Connected Health Initiative

APRIL 29, 2021

The CONNECT for Health Act would substantially achieve this purpose, and we urge Congress to enact it right away.” ### About CHI: The Connected Health Initiative (CHI) is the nation’s leading consortium of health technology innovators, policy experts and patient advocates.

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2021

Trust in the technology industry has crashed to an all-time low based on the 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer. Most industries lost citizens’ trust between 2020 and 2021, most notably, Technology, dropping the greatest margin at 9 points. As Richard Edelman, CEO, concisely asserted , “Tech loses its halo.”

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Health Populi

JANUARY 23, 2023

The peak of venture investment for digital health was in 2020 and 2021, precipitously declining later in 2022. In my January 2023 column for Medecision. I weave the pragmatic story together based on datapoints from JP Morgan’s 2023 annual healthcare meeting in San Francisco and CES 2023 held in Las Vegas the previous week.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Note that the patient sample was limited to consumers who had seen a health care provider in the past two years and who also owned and used a personal wearable health device such as an Apple Watch or Fitbit. This proportion of folks interested in sharing their wearable health data grew from 56% in 2021 to 91% in 2023.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The bottom-line here is that the most connected 10% of consumers were 1.65 times more likely to be engaged in preventive digital health activities than the average person. consumers, dominated by more Gen z, millennials and bridge millennials more like to adopt digital health than Gen X and Baby Boomers. More granularly, 15.7%

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Health Populi

JANUARY 4, 2022

That AI-powered counsel can emanate from the digital health technologies, apps, and algorithms that people are increasingly using — choosing to do so on their own, as well as adopting new tools based on health care provider and wellness coach recommendations (or “prescriptions”). That’s on average.

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Health Populi

JULY 28, 2020

On 27th July, CTA announced the Association’s launch of the Public Health Tech Initiative. has highlighted the huge demand for health technology solutions. One of the long-time exhibitors at CES is Withings, who once again showed off a host of new-new things for personal health and wellness at CES 2020.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

dropped nearly three years between 2019 and 2021, from close to 79 years down to 76. Here are links to those two reports: Mortality in the United States, 2021 , and. Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 20021-2021. Life expectancy in the U.S. decline in life expectancy?

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Connected Health Initiative

DECEMBER 6, 2021

About CHI: The Connected Health Initiative (CHI) is the nation’s leading consortium of health technology innovators, policy experts, and patient advocates. The post Patients Embrace Telemedicine According to CMS Report; first appeared on Connected Health Initiative.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

In October 2021, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced that Robert Ford, CEO and President of Abbott, would give a keynote speech at CES 2022, the world’s largest annual convention of the technology industry.

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Connected Health Initiative

JULY 14, 2021

New CHI Report Finds Digital Health Technologies Must Play a Critical Role in Shifting American Healthcare Away from Fee-For-Service and Toward More Equitable and Effective Care. Congress should modernize privacy and security frameworks to support the use of digital health tools in value-based care scenarios widely.

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Connected Health Initiative

MARCH 18, 2021

(WASHINGTON, DC) March 18, 2021 - Today, the Connected Health Initiative (CHI) released a statement from executive director, Morgan Reed regarding the confirmation of former California Attorney General Xavier Becerra as Secretary of the U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 25, 2022

for a couple of months, having lived in and worked from Brussels, Belgium, since October 2021 (save for about ten days in March 2022). We came to appreciate the connectivity was indeed a determinant of health (which I called out in the Huffington Post in July 2016). I’ve returned to the U.S. healthcare system.

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Connected Health Initiative

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Together, we advance solutions that enable providers and patients to achieve better health outcomes, reduce health costs and foster the adoption of transformative technology throughout the healthcare system.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

While venture funding for digital health technology declined globally by 35% in the first three quarters of 2022 compared with 2021, this marks a “return to normal” based on the assessment in the Global State of Digital Health Report from FINN Partners and Galen Growth, published today and launched during the HLTH 2022 conference.

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Connected Health Initiative

JULY 14, 2021

Evidence clearly shows that digital health technologies helped expand access to healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic and can address the massive toll chronic illnesses take on Americans and our healthcare system.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Growing orders for Peloton and other connected exercise equipment were noted by CTA’s 2021 consumer-tech forecast , anticipating this as a trend that would mainstream as scale economies and competition expanded the market segment while prices fell.

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Health Populi

JUNE 1, 2021

For older people who are digital immigrants, they will remember their initial Zoom get-together’s with much-missed family, ordering groceries online in the first ecommerce purchase, and using telemedicine for the first time as a digital health front-door.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

CES 2021 featured some obvious quick-pivoting products that had the pandemic written all over them, with sessions invariably speaking to the way the public health crisis impacted companies and strategic plans. Joining Peloton in connected fitness at CES 2021 was NordicTrack, which recently announced its purchase of Precor.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 27, 2022

According to a recent survey of healthcare organizations, 34% of respondents reported experiencing a ransomware attack in 2021. According to HIPAA journal , on average, in 2021, there were 1.95 DrKumo Provides Secure and Private Connected Health Technology. Ransomware Infections.

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Redox

MARCH 15, 2024

This is a pretty compelling call to action for HIT teams and solution vendors: View health data delivery through the lens of individual users. Buyer Mindsets: Health Technology Perspectives from Clinical and Clinical IT Leaders.” 2021 Strategic Roadmap for the Composable Future of Applications.” Gartner, Inc.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JULY 31, 2022

2021 marks a year of change as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced its final rule on the new reimbursement codes for RPM, which may be considered the most significant product of health care reform in many years.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JANUARY 5, 2023

According to the HIPAA Journal , between 2009 and 2021, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights received reports of 4,419 healthcare data breaches of 500 or more records each. These breaches resulted in the loss, theft, exposure, or unauthorized disclosure of a total of 314,063,186 healthcare records.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 13, 2022

CMS clarified in the 2021 Final Rule that practitioners can furnish RPM services to remotely collect and analyze physiologic data from patients with acute conditions and chronic diseases. Following are some examples of RPM devices: Pulse oximeter. Blood pressure monitor. Glucose meter. Weighing scale. Heart rate monitor. Spirometer.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

DrKumo, leader in Connected Health Technology and Disease Management Programs, deploys Real-Time Remote Patient Monitoring Technology Solutions to help COPD patients prevent acute exacerbations and improve medication and treatment adherence. 2021, April 14). How DrKumo RPM Helps. References: FastStats.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JANUARY 10, 2023

In addition, a 2021 study finds that the use of remote patient monitoring systems can help prevent hospital stays and improve patient outcomes for those with chronic conditions such as hypertension and COPD. DrKumo’s Remote Patient Monitoring Technology Solution.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Biden’s statement, which divided the public health community and the public, has wide-reaching implications for the fate of connected health and vital telehealth services. Department of Health and Human Services Alex Azar signed the first Public Health Emergency declaration , declaring COVID-19 a national emergency.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Biden’s statement, which divided the public health community and the public, has wide-reaching implications for the fate of connected health and vital telehealth services. Department of Health and Human Services Alex Azar signed the first Public Health Emergency declaration , declaring COVID-19 a national emergency.

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Connected Health Initiative

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in taking all necessary measures to flatten the infection curve and defeat COVID-19 using the most innovative and effective solutions available. Responsible use of such technologies will facilitate more efficient care over safe distances.

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