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?

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

Most of these live video calls were also done through a service offered by consumers’ health care providers (doctors/clinicians), followed by services offered by insurance companies. In 2018, consumers’ tracking of at least one health metric crossed over from an analog method to digital tracking, illustrated in the line chart.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2021

The first chart details what younger people, ages 14 to 22, searched online in 2018 compared with 2020. sought health information online in 2020, a slight decline from 2018. More young women than young men looked for health info online, as well as more Hispanic/Latinx and White youngers compared with Blacks.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Nearly half assert their phone enabling them to stay connected to friends and family has increased in importance. Since starting GreatCall Rides with Lyft in 2018, three-fourths of the pilot riders have continued to patronize the service as repeat riders.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

In today’s data-for-cheaper-care world, it’s Our Data, Our (Lower-Cost) Health Care. . There was a survey done by PC Magazine in 2018 written up in an article titled, Would you trade your personal data for free online services?

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Health Populi

JULY 17, 2018

But can we nudge stakeholders in health and healthcare to “do no harm?”. This and other important questions will be brainstormed on the webcast hosted by Accenture on Wednesday 18 July 2018 as we discuss the five trends that paint the firm’s Digital Health Tech Vision 2018. Extended Reality. Data Veracity.

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Health Populi

JULY 15, 2018

The cost of a healthcare data breach is $408, nearly three-times the cross-industry average, revealed in the 2018 Cost of a Data Breach Study: Global Overview , from IBM Security and the Ponemon Institute. This 2018 report found the average cost of a data breach globally was $3.86 million, up 6.4%

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

all ahead in the remains of the year of 2018. Here are six blog posts from October 2018: What is Caregiving Technology, Anyway? TenTips for Launching a Product or Service – October 2018. It’s 2018 and in full sprint to the year-end finish. Five Offerings from the Boston Connected Health Conference 2018.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 31, 2018

based healthcare IT leaders for the survey in October 2018. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Unisys published their 2018 Security Index , finding growing global insecurity concerns among consumers about the internet, identity theft and bankcard fraud — ahead of terrorism, natural disaster and epidemic threats.

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care innovations

JULY 18, 2018

With a focus on engaging consumers with the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and other healthcare technologies , the fifth-annual Connected Health Summit is set for August 28-30 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego, with Care Innovations® Chief Information Officer Himanshu Shah enlisted as a featured speaker. July 9, 2018.

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Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2019

First, connected care: one in five U.S. In 2018, after Amazon acquired PillPack, the company filed a patent for Alexa that would observe a consumer’s cough or sneeze and predict the onset of depression or disease. Matthew talked about the “Flip the Stack” concept that he and Indu Subaiya, his partner in Health 2.0,

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2020

In Accenture’s words, “COVID-19 forced a surge” in virtual health care following a stalling of consumers’ adoption of digital health in late 2019: by December 2019, 35% of consumers had been using mobile health apps on phones and tablets, down from 48% in 2018; and 18% of consumers int he U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Seeking health information online along with researching other patients’ perspectives on doctors are now as common as booking dinner reservations and reading restaurant reviews, based on Rock Health’s latest health consumer survey, Beyond Wellness for the Healthy: Digital Health Consumer Adoption 2018.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Using digital health tech is a new normal for U.S. consumers, including Seniors, found in the 2018 digital health consumer survey from Deloitte. The title of the report, “Consumers are on board with virtual health options,” summarizes the bullish outlook for telehealth. Deloitte surveyed 4,530 U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

It’s National Health IT Week in the US, so I’m kicking off the week with this post focused on how digital health can bolster economic development. As the only health economist in the family of the 2018 HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors, this is a voice through which I can uniquely speak. GDP, in 2018.

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Health Populi

MARCH 27, 2018

On 1st March 2018, two over-arching issues remained with me leaving Las Vegas and #HIMSS18: the central, recognized role of cybersecurity threats in healthcare, and the growing use of consumer-facing technologies for self- and virtual care. Cyber-breaches are a new-normal in health care. What a difference a couple of weeks make….

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

physicians worked in a practice that used telehealth versus 25% who did so in 2018, based on a new survey from the AMA. Beyond the sheer scale of patient volumes reached during the pandemic, virtual care was adopted by physicians across specialties well beyond primary care. In 2020, 79% of U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Family premiums for health insurance received at the workplace grew 5% in 2018: to $19,616, according to the 2018 KFF Employer Health Benefits Survey released today by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF). Over the past decade the share of workers in plans with annual deductibles has grown from 59% in 2008 to 85% in 2018.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

JULY 11, 2018

Abstracts deadline extended to July 20th for research in connected health programs. Little Rock, AR and San Diego, CA – July 11, 2018 – The 4 th Society for Education and the Advancement of Research in Connected Health (SEARCH) Telehealth Research Symposium will take place on October 24 th and 25 th , 2018 in San Diego, CA.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

The following attachment is a list of legislative and regulatory updates compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee). South Central Legislative Regulatory Update – October 2018.

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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.

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Mobile Health Matters

DECEMBER 4, 2017

This data will either be pulled in using a product that unifies mobile health records – like Route 66 for patient data and applications – or, larger health IT companies will snap up smaller vendors and slowly build a suite of solutions on their way to becoming the Facebook of healthcare.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 31, 2018

Omron has been one of the few consumer-facing digital health companies that has taken the long-view and done the work to file for FDA clearance for a medical-grade technology that mainstream consumers can use. Omron seeks to jump that hurdle through FDA clearance.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Here are three key themes supporting the food-for-health mission featured at Groceryshop 2018… The health-and-wellness consumer is truly mainstream when it comes to grocery shopping. Folks from Soylent, The Future Market, Freshly and others addressed how to reach health-conscious consumers.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

There’s no mistaking that more Supercenters are located in areas with greater levels of people without insurance based on data from 2019 (Walmart store location count) and 2018 (uninsured rates).

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

AUGUST 31, 2018

The following attachment is a list of legislative activities compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee). The post South Central Legislative/Regulatory Update – August 2018 appeared first on LearnTelehealth.

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2022

step in the right direction” CBS News 8 San Diego covered a caregiver and cancer patient’s experience with a live shot of their thick binder, containing CDs with medical images and data from these various provider institutions laying on top of a pile of letters and lab test results.

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Health Populi

APRIL 29, 2018

Governor Mark Leavitt, who held the post of Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Bush, offered this advice at the recent Liberation 2018 conference hosted by Medecision. Part 2: Design to Liberate Healthcare , published 19 April, 2018.

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Health Populi

MARCH 5, 2018

The median American uses 3 social networking platforms in 2018. Facebook is the primary platform for most Americans who use social media in 2018: two-thirds of U.S. adults age 18 and over in early January 2018 for this study. Health Populi’s Hot Points : Health is social: isolation is a social determinant for ill health.

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Connected Health Initiative

JUNE 24, 2020

The Connected Health Initiative (CHI) and our members worked tirelessly with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Congress, and state officials to expand access to connected health solutions during COVID-19 pandemic. billion in 2018.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MARCH 6, 2018

In 2018, updates and changes impacted telehealth policy across the nation. Effective January 1, 2018, Medicare began reimbursing providers for RPM services billed under CPT code 99091. Effective January 1, 2018, the GT modifer will no longer be needed on professional claims for telehealth services. National Level.

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2019

adults age 50–80 in October 2018, assessing older peoples’ health, health behaviors, experiences and feelings related to companionship and social isolation. The University of Michigan National Poll on Healthy Aging surveyed some 2,000 U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Our homes are evolving into our health hubs — truly our “medical homes,” which have been formally defined as a primary care gatekeeper’s office. An article published in Health Services Research in August 2018 talks about Trends in the Types of Usual Sources of Care: A Shift from People to Places or Nothing at All.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 5, 2018

” Health Populi’s Hot Points: The map graphic, copied from Microsoft’s Top Ten Tech Issues for 2018, attests that expanding tech in rural communities will “ensure a fair shot for everyone.”

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

adults’ use of online search for health information, along with perspectives on the U.S. healthcare system and use of connected health technologies. adults 18 and over in May-June 2018. KRC Research polled 1,700 U.S. adults), and the doctor, used by 48% of people.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

Yet with that bullish supply side of digital health, there was a marked decline in peoples’ use of them in the past two years, found by Accenture in their latest health consumer survey, Digital is Transforming Health, So Why is Consumer Adoption Stalling?

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Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2018

It takes a good nudge from a provider to motivate a patient to access online medical records, found by ONC in their latest research into consumers’ use of EHRs detailed in Individuals’ use of online medical records and technology for health needs , the ONC Data Brief No. 40, published April 2018.

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