Health Populi

JULY 27, 2022

As the subtitle of the paper suggests, Apple is playing a role to support personal health, research, and medical care across the entire consumer/patient journey: from wellness and fitness (think: hand-washing and Nike Run Club) to managing chronic conditions and enabling clinician research and collaborations across industry silos.

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Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

Due to the collective ethos in the community, gun safety has been addressed as a public health issue, and the health care system and employers are committed to assuring cybersecurity and the protection of individuals’ health data. Telehealth happens across the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 4, 2021

I chose to go this route because I had greater assurance that my test result would be “interoperable” with United’s system, thereby ensuring even if I didn’t upload my (hopefully negative) result before I left for the airport, United authorities would receive it.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 28, 2023

The following is a guest article by Chris Anello, Director of Digital Platforms at iTech AG The COVID-19 pandemic pushed healthcare organizations to the edge and exposed both challenges and opportunities related to public health data.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Ongoing interoperability challenges as testing sites, labs, providers, payers and public health agencies tried to manage fast-moving waves of new patient data. Department of Health and Human Services published the long-awaited interoperability final rules from CMS and ONC. (In This is a story worth watching.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2021

These investments and the migration of more care closer to where people live, work, play, pray, learn, and shop, will also benefit some of the nation’s most significant burdens of disease such as diabetes captured in Trend #10, which CVS Health titles, “Diabetes Care Is Community Care.”

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Health Populi

JUNE 25, 2021

I had the opportunity to attend the session, and want to share the health and wellness-related insights David shared in his fast-paced view on the role of color in bolstering wellbeing and community looking out to 2022/23. For context, Pantone plays a role in your life you might not realize.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 7, 2021

Virtual care aligns with strategic imperatives to improve health outcomes, enhance patient safety, and optimize the patient experience for populations with medical complexity and high healthcare needs. As a result, it will pay off if healthcare can continue the expansion of telehealth started by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

Greg Wujek, Global Health Industry Consultant at SAS Robots as providers comes of age. The use of robots in health care will exponentially mature with the development of robots capable of performing basic medical tasks, such as taking vital signs, administering medications, and providing wound care.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Gradually, payers and clinicians are incorporating social determinants of health into their care, including attempts to empathize with the cultural views and immediate surroundings of the patients. Modern medicine must treat communities, not individual patients.

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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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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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Health Populi

APRIL 19, 2018

I concluded the first of this three-part series with Dr. Don Rucker’s belief that, “Patients are the massive use-case for interoperability.”. This second post focuses on the key role of designing for healthcare – for patients, caregivers, providers, all industry sector workers indeed.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2024

In the next year, we’ll see further evolution of hybridized care models where parts of virtual care are leveraged to improve access and patient experience. Brianna Zink, RN, MSN, Sr.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2023

While arguably some are very time consuming and resource intensive to achieve, this is where the return on investment of an industry certification pays for itself. Steve Gwizdala, Vice President Healthcare at ForgeRock Healthcare continues to be the industry most impacted by data breaches.

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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.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2019

The former can be thought of as software-as-medicine, and the Digital Therapeutics Alliance (yes, there’s now an industry association for the field) illustrates their broad definition of the concept in the diagram here.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

It offers one system for telemedicine that spans the care continuum from urgent to acute care, and equips clinicians, patients and the industry that supports them with tools to enhance the healthcare experience. Amwell – known until recently as American Well – has been a telehealth leader for nearly 15 years.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

AI-enhanced workflow tools will be used to enhance existing processes to become more efficient and solve legacy industry challenges such as staffing burnout and the lack of harmonization for healthcare operations. Ankit Gupta, Founder and CEO at Bicycle Health The opioid epidemic is the most acute and urgent public health crisis in America.

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