Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

But the coronavirus era also saw broadband households spending more on connecting health devices, with 42% of U.S. consumers owning digital health tech compared with 33% in 2015, according to research discussed in Supporting Today’s Connected Consumer from Parks Associates. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic drove U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 28, 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

AUGUST 11, 2021

Kajeet, a vendor of wireless connectivity and software and hardware solutions for controlled Internet access, has debuted Kajeet Connected Health, an Internet of Things (IoT) solution designed to enable the secure and reliable delivery of telemedicine services.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2021

In the report, Adam Pellegrini who leads Enterprise Virtual Care & Consumer Health Innovation at CVS Health asserts that, “We need to offer care in the ways that people are looking to receive it — through phones, through connected devices, through asynchronous conversations and, of course, through the telehealth visit.”

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Health Populi

JULY 22, 2021

Key to note: the patient is at the center, receiving care at home, one of the key digital transformations of consumers during the pandemic as we morphed our homes into digital hubs for work, education, faith, cooking and baking, fitness, and of course, for health care.

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Health Populi

MARCH 20, 2025

Get FHIR, hire people who know interoperability, and make the investment on the health IT leadership side. We couldnt spend an hour chatting about Unvendor without addressing AI, which of course was another hot topic at HIMSS 2025.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2021

PwC’s recommendation here is for the supply-side executives from providers, pharma and health plans to determine which virtual care services make “the most sense and for whom.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

But through it all, the resilience, persistence and innovation have been remarkable as health systems continue the digital transformations they'd embarked on in the "beforetimes" – and redoubled their efforts to accelerate them in earnest in response to this public health emergency.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2024

In 2025, we will see a proliferation of sleep sub-segments such as #EG-tracking tech for sleep and stimulation; audio-based sleep aids (taking, say, the Calm app’s bedtime stories complemented by novel sonic pulse technology); circadian rhythm regulation; and, of course, devices and applications to address sleep apnea and snoring.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Fueled by COVID-19, digitally enabled remote care and clinical trials will drive 70% growth in spending on connected health technologies by providers and life science companies by 2023. THE LARGER TREND. 'Tis

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 25, 2019

Kvedar, vice president of connected health at Partners HealthCare and a professor of dermatology at Harvard Medical School, has served as ATA president before – from 2004-2005 – and also served on its board for several years. I’m talking about physicians of course." Kvedar to be its next president.

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Connected Health Initiative

JUNE 24, 2020

The Connected Health Initiative (CHI) and our members worked tirelessly with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Congress, and state officials to expand access to connected health solutions during COVID-19 pandemic.

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Chilmark Research

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

The Connected Health Conference and its predecessor events, the Partners HealthCare’s Connected Health Symposium and the Personal Connected Health Alliance’s Connected Health Conference (a HIMSS event), aim to frame digital health advancements in the context of improving clinical care delivery as well as personal engagement.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 27, 2021

The healthcare industry has been learning about virtual mental health services for quite some time. The COVID-19 pandemic, however, provided a crash course in this care delivery mode.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2022

The first graphic from the report illustrates four dimensions of health and the factors underneath each of them that can bolster or diminish our well-being: personal behaviors (such as sleep and diet), personal attributes (like financial situation and genetics), interventions (e.g., To extend life expectancy, globally.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 7, 2020

Joe Kvedar ) has taken hold and gone mainstream in remote health monitoring, wearable tech, and heart rate tracking which is now embedded (and expected by health-seeking consumers) in wristbands. Of course, oral health goes well beyond teeth and toothbrushes.

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Health Populi

JULY 25, 2022

This was well before the pandemic, of course. Now, check out the second chart from The New Retail Health chapter of HealthConsuming : I often refer to this graphic as my Rodney Dangerfield-Aretha Franklin touchpoint, noting Rodney’s “I Don’t Get No Respect” and Aretha’s demand for “Respect.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 11, 2021

It involves a connected health blood pressure cuff and about 1,000 patients. "We have $157,000 in outside funding for this, and we have provided another $300,000 or so over the course of the three years. Through other funding, Greene County was able to start a three-year program for RPM with hypertensive patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 15, 2022

Salesforce Health Cloud introduced a suite of new technologies this past week designed for remote patient monitoring, connected health, medication management and more. WHY IT MATTERS. Salesforce's Intelligent Appointment Management is meant to help patients schedule appointments on their computers or mobile devices.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2024

The category has competition including OURA, the Samsung Galaxy and Whoop, which I discussed here in Health Populi. Let me leave you with a recent conversation featuring Jason Oberfest, VP of OURA, hosted by Parks Associates as part of their perennial Connected Health Summit held earlier this month.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Deloitte presented this graphic for an integrated data and analytics platform supporting remote patient monitoring data feeds in a June 2020 report noting that remote patient monitoring could trigger a multi-channel data tsunami.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

With the over-arching theme of “leading through change,” this year’s RSNA sessions are, of course, featuring innovations in radiology. But there’s also =growing attention to health equity, environmental sustainability , and no surprise, generative AI (Gen AI).

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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2018

Wearable tech is an important category these days in department stores, with discount retailers like Target and Walmart, at electronics outlets like Best Buy and, of course, via Amazon’s wearable tech ma. ” you ask. The smartwatch category, with fitness tracking, is hot in 2018, some “smarter” than others.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

AUGUST 9, 2023

BUENA PARK, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES, August 9, 2023 – DrKumo is delighted to announce the successful launch of its highly anticipated DrKumo Certified Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) Connected Health Technology Training Program.

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Health Populi

JULY 15, 2018

I thought to myself, “hmm…when was the last time my health insurance plan, healthcare provider, or pharmacy benefit manager told me that I’d be ‘in control’ of my data?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 23, 2020

Connected Health Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Government & Policy Patient Engagement Telehealth With its three-pillar approach to modernization, the U.S. Modernization is a "learning journey" that requires review and course corrections along the way.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Revolutionizing Care Through Accessible Digital Health Education for Healthcare Professionals DrKumo Inc., This initiative has equipped 8,300 healthcare professionals across 350 cities and 700 zip codes in California, delivered 226,000 course hours in critical areas of chronic care management, disease management protocols, and digital health.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

.” In his introductory remarks, Frans called out that health care is unaffordable. The system will face growing demands based on lifestyle-driven diseases and the natural course aging. Eventually, he said, the medical bill needs to be contained.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 10, 2021

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. prior to the pandemic — from Federally Qualified Health Clinics to some of the largest tertiary centers of excellence in the world, Ron explained.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

Cramer’s pronouncement led to a tweetstorm where hundreds of tweeters in and outside of health/care talked back and with Cramer. A few of my favorite comments were: “Jim Cramer needs a crash course in FHIR standards” from the wonkier section of peanut gallery. Where is the iPhone listed on Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs?”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 26, 2021

Of course, some digital health tools won't be appropriate or accessible during crises. " Setting up connected health, he continued, "will allow homebound people the opportunity to get care." " Unfortunately, more weather and climate crises are inevitably on the horizon.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 11, 2021

And of course, the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the world’s mental health. On the promising front, There are available therapies, medications, and digital therapeutic combinations that successfully address the most common mental health conditions — notably, anxiety and depression.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Humana — a health insurance company — joined the CTA last year. The point is that “health insurance” companies are morphing beyond the historic core business of “insurance,” and into health.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2022

Of course, it’s of major interest to JLL how and whether telehealth and virtual care could replace demand for brick-and-mortar office space. The firm asserts that, and I quote from the report, “telehealth is not replacing the physical office by any means.”

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Health Populi

MAY 29, 2018

Unsurprisingly, then, 3 in 4 health execs aren’t ready to deal with the “impending waves” of corrupted insights as faked data comes into healthcare databases. The solution calls for “data intelligence,” which is a must-do as more artificial intelligence is adopted as a normal course of business.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 7, 2018

Health Populi’s Hot Points: One part of the NBGH survey asked employers about the impact of mergers and consolidation in the industry, along with so-called “new entrants” — such as technology companies, retailers, and organizations that typically haven’t served the legacy healthcare system.

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