Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 2, 2024

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. Read more… How Will Regulators Address AI in Healthcare ?

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Over one-half of Americans would likely use virtual care for their healthcare services, and one in four people would actually prefer a virtual relationship with a primary care physician, according to the fifth annual 2020 Consumer Sentiment Survey from UnitedHealthcare.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

Among people 50 and over, the doctor’s visit for routine care is the top reason for using virtual care, among 2 in 3 older people. That’s an important behavior change to take into future planning for primary care services targeted to older peoples’ chronic care management and remote health monitoring.

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GlobalMed

JULY 8, 2019

Fortunately, there’s a solution that can benefit both provider revenue and population health: telemedicine. While virtual health can’t solve every Medicaid issue, it can dismantle many typical roadblocks: Providers and patients can meet as scheduled even if the patient has missed their bus or had a childcare cancellation.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 9, 2020

Health Populi’s Hot Points: As I write this in the midst of attending the 2020 CES , the world’s annual and largest exhibition of technologies developed for peoples’ everyday lives, we see the growth of tech’s that people can use, wear, connect to for the benefit of their health, fitness, and medical care.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

In addition, two-thirds of clinicians expect that patient-generated data will be used to inform clinical decisions — such as metrics collected from a smartwatch or remote health monitoring device. clinician perspectives versus peers in other countries is the issue of health care costs. Among the biggest variations in U.S.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

DECEMBER 3, 2015

In January 2015, Stanford Medicine launched ClickWell Care, a new type of Primary Care clinic which leverages technology to allow patients to virtually connect with their own Stanford primary care clinicians and wellness coaches via video or phone visits. diabetes, hypertension and hyperlipidemia).

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

He also mentioned two valid vendor directories: Digital Health Directory (ATA) [link] and University of Arizona/SWTRC telemedicine and telehealth service provider director [link]. Dr. Roxanne Jensen followed with her presentation, “Cancer Care Deliver and Telehealth Research: Post-Pandemic Priorities.” Dr. Lori Uscher-Pines.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Telemedicine during COVID-19: Benefits, limitations, burdens, adaptation. It comes as little surprise that the top story on this list explores the dimensions of a theretofore much-discussed but underused modality of care: Telehealth. In the meantime, here are some of the most-read Healthcare IT News stories of 2020 so far.

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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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Health Populi

JULY 13, 2020

health care financing regime of volume-based payment didn’t fare well as millions of patients postponed or cancelled procedures and visits for fear of contracting the virus in the halls, offices and clinics of hospitals and doctor’s offices. In other words, the U.S. You would have been dead meat.”. Crowe LLC estimated that U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

But there are opportunities to learn from patients and advocacy groups at the meeting to inform the demand side of the health/care equation, and that’s crucial to understanding consumer experience, values and sense of value that enables people to get the care they need. That’s the supply side of HLTH.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Some of the challenges relate to payment and reimbursement, and dis-connects with primary care as an on-ramp to diagnosing emotional health as a co-morbidity with chronic conditions and new diagnoses of acute diseases.

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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 29, 2022

We can point to other events, too, continuing to re-shape consumer-facing healthcare, including the companies whose logos I’ve assembled for you here, All of these will impact health consumers’ access to and understanding of various health care services and products, across peoples’ healthcare journeys.

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Health Populi

JULY 5, 2021

On the downside, lack of access to digital tools and literacies can increase disparities among people already at-risk for other social determinants of health. The authors lay out several dimensions of digital literacy and access, including: Skills.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Digital health as a category has been a growing feature at CES for over a decade, starting with the early wearable tech era of Fitbit, Nike, OMRON and UnderArmour, early exhibitors at CES representing the category.

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Health Populi

MARCH 31, 2020

households’ changing behaviors for consuming content, stocking the pantry, engaging with social media, and using online health and fitness tools. Sidebar: this has been a criticism of a digital health divide based on socioeconomic status for some time]. This research surveyed 1,004 U.S. ” U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Digital health as a category has been a growing feature at CES for over a decade, starting with the early wearable tech era of Fitbit, Nike, Omron and UnderArmour, early exhibitors at CES representing the category.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 11, 2021

healthcare leaders partnering in digital transformation “within” would be other hospitals and health care facilities (47%). The last chart tells us the favored choice among U.S. Environmentally-minded sourcing to bolster sustainability – in a growing embrace of ESG principles.

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Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2021

McKinsey’s findings contrast with Deloitte’s, taking a look back on the coronavirus pandemic impact on peoples’ health care lives and life-flows. This last chart from the McKinsey report attests that three in four consumers say they prefer digital health tools across health care activities.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Kroger will expand its food-as-medicine platform, deploying tele-nutrition with registered dietitians and growing evidence-base for prescribing a Mediterranean (or DASH) diet for heart-health, among other eating styles. Growing adoption of “broad-spectrum” self-care – including digital health tools.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

See that their home is a one-story design in the connected health neighborhood, a good choice for a couple seeking to age well in their home without stairs. Take George and Audrey. Each of them is dealing with different medical conditions: George has been diagnosed with heart failure and Dorothy is managing COPD.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Within the mega-deal trend, Rock Health pointed to three facets of the go-go digital health investment climate: expanding virtual care, research and development digital transformation, and fitness and wellness demand.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JANUARY 29, 2023

Virtual healthcare refers to delivering healthcare services remotely, using telemedicine, telehealth, and e-health. These technologies allow healthcare providers to communicate with patients, diagnose and treat conditions, and provide ongoing care through virtual, rather than in-person, visits. What is Virtual Healthcare?

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GlobalMed

DECEMBER 30, 2019

We’ve had an action-packed year in telemedicine, but now it’s drawing to a close. That confirms our observations that virtual care is becoming an ingrained part of medicine – but with that growth inevitably comes change. 2019 kicked off with Microsoft and Walgreens announcing their partnership in creating a connected health platform.

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Health Populi

MAY 15, 2020

The Hims site also offers a coronavirus self-assessment tool, taking the user through a series of questions similar to those on the saliva test digital order form. Here, Hims & Hers is pivoting what began as a focus on telehealth for prescription drugs for men’s health toward COVID-19 and mental health.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 19, 2022

For over ten years, digital health technology has been a fast-growing area at the annual CES , the largest convention covering consumer electronics in the world. We’ll see companies like Samsung increasingly connecting technology for good and healthy living throughout our “HealthQuarters,” even when not labelled as-such.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 25, 2019

In a panel this past week at the HIMSS Connected Health Conference in Boston, Dr. John Halamka, international healthcare innovation professor at Harvard Medical School, and four other telehealth experts tried to arrive at a definition of just what telehealth is. "It's a tool. Just like the EHR is a tool.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This approach is built on a digital platform, which is key to scaling access to healthy shopping and, more generally, providing a digital front-door for consumers to access for medical care and social support. I reported out this trend in my 2019 book, Health Citizenship , which looked at U.S.

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