Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2022

If you made your living in commercial real estate — and especially, working with hospitals’ and health systems’ office space — would the concept of telehealth be freaking you out right now? The firm asserts that, and I quote from the report, “telehealth is not replacing the physical office by any means.”

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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. Best Buy Health. Bicycle Health. Hone Health. LifePoint Health. Circle Medical.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2021

Leading healthcare industry stakeholders on Monday implored top leaders in the House and Senate to help ensure, among other imperatives, that "Medicare beneficiaries [don't] abruptly lose access to nearly all recently expanded coverage of telehealth." This would have a chilling effect on access to care across the entire U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 12, 2023

Private tertiary hospital Subang Jaya Medical Centre has launched what could be the first connected health service in Malaysia. THE LARGER TREND Connected Care represents a major milestone in SJMC's goal of building a comprehensive, end-to-end healthcare system.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 5, 2021

Applications for the FCC’s $250M Telehealth Program are due tomorrow (5/6) at noon. 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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The massive expansion of telehealth services in response to the pandemic is likely to change the way bad actors target data. A new report from Booz Allen Hamilton notes that telehealth security is a patient-safety issue, considering the potentially catastrophic risks that come with service disruptions and device failures.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

This infographic illustrates that with statistics that include how those stakeholders are planning to invest in connected care and telehealth relative to overall technology spending this coming year. But how much is that reflected in their planned spending?

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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. See that their home is a one-story design in the connected health neighborhood, a good choice for a couple seeking to age well in their home without stairs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

EarlySense, a vendor of contact-free continuous monitoring technology, has sold some of its assets to Hillrom, which develops connected care and collaboration tools. "We look forward to bringing this critical technology to additional customers around the world as we deliver on our vision of Advancing Connected Care."

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

The title of the report, “Consumers are on board with virtual health options,” summarizes the bullish outlook for telehealth. But the tagline begs the supply side question: “Can the health care system deliver?” That’s the consumer-demand side of the equation.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In the Spring of 2020, a number of institutions—health, education, judicial, and others—went through a wrenching technological transformation: To prevent the spread of COVID-19, they took refuge online. Clinical sites that had long ignored the appeals of telehealth advocates suddenly adopted virtual visits. Improved workflows.

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Connected Health Initiative

APRIL 3, 2020

Both the COVID-19 Telehealth Program and Connected Care Pilot represent key efforts to combat the current public health emergency, and to drive a much-needed transformation of the American healthcare system. “We For more information, see www.connectedhi.com.

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Health System CIO

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Reimbursement coding doesn’t quite have ‘buzzword’ status, but without it, adoption of remote monitoring will continue to lag, says Dr. Joseph Kvedar, who breaks down the latest developments.

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Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2023

That was in the midst of the fast-pivot toward virtual care and telehealth on-ramps welcomed by both clinicians and patients. This responds to both clinicians’ and healthcare managers’ needs for financial management as well as to consumers’ growing demand for convenience and accessible care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 30, 2021

"With the help of an innovation grant, Trinity Health at Home – Trinity's home health business unit – launched a 30-day RPM pilot to 55 patients," said Karen Joyce, RN, vice president of clinical and virtual operations at Trinity Health at Home. managing more than 4,000 patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Staff also found many of the patients with these two chronic conditions also called the office often to check in or seek care. "The appropriate connected devices were sent to enrolled patients, such as pulse oximeters to measure blood oxygen levels along with the blood pressure cuff, scale and glucometer. " MARKETPLACE.

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care innovations

OCTOBER 24, 2018

At the recently concluded Connected Health Conference in Boston, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai delivered a keynote speech expressing his agency’s dedication to expanding federal funding for key telehealth initiatives, along with a few new proposals for accomplishing them.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 11, 2021

That’s a big promise and vision, so to kick the tires on such a Holy Grail I had the opportunity to meet, virtually, with two key leaders of Philips’ health care business: Roy Jakobs, Chief Business Leader Connected Care, and Karsten Russell-Wood, Portfolio Leader, Post Acute & Home.

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InTouch Health

APRIL 15, 2019

Increasing Telemedicine Adoption Rates with Internet Access While telehealth adoption rates continue to rise across the country, they’re still not growing as fast as many have hoped. One of the main obstacles to widespread telehealth adoption is the lack of access to broadband services across much of the United States.

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Meaningful HIT News

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

My last post earlier today got me thinking: we still haven’t reached a consensus on how to describe what some people have dubbed wireless health, mobile health, telehealth, digital health and connected health. Related posts: So many types of telehealth.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Connected Care: VA, Virtual Health and the Patient Experience | #Engage4Health + #HIMSS18. Patients as Consumers: How Leading Providers are Digitally Transforming Patient Consults | #Engage4Health + #HIMSS18. A New Era: The CMO’s Role at the Healthcare Consumerism Table | #Engage4Health + #HIMSS18.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

AUGUST 15, 2023

a leading provider of Connected Health Technology Solutions, is pleased to announce that the company is one of the four winners who has been awarded the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) eight-year, $1.032 billion-dollar national contract to provide Remote Patient Monitoring -Home Telehealth (RPM-HT) technology solutions.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Patients with the following conditions are often enrolled in chronic care for seniors programs: Hypertension Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Type 2 Diabetes Osteoarthritis Congestive Heart Failure For those managing these conditions, senior care management is essential to ensuring both physical and emotional well-being.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

More than 330 healthcare and industry organizations asked Congress this week to facilitate a pathway to comprehensive, permanent telehealth reform after the COVID-19 public health emergency ends. Department of Health and Human Services the authority and flexibility to continue relaxing certain restrictions. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

[For more context on Philips’ pivot to hospital-to-home care in the wake of pandemic, see my post here on Health Populi published on the company’s commitment to connected care across the continuum]. Hygiene and the clean home.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

We'll share insights about everything from AI and cloud computing to telemedicine and population health. Connected care, upskilled workers, tax reform, a Southwest Airlines approach, private equity and the Affordable Care Act all will impact healthcare organizations in 2019, a new PwC report says.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Last year, Abbott made a big splash with the company’s Board Chairman/CEO delivering a keynote addressing connected care. You might not think about pharmaceutical companies showing off technology at the “Consumer” Electronics Show, but the pharma industry has had a growing presence at CES for the past few years.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Once again, organizations across the healthcare industry are appealing to Congressional leaders to extend telehealth flexibilities beyond the December 31 deadline, imploring Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., ATA and ATA Action were quick to remind lawmakers to be ready for the telehealth flexibilities deadline.

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Mend

JANUARY 18, 2021

Telehealth advocates aren’t impressed with the lack of support for connected health services in the latest pandemic relief package. We believe arbitrary restrictions on telehealth must be permanently removed to make way for a modernized and more accessible healthcare system.”. But those calls were largely ignored.

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