AI: Patients Included
Health Populi
MARCH 13, 2024
Layered on top of this is health citizens’ eroding trust in other aspects of U.S. public health, as well. But how to bake in “patient-first-ness?”
Dollar General & CHPA Collaborate to Bolster Health Consumers’ Literacy and Access for OTC Pain Meds and Self-Care
Health Populi
DECEMBER 7, 2022
The 3 companies have come together to address the fundamental issue of helping under-served health consumers seeking OTC pain relief medication better understand how to choose between products based on their individual criteria such as age, pre-existing conditions and nature and what other medications they may be taking.
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A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being
Health Populi
APRIL 12, 2024
health care, bring people back into the system, bolster physician well-being, and deliver on the promise of high-quality care that the U.S. has known how to deliver. Mental health via virtual platforms has sustained significant use since the waning of the public health crisis.
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Celebrating World Sleep Day 2024 – Sleep Equity for Global Health
Health Populi
MARCH 14, 2024
. “Because sleep is essential to health, everyone must have access to adequate sleep regardless of location, socioeconomic status, environmental conditions and disruptions, social structures and histories, community and interpersonal relationships, and individual beliefs and behaviors,” the sponsors of World Sleep Day explain.
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Digital Vaccines – Can This AI Tool Save Us from Ourselves?
Healthcare IT Today
JUNE 24, 2022
This global crisis has tested our ability as a civilization to respond to public health emergencies and mitigate the impact of geopolitical interference impeding our collective adherence to sensible policies geared towards disease prevention. Effective public health communication is the cornerstone of any pandemic response.
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Crossing the Pond by Plane in the Age of Corona – My View From the Hygienic Skies and on the Ground in Belgium
Health Populi
OCTOBER 4, 2021
Years before we knew how to spell “coronavirus,” I gained Italian citizenship while retaining my U.S. Note the inclusion of the seat occupied on the plane; this allows the public health authorities to track and trace and contact passengers who might have been seated near another traveler who develops a positive COVID diagnosis.
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The rapid proliferation and advancement of telehealth
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 16, 2022
Healthcare institutions' motivations for innovation are to improve patient experience, stay relevant and support the changing care model (i.e., Their challenge leans more toward of how to strike a balance between online or in-person services. remote care and monitoring).
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“Healthcare Isn’t Healthy:” the Global Challenge of Health Equity, and Calls-to-Action
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
The study convened many advisors from a range of fields in public health, health equity, disability/ability community, academia, clinical practice, and community leaders in the LGBTQIA+ community, among others. The biggest differences in discrimination feelings between U.S. residents and those outside of the U.S.
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A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds
Health Populi
JULY 20, 2020
Patients represented one of three conditions, with one-third each managing cardiovascular, immunology/rheumatology, and oncology. Topline, consumers “faced difficult choices,” Accenture notes in the report, choosing whether and how to continue their personal health care seeking to limit their risks of exposure to COVID-19.
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What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster
Health Populi
APRIL 6, 2022
You should know him for his work leading Scripps Research Translational Institute along with his must-read books , The Patient Will See You Now , Deep medicine , and The Creative Destruction of Medicine.
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Telehealth and COVID-19 in the U.S.: A Conversation with Ann Mond Johnson, ATA CEO
Health Populi
MARCH 12, 2020
How would you improve what’s in the bill to optimize the use of telehealth in this challenging public health moment? Q4 – How has the ATA been responding to the coronavirus phenomenon? What can we expect to hear relevant to the public health challenge? The President signed the $8.3 No, it’s not from the U.S.
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Lean Digital: How Apps and Services Can Help Control Weight
Healthcare IT Today
APRIL 29, 2024
It comes from a convergence of several trends, according to leading public health and medical investigators. Other advocates want weight handled as a lifestyle issue that each person themselves should choose how to handle. My interviewees came up with the same basic list. First, there’s just more food available.
Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Collecting Data
Healthcare IT Today
OCTOBER 18, 2023
According to vice president Ted Hill, it can modernize how public health agencies serve today’s needs. Casetivity can ingest, standardize, and share health data. Such data has to be combined with clinical data to determine the patient’s risks and how to avert them.
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My ABCovid-19 Journal – Day 4 of 5, Letters “P” through “T”
Health Populi
AUGUST 12, 2020
The general theme here is that the pandemic is a global phenomenon, and that we humans are very small actors in a very big public health crisis. How to manage risk without complete information on the coronavirus? They are alone, together, with a symbol of the coronavirus at the right. Q is for quarantine.
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Telehealth Is Here to Stay, But Is It Additive or Substitutive?
AMD Telemedicine
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
Now, many healthcare professionals are trying to determine how to move past COVID-19, asking, “Is telehealth additive or substitutive?” Healthcare is moving to a hybrid model with the public health emergency (or PHE) ending and waivers lifting. Others might eschew these technologies due to technology concerns.
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How Philips Has Pivoted In the COVID-19 Pandemic: Connected Care From Hospital to Home
Health Populi
JUNE 10, 2020
This second graphic diagrams a patient journey map for the coronavirus, across the continuum of care settings from the community and home to primary care, emergency, hospital, and post-acute. Philips was involved early on in responding to health system demands in the ASEAN region, discussed here in Healthcare IT News.
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Innovation, Local Persistence
Society for Participatory Medicine
OCTOBER 4, 2021
Thoughts from the Patient Experience Symposium. As I left the Patient Experience Symposium in Boston, (Yes, an in-person conference. How weird!) On the one hand, has the healthcare industry progressed at all hardwiring the improvement of patient experience? Listen to the podcast here [link].
Telehealth Update from the AMA – Setting the Context for ATA 2022
Health Populi
APRIL 28, 2022
While doctors noted to the AMA their top virtual care platform of choice was Zoom, some patients could not meet-up due to barriers of lacking a smartphone, tablet, or computer device; the ability to pay for connectivity to the Internet; or the know-how to be able to access that well-intentioned “digital front door” to a virtual visit.
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How Stepping Up to Transform Mobile Medical Care around the Country Makes the Biggest Change in Wellness of Public Health
KB Dental Consulting
NOVEMBER 27, 2017
Mobile health is opening new opportunities for communication between patients and healthcare medical providers. This chance gives positive feedback by improving the outcomes and enhancing the patient experience. Mobile medical health is starting to modify the way how health care is delivered and also received.
Senate HELP Committee weighs the future of telehealth
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 17, 2020
In a hearing this week, members of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions asked how many of those changes should be made permanent – and how to make sure the most vulnerable won't get left behind. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., He also described the importance of: ensuring the Secretary of the U.S.
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Featured Health IT Job: Data Scientist
Healthcare IT Today
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Here’s a description of the position: New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State.
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Steadfast Commitment to HIE Opens the Door for Health Equity
Healthcare IT Today
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
Such was the case at the first ever collaborative conference for health information exchange (HIE), interoperability, public health, and health equity. In addition to this important reminder, here are three insights for HIEs and health system leadership from the Civitas for Health 2022 event. .
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Featured Health IT Job: Program Administrator, Policy & Compliance
Healthcare IT Today
JUNE 7, 2023
Here’s a description of the position: New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State.
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How Health Gets Built – The Building H Index Thinking Health-By-Design
Health Populi
APRIL 27, 2022
The Building H Index is, in their words, flipping the script to reimagine how to bake health-by-design into companies’ product and service offerings.
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Here are the major issues facing healthcare in 2021, according to PwC
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
DECEMBER 16, 2020
That sudden experiment allowed for valuable insights that healthcare organizations in 2021 can use to fine-tune where they should land on the spectrum of virtual and in-person – in ways that make the most sense for care delivery, patient experience, reimbursement and clinical research.
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Intent, Insiders/Outsiders and Insights — Disney Institute’s Women’s Leadership Summit
Health Populi
JUNE 7, 2019
How to run a horizontal team with seven businesses she didn’t know as well as the folks on the ground who ran them? How to add value in that scenario, Catherine wondered? We must speak up on behalf of love for social (and public) health, Steve’s wisdom reinforced. reached 1,000 based on the CDC’s latest data.
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Addressing Health Equity Must Include Digital Equity Beyond Access To Medical Services and Insurance
Health Populi
JUNE 5, 2020
How to deal? There’s a mix of public sector tactics, from Federal to State to local; technology vendor tasks; health care provider jobs to do in terms of workflows and database development; and, patient-focused work.
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Food as Medicine Update: Danone Goes B-Corp, Once Upon a Farm Garners Garner, and Livongo Buys Retrofit
Health Populi
APRIL 16, 2018
In the case of Big Food, the public health critique points to processed foods, those of high sugar content (especially when cleverly marketed to children), and sustainability. But there’s a new good news story in the world of Big Food that connects with health: Danone became a B Corp on 12 April.
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Primary Care in the U.S. – Still a Weak Backbone for the Health of Health Citizens
Health Populi
MARCH 17, 2022
communities, worsening health disparities that grew in the COVID pandemic. Health Populi’s Hot Points : Two obvious places for our Hot Points to focus her are the issues of front-loading mental health and social care into primary care, and how to re-imagine primary care placing people/patients at home in the center of that dynamic.
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On World Food Day 2018, Imagine A Chef Cooking for Patients
Health Populi
OCTOBER 16, 2018
This mindset translates into a more integrative medicine approach for patients… with food as a key component to whole-health therapeutics. We are funded through Foundations, individual donations, and patient contributions when they can afford to pay “something,” whatever they choose.
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The Digital Consumer, Increasingly Connected to Health Devices; Parks Associates Kicking Off #CES2021
Health Populi
JANUARY 11, 2021
Data literacy, the ability to comprehensive one’s “numbers” displayed in lab test results and other patient-facing clinical communications.
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Reimagining Pain in the Wake of the Opioid Epidemic
Healthcare IT Today
DECEMBER 13, 2022
The following is a guest article by Vijay Yanamadala, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Sword Health and System Medical Director of Spine Quality at Hartford Healthcare. In 2017, after years of over prescribing opioids to treat pain, leading to opioid addiction for millions of Americans, opioid dependency was declared a public health emergency.
Isn’t It Eyeconic? Vision Care in the Evolving Health Care Ecosystem
Health Populi
MARCH 21, 2019
Our group-of-seven crowdsourced the importance of trust, transparency, and data stewardship to ensure that the patient-as-health-consumer and, ultimately citizen (in my own view) benefit from sharing data.
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246 What the Latest Pew Consumer Data Means for #HIMSS18
Health Populi
MARCH 5, 2018
We learned from the first Edelman Health Engagement Barometer that the three top factors that consumers look for when health-engaging with any organization are trust, authenticity, and satisfaction. Social media users informed the Pew study that they don’t tend to trust personal data shared across the eight dominant social networks.
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The Role of Patient Education in Improving Healthcare Outcomes
DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring
MAY 10, 2023
By incorporating these strategies into patient education, healthcare professionals can improve patient engagement, increase patient knowledge and self-efficacy, and ultimately achieve better health outcomes.
Telehealth Home Monitoring and Remote Patient Monitoring: The Perfect Combination for Modern Healthcare
DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring
FEBRUARY 11, 2023
For example, telehealth and RPM are being used to remotely monitor patients with chronic conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, and hypertension. In these cases, patients are provided with monitoring devices and instructed on how to use them to collect vital health data, such as blood pressure, glucose levels, and heart rate.
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CIOs plan on refined telehealth, faster deployments, more collaborative tools
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
APRIL 23, 2021
"But when we were able to move our technology to the point of advancing home health initiatives, we've actually seen it take off. In fact, growth has been exponential, and it has been very positive in terms of making the patient experience even better." " Joe Fisne, Geisinger. Fisne offers a personal example.
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AstraZeneca launches Evinova, a health-tech business to accelerate innovation across the life sciences sector, the delivery of clinical trials and better health outcomes
Digital Health Global
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Coming from within the sector and with proven experience, Evinova will be uniquely placed to deliver science-based, evidence-led and human experience-driven solutions with the aim of improving patient experience and outcomes.” 2 Digital health is a large (+$900bn by 2032) and growing (13.6% CAGR 2022-2032) market.
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The Digital Transformation of Home for Health – Brainstorming with Karsten Russell-Wood of Philips
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 9, 2021
With that premise, Karsten took me on a “visit” to a neighborhood where we meet 3 different householders to see how digital health can support a health citizen’s personal demands and objectives. Our homes, too, underwent digital transformation as long as we had access to a broadband connection.
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The Future of Health Is “Now,” Deloitte Says; But Are Consumers Living and Loving It?
Health Populi
AUGUST 21, 2020
The top three factors would be empathy and listening — that the health care provider listens to me and shows they care; that the clinician spends time with me and doesn’t rush through an encounter; and, good communication — that the clinician clearly explains what they are doing during the exam and how to follow up after the visit.
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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: An Introduction
Healthcare IT Today
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Sherri Onyiego, Medical Director for the Texas Market at Equality Health. They also obtain public health data by ZIP code and data from a Health Information Exchange (HIE). That data can reveal important information that might not make it into the patient’s own record, such as an emergency room visit.
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Cuffless Blood Pressure Monitoring – Not for the Faint-of-Heart (Pun Intended)
Healthcare IT Today
MAY 3, 2023
The excitement has been largely fueled by the renowned public health benefits of, and the seductive commercial opportunity for, a seamless hypertension management solution that is virtually invisible – part of what people are already wearing, such as smartwatches, earbuds, smart rings, and apparel.
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Telehealth, linked to an EHR, drastically reduces no-show rate at Garfield Health Center
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
DECEMBER 2, 2020
“Many of our patients experience transportation issues and find it difficult to take time off from work or find child care in order to physically come to the office for an appointment. GHC serves a large population of monolingual Chinese patients, some of whom have technology challenges.
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Healthcare Analytics and Interoperability – 2023 Health IT Predictions
Healthcare IT Today
JANUARY 11, 2023
Epic) to real-time patient journey optimization systems that are EMR-agnostic and fueled by far more comprehensive data than what sits in EMRs today. Healthcare providers will be facing IT pressures: how to enable more people to make use of more sensitive data in a secure and compliant way, while also being economically efficient.
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