for determinants of health (social and otherwise) and well-being. .

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2020

More enterprise applications will be underpinned by 5G communications by 2023, none more important than those for health care. But at CES 2020, he sees launches of new health care products (citing examples from MedWand and Owlet, which I covered yesterday in Health Populi ) as the stuff to watch at CES 2020.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

Those “waves of demand” TripleTree described will impact every segment of care delivery and sponsor, including small to mid-sized physician practices, employers, behavioral/mental health, public/government-sponsored health care programs, and the pharma and life science industry.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 4, 2023

Digital therapeutics, “new ways to manage health conditions;” and, Fitness tech. covering connected exercise and sports equipment building out the home gym experience. seizures), the latter two 2023 CES innovation honorees and Care@Home honored by CES in 2022.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

We cannot expect Technology itself to be a panacea to this national tragedy that public policies must help solve in terms of underlying drivers of health and well-being. But there are technology innovations that can help people deal with addiction through, for example, digital therapeutic solutions.

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Health Populi

JULY 7, 2020

Among these eight segments, the hottest categories of digital health investment in the first six months of 2020 were on-demand health care (like telehealth and virtual care), monitoring of disease, treatment, and fitness/wellness.

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Chronic loneliness is associated with memory loss, physical deterioration, eroding mental health, and lower life expectancy, the U-M point out. Loneliness is also part of an un-virtuous cycle that can magnify these health risks. How to mitigate loneliness, especially among older people?

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Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2020

Health Populi’s Hot Points: COVID-19 was, among other phenomena, a wake-up call to the weaknesses and deficiencies of the U.S. health care system.

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Health Populi

JULY 16, 2019

In my own vision of the retail home health/care ecosystem, these five categories can blur and combinations can serve the consumer’s health at home and on-the-move (for truly mobile health, not just “mHealth” via phone apps).

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 18, 2020

Kaiser, Director of Geriatric Cognitive Health at the Pacific Brain Health Center and CIO for the Motion Picture & Television Fund. The risks of isolation have negative impacts on physical and mental health. The benefits of social connection—the antidote—are clear. Learn more at Megilla. Caspar Smart homes.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2019

As an example of this trend, Accenture points to Mindstrong which leverages AI and machine learning to divine digital phenotypes of consumers-patients that inform mental health support. For good background on the promise of digital phenotyping for mental health, s ee this article by Mindstrong’s co-founder Dr.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2022

For example, Boomers would be less likely than younger patients to take a telehealth appointment if it was available sooner than an in-person visit — signaling, JLL says, that older people may have stronger ties to medical providers than younger patients.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2020

This has underpinned the growth of “digital front doors,” examples of which are shown in the third graphic from Rock Health’s report. Several of these organizations launched IPOs during the pandemic, and others plan to go public early in 2021.

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Health Populi

MARCH 31, 2020

Gaming is up: Twitch and YouTube Gaming, for example, are benefiting from rising demand for online gaming, and Xbox Live and PlayStation Plus are gaining new adopters. For health and fitness , the most-recommended physical activity has been walking outside — being mindful about keeping 6 feet apart through social distancing.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JULY 26, 2022

trillion in annual health care expenditures are for people with chronic or mental health conditions. These are just two examples of the many chronic diseases that patients have and show how drastic the costs of hospital visits for the chronically ill can be. . According to the CDC, 90% of the nation’s $4.1

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

The coronavirus spawned another kind of gift to China and the nation’s health citizens: telemedicine, the essay explains. For example, only health care providers that have an existing relationship with a Medicare patient would be eligible per the requirements in the legislation.

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2020

The report found three big shifts in global health citizens’ views on their personal health and health care delivery in the wake of the pandemic: Across all age groups, COVID-19 exacerbated peoples’ concerns about their physical and mental health in a very short time.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Here’s a recent example of health and wellness embedded in a connected car from Hyundai, one of many auto manufacturers re-imagining health as a benefit of driving in a car.

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Health Populi

APRIL 8, 2021

recognizing and re-committing energy and resources to social determinants of health and health justice.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2019

These skills are already helping make health care better for providers in medical practice and consumers and caregivers at home for aging support, medication adherence, and mental health. Another buzzword at CES this year, as last, is “5G.”

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Collaboration can help insure as well as assure health. The examples of collaborations and alliances described here have been just a toe in much deeper water that’s the evolving health/care ecosystem.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2023

I’ve thought about Valencell as a sort of “Intel-inside” many other fitness and wearable technology products over the years I’ve been tracking digital health tools. Now, Valencell is out and proudly getting into chronic disease management with this program, pending FDA clearance to help patients manage hypertension.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JULY 17, 2022

The rising use of connected health technology has enhanced the possibility for better patient monitoring, including sleep. Sleep disorders are frequently the outcome of an underlying health issue like: Heart illness, lung disease, neurological diseases, and pain. Depression and anxiety are examples of mental diseases.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 7, 2018

Behavioral health is gaining traction among large employers, growing anti-stigma campaigns and manager training focusing on mental health conditions and treatments. More employers will also channel employees and dependents to Centers of Excellence for focused clinical areas like cancer treatment, cardiovascular care.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2018

Maneesh goes well beyond tracking steps and heart rate: for example, air quality in his immediate environment. [On ” Building mental models and sharing perspectives with Maneesh was a moment of both learning and of kindness.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 26, 2021

Twenty years later, we confront primary care as a dichotomy: as unbundled pieces of (we hope) innovation, and in organizations re-imagining a new continuity of care with innovative elements brought together through cloud computing, open source data standards, and team-based care that values mental and behavioral health as much as physical health.

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Health Populi

MAY 16, 2022

These enablers include, Technology, such as the proliferation of mobile phones, DNA sequencing, and fast-declining data storage costs – all examples of Moore’s Law; and, Human factors, with technology enabling social connectivity, well-being, decentralization, and DIY ( which I detail in my book, Health Citizenship ).

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Increases in kept appointments are just one example. Reeya Patel, Vice President of Healthcare Insights at Azalea Health, points out that a televisit can document that a follow-up appointment has been scheduled, a request for a medication took place, or a referral to a specialist has occurred, all for billing purposes.

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InTouch Health

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

A Prime Example of the Future of Telehealth Legislation. This new legislation will help those struggling with addiction access the care they need, in addition to pain management services, mental health services, and suicide prevention. In 2017, there were 1,160 reported opioid-involved deaths in Kentucky—a rate of 27.9

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Health Populi

JULY 29, 2022

With food, gas ‘n healthcare on consumers’ minds these days, Costco and dozens of other retail channels are capturing various items in health consumers household budgets for products and services — like Hy-Vee’s new test-to-treat program for COVID-19 and Paxlovid, just one example of care delivered closer to home or at-home.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MAY 24, 2018

Q: Per Medicare regulations, do the providers at a distant site have to be hospital-based or can they be in a private setting – for example, a group of pulmonologists who want to create a telehealth system on their own? The Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) is a great resource to stay current on state and national policy.

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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. Which virus is it?”

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Dr. Leslie Morland continued to push the event pass the starting line with her plenary talk, Virtual Mental Health Care in the Veterans Health Administration: An Immediate Response to COVID-19 , which was all the more pertinent since it was Veteran’s Day.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 7, 2019

Using food and tech as medicine can help people avoid going on medications like statins and others for heart health. An important example of this self-care approach is the evidence-based Ornish food regimen which is reimbursed by Medicare (as a form of cardiac rehabilitation).

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2023

Most consumers who are aware of common uses of AI know about wearable fitness trackers that can analyze exercise and sleep patterns, as a top health/wellness application for the technology. For pain management and chatbots for mental health? Less than half of people expect AI in health and medicine to improve patient outcomes.

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Health Populi

MAY 17, 2021

Each of the teams with whom we collaborated did a stellar job with their pitch desks, business model articulation, and deployment of the latest technology – for example, chatbots working toward mental health and FHIR standards toward interoperability.

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