Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2021

Household penetration of smartwatch ownership grew 12%, whereas activity tracker growth was fairly flat between 2020 and 2021. In 2020, one-fourth of U.S. households owned an air purifier or a smart/connected health monitoring device. Smartwatches also have the 8th highest purchase intent among U.S.

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JANUARY 9, 2020

era of the IoT needs lots of data to feed the AI machine, and much of that information quite personal and largely un-related to the purely medical. Several consumer surveys published to coincide with CES 2020 provide insights into the new consumer trust mindset across industries, but especially important for health engagement.

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Health Populi

MAY 3, 2021

While the “in-person” visit to a doctor or medical professional continues to rank first as consumers’ most-trusted information source, the virtual doc or clinician rose in trust during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Euromonitor’s latest read on Consumer Health: Changes in Consumer Behaviour during COVID-19.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2020

The same percentage of people over 50 own a voice assistant, a market penetration rate which more than doubled between 2017 and 2019, AARP noted in the 2020 Tech and the 50+ Survey published in December 2019. practicing physicians to carry the health data privacy and security burden? But are we asking too much of U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The growing use of APIs in health information technology innovation for patient care has been a boon to speeding development placed in the hands of providers and patients. The goals were to identify risks and vulnerabilities and to develop recommendations for protecting health consumers’ personal health information.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 17, 2020

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the draft 2020-2025 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan for public comment. The article Draft Federal Health IT Strategic Plan Supports Patient Access to Their Own Health Information appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The latest read from ONC, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, tells a story about patients’ growing use of online portals, medical records, and smartphone apps to access personal health information. So what are patients most keen to access online in their medical records or portal?

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Health Populi

APRIL 29, 2020

The latter has translated into doctors’ medical practices seeing less traffic/visits , and thus, less patient revenue, significantly impacting some PCPs’ and specialists’ businesses in the first quarter of 2020 and will do so well into the second quarter and beyond. In the COVID-19 era in the U.S.,

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Continue Education Journal

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Published in the March of 2020, the policy proposal “ Reducing Administrative Costs in U.S. Health Care ” by David Cutler for the Hamilton Project at Brookings outlines a detailed perspective on how to understand and alleviate the weight of unnecessary healthcare spending. Health Care.” 2020, [link].

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FierceHealthIT

AUGUST 12, 2020

Industry Voices—3 ways health information exchanges have ushered in a new era by evolving their business models. Wed, 08/12/2020 - 13:20.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

“Most Americans clearly recognize the potential benefits that improved health IT can offer, and they want this transformation of the health care system to continue,” the Pew Charitable Trusts research concludes in Most Americans Want to Share and Access More Digital Health Data. Patients in the U.S.

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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. physicians and nurses as the pandemic emerged in early 2020.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier. More younger people would be interested in downloading personal health records compared with older people.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2020

The 21st Century Cures Act emphasizes patients’ control of personal health information. ONC rules issues in March 2020 called for more patient-facing health tools and apps to bolster health consumer engagement and empowerment. Digital literacy combines with health literacy to bolster patient engagement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

The SecurityScorecard/DarkOwl report, which examined more than 30,000 healthcare organizations from September 2019 to April 2020, notes that the reliance on telehealth amplifies risk as well. they also create data security and privacy risks as malicious actors attempt to infiltrate the devices to obtain health information."

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Health Populi

MARCH 18, 2024

Patients’ willingness to share their personal health information is eroding, varying by age group and race/ethnicity along with the kind of organizations folks would share with. The most common home-test by far has been for COVID-19, with other kinds of DTC diagnostic testing still lagging well behind.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2019

The study also looked into Americans’ views on data privacy for health information seeking. One-third of people were very concerned that a company would use search information to try and sell medical products based on the search parameters. The poll was conducted among 1,009 U.S. adults 18 and older via phone in July 2019.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 31, 2023

G” through her public health-informed broadcasts in the Miami media market during the pandemic. The phenomenon of medical mis-information accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic, normalizing weird anti-science and culminating in the rejection among many U.S. Geeta took on the persona of “Dr. People in the U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

voters did not vote in the 2020 presidential election, pointing to structural barriers such as onerous voter registration requirements, inflexible voting hours, long lines in polling locations, and cynicism about government which can be dispiriting to some voters. But she reminds us that one-third of eligible U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 23, 2020

As patients returned to in-person, brick-and-mortar health care settings after the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic, they re-enter the health care system with heightened consumer expectations, according to the Beryl Institute – Ipsos Px Pulse report, Consumer Perspectives on Patient Experience in the U.S. early this year.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier. More younger people would be interested in downloading personal health records compared with older people.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 27, 2022

For some historical context, the authors (all affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania [medical school or Wharton (business school)] start with HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act which served up privacy protections based on the health information technology of the time.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2020

patients to seek medical counsel outside of brick-and-mortar doctor’s offices and hospital clinics: Accenture points to a 2,000% increase in visits to Amwell telemedicine platforms between January and March 2020, and a 900% growth in the use of telehealth services with Banyan Medical Systems. The pandemic drove U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 12, 2021

"COVID-19 has changed not only the way we live, but the way healthcare providers support their patients, especially in regard to mental health," said Cuomo in a statement. These proposals will better allocate our healthcare and technological resources for the 21st century," Cuomo continued.

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Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2021

Among the least likely barriers were unqualified clinicians (compared with a “live” in-person doctor), the doctor’s inability to share health information with the patient, difficulty in booking an appointment, distractions from other online activities, and privacy issues. Deloitte found that U.S.

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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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

This feature story is the first in a series that will highlight how IT leaders managed the myriad challenges of 2020 – and how they plan to build from those lessons toward a better and more resilient future, this year and beyond. Tina Esposito, chief health information officer at Advocate Aurora Health, based in Downers Grove, Illinois.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 17, 2020

Microsoft is previewing its new Azure IoT Connector for FHIR, an API feature that enables healthcare organizations to scale secure connectivity for an array of devices streaming protected health information. Even before the COVID-19 crisis, remote patient monitoring was poised to gain big momentum in 2020. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Electronic Health Reporter

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

DirectTrust announces its Second Annual DirectTrust Summit, scheduled at the Washington Marriott Georgetown in Washington, DC, June 9-10, 2020. DirectTrust also announced its call for speaker proposals is now open to health information industry experts interested in speaking at the Summit.

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Redox

MARCH 10, 2021

In one of my recent Forbes columns, I took a different approach to predictions, focusing more on lessons learned from 2020 to then help guide these four forward-looking prescriptions: Prescription 1: Double down on innovation. The post I: What We Learned in 2020 & What We’re Expecting This Year appeared first on Redox.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

At the height of the COVID pandemic in 2020, several hospitals across the country were targeted in ransomware attacks. This data is highly regulated and hospitals in the United States must comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA).

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MARCH 4, 2020

I am not advocating for canceling, just hoping that people put on their big-boy-pants and come to HIMSS anyway. DON'T COME IF YOU ARE SICK!!!

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Health Populi

MARCH 26, 2020

health care spending will grow to 20% of the national economy by 2028, forecasted in projections pre-published in the April 2020 issue of Health Affairs, National Health Expenditure (NHE) Projections. Hospital care spending, the largest single component in national health spending, is estimated at $1.3

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2021

"As there is no need to continue sending browser information, we have removed the ability for these third-party websites to track the performance of our marketing campaigns," Doxy.me The company reiterated that it neither collects nor stores patient health information. representatives said. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

THE LARGER TREND The passage of the Telehealth Expansion Act of 2023 in June makes telehealth flexibilities that were first introduced in the CARES Act of 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic permanent. "Expanding and establishing permanent access to telehealth services is a great first step in providing these solutions."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2021

"In early November 2020, the FDA issued an emergency use authorization for the therapeutic use of monoclonal antibodies for COVID-19-positive patients, which had been shown to prevent hospitalizations in a limited number of trials," Lupu recalled. " On March 5, 2020, St. Leveraging technology to further strategy.

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Joseph C. Kvedar, MD – Reinventing Healthcare

JUNE 22, 2021

What Kahneman describes as heuristics (pattern recognition or … Lessons Learned from 2020 Provide a Springboard for Increased Telehealth Adoption Read More » This theory formed the basis for the field we now know as behavioral economics.

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