Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2020

patients to seek medical counsel outside of brick-and-mortar doctor’s offices and hospital clinics: Accenture points to a 2,000% increase in visits to Amwell telemedicine platforms between January and March 2020, and a 900% growth in the use of telehealth services with Banyan Medical Systems. The pandemic drove U.S.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Editor’s Note: Healthcare organizations are increasingly looking to adopt telehealth programs, but they face a number of telehealth policy barriers that hinder their plans, according to the Center for Connected Health Policy. Payers are rapidly becoming educated in telehealth and are keen on closing telehealth gap.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2018

Looking for health information online is just part of being a normal, mainstream health consumer, according to the third Rock Health Digital Health Consumer Adoption Survey published this week. adults were online health information hunters. By 2017, 8 in 10 U.S. ” . .”

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The growing use of APIs in health information technology innovation for patient care has been a boon to speeding development placed in the hands of providers and patients. The goals were to identify risks and vulnerabilities and to develop recommendations for protecting health consumers’ personal health information.

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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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Health Populi

JULY 7, 2020

Among the largest deals valued at over $100 mm were ClassPass (raising $285 mm), in the business of virtual fitness classes; Alto Pharmacy, a digital prescription service ($250 mm); AmWell, the telehealth company ($194 mm); Element Science (wearable defibrillators, $146 mm); and, Insitro (rising $143 mm, for AI drug discovery).

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Joseph C. Kvedar, MD – Reinventing Healthcare

MARCH 11, 2021

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]According to the Consumer Technology Association, recent data shows that 59% of consumers use remote mental health services, 49% are using telehealth for physical health, and 37% are using health fitness apps – all increases compared to before the COVID-19 pandemic.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

APRIL 29, 2022

The good news is that one of the key advantages of Telemedicine and Remote Patient Monitoring is that it allows patients, their caregivers, and health-care professionals to avoid traveling. Clinicians provide treatment and medication plans based on the most recent health information they gather from the patients remotely.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 30, 2023

About one-half of clinicians’ enterprises are looking to increase automation for patient communication, expand telehealth options to patients, and grow full-time headcount. What do these clinicians’ organizations plan to do to fill in the staffing gaps that drive burnout?

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2024

Note that Chewy, the subscription pet goods company, launched a telehealth service for pets in October 2020 — another tech-trend in the growing pet economy, of which you can read more in Health Populi here.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2020

The 21st Century Cures Act emphasizes patients’ control of personal health information. ONC rules issues in March 2020 called for more patient-facing health tools and apps to bolster health consumer engagement and empowerment. Digital literacy combines with health literacy to bolster patient engagement.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Patients searching online for health information and health care provider reviews is mainstream in 2019. Digital health tracking is now adopted by 4 in 10 U.S. Rock Health’s Digital Health Consumer Adoption Report for 2019 was developed in collaboration with the Stanford Medicine Center for Digital Health.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

A lesser-known component of ARRA was Title XIII, the HITECH Act, which funded hospitals’ and physicians’ adoption of electronic health records systems (EHRs). The policy’s acronym fully spelled-out was the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Privacy and scalability, where assuring the security of health citizens’ protected health information (PHI) must be designed into HaH programs. Doing so is central to building trust between patients, families, and providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 21, 2023

Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. Executives for Health Innovation will wind down operations over the remainder of the year.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

adults 18 and over to determine peoples’ perspectives on personal health information in light of their pandemic era experiences. This study re-confirms the current state of the health consumer who has a “concerned embrace” of technology. That brings us to another of the four health citizenship pillars: trust.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

The title of the report, “Consumers are on board with virtual health options,” summarizes the bullish outlook for telehealth. But the tagline begs the supply side question: “Can the health care system deliver?” That’s the consumer-demand side of the equation.

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Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2021

Among the least likely barriers were unqualified clinicians (compared with a “live” in-person doctor), the doctor’s inability to share health information with the patient, difficulty in booking an appointment, distractions from other online activities, and privacy issues.

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Health Populi

MAY 3, 2021

While the “in-person” visit to a doctor or medical professional continues to rank first as consumers’ most-trusted information source, the virtual doc or clinician rose in trust during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Euromonitor’s latest read on Consumer Health: Changes in Consumer Behaviour during COVID-19.

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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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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As the world becomes increasingly digitized, the healthcare industry is rapidly adopting connected health technology. Let us talk about connected health’s conceptual model, some popular examples of devices, and their applications in actual clinical practice. What is the Connected Health Model?

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2021

At the same time, 2 in 3 people were also concerned aobut the privacy of their health information on apps. And there’s the ambivalence of “concerned embrace” of digital health. Even so, 2 in 3 adults said they would likely get an app to track a medical condition that was approved by the FDA.

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2020

Mark McClellan, former FDA Commissioner, and colleagues at Duke’s Margolis Center for Health Policy, on how the U.S. could develop a national COVID-19 pandemic surveillance system.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 21, 2020

” Self-care in the pandemic drove virtual health care visits up across generations due to elective procedures and primary care shifting to telehealth platforms, and some consumers’ concerns about heading back to brick-and-mortar health care settings for in-person high-touch care.

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