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A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds

Health Populi

About 1 in 2 patients now receive treatment at home instead of going to a provider’s office, using virtual tools like video conference calls (“Zoom-ing” for medical care), online chat, and mobile health apps downloaded on smartphones.

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Dr. Roboto? Stanford Medicine Foresees Digital Doctors “Maturing”

Health Populi

Similarly, one-half of consumers expressed demand for digital health technologies in a study from GlobalWebIndex last year. 36% would use a digital health assistant (chatbot) to offer health advice, and 34% a digital health coach to help manage chronic disease or pain.

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How Young People Are Using Digital Tools to Help Deal with Mental Health

Health Populi

Compared with young adults who were not dealing with depression at all, peers with moderate to severe depression indexed much higher across all health seeking categories — especially for the mental health conditions, along with sleep disorders, smoking/vaping, eating disorders, drug or alcohol abuse, and STDs.

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Going Digital for Health Is a New-Normal for Consumers

Health Populi

Deloitte defines “virtual health” as enabling continuous, connected care via digital and telecommunication technologies. This includes patient-facing applications like video visits, remote monitoring, asynchronous visits, and medication adherence, among other applications.

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Bringing Telehealth to the Rehabilitation Industry

Advanced Medical Reviews

As the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) notes, different telehealth modalities include: Live video: referred to as “synchronous” format and uses live interaction between two parties over video. In addition, telehealth is presenting this industry with a lot more options with which to engage patients.

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mHealth Insights live from #HIMSS18

mHealth Insight

Chris plans to attend the following Conference tracks that have a mHealth focus: Monday 5 March (13:45pm Lando 4302): INTEGRATING DATA SOURCES TO SUPPORT CARE DELIVERY. Learning Objectives: Discuss the role of nurses in training patients to use new mHealth technologies. Outline current innovative uses of mHealth data.

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Two Forms of Telemedicine: Synchronous vs. Asynchronous

Lloyd Price

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) defines synchronous telemedicine as "live video-conferencing," which is a "two-way audiovisual link between a patient and a care provider." What is Synchronous Telemedicine? " The U.S. " What is Asynchronous Telemedicine?