Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

This post follows up Part 1 of a two-part series I’ve prepared in advance of the AHIP 2024 conference where I’ll be brainstorming these scenarios with a panel of folks who know their stuff in technology, health care and hospital systems, retail health, and pharmacy, among other key issues.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2024

Providence, a 52-hospital health system based in Renton, Washington, views digital innovation as an important vehicle to overcoming industrywide challenges and transforming care delivery for the betterment of the communities it serves.

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Digital Health Global

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

As we delve into the future of medical technology, several key developments emerge as pivotal in shaping the next wave of healthcare innovation. Here I’ll explore these trends, highlighting their potential in revolutionizing patient care, improving diagnostic accuracy, and accelerating drug discovery.

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Health Populi

MARCH 6, 2023

Most consumers are bullish on the benefits that digital health technologies can play in their health. So assesses the Consumer Technology Association in the report, Driving Consumer Adoption of Digital Health Solutions , To paint this profile, CTA engaged Ipsos to poll 1,000 U.S. CTA sizes the market at $29.5

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 15, 2024

Primary care physicians are the heart of healthcare delivery in the United States. Virtual primary care, experts say, can address challenges in traditional care by filling existing care gaps and offering various benefits to healthcare organizations, providers and patients. And most of the time, that is at home.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 28, 2022

population has a chronic disease, and caring for them is consuming 86% of healthcare costs. Many organizations still rely on traditional chronic care models characterized by periodic in-person encounters that can be inconvenient, expensive and insufficiently frequent. It is estimated that 50% of the U.S. Please explain.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 22, 2022

“Partnerships, including JVs and alliances with other healthcare organizations and with new entrants, are just one way to access new capabilities, unlock speed to market, and achieve capital, scale, and operational efficiencies” in health care transformations. Providers, payers, and pharma comprise the bulk of revenue.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Home is where the health is, we know in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this post, I’ll weave my favorite themes of consumer health engagement for self-care at home for ourselves and the people we love.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 3, 2021

A study published in the Western Journal of Nursing Research found that patients using at-home monitoring systems for blood glucose and blood pressure levels received almost twice as many "nursing activities" as patients who received usual care. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Outside of some tele-stroke and behavioral health virtual care there wasn't any robust programming for patients to participate with Franciscan Alliance providers through telemedicine. The state of emergency and stay-at-home orders introduced the need to keep at-risk patients out of healthcare facilities and at home whenever possible.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Robin Farmanfarmaian is a Silicon Valley-based entrepreneur working in technology and artificial intelligence. She has written four books, including The Patient as CEO: How Technology Empowers the Healthcare Consumer and, most recently, How AI Can Democratize Healthcare: The Rise in Digital Care.

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Health Populi

MAY 16, 2019

At least one in three people who have tried out virtual health care have done so because they use technology in all aspects of life and want to do the same with their healthcare. A common theme at health care meetings these days is how and when health care will meet its Amazon, Apple, or Uber moment? ” .

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Second, from an operational perspective, readmitted patients may divert beds and resources that could be used to care for patients with more intensive healthcare needs. "ICPs are drafted by a team of nurses, social workers, pharmacists, clinical care coordinators and physicians involved in each patient's care," she continued.

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Health Populi

JULY 16, 2019

A “one layered delivery network through which patients can move seamlessly as they age and their needs evolve” will be the new health care platform to meet patients’ demands by 2030, according to a forecast from KPMG’s Healthcare and Life Sciences Institute. These patients lookf or care in an episodic way, KPMG notes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 19, 2021

The Partner with McKesson Ventures, a San Francisco-based investment firm, however, is quick to point to one exception: “I hope … we will not go back to how things were and that we will continue to see virtual care be an integral part of the primary and specialty care experience,” Snyder said.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2021

A new look into Americans’ views on health privacy from Morning Consult provides a current snapshot on citizens’ concerned embrace of technology — worried pragmatism, let’s call it. The phrase “concerned embrace” was coined in a 2017 Deloitte consumer study on mobile technology trends. 46% of U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 26, 2023

And that is what FirstHealth of the Carolinas has done, using telemedicine technology. "We strive to provide each patient the right care at the right time, and this program serves that purpose. We typically see patients who are candidates for this program who have unmanaged hypertension and diabetes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

After the pandemic quickly mainstreamed telehealth and prescheduling technologies, patient wait times were significantly reduced. How can physicians work to mitigate long patient wait times by using prescheduling tools? Whether they were checking in from their car or home, prescheduling instantly became the norm.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 26, 2022

Telehealth and remote patient monitoring have proven themselves to be not only convenient but necessary tools for patient care during the COVID-19 pandemic. He also will review the challenges in policy, payment and perceptions that are affecting the market and delivery of these technologies. Dr. Shawn P.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 2, 2022

Why should home care agencies boost awareness of remote monitoring? Both types of monitoring are increasingly likely to be found by home care professionals entering a new care recipient’s home. But home care agencies can offer private pay RPM services. How is RPM delivered?

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

APRIL 17, 2024

Diabetes management can feel like a constant juggle. Thankfully, innovation is bringing exciting new tools to the table, and telehealth technologies are revolutionizing how we approach diabetes management. Innovation for a Brighter Future Telehealth technologies hold immense potential for transforming diabetes management.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 20, 2023

They typically need to pay closer attention to their health and benefit from monitoring, support and easy access to care. Family members may have to take them to and from appointments or doctors may have to travel to their homes, which can become a burden on family and caretakers. Rural communities across the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

The healthcare industry learned that, with the right solutions, care can extend outside hospital walls and be conducted anywhere. 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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 9, 2023

RTM, which is reimbursable , lets patients connect with their doctors and nurses via care management apps on their smartphones to report non-physiological data, ask questions, watch videos and report outcomes to get better – anytime, day or night. Please explain what remote therapeutic monitoring is and how it has come to the fore.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 13, 2022

Staffing issues continue to plague senior care organizations. And the shortage of care workers is mirrored in other industries – signs are posted everywhere seeking workers in the midst of the ‘ great resignation.’. Fewer workers available invites technology augmentation. How about the care-related industries?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 24, 2021

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many Americans received care from their primary care physicians via telemedicine. Telehealth technology and services company Amwell now is promoting the concept of "virtual primary care. Q: What is virtual primary care? How is it different from in-person primary care?

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 7, 2024

New Investment is Led by Sands Capital, with Participation from Comcast Ventures, and Follows Enterprise Health System Expansions HealthSnap , a Miami-based Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and Chronic Care Management (CCM) solution for healthcare providers, today announced its Series B financing totaling $25 million.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 2, 2022

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, University of Colorado Health had been developing multiple virtual care systems over several years. Further, the health system was beginning to develop technologies to remotely monitor patients at home, specifically for diabetes care. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 16, 2020

We must add structures that will achieve health equity," said Dr. Megan Mahoney, clinical professor of medicine, primary care and population health at Stanford Health Care, in a statement provided to Healthcare IT News. Other panelists noted that there exist services that necessitate in-person care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 23, 2021

Now more hospitals and health systems are looking to expand their efforts beyond video visit-based virtual care, and push for expanded remote patient monitoring programs – up to and including the provision of acute care at home. — John Halamka, M.D., jhalamka) March 17, 2021.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center in New Haven, Connecticut, as a community health center, always had faced a range of treatment barriers that made it difficult, if not impossible, for patients to attend in-person appointments pre-COVID – and for which telemedicine would have been a viable alternative. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Prior to having telemedicine technology in place, M Health Fairview was only able to provide specialty care and other services like hospice or diabetes education to patients throughout its 10 hospitals if it had someone who could "round" (come in person to see a patient) at that hospital. Without the technology.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 8, 2022

RPM benefits healthcare during the pandemic by helping with hospitals already packed to the gills, enabling patients to be monitored and treated at home. Waqaas Al-Siddiq, chairman, CEO and founder of Biotricity, a medical diagnostic and healthcare technology company that offers both physician- and consumer-facing RPM devices.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Before the widespread adoption of telemedicine technology, there were several problems that hindered the delivery of healthcare services for most healthcare organizations. Many people lacked convenient access to medical care and providers, making it difficult for them to receive the care they needed.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 14, 2024

GLP-1 agonists have overtaken insulin in total prescriptions and cost among commercially insured patients , according to an analysis from Cedar Gate Technologies. The therapies are commonly prescribed to treat type 2 diabetes and are increasingly prescribed for weight loss. Wellness app Vivoo launched an at-home digital UTI test.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

In 2019, Cleveland-based University Hospitals saw an opportunity to use automation and digital care technologies to improve patient engagement, clinical care and outcomes. The organization wanted to offer its patients tools and options that support their personal healthcare journeys in these ways.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

City of Hope, based near Los Angeles, is a research and treatment organization for cancer, diabetes and other life-threatening diseases. With every visit, the organization's team evaluates whether patients are best served by a virtual or an in-person appointment. THE PROBLEM. Then COVID-19 emerged. " PROPOSAL.

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