Health Populi

APRIL 29, 2019

Developing Alexa-skills that are HIPAA-compliant to bolster users’ personal health information privacy collaborating with Atrium Health, Boston Children’s Hospital, CIGNA, Express Scripts, Livongo Health, and Providence St. See more on that recommendation, and subsequent social media frenzy, here on Health Populi ).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 22, 2022

As it turned out, studies have shown that a great many patients and providers like the flexibility that telemedicine affords. From here, telehealth will evolve to strengthen patient-provider engagement. The COVID-19 pandemic brought telemedicine technology and services to a mainstream audience – like it or not.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 5, 2023

Language access plans (LAP) provide organizations with a roadmap to ensure access and connection that alleviate these disparities and improve patient experience. Healthcare organizations can improve efficiencies and optimize the patient experience by incorporating the latest tools and technologies into their LAPs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2023

Read HITN Managing Editor Bill Siwicki's recent Froedtert-focused case study here. Verisma and ScanSTAT merge With automation, patient experience tools and expanded compliance management services, the combined Verisma aims to deliver a simplified, customizable release of information platform for healthcare.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Being Philips, what underpins that quality and experience is technology; Philips explored telehealth, AI, digital health records (DHRs), and other digital health tools that can engage patients. This is a very important pillar for health consumer engagement and patient experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. HIPAA compliant email provider Paubox unveiled Paubox Marketing , which is designed to help provider send personalized yet compliant email marketing messages.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

There’s a nuance in trust that’s a key insight in this study regarding trust in clinicians overall, and trust when clinicians use technology. “Privacy” is mentioned over 500 times in the document; “HIPAA,” well over 300. And, there are over 500 mentions of the word, “security.”

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

Rock Health has conducted a consumer digital health study for several years, giving us the ability to compare longitudinal findings from year to year. This and other studies have tracked consumers’ growing use of digital tech and wearables during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the 10% point growth from 2019 to 2020 is notable.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

The majority of virtual care services at NCHS have been delivered through its proprietary, encrypted HIPAA-compliant telehealth app – which came in handy when COVID-19 began slamming the United States. At the same time, it's necessary to consider contextual factors too.

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Mend

MARCH 3, 2022

Virtual doctor appointments will continue to be a major player in the healthcare industry, as 79% of patients were very satisfied with the care they received during their last visit. We’re also likely to see new advancements in technology and software that help digitize the patient experience from start to finish.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Those privacy nuances and concerns vary by activity, shown in the first chart here from the study. This study found people quite mixed about being tracked by their location. A new poll from Morning Consult, explained on their website, explains that For Consumers, Data Privacy Has a Fluid Definition.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

At least 150 Google employees already have access to much of the data on tens of millions of patients, according to a person familiar with the matter and the documents.” ” While Google is a well-known brand and customer experience for most people, Ascension Health may not be as familiar an organization.

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David Chou

JUNE 28, 2023

This, in turn, can potentially affect the overall positive patient experience. The ChatGPT technology, when deployed as a chatbot, can automate physicians' replies to patients' queries. The current HIPAA guidelines do not cover AI and other emerging scenarios.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 13, 2024

We’re told that different AI applications and tools can reduce administrative burden and clinical burnout, improve patient experience and outcomes, and so much more. Hospitals fear legal repercussions if decisions recommended by AI result in adverse outcomes for patients.

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Health Populi

APRIL 30, 2018

Only 41% of healthcare workers say they receive security training, a Forrester study learned in January 2018. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce, which issued an Request for Information (RFI) to study the vulnerabilities and cyber-risks of legacy health technologies.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

Acxiom will host a lunch-and-learn on “Using Data to Overcome the Barriers to Patient-Driven Experience.” As the pie chart from the study result illustrates, well over one-half of health care providers are interested in integrating SDOH data into the EHR. The fact is that HIPAA may not cover all of these data flows.

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Health Populi

JULY 11, 2018

data published in the insightful report, Data Privacy: What the Consumer Really Thinks , a global research study from Axciom and the Data & Marketing Association (recently acquired by the Association of National Advertisers) working with Foresight Factory. I’ve mined, through my health economic lens, the U.S.

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InTouch Health

APRIL 29, 2019

Providing consumers with the transparency to recognize the value and quality of care they will receive from a given healthcare professional is one step towards improving the patient experience and achieving a successful DTC telehealth program. Telemedicine also provides potential cost savings for providers.

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In Hand Health

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

That’s a big deal, especially because about 20 percent of PT patients drop out of treatment within the first three visits, and 70 percent fail to complete their full course of care. A recent UC Irvine School of Medicine study revealed telehealth PT was just as effective as in-clinic therapy.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The following is a guest article by Steven Dubner, Vice President of Product Management at Nordis Technologies No matter how exemplary the clinical care, overall patient experience and satisfaction often hinge on the last interactions with providers—billing and payments.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2021

In fact, growth has been exponential, and it has been very positive in terms of making the patient experience even better." To accommodate, we had to quickly find and order digital exam and diagnostic equipment, additional laptops, and software packages, and increase our HIPAA-compliant encryption system capacity.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MAY 10, 2023

Effective patient education plays a crucial role in improving healthcare outcomes. According to a study published in the National Library of Medicine, empowering patients with knowledge and skills to manage their health conditions not only leads to better patient outcomes but also reduces healthcare costs and improves patient satisfaction.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The Business Group on Health’s survey into large employers’ plans for health benefit designs in 2023 has a strong focus on value, concurring with employee benefit consulting studies from Mercer, SHRM, and WTW, among others. Consumers are excited about connected health care , the Trusted Future study bullishly reports.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Out of the gate, Stanford used it to develop an app to enroll volunteers in a heart study. In one day 11,000 people enrolled - more users in 24 hours than most medical studies find in a year. Millions of people around the world have already joined medical studies using this infrastructure.

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Mend

JUNE 14, 2022

With more engagement comes: Better health outcomes: When patients are actively engaged, they are more likely to attend doctor appointments and recommended screenings. Improved patient experience: Simplified, easy to use and understand engagement opportunities equal more satisfied patient experiences.

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American Well

APRIL 18, 2014

Over the last several years , a number of studies have shown that patients are rapidly warming to the concept of interacting with doctors online. If you think about the patient experience today, it’s not surprising that most folks respond so positively to the value of telehealth. The industry can do better.

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American Well

APRIL 18, 2014

Over the last several years , a number of studies have shown that patients are rapidly warming to the concept of interacting with doctors online. If you think about the patient experience today, it’s not surprising that most folks respond so positively to the value of telehealth. The industry can do better.

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Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2018

(See the Hot Points , below, for how these patient life-flows are being met by innovative providers both inside and outside the healthcare system). The ONC study revealed that while a growing group of patients access their electronic health records, 1 in 4 patients did not do so due to privacy and security concerns.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 18, 2022

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Digital pathology platform Deciphex released Patholytix 3.0 , allowing researchers to review and score non-clinical studies on a single platform.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Preparing for Postoperative Care Postoperative care begins before surgery with preoperative evaluations, which are crucial for identifying any potential risks and determining the patient’s individual needs. If the patient experiences any of these symptoms, they should seek medical attention immediately.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Case in point: A recent study by Bend Financial found that 56% of Americans admitted to feeling “completely lost” when it came to understanding how their health insurance worked. This confusion has negatively affected patients’ care. The High Stakes. Final Thoughts.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

Remember the bulky Holter monitors worn at the waist to gather data about The AT-Patch from ATsens won an honoree award at CES 2021 , transforming the form factor and streamlining the patient experience of collecting electrocardiogram data over time.

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Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

For more color, read Jane’s April 2008 report, “The Wisdom of Patients,” where she wrote about PLM in its start-up phase (see section on page 20 entitled “ An Ongoing, Live Outcomes Study ”). And they invested in people because the communities they built require a human touch. Not really.

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Mend

DECEMBER 7, 2020

According to a September 2020 market intelligence study published by BIS Research , the global telemedicine market was estimated at $21.55 2) HIPAA Privacy and Security. The healthcare industry is already at the tipping point. billion in 2019 and is expected to reach $123 billion by the end of 2030.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. ” Notable found that 61% of patients avoid going to the doctor because scheduling an appointment was too much of a hassle.

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Mend

MARCH 21, 2022

These eye-opening levels of patient satisfaction cannot be pinned on the brief thrill of using a fancy new gadget. Later studies have confirmed high levels of satisfaction across multiple specialties. A 2021 survey found specific predictors of patient satisfaction with telehealth programs goes beyond trust in the medical provider.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2021

"Our new platform had to be HIPAA secure in a technical sense, but we also had to think about the unique challenges of ensuring privacy on the patient's end when family members or other people could be nearby. Fourth, staff wanted to improve language support for non-English-speaking populations through live interpreters.

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