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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DECEMBER 16, 2024

adults plans to purchase at least one health and wellness digital health technology product to gift during the winter 2024 holiday season, according to the 2024 Consumer Technology Holiday Purchase Patterns study served up by CTA, the Consumer Technology Association — aka the annual host of CES. One in two U.S.

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AUGUST 25, 2020

This drove health consumers to virtual care platforms in the first months of the public health crisis — including lots of older people who had never used telemedicine or even a mobile health app. The study identified several key concerns about telehealth visits, shown in the graphic.

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MAY 3, 2021

Similarly, 42% of global health citizens were very or extremely comfortable with consulting a therapist online or via a mobile health app for mental health counsel and support.

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MARCH 17, 2021

The bar chart from Kaiser Family Foundation’s look into mental health in 2020, illustrates that pandemic mental health reality, that over one-half of people between 18 and 24 reported symptoms of anxiety or depression during the public health crisis, with the incidence of feeling anxious or depressed declining with age.

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JULY 31, 2018

There are also hundreds of stories written in both mass media outlets and professional journals on the topic of TYAs and mental health: especially relative to depression and suicidality. The report was co-written by Victoria Rideout and Susannah Fox, two names Health Populi readers should know. adults, found in other studies.

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MARCH 2, 2021

Rock Health and Stanford commissioned an online survey among 7,980 U.S. adults from early September to early October 2020 to gauge peoples’ interest in and utilization of digital health tools and telehealth. Can Google grow health-trust as they, too, expand their desired footprint in health care?

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NOVEMBER 18, 2019

As technology continues to re-shape consumers’ experiences and expectations with health/care, retail, travel and work, peoples’ concerns about data privacy are also growing as observed by a 2020 consumer trends forecast from GlobalWebIndex, Connecting the dots. First, some overall context to the study.

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OCTOBER 29, 2019

have a smart people at home, only 1 in 13 Americans have used a voice assistant like Alexa or Google Assistant for health care. But over one-half of consumers would like to access a voice assistant for some aspect of their health care, according to a study from Orbita and Voicebot , Voice Assistant Consumer Adoption in Healthcare.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

The Center for Connected Health Policy has published a 21-page guide intended to help providers with telehealth-based Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements. Asynchronous virtual visits are helping reduce the burdens on primary care providers at Prisma Health, while also enabling easier access, convenience and speed to care for patients.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

While Millennials are more likely to current use digital health tools compared with older Americans, Seniors’ killer-app for digital health is ePrescribing, refilling prescriptions, used by nearly one-half of older people. This is roughly equal to patients across all age cohorts in the study. Deloitte surveyed 4,530 U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

As a result of the pandemic, staying connected is more important than ever for older people, Best Buy Health learned in a survey of U.S. Insights from this study have informed the launch of the Lively Flip , which Best Buy Health introduces today.

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JANUARY 24, 2022

A new study from CIGNA and its subsidiary MDLive touts the cost-effectiveness of telehealth to improve health outcomes, reducing the need for unnecessary lab work, reducing duplication of care, and connecting patients with high-performing providers. 55 percent of U.S. Nearly one-half of U.S.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The drawing illustrates the many life-flows that consumers adopted as a result of the Great Lockdown, tele-working from home, going to school from home, streaming entertainment instead of heading to the brick-and-mortar cinema, shopping, and indeed, accessing health care.

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OCTOBER 22, 2024

In developing services and products to scale health and well-being for all, being clear and inclusive about health consumers’ tastes and preferences, health risks and conditions, and technology realities are key to embed in our planning and design thinking.

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2021

study, Edelman interviewed 1,500 U.S. Health Populi’s Hot Points: This 21-year low for the tech industry has implications for health care as digital health technology blurs into everyday healthcare the way “e-business” and the Internet melted into our daily work and personal life-flows. For the U.S.

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MARCH 10, 2020

There’s a nuance in trust that’s a key insight in this study regarding trust in clinicians overall, and trust when clinicians use technology. This bolsters Accenture’s finding discussed above about the use of IM/AI in health care. Three-fourths of U.S.

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JULY 28, 2020

The growth of virtual care and telehealth, adoption of wearable technologies ( discussed here in Health Populi in yesterday’s coverage of the Capgemini health consumer study), and growing use of the cloud were all shown off at CES 2020.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Most employers and their workers see the benefits of digital health in helping make health care more accessible and lower-cost, according to survey research published in Health on Demand from Mercer Marsh Benefits. In total, Mercer interviewed 16,564 workers and 1,300 senior decision makers in companies.

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JANUARY 30, 2019

We’ll need to crowdsource and share findings from these studies to gauge what works. This will help pay-it-forward for future patients and doctors in helping forge more efficient and cost-effective health care, as well as high consumer-grade experiences.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

This study found that most Americans are fairly or very concerned about sharing their data with companies, as well as how companies use and store consumers’ personal data. Only people over 65 prefer desktop computers for a few of these tasks, otherwise the phone dominates the task-map.

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JULY 22, 2021

Note that telehealth was not nearly the only digital health tool employed by consumers and clinicians during the pandemic; clinical trials leveraged connected devices, care team emails proliferated (part of telehealth, broadly defined), and disease management apps supported patients managing chronic conditions from home.

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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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OCTOBER 3, 2018

Thus, the main takeaway from the study, KFF President and CEO Drew Altman noted, is that rising health care costs absolutely remain a burden for employers — but a bigger problem for workers in America. Adoption of wearable tech and mobile health apps in companies’ wellness programs is expanding.

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JUNE 6, 2019

Across the four types of tech studied, it’s smartphones that top the list of penetration in rural areas (at 71%), closely followed by computers (desktop or laptop, with 69% adoption), broadband (at 63%) and tablets in fourth/last place (49%).

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MAY 6, 2020

Growing downloads and use of fitness and health apps, more workouts at home via fitness portals and online gym offerings, and mental health programs like Headspace and Calm have grown in the COVID-19 pandemic. Accenture’s study also asked whether we will have a “home-working revolution?”

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SEPTEMBER 21, 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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MARCH 5, 2018

The first chart from the Pew study illustrates that there are several other social networks tightly clustered in terms of use beyond Instagram, including Pinterest, Snapchat, LinkedIn, Twitter, and WhatsApp. adults age 18 and over in early January 2018 for this study. adults using the site compared with 68% using Facebook.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As the world becomes increasingly digitized, the healthcare industry is rapidly adopting connected health technology. Let us talk about connected health’s conceptual model, some popular examples of devices, and their applications in actual clinical practice. What is the Connected Health Model?

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Start with tracking: nearly 80% of people tracked at least one health metric in 2019, but nearly one-half of that tracking was done in an analog, not digital way. What do health trackers track, then? consumers would be most willing to share their health data. ” How not-so-far we have come, right? with Apple.

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JUNE 16, 2021

Among the least likely barriers were unqualified clinicians (compared with a “live” in-person doctor), the doctor’s inability to share health information with the patient, difficulty in booking an appointment, distractions from other online activities, and privacy issues.

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JUNE 18, 2024

The study was fielded between December 2023 and February 2024. in terms of countries covered in the study. Globally, two-thirds of health care leaders see deteriorating staff well-being, physical and mental. First, the staff shortage which is a worldwide phenomenon, from Australia to the U.S.

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AUGUST 27, 2018

If user experience is positive, then consumers will sustain their use of the innovation over time — a barrier which health-focused wearables, in particularly, have encountered. In this study, one in four wearable tech owners said they no longer used the device. Check out Estonia and Switzerland for case studies on that.

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MAY 12, 2021

“Compare digital health to airlines, cruise lines, and other industries” and the sector looks quite privileged, opined Matthew Holt in a discussion on a study diving deeply into the State of Digital Health , conducted by Catalyst @ Health 2.0 and sponsored by WIPFLI.

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DECEMBER 2, 2019

The first chart illustrates patients’ use of tech and tools for health and fitness by country studied. Across each line item, note that more Americans use these tools, with the exception of Singaporeans, more of whom use tech for health and fitness improvement, and monitoring issues like blood sugar.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Those communities have matured and a decade later, led to the New England Journal of Medicine ‘s Catalyst community assessing how social networks can improve patient health. The Insights Report from this study is available here. Social networks are useful in health care delivery, virtually all healthcare stakeholders agreed.

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JULY 29, 2024

AARP found that 7 in 10 people ages 50+ are “app-receptive” for health and wellness apps in Unlocking Health and Wellness Apps: Experiences of Adults Age 50-Plus , a summary of research conducted with U.S. consumers 50 and over from AARP.

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