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.

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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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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Last year, Humana hired Heather Cox in the new post of Chief Digital Health and Analytics Officer, reporting directly to Bruce Broussard, Humana’s CEO. You can read more about Broussard’s consumer-centric approach discussed at HIMSS 2015 here in Health Populi ). Thus began the reinvention of Humana from V 1.0

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Health Populi

MARCH 8, 2018

And it’s in personal health information: a medical record is valued 8 to 10 times the price of a credit card on the black market. Accenture studied the impact of medical and personal information theft, estimating an impact on one in 13 patients between 2015 and 2019.

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Health Populi

JUNE 1, 2018

I’ve mined Meeker’s report for several years here on Health Populi: 2017 – Digital healthcare at the inflection point, via Mary Meeker. 2015 – Musings with Mary Meeker on the digital/health nexus. 2011 – Meeker & Murphy on mobile – through the lens of health.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 30, 2023

a market-leading digital health and personalized care company, has acquired the assets of Trapollo LLC , a connected health, technical support, and device logistics provider that helps healthcare organizations care for patients at home. Cox Communications acquired Trapollo in 2015. Validic Inc. ,

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AMD Telemedicine

JANUARY 31, 2023

This article was originally published in July 2015 but was updated in January 2023. According to the Center for Connected Health Policy , many private insurers do not reimburse for nonreal-time consultations performed via telemedicine, and even Medicaid legislation varies on a state-by-state basis.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

This is not a new-new thing for the life insurer: I wrote about John Hancock’s initial foray into so-called “behavioral-based wellness” with Vitality here on Health Populi in April 2015. Note that was over 3 years ago, so this approach has been well-honed and -tested over time.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2024

And it’s good to remember, too, that value is in the eye of the beholder — in terms of the patient’s lens, I continue to hearken back to the seminal JAMA essay from October 2015, “Value-Based Payments Require Valuing What Matters to Patients.” [And yes, we’ve been talking about value-based care for over a decade!]

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Current Health, founded in 2015, is now used in at least a dozen U.S. health systems. with deep health care expertise. collaborating with digital health innovators to build out the platform (one example: Mayo Clinic and Dexcom , among others). The company has built a team in the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 3, 2018

An example of this is the employer-aimed Fitbit program, Fitbit Care , aiming to enable covered employees to change health behaviors and ultimately move the needle on costs and better health. This coverage line item is fast-growing, from the 27% low mark in 2015 of large companies covering telemedicine to 63% in 2017 and 74% in 2018.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2019

To accomplish such an audacious goal, one element must be added: that is the self-care and engagement of patients and consumers in their own health. A seminal article in JAMA from October 2015 was a lightbulb moment for my thinking on this — titled, Value-Based Payment Requires Valuing What Matters to Patients. .

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Society for Participatory Medicine

OCTOBER 5, 2018

17 in Boston, attached to the prestigious Connected Health conference. In 2015, Angela testified at a hearing of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. Register here. Our #SPM2018 series has more about the speakers and activities.).

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Chilmark Research

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Big on promises from industry on wearables, smartphone platforms, and connected health, to the tune of over half a billion dollars of VC investments in consumer-related healthcare companies. 2015: Much More to Come. 2015: Much More to Come. For better or for worse, 2014 was a big year for consumer engagement.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Every year, keeping eyes and ears wide open, I spot something adjacent or somehow influential on health or well-being. My favorite example of this discovery happened at CES in 2015: that would make it a decade ago.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

JULY 6, 2015

As an innovative healthcare organization, Ochsner, a large Louisiana- based health network with 12 hospitals, 40 clinicians and an a 1,000+ Physician Group Practice, is committed to helping consumers use mobile and wearable connected health tools for self- management and care collaboration. Apple Watch for Patient Pilot.

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Connected Health Initiative

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

With the right legal and policy backdrop, digital health tools will play a bigger and bigger role in healthcare. The Connected Health Initiative is continually looking for ways to ensure that patients and providers can use all the digital tools available to them. 31, 2022), available at [link].

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Digital Health Wire

MARCH 4, 2024

Patient data unification startup b.well Connected Health cut through last week’s tradeshow noise with $40M in Series C funding to advance its mission to solve healthcare’s fragmentation problem.

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Connected Health Initiative

JULY 14, 2021

New CHI Report Finds Digital Health Technologies Must Play a Critical Role in Shifting American Healthcare Away from Fee-For-Service and Toward More Equitable and Effective Care. Congress should modernize privacy and security frameworks to support the use of digital health tools in value-based care scenarios widely.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Kaiser Family Foundation reports that 2,390,097 people participated in Medicare within the South Central Telehealth region in 2015. Fact Sheet (Center for Connected Health Policy). Remote Patient Monitoring for Dialysis. The Henry J. Of this number, approximately 31% or 740,930 people were enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Editor’s Note: Healthcare organizations are increasingly looking to adopt telehealth programs, but they face a number of policy barriers that hinder their plans, according to the Center for Connected Health Policy. Payers are rapidly becoming educated and are keen on closing the gap.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

OCTOBER 16, 2016

In early 2015, D-H’s leadership team committed to create a truly patient-centric healthcare organization, which delivers high quality proactive personalized care to the patient beyond the hospital walls.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

JUNE 27, 2018

Some observers say there are ulterior motives – for instance see these 30 seconds of Yale cardiologist Harlan Krumholz at Connected Health 2016, on how a health system CEO told him flat out: “You don’t understand – why would we want to make it easy for people to get their health data?

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Connected Health Initiative

JULY 14, 2021

Evidence clearly shows that digital health technologies helped expand access to healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic and can address the massive toll chronic illnesses take on Americans and our healthcare system.

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care innovations

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In Fierce Healthcare’s report of the first telehealth study , which author Matt Kuhrt describes as a letter published in the latest Journal of the American Medical Association , researchers found a “ notable uptick in the use of telemedicine among primary care physicians between 2015 and 2017.”.

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mHealth Insight

DECEMBER 2, 2018

It’s interesting to note that this number is down 40% on the number in 2017 which itself was down 40% on 2016 (click here to view the events that were held in 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2 011 and 2010 ). The mHealth events that are happening are also now on the whole a lot smaller eg.

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care innovations

APRIL 25, 2018

million in telehealth claims per year “did not meet Medicare requirements,” the Office of Inspector General (OIG) at the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) has thrust new light upon America’s byzantine telemedicine reimbursement policies and the limitations they place on the expansion of value-based care.

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Digital Health Today

MARCH 4, 2020

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Chilmark Research

JANUARY 17, 2014

The final rule is expected to drop sometime in Q1-Q2 of 2015 – just one year away. In a few short weeks, the Health IT Policy Committee (HITPC) is set to deliver an official recommendation on the topic of Stage 3’s patient engagement requirements to the ONC. But that doesn’t mean there’s a year to put off thinking about it.

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Digital Health Today

MARCH 31, 2020

National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health. June 23, 2015. Digital Health Today would not be possible without our valuable partners. Rosalind Franklin , Encyclopaedia Britannica. Sexism in science: did Watson and Cobb really steal Rosalind Franklin’s data?” Matthew Cobb for The Guardian.

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Chilmark Research

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

We’ll look forward to tracking what was undeniably an exciting announcement today and continue our coverage when these devices actually enter the market in 2015. Or is this just more fodder for the hypemen who are taking over and bloating the digital health frontier? Did you watch the event, or at least try to watch it?

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Chilmark Research

JANUARY 14, 2015

conference last fall – It will be housed in the Walgreens app at some point in “early 2015.”. Second, Walgreens is working with Qualcomm in a similar fashion to link the usage of a specific set of devices (so far, two blood pressure cuffs and a blood glucose monitor) to members’ Balance Rewards account.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

MAY 19, 2016

Through focus group research (Spring 2015), Virtua learned: • Orthopedic patients need a lot of information to get ready for their surgery but are overwhelmed when inundated with too much at one time. Since launching the Wellbe platform in December 2015, Virtua JRI has enrolled 700 patients. Patient Engagement Results.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 8, 2018

It sells connected-health products like a fitness-tracking watch, and bathroom scales that send your weight and BMI to a smartphone for display on a line graph. he told Forbes. “In In the end I thought, ‘Yes, I will try.’” In terms of product line-up, little has changed at the Paris-based company since it joined the Nokia fold.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 16, 2022

From hospitals, to nursing homes, to individual homes, these devices offer efficient and accurate methods for tracking the progress of patient health. A 2015 study has found that intensive lifestyle intervention (ILI) can reduce the incidence of diabetes by 58% when accompanied by effective weight management measures.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

JANUARY 12, 2023

Ochsner O Bar Supports Patient's Digital Health needs In 2015, Ochsner Health launched its first Digital Medicine Program for Hypertension. Digital Medicine is a nationally recognized, clinically proven program revolutionizing how we treat chronic conditions combining digital tools and engagement with a dedicated care team.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

DECEMBER 3, 2015

In January 2015, Stanford Medicine launched ClickWell Care, a new type of Primary Care clinic which leverages technology to allow patients to virtually connect with their own Stanford primary care clinicians and wellness coaches via video or phone visits. We also want to expand the use of connected health devices.

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