Digital Health, Health Policy, Mental health and Telehealth

A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Congress can’t agree on much before the 2024 summer recess, there’s one bipartisan stroke of political pens in Washington, DC, that could provide some satisfaction for both patients and doctors: bring telehealth back to patients and providers permanently. S 2016) and second, re-introduce and sign the Telehealth Modernization Act.

Telehealth

Telehealth Mental health Public Health Medical Billing

Three in Five People 50+ in the US Will Likely Use Telehealth In the Future – An Update from AARP

Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

“Telehealth certainly appears to be here to stay,” the AARP forecasts in An Updated Look at Telehealth Use Among U.S. adults over 50 said they or someone in their family had used telehealth. One in three people over 50 in America are most interested in telehealth, with another 30% somewhat interested.

Telehealth

Telehealth Mental health Public Health Medicare

The Coronavirus Impact on American Life, Part 2 – Our Mental Health

Health Populi

APRIL 7, 2020

Surgeon General, the fact is that a growing number of Americans are feeling negative mental health impacts…and it’s only early April in what will be a many-month new-normal of physical distancing. The post The Coronavirus Impact on American Life, Part 2 – Our Mental Health appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

Mental health

Mental health Digital Health Public Health Health Policy

Telehealth-As-Healthcare Is a Mainstream Expectation Among Consumers, J.D. Power Finds

Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Telehealth has increased access to mental health services, I’ve highlighted this Mental Illness Awareness Week here in Health Populi. But telehealth has also emerged as a preferred channel for routine health care services, we learn from J.D. Power’s 2022 Telehealth Satisfaction Study.

Telehealth

Telehealth Mental health Nursing Primary Care

Ten In Ten: Manatt’s Healthcare Priorities to 2031

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Stability the safety net and rebuild public health. Address social determinants of health. Accelerate digital health. Secure health data (updating privacy/HIPAA). Note that WHO’s approach to digital health adoption includes equity, access, palliative care, privacy, and security.

Mental health

Mental health Digital Health Public Health Health Data

Thinking About Telehealth Through the Lens of Real Estate – Listening to JLL

Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2022

If you made your living in commercial real estate — and especially, working with hospitals’ and health systems’ office space — would the concept of telehealth be freaking you out right now? The tagline on this paper is, “Convenience and choice drive patient decisions as new digital options take hold.”

Telehealth

Telehealth Medicare Life Science Mental health

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

Telehealth happens across the U.S. Due to the collective ethos in the community, gun safety has been addressed as a public health issue, and the health care system and employers are committed to assuring cybersecurity and the protection of individuals’ health data.

HC

HC Mental health Public Health Primary Care

What to Expect For Health/Care at CES 2024

Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2024

Whether dealing with migraines and mental health, heart conditions or diabetes, orthopedic and sports injury rehab or sleep disorders, #CES2024 will be a major stage for health/care. Smartwatches’ sensors now embed heart rate and increasingly other aspects of heart metrics.

Mental health

Mental health Digital Health Telehealth Health Policy

Can Consumer Electronics Help Stem the Decline of U.S. Life-Years? A Preface for #CES2023

Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

How can digital health and other consumer-facing technologies help our health? We cannot expect Technology itself to be a panacea to this national tragedy that public policies must help solve in terms of underlying drivers of health and well-being. The post Can Consumer Electronics Help Stem the Decline of U.S.

Digital Health

Digital Health Health Policy Mental health Telehealth

Virtual Health Tech Enables the Continuum of Health from Hospital to Home

Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

TripleTree is an investment bank that has advised health care transactions since 1997. As such, the team has been involved in digital health financing and innovation for 24 years, well before the kind of platforms, APIs, and cloud computing now enabling telehealth and care, everywhere.

Telehealth

Telehealth Public Health Life Science Primary Care

Telehealth and COVID-19 in the U.S.: A Conversation with Ann Mond Johnson, ATA CEO

Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

Will the coronavirus inspire greater adoption of telehealth in the U.S.? I asked myself, then went to my Oracle of Telehealth: Ann Mond Johnson, CEO of ATA (once named the American Telemedicine Association). It is clear that there’s no better use case for digital/tele/virtual health than what is unfolding right now.

Telehealth

Telehealth Medicare Telemedicine Public Health

A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

NABIP, whose members represent professionals in the health insurance benefits industry, drafted and adopted a new American Healthcare Consumer Bill of Rights launched at the meeting. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Is there an American Civil Right for health care?

HIPAA

HIPAA Public Health Leadership Mental health

Digital Health As A Basic Human Need – the Dentsu Digital Society Index 2019

Health Populi

APRIL 9, 2019

Younger people score lower on psychological needs, the outcome of being a digital native and negative impacts on mental health and well-being among younger citizens. This is why I so often repeat that broadband connectivity is a social determinant of health. Healthcare is now embedded into The Digital Society.

Digital Health

Digital Health Primary Care Mental health Connected Health

Still Struggling with Stress in America in 2021

Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The pandemic certainly gave us the gift of knowledge in having to face the ubiquity of mental health in Americans’ overall health and well-being… or lack thereof. billion and $793mm for substance use disorder for the first three quarters of 2021 based on Rock Health’s numbers. Most people in the U.S.

Mental health

Mental health Telemedicine Digital Health Public Health

My Health, My Data – Thinking Consumers, Privacy and Self-Care at HIMSS 2023

Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

The My Health, My Data Act defines “consumer health data” as “personal information that is linked or reasonably linkable to a consumer and that identifies a consumer’s past, present, or future physical or mental health.” Remember that digital health literacy is a “super determinant of health.”

HIPAA

HIPAA Health Data Health Information Digital Health

Be Mindful About What Makes Health at HLTH

Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

As the HLTH conference convenes over 6,000 digital health innovators live, in person, in Boston in the wake of the delta variant, what should attendees keep in mind to help HLTH make health? The top-line in the report, and the bottom-line for health citizens, was that 38% of U.S.

Digital Health

Digital Health Primary Care Mental health Public Health

Early warning signs of a mental health tsunami: A coordinated response to gather initial data insights from digital services providers

Lloyd Price

MAY 23, 2020

The aim of this study is to document initial observations from multiple digital services providers during the COVID-19 crisis, especially those related to mental health and wellbeing. Digital services providers reported a diverse range of mental health concerns.

Mental health

Mental health Digital Health Telehealth Health Policy

Most Virtual Care Consumers, Satisfied With Visits in the COVID Era, Expect It for Future Care

Health Populi

JULY 10, 2020

health care providers set up virtual care arrangements to convene with patients. Three months into the COVID-19 crisis, how have patients felt about these telehealth visits? The top reasons health consumers sought virtual care were for wellness check-ins and routine check-ups, among 41% of virtual care consumers.

Telehealth

Telehealth Primary Care Mental health Patient Experience

The Home and Low-Touch Health Care – a Health Consumer Update from Capgemini

Health Populi

JULY 27, 2020

The report found three big shifts in global health citizens’ views on their personal health and health care delivery in the wake of the pandemic: Across all age groups, COVID-19 exacerbated peoples’ concerns about their physical and mental health in a very short time.

Digital Health

Digital Health Pharmaceuticals Health Policy Mental health

Digital Inclusion As Upstream Health Investment

Health Populi

JULY 5, 2021

Health care, through telehealth, health education, and wearable sensors that make up the Internet of Things for medical and healthcare. Food systems, and finally.

Digital Health

Digital Health EHR Telehealth Primary Care

Health Care In the COVID-19 Era – PwC Finds Self-Rationing of Care and Meds Especially for Chronic Care

Health Populi

MAY 20, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic’s impact on health consumers’ spending varies depending on whether the household is generally a healthy family unit, healthy “enthusiasts,” dealing with a simple or more complex chronic conditions, or managing mental health issues. adults polled in early April 2020.

Telehealth

Telehealth Telemedicine Mental health Medicare

Consumers’ Trust In Pharmacists As Providers Grows Along with Omnichannel Health Care

Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Increasingly, technology is playing a role in patients’ relationships with pharmacies, whether for e-prescribed refills, apps enabling telehealth visits (including mental health therapy sessions), or live chats with licensed pharmacists for real-time advice.

Mental health

Mental health Nursing Telehealth Primary Care

Reimagining Health Care Without Walls – Deloitte’s Vision

Health Populi

MAY 16, 2022

Delivering health care during the heights of the COVID-19 pandemic proved to both patients and their clinicians that virtual care was not only a viable channel for care, but very often a preferable “place” to collaborate for treatment.

Digital Health

Digital Health Interoperability Medical Technology Telehealth

9 Best Telemedicine Newsletters You Should Be Reading to Keep Up With the Industry

Enzyme Health

MARCH 27, 2019

Close For Clinicians For Employers Telehealth Jobs Family Medicine General Practice Emergency Medicine Internal Medicine Nurse Practitioners Family Nurse Practitioners Physician Assistants Psychiatry / Mental Health Hospitalist Dont see your specialty? For Broad Digital Health and Telehealth News 3.

Telemedicine

Telemedicine mHealth Psychiatry General practice

Frost & Sullivan's Top 10 predictions for healthcare in 2021

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Population Health Precision Medicine Telehealth Workforce From vaccines to virtual care, enterprise imaging to precision medicine, these are the growth areas that will shape the direction of healthcare, this year and beyond. Hospitals will also lobby hard to receive revenues from telehealth services.

Telehealth

Telehealth Interoperability Medicare Pharmaceuticals

How Health Gets Built – The Building H Index Thinking Health-By-Design

Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2022

is mired in an epidemic of chronic health conditions, from obesity to diabetes to heart disease to mental health or mood disorders,” the Index’s report explains. We have a chronic disease problem, and it’s getting worse: “the U.S. 10% now have diabetes and another 30% are pre-diabetic.

Mental health

Mental health Digital Health Telehealth Patient Experience

Health Citizenship in the America. If Not Now, When?

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

These new work-and-life flows have changed our relationship with our personal doctors and local health care systems, pivoting us to virtual care and telehealth platforms.

Telehealth

Telehealth Primary Care Public Health Mental health

Can the U.S. Improve Health System Performance with Digital Health Tools? Pondering A Big Question for #HIMSS21

Health Populi

AUGUST 6, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: This analysis must be placed in the context of the coronavirus pandemic, which is impacting both the fiscal health of the U.S. as well as the physical and mental health of the nation’s health citizens. Improve Health System Performance with Digital Health Tools?

Digital Health

Digital Health Primary Care Mental health Public Health

Rebuilding Resilience, Trust, and Health – Deloitte’s Latest on Health Care and Sustainability

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Cost reduction ranks high, with the inference that investing more in digital “should” have the impact of saving cash in operations. Consider: chatbots, AI, triage-via-telehealth, and other digital investments that can address higher-cost sites and redundant services.

Public Health

Public Health Leadership Interoperability Life Science

Access to Technology Is the New Pillar for Well-Being: CES & the UN Partner for Human Security for All

Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2024

In kicking off #CES2024, CTA’s researchers noted the acceleration of global connectivity, with gaps in peoples’ ability to connect depending where they live: by region, the percent of people connected to the internet today are, according to CTA’s data, 92% in the U.S. 87% in the E.U. 76% in Latin America 73% in China 55% in Nigeria 46% in India.

Patient Experience

Patient Experience Public Health Mental health Connected Health

When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

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. Which virus is it?”

Health Technology

Health Technology Mental health Digital Health Primary Care

Health Equity: Searching for a New Angle

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

Even in large metropolitan areas, many individuals still lack adequate access to basic healthcare services, especially for mental health. Along with other health policy, system infrastructure changes, and digital health solutions, RPM can and should be part of a multi-prong approach to advance strides in achieving health equity.

Primary Care

Primary Care Mental health Telehealth Patient Experience

Social Determinants of Health Risks Challenge the Promise of Hospital-to-Home

Health Populi

MAY 31, 2022

Doubling-down on the issue of disparities exacerbated by digital health technology, Boston-based researchers published their view on Telehealth’s Double-Edged Sword: Bridging or Perpetuating Health Inequities in the Journal of General Internal Medicine in March 2022.

Mental health

Mental health Telehealth EHR Digital Health

Emerging with A Stronger Healthcare System Post-COVID: NAM’s Lessons Learned

Health Populi

APRIL 8, 2021

The National Academy of Medicine is publishing nine reports addressing health stakeholder segments impacted and re-shaped by COVID-19 — for public health, quality and safety, health care payers, clinicians, research, patients-families-communities, health product manufacturers, digital health, and care systems.

Public Health

Public Health Health Policy Leadership Mental health

From Better for Me to Better for “We” — NielsenIQ’s New Consumer Hierarchy of Health

Health Populi

JANUARY 21, 2022

The altruistic need is inspiring several microcultures which NielsenIQ describes as: Aging with dignity, with independence and good health. Mental health advocacy, looking to end the stigma around mental health especially in workplace culture and health care.

Mental health

Mental health Health Policy Public Health Primary Care

Connected Health Pulse

A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

Three in Five People 50+ in the US Will Likely Use Telehealth In the Future – An Update from AARP

Trending Sources

The Coronavirus Impact on American Life, Part 2 – Our Mental Health

Telehealth-As-Healthcare Is a Mainstream Expectation Among Consumers, J.D. Power Finds

Ten In Ten: Manatt’s Healthcare Priorities to 2031

Thinking About Telehealth Through the Lens of Real Estate – Listening to JLL

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

What to Expect For Health/Care at CES 2024

Can Consumer Electronics Help Stem the Decline of U.S. Life-Years? A Preface for #CES2023

Virtual Health Tech Enables the Continuum of Health from Hospital to Home

Telehealth and COVID-19 in the U.S.: A Conversation with Ann Mond Johnson, ATA CEO

A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity

Digital Health As A Basic Human Need – the Dentsu Digital Society Index 2019

Still Struggling with Stress in America in 2021

My Health, My Data – Thinking Consumers, Privacy and Self-Care at HIMSS 2023

Be Mindful About What Makes Health at HLTH

Early warning signs of a mental health tsunami: A coordinated response to gather initial data insights from digital services providers

Most Virtual Care Consumers, Satisfied With Visits in the COVID Era, Expect It for Future Care

The Home and Low-Touch Health Care – a Health Consumer Update from Capgemini

Digital Inclusion As Upstream Health Investment

Health Care In the COVID-19 Era – PwC Finds Self-Rationing of Care and Meds Especially for Chronic Care

Consumers’ Trust In Pharmacists As Providers Grows Along with Omnichannel Health Care

Reimagining Health Care Without Walls – Deloitte’s Vision

9 Best Telemedicine Newsletters You Should Be Reading to Keep Up With the Industry

Frost & Sullivan's Top 10 predictions for healthcare in 2021

How Health Gets Built – The Building H Index Thinking Health-By-Design

Health Citizenship in the America. If Not Now, When?

Can the U.S. Improve Health System Performance with Digital Health Tools? Pondering A Big Question for #HIMSS21

Rebuilding Resilience, Trust, and Health – Deloitte’s Latest on Health Care and Sustainability

Access to Technology Is the New Pillar for Well-Being: CES & the UN Partner for Human Security for All

When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

Health Equity: Searching for a New Angle

Social Determinants of Health Risks Challenge the Promise of Hospital-to-Home

Emerging with A Stronger Healthcare System Post-COVID: NAM’s Lessons Learned

From Better for Me to Better for “We” — NielsenIQ’s New Consumer Hierarchy of Health

Stay Connected