Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2020

Most older Americans would share data collected through a wearable tech device with their health care provider, but a minority (35%) would share that information with a health insurance company. One-third of older people wouldn’t share their health data with any third party at all.

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E-CareManagement

AUGUST 20, 2019

In the previous post of our series we described the “ Wild West of Unprotected Health Data.”. Will the cavalry arrive to protect the vast quantities of your personal health data that are broadly unprotected from sharing and use by third parties? Read the full post on The Health Care Blog.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

“Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans,” the Wall Street Journal reported in today’s paper and on the WSJ.com website. Ascension is the second largest health system in the U.S., Let’s talk about Technology and Trust. Out-of-network costs?

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

My book Health Citizenship provided this diagram of four pillars of health citizenship — with healthcare explicitly called out as a civil right, digital citizenship protecting citizens’ data privacy and control (a la the GDPR as opposed to HIPAA’s “leaky” provisions), building up trust between patients and providers, and (..)

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Trust continues to be the most important precursor to health engagement, we learned in the Edelman Health Engagement Barometer , and Rock Health notes this to still be the case. Only 11% of consumers said in 2018 that they’d be willing to share health data with them. Tech companies? In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

There’s a new data continuum with a shift in the relationship between the deliverers of services and their buyers. That data powers new relationships and programs, Marc explained. Marc then presented an intriguing, if disturbing (to me), bar chart of “the future value of your data.” Globally, that calculated to a value of $2.36

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

One very important finding in this study is that access to one’s health data demonstrates consumers are more collaborative with their clinicians — and are more open to sharing their data. 84% of consumers with access to personal electronic health data want their health care professionals to have access, as well.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Accelerate digital health. Secure health data (updating privacy/HIPAA). Help our children achieve their potential. Innovate long-term care. Advance academic medicine. Deliver breakthrough treatments.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

I’m also especially keen, from the patient privacy perspective, to hear my close colleagues Deven McGraw and Vince Kuraitis explain the “Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Sharing? But will HIPAA protect American patients in this world of AI, Big Data velocity and volume, and persistent social check-ins?

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Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

Parks points to at least three barriers to consumer health privacy. including questions such as, What bits of my personal data will my device share? Data literacy, the ability to comprehensive one’s “numbers” displayed in lab test results and other patient-facing clinical communications. Is my device listening?

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

This year at HIMSS19, we can take part in at least two dozen education sessions preaching and teaching the centrality of SDOH in patient care and revenue cycle management, and exhibitors who are bringing SDOH data elements and analytics into the electronic health record. As health care delivery in the U.S. Does the U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 9, 2019

Misuse of personal data is the top driver of distrust in the tech industry around the world, among 64% of global citizens. ” Businesses should be transparent and open and avoid misusing personal data to engender trust; to nurture workers’ digital skills; and, to promote good use of digital tech in society-at-large.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In Declining Use of Primary Care Among Commercially Insured Adults in the United States, 2008-2016 , the researchers analyzed data from a national sample of adult health plan members between 18 and 64 years of age and saw that visits to PCPS fell by 24.2%, from 169.5 visits per 100 member-years.

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Enzyme Health

JUNE 19, 2019

CCHP: CCHP stands for the Center for Connected Health Policy and is a non-profit that has been designated the national telehealth policy resource center. The organization researches telehealth policy issues and keeps updated information on state telehealth laws and reimbursement.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

Virtual cardiology care company Heartbeat Health is working with Caption Health , which applies AI to heart ultrasounds, to make scans and follow-up appointments available via telehealth. Policy and reimbursement consultancy Applied Policy hired Steven Johnson as Health Policy Director.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2020

Payors, both commercial and public sector (Medicare, Medicaid), have relaxed rules and regulations for telehealth across platforms (from purpose-built telemedicine programs to HIPAA-relaxed approvals for using FaceTime, Zoom, and other commercial channels), and have various plans to pay for virtual care visits between clinicians and patients.

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Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

A sum of their data? First, some of the backstory: PLM was way ahead of its time, recognizing the power of peer-to-peer connections and the importance of data as currency long before many others in health care figured that out. An asset to be sold or bartered?

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Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Collecting and analyzing data regarding quality and clinical outcomes as the result of changes in delivery of care from inpatient to outpatient is also key. These strategies should focus on optimizing economies of scale to reduce costs and finding the best partners to achieve improved quality of care and effectively manage population health.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 30, 2023

To address these challenges, healthcare providers are adopting innovative solutions, such as electronic health records and digital health technologies. These solutions enable the effective use of healthcare data, which is essential to deliver coordinated care and improve outcomes.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 14, 2020

Preparedness Of Community Health Centers For Telehealth. Despite the changes, many health centers may not be ready to implement high-quality telehealth. A study using 2016 data showed that only 38 percent of CHCs used any telehealth. As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps through the US, health care delivery will never be the same.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

health citizens face physical, financial, and mental health challenges of a syndemic, inflation, and stress – all of which will shape peoples’ demand side for health care and digital technology, and a supply side of providers challenged by tech-enabled organizations with design and data chops. Entering 2023, U.S.

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E-CareManagement

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Congress is considering broad privacy and data protection legislation in 2019. by Vince Kuraitis and Deven McGraw. Two years ago we wouldn’t have believed it — the U.S. There is some bipartisan support and a strong possibility that legislation will be passed.

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Henry Kotula

JANUARY 2, 2019

billion in digital health, from patient-facing devices to provider-facing practice management software to payer-facing data analysis services. Exhibit 1: Venture Capital Funding For Digital Health Versus US Health Care Spending. In 2017 alone, venture capital firms invested more than $11.5

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

As iFit’s Bluetooth connected heart rate monitor connected with NordicTrack the device also connects with wearable tech from Garmin, Polar, Wahoo and WHOOP, an example of the growing data ecosystem emanating from consumer-generated health devices. ” TOTO collects data from fecal matter deposited in the toilet.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2021

It’s clear that health citizens with lower information hygiene have lower willingness to get a COVID-19 vaccination in the next year compared with consumers embodying higher information hygiene, vetting data sources and engaging with news. The facility stores as much data as in 50,000 Libraries of Congress, he described.

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Health Populi

APRIL 2, 2021

Eugene, Jim, and I discussed the origins of health care consumerism in the U.S., Ultimately, patients-as-health-consumers are morphing into health citizens, growing to expect health care as a civil right that also attends to health equity, safety, and data privacy protections.

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