Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Mental Health Integration : With approximately 1 in 5 adults in the U.S. experiencing mental illness each year, integrating mental health into chronic disease management is a public health imperative. Optimized Care Coordination: Enhancing communication tools and collaborative strategies for better patient outcomes.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2021

This ambivalence will flavor how health citizens will adopt and adapt to the growing digitization of health care, and challenge the healthcare ecosystem’s assumption that patients and caregivers will universally, uniformly engage with medical tools and apps and technologies. Mental health nearly doubling to 25%.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

What a difference a pandemic can make in accelerating patients’ adoption of digital health tools. health consumers’ growing digital health “muscles” in the form of demand and confidence in using virtual care. This survey was conducted in mid-September 2020, and so the results demonstrate U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Every passenger traveling to the country is compelled to fill out the details in this form, which includes the flight number, seat location, and arrival date, along with a mobile phone number and local address in Belgium where one was staying (especially key for potential quarantine needs).

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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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Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Digital health as a category has been a growing feature at CES for over a decade, starting with the early wearable tech era of Fitbit, Nike, OMRON and UnderArmour, early exhibitors at CES representing the category. This is an actual intersection of the Internet of Things for Health — a new riff on mobile health/care, literally!

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

I covered the event here in Health Populi, as I have for most of the past decade, highlighting the growth of digital health and, this year, the expanding Internet of Healthy Things called-out by Dr. Joseph Kvedar in 2015. Most people using at-home connected exercise equipment also foresee doing so after the coronavirus fades.

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Digital Health Global

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

In this context, digital health emerges as a catalyst for revolutionizing healthcare delivery. Digital health encompasses electronic health (eHealth) and mobile health (mHealth), which leverage electronic platforms and mobile technologies, including wearable devices and apps, to provide health information and services.

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Health Populi

JUNE 11, 2020

Finally, as we’ve seen hockey-stick growth of telehealth in the pandemic used by health consumers who sought to avoid in-person visits to doctor’s offices or hospital clinics, one in five people were also using a mobile health monitoring device or app. Health Populi’s Hot Points: U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Brain Games by Posit Science, among other apps and tools. With the home as health hub, a phenomenon reinforced by the public health crisis, Best Buy Health’s (BBH) 2018 vision is meeting the moment, like the old Wayne Gretzky metaphor of knowing where the hockey puck would go and being there to meet it.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

I discussed that important public health/economic challenge here in Health Populi from a RAND report.]. That’s one barrier overcome to get smartphone health apps into the hands of people dealing with the many tasks involved with managing chronic disease. which 1 in 2 U.S. adults over 55 manage. [I

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2020

The 21st Century Cures Act emphasizes patients’ control of personal health information. ONC rules issues in March 2020 called for more patient-facing health tools and apps to bolster health consumer engagement and empowerment. Digital literacy combines with health literacy to bolster patient engagement.

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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

JUNE 16, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: One of the fastest-growing areas of digital health that grew in the COVID-19 pandemic was use of smartphones for health and fitness. consumers’ smartphone use for managing health grew by 50% during the public health crisis. Deloitte found that U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 12, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: One of the most intriguing findings to me was that one-third of the digital health companies were developing solutions targeted to health care consumers. and intriguingly, “Health care professionals seem most excited about adopting consumer technologies that we already use.”

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Health Populi

MARCH 5, 2018

At #HIMSS18, we will see the usual health IT suspects in the mix this year with newer entrants who are opening up health data to better flow and liquidity across data siloes. Orbita builds Alexa tools over Amazon, and Apple, like Amazon, is a beloved, trusted consumer-facing brand. 46% of U.S. In fact, as many U.S.

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The Digital Health Corner

JANUARY 30, 2017

Cognitive Assessment Tools. Most tools for assessing cognitive abilities have been of the traditional written form, as offered by the Alzheimer’s Association. The ability of digital tools to detect early diagnosis of Ad is important in medical and social planning for the patient and family. Cognitive Improvement tools.

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Continue Education Journal

JUNE 12, 2019

Keeping track of the different licenses can be a headache, but there are great tools out there, such as CE App , which can help practitioners easily manage their multiple licenses. . For example, a Massachusetts-based physician can only consult patients in Massachusetts unless she is also medically licensed in other states.

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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. In this growing era of healthcare collaboration, Omron worked with AliveCor on the BP/EKG technology; here’s more detail on AliveCor’s website here.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 15, 2023

Ryan Health is a federally qualified health center based in Manhattan that has been providing comprehensive and affordable primary and specialty care to New York’s diverse and underserved communities since 1967. As an FQHC, 75% of patients are enrolled in Medicaid or Medicare; another 7% are uninsured.

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The Digital Health Corner

JANUARY 19, 2017

After a hiatus I am returning to my beloved Digital Health Corner. In a previous post I discussed important public health issues that digital technology can address. Giving patients tools to support them in their journey of recovery is imperative. It has spawned interest in telehealth as a treatment tool.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Promoting preventive care and population health: Patient portals can be used to promote preventive care and population health. Public health officials can also use patient portals to send targeted messages to patients about important health issues.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 4, 2023

Remote health monitoring helps deliver patient care outside the hospital setting and is especially beneficial during public health emergencies, such as the current health emergency. What Are the Benefits of Remote Health Monitoring? Which Technologies Are Available for Remote Health Monitoring?

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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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Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2021

” Calm is but one of a growing portfolio of tools that health citizens can use to manage anxiety and stress, get to sleep (and stay sleeping), and bolster mental well-being. Then there was that company logo strategically placed at the lower left corner of the screen, as in “Brought to you by Calm.”

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2020

This is significant for medical care, addressing the public health challenge of AFib, atrial fibrillation, which is a risk factor for increased risk of stroke and heart failure. Your car as a third space for health. The home as health hub. Tech and things won’t be the barriers to improving health.

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Connected Health Initiative

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

We are at a tipping point for wider use of digital health tools because of the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Brian Scarpelli, senior global policy counsel, CHI. “As As this public health emergency illustrated, technology can assist providers in treating patients no matter their location.

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Redox

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

If you were to ask someone on the street what they consider the most impactful digital health innovation over the last five years, there’s a good chance their response would be, “telemedicine”. Store-and-forward (asynchronous) video conferencing: transmission of a recorded health history to a health practitioner, usually a specialist.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

The quickly evolving COVID-19 public health emergency has warranted the growing use of telehealth and non-invasive remote monitoring devices to facilitate patient monitoring while reducing patient and healthcare provider contact and possible exposure to the virus. It also provides medication adherence tools.

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Waracle

MAY 16, 2019

Digital health services and technologies comprise a wide range of categories including personalised medicine, telehealth, telemedicine, wearables, health information technology and mobile health (mHealth).

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Waracle

MAY 16, 2019

Digital health services and technologies comprise a wide range of categories including personalised medicine, telehealth, telemedicine, wearables, health information technology and mobile health (mHealth).

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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

JUNE 14, 2019

The health care section of Mary Meeker’s 334-page annual report, Internet Trends 2019 , comprises 24 of those pages (270 through 293). In health care, this is an underlying tectonic trend with implications for research, translation to therapies, individual treatment plans, population and public health.

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Waracle

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Mobile health – or mHealth – encompasses the provision of medicine and public health services through mobile devices, or as the WHO says more succinctly, “medical and public health practice supported by mobile devices, such as mobile phones, patient monitoring devices, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and other wireless devices.”

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