Health Populi

JANUARY 13, 2021

Yoga classes, concerts and weddings were streamed via Zoom,” Fjord Trends 2021 from Accenture Interactive observes. Fjord points out that health care is no longer “something that happens to people,” but instead is a pursuit where people are playing a more active role.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In April 2020, telemedicine morphed into mainstream medical care as hospitals and physicians risk-managed exposure to infection by meeting with patients, virtually, when possible. Hy-Vee also introduced a Medicare Aisle into its grocery stores in August 2021. In 2020, 79% of U.S. Urologists, 87.2%. Psychiatrists, 83%.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

But the big growth areas were for live video telemedicine, wearable tech, and digital health tracking. The second chart focuses in on telemedicine adoption by channel, comparing six years of Rock Health’s consumer research. Tech companies are much better capitalized than health systems.

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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

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Doximity’s second report on telemedicine explores both physicians’ and patients’ views on virtual care, finding most doctors and health consumers on the same page of virtual care adoption. For the physicians’ profile, Doximity examined 180,000 doctors’ who billed Medicare for telemedicine claims between January 2020 and June 2021.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 11, 2022

The push toward at-home care amidst the COVID-19 pandemic has opened the door for innovators to develop devices that promote more seamless delivery of telemedicine. In April 2021, for example, the Mayo Clinic announced the launch of a new platform aimed at delivering advanced, AI-powered clinical decision support through remote monitoring.

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Health Populi

JULY 26, 2021

some aspects of “digital transformation” seem not to have fully transformed American healthcare, we learn in HIMSS’s annual 2021 State of Healthcare Report. Still, the lack of interoperability remains a barrier hindering clinicians from using digital health tools.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

This drove health consumers to virtual care platforms in the first months of the public health crisis — including lots of older people who had never used telemedicine or even a mobile health app.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

TripleTree expects a “domino effect from virtual health adoption that will drive waves of demand across areas that complement virtual health and address other vulnerabilities exposed by COVID-19,” the report forecasts. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services. In 2019, J.D.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

I always love watching the evolution of connected health. In the early days, many of the wearable devices weren’t connected to much of anything. Now, connecting those devices to the cloud is key and essential to all of the remote patient monitoring companies out there.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Note that WHO’s approach to digital health adoption includes equity, access, palliative care, privacy, and security. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Everyone of Manatt Health’s ten imperatives are spot-on in this moment as we segue from Our Covid Year of 2020 to the Covid Year of 2021.

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Health Populi

JULY 28, 2020

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. Well-known for its direct-to-consumer connected health devices in the forms of weight scales and fitness watches, Withings announced focused on sleep and heart health in its CES 2020 launches.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The American Telemedicine Association, the Connected Health Initiative and other industry groups issued a letter to Congress on Friday urging legislators to extend temporary telehealth flexibilities until the end of 2021. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 11, 2021

This week at the 2021 annual HIMSS conference, Philips is “making the case for moving to the cloud,” discussing the Philips HealthSuite, a cloud-based platform for connecting providers and patients, devices (and the data they generate), and care across the health care continuum.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

At the start of CES 2021, I had the opportunity to catch up with Karsten Russell-Wood, Portfolio Marketing Leader, Post Acute & Home, Connected Care at Philips. We brainstormed just as CES 2021 was going to “open,” virtually, for the consumer electronics conference’s first all-virtual meeting. Take George and Audrey.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Mitchell is quoted in the story, New data says more communities built their own broadband because of COVID published in Motherboard on 10th September 2021, an important report written by Karl Bode. who have indeed built up local connections for residents — health citizens, all.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

consumers’ virtual visit utilization from 2021 to 2023, showing a downturn in telehealth — from 57% of consumers attending a virtual medical appointment in 2021 falling to 42% of consumers in 2023. .” The bar chart updates our understanding of U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 12, 2021

During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the health care sector was profoundly affected by cyber-attacks on connected devices, we learn in the report, Rise of the Machines 2021: State of Connected Devices – IT, IoT, IoMT and OT from Ordr.

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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

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

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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Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2022

” Health Populi’s Hot Points: The American Medical Association polled physicians in late 2021 to gauge doctors’ perspectives on telehealth. The report lays out physicians’ majority support for telehealth and key issues preventing further adoption and proliferation of use across the U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Among the key findings, Software Advice learned that, 9 in 10 patients (again, health-engaged wearable tech-adopters) were interested in sharing data from their devices with their physicians. 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

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Nearly one-half of people also said that COVID-19 had influenced the health plan features they seek for 2021 plan selection, with one-third of people spending more time shopping for/researching health plan options.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2021

senators has reintroduced the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act of 2021. The CONNECT Act would aim to answer at least some of those questions, at least where Medicare is concerned. Allow health centers and rural health clinics to provide telehealth services.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 24, 2022

Their research shows growing demand for connected solutions for air quality, telehealth, independent living solutions, and other health-adjacent services: Consumer usage of telehealth services increased from 15 percent in Q2 2019 to 64 percent in 2021. 55 percent of U.S.

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Connected Health Initiative

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Making these waivers permanent is one portion of increasing access to telemedicine services. These numbers reiterate what we have been saying all along – access to telemedicine helps people get the care they need when and where they need it. Congressional Action Still Needed to Ensure Continued Access.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 9, 2023

SVB notes that venture funding in healthcare fell in terms of both deals and dollars each quarter of 2022 after hitting records in 2021. Devices, the only one of the four sectors to match, relatively, record investments in 2021.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 24, 2022

The American Telemedicine Association announced Friday that it had launched ATA Action, a new affiliated trade organization aimed at supporting the enactment of state and federal telehealth coverage throughout the United States. Signers also included the Connected Health Initiative, the Alliance for Connected Care, the U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2021

Dowling leads one of the largest health systems in the U.S., serving millions of health citizens residing in greater New York City and reaching out into the area’s boroughs and ‘burbs.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2021

GWI identified nine major wellness trends for 2021: Hollywood and the entertainment industries jumping into wellness. The future of immune health. 2021 as the year of the travel-reset. ” The wellness category — and particularly, the ability to scale mental health services via digital technology — is promising.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 10, 2021

In March 2021, Zoom conducted research into the question, “how virtual do we want our future to be?” I welcomed the opportunity to speak (via Zoom, of course) with Ron Emerson, Zoom’s Global Healthcare Lead, just a days before HIMSS 2021 kicked off.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The consequences of cyber risks can be incredibly severe as healthcare data is particularly personal and sensitive," said Kelly Rozumalski, secure connected health director at Booz Allen, in a statement to Healthcare IT News. WHY IT MATTERS. "Large U.S.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Remote patient monitoring The question of virtual care's post-pandemic staying power has been answered resoundingly: Telemedicine is here to stay. Signs point to yes – and mature remote patient monitoring and telemedicine tools will be key. Region Tag: Global Edition Hide Collection: 0 Primary topic: Connected Health

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

physicians were using telehealth to care for patients at the end of 2021. Among those doctors who were not providing telehealth by late 2021, just over one half never did so during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the 2021 Telehealth Survey Report from the AMA. Four in five U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2021

Since early 2021, an array of telehealth-focused bills have been introduced in the House and Senate, but the major concerns outlined in the July 26 letter are still outstanding and yet to be addressed by statute.

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