Connected Health Pulse

Hospital at Home: Prospects and Challenges, and Learnings from Best Buy Health

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The first graphic shown here illustrates the authors’ view on the digital evolution of HaH from delivery of care (migrating from in-person to fully virtual), telecomms (from telephone to embedded HIPAA-compliant video conferencing), and remote monitoring, moving from patient-reported data of vital signs to wearable sensors.

EHR

EHR HIPAA Digital Health Interoperability

Care coordination for older adults – still elusive, does tech help?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 26, 2023

One might wonder – how many of those discharges included transfer of the electronic medical record data that collected in the hospital? And how many discharges from post-acute facilities to home care might transfer data in a usable way? category tags: healthcare , home health care , Home Care , tech-enabled home care

Exchanging, Managing, and Meaningfully Using Health Data in 2024

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 23, 2024

The following is a guest article by Jolie Ritzo, VP of Strategy and Network Engagement at Civitas Networks for Health Health data management in 2024 is both intricate and complex. Here are some of the most exciting and challenging aspects of both exchanging and using comprehensive health data this year and ahead.

Meaningful Use

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No surprise: Data underpins care quality in senior living and home care

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 19, 2023

For too many years, high quality data about care of seniors has been elusive. The merger and acquisition of companies in other industries ultimately results in consolidation of data. Platforms matter—they enable data standardization which in turn fuels growth. Consider Optum’s acquisition of Amedisys home health business.

Health IT Investment: The Next Five Years

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

News Interoperability: Where it's headed, and where IT leaders will be investing Five CIOs, a COO and a CMIO chart a course for the complex demands of data exchange, and discuss. Region Tag: Global Edition Hide Collection: 0 Primary topic: Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) By Bill Siwicki | November 15, 2021.

Health IT

Health IT EMR Interoperability EHR

US Census: some older adults still lack computers and Internet access

Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 20, 2022

million households pulled from the 5-year census ( American Community Survey/ACS ) data? One might assume that post-Covid census data will show even higher penetration. That access became critical during the vaccine signup period right after the date of this census data collection cutoff. Attachment Size.

My Health, My Data – Thinking Consumers, Privacy and Self-Care at HIMSS 2023

Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

The Washington State legislature passed House Bill 1155, aka the My Health, My Data Act , last week. The My Health, My Data Act defines “consumer health data” as “personal information that is linked or reasonably linkable to a consumer and that identifies a consumer’s past, present, or future physical or mental health.” First, the law.

HIPAA

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Five examples of use of AI in the care of older adults

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 30, 2023

More systems will emerge that learn data patterns and algorithms to construct an interaction or respond appropriately. An example of AI-based marketing, Botco’s Instachat Builder enables fast deployment by automatically producing questions and answers from reams of data ingested as text or PDF. integrates ChatGPT into its care app. "

Remote care

Remote care Nursing HIPAA

How Twitter Revealed Consumer Health Care Trends in the Pandemic

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

For this report, Brandwatch utilized only English-language public Twitter data. And, many tags related to mental health became well-used, such as #MentalHealthMatters, #MentalHealthAwareness, #WellBeing, and #BellLetsTalk from the campaign addressing stigma.

Mental health

Mental health Telemedicine Telehealth Digital Health

Full coverage: HIMSS22 APAC Health Conference

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 29, 2022

Our reporters will be present to cover discussions on care, data and connectivity, as well as how Indonesia can learn from the lessons of other nations to advance its digital transformation in healthcare. Region Tag: ASIA Hide Collection: 0 Primary topic: Patient Engagement Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

HIE

HIE EMR Interoperability EHR

RTLS & AI: Solving the Riddle of Healthcare Inefficiency

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

How RTLS Works Most RTLS systems depend on a combination of tags, sensors, and software. Tags are attached to any vital assets that need to be tracked including equipment, supplies, devices, and even people. These tags come in a variety of sizes and will vary in range and data quality.

Nursing

Nursing Healthcare IT Health IT

Teaching an AI/ML/LLM should be a distinct PurposeOfUse

Healthcare Exchange Standards

OCTOBER 19, 2023

That is, that when data are being requested/downloaded for the intent of feeding to a Machine Learning; this action should be distinguished from a request for Treatment. This use-case would need the above ability to understand when a data request could result in the data being used for Machine Learning.

Test Interactions in a Production Environment

Healthcare Exchange Standards

OCTOBER 13, 2023

I covered how to include Test data in Production Environments using the HTEST tag. That article explained how data that is not real patient data, that is to say 'test' data, would be tagged with HTEST. This is a clear indication of what data in the Production Environment is test data vs not test data.

The Evolution of a Patient Ambassador – Learning from Stacy Hurt

Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2022

They are never seen in the same room at the same time, working as “Clark Kent and Superman” – tag-teaming with love, resilience, and faith. [To She spoke out to help others on how to fight for a PET scan, how to get your patient data when denied access, and how to advocate for yourself, among other self-taught and peer-to-peer honed skills.

Life Science

Life Science Leadership Pharmaceuticals Nursing

WSJ Asserts Women Own This Summer and That The Economy Proves It. But Health Care? Not So Much.

Health Populi

AUGUST 14, 2023

I’m sharing that image with you here in Health Populi to set the stage for, of course, a discussion of WSJ’s data points through a health/care lens. But for health care, Baby, we’ve got a long way to go. ” Here’s one of the ads featured in the campaign.

Public Health

Public Health Health Policy

Technology is radically improving care for veterans

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 23, 2020

To this end, VA developed Veterans Signals (VSignals), a digital platform to collect feedback from Veterans, eligible dependents, caregivers, and survivors. In today’s digital world, data analytics and machine learning are some of the biggest drivers of innovation, especially within the healthcare industry.

EMR

EMR EHR Connected Health Telehealth

Consider the potential for wearables and older adults

Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Many of the offerings now include voice interfaces and some have introduced AI features to collect behavior data about the wearer which Gartner refers to a category adjacent to Internet of Things (IoT) which it calls the Internet of Behavior (IoB). category tags: wearables, smart watch , digital health , games, fun and fitness.

Digital Health

Ten Technologies for Aging and Health from CES 2024

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2024

This device scans a person's face, including the blood vessels beneath the skin, and based on the collected data, identifies signs of dozens of diseases. Machine learning algorithms use this data to analyze over 100 health parameters. Learn more. NuraLogix Magic Mirror. Anura MagicMirror is a desktop device with a 21.5-inch

Digital Health

NeuroFlow Picks Up Steam With New Growth Funding

Digital Health Wire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

The press release definitely leaned into the “unlabeled round” theme, offering neither a Series title nor a dollar value, although it did tag the funding for growing NeuroFlow “to match the increase in demand for its solutions” among health systems, payors, and government agencies.

Digital Health

Digital Health Mental health EHR

Five technologies for older adults – 2023 wrap-up (2 of 2)

Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 21, 2023

OneStep’s technology works from any smartphone, capturing ongoing gait and mobility data that helps establish baselines and longitudinal patient data. OneStep's clinician app collects key gait measurements during a simple 30-second walk, without any extra wearables or equipment." Learn more at OneStep.

HIPAA

HIPAA Medicare Digital Health Telehealth

Full coverage: HIMSS23 APAC Health Conference

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Region Tag: ASIA Hide Collection: 0 Primary topic: Analytics Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

EMR

EMR HIE FHIR Mental health

Five conclusions from AI and the Future of Care Work

Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Over the next few years, care organizations will make more disciplined use of their own data that an AI technology such as a chatbot can access or present to a caregiver. The care continuum will become a data-driven reality for just-right care. Avatars are emerging built on health protocols and voluminous data sets.

Nursing

Nursing Medicare

So Many Records, So Little Time: How to Manage Burgeoning Health Plan Requests

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

And requests for patient data are predicted to intensify as health plans work to reduce per-member/per-month costs, earn higher STAR ratings, and meet the CMS 2030 value-based care goals. Furthermore, the 21 st Century Act opens the door for greater availability to clinical data among patients, providers, and other requesters such as payers.

Life Science

Life Science Health Information EHR Leadership

Patient experience: new perspectives on person-focused care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 15, 2022

News Patient generated data can be a key factor in reducing health inequity Experts from IQVIA say increasing diversity of data sources improves access to care and exposes. Region Tag: Global Edition Hide Collection: 0 Primary topic: Patient Engagement By Bill Siwicki | April 28, 2022. By Kat Jercich | April 20, 2022.

Patient Experience

Patient Experience Telehealth Connected Health Telemedicine

Telehealth and community broadband, in sickness and in health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

" Store-and-forward telehealth is collecting medical data, digital images, etc. A telehealth company can schedule a time to come to your house for lab work that they collect and take to the lab on Tuesday. Region Tag: Global Edition. and sending it electronically to another site for later evaluation.

Telehealth

Telehealth Public Health Mental health eHealth

Health IT implementation best practices

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 21, 2019

Collection. Collection. During December, we’ll interview thought leaders and experts to determine how data is redesigning the roles CEOs, CFOs, COOs and other execs play and take a business-first perspective on tactics such as cloud computing, telehealth, patient experience and innovation labs. Collection.

Health IT

Health IT Patient Experience Telehealth Healthcare Innovation

How health IT's leading innovators are using AI now, and where they see it going

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

By Bill Siwicki | September 27, 2023 News AI-enabled efficiencies can improve patient outcomes and reduce clinician burnout "By prioritizing healthy data management practices through the deployment of AI, IT leaders. Region Tag: Global Edition Hide Collection: 0 Primary topic: Patient Engagement The process.

Health IT

Health IT EHR Nursing EMR

Health systems are notching big wins with their IT investments

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

By Bill Siwicki | July 25, 2023 News AI helps Mount Sinai organize and unlock largely untapped surgical data The New York hospital's vice chairman of urology and robotics operations explains how a new.

EHR

EHR EMR Telehealth Nursing

Isn’t It Eyeconic? Vision Care in the Evolving Health Care Ecosystem

Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

There’s a new data continuum with a shift in the relationship between the deliverers of services and their buyers. That data powers new relationships and programs, Marc explained. Marc then presented an intriguing, if disturbing (to me), bar chart of “the future value of your data.” Globally, that calculated to a value of $2.36

HIPAA

HIPAA Medical Billing Leadership Public Health

NTIA hands over $45B to state broadband offices

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 30, 2023

Not just speed for the individual, but blazing fast as an infrastructure moving terabytes of data for thousands of people at a time. I submit that telehealth collectively is a "killer app" for broadband in this third decade of the 21st Century.

Telehealth

Telehealth Hospital IT

Key trends expected to shape Pain Management and Adherence markets in 2024 and beyond

Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Technological advancements: New technologies offer more personalised, data-driven, and effective pain management strategies. Wearables & Biosensors: Continuous pain monitoring and data collection for personalized treatment plans. Telehealth: Remote consultations and monitoring for improved accessibility and convenience.

Pain management

Pain management Mental health Telehealth healthcare technology

Riding the digital wave through COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 24, 2020

During the pandemic some data sharing restrictions were relaxed. These included data from the RCGP research and surveillance centre which saw the number of participating practices double. Other programmes, including Public Health England’s COVID-19 Observatory, were also able to collect and analyse coronavirus data.

Primary Care

Primary Care Telecare Mental health Interoperability

Has telehealth hit the high watermark?

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 4, 2020

Its competitor American Well has raised nearly $ 200 million to keep up with the "skyrocketing" demand for telemedicine, and Doctor on Demand collected $75 million for meeting the increased demand for its platform and services. Region Tag: Global Edition Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Has telehealth hit the high watermark?

Telehealth

Telehealth Telemedicine Digital Health Remote care

@MightyCasey gets piped in at Cochrane in Edinburgh

Society for Participatory Medicine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

For updates, follow Casey’s tweets on the #CochraneForAll hashtag – tweets by her and tweets tagging her. Systematic Reviews in an Age of Open Data’ ” The workshop will explore the meaning of “Informed Consent” and its implication for reusing human subject open data from and for biomedical research.

Interoperability

Ambulatory surgery center's virtual care platform helps boost productivity and patient satisfaction

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 23, 2022

To help meet this goal, the ambulatory surgery center contracted with health IT vendor Force Therapeutics, which offers a digital care management platform that leverages clinical data and custom protocols to educate patients and monitor their progress throughout an episode of care. " RESULTS.

Nursing

Nursing Patient Experience Pain management Remote care

How to Improve Customer Experience in Healthcare with AI

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 16, 2023

In practice, this means roadblocking talent attrition, ensuring a simpler CX throughout the healthcare lifecycle, and adopting data-driven, AI/ML-powered solutions for prediction, personalization, triage, sentiment analysis, and other use cases. Do you have enough high-quality data to train models for this use case?

Leadership

Leadership Patient Experience Healthcare IT Health IT

My ABCovid-19 Journal, Day 2 – Letters “F” through “J”

Health Populi

AUGUST 10, 2020

Colin scheduled time with me to discuss how I came to do what I do, and in the long and winding road of a story, I picked up this journal to show him how I spent time early in the pandemic organizing my thoughts and feelings and data in the #GreatLockdown. “H” is for hand-washing.

Public Health

Public Health Leadership Life Science Nursing

Six new technologies for older adults – July 2019

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 10, 2019

We use discreet monitors to collect data on the daily activities of your loved one. We monitor health data, activity data, medication data, and cognitive data for a complete picture of how your loved one is doing around the clock – without interrupting their activities of daily living or intruding upon their privacy.

HIPAA

HIPAA Nursing Health Data

2019: Healthcare IT gains new ground

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Collection. Collection. And providers need to collect every penny owed them and combat revenue leakage. Collection. Collection. To survive in this fraught new era, healthcare organizations need agile, adaptable and forward-thinking strategies to safeguard their most important asset: data. Collection.

Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT EHR Meaningful Use Interoperability

Can wearables help you be healthier and safer?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 22, 2019

You may collect your own data for your own tracking and use. For those who see a wearable in a health context, they may be disappointed to know that their doctor doesn’t seem to care or know what to do with your heart rhythm data. category tags: wearables, smart watch , Mobile PERS. Smart clothing.

Ten technology offerings for older adults from CES 2021

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 13, 2021

iCardioGuard detects heart rate and respiration in three seconds, records the measurements and transmits the collected data to a mobile device by Bluetooth. category tags: CES 2021 , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , Mobile PERS , hearing loss , hearables/hearing technology. Learn more at CarePredict. iCardioGuard.

HIPAA

HIPAA Nursing Telehealth

Three Ways Enterprise Visibility and Automation Benefit Staff and the Patient Experience

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The IoT technology and location sensors behind RTLS feature active-radio frequency identification (RFID) badges and tags to offer immediate enterprise visibility into the precise location of equipment, colleagues, or patients, while increasing workflow efficiencies.

Patient Experience

Patient Experience Leadership Nursing Healthcare Innovation

We are the guinea pigs in cars and online

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 15, 2018

According to the Wall Street Journal article, Tesla promised to release safety data on its self-driving tech regularly starting next quarter, though they have not said what sort of data and what could be gleaned from it -- perhaps in advance of another series (see link) of crashes. Despite media exposure, Facebook is opaque.

mHealth

mHealth Digital Health Interoperability Telehealth

Miss one of these? Six aging and health tech blog posts from April and May

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 26, 2022

Scanning through the collection of blog posts from April and May, the obvious has finally occurred. million households pulled from the 5-year census ( American Community Survey/ACS ) data? One might assume that post-Covid census data will be even more significant. When it comes to people, the US Census has all the data.

Telehealth

Telehealth Nursing Medicare Patient Experience

Hospital at Home: Prospects and Challenges, and Learnings from Best Buy Health

Care coordination for older adults – still elusive, does tech help?

Trending Sources

Exchanging, Managing, and Meaningfully Using Health Data in 2024

No surprise: Data underpins care quality in senior living and home care

Health IT Investment: The Next Five Years

US Census: some older adults still lack computers and Internet access

My Health, My Data – Thinking Consumers, Privacy and Self-Care at HIMSS 2023

Five examples of use of AI in the care of older adults

How Twitter Revealed Consumer Health Care Trends in the Pandemic

Full coverage: HIMSS22 APAC Health Conference

RTLS & AI: Solving the Riddle of Healthcare Inefficiency

Teaching an AI/ML/LLM should be a distinct PurposeOfUse

Test Interactions in a Production Environment

The Evolution of a Patient Ambassador – Learning from Stacy Hurt

WSJ Asserts Women Own This Summer and That The Economy Proves It. But Health Care? Not So Much.

Technology is radically improving care for veterans

Consider the potential for wearables and older adults

Ten Technologies for Aging and Health from CES 2024

NeuroFlow Picks Up Steam With New Growth Funding

Five technologies for older adults – 2023 wrap-up (2 of 2)

Full coverage: HIMSS23 APAC Health Conference

Five conclusions from AI and the Future of Care Work

So Many Records, So Little Time: How to Manage Burgeoning Health Plan Requests

Patient experience: new perspectives on person-focused care

Telehealth and community broadband, in sickness and in health

Health IT implementation best practices

How health IT's leading innovators are using AI now, and where they see it going

Health systems are notching big wins with their IT investments

Isn’t It Eyeconic? Vision Care in the Evolving Health Care Ecosystem

NTIA hands over $45B to state broadband offices

Key trends expected to shape Pain Management and Adherence markets in 2024 and beyond

Riding the digital wave through COVID-19

Has telehealth hit the high watermark?

@MightyCasey gets piped in at Cochrane in Edinburgh

Ambulatory surgery center's virtual care platform helps boost productivity and patient satisfaction

How to Improve Customer Experience in Healthcare with AI

My ABCovid-19 Journal, Day 2 – Letters “F” through “J”

Six new technologies for older adults – July 2019

2019: Healthcare IT gains new ground

Can wearables help you be healthier and safer?

Ten technology offerings for older adults from CES 2021

Three Ways Enterprise Visibility and Automation Benefit Staff and the Patient Experience

We are the guinea pigs in cars and online

Miss one of these? Six aging and health tech blog posts from April and May

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