FierceHealthIT

OCTOBER 6, 2023

million in overpayments from Medicare Advantage in 2015 and 2016. | million in overpayments from Medicare Advantage in 2015 and 2016. A new federal audit estimates that Aetna may have received at least $25.5 A new federal audit estimates that Aetna may have received at least $25.5

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Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Founded in 2015, Malaysia-based corporate healthcare benefits and wellness management platform HealthMetrics last week announced it has raised a total of $5 million (approximately RM 20 million) as part of its Series A funding. The round was led by ACA Investments, an investment firm from Japan and headquartered in Singapore.

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OCTOBER 21, 2024

Whakarongorau has been delivering free, government-funded, and round-the-clock national telehealth services across seven digital channels since 2015. It was announced that the government service will be an anchor tenant of IT giant Microsoft's upcoming hyper-scale cloud in New Zealand.

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Clocktree

JULY 25, 2019

The number of US physicians who list telemedicine as a skill doubled from 2015 to 2018, according to a recent study done by Doximity , a network of healthcare professionals. The study also reports significant growth in telemedicine patient visits, which increased annually by 261 percent between 2015 and 2017.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

For context, I re-visited a similar recent study on this topic, published in the November/December 2019 Annals of Family Medicine, looking at national trends in primary care visit use between 2008 and 2015. Note in the chart the emerging trend by 2015 of PCPs emailing with patients and offering after-hours appointments.

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Primary Care HIPAA Telehealth Health Policy 360

Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

The wireless health pioneer will take on the name of its 2015 acquisition Capsule Technologies.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Primary topic: Privacy & Security Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Universal Health Services hit with cyberattack; Anthem settles 2015 breach Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition Right Now:

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2025

Here is ECRI’s list of patient safety concerns a decade ago in 2015. Compare these with the top 10 safety concerns for 2025. Many more of these have to do with “technology” and devices (e.g., alarm hazards, med errors related to pounds vs. kilograms, mix-up of IV lines), noting several issues still plaguing the U.S.

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Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Verita Healthcare Group was founded in 2015 and has offices in Asia, Europe and the USA. The three digital health businesses acquired by the company are nBuddy, CelliHealth and Hanako.

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

million — it last raised money in 2015. Artis Ventures led the round, with additional participation from Strategic Partners, Dreamlt Ventures, 1812 Ventures, and Founder.org. This brings the company's funding up to $7.8

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Mobi Health News

AUGUST 26, 2020

A frequent partner of biopharmas and the FDA, it has raised $94 million from investors since its commercial launch in 2015.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Nurses are indeed priceless – illustrated, literally, by the 2015 sale at Christie’s auction house of Roy Lichtenstein’s 1964 painting of a nurse for $95.4 As a result, over 64,000 qualified nursing school applicants were turned away from colleges in 2016 according to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Twiage, founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York City, is an award-winning healthcare technology company providing communication workflows between EMS and hospital emergency departments, which allows real-time patient information to flow directly to hospital care teams while a patient is en route.

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Mobi Health News

JUNE 8, 2020

KTM is an insurance risk control company founded in May 2015 in Beijing, China and focuses on combining insurance expertise with information technology, big data and AI. The collaboration will see DocDoc offering its doctor discovery services to the policyholders of China’s top insurance companies on KTM’s platform.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Originally founded in 2015 as a result of joint venture between Mayo Clinic and Hillhouse Capital, China’s Huimei Healthcare announced last week that it had closed $30M in Series C funding, led by Qiming Ventures and WuXi AppTech.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 3, 2018

In fact a 2015 survey showed that more than half of millennials consulted online reviews when choosing a physician. In the quest to consumerize healthcare, online physician reviews are a popular attempt to return some agency and control to the healthcare consumer.

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 16, 2018

The company hopes to make it more obvious that devices running the wearable operating system are compatible with Apple devices as well, something which has been the case since 2015.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 17, 2022

So here are some snapshots of changes in the ACS data from 2015 to 2021: . As of July 2015, only 1% of the 65+ population owned a wearable device. The ACS does not spell out what type of wearable device -- but it includes smartwatches and fitness devices -- some barely in the market in 2015. Smartphone use. Non-internet users.

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Health Populi

MAY 5, 2019

adults experienced medical financial hardship between 2015 and 2017. The study analyzed data from the 2015-2017 National Health Interview Survey conducted by the CDC. And health citizens in these countries don’t know the concept of financial toxicity that has become a mainstream side effect in U.S. healthcare. 137 million U.S.

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 27, 2018

Iggbo — a Richmond, Virginia-based startup founded in 2015 known for its technology-enabled network for facilitating on-demand blood draws and medical testing — announced yesterday that it has changed its name to Workpath and secured $1.5 million in additional funding, according to a statement from company.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 4, 2018

WebMD, long the go-to for patients turning to the internet for an answer to mysterious symptoms, has launched a redesigned, rebuilt version of its symptom checker, originally launched in 2015. The company says 4 million people per month log on to use the tool.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Rock Health’s research has tracked peoples’ use of telemedicine, wearable technology, digital health tracking, and online health information since 2015, and the results this round show relative flattening of adoption across these various tools. consumers would be most willing to share their health data. with Apple.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 2, 2024

At the heart of RSTHC’s operational success is NextGen’s electronic health record (EHR) system, which Wilson describes as the “central nervous system” Since adopting the platform in 2015, RSTHC has utilized tools like population health analytics and AI-powered charting to enhance efficiency and reduce clinician burnout.

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Clocktree

JANUARY 23, 2018

Lister states that in 2015, people living in rural areas are four times more likely to die from an overdose than those living in the same area in 1999. Jamey Lister from US News wrote an article on the possibilities of using telehealth technology to help reach rural areas suffering from the opioid crisis.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Turns out, he has a long history of working with VMWare products that goes back to 2015 when he first ran a ransomware simulation in his organization. As part of the recent VMWorld virtual event, I had a chance to sit down and talk with Chris Frenz, CISO at Interfaith Medical. At the time, he […].

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

Roy and I discussed Philips’ journey to this moment, starting in 2015—that doubling-down to becoming a health-tech company, a vision of digital health on both the hospital/professional and consumer sides of the equation. equipment and hardware). At that point, the company left behind other businesses not core to health.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Since 2015, Whirlpool has donated to 82 schools in 18 cities, impacting about 38,000 young students, according to company statistics. I saw this sign, talked with the Whirlpool team about “care,” and referred to this theme in my write-up of CES here on Health Populi in January 2015.

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 21, 2024

Founded in 2015, Tempus says it’s built the world’s largest library of clinical and molecular data along with an operating system to make those data accessible and useful for providers to inform patient care. Three years after talks of an IPO surfaced, health tech company Tempus AI lit the fuse and is looking to go public this year.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

consumers owning digital health tech compared with 33% in 2015, according to research discussed in Supporting Today’s Connected Consumer from Parks Associates. broadband households in 2020 from 17% in 2015. Smart appliances, increasing to at least one per broadband household from 33% of homes in 2015 to 42% in 2020.

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Health Populi

JULY 22, 2021

Once upon a time in 2015, exercise and fitness comprised nearly one-half of the digital health categories. Today, one-half of the categories speak to more “medical”/clinical areas that are disease specific, addressing women’s health, medication adherence, and healthcare administration workflows.

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Electronic Health Reporter

OCTOBER 16, 2018

trillion by 2020, up from $7 trillion in 2015. Healthcare is a major expense worldwide and is estimated to account for $3 trillion in spending in the United States, and $6 trillion globally. Combined healthcare spending in the five major world regions is expected to reach 8.7 Global healthcare spending is […].

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Health Populi

APRIL 29, 2019

This isn’t a new-new finding: even families earning over $90,000 a year cited health care costs as their #1 pocketbook issue, a Kaiser Family Foundation study learned in 2015.

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Electronic Health Reporter

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Back in 2015, we created a post on cloud usage in healthcare, where we researched this topic and predicted that we will see the growth of this industry. This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Michael Dunlop Cloud technology application in healthcare is not new.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MAY 20, 2019

Core Data for Interoperability1, mandated by the 2015 21st Century Cure Act2, calls for the identification and refinement of a basic set of clinical data to be required for all electronic health records. This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited.

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Health Populi

JUNE 17, 2022

McKinsey polled 10,000 consumers between 2015 and 2022 to gauge consumers’ behaviors with ice cream and yogurt. But China, at the lower end of per capita consumption, has an ice cream market value approaching the U.S. multi-billion dollar size — driven by population.

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Health Populi

JULY 16, 2019

million in 2015 to 83.4 There’s a continuum of care that we all age into… eventually. For older people, by 2030, the number of folks in the U.S. dealing with at least three chronic conditions will grow from 30.8 million in 2030 as the number of people 65 and over will double from 35 million to 74 million “olders.”

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Health Populi

JUNE 1, 2021

While Apple product purchases in 2015 were. The older adult consumer segment for Apple Watch adoption has the greatest growth, increasing 15% in 2019. Now women AND men are acquiring Apple watches. Initially it was a guy-thing – an Apple. Watch was perceived to make one look cool. purchased by women. greatest growth, up 15% in 2019.

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