2016, Digital Health and Patient Experience

Physicians More Bullish On the Benefits of Digital Tools for Patient Care, the AMA Tells Us

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Most doctors see the advantages of digital health tools like telehealth, consumers’ access to their health information, and point-of-care workflow solutions, the American Medical Association found in a survey of 1300 physicians, published in September 2022. Supports value-based care. Supports heath equity.

Digital Health

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Physicians Lean In to Digital Health, Especially Telehealth and Remote Monitoring

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

doctors are using digital health tools in patient care, with quickening adoption of telehealth and remote monitoring technology, according to a study from the American Medical Association (AMA). Readings are visible to patients and transmitted to the physician’s office.

Digital Health

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Think Quintuple Aim This Week at #HIMSS25

Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2025

As HIMSS 2025, the largest annual conference on health information and innovation meets up in Las Vegas this week, we can peek into what’s on the organization’s CEO’s mind leading up to the meeting in this conversation between Hal Wolf, CEO of HIMSS, and Gil Bashe, Managing Director of FINN Partners.

Digital Health

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Webinars

Bridging Innovation & Patient Care: The Growing Role of AI

What Your Financial Statements Are Telling You—And How to Listen!

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The Retail Health Battle Royale in the U.S. – A Week-Long Brainstorm, Day 1 of 5

Health Populi

JULY 25, 2022

At that time, six years ago — one in two people said that experience should feel like Amazon, and another 1 in 5 said the best retail store experience (THINK: Nordstrom, REI, name your fave retailer). The next chapter in HealthConsuming is called “Digital Health – Wearable, Shareable, Virtual.”

Digital Health

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Cost and Convenience Underpin Patient Demands As Health Consumers

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

We weren’t surprised to note that younger patients took advantage of retail clinics and other on-demand channels for health care, older people, too, have been willing to use sites other than doctor’s offices and hospital clinics to receive health care services.

Telehealth

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Why Elevance Health is “Prescribing” Phones for Members

Health Populi

JANUARY 19, 2024

Digitally enabled healthcare means building digital technologies into the fabric of our ecosystem to improve outcomes and enhance efficiency in day-to-day health and wellness.” This month, a paper on the digital determinants of health was published in PLOS Digital Health.

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Profitable Digital Health Platform Healthie Closes on $16M to Enable the Next Generation of Healthcare Delivery

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 26, 2022

Healthie, ( www.gethealthie.com ) an infrastructure platform for digital health companies, announced today it has raised $16M in an oversubscribed Series A led by Velvet Sea Ventures with participation from Greymatter Capital, Watershed, Builders VC and a customer syndicate. About Healthie.

Digital Health

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The Patient As Payor: Workers Covered by Employer Health Insurance Spend 11.5% of Household Incomes on Premiums and Deductibles

Health Populi

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Workers covered by health insurance through their companies spend 11.5% of their household income on health insurance premiums and deductibles based on The Commonwealth Fund’s latest report on employee health care costs, Trends in Employer Health Coverage, 2008-2018: Higher Costs for Workers and Their Families.

Medical Billing

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Parkview Health gets 70% of patients onto Epic portal, home of its telehealth programs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 25, 2023

Parkview Health System, based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, has incorporated its telemedicine programs into a larger digital health strategy aimed at meeting patients wherever they have a need for care. "Additionally, we used other key partners to drive some of the patient experiences," he continued.

Telehealth

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Digital Transformation Is The New Mantra But Can’t Happen Without Access To Connectivity

Health Populi

MARCH 5, 2019

In 2016, 56% of rural households across the OECD community had access to fixed broadband with a minimum speed of 30 Mbps, versus 85% of households in non-rural areas. Increased availability of health information, services and social networks online can also improve patient experiences. The digital divide in the U.S.

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University of Rochester serves rural patients, reduces ED burden with telebehavioral health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

The debut installment of the new Cleveland Clinic & HIMSS Patient Experience Digital Series debuts next Tuesday, November 10. Jennifer Richman, associate professor of psychiatry at University of Rochester Medical Center, and Michael Hasselberg, NP, senior director of digital Health at U of Rochester.

Mental health

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Peoples’ Lack of Trust in Science Also Extends to Views on Food and Nutrition

Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Peoples’ eroding trust in institutions, generally, is a global phenomenon, and in science is a concerning one — across the many aspects of human life science touches, from health to food to environment and education, and other venues. IFIC’s research tells us that most U.S. Stay tuned….

Life Science

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Healthcare’s Profits Will Be Dramatically Redistributed as Care Shifts to Consumers: Accenture

Health Populi

AUGUST 6, 2018

Compare the 2016 profit pools to those forecasted for 2026: in the current environment, the profit pools for PBMs, distributors, and payers fall ( colored in blue ). Rewards will accrue to the organizations that can scale such solutions. Over the same decade, see who wins?

Pharmaceuticals

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The American Hospital Association Looks at Retail and Tech Health Care Disruptors

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

What underpins and inspires the seven “new” entrants to disrupt health care is consumer expectations. The post The American Hospital Association Looks at Retail and Tech Health Care Disruptors appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. Can the provider partner with tech firms on data and research projects to improve care?

Primary Care

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Philips’ Future Health Index 2019 report focuses on the role digital health technology plays in improving both the clinician and patient experience

Lloyd Price

JUNE 11, 2019

Royal Philips, a global leader in health technology, today announced the publication of its Future Health Index (FHI) 2019 report: ‘Transforming healthcare experiences: Exploring the impact of digital health technology on healthcare professionals and patients’ [1]. The benefits are clear.

Health Technology

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A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Congress can’t agree on much before the 2024 summer recess, there’s one bipartisan stroke of political pens in Washington, DC, that could provide some satisfaction for both patients and doctors: bring telehealth back to patients and providers permanently. S 2016) and second, re-introduce and sign the Telehealth Modernization Act.

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Rob Shaw, former deputy CEO of NHS Digital joins Zesty as advisor

Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

They are a fast growing digital health company delivering real benefits to NHS Trusts with a reputation for product excellence and strong technical delivery. He was awarded the CBE for his services to Health and Social Care in 2018. Rob Shaw said “I’m delighted to join Zesty.

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Pharma Spending Gone Bipolar: Generics At One End, Specialty Drugs on the Other

Health Populi

APRIL 23, 2018

Prescription drug spending on branded products grew nearly $5 billion less than in 2016; generic drug spending fell by $5.5 a report from the IQVIA Institute for Health Data Science. “Growth slowed in 2016 and declined by $5.5 While the use of medicines continues to rise in the U.S., spending grew by only 0.6%

Pharmaceuticals

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Mend Celebrates 10 Millionth Virtual Care Appointment

Mend

MAY 18, 2023

Mend announced today that it has supported its 10 millionth virtual care appointment on its leading patient engagement and telehealth platform. Launched in 2016, the Mend platform has provided healthcare organizations with technology that enables the delivery of patient-centric care across many specialties including mental health.

Mental health

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A Smarter Home for Healthy Living at CES 2019….and a nod to Microsoft

Health Populi

JANUARY 17, 2019

Congressman and House of Representatives Majority Leader ( with whom I collaborated at CES in 2016 ); Morad Fareed, (another CES collaborator of mine on that Wizards of Maternal Health panel )’ and David Pogue, who leads Corporate Responsibility at CBRE Group, among many other experts.

Mental health

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Bonus Features – December 18, 2022 – Half of Americans avoiding hospitals due to staffing shortages, 62% of patients don’t trust health plan info when searching for providers, and much more

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 18, 2022

An ONC blog post described how the tool works: Developers answer questions about the type of health data the app will collect, the intended use of the app, and the type of entity developing the app to determine whether the app is subject to HIPAA, the information blocking rule, or other federal laws.

HIE

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Upfront Acquires PatientBond; Expands Capabilities for Market-Leading Personalized Patient Access and Engagement Platform

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Patient engagement and access platform Upfront announced today the acquisition of PatientBond , the leader in consumer science for healthcare, creating a single enterprise technology solution to drive patient acquisition and loyalty. Upfront’s pioneering technology ensures every patient completes necessary care.

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The outlook for healthcare in 2022

Waracle

JANUARY 5, 2022

It is a huge leap in digitising the patient experience to make it more efficient and accessible for everyone, wherever they are & at whatever time of day or night. . Wearables have been around for some time now, but the opportunities that they potentially bring to the patient experience are only getting more exciting. .

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Fresenius Connected Health: Improving Patient Care Through New Technology

Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 10, 2018

The new cycler with Connected Health technology delivers a well-balanced, improved feature-set to enhance the peritoneal dialysis patient experience. Digital health intervention during cardiac rehabilitation: a randomized controlled trial. Telemed J E Health 2016 May;22(5):395-9.

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Healthcare has never experienced anything like Amazon’s combination of logistics, voice AI expertise and data analytics. The impact could be huge.

Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Ever since the announcement last year that three of America’s biggest companies — Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase — had united, Voltron-style, to fight for lower healthcare costs and forge “a better patient experience” for their combined 1.2 The health care problem is the No.

Nursing

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Intelligent, On- Demand Healthcare Concierge Provides Personalized Patient Experience

Consumer eHealth Engagement

MAY 1, 2017

She first learned from her employer about the Accolade platform and health advisor service last summer. It wasn’t until she reached out with a simple question to her health assistant that Sarah experienced the true value of having a healthcare advisor on her side. Personalized Patient Experience.

Patient Experience

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A Matter of Trust, Perception, Risk, and Uncertainty – The Big Issues Raised by the Acquisition of PatientsLikeMe and Other Patient Data Transactions

Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

Yet the trust relationship with technology companies, even after the 2016 Cambridge Analytica event, is different and it’s clearly stronger than it is with health insurers. Should it be?

Pharmaceuticals

Pharmaceuticals HIPAA BioTech Patient Experience

What an eventual end to the PHE would mean for telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Adrienne Boissy, Qualtrics chief medical officer (and former Cleveland Clinic chief experience officer), notes that patients continue to rely on expanded digital access as mental health effects from the pandemic linger.

Telehealth

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Connected Health Pulse

Physicians More Bullish On the Benefits of Digital Tools for Patient Care, the AMA Tells Us

Physicians Lean In to Digital Health, Especially Telehealth and Remote Monitoring

Webinars

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Think Quintuple Aim This Week at #HIMSS25

Webinars

The Retail Health Battle Royale in the U.S. – A Week-Long Brainstorm, Day 1 of 5

Cost and Convenience Underpin Patient Demands As Health Consumers

Why Elevance Health is “Prescribing” Phones for Members

Profitable Digital Health Platform Healthie Closes on $16M to Enable the Next Generation of Healthcare Delivery

The Patient As Payor: Workers Covered by Employer Health Insurance Spend 11.5% of Household Incomes on Premiums and Deductibles

Parkview Health gets 70% of patients onto Epic portal, home of its telehealth programs

Digital Transformation Is The New Mantra But Can’t Happen Without Access To Connectivity

University of Rochester serves rural patients, reduces ED burden with telebehavioral health

Peoples’ Lack of Trust in Science Also Extends to Views on Food and Nutrition

Healthcare’s Profits Will Be Dramatically Redistributed as Care Shifts to Consumers: Accenture

The American Hospital Association Looks at Retail and Tech Health Care Disruptors

Philips’ Future Health Index 2019 report focuses on the role digital health technology plays in improving both the clinician and patient experience

A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

Rob Shaw, former deputy CEO of NHS Digital joins Zesty as advisor

Pharma Spending Gone Bipolar: Generics At One End, Specialty Drugs on the Other

Mend Celebrates 10 Millionth Virtual Care Appointment

A Smarter Home for Healthy Living at CES 2019….and a nod to Microsoft

Bonus Features – December 18, 2022 – Half of Americans avoiding hospitals due to staffing shortages, 62% of patients don’t trust health plan info when searching for providers, and much more

Upfront Acquires PatientBond; Expands Capabilities for Market-Leading Personalized Patient Access and Engagement Platform

The outlook for healthcare in 2022

Fresenius Connected Health: Improving Patient Care Through New Technology

Healthcare has never experienced anything like Amazon’s combination of logistics, voice AI expertise and data analytics. The impact could be huge.

Intelligent, On- Demand Healthcare Concierge Provides Personalized Patient Experience

A Matter of Trust, Perception, Risk, and Uncertainty – The Big Issues Raised by the Acquisition of PatientsLikeMe and Other Patient Data Transactions

What an eventual end to the PHE would mean for telehealth

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