Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

In an age when nearly everyone is digitally connected in some way – even many senior citizens, who are often characterized as technophobic – it only makes sense that the healthcare industry is seeing a lot of connected health devices and remote patient monitoring (RPM) technologies.

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Health Populi

MARCH 16, 2025

A key differentiator for the new-tech-DTC/AI purveyors is that “Bit Tech maintains control over their own data ecosystems,” and do not, in Dr. M’s estimation, “cede(d) control of their data assets to EHR vendors.”

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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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Health Populi

JULY 23, 2020

What will enable this vision is a networked health care system where data can flow seamlessly between these different health care touchpoints. That further enhances patient experience, and further enables the patient to self-manage care at home where it’s safe, hygienic, and risk-managed.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 1, 2024

The following is a guest article by LexisNexis® Risk Solutions Consumer healthcare data is the new gold. In today’s complex healthcare landscape, those who access this wealth of data are more likely to optimize digital health programs to help improve patient engagement and health outcomes and to advance breakthroughs in clinical research.

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2022

He had me at the statement, “I believe health data is medicine.”. The basic (well, not-so-basic) operating system starts with the electronic health record (EHR), accessing data for the patient: allergies, conditions, immunizations, labs, meds, procedures, vitals, in real-time and in a continuous longitudinal timeline.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic accelerated digital transformation of organizations, including health care providers. Furthermore, nearly one-half of people with a mental health condition also delayed care more than people who did not report mental health issues. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Digital health tools generate data.

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DECEMBER 5, 2024

The company is collecting data to learn more about the direct impacts of people living in the pioneering space and will advocate for TID to be an industry standard that helps people heal and find stability in their lives. The company is also training company staff on TID and empathy-led approaches to design.

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Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2018

“Health agencies will have to become at least as sophisticated as other consumer/retail industries in analyzing a variety of data that helps uncover root causes of human behavior,” Gartner recommended in 2017. That’s because “health” is not all pre-determined by our parent-given genetics.

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MARCH 10, 2025

health care system today: namely, Managing patient violence Inadequate patient handoffs– but in this case, related to patient transport #5 and #9 in the list 10 years later identify care coordination challenges, which continue to mar health care quality in the U.S.

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JANUARY 4, 2022

Here, note the growth of connected TVs, more spending on laptops and computers (driven heavily by continued working-from-home and educating supported in homes), gaming (again, with homes even more focusing on entertainment and family and individual fun time), and wireless headphones — part of that 21st century living.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

One very important finding in this study is that access to one’s health data demonstrates consumers are more collaborative with their clinicians — and are more open to sharing their data. 84% of consumers with access to personal electronic health data want their health care professionals to have access, as well.

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AUGUST 9, 2021

health citizens’ minds, making people more aware of the value of their health data, privacy and security aspects. “Making healthcare more human begins with a step in the patient’s shoes,” Rich Birhanzel wrote in Accenture’s Humanizing Healthcare blog in July 2021.

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MARCH 5, 2018

Health Populi’s Hot Points : Health is social: isolation is a social determinant for ill health. We learned from the first Edelman Health Engagement Barometer that the three top factors that consumers look for when health-engaging with any organization are trust, authenticity, and satisfaction. 46% of U.S.

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Digital Health Global

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This integration brings exclusive cellular-enabled, patient-friendly monitoring devices supplied by Smart Meter, a leading connected health solution supplier to a rapidly growing nationwide network of Smart Partners , to the Validic ecosystem.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 18, 2020

That information control is a major issue for 70% of health care consumers, “concerned about data privacy and commercial tracking associated with ‘my’ online activities, behaviors, location and interests,” Accenture’s survey learned.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2019

“Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans,” the Wall Street Journal reported in today’s paper and on the WSJ.com website. Ascension is the second largest health system in the U.S., The media coverage of hospitals suing patients for late payments?

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The first graphic shown here illustrates the authors’ view on the digital evolution of HaH from delivery of care (migrating from in-person to fully virtual), telecomms (from telephone to embedded HIPAA-compliant video conferencing), and remote monitoring, moving from patient-reported data of vital signs to wearable sensors.

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MARCH 10, 2020

Department of Health and Human Services unveiled the long-anticipated ONC Cures Act Final Rule for health data interoperability. That’s a wonky phrase that translates, simply put, into how our health data will be made available to us patients, consumers, health plan members, caregivers all.

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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2019

If Facebook disappeared, a plurality of these patients would turn to Instagram, then Twitter. This, within a year of the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica revelations about the in-security of personal data and lack of transparency when it comes to a platform’s sharing of that data with third parties.

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AUGUST 25, 2020

The latter have impacts on the former in terms of managing patient-density in physical spaces, scheduling time in procedure rooms, and dealing with high-risk patients who must mindfully risk-manage their exposure to the virus. Depending on the trajectory of the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Postpartum hypertension is a leading cause of postpartum hospital readmissions and severe maternal morbidity, since it can lead to heart attacks and strokes, which makes it vital to monitor blood pressure closely and then be able to leverage data from blood pressure readings. The pandemic magnified these challenges. " she explained.

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MARCH 3, 2025

Drive population health. We learned a lot about health equity and disparities during the pandemic: one key driver of health (or social determinant of health, SDoH) which had been one of my talking points since writing about it in the Huffington Post in 2016 was connectivity — the Internet kind of connection.

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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

APRIL 10, 2018

It takes a good nudge from a provider to motivate a patient to access online medical records, found by ONC in their latest research into consumers’ use of EHRs detailed in Individuals’ use of online medical records and technology for health needs , the ONC Data Brief No. 40, published April 2018.

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

. “We hope our work will inspire others to join our health assurance movement and usher in a new era of better health for everyone in our communities,” the GC team envisions. Samsung Health already works with Walgreens, ThedaCare, Lee health, and Rise Health whose data could be accessed by patients using their services.

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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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MAY 29, 2018

Trust has become a key currency in provider/patient/supplier relationships: 94% of health executives say treating customers as partners is important to gain trust, according to the Digital Health Tech Vision 2018 from Accenture. Data Veracity. That’s part of “doing no harm” with data in healthcare.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2019

I’ll give you four big reasons: The patient is expecting a consumer experience from health care. The patient is worried about privacy and data security. The patient is growing aware of her personal “data space.” ” The patient is a payor. The patient-consumer experience.

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MARCH 13, 2024

As part of these discussions, WEF published a report on Patient-first health with generative AI with the subtitle, “reshaping the care experience.” and, TruBridge, which partners with providers to connect patients (and their data) in rural areas with the health system.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 28, 2024

News HHS announced a reorganization , with ONC renamed the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy and Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ASTP/ONC). The Sequoia Project released the draft Data Usability Workgroup Implementation Guide, Version 2 , with a public comment period open through August 23.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Fresenius Medical Care North America (FMCNA) is adopting and supporting new Connected Health technologies that empower patients to monitor, collect, and share health and treatment data with their physicians and care providers.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2023

Pew Research Center has published several analyses based on the data collected in the December 2022 consumer survey. I’ll focus on a few of the health/care data points here, but I recommend your reviewing the entire set of reports to get to know how U.S. consumers are looking at AI in daily life.

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JANUARY 30, 2019

Christian Dameff and colleagues from UC-San Diego answer the question by saying, yes, PHRs are indeed more promising in this smartphone era with the advancement and adoption of FHIR standards that help make electronic health records more inter-operable.

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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. ON THE RECORD.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

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. Jonathan also uses the DreamMapper sleep app that couples to the connected CPAP mask, allowing him to track his sleep trends over time. Take George and Audrey.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Additionally, it can help them track how well the connected health tools are working as part of a telehealth, remote monitoring or other virtual care program. Among the tools on offer via Xealth's platform: Babyscripts, Glooko, SilverCloud Health, Welldoc and others.

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