Data, Health Data, Primary Care and Telehealth

Clinician Burnout – Lessons from BDO’s Clinician Experience Survey for Patient Experience and Primary Care

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. And third, investing in clinician mental health resources garnered 42% of clinicians’ interest in the BDO survey. BDO notes that only 2 in 3 U.S.

Primary Care

Primary Care Patient Experience EHR Health Data

While Virtual Care is “Table Stakes” in Health Care, Consumers Are Growing More Protective About Data-Sharing

Health Populi

MARCH 18, 2024

While virtual care is ubiquitous across the U.S. health care delivery landscape, patients-as-health care consumers are becoming more savvy and discriminating based on their “maturity” and exposure to various flavors of telehealth.

Mental health

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Why Telehealth is a Lifeline for Primary Care Physicians

GlobalMed

JUNE 16, 2021

Primary care physicians are the frontline of healthcare. The Association of American Medical Colleges predicts a primary care provider shortfall , with numbers landing between 21,000 to 55,000 by 2023. But other factors drive primary care barriers as well, such as affordability issues and rural shortages.

Primary Care

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Most Americans See Rise of Mental Health Issues, And Poorly Treated by the Health System (with a postscript on Walmart Health)

Health Populi

MAY 2, 2024

And it’s important to call out that older people typically deal with more chronic (physical) health conditions than younger people do, so the lack of integrating mental with physical health services (especially in primary care) is concerning.

Mental health

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Collecting Data

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Previous articles in this series showed why social determinants of health (SDoH) are the hottest recent addition to data used by the medical industry. We’ve explored how SDoH data is defined and shared. It uses data collected from patients as well as ZIP code or census block data on populations.

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Adelaide virtual care project gets state backing

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2023

A new health project in Adelaide seeks to provide virtually-delivered primary care services to patients with chronic conditions. million (around $700,000) in funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council. Enterprise Taxonomy: Telehealth Population and Public Health Patient Access Care

Primary Care

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How to switch from phone to video telehealth on a limited budget

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 7, 2020

It operates 32 community health centers located in medically underserved communities in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Manhattan, which have been exceptionally hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic; and in Ulster and Dutchess counties, 90 miles north of New York City. ” "We were delivering roughly 1,800 telehealth visits per day.

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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic accelerated digital transformation of organizations, including health care providers. Rock Health and Stanford commissioned an online survey among 7,980 U.S. adults from early September to early October 2020 to gauge peoples’ interest in and utilization of digital health tools and telehealth.

Digital Health

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Patient generated data can be a key factor in reducing health inequity

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 20, 2022

At this point, it's not a surprise to say that data is power – particularly when it comes to advancing clinical research, furthering innovation and improving patient care. Tools such as wearables can provide a holistic view of a patient's care journey beyond information gathered in a clinical visit.

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Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

Their home is the site for most of their health care, with sensors in the kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, and in the car all informing Quincy’s digital phenotype that further populates data into their EHR which they control and audit. Telehealth happens across the U.S. Regional centers of excellence naturally go national.

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Ten In Ten: Manatt’s Healthcare Priorities to 2031

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Address social determinants of health. Innovate long-term care. Accelerate digital health. Secure health data (updating privacy/HIPAA). Achieving health equity, bringing mental health services to all who need them, ideally at parity with physical health services. Advance academic medicine.

Mental health

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South Australia makes children, adult virtual care services permanent with $89M funding

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 15, 2023

It provides a monitoring kit, which includes medical devices and a digital tablet for uploading health data. In SA's capital, Adelaide, the safe@home project led by Flinders University is providing chronic disease patients access to daily primary care service via virtual care and telemonitoring.

Primary Care

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Retail disruptors face big strategy questions in 2023, says AHA

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

WHY IT MATTERS With billions of dollars invested this past year, such as CVS Health's purchase of Signify Health , the AHA report highlights retail healthcare companies having grabbed significant market share in primary care, concierge medicine, virtual care and in-home medical services. One example is Amazon.

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Bonus Features – May 21, 2023 – 82% of wearable users willing to share data with their physicians, 81% of Americans trust pharmacists and nurses to diagnose minor illnesses, and more

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 21, 2023

News and Research More than four in five (82%) of wearable device owners are willing to share health data with their physicians, according to a poll conducted by the Connected Health Initiative. Executives for Health Innovation will wind down operations over the remainder of the year. as Chief Medical Officer.

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Wearable, Shareable, Virtual: The Demands of the Digital Health Consumer in 2018

Health Populi

MARCH 7, 2018

As I wrote here in April 2017, telehealth and virtual healthcare are mainstreaming. This week at the 2018 annual HIMSS conference, telehealth is playing a mainstream role in discussions about right-sizing and right-placing healthcare. But only 38% would share wearable health data with an employer, and 41% with a government agency.

Digital Health

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Teladoc Health and Livongo's post-merger plan: one-stop healthcare

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Livongo's chronic care management strategy, combined with Teladoc's telehealth network, can allow for health needs to be met on a long-term basis, said the execs. By bringing together digital health capabilities, said Gorevic, companies like Livongo and Teladoc are "really reimagining what primary care should be."

Digital Health

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Microsoft unveils Azure IoT Connector for FHIR, to help with RPM security

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 17, 2020

Microsoft is previewing its new Azure IoT Connector for FHIR, an API feature that enables healthcare organizations to scale secure connectivity for an array of devices streaming protected health information. WHY IT MATTERS. " Actionable Intelligence.

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Virtual Care and TeleMedicine 2025

Lloyd Price

MAY 19, 2024

Wearable devices will allow continuous health data collection, enabling preventive care and early intervention. Focus on data privacy and security will be paramount. Increased use of wearable devices: Wearable devices are being used to collect data on patients' health and activity levels.

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Health Is Everywhere at #CES2021 – CTA’s CES 2021 Tech Trends to Watch

Health Populi

JANUARY 12, 2021

the CTA forecast saw a 73% increase in connected health device spending in 2020, and expects 34% growth in 2021. By 2023, connected health monitoring revenue will exceed $1 billion – akin to a blockbuster drug. An enabling technology supporting the growth of the connected health data ecosystem is cloud computing.

Connected Health

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How Grocery and Retail Companies Are Delivering Health and Healthcare

Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2021

This trend was already in motion at the start of 2020, after which the public health crisis raised patients-as-consumers’ awareness and value of hygiene, food-for-immunity, and physical distancing. New data from NCSolutions (NCS) polled 2,017 U.S. “Self-care is a pandemic priority,” NCS intuited from their data.

Public Health

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Why You Need to Switch to HIPAA Compliant Telehealth, NOW

Mend

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Disclosing protected health information (PHI) can cause serious harm to a patient’s safety, personal life, and state of mind. Data breaches or mishandling can also put a practice at serious risk of legal and financial trouble. That is why it is essential to adopt a HIPAA compliant telehealth program when offering virtual care services.

HIPAA

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How Will IoT and AI Transform the Patient-Doctor Relationship?

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Coupled with primary care physicians spending a little more than 15 minutes with their patients, there isn’t enough time to discuss concerns or take a deep look at any test results. We typically only discuss our health at an annual doctor visit.

Health Data

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COVID-19 and digital transformation

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 21, 2020

Government & Policy Interoperability Telehealth The director of international relations at NHS Confederation, Dr Layla McCay writes about significant acceleration of digital transformation across the UK. In the space of weeks, primary care services in the UK have switched from 1.2 Looking beyond COVID-19.

Primary Care

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Designing Digital Health for Public Health Preparedness and Equity: the Consumer Tech Association Doubles Down

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

That second point is illustrated by the first diagram, showing the interconnected nature of data sources that are generated by the U.S. health/care ecosystem of: Some 3,000 health departments and boards of health. 59 state and territorial health departments. Hospitals and health care providers.

Public Health

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When Will Self-Service Come to Health Care?

Health Populi

MAY 16, 2019

At least one in three people who have tried out virtual health care have done so because they use technology in all aspects of life and want to do the same with their healthcare. A common theme at health care meetings these days is how and when health care will meet its Amazon, Apple, or Uber moment?

EHR

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Consider Remote Patient Monitoring for Chronic Care Management

Clear Arch Health

MAY 2, 2023

Because remote patient monitoring (or, telemonitoring) uses convenient technology to monitor, measure and transmit biometrics, and physiologic data to care providers for prompt assessment, health care teams can manage various chronic health conditions (as well as post-surgical/post-acute/transitional care cases) in between in-person office visits.

Medicare

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Health Disparities and the Risks of Social Determinants for COVID-19 – 14 Months of Evidence

Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2021

ASPE analyzed data from 62,451,150 people who had 1 or more vaccine doses administered by 3-10-21. Analyzing county-level data for 3,142 U.S. Health Populi’s Hot Points: In the pandemic, millions of people who felt symptoms of COVID-19 avoided seeking care due to cost and/or access challenges (of which cost is a key factor).

Public Health

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Show Me The Evidence and The ROI: Digital Health Investing in 2023 via GSR Ventures

Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The investors also ranked sectors holding the most promise in digital health for 2023; these are expected to be: AI/machine learning (45%). Healthcare data and analytics (37%). Key clinical spaces holding the most promise, investors said, were oncology, mental health, primary care, and neurology.

Digital Health

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Patient Engagement: Offer Telehealth or Risk Attrition

iSALUS Healthcare

MAY 16, 2018

It is also the effort and time a patient spends communicating with their physician regarding their health, both in and out of the office. It’s utilizing the tools that physicians provide their patients so that they can both be involved and have access to their personal health data. shortages of PCP’s will increase significantly.

Telehealth

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Pandemic preparedness is a national security issue, say experts at HIMSS21

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 10, 2021

"We'll need to consider digital health preparedness and response to any pandemic as a national and international security issue," he said. especially from the president, did not follow some of the recommendations of public health officials," said Bates. "Federal leadership in the U.S,

Digital Health

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#HIMSS24 Europe: What are the key talking points likely to be?

Lloyd Price

APRIL 13, 2024

Our lineup includes a deep dive into Europe’s current regulatory landscape, including the AI Act, the European Health Data Space and the European Recovery and Resilience Fund. We’ll also help you make sense of all today’s trends in health technology—from machine learning to digital maturity and telehealth.

Digital Health

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Weekly Roundup – August 27, 2022

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 27, 2022

Teams are so in the weeds with the data and technology they’re developing that they forget to tell a compelling story about the work they do. Read more… Federal or State Health Data Collection? Read more… Exploring the Future of Primary Care. Medical conversation AI vendor Abridge received $12.5

HIE

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Jasper, Scaling a Human Touch for People Dealing with Cancer, Now With Walgreens

Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2022

In 2019, Find Care expanded services for consumers to manage chronic health conditions addressing asthma, COPD, and diabetes. It is powered by a team of digital health veterans, social workers specialized in oncology, and data scientists who enable patients to engage in their own care coordination, beyond the clinical.

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Tele-obstetrics

Digital Health Hub

JUNE 30, 2022

Barriers As with any telehealth approach, patient involvement and the availability of technologies for efficient home pregnancy care could lead to enhanced adoption of telehealth services in obstetrics. Further improvements must be made to ensure patient privacy, security, and affordability.

Telehealth

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Tele-obstetrics

Digital Health Hub

JUNE 30, 2022

Telehealth is increasingly being used in obstetrics, especially in the following areas: virtual consultation remote monitoring of ultrasound in maternal-fetal medicine remote monitoring of conditions by endocrinologists prenatal and postnatal monitoring. Key Telehealth providers in obstetrics.

Telehealth

Telehealth Primary Care Health Data Digital Health

Mayo Clinic launches remote diagnostics platform, forms 2 new companies to support it

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 14, 2021

The health system's new Remote Diagnostics and Management Platform was created to deliver what it calls "event-driven medicine" – connecting patient data with machine learning algorithms within existing clinical workflows and enabling care in the "right context, at the right time." WHY IT MATTERS.

Primary Care

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Digital Side Door Part 2: Attract and Retain Patients with These Tips

Xealth

JANUARY 18, 2024

In a previous blog post, I explained the side door concept as the tendency of patients to seek lower-value services outside their primary care network. The digital side door encompasses various online touchpoints – from websites and patient portals to mobile apps and telehealth services.

HIPAA

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Weekly Roundup – March 18, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 18, 2023

Bringing Machine and Human Intelligence to Data Cleansing. The combination of healthcare-specific ontologies and data set gaps make fully automated healthcare data harmonization difficult. Read more… BetterHelp Hit With $8M Fine Over Patient Data Sharing Lapses. The FTC also seeks $7.8

EHR

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Patients increasingly trusting of remote care technology, says new report

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Confidence in remote care technology is gaining traction in the United States, with a survey finding 56 percent of Americans currently monitor their health with at least one digital data collection tool. Accordingly, in the near future, we expect digital health to evolve in order to better fill those gaps."

Remote care

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Prelude to Health 2.0 2019: Thinking Consumers At the Center of Digital Health Transformation

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 ” toward the close of the meeting on Wednesday afternoon.

Digital Health

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The Clinician of the Future: A Partner for Health, Access, Collaboration, and Tech-Savviness

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

In 3 years’ time, globally, 7 in 10 clinicians expect that both physicians AND nurses will be expert int he use of digital health technology, and would be a desirable outcome.

Nursing

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Disruption Is Healthcare’s New Normal

Health Populi

AUGUST 21, 2018

Just this week, JAMA features a Viewpoint column titled, How Disruptive Innovation by Business and Technology Firms Could Improve Population Health. And, a new survey from Reaction Data on the future of the healthcare market focuses on the theme of “healthcare disruption.” Reaction Data asked.

Primary Care

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Tech-enabled healthcare: What exactly is it? Funding, IPO's and Future Trends

Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This can include a wide range of technologies, such as: Telehealth: Telehealth allows patients to consult with healthcare providers remotely, using video conferencing or other technology. This data can be shared with healthcare providers to help them monitor patients' health and identify any potential problems early on.

Telehealth

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Remote Patient Monitoring for Chronic Care Management ( a Clear Arch Health Blog Post)

Clear Arch Health

MAY 2, 2023

Remote patient monitoring (or, telemonitoring) uses convenient technology to monitor, measure and transmit biometrics and physiologic data to care providers for prompt assessment. In other words: remote patient monitoring can be a very useful component in chronic care management. What is Chronic Care Management (CCM)?

Medicare

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Clinician Burnout – Lessons from BDO’s Clinician Experience Survey for Patient Experience and Primary Care

While Virtual Care is “Table Stakes” in Health Care, Consumers Are Growing More Protective About Data-Sharing

Trending Sources

Why Telehealth is a Lifeline for Primary Care Physicians

Most Americans See Rise of Mental Health Issues, And Poorly Treated by the Health System (with a postscript on Walmart Health)

Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Collecting Data

Adelaide virtual care project gets state backing

How to switch from phone to video telehealth on a limited budget

The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

Patient generated data can be a key factor in reducing health inequity

Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Ten In Ten: Manatt’s Healthcare Priorities to 2031

South Australia makes children, adult virtual care services permanent with $89M funding

Retail disruptors face big strategy questions in 2023, says AHA

Bonus Features – May 21, 2023 – 82% of wearable users willing to share data with their physicians, 81% of Americans trust pharmacists and nurses to diagnose minor illnesses, and more

Wearable, Shareable, Virtual: The Demands of the Digital Health Consumer in 2018

Teladoc Health and Livongo's post-merger plan: one-stop healthcare

Microsoft unveils Azure IoT Connector for FHIR, to help with RPM security

Virtual Care and TeleMedicine 2025

Health Is Everywhere at #CES2021 – CTA’s CES 2021 Tech Trends to Watch

How Grocery and Retail Companies Are Delivering Health and Healthcare

Why You Need to Switch to HIPAA Compliant Telehealth, NOW

How Will IoT and AI Transform the Patient-Doctor Relationship?

COVID-19 and digital transformation

Designing Digital Health for Public Health Preparedness and Equity: the Consumer Tech Association Doubles Down

When Will Self-Service Come to Health Care?

Consider Remote Patient Monitoring for Chronic Care Management

Health Disparities and the Risks of Social Determinants for COVID-19 – 14 Months of Evidence

Show Me The Evidence and The ROI: Digital Health Investing in 2023 via GSR Ventures

Patient Engagement: Offer Telehealth or Risk Attrition

Pandemic preparedness is a national security issue, say experts at HIMSS21

#HIMSS24 Europe: What are the key talking points likely to be?

Weekly Roundup – August 27, 2022

Jasper, Scaling a Human Touch for People Dealing with Cancer, Now With Walgreens

Tele-obstetrics

Tele-obstetrics

Mayo Clinic launches remote diagnostics platform, forms 2 new companies to support it

Digital Side Door Part 2: Attract and Retain Patients with These Tips

Weekly Roundup – March 18, 2023

Patients increasingly trusting of remote care technology, says new report

Prelude to Health 2.0 2019: Thinking Consumers At the Center of Digital Health Transformation

The Clinician of the Future: A Partner for Health, Access, Collaboration, and Tech-Savviness

Disruption Is Healthcare’s New Normal

Tech-enabled healthcare: What exactly is it? Funding, IPO's and Future Trends

Remote Patient Monitoring for Chronic Care Management ( a Clear Arch Health Blog Post)

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