Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Patients searching online for health information and health care provider reviews is mainstream in 2019. Digital health tracking is now adopted by 4 in 10 U.S. Rock Health’s Digital Health Consumer Adoption Report for 2019 was developed in collaboration with the Stanford Medicine Center for Digital Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The key difference between RPM and the new RTM codes is that RTM codes can specifically be used to monitor medication adherence, and can include instances when the patient self-reports clinically relevant health information, such as symptoms or side effects. According to the recent 2020 Digital Health Care Survey , U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 22, 2023

Thanks to telehealth solutions, someone in a small town can now access the same services as someone living in a metropolitan area. Though healthcare organizations are notoriously slow to adopt new technology, advances in telehealth solutions are picking up the pace.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic pushed telehealth into the spotlight with exponential adoption, helping to prove its value. On this note, Karsten Russell-Wood, portfolio leader for post-acute and home at Philips, shares his viewpoints with Healthcare IT News on the biggest priorities to ensure telehealth is sustained long term.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The legal action is one of what is likely to be an increasing number of fines issued to telehealth companies profiting from sharing consumers’ health data with advertisers, among other infractions. Under its health Breach Notification, the FTC took enforcement action, imposing a $1.5 million civil penalty against GoodRx.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Most employers and their workers see the benefits of digital health in helping make health care more accessible and lower-cost, according to survey research published in Health on Demand from Mercer Marsh Benefits. Four in ten people would also trade health information to access more convenient care.

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Continue Education Journal

JUNE 12, 2019

Telehealth and Telemedicine Definition. We often hear telehealth and telemedicine used interchangeably, so let’s set the record straight – telehealth is the umbrella term that refers to medical services that healthcare practitioners provide to patients from a distance. Telehealth in 2019.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JANUARY 4, 2023

According to a recent study by MarkUp and STAT, 49 out of 50 telehealth platforms share sensitive data in ways that may harm healthcare clients and patients. Shared information can include detailed descriptions of health issues, names, street addresses, email addresses, diagnoses, or prescription information.

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Enzyme Health

JULY 3, 2019

Recent patient surveys shed light on who is using telemedicine, why they are using it, and how benefits and barriers to telehealth use are rapidly shifting as adoption grows. We’ve compiled the latest information about what telehealth patients look like in 2019, and their makeup might surprise you.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Most doctors see the advantages of digital health tools like telehealth, consumers’ access to their health information, and point-of-care workflow solutions, the American Medical Association found in a survey of 1300 physicians, published in September 2022.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2022

Since 1993, Avel has developed innovative service lines, ranging from emergency and pharmacy to ICU and school health, to ensure everyone has access to care when and where they need it. In June 2020, Avel and ViTel Net, a telehealth technology company, were awarded funds as a team to compete in the NETCCN project, provided by the U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Seeking health information online along with researching other patients’ perspectives on doctors are now as common as booking dinner reservations and reading restaurant reviews, based on Rock Health’s latest health consumer survey, Beyond Wellness for the Healthy: Digital Health Consumer Adoption 2018.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2019

The Pew survey explored Americans’ adoption of technology and found that rural dwellers are also less likely to have multiple devices than non-rural consumers. Health Populi’s Hot Points: There’s a new social determinant of health in town, and it’s broadband connectivity. In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

MAY 16, 2023

Not all “retail health” sites are created equal, U.S. consumers seem to be saying in a new study from Wolters Kluwer Health, the company’s second Pharmacy Next: Consumer Care and Cost Trends survey. In that survey, three in four U.S. Wolters Kluwer surveyed 1,017 U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 27, 2022

For some historical context, the authors (all affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania [medical school or Wharton (business school)] start with HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act which served up privacy protections based on the health information technology of the time.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The growing use of APIs in health information technology innovation for patient care has been a boon to speeding development placed in the hands of providers and patients. The goals were to identify risks and vulnerabilities and to develop recommendations for protecting health consumers’ personal health information.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

As care delivery and consumer expectations change, the traditional fee-for-service model has already morphed into the new era of health-care consumerism – a patient-organized mix of self-care, urgent care, and in-home care, avoiding emergency rooms or long wait for a doctor visit.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

House of Representatives passed by a 416-12 vote the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID–19 Act of 2021 , which would extend the telehealth flexibilities put in place during the public health emergency until the end of 2024. Primary care in particular seems to be suffering, as visit volumes have yet to return to their 2019 levels.

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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. Three in four consumers in America say technology is important to managing their health.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2018

Looking for health information online is just part of being a normal, mainstream health consumer, according to the third Rock Health Digital Health Consumer Adoption Survey published this week. adults were online health information hunters. By 2017, 8 in 10 U.S. In the meantime, in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2020

patients to seek medical counsel outside of brick-and-mortar doctor’s offices and hospital clinics: Accenture points to a 2,000% increase in visits to Amwell telemedicine platforms between January and March 2020, and a 900% growth in the use of telehealth services with Banyan Medical Systems. The pandemic drove U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2020

The same percentage of people over 50 own a voice assistant, a market penetration rate which more than doubled between 2017 and 2019, AARP noted in the 2020 Tech and the 50+ Survey published in December 2019. For this research, AARP worked with Ipsos to survey (online) 2,607 people ages 50 and over in June and July 2019.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Using digital health tech is a new normal for U.S. consumers, including Seniors, found in the 2018 digital health consumer survey from Deloitte. The title of the report, “Consumers are on board with virtual health options,” summarizes the bullish outlook for telehealth. Deloitte surveyed 4,530 U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 11, 2019

Trust is a precursor to health engagement, I learned way back in 2008 when I collaborated with Edelman on the first Health Engagement Barometer in 2008. This chart illustrated data from that survey, showing that trust, authenticity and satisfaction were the top three drivers among consumers looking to engage for health.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 28, 2023

Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier. More younger people would be interested in downloading personal health records compared with older people.

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GlobalMed

AUGUST 21, 2019

That’s the question at the heart of workplace telehealth. National Business Group on Health’s Large Employers’ Health Plan Design Survey found that while 90 percent of large companies offered telemedicine benefits in 2016, only 3 percent of their employees used it. The cost savings in workplace telehealth are obvious.

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Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2021

Deloitte’s Center commissioned an online survey among 2,009 U.S. The report covers the various life-flows of our repurposed “crowded digital homes,” including school remote work, and making health, wellness, and fitness where we live. One-third of consumers experienced none of the challenges on Deloitte’s list.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 25, 2023

"Since we had MyChart in place for many years, and had piloted the video technologies and communications within that portal, we strongly encourage all of our patients to use this as the primary communication tool for their records and health information," he continued. This is helpful for us to refine and improve initiatives.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 13, 2023

Experian Health’s recent report , “ The State of Patient Access: The Digital Front Door ,” explores the overall digital experience from both the patient and provider perspectives. Providers are aligned with this sentiment, with 69% of those surveyed acknowledging the high importance of digital and mobile access to patients.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The idea of health care consumerism isn’t just an American discussion, Deloitte points out in its 2019 global survey of healthcare consumers report, A consumer-centered future of health. Interest in and use of virtual care/telehealth. A November 2019 HealthPocket survey conducted among 1,100 U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2021

Authors of the report were Victoria Rideout, longtime expert on families, youth, and media; Susannah Fox, “Internet Geologist” well-known for her work on peer-to-peer health care and the origins of the Internet in health care (and in full disclosure, my close friend); and Alanna Peebles and Michael Robb, researchers at Common Sense.

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care innovations

JANUARY 30, 2019

Each year, telehealth and remote care services are gaining wider acceptance, and a big part of that popularity is patient demand. When considering patient demand for telehealth, it’s important to remember that a big part of that popularity comes from convenience. The Benefits of Bring-Your-Own-Device Telehealth Services.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 27, 2022

More granularly, most consumers (over two-thirds) were concerned about allowing apps or sites to access their location data, online banking, accepting cookies on sites, creating new accounts on apps or sites, sharing health information with apps or sites, online shopping, paying bills, and so on. Morning Consult surveyed 6,631 U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

More than one-third (36%) of organizations have at least partly implemented AI solutions , according to a survey from Healthcare IT Leaders, and another 25% have started AI pilots. More than half (56%) of American adults are worried about getting sick when they go to the hospital or a medical clinic, according to a Kinnos survey.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This is according to a new annual report from research and consulting giant PwC entitled “Top health industry issues of 2021: Will a shocked system emerge stronger?” “Some specialties, such as mental health, may find stronger footing via virtual visits. ” Implications of the changing telehealth landscape.

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