Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Partnerships Care management vendor HealthEdge has integrated with the Unite Us platform to connect health plan members with SDoH resources.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 5, 2021

The following is a guest article by Sid Kandan, CEO at Stel Life, Inc. With last year’s $200M Telehealth Program and $100M Connected Care Pilot Program, this combined $550M investment is the government’s largest investment into connected health devices and services. As […].

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Sahni and colleagues published the data-details in an article published by McKinsey & Company , the top-line of which appears in the first graphic from the publication. trillion of health care spending in 2019; medical spending received 75% of the U.S. health care dollar. Administrative spending comprise 25% of the $3.8

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Digital Health Today

OCTOBER 16, 2019

This Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday (October 16-18) I will be in Boston covering the Connected Health Conference (a HIMSS event) for Digital Health Today. Above all, I'm looking forward to meeting other members of our Digital Health Today community at the conference! The post Let’s Connect! Can't meet you there?

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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. The two sources most-used for seeking health-related information are medical information websites (THINK: WebMD and Sharecare, for example, used by 53% of U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

As the authors of the HaH article assert, “at a societal level, HaH could help avoid billions in capital costs to build more brick-and-mortar hospitals,” I return to Roemer’s Law learned in graduate school that, in a volume-based payment system, “A built bed is a filled bed is a billed bed.”

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

They are likely to stay there,” asserts “ The smartphone will see you now ,” an article in the March 7th 2020 issue of The Economist. The article returns to the advent of the SARS epidemic in China in 2003, which ushered in a series of events: people stayed home, and Chinese social media and e-commerce proliferated.

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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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Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 14, 2019

InterSystems announces it has been selected by the eHealth Exchange, the largest nationwide health information network connecting the public and private sectors, as the technology partner powering the network’s latest expansion plans. The eHealth Exchange enables federal agencies, […].

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

A recent article in the American Lawyer discussed Manatt’s evolving business model and portfolio of services, moving from a law firm to an integrated health advisory organization. We’ll also see more and more connected health data in the IoT ecosystem for different applications. And now, Mill Valley, CA.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 23, 2020

Consider an upcoming HIMSS event in Orlando with the charming title: Monitoring Grandma: Adoption of Connected Health Tech by Seniors. Back to monitoring, connected health or otherwise. What is the point of sneering at older people? Because technology can be used for a purpose, inventors want to make it so.

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AMD Telemedicine

JANUARY 31, 2023

This article was originally published in July 2015 but was updated in January 2023. According to the Center for Connected Health Policy , many private insurers do not reimburse for nonreal-time consultations performed via telemedicine, and even Medicaid legislation varies on a state-by-state basis.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Privacy and data security remain a major issue, which is a particularly challenging problem when it comes to consumer-facing health and wellness apps as discussed in this New York Times article, “When Apps Get Your Medical Data, Your Privacy May Go With It.”

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Health Populi

MARCH 28, 2019

Companies in the fourth party network receive consumer data for behavior analytics and advertising, among other applications, the article notes. Beyond this third-party data analysis, the research identified fourth-party sharing in the mobile app ecosystem.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 28, 2024

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Wolters Kluwer Health launched ClinicalPulse , a continuing education solution for nurse practitioners. Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

A few topics that pique my interest address benefits for people and their pets, AI for everyday peoples’ health, and the assertively (spot-on) titled session, “don’t build more healthtech without asking patients first.”. Patient’s privacy and data security.

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Digital Health Global

DECEMBER 21, 2023

We delved into numerous topics through our articles, shared insights and opinions via eBlasts, interacted firsthand with industry leaders’ opinions through video interviews, and shared all of this with our audience on social media!

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 6, 2024

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Consumer-facing care coordination vendor Quantum Health has partnered with Embold Health , a provider of quality data.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2018

state borders, I leave you with a link to an investigative article on NBC News last week about U.S. With the understanding that patients want access to healthcare data, and to those expert consults between doctors working across U.S. patients’ continued difficult access to “their” own data.

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Meaningful HIT News

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

As such, the company says, Topol will “impact the design, development and delivery” of connected health products and services for the AT&T ForHealth business. Meanwhile, this week we get more evidence that “connected health” may be winning the terminology battle over mobile, wireless and digital health.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

” Frans pointed us to a just-published article in Nature Medicine on using AI for more effectively diagnosing childhood diseases. million data points from 1,362,559 pediatric patient visits to a health system. The study mashed up 101.6

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Society for Participatory Medicine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

A recent medical society article demonstrates that participatory medicine advocates have made progress. The central point of the article is that the current approach to metrics distracts from the need to focus on the patient. 17 in Boston, a pre-conference for the Connected Health conference. We are having an impact.

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eVisit

JULY 8, 2019

Many articles are geared toward healthcare professionals working in hospital systems, but physicians in independent practices will find plenty of helpful information too. Foley Health Care Law Today. We're on the path towards a healthcare system that values connected health, but how do we get there faster?

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

to that point, I noted with interest this week’s Wall Street Journal article on the re-birth of commercial retail real estate markets in the U.S.]. with retailers, via contactless experiences, curbside pickups, BOPIS (buy online, pick up inside store), and good old-fashioned brick-and-mortar physical shopping in stores. [to

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2023

The article’s writer-team tells us the best days aren’t behind us, but…our concerns are understandable. ” asks the first sentence in a Harvard Business Review essay on How to Tap the Full Potential of Telemedicine in Harvard Business Review (published June 6, 2023). ” How to make this happen?

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2023

By connecting health systems’ quality, efficiency, and cost data with evidence-based content, including journal articles, guidelines, and recommendations, the platform empowers organizations to take action on opportunities related to cost, time, and quality improvements.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2019

As an example of this trend, Accenture points to Mindstrong which leverages AI and machine learning to divine digital phenotypes of consumers-patients that inform mental health support.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2022

These data came from a JAMA Oncology article published in April 2021). The graphic here comes from data presented in the report on the volume of estimated missed screenings in the U.S. The BDO report also discussed cancer’s emotional toll on patients.

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Health Populi

MARCH 7, 2019

This graphic was part of a Wall Street Journal article published February 22, 2019, revealing that mobile apps share data well beyond the user’s intentions — in this case, a woman’s ovulation data eventually shared on Facebook. This law shares many elements with the GDPR.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2018

The NHS “supply shortage” is a result of financial cuts to both social care and public health. This article in the BMJ published earlier this year called for increasing these investments to ensure further erosion of population and public health outcomes, and to prevent further health disparities in the UK.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 9, 2023

The article below clarifies and summarizes the end-of-pandemic reimbursement decisions made by private payers, Medicare, and Medicaid. Private payers, Medicaid, and Medicare initiated widespread telehealth reimbursement approvals. Resources for other end-of-pandemic decisions are also provided.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 9, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Financial stressors were a kind of toxic side effect of the pandemic, observed by the spring of 2020 just weeks into the public health crisis. A new article in Nature details the mental health concerns exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic, which included economic problems faced by many families.

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Health Populi

JUNE 26, 2018

OK, then…What happens when an algorithm cuts your health care? A recent Verge article asked that not-so-unthinkable scenario. — you reveal just where you’re running on that military base that some evil-doer may want to target. And then there’s that woman who discovered that Amazon Alexa sent recordings of private (!)

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2019

The article in Nature was “Quantum Supremacy Using a Programmable Superconducting Processor,” demonstrating that instead of 10,000 years to analyze data, the new analytics capability enables a calculation in a matter of seconds.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2019

To accomplish such an audacious goal, one element must be added: that is the self-care and engagement of patients and consumers in their own health. A seminal article in JAMA from October 2015 was a lightbulb moment for my thinking on this — titled, Value-Based Payment Requires Valuing What Matters to Patients. .

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Enzyme Health

MARCH 27, 2019

For Changes in Telehealth Policy ### Center for Connected Health Policy If you’re looking for a resource from an organization working to advance policies that make telemedicine possible in the first place, The Center for Connected Health Policy newsletter is a must-read.

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