IoT and The Rise of the Machines in Healthcare
Health Populi
AUGUST 12, 2021
By 2022, CTA projects that connected exercise equipment will reach sales of 2.5 million units with revenues of $4.5 billion.
Five Offerings from the Boston Connected Health Conference 2018
Aging in Place Technology Watch
OCTOBER 19, 2018
The Connected Health Conference is still a Health IT conference, owned by HIMSS, spruced up by pre-conference Voice Health summit , task forces , and even onstage singing by health tech folk that may wish they were in show business. ? Held each year – but has much changed? Learn more at Circulation.
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Heart-Love – Omron’s Holy Grail of Blood Pressure Tracking on the Wrist
Health Populi
JANUARY 31, 2018
That hasn’t yet been available to those of us who quantify our steps, weight, sleep, food intake, and other health metrics. In 2017, Hugh Langley wrote in Wareable that, “blood pressure is wearable tech’s next challenge.” Knowing your blood pressure is an important step for managing the risks of heart disease.
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The Promise of Digital Health and the Privacy Perils – HealthConsuming Explains, Part 4
Health Populi
MAY 2, 2019
As a WEGO Health poll of patient activists found in April 2019, patients continue to share this very intimate data, even in the wake of the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica story, growing cybersecurity breaches of medical data, and a challenging environment for trust and “fake news” for health care. mobile consumers.
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Telehealth is Health: It’s Telehealth Awareness Week
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
And the grocer is expanding its pharmacy footprint , having piloted tele-pharmacy back in 2017. The post Telehealth is Health: It’s Telehealth Awareness Week appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. You can even buy a pair of fitness sneakers in a co-located DSW shoe department located not far from the frozen food section.
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Why #CES2022 Will Be Keynoted By A Health Care Innovator for the First Time
Health Populi
DECEMBER 27, 2021
As cars grow more connected via Bluetooth like our TVs, autos morph into a third space for health, which I’ve considered here in Health Populi and in some of my futures work with clients.
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Fresenius Connected Health: Improving Patient Care Through New Technology
Lloyd Price
OCTOBER 10, 2018
Fresenius Medical Care North America (FMCNA) is adopting and supporting new Connected Health technologies that empower patients to monitor, collect, and share health and treatment data with their physicians and care providers. Connected Health and new technologies in health care don’t come without concerns and risks.
Telehealth and the CHRONIC Act of 2017 (S. 870)
South Central Telehealth Resource Center
OCTOBER 24, 2017
Senate on September 14, 2017. Fact Sheet (Center for Connected Health Policy). The post Telehealth and the CHRONIC Act of 2017 (S. The CHRONIC Act – Creating High-Quality Results and Outcomes Necessary to Improve Chronic Care Act – passed the U.S. The act, which is now being reviewed in the U.S.
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57 Consumer Trust, Privacy and Healthcare – Considering #HIMSS18 in the Stark Light of Facebook and Cambridge Analytica
Health Populi
MARCH 27, 2018
Will people connect dots between their Facebook lives – and their identities on social networks, generally – with their personal health information, privacy and security? Health information breaches are more highly valued by cyber-attackers as they are worth more than, say, consumers’ bank account or credit card identities.
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Why CES 2022 Will Be Keynoted by a Health Care Executive
Health Populi
OCTOBER 6, 2021
As cars grow more connected via Bluetooth like our TVs, autos morph into a third space for health, which I’ve considered here in Health Populi and in some of my futures work with clients.
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What If We Built a Consumer-Enchanting Health System in the Context of HLTH 2023? Building Blocks for the Scenario
Health Populi
OCTOBER 9, 2023
Marc Harrison, most recently CEO of Intermountain Health, to take on the CEO role for the launch of a new health services company: HATco, the Health Assurance Transformation Corporation. Nothing in health care happens overnight, and this concept has been hatching since 2017, GC’s press release explains.
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Consumers Changing the Channel on Where They Shop for Health
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 16, 2018
The two organizations have collaborated to launch a new benchmarking study into health-beauty-wellness (HBW) sales, launched this weekend at the GMDC HBW Conference in Orlando. Overall, 2017 to 2018 year-on-year, HBW sales were flat-to-no growth, notwithstanding the consumer and influencer buzz around the categories.
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Open Table for Health: Patients Are Online For Health Search and Physician Reviews
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 19, 2019
Rock Health analysts expect that wearable tech use will continue to grow with more use cases for remote health monitoring coupled with consumers and patients being incentivized to continue their use. Telehealth adoption also grew from 2017 to 2018. Live video use roughly doubled, from 19% in 2017 to 34% in 2018.
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Broadband As Social Determinant of Health – Microsoft’s Plan to Bolster Rural Access
Health Populi
DECEMBER 5, 2018
The Airband Initiative is working from Northwest Georgia to South Africa to bolster partnerships to connect agriculture, education, health, and other sectors in areas under-served by broadband. In 2017, Airband was working with 16 U.S. states; the program will expand to 25 states in 2019.
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Consumers’ Embrace of Digital Health Tech Stalls, and Privacy Concerns Prevail – Accenture’s 2020 Research
Health Populi
MARCH 10, 2020
In the extensive privacy discussion in my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen , I cited Deloitte’s 2017 Global Mobile Consumer Survey which described consumer privacy as “a concerned embrace of technology” (see page 14 within the report link).
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World Health Day 2019: Let’s Celebrate Food, Climate, Insurance Coverage and Connectivity
Health Populi
APRIL 7, 2019
Last week, The Lancet published its comprehensive study on the Health effects of dietary risks in 195 countries, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study. The study looked into the food intake among people in 195 countries and their health outcomes (mortality and morbibidity).
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A Health Future with Lyft and Uber as Patient Data Stewards: Rock Health’s 2019 Consumer Survey
Health Populi
OCTOBER 29, 2019
Among consumers willing to share health information, the most trusted touch point is “my physician,” with whom 86% of people said they’d share in 2017 but dropping to 73% in 2019.
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196 Most Health Consumers Expect Technology To Play a Larger Role As Tech-Angst & Privacy Concerns Grow
Health Populi
NOVEMBER 18, 2019
At the same time, 62% of consumers said they are “constantly connected online,” growing from 56% in 2014. With this insight, I continue to point to Deloitte’s noting our “concerned embrace of technology,” called out in their 2017 study on mobile technology.
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Why are older adults demeaned by the health and tech industry?
Aging in Place Technology Watch
JANUARY 23, 2020
Consider an upcoming HIMSS event in Orlando with the charming title: Monitoring Grandma: Adoption of Connected Health Tech by Seniors. Back to monitoring, connected health or otherwise. What is the point of sneering at older people? Because technology can be used for a purpose, inventors want to make it so.
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State Telehealth Laws And Reimbursement Policies: 2017 Report
BHM Healthcare Solutions
NOVEMBER 7, 2017
BHM offers services geared toward controlling expenses and integrating the behavioral health opportunities presented by measuring telehealth. An updated version of the fifth edition of the Center for Connected Health Policy’s (CCHP) State Telehealth Laws and Reimbursement Policies Report was released.
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The Digital Health Consumer According to Rock Health
Health Populi
AUGUST 27, 2018
Looking for health information online is just part of being a normal, mainstream health consumer, according to the third Rock Health Digital Health Consumer Adoption Survey published this week. By 2017, 8 in 10 U.S. adults were online health information hunters. adults; the poll was fielded in 2017.
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Trinity Health's RPM program drops 30-day readmissions rate from 16% to 6%
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 30, 2021
Trinity Health has 94 hospitals across 24 states. In 2017, the health system – which has 100 continuing care locations, including home care, hospice, PACE programs and senior living facilities – was in a bind, facing double-digit hospital readmissions of 16% across its high-risk Medicare population. THE PROBLEM.
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A Concerning Gap in Cybersecurity for Medical Technology
Health Populi
OCTOBER 31, 2018
There were over 400 major healthcare breaches reported between 2017 and 2018, accessing sensitive medical data, targeting patient medical equipment, and seeking to extort financial gain. October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (who knew?) and this Center demonstrates DHHS’s commitment to keeping U.S.
South Central Legislative/Regulatory Update – November 2017
South Central Telehealth Resource Center
NOVEMBER 27, 2017
The following is a list of legislative activities compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (AR, MS, and TN). The post South Central Legislative/Regulatory Update – November 2017 appeared first on LearnTelehealth. LEGISLATION.
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49 The Cost of a Healthcare Data Breach is $408 Per Stolen Record, 3X the Industry Average
Health Populi
JULY 15, 2018
Ponemon recognizes that certain industries have higher data breach costs: more heavily regulated sectors such as financial services and healthcare have greater exposure compared with public sector, research, retail, and hospitality. This 2018 report found the average cost of a data breach globally was $3.86 million, up 6.4%
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For older adults, the future of wearables is predictive
Aging in Place Technology Watch
APRIL 21, 2021
The new market sizing follows their prediction in 2017 that wearables will be the key to connected health monitoring , including this prescient observation that: “ the next wave of wearable health market growth will come from integrated systems that are able to sense danger signals.”.
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144 What the Latest Pew Consumer Data Means for #HIMSS18
Health Populi
MARCH 5, 2018
We’ll see voice-first developers like Orbita, which appeared at HIMSS last year, expanding tools for health-focused digital voice assistants; I learned about their Alexa skills in 2017 developed for people dealing with aging at home. adults used in 2017, according to a survey Pew conducted last year. 46% of U.S.
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Access to Technology Is the New Pillar for Well-Being: CES & the UN Partner for Human Security for All
Health Populi
JANUARY 8, 2024
Health Populi’s Hot Points: From the start of the coronavirus pandemic in early 2020, one thing became clear: that people living in households without connectivity were unable to work from home if they had a job that supported virtual work, attend school from home, or connect to loved ones, friends, and communities from home.
Will People Enrolled in Medicaid Want to Be Amazon Prime’d?
Health Populi
MARCH 8, 2018
Health Populi’s Hot Points: I’ve talked and written about this concept in the past couple of years as one way to extend healthy eating and living opportunities to people residing in food and commercial deserts — a way to overcome a key social determinant of health which is healthy food access.
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120 Connected 'smart' communities will be a key part of 21st century healthcare
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
SEPTEMBER 27, 2019
Chris Gibbons, founder and CEO of The Greystone Group, during the HIMSS session – which is now on-demand and explores how providers and federal, state and local policymakers are changing the way they think about the internet of things and connected health tools as they focus on population health management.
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140 Most Consumers Are Interested in Using a Voice Assistant for Some Type of Health Care
Health Populi
OCTOBER 29, 2019
For more on the connected car as a third-space for health care, see my post from CES 2017, Your car as a mobile health platform.
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Addressing Patient Health Information In-Security at HIMSS 2018
Health Populi
MARCH 8, 2018
The second bar chart shows records breached by month from August 2017 through January 2018. Appropriately, privacy and security were hot topics at HIMSS Annual Conference this year, in respond to providers’ demands for more education and concerns around the challenges. Let’s put these concerns in context.
Health Privacy and Our Ambivalent Tech-Embrace – Lessons for Digital Health Innovators
Health Populi
OCTOBER 8, 2021
At the same time, 2 in 3 people were also concerned aobut the privacy of their health information on apps. And there’s the ambivalence of “concerned embrace” of digital health. The phrase “concerned embrace” was coined in a 2017 Deloitte consumer study on mobile technology trends.
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207 Mary Meeker on Healthcare in 2018: Connectivity, Consumerization, and Costs
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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Hospitals Work to Address Customer Experience Gap With Consumers, Kaufman Hall Finds
Health Populi
JUNE 25, 2018
On the nurse-connection, note that Americans rank nursing the most honest and ethical profession in the nation, the Gallup Poll found in its 2017 annual study on the topic. In fact, nurses have placed at the top of this poll for many years ongoing.
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How One Hospital System Baked Love Into Their Health App
Health Populi
MARCH 4, 2018
On July 18, 2017, Neil Gomes, Chief Digital Officer at Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health in Philadelphia, tweeted this: When I saw this tweet, I was especially struck by Gomes’s phrase, “Designed & developed with heart/love by my @DICEGRP.”
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A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being
Health Populi
APRIL 12, 2024
deaths due to accidents, accidental overdoses, and suicide in 2017. to expand access to integrated primary and behavioral health care to younger people in America, and telehealth can be a practical and even desirable platform for doing so particular for the nation’s younger patient population. It is a critical time for the U.S.
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207 Add Behavioral Data to Social Determinants For Better Patient Understanding
Health Populi
MARCH 1, 2018
“Health agencies will have to become at least as sophisticated as other consumer/retail industries in analyzing a variety of data that helps uncover root causes of human behavior,” Gartner recommended in 2017. That’s because “health” is not all pre-determined by our parent-given genetics.
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The Smart Home for Health, Brought to You by Samsung and Ashley
Health Populi
OCTOBER 15, 2024
. = In working through the growing ecosystem for food-as-medicine, digital tech is playing a role to enable connection across peoples’ personal omni-channels and life continua and contexts.
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Where has all the telemedicine research gone?
South Central Telehealth Resource Center
JULY 30, 2018
The Society for Education and the Advancement of Research in Connected Health (SEARCH [link] ) was formed in 2016 by a small team of academics, researchers, and clinical professionals. Collaboration of its membership in connected health research and education projects. There have already been 3 meetings.
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67 As Workers’ Healthcare Costs Increase, Employers Look to Telehealth and Wearable Tech to Manage Cost & Health Risks
Health Populi
OCTOBER 3, 2018
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. While this is an impressive number in terms of companies offering remote health options to workers, few workers actually take advantage of this benefit, KFF found in a separate analysis.
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Top 10 Healthcare IT News stories of 2020
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
DECEMBER 7, 2020
Here's an interesting one: This story actually dates from way back in the pre-pandemic past of 2017. It also demonstrated the power and utility of increasingly powerful yet affordable connected health devices, which could be distributed to populations who need them most as important sentinel surveillance tools.
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186 Digital Transformation Is The New Mantra But Can’t Happen Without Access To Connectivity
Health Populi
MARCH 5, 2019
” The OECD broadly defined the phrase in their 2017 paper on the topic as follows: Mobility, cloud computing, the Internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI) and big data analytics are among the most important technologies in the digital economy today.
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168 Care Gets Personal at Philips for Parents and Babies
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 1, 2019
When I first spoke with Anish Sebastian and Juan Pablo Segura in 2017, I knew they were onto something really important, impactful, and absolutely delightful for the woman at low-risk during pregnancy. I’ve known this company for a couple of years, meeting them when they were but a young start-up.
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