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

MARCH 2, 2021

The first chart illustrates consumers’ use of digital health tools, showing that online health information and online provider reviews. But the big growth areas were for live video telemedicine, wearable tech, and digital health tracking.

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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. But there are many reasons why we continue to plow more money into this health system.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 21, 2020

Sharing data in a public health crisis is important for both identifying people who have been infected to stop-the-spread of the virus, as well as sharing personal health information for developing treatments to cure disease. For consumers to share the intimate asset of their personal health data, the situation requires trust.

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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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Iris Telehealth

APRIL 29, 2024

For many health systems, customized interfaces are expensive and labor-intensive In 2017, the American Hospital Association released data on the importance of interoperability in healthcare and how connected, shared health information can help achieve the best possible outcomes.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

However, adopting and implementing poorly designed electronic health records (EHRs) has diminished the time available to clinicians to lay hands and eyes on patients – essentially, limiting their ability to do the jobs they were trained, hired and personally driven to do.

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