Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

At that moment in the Twitterverse, it occurred to me that health IT as a consumer-facing industry was beginning to mainstream in America. Cramer’s pronouncement led to a tweetstorm where hundreds of tweeters in and outside of health/care talked back and with Cramer. Here’s what I wrote. Why is this so important?

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Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2018

This reminded me of Dignity Health’s consumer-facing campaign marrying “online appointment scheduling” with their hashtag, #HelloHumankindness. The ONC study revealed that while a growing group of patients access their electronic health records, 1 in 4 patients did not do so due to privacy and security concerns.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 30, 2019

.” Comfort with tech companies getting involved in health care services is now a viable scenario in health consumers’ minds, for nearly 50% of people. PwC also notes that most physicians (3 in 4) have recommended an app or digital tool to patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

To get an answer, Healthcare IT Today turned to an expert – Caleb Williamson, State Public Policy Counsel at the Connected Health Initiative , a group that works to clarify outdated health regulations and incentivize the use of connected health technologies.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

Patients, their care partners, caregivers, and advocates are already utilizing AI powered tools and creating their own LLMs in ways that the average physician, healthcare executive, and health IT vendors would not believe. Third , to scale across what WEF terms “contexts” – appreciating and recognizing peoples’ unique needs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In this regularly updated special collection, we explore how hospitals and health systems are rolling out RPM initiatives: where they're seeing hurdles, which use cases are most successful, how they're getting help from their vendors, what policy and regulatory imperatives may be shaping the future of virtual care, and much more.

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Health Populi

MARCH 23, 2021

ECRI offers several recommendations and action-prescriptions for health systems to address racial disparities from a patient safety impact. These include: Embed health equity into the organization’s strategy, structures and processes – and allocate resources to these work-flows. Leverage health IT to identify disparities.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

Sign Up for our daily or weekly newsletters Health IT Investment: The Next Five Years News Brooklyn provider automates patient experience tracking to spot health equity gaps At One Brooklyn Health System, tools such as the Brooklyn Health Equity Index survey are helping.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

doctors are using digital health tools in patient care, with quickening adoption of telehealth and remote monitoring technology, according to a study from the American Medical Association (AMA). Adoption of digital tools has grown across physicians of all ages, specialty, and gender across all technologies studied.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 17, 2021

Wearables and other remote patient monitoring tools have expanded patient care beyond the walls of brick-and-mortar clinics. Connected Health Initiative Senior Policy Counsel Brian Scarpelli believes that the virtual care environment is here to stay.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 14, 2022

“Tom Lawry reminds us that the health care industry can shift from glacial to warp speed when it needs to. Given the right tools, we can evolve from health systems to systems of health, baked with Responsible Intelligence to do good while embedded with respect, inclusion, and transparency.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 27, 2023

a respiratory care and technology-enabled home medical equipment services company, announced that it has made a strategic investment in ModoHealth , a value-based care and patient management platform connecting payors, patients, and post-acute providers. Viemed Healthcare, Inc. ,

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

“Most Americans clearly recognize the potential benefits that improved health IT can offer, and they want this transformation of the health care system to continue,” the Pew Charitable Trusts research concludes in Most Americans Want to Share and Access More Digital Health Data. One pillar of that trust is privacy.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

“It appears that telehealth is likely to continue to remain an important tool in the health care delivery tool kit — at least for those with computers and high-speed internet access,” the AARP report concludes with a caveat about connectivity/broadband access. .

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 2, 2024

What Health IT Trend Has You Most Excited ? Caleb Williamson at the Connected Health Initiative sat down with Colin to discuss hopes that regulators understand there are different risk levels to AI’s use in healthcare , with process automation not subject to the same scrutiny as clinical decision support.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 15, 2022

From appointment booking to post-discharge follow-up, hospitals and health systems are striving to innovate and personalize the way people navigate their care journey. News The future of healthcare: What 2022 could bring A look ahead at what the uptick in interest and usage of digital health will mean for the future of.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2019

But more people are taking care into their own hands, and welcome a growing role for technology to play in enabling self-care, supporting prevention, and improving treatment of diagnosed conditions, according to The Future of Connected Health , a consumer survey from ResMed. For this research, ResMed interviewed 3,001 U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2023

I’ll focus on a few of the health/care data points here, but I recommend your reviewing the entire set of reports to get to know how U.S. consumers who are aware of AI applications, over one-half view robots that can perform surgery as well as AI tools that can detect skin cancer represent major advances in medical care.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 25, 2023

But the healthcare industry needs to look at RPM as a tool in the toolkit for managing health conditions. Early efforts to deploy remote monitoring tools and technologies faced multiple challenges. internet households have at least one connected health device , with about one-quarter possessing three or more.

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Health Populi

JULY 28, 2020

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. Well-known for its direct-to-consumer connected health devices in the forms of weight scales and fitness watches, Withings announced focused on sleep and heart health in its CES 2020 launches.

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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. The second chart demonstrates patients’ preferences for using digital health tools before and in the advent of the coronavirus experience.

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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

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Philips surveyed health care professionals and consumers living in 15 countries, from North America to Asia, and found that these health systems share one over-arching objective: to provide quality care with improved experiences for both patients and healthcare professionals.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 20, 2023

The companies are integrating third-party data with patient self-reported data and public health data to help providers understand what kind of interventions will work best for certain patients. Read more… Hearing From Our Health IT Friend on Capitol Hill. Read more… How Were the Spring Health IT Conferences ?

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2021

We’re talking claims here — not an app to manage a complex condition like diabetes or even a medication adherence tool. This diagram from the McKinsey study organizes data from a project with which I’d been long affiliated, the CAQH Index of electronic adoption of claims transactions.

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Health Populi

APRIL 11, 2019

I anticipated we’d see a lot of tools and techs to support patients seeking support for accessing and paying for more affordable care. One of the SMA objectives is to consider the Conference in advance and offer thoughts about what we’ll expect, which I did here in the HIMSS blog space.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 27, 2023

"While we tried other RPM technologies before, the tools were difficult to use and we didn’t see the value we needed for our patients," Gomez recalled. MARKETPLACE There are many vendors of connected health and remote patient monitoring technology and services on the health IT market today.

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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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Digital Health Health Information Telehealth Health Data 274

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 18, 2021

"Secretary Becerra’s support for digital health tools and services' increased use will be critical as we continue the fight against COVID-19 and to bring the best healthcare available to all Americans, particularly those in underserved communities," said Connected Health Initiative executive director Morgan Reed in a statement.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2018

In summary, three over-arching issues come out of the paper: ensuring health citizens’ secure access to their health data within nations and across EU borders; enabling personalized medicine through the shared European data infrastructure; and, assuring citizen empowerment with digital tools for feedback and person-centered care.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The third bar chart details the partial shift from physical face-to-face health care encounters to more tele-care, virtual care, and care delivered through digital tools. Health data and privacy considerations, especially due to varying state laws that fragment a Federal/national approach to personal data protection.

Public Health 156

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

mHealth companies should improve security controls for the most personal health information. Health Populi’s Hot Points: As health care continues to become a hybrid delivery model, omnichannel leveraging virtual care platforms, more patient data will be generated from more sites of care.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 12, 2021

In health care, outdated operating systems present some of the greatest risks: 15% of medical devices and 32% of medical imaging tools run on outdated operating systems.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

What a difference a pandemic can make in accelerating patients’ adoption of digital health tools. health consumers’ growing digital health “muscles” in the form of demand and confidence in using virtual care. This survey was conducted in mid-September 2020, and so the results demonstrate U.S.

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Digital Health Global

JUNE 19, 2023

Patients and medical professionals are embracing telemedicine, health apps, wearables, and disease management tools. The digital health market is projected to grow at a double-digit CAGR between 2022 and 2032, reaching close to EUR 900 billion by 2032, according to a report by the analyst.

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2021

Ironically, the more people share data in a public health crisis, the more that information can be used for good to, in the case of the coronavirus, test, track, and snuff the virus.

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2018

9 in 10 hospitals and health systems prioritize improving the consumer/patient experience, but only 30% of providers are building these capabilities, I wrote in the Health Populi blog discussing Kaufman Hall’s research. Enter the enterprise health cloud (EHC). pioneer , that #LoveIsTheKillerApp.

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HIPAA Interoperability Digital Health Patient Experience 136