Health Populi

JULY 27, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has been a wake-up call for patients-as-consumers, seeking lower-touch health care services at home or closer-to-home in community health hubs. Similarly, 50% more empowered consumers would use technologies like smartphones and tablets to access virtual care versus less-empowered patients.

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Digital Health Pharmaceuticals Health Policy Mental health 182

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Patients’ self-diagnosing conditions online is a new-normal for people engaging with health information online — whether via WebMD and the ClevelandClinic.com or via TikTok — a growing platform for medical information. physicians, citing the problem.

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Public Health Life Science Nursing Health Information 156

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Payor, insurer and employer stakeholders can better align healthcare outcomes with health-making by more artfully designing health plans than nudge people to take better care of themselves, fund services that can address chronic healthcare conditions, and arm people with tools to share in decision- and health-making.

HIPAA 120

HIPAA EHR Patient Experience Health Information 120

Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2018

Hospitals are falling short of consumers’ experience-expectations, Kaufman Hall explained in their 2017 State of Consumerism in Healthcare Report with the apt sub-title, “Slow Progress in Fast Times.”. Enter the enterprise health cloud (EHC). Mobile apps do pose challenges for protecting digitized personal health information (PHI).

HIPAA 136

HIPAA Interoperability Digital Health Patient Experience 136

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

But the tagline begs the supply side question: “Can the health care system deliver?” ” For a decade or longer, we’ve noted the slow uptake of telehealth and digital health tools among healthcare providers. This is roughly equal to patients across all age cohorts in the study.

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Digital Health Telehealth Connected Care Health Information 263

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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HIPAA Telehealth Digital Health Health Data 196

Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2024

JSK: What’s your origin story with health information security? As a teen being raised in Southeast Louisiana, being able to connect with others in chat rooms and forums exposed me to a world view that was incredibly impactful to myself as an adult. RK: I’ll go ahead and date myself here. The early “hackers” were idealists.

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Health Information Nursing Healthcare Cybersecurity Patient Experience 193

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. • The bases of competition in healthcare are shifting to competing on quality, cost, and patient experience. Robert Havasy, Senior Director, Connected Health, HIMSS.

Health Data 52

Health Data Interoperability HIPAA Public Health 52

Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

If smart speakers bring health consumers fair value (based on peoples’ definition of “value”) in return for the sharing of personal health information, word-of-mouth – literally – will expand use of these tools.

HIPAA 174

HIPAA Mobile Health Digital Health Health Information 174

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. • The bases of competition in healthcare are shifting to competing on quality, cost, and patient experience. Robert Havasy, Senior Director, Connected Health, HIMSS.

Health Data 52

Health Data Interoperability HIPAA Public Health 52

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

As I approach my 20-somethingth HIMSS, having been a member of the organization for most of my professional life, I’ll be focusing on the mainstreaming health IT Zeitgeist as I meet with innovators and experts this week in Orlando. I’ll give you four big reasons: The patient is expecting a consumer experience from health care.

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Health IT EHR RCM HIPAA 209

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.

Connected Health 188

Connected Health Telehealth Pharmaceuticals EHR 188

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

In the case of patient data collaborations between Big (or small) Tech and health care providers, keeping the patients’ best interests central — transparent, on an opt-in basis, with the consumer-health citizen in control of her/his personal health information — should be a central tenet of these deals.

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BioTech Medical Billing HIPAA Health Information 160

Health Populi

MAY 29, 2018

That’s why 73% of health executives told Accenture they plan to develop internal ethical standards related to the use of AI to bolster responsible use of patients’ personal health information. Finally, the Internet of Thinking rounds out Accenture’s five themes in the 2018 Health Tech Vision.

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Digital Health Telehealth Life Science Health Information 227

Consumer eHealth Engagement

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Eventually Grace was enhanced to also address frequently asked questions by patients. Since the healthcare system is complex for consumers to navigate, Providence Health designed their digital tool to provide answers and guidance to help the patient find the right care and make the best care decisions.

Patient Experience 36

Patient Experience Telehealth Digital Health Mobile Health 36

Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2018

(See the Hot Points , below, for how these patient life-flows are being met by innovative providers both inside and outside the healthcare system). I divulged that my favorite supermarket chain is Wegmans (who is not a client of THINK-Health). Oh, and did I mention empathy?

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