Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

physicians were using telehealth to care for patients at the end of 2021. Among those doctors who were not providing telehealth by late 2021, just over one half never did so during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the 2021 Telehealth Survey Report from the AMA. Mental and behavioral health. Four in five U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

(FYI you might know of NABIP by its former acronym, NAHU, the National Association of Health Underwriters). NABIP, whose members represent professionals in the health insurance benefits industry, drafted and adopted a new American Healthcare Consumer Bill of Rights launched at the meeting.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 20, 2022

Healthcare provider organizations and clinicians are fortunate that telehealth has gone mainstream as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Telehealth opens up many new avenues to expand access to care, streamline the delivery of care, create new workflows and improve patient outcomes. Please explain.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 17, 2020

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, federal policymakers have enacted 31 changes to enable greater access to telehealth. "Today we have the opportunity to consider how we can deploy telehealth to expand access to healthcare for everyone," said Sen. " Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn. HELP Committee Chairman Sen.

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Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

Telehealth happens across the U.S. 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.

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Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2021

It was the COVID-19 pandemic that accelerated some early-adopting health consumers viewing their home as their ultimate site for self-care and health care. The investment bank PJ Solomon focuses on these industry sectors, paying attention to trends impacting the companies operating in these markets.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 9, 2021

” The answer: probably not, at least in terms of consumers’ mainstream adoption, unless the tech “support a more human healthcare experience.” Kaveh Safavi, Accenture’s Senior Managing Director, Consulting, Global Health will discuss these results at #HIMSS21 on 10th August.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Radiology and radiologists play starring roles in our health care, with he core work flow of diagnostic imaging supporting prevention, disease detection, diagnosis, delivering and monitoring therapy, linking specialists to other providers in telehealth, and as a medium for teaching clinicians, patients and caregivers.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 27, 2022

In other words, most consumers are concerned about privacy and security for nearly every activity they undertake where personal data is shared, digitally — from storing photos online to using email, paying bills online or sharing health data. From the AMA, How smartphone apps can – and should – protect users- health info , Jan.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2021

Since the early phase of the pandemic, CVS Health expanded the use of Epic MyChart, the report explains, to deliver COVID-19 test results to patients as well as provide an on-ramp to patients seeking telehealth visits. Health care is omni-channel. Even as the coronavirus abates in the U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Ever since Clayton Christensen explained the concept of disruptive innovation in 1995, health care became one of the poster children emblematic of an industry ripe for disruption. Walmart has long committed to health care, leveraging pharmacy as a “front door to primary care,” AHA describes.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

People look at health well beyond their health care system, and this is particularly true for younger people who have taken to virtual care/telehealth services more readily and consistently than older patients.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Patients’ postponing health care will continue for some, resulting in worse prognoses for them along with the need for providers to engage people where they are to bolster trust in their return to care sites. along with health disparities and inequities. Mortality will be up in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Health providers quickly pivoted to make the most of temporary telehealth flexibilities when the COVID-19 public health emergency started in 2020. While Congress and CMS have considered permanently expanding access to telehealth and virtual care, there is a big price tag attached.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

A massive nationwide scale-up of telehealth and remote patient monitoring unlike anything yet seen. Ongoing interoperability challenges as testing sites, labs, providers, payers and public health agencies tried to manage fast-moving waves of new patient data. This is a story worth watching.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 18, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic hastened digital transformation for both the health care industry and for individuals — as health consumers, patients, caregivers, and health citizens. While this study targets the consumer goods industry, there is much for health care to glean from the findings.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Kaufman Hall analyzed 100 health care organizations in this year’s consumerism survey to assess their readiness to embrace consumer-centric strategies, understand how the industry prioritizes these approaches, evaluate their progress toward responding to them, and identifying best practices.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Read more… Ensuring Continued Utilization of Telehealth for Outpatient Mental Health. Dr. Michael Levinson at Berger Singerman detailed the importance of efforts to expand interstate licensure given the established popularity of telehealth for providing mental health amid the end of the public health emergency.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 14, 2020

A recent IDC Health Insights presentation focused on health IT industry trends during and after the COVID-19 era. It examined some of tools and strategies that stand to gain ground in the months ahead as health systems build on lessons learned during the coronavirus crisis. "What other industry does that?"

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Health Populi

JUNE 25, 2021

Here’s a focus on health and hygiene, with more consumers in 2020 and going forward spending out-of-pocket cash for organic products, stuff boosting immunity, and a nod to resilient design and sustainability. The “Xupermask” made of silicon and athletic mesh fabric, a joint venture of Will.i.am

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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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Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

In October 2021, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced that Robert Ford, CEO and President of Abbott, would give a keynote speech at CES 2022, the world’s largest annual convention of the technology industry. THINK: cars, comms, and care.

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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. Healthcare right-sizes after the telemedicine explosion.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2024

Last year, I wrote about this program ’s seven pillars for human security in the context of industry announcements from John Deere (related to food security), L’Oreal (for personal safety and mobility), and MedWand (for access to healthcare).

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2023

In health care, one of the “gifts” inspired by the coronavirus pandemic was the industry’s fast-pivot and adoption of digital health tools — especially telehealth and more generally the so-called “digital front doors” enabling patients to access medical services and personal work-flows for their care.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

As the HLTH conference convenes over 6,000 digital health innovators live, in person, in Boston in the wake of the delta variant, what should attendees keep in mind to help HLTH make health?

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Health Populi

MAY 5, 2022

When it comes to peoples’ relationship to consumer packaged goods (CPG), the public health crisis has indeed impacted consumers’ purchasing behaviors and definition of “value,” based on IRI’s latest analysis of CPG shifts in 2022 and 2023.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

JANUARY 27, 2022

Where or with whom does the responsibility and accountability lie to communicate patient engagement measurements back to patients? The same definition of patient engagement applies to industry, except that the interventions lead to more human centered design and value-based care. Connect with her at [link].

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 26, 2022

At the insistence of customers and prospects, technology offerings (beyond telehealth) will be required in all of these settings, especially at home -- and so as long-predicted , they must proliferate and improve. Covid-19 fallout pushed the care industries into the home. ATA 2022: Five telehealth offerings for older adults.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Previous articles in this series showed why social determinants of health (SDoH) are the hottest recent addition to data used by the medical industry. Andrew Eye, CEO of the healthcare data science company ClosedLoop , estimates that about 15% of physicians collect SDoH-related data from patients and use it to assess their needs.

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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. On the one hand, has the healthcare industry progressed at all hardwiring the improvement of patient experience? Rather it’s local iterative, persistent steps.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

But at the same time, the pandemic public health emergency is scheduled to end in May, which means action is needed by lawmakers to keep reimbursement going in 2023. We interviewed Gorton to get his expert perspective on what may be the big trends in telehealth this year. There's lots going on, to say the least.

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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 Today

JANUARY 4, 2024

All of this year’s 2024 health IT predictions (updated as they’re shared): John and Colin’s 2024 Healthcare IT Predictions Health Equity Predictions Healthcare Cybersecurity Predictions Telehealth and VR Predictions And now, check out our community’s Telehealth and VR predictions.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

Key challenges facing people doing their own set-up include problems connecting with Wi-Fi networks (which is among the top technical problems consumer experience), inter-connectivity between devices due to industry fragmentation and lack of adoption of standards, and short battery life.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

Telehealth always has been a key pillar of technology-enabled care delivery that helps hospitals, health systems and group practices deliver quality care at a distance – and often also gain efficiencies, improve patient and provider satisfaction and save costs. Check back for additions in the days and weeks ahead.

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