Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Telehealth has been crucial during the COVID-19 pandemic to connect patients to their health care systems. It’s impressive that clinicians, regulators, and payers managed to quickly integrate telehealth—and the innovations seem to be catching on permanently. But in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2021

Since the early phase of the pandemic, CVS Health expanded the use of Epic MyChart, the report explains, to deliver COVID-19 test results to patients as well as provide an on-ramp to patients seeking telehealth visits. Health care is omni-channel. Even as the coronavirus abates in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

When it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic and health IT, if there's just one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that telehealth has gone mainstream. These factors shot telehealth and related technologies and services like connected health and remote patient monitoring through the stratosphere.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 30, 2019

Whether a menu of care options including virtual health to access specialists across the U.S., post-hospital virtual visits, or hospital care at-home, a majority of Americans supports a new era of care delivery, as PwC coins the broad landscape of telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 14, 2020

A recent IDC Health Insights presentation focused on health IT industry trends during and after the COVID-19 era. It examined some of tools and strategies that stand to gain ground in the months ahead as health systems build on lessons learned during the coronavirus crisis.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Volunteer organizations, along with other data-creating entities for public health. during the first quarter of 2020, digital health rose to the occasion: namely telehealth, remote and virtual care mounted by health care providers across the nation within days of the WHO calling the virus a global pandemic.

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Health Populi

JULY 28, 2020

It’s these very consumer-facing technologies featured at CES that can bolster information-gathering at the N of 1 patient, self-caring in the Age of Corona at home. One of the long-time exhibitors at CES is Withings, who once again showed off a host of new-new things for personal health and wellness at CES 2020.

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Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2023

That was in the midst of the fast-pivot toward virtual care and telehealth on-ramps welcomed by both clinicians and patients. This is the eighth annual global FHI report, with detailed country-specific analyses to follow for the U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

mHealth companies should improve security controls for the most personal health information. Some of the key recommendations of these findings are that: Overall, basic cybersecurity hygiene, including avoiding hard coding usernames and passwords in source code, is an endemic problem.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

2019: Year in Review It's been an eventful year for health IT. Enhancing the patient experience with technology. This month, our coverage will continue a special focus on the patient experience. Reducing the cost of care requires aligning incentives of providers, payers and patients. Collection.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2019

Furthermore, net neutrality is also an important underpinning for fast health care connections that deliver access to telehealth and virtual health channels that can scale care to under-served people, patients, and caregivers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

As part of its National Health IT Week program, HIMSS presented a webinar this week exploring the advent of what it calls the "Smart Communities-Cities Movement." wellness" and more, said Gibbons — to say nothing of completely reshaping the patient experience.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2020

This, too, was a challenge for people who needed health care at home, to avoid contact to avoid the risk of being exposed to the virus. But many students lacked access to either or both the physical technology and the data plan-on-ramp to the Internet.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

Six in ten people are open to health and wellness services via virtual channels, over half like the idea of remote monitoring linking with at-home devices, and 1 in 2 people would be open to routine appointments through telehealth.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 25, 2023

Together with the innovation in reimbursement models for remote patient monitoring, a path to adoption of RPM as a core component of medical management of health conditions emerged. When physicians were unable to see patients in person, telehealth and RPM became a necessary capability not a nice-to-have.

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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.”. But it appears that while healthcare providers’ spirits are willing, their flesh (that is, actions) are weak.

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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

JULY 27, 2020

patients’ electronic health records lack the level of interoperability that the COVID-19 pandemic could have better leveraged. That’s the required sausage-making behind the scenes of Capgemini’s bullish forecast on digital health consumers. That’s a big if: in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

This blog appears today as part of a #HIMSS18 primer series for attendees, and the industry at large, to discuss major health IT issues that will help move health and healthcare delivery forward in 2018 – and beyond. Patients as Consumers: How Leading Providers are Digitally Transforming Patient Consults | #Engage4Health + #HIMSS18.

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Health Populi

MAY 29, 2018

For healthcare, these platforms enable virtual and telehealth in new ways that transcend bricks-and-mortar settings, getting care and new forms of it to people where they live, work, and play.

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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.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

As EY’s framework illustrates here in the Venn diagram, these many health and wellbeing touch-points leverage various technologies and services: maturing EHRs and acute care, as well as emerging tech like AI, blockchain, and biometrics. This week, Health 2.0 2019 will feature examples of all of these technologies and services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 25, 2023

"We were looking for an end-to-end system that offered patients more support, but also helped triage issues that needed direct physician intervention from those that would result in unnecessary office visits," he added. "For us, Cadence's total partnership model resonated," Cheung explained.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2019

I’m an omnivore of Accenture’s research, and this year’s Digital Health Tech Vision 2019 tells the big top-line truth that, “digital is no longer a differentiator.” ” There’s no more eHealth or mHealth — it’s all health, it’s all digital.

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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).

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2019

As #CES2019 kicks off in Las Vegas with today’s first Media Day, the Consumer Technology Association presented its forecast on the 5 Technology Trends to Watch in 2019 — and they all play into health, wellness, and medical care. Digital Health Tech Empowers Patients. Envisioning the Smart Home of the Future.

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Health Populi

APRIL 29, 2018

When you’re on the battlefield and you can’t see what lies ahead, go high, recommended General Von Clausewitz in his book, On War.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 24, 2022

"We ultimately chose Rimidi because their clinical management platform integrates with cellular-enabled connected blood pressure cuffs, which meant the only ask of our patients was to put on the cuff and press a single button and the data would come to us regardless of their WiFi, broadband, etc.," " she explained.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

JANUARY 5, 2015

Rose and her colleagues were determined to find a better way to support hypertensive patients through continuous communication and collaboration with their care team. “After evaluating different ways to leverage technology with a strong patient experience, we decided to use the Twine Health platform.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 25, 2018

Nutrition literacy, with more clinicians prescribing food and recipes to promote self-care and healthy eating for patients and their families. Consumerism and payor pressure will grow the landscape for care, everywhere.

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