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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 17, 2021

Connected Health Initiative Senior Policy Counsel Brian Scarpelli believes that the virtual care environment is here to stay. Pritts noted that HIPAA is quite broad – but it doesn't apply to the entirety of health IoT. Fitness trackers, meanwhile, are a gray area.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

17 in Boston, attached to the prestigious Connected Health conference. We know that researchers need access to good quality data. With more efficient access to data sources, medical researchers can spend more time on analysis that enhances our medical knowledgebase and less time compiling data. Register here.

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Connected Health Initiative

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The Connected Health Initiative (CHI) and Duke AI Health held an event focused on this topic and several others in the intersection of health and AI. That’s why a national privacy law is an important first step toward protecting all data, especially health data.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

APIs can enable “Data liberación,” a concept proposed by Todd Park when he worked in the Obama administration. Without securing patients’ personal health data leveraging APIs, those intimate details are highly hackable explained in All That we Let In , a report from Knight Ink and Appr0ov.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

are growing their health IT muscles and literacy, accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier.

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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

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Accelerate digital health. Secure health data (updating privacy/HIPAA). Help our children achieve their potential. Innovate long-term care. Advance academic medicine. Deliver breakthrough treatments.

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Connected Health Initiative

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The Promise of Digital Health Exists, Connected Health Initiative Urges Congress to Achieve Potential January 31, 2023—Today, ACT | The App Association’s Connected Health Initiative (CHI) released its priorities for the 118 th Congress. Full details of CHI congressional priorities can be read here.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

. “My physician” is the most trusted data steward, with 72% of consumers willing to share health data with “their” personal doctors. Only 11% of consumers said in 2018 that they’d be willing to share health data with them. Tech companies? In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

JANUARY 27, 2022

But trust is in short supply when it comes to consumers openness to share their personal information we learn through a new study published in JAMA , Consumer Willingness to Share Personal Digital Information for Health-Related Uses. A few over-arching findings: Consumers’ views of sharing health data depend on context.

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Health Populi

MAY 2, 2019

Just last month, Amazon announced HIPAA-compliant privacy bundled into Alexa skills with Atrium Health, Boston Children’s Hospital, CIGNA, ExpressScripts, Livongo, and Swedish Health Connect. GoInvo has been working for a long time on how to communicate health and healthcare data in enchanting ways.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 30, 2023

a market-leading digital health and personalized care company, has acquired the assets of Trapollo LLC , a connected health, technical support, and device logistics provider that helps healthcare organizations care for patients at home. Validic Inc. , Trapollo is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cox Communications, Inc.

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Health Populi

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

MARCH 2, 2021

Consumers’ trust in all sources of health information increased between 2018 and 2020 except for peoples’ trust in online health websites/apps and social media, both of which lost a number of consumers trusting them. consumers would be willing to share their health data were Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple.

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Health Populi

JULY 31, 2023

Nearly all patients are concerned about their medical records getting leaked or breached, which is The State of Patient Privacy , the title of a consumer study from Health Gorilla with a headline finding that “Patients don’t trust Big Tech with their health data.”

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Health Populi

MARCH 7, 2019

This tension has extreme relevance for personal health and healthcare, as AI and data analytics become quickly adopted by payors, insurance companies, providers, pharma, and consumer tech companies that lie outside of HIPAA privacy and security regulations.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JUNE 8, 2022

a multi-award-winning leader of Connected Health Technology, announced today its winning contract with ProHealth Partners, a well-established network of primary care physicians and specialists in the Greater Long Beach area with expansion into Los Angeles and Orange County areas with more than 200 physicians spanning more than 80 locations.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

APRIL 13, 2022

Value is added to the patients’ care experience through the use of Connected Health Technology, telemedicine, and other advancements in healthcare. DrKumo , a leader of massively scalable remote patient monitoring (RPM), uses AI to analyze patient-generated health data being collected through sensor fusion-equipped medical devices.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

I’m also especially keen, from the patient privacy perspective, to hear my close colleagues Deven McGraw and Vince Kuraitis explain the “Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Sharing? But will HIPAA protect American patients in this world of AI, Big Data velocity and volume, and persistent social check-ins?

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Using digital tech has improved consumers’ experiences with health care providers across a range of tasks: 53% told Philips it’s easier to schedule appointments, 47% think it’s easier to get test results, 42% receive appointment reminders, and 27% are able to monitor health indicators on their own.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Many personal information flows don’t fall under the HIPAA umbrella if the company isn’t a business associate. Furthermore, this week Google made news about how it will absorb the DeepMind AI business into the larger Google Health unit.

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Enzyme Health

JUNE 19, 2019

CCHP: CCHP stands for the Center for Connected Health Policy and is a non-profit that has been designated the national telehealth policy resource center. CMS is the federal agency that administers HIPAA standards and develops Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement policies for telemedicine.

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Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2018

Baking in privacy by design must be the go-to strategy for health IT developers to bolster patient trust in their electronic health records. Finally, a re-imagination of what HIPAA should be in the era of Apple/Google/Facebook growth in health records is in order.

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Health Populi

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. ” Here’s Ascension’s press release on the collaboration , described in the title as “healthcare transformation.”

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2018

Rock Health’s 2018 survey reinforces what we know-we know about consumers’ willingness to share health data — and that is that the physician, above all health care entities, is the patient’s most trusted data steward. Check out Estonia and Switzerland for case studies on that.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

AUGUST 21, 2024

Moreover, the study highlighted that RPM technology not only reduced the need for frequent clinic visits but also empowered pregnant women through digital patient engagement by providing them with real-time health data. According to their findings, fifty states and Washington D.C.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Data Management: Implement robust data management policies that ensure patient data is securely collected, transmitted, and stored. Utilize data analytics tools to effectively interpret the influx of health data for timely clinical decision-making. DrKumo RPM for Hypertension Management DrKumo Inc.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 17, 2022

This comprehensive insight allows providers to better link patients to treatments and resources that promote patient safety and overall health. Your role in this process is essential for the success of remote monitoring programs because patients need someone they can trust with their health data.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 17, 2022

This comprehensive insight allows providers to better link patients to treatments and resources that promote patient safety and overall health. Your role in this process is essential for the success of remote monitoring programs because patients need someone they can trust with their health data.

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Lloyd Price

JANUARY 30, 2019

The startup uses Google Home, Amazon Echo and other smart speakers to engage patients and the elderly and connect them with their caregivers. Last summer, Best Buy put down $800 million in cash to acquire GreatCall, a mobile device that connects health and emergency response services to older people and their caregivers.

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Chilmark Research

JANUARY 17, 2014

In a few short weeks, the Health IT Policy Committee (HITPC) is set to deliver an official recommendation on the topic of Stage 3’s patient engagement requirements to the ONC. care partners or those who assist them) to help address a health concern.”. But suffice to say there’s a small storm-a-comin.’

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Health Populi

AUGUST 28, 2020

adults 18 and over in mid-June 2020 to gauge peoples’ perspectives on health data and privacy. believe that data privacy “is a thing of the past,” MITRE’s summary coined, with older people (Boomers and Seniors) most likely to feel that way. The Harris Poll conducted the study among 2,065 U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 4, 2023

Thus the program, “unlocks the wealth of health data in daily urine,” the press release notes. The product earned honors for a prestigious 2023 CES Innovation Award, recognized by reviewers as a front-runner in digital health tech at this year’s conference.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

This only accelerated during the coronavirus pandemic, and this time around, bolstered by digital health tools and access to broadband unavailable 14 years ago. Consumers are excited about connected health care , the Trusted Future study bullishly reports. In and beyond 2023, a trusted future is a healthy future.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Although there is excitement around voice health, innovators are working to remove speed bumps to accelerate adoption: Addressing Privacy/Security. Several organizations are anxiously awaiting for HIPAA compliant voice devices. There is also a concern that the device is always listening, even without the “wake” word.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: As he moves into the White House on Wednesday 20th January, Joe Biden won’t be able to bring his Peloton connected cycle to use in workouts. Justice Department.

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