Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. TripleTree is an investment bank that has advised health care transactions since 1997.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Over one-half of Americans would likely use virtual care for their healthcare services, and one in four people would actually prefer a virtual relationship with a primary care physician, according to the fifth annual 2020 Consumer Sentiment Survey from UnitedHealthcare.

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Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2021

For some people such as American Indian and Native Alaskan folks, geography, remoteness, and lack of public health infrastructure are challenges. In April 2020, in the early phase of COVID-19, Highmark launched a digital referral tool called “Aunt Bertha” to connect people to services in its target markets and nationally.

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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 News - Telehealth

MARCH 7, 2022

"Our experience during the pandemic was that telehealth meant our member psychiatrists were able to treat more patients, which was critical as we faced a mental health crisis,” said APA CEO and Medical Director Dr. Saul Levin in a statement. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2021

Like Fisne at Geisinger, Hilburn of Grady Health System has had his hands full with telemedicine during the past year or so. Hilburn said one lesson that Grady has learned is that its telehealth capabilities required significant expansion in order to rise to meet the public health need. " Collaborative IT.

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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? Particularly for those health citizens who have been long under-served by healthcare and digital health tools.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 9, 2020

Health Populi’s Hot Points: As I write this in the midst of attending the 2020 CES , the world’s annual and largest exhibition of technologies developed for peoples’ everyday lives, we see the growth of tech’s that people can use, wear, connect to for the benefit of their health, fitness, and medical care.

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Health Populi

MARCH 26, 2018

News’ Chairman, believes that this project will give, “citizens, community leaders and policy-makers the tools to assess health in their communities and develop a blueprint for positive change” with learnings that can translate to less-healthy communities. In addition, lower stress in the workplace also improves health status.

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Health Populi

MAY 4, 2020

There remains a plethora of “testing deserts” throughout the U.S., “stemming from an overwhelmed supply chain and a disjointed public health system,” NPR observed. public health patchwork quilt. GoodRx has developed a tool to help consumers navigate where they could find a COVID-19 test locally.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 23, 2020

My focus in this Health Populi post is on the health consumer’s mindset in the age of COVID-19 and the re-shaped “enlightened” expectations of patients as the public health crisis persists longer than many people had anticipated. Regarding the most important health care issues U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

Health systems finding ways to provide more care using less resources. What enables those deflating cost-reducers is the growing adoption of digital health tools, from telehealth and virtual care to self-care in patients’ hands at home and on-the-go via mobile health apps.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 24, 2020

NHS Digital increased the capacity and range of NHS 111 (the 24/7 telephone and online service for people who need advice and information about urgent medical problems), and NHSX (which focuses on the digital transformation of health and social care) launched a competition for remote monitoring technology.

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Digital Health Today

MAY 19, 2020

William Kassler of IBM Watson Health explains the roles of Fear, Resilience and Self-care. Our guest in this episode is Dr. Kassler has held a variety of roles at Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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Health Populi

MARCH 31, 2020

households’ changing behaviors for consuming content, stocking the pantry, engaging with social media, and using online health and fitness tools. For health and fitness , the most-recommended physical activity has been walking outside — being mindful about keeping 6 feet apart through social distancing. ” U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 4, 2023

While many tools exist to automate clinical documentation, they require human intervention and that can cause delays. Andy Oram discussed how adopting FHIR should be a no-brainer for better public health data collection and sharing – and how that must be followed up with standards for what data should be collected and shared.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

“Some specialties, such as mental health, may find stronger footing via virtual visits. “Happy clinicians are the best ambassadors for virtual care,” the report asserted. “Regulators, for their part, have tried to smooth the way for a pivot to virtual during the public health emergency.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

What’s most important and impactful about telehealth is the technology’s ability to enable care and improve accessibility. An end to the Public Health Emergency (PHE) is likely to be announced and end mid-January followed by a grace period of approximately 5 months.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

"Patients residing in relatively remote areas who previously didn't have easy access to a local medical or behavioral health provider now can receive regularly scheduled treatment services at home," said Dr. Ece Tek, chief medical officer, mental health and addiction services at Cornell Scott-Hill.

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Health Populi

JULY 5, 2021

On the downside, lack of access to digital tools and literacies can increase disparities among people already at-risk for other social determinants of health. The authors lay out several dimensions of digital literacy and access, including: Skills.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2023

I’ve thought about Valencell as a sort of “Intel-inside” many other fitness and wearable technology products over the years I’ve been tracking digital health tools.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 26, 2023

Here is a snippet of how I explained the Accenture research here in Health Populi when it was published: “Making healthcare more human begins with a step in the patient’s shoes,” Rich Birhanzel wrote in Accenture’s Humanizing Healthcare blog in July 2021.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2022

This is important as larger companies may have more natural or obvious scale to take on SDoH programs and smaller firms may need some proof points and support to engage in and commit to health equity programs. To develop health equity impact assessment tools for projects, and.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 6, 2021

key detractors from good performance on these measures include: Lack of universal access to care for all Americans (the Fund points out that 30 mm people in the U.S. Less adequate primary care “backbone” with large gaps in PCP coverage throughout the United States. bn for on-demand care by July 1st, 2021.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 31, 2018

In 2016 at CES, I spoke with Ranndy about the company’s project #GoingforZero, a public health education campaign aiming for “zero” incidence of stroke. Physicians are loathe to recommend or prescribe consumer-facing digital health apps and devices that haven’t been proven out with hard data in real people.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

health citizens face physical, financial, and mental health challenges of a syndemic, inflation, and stress – all of which will shape peoples’ demand side for health care and digital technology, and a supply side of providers challenged by tech-enabled organizations with design and data chops. Which virus is it?”

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Health Populi

JANUARY 7, 2019

At CES 2019, Asensei is expanding its connected coaching capabilities, which I’m keen on: we’re seeing more of this remote coaching tool coming from a variety of places, like Peloton which is now equipment-neutral for those consumers who want the Peloton experience without the $X,000 pricetag. Limiting alcohol consumption.

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American Well

JULY 13, 2020

To meet this surge in demand, Cleveland Clinic leveraged both its providers who were already active on the platform, and also trained more than 350 primary care providers — many of whom were temporarily redeployed due to the virus — on telehealth. ?During Indiana University Health. Baptist Health South Florida.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 14, 2020

Of those using telehealth, the majority (68 percent) used it to provide mental health services; fewer used it for primary care (30 percent) or management of chronic conditions (21 percent), suggesting that most CHCs with telehealth capabilities prior to COVID-19 were not using it for the most frequent types of services provided at CHCs.

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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. Reducing associated provider, payer and patient costs in value-based care arrangements. This year is likely to be another big one for telemedicine.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JANUARY 29, 2023

The provider may also perform a physical examination, if necessary, remotely using digital tools such as a stethoscope or otoscope that the patient can use from their homes, for example. It is beneficial for conditions that can be effectively managed remotely, such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and mental health issues.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2020

This funding record (“already” before year-end, tallied by the third quarter as Rock Health notes) was driven by “mega”-deals accelerated during the public health crisis of COVID-19. based digital health start-ups adding up $9.4 In the third quarter of 2020, some $4 billion was invested in U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2024

Oncology has major potential for digital transformation, yet the field has lagged behind others in adopting virtual care solutions. Cancer care is becoming more and more complex, and with this comes an increased demand for support services for patients, including symptom management, mental health care, and nutritional support.

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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. This will be driven by the growing recognition of the importance of mental health to overall well-being and productivity.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 13, 2023

This, among other policy shifts, has a direct impact on healthcare provider organizations and telemedicine companies delivering care virtually. On another front, telepsychiatry keeps gaining ground in the post-public health emergency landscape. How can telebehavioral health help? Of course, the list goes on and on.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 13, 2021

We’ve seen more financial and money-focused media bringing health care cost stories under their mastheads. So have investment banks, ratings agencies, and large financial services companies, as the pandemic has cast every industry’s eyes to public health and health spending.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The growing normal of loneliness and embrace of tele-mental health Mental health and medical bills will be inextricably linked for many people who will start the New Year with mashed up resolutions that bridge fiscal health with physical and behavioral health.

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