South Central Telehealth Resource Center

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Targets quality of care and quality of life. In addition to connecting patients with a primary care physician or APRN, telehealth can facilitate access to specialists and subspecialists. Get ready for exponential growth in telemedicine in 2017. The growth of telehealth: 20 things to know.

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American Well

MARCH 5, 2018

Think convenient health care is only for the wealthy? Medicaid recipients often have significant barriers to care. Throughout my residency, I worked in a primary care clinic that was in one of the poorest areas of Boston. Think again. I recently heard someone say, “Patients have a workflow too.

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American Well

MARCH 5, 2018

Think convenient health care is only for the wealthy? Medicaid recipients often have significant barriers to care. Throughout my residency, I worked in a primary care clinic that was in one of the poorest areas of Boston. Think again. I recently heard someone say, “Patients have a workflow too.

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Telemedicine Connected Health Health Policy Primary Care 48

GlobalMed

JULY 8, 2019

While virtual health can’t solve every Medicaid issue, it can dismantle many typical roadblocks: Providers and patients can meet as scheduled even if the patient has missed their bus or had a childcare cancellation. Medicaid is the largest payer for mental health services in the United States.

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Telemedicine Primary Care Health Policy Mental health 40

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

There is no doubt that wearable technology has a growing demand when it comes to health care. Improved Patient Outcomes – Wearable devices enable patients and their doctors to make more informed health decisions. There are already several companies that are implementing this technology in a range of different ways.

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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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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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Healthcare IT Public Health Interoperability Telehealth 215

Health Populi

MAY 15, 2020

.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: That Hims blog is titled, “Making Healthcare Work for You.” With the addition of the direct-to-consumer (DTC) saliva test for COVID-19, Hims’ self-care portfolio joins the pandemic health economy and, at the same time, expands DTC in this pandemic era.

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Mental health Telemedicine Telehealth Primary Care 177

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.

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Telehealth Mental health Public Health Medical Billing 207

Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

Adventist Health System (Altamonte Springs, Fla.). As the employer of more than 80,000 people, Adventist Health System aims to promote personal, professional and spiritual growth with its workplace culture. In 2017, Adventist’s corporate campus received the Orlando Business Journal ‘s Corporate Philanthropy Award.

Leadership 32

Leadership Nursing Pharmaceuticals Primary Care 32

Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

To address that challenge, in 2017 PLM secured a $100 million (controlling interest) investment from iCarbonX , a Chinese company that is amassing patient data to discover cures for disease. And they invested in people because the communities they built require a human touch. It is impossible to paint them with a one-color brush.

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Pharmaceuticals HIPAA BioTech Patient Experience 216

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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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.

Digital Health 156

Digital Health Primary Care Mobile Health Patient Experience 156

Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2018

The issue of net neutrality and Everyday Peoples’ access to connectivity and broadband lies at the heart of this intersection. This is so important for health given that most of us in the field agree that our “ZIP code is more important than our genetic code.”.

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Public Health Primary Care Digital Health Telehealth 234

Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2018

I wrote this post on the deal as an inflection point in American healthcare on 3rd December 2017 when CVS and Aetna announced their marriage intentions. This post updates my initial thoughts on the deal, given the morphing US healthcare market on both the traditional health services front and fast-evolving retail health environment.

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Medicare Pharmaceuticals Primary Care Patient Experience 153

Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For several years, I’ve called out telecom connections as a social determinant: for example, in this Huffington Post column written in July 2016, I asserted that broadband is a social determinant of health. In May 2017, AMIA called for the same , and the issue is getting the traction it merits. such as in the U.K.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

First, a trip in the way-back machine to 2017, wiping the digital dust off of a Deloitte report I cited at the time of publication and frequently since then as the research brought me the useful and smart phrase, “a concerned embrace of technology.”

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