Health Populi

JANUARY 24, 2022

For many people, these visits matched or exceeded expectations compared with in-person encounters with clinicians, as well as satisfying on convenience and access values. broadband households owned a connected health device, and 25 percent owned a connected medical device. How will virtual care play out in 2022?

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2021

Authors of the report were Victoria Rideout, longtime expert on families, youth, and media; Susannah Fox, “Internet Geologist” well-known for her work on peer-to-peer health care and the origins of the Internet in health care (and in full disclosure, my close friend); and Alanna Peebles and Michael Robb, researchers at Common Sense.

Mental health 390

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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2020

About 1 in 2 patients now receive treatment at home instead of going to a provider’s office, using virtual tools like video conference calls (“Zoom-ing” for medical care), online chat, and mobile health apps downloaded on smartphones.

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Health Populi

MAY 3, 2021

Similarly, 42% of global health citizens were very or extremely comfortable with consulting a therapist online or via a mobile health app for mental health counsel and support. In 2021 overall, over 40% of U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 28, 2020

Twelve years ago, when I began to attend CES, digital health was a nascent category featured with products featured in a couple of aisles in exhibit booths then dominated by Fitbit, Nike and UnderArmour.

Public Health 291

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2024

These include the development of a miniaturized self-shielded CT scanner that achieves >80% reduction in size, weight and power from standard scanners along with software that connects remote medical devices with electronic health records and provides real-time, interactive decision support.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 19, 2024

In their dialogue, Boudreaux discussed Elevance Health’s “whole-health approach… about simplifying healthcare and building rust with customers. Digitally enabled healthcare means building digital technologies into the fabric of our ecosystem to improve outcomes and enhance efficiency in day-to-day health and wellness.”

Digital Health 212

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Digital Health Global

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The report also assesses the market outlook for all key IoT-enabled Connected Health apps and services. billion globally by 2028 Chipsets used in conjunction with healthcare in IoT for quantified health will reach $5.9 Wearable Mobile Health Device 3.3 Connected Health Market Segment 3.4.1

Connected Health 88

Connected Health Pharmaceuticals Mobile Health Medical Technology 88

Health Populi

JULY 31, 2018

There are also hundreds of stories written in both mass media outlets and professional journals on the topic of TYAs and mental health: especially relative to depression and suicidality. The report was co-written by Victoria Rideout and Susannah Fox, two names Health Populi readers should know. adults, found in other studies.

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Health Populi

JULY 23, 2020

Note in the “Appeal of Telehealth Approaches” diagram above that most patients would look to a telehealth program that would allow them to share data form the medical devices in their home, and to share data in mobile health apps from the phone to the health system.

Telehealth 340

Telehealth Mental health Patient Experience Public Health 340

Health Populi

JANUARY 15, 2020

Physicians are evolving as digital doctors, embracing the growing role of data generated in electronic health records as well as through their patients using wearable technologies and mobile health apps downloaded in ubiquitous smartphones, described in The Rise of the Data-Driven Physician , a 2020 Health Trends Report from Stanford Medicine.

Digital Health 325

Digital Health Telemedicine Mobile Health Telehealth 325

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

The Center for Connected Health Policy has published a 21-page guide intended to help providers with telehealth-based Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

adults say their concerns about personal health and wellness increased in the past year: in particular, stress and anxiety, and sleep and eating habits. adults in late July 2020, gauging consumers’ interest in personal health and well-being and home technologies’ potential impacts on mental and physical health.

Digital Health 263

Digital Health Public Health Medical Technology Patient Experience 263

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Fully one-half of employees would be keen on apps to help find a doctor or care when and where needed, and just about 1 in 2 workers would like an app that helps find expert physicians anywhere in the world (think: specialists via telehealth) as well as electronic and portable personal health records.

Digital Health 406

Digital Health Medical Billing Health Information Leadership 406

Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

But the coronavirus era also saw broadband households spending more on connecting health devices, with 42% of U.S. consumers owning digital health tech compared with 33% in 2015, according to research discussed in Supporting Today’s Connected Consumer from Parks Associates. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic drove U.S.

Connected Health 182

Connected Health Digital Health HIPAA Telemedicine 182

Health Populi

JANUARY 30, 2019

Most consumers would be willing to try an FDA-approved app or online to treat a medical condition, as well as receiving hospital care at home if would be less costly. We’ve reached an inflection point on the demand side among consumers for digital health options, PwC suggests in their report on the New Health Economy coming of age.

Digital Health 260

Digital Health FHIR Connected Health Telehealth 260

Health Populi

JANUARY 31, 2018

Omron has been one of the few consumer-facing digital health companies that has taken the long-view and done the work to file for FDA clearance for a medical-grade technology that mainstream consumers can use. Finally, the battery is designed to last for two weeks, which is a consumer-friendly and -desirable feature, as well.

Digital Health 204

Digital Health Connected Health Public Health Mental health 204

Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Digital health tools generate data. As health consumers ramp up their adoption of wearable and digital tech for their personal medical care and wellness, they create new data points with every use of the app associated with that technology.

Digital Health 436

Digital Health Mental health Health Data Telemedicine 436

Health Populi

JULY 16, 2019

Along with calling out the emerging tech platforms that can support health and medical applications, we should remember that smartphones are already a wellness channel and have reached saturation with over a 90% household penetration rate, CTA calculates.

Digital Health 156

Digital Health mHealth Mobile Health Mental health 156

Health Populi

OCTOBER 3, 2018

.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: As workers bear a greater financial risk for covering their and their families’ healthcare costs, how to bend that cost curve downward? Adoption of wearable tech and mobile health apps in companies’ wellness programs is expanding. employers ask.

Telehealth 157

Telehealth Telemedicine Medical Billing Health Data 157

Consumer eHealth Engagement

JULY 6, 2015

As an innovative healthcare organization, Ochsner, a large Louisiana- based health network with 12 hospitals, 40 clinicians and an a 1,000+ Physician Group Practice, is committed to helping consumers use mobile and wearable connected health tools for self- management and care collaboration.

Connected Health 28

Connected Health Primary Care eHealth Mobile Health 28

Health Populi

JULY 5, 2021

Investing in broadband upstream becomes that “force multiplier” by enabling people to access information, learn, socially connect (to bolster mental and emotional health), order groceries from a home located in a food desert, and indeed, access medical services and support for well-being and self-care.

Digital Health 374

Digital Health EHR Telehealth Primary Care 374

Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2020

In Accenture’s words, “COVID-19 forced a surge” in virtual health care following a stalling of consumers’ adoption of digital health in late 2019: by December 2019, 35% of consumers had been using mobile health apps on phones and tablets, down from 48% in 2018; and 18% of consumers int he U.S.

Digital Health 275

Digital Health Telehealth Mobile Health Telemedicine 275

Health Populi

APRIL 5, 2021

With such turbocharged growth on the supply side, Beazley, experts in specialty insurance, explores the risks of digital health and wellness in a new report, Digital health, telehealth and wellness: Attitudes to risk and insurance. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the field across many industry segments.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

We continue to grow self-care healthcare muscles the longer the pandemic continues and keeps many of us at home, risk-managing exposure to the virus and, at the same time, trying to gain more control over our health and well-being.

Mental health 335

Mental health Telehealth Public Health Digital Health 335

Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

This drove health consumers to virtual care platforms in the first months of the public health crisis — including lots of older people who had never used telemedicine or even a mobile health app.

Telehealth 427

Telehealth Primary Care Mental health Telemedicine 427

Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

Some, but not necessarily a majority, of consumers see benefits in using digital health — primary for wellness and prevention, and to get a better understanding of personal health. As for improving health outcomes, reducing time spent with doctors, and lowering cost of care?

Digital Health 348

Digital Health Health Data HIPAA Mental health 348

Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2021

Both you were, and your home was as well. In this year’s 2021 annual report by Deloitte into Connectivity & Mobile Trends, their report details How the pandemic has stress-tested the crowded digital home. consumers to gauge five generations of peoples’ perspectives on connected life in the context of COVID.

Digital Health 193

Digital Health Public Health Telehealth Health Information 193

Health Populi

MAY 2, 2019

Just last month, Amazon announced HIPAA-compliant privacy bundled into Alexa skills with Atrium Health, Boston Children’s Hospital, CIGNA, ExpressScripts, Livongo, and Swedish Health Connect. are concepting, which I wrote about back in 2007 focusing on Toyota’s wellness car concept. Promising, promising.

Digital Health 308

Digital Health HIPAA Mental health Health Data 308

Health Populi

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Across each line item, note that more Americans use these tools, with the exception of Singaporeans, more of whom use tech for health and fitness improvement, and monitoring issues like blood sugar. Danes rank with Americans on ordering repeat prescription drug supplies, and Canadians rank with Americans in a couple of categories as well.

Digital Health 250

Digital Health Medical Billing Health Information Health Data 250

Waracle

JUNE 3, 2021

Digital health solutions are making it easier, quicker and more responsive to adjust a patient’s therapy according to the results and discuss it directly and virtually, in real time. . Mobile Health Apps in the Post-Pandemic World. Future Opportunities for Mobile Health Apps. Conclusion .

Mobile Health 36

Mobile Health Pharmaceuticals Remote care Digital Health 36

Enzyme Health

MARCH 27, 2019

For Changes in Telehealth Policy ### Center for Connected Health Policy If you’re looking for a resource from an organization working to advance policies that make telemedicine possible in the first place, The Center for Connected Health Policy newsletter is a must-read. For Understanding Telemedicine Technology 5.

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Telemedicine mHealth Psychiatry General practice 60

Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2021

Trust underpins health engagement, especially critical in a public health crisis. In this instance, technology isn’t just for social good — it’s imperative for our individual health, we’ve learned all too well in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Public Health 413

Public Health Digital Health Health Technology Mobile Health 413

Health Populi

MAY 6, 2020

Accenture also quantified that people are using virtual digital health tools more for both physical and mental well-being. Growing downloads and use of fitness and health apps, more workouts at home via fitness portals and online gym offerings, and mental health programs like Headspace and Calm have grown in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mental health 288

Mental health Telehealth Digital Health mHealth 288

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Quite recently, health-tech app developers were frustrated by lack of smartphone penetration among older people — lots of the very folks who could benefit from self-tracking data that can be useful for managing chronic conditions. Eight in 10 people 65 and older have multiple chronic conditions, and 50% of people 45-64 do, as well.

Nursing 325

Nursing Health Information HIPAA Digital Health 325

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 182

Connected Health Telehealth Pharmaceuticals EHR 182

Health Populi

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The CovidSafe tool is the “home” for a health citizen’s QR code with her COVID vaccination certificate which allows a person to travel freely within the European Union. Stay tuned for my further reports as a health citizen of Europe and the U.S., through the usual Health Populi lens of people + technology + health.

Public Health 203

Public Health Digital Health Interoperability Patient Experience 203