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As Workers’ Healthcare Costs Increase, Employers Look to Telehealth and Wearable Tech to Manage Cost & Health Risks

Health Populi

.” 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.

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The Different Types of Telehealth

iSALUS Healthcare

It’s easy to see that telehealth is all around us. From the upcoming appointment text reminder you received from your family doctor to the post-visit survey from your chiropractor, telehealth is prevalent in today’s tech-based society. In 2016 the global telehealth market was valued at $2.78 for monitoring and review.

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Addressing Health Equity Must Include Digital Equity Beyond Access To Medical Services and Insurance

Health Populi

But while the new ONC rules may make it easier for health consumers to access personal health information, the Field of Dreams phenomenon subverts the noble goal: we may “build” a system for people to access health data (like Blue Button), but patients may not “come.” How to deal?

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Digital self-management emerging as a new high growth HealthTech sub-sector in 2024

Lloyd Price

The growth of the digital self-management market is being driven by a number of factors, including the increasing prevalence of chronic diseases, the rising demand for personalized healthcare, and the growing adoption of mobile health (mHealth) technologies. link] What exactly is Digital self-management? billion in funding, up from $8.9

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COPD Management: A Guide to Remote Patient Monitoring in 2024

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

Through RPM, patients can use wearable devices and mobile health applications to transmit data such as oxygen saturation levels, respiratory rate, and activity levels to their healthcare providers in real-time. These apps often integrate with wearable devices, allowing seamless data sharing and analysis.

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The Smartphone Is the Consumer’s Personal Health Platform – Implications from Deloitte’s 2018 Survey

Health Populi

Furthermore, this week Google made news about how it will absorb the DeepMind AI business into the larger Google Health unit. Some analysts and privacy lawyers question how Google will handle patients’ (assumed private) health data, a volatile question for the UK’s National Health Service as I draft this post.

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The Digital Consumer, Increasingly Connected to Health Devices; Parks Associates Kicking Off #CES2021

Health Populi

Data literacy, the ability to comprehensive one’s “numbers” displayed in lab test results and other patient-facing clinical communications. Medical literacy, such as understanding medical instructions following up procedures, lab tests, and inpatient discharges to the home.