Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

If health is nurtured and made where we live, work, play pray, learn, and shop, the healthcare should be everywhere. We are in the middle of Telehealth Awareness Week , an advocacy program launched by the ATA (American Telemedicine Association) whose mission I share — that #TelehealthIsHealth. Ten years later (ten years!),

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

.” This ethos was called out at the recent COP26 UN Climate Conference which resulted in a portfolio of health care initiatives for providers, globally, to address climate change as a macro determinant of health. Thanks to James, Nino, and the imaginations of designers in and beyond health/care, we are getting there.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 23, 2021

“It is rare in health care that you can hit the trifecta of excellent outcomes, better patient and family satisfaction, and do it at a lower cost. And that's what we're finding out is happening with Advanced Care at Home,” says @GFarrugiaMD @MayoClinic. A: Yeah, I really do. — John Halamka, M.D.,

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Iris Telehealth

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Let’s take a look at how to define quality management, the benefits of quality management, and quality initiatives your organization can put into action. We can think we’re doing a good job (or not), and we can look at the qualitative evidence, which is important and should not be discounted.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 7, 2024

THE LARGER TREND Epic initially announced that it would integrate Nuance's AI-powered voice and language virtual assistant to streamline clinical workflows about six years ago. In June 2023, Epic and Nuance expanded the integration to include GPT4-powered ambient documentation.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 22, 2023

But what are they? and do we need to pay attention to them? As the industry gets ready to descend on Nashville for ViVE2023, we thought it would be helpful to get a primer on QHINs and discuss their potential impact. Here is what he had to say. The main reason is TEFCA is a nationally endorsed initiative.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

What were the design methodology approaches taken by the technology team during the COVID-19 crisis? We provide asynchronous and synchronous programs to the Mass General Brigham organization through: virtual visits, inpatient virtual care, eConsults, eVisits, virtual consults, second opinions and remote patient monitoring.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 3, 2021

So what has the healthcare industry learned about telehealth usage over the past year, and how can it use those learnings to deliver more accessible and high-quality healthcare for all? Q: In your experience, what was telehealth adoption like over the past 12 months? Please elaborate on what this tells you.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 20, 2023

But what's next for virtual care? And what about the blossoming trend of virtual-first hybrid care? Why do you feel virtual-first makes sense? Even without the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual-first is the logical initial step for all nonemergency medical issues. Thus, we've reached a tipping point.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 15, 2024

For the 66th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are talking to Sergio Melgar, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at UMass Memorial Health (UMMH) about his organization’s recent achievement of Epic Gold Star Level 10! First, we get into why Melgar decided to go for this incredible achievement.

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Health Populi

MAY 11, 2021

The activities people are most excited to do once vaccinated with full immunity are to see family and friends (among 60% of people), dining out and traveling. Twenty-nine percent of Americans said they had mixed feelings about getting vaccinated, but decided doing so was, “the best/right thing to do.”

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Iris Telehealth

JANUARY 15, 2024

Iris clinicians are at the heart of what makes our organization such a special place to work. That’s why we’re turning the spotlight on the amazing work they’re doing every day. I located Iris and thought, “Telehealth, I could do that. Then, I switched mid-pandemic to doing therapy full-time, and it was all by telephone.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 20, 2022

But what can provider organizations do to accelerate virtual care adoption? What are workflows that showcase the potential of hybrid care delivery – in-person encounters and virtual sessions – in the future of healthcare? How can telehealth be used as a patient engagement tool in inpatient settings?

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

It will not be long before the technology is capable of doing much more complex tasks like diagnosing patients. And if they do, what form will that regulation take? This is exactly the type of situation that Williamson and the Connected Health Initiative are seeking to avoid. Tell us what you think.

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Health Populi

MAY 30, 2022

In this post, I summarize some of the key issues we covered. We know the pandemic experience re-shaped consumers’ lives for work and play, school and fitness, food and safety perspectives. What is not commonly discussed is that medical bill problems are very common among people who have insurance and not only the uninsured.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2022

And now that it is being so robustly used across the country, the big question is: What's next? You predicted last year that in 2022 we'd see exciting advancements in remote patient monitoring and automation powered by the patients who need them most. It's a trend we've already started to see.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

We all set out with a list of resolutions, determined to become the best versions of ourselves. While we are still in this mindset, let’s talk about how we can also improve as health IT leaders. Aristotle believed that in order to become a virtuous person, you must do virtuous things.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2021

Robert Bart, who has served as the chief medical information officer at Pittsburgh-based UPMC since 2017 , spoke with Healthcare IT News about his to-do list during this busy past year and a half, and what he's eyeing in terms of clinical priorities as he looks toward the next year and beyond. What have been some of yours?

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 4, 2024

When I’ve talked to CIOs about what’s keeping them up at night, they almost universally answer: security. We hear all the headlines associated with ransomware and phishing attacks that I’m sure that many of us have forgotten how many data breaches are happening because of poorly secured mobile devices.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 24, 2022

With the huge initial swell in the use of virtual care in the rearview mirror, many industry experts – from health plans to big tech and practicing clinicians – are considering whether a doubling down on telehealth is just what the doctor ordered for the future of patient care. Do they offer ongoing training?

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 3, 2023

We don’t even have the time or word count to cover it all in this article, so instead we will be focusing on healthcare interoperability. What isn’t being talked about enough when it comes to sharing health data? So many topics to cover in healthcare but tragically so little time!

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Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2022

I first met Michelle when we were each advising a global digital sports company: she was engaged to provide input into the project’s behavior change methods, as she counsels companies designing coaching approaches for patient and consumer health. We began our conversation about The Joy Choice starting with its relationship to No Sweat.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

While we conversed via Zoom, Abner’s positive energy vibrated over the 5,600 miles between him in LA County and me in Brussels, Belgium – nine hours apart, but in the proverbial same room in the conversation. We live in [another] one now,” he said, but HIV/AIDS was more deadly. Abner grew up in Durham, North Carolina.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Please talk about the work you're doing. We're collaborating with Stanford Medicine, Intermountain Healthcare and other experts in studying what the exponential increase in telehealth use has meant for patient access, safety and health equity, especially for those with chronic conditions and other vulnerable populations.

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Iris Telehealth

AUGUST 7, 2023

Fortunately, they don’t have to do it alone. What evidence-based care looks like in a virtual environment Leveraging a telehealth solution can promote quality and evidence-based care by increasing the pool of specialty providers available to a CCBHC. At Iris Telehealth, we leverage a process called, The Iris Match.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 18, 2023

We caught up with them at their 2023 User Group Meeting (#NextGenUGM23) in Orlando Florida. Sides points to the use of AI to craft automated responses to patient inquiries as an example of over-hype: “I think there is a lot of attention being placed on doing simple things with AI technology – like using it to respond to patient emails.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 2, 2020

Healthcare IT News Executive Editor Mike Miliard and Senior Editor Kat Jercich join host Jonah Comstock to recap what went down at the American Telemedicine Association's virtual conference last week. After initial spike, telehealth visits are on the decline, report finds. This episode is brought to you by AmWell.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

We interviewed Guy Friedman, CEO and cofounder of SteadyMD, to discuss the Amazon Clinic venture, and what hospital and health system IT leaders need to know about telehealth companies like his as the demand for virtual care increases. What role does SteadyMD play in the Amazon Clinic offering?

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Health Populi

JULY 24, 2023

“As a trusted brand in the health and wellness space, we are thrilled to expand our efforts in helping our customers Live Well by offering free healthcare services to give them the care they need,” Allison Bentley, the Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives at GNC, explains in the company’s press release.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2024

What are our patients' digital literacy skill levels? How are we increasing our patients' digital literacy skills? What technical support do we currently provide patients?" If we build it, it doesn’t mean they will come. Do they have any? "Ask questions such as who has devices?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

So, many provider organizations scrambled and turned to what they could. MaineGeneral Health, a health system based in Augusta, Maine, had telemedicine technology in place at the beginning of the pandemic, but was impressed with what others were doing with Zoom and soon turned to the video technology. And it did the trick.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 1, 2021

We also know that utilization has gradually tapered off as patients have become somewhat more comfortable seeking in-person care – but that many individuals, having experienced the convenience of virtual services, are unwilling to give them up again. We launched our first fully integrated telehealth solution in the 2018-2019 timeframe.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2024

Although we were forced into fully remote operations with COVID-19, we have been making modifications along the way and have discovered how beneficial it can be to our organizations and our patients. To make further strides though, we have to understand where we’ve come from, where we are now, and how it is making an impact.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 1, 2023

NextGen announced several AI initiatives at their annual User Group Meeting, including the launch of their Ambient Assist product to help with clinical documentation. We are helping to meet quickly changing patient expectations faster than trying to build everything from scratch.” By partnering,” stated Dr. Murry. “We

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

In January 2020, before we knew how to spell “coronavirus,” millions of consumers were already “Amazon-Primed” for everyday life-flows and consumer behaviors. What a difference a public health crisis makes, accelerating digital health beyond fitness geeks, Quantified Self adherents, and smartwatch adopters.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

As we continue to shift healthcare into a more digital world, it’s important to have a reliable Cloud to back up and store all of the data and digital solutions. But how do you know which Cloud is the right one for your organization? “Since we made that decision a few years ago, we have never regretted making that decision.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

I’d seen ATA’s initial statement on the coronavirus published on March 3 2020, so I knew Ann was on this issue. It is clear that there’s no better use case for digital/tele/virtual health than what is unfolding right now. We sent our multi-stakeholder letter to U.S. Will this be the scenario in the U.S.?

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