Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2024

Confronting and addressing access and health equity. Health access is a key factor for patient experience from appointment scheduling in a timely manner to “feeling” embraced by the health system in terms of health equity and access to contemporary protocols. Lowering costs and bolstering value for payers….including

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The most common conditions employers, plans, and health systems are covering via digital tools are diabetes, among two-thirds of the purchasers; primary care, for 62%; and mental health, preventive care, and cardiovascular conditions for over 50% of purchasers.

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AMD Telemedicine

JANUARY 31, 2023

In contrast, real-time technology is very effective for practitioners who see large numbers of patients, do frequent follow-up visits, or must provide immediate advice to patients who require medical attention. Patient experience, trust, and satisfaction are other significant benefits offered by live technology.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2022

In pre-pandemic times, family and friends were lifelines for patients undergoing treatments and grappling with a life-changing disease,” BDO observes at the end of the report. ” The post Jasper, Scaling a Human Touch for People Dealing with Cancer, Now With Walgreens appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Chris Gibbons, founder and CEO of The Greystone Group, during the HIMSS session – which is now on-demand and explores how providers and federal, state and local policymakers are changing the way they think about the internet of things and connected health tools as they focus on population health management.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 10, 2024

I am especially enthused about the bathroom in the Samsung Health House as this home space is particularly well-suited to collecting biometric information that is super-useful for health-tracking and -prediction making — in unobtrusive ways.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2019

The consulting team assesses both patient experience and care pathways, beyond just the historical role of selling medical devices to health care providers. To give you an example of this process, here’s one of my favorite examples of Philips’ design-ful approach in a health care setting.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 28, 2020

Improving patient outcomes is the primary goal of telehealth, and hospital and health system CIOs and executives should know there is no one-size-fits-all solution, said Jason Bellet, co-founder and chief customer officer at Eko, a telehealth, connected health device and remote patient monitoring technology company.

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Xealth

MARCH 13, 2023

Xealth is first heading to Nashville for ViVE, March 26-29, an event dedicated to the senior digital health leaders focusing on the business of healthcare systems. We’re thrilled to be the official WiFi sponsor — connecting attendees to the internet, just like we connect health systems to patients.

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Health Populi

MAY 17, 2021

Each of the teams with whom we collaborated did a stellar job with their pitch desks, business model articulation, and deployment of the latest technology – for example, chatbots working toward mental health and FHIR standards toward interoperability.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 28, 2023

.” RTI has explored ageism in health/ care, noting that seniors face health inequities at a rate never before seen. For example, many older Americans face transportation barriers that limit their ability to visit a physician’s office or access other healthcare services.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

The coronavirus spawned another kind of gift to China and the nation’s health citizens: telemedicine, the essay explains. For example, only health care providers that have an existing relationship with a Medicare patient would be eligible per the requirements in the legislation.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Here’s a recent example of health and wellness embedded in a connected car from Hyundai, one of many auto manufacturers re-imagining health as a benefit of driving in a car.

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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. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The six photos shown above are but a few examples displayed and explained in the Philips Innovation Gallery. Take George and Audrey.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Health data and privacy considerations, especially due to varying state laws that fragment a Federal/national approach to personal data protection. These barriers are an underlying theme in CTA’s paper on advancing health equity through technology, sponsored by CTA and the App Association’s Connected Health Initiative (ACT).

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Patients-as-consumers increasingly expect retail-enchanting service levels from health care – especially as patients pay medical bills increasingly out-of-pocket. Convenience can take the form of time: for example, time to drive to an appointment and/or time required to be away from work to attend to that appointment.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Here’s a recent example of health and wellness embedded in a connected car from Hyundai, one of many auto manufacturers re-imagining health as a benefit of driving in a car.

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2020

This graph compares consumers’ demands by digital health channels for accessing various points of care across personal health care life-flows. That’s the required sausage-making behind the scenes of Capgemini’s bullish forecast on digital health consumers.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2023

Most consumers who are aware of common uses of AI know about wearable fitness trackers that can analyze exercise and sleep patterns, as a top health/wellness application for the technology.

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Iris Telehealth

APRIL 29, 2024

That’s why it’s important to think through what interoperability looks like and the components related to patient and provider experience. Let’s take a closer look at a few of these points: Patient experience: Integrating platforms that seamlessly work with an organization’s existing systems creates a better experience for patients.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

The report dives into the stakeholder groups, offering market maps with examples of companies and innovators in each innovation space, from digital front doors like Dexcare, Phreesia and Doctor.com, scheduling access via Symplr, ZocDoc and DocASAP, and digital diagnosis and triage from Gyant and K Health, et.

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Health Populi

JULY 10, 2023

Look for other health-related deals, too; for example, Amazon’s announcement served up “[savings] up to 40% on Peloton Bike, Bike+, Guide, accessories, and select apparel.” ” Amazon began to sell a line of Peloton stuff last August: here’s a link to Amazon’s Peloton page for your future reference.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

For example, rural areas often face connectivity issues, limiting access to virtual care. This disparity, often referred to as the “digital divide,” is particularly evident in rural and low-income communities, where limited access to healthcare resources and technology exacerbates health inequalities.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2020

But at CES 2020, he sees launches of new health care products (citing examples from MedWand and Owlet, which I covered yesterday in Health Populi ) as the stuff to watch at CES 2020. His key observation of “Day Zero” was that, “CES is where the buzz isn’t.”

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Consider the plethora of EHR systems, scheduling idiosyncrasies, physician adoption and workflow considerations, and patient matching challenges, for example. On the health system (provider) side, there is substantial pressure to reduce costs and at the same time, provide innovative services.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 3, 2022

It’s important to walk beyond the digital health aisles to think outside of the strictly-healthcare box to deal with peoples’ well-being factors adjacent to the purely medical.

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Health Populi

JULY 28, 2019

.” A few health care industry updates point to some players, from one of the oldest chain pharmacy companies to a start-up going public on the stock exchange last week at a valuation of over $1 bn, to deliver a streamlining platform for “sparking joy” among patients.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

Anderson asserted that, “We have this great promise of AI: that it’s going to enable people that traditionally don’t have easy access to healthcare to be able to have access to patient navigator tools.

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Health Populi

JULY 16, 2019

In my own vision of the retail home health/care ecosystem, these five categories can blur and combinations can serve the consumer’s health at home and on-the-move (for truly mobile health, not just “mHealth” via phone apps).

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

We cannot expect Technology itself to be a panacea to this national tragedy that public policies must help solve in terms of underlying drivers of health and well-being. But there are technology innovations that can help people deal with addiction through, for example, digital therapeutic solutions.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

As part of this rigorous study design, AMA used particular definitions for the seven tools the study gauged: remote monitoring for efficiency, remote monitoring and management for improved care, clinical decision support, patient engagement, tele-visits/virtual visits, point of care/workflow enhancement, and consumer access to clinical data.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Collaboration can help insure as well as assure health. The examples of collaborations and alliances described here have been just a toe in much deeper water that’s the evolving health/care ecosystem.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Finally, healthcare costs are top-of-mind for patients in the U.S. Financial toxicity is a growing concern among oncologists treating patients with cancer, for example. Doctors and patients want to discuss healthcare costs and have greater transparency available for healthcare products and services.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

Because of what the health care ecosystem stakeholders know — that consumers and patients are hyper-connected. Today, technologies like augmented reality are enabling beauty shoppers, for example, to try out products on their own faces via apps now available to them.

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Health Populi

MAY 29, 2018

Distance to information and insights , bringing patients’ information to clinicians’ fingertips wherever that clinician is located. “The technology is liberating for the patient, and potentially lifesaving,” Accenture says.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 25, 2023

"We were looking for an end-to-end system that offered patients more support, but also helped triage issues that needed direct physician intervention from those that would result in unnecessary office visits," he added. "For us, Cadence's total partnership model resonated," Cheung explained.

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Health Populi

JULY 29, 2022

With food, gas ‘n healthcare on consumers’ minds these days, Costco and dozens of other retail channels are capturing various items in health consumers household budgets for products and services — like Hy-Vee’s new test-to-treat program for COVID-19 and Paxlovid, just one example of care delivered closer to home or at-home.

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