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Dispatches from the Frontlines: Connected Health and COVID-19

Connected Health Initiative

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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Consumers Intend to Invest in Technology — With Budget and Value in Mind

Health Populi

Consumers continued to invest in and use several technologies that supported self-care at home in 2021, with plans to purchase connected health devices, sports and fitness equipment in the next year. This study assesses two measures of U.S. Energy efficient smart homes are faster growing, and. 24% of U.S.

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Study: Neonatal Telehealth Reduces Transfers and Boosts Hospital Revenue

BHM Healthcare Solutions

Editor’s Note: Healthcare organizations are increasingly looking to adopt telehealth programs, but they face a number of policy barriers that hinder their plans, according to the Center for Connected Health Policy. Study authors said this corresponded to 67.2 Click HERE to discuss how BHM helps payers. .

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People in the U.S. Without the Internet Were More Likely To Die in the Pandemic

Health Populi

Access to the Internet has been a key determinant of health — or more aptly, death — during the COVID-19 pandemic. Americans lacked Internet access were more likely to die due to complications from the coronavirus, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open this month. COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 were preventable.

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How’s Life? Around the World – In the U.S., It’s the Sadness That Stands Out

Health Populi

The study assesses a range of dimensions for current well-being, such as financial health (income and wealth), work and job quality, housing, health status, environmental quality, social connections, and civic engagement among other factors. First, see the OECD Well-being Framework illustrated here.

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Three in Five People 50+ in the US Will Likely Use Telehealth In the Future – An Update from AARP

Health Populi

The study polled U.S. “It appears that telehealth is likely to continue to remain an important tool in the health care delivery tool kit — at least for those with computers and high-speed internet access,” the AARP report concludes with a caveat about connectivity/broadband access.

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Real-Time Versus Store-and-Forward Telehealth Technology

AMD Telemedicine

Instead, all the relevant data — which can include patient records, MRI scans, test results, X-ray photos, and other essential data — is gathered together into a file and sent to the necessary professionals via a secure encrypted internet connection. Real-time telemedicine technologies, as you might have guessed, are more immediate.