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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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2021

Ironically, the more people share data in a public health crisis, the more that information can be used for good to, in the case of the coronavirus, test, track, and snuff the virus. Health disparities, continued digital divide, health inequities, are unsustainable if we prioritize advancing public health.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 9, 2024

This strategic acquisition underscores Health Commons Project’s commitment to expanding its impact by improving data interoperability, enhancing care coordination, and promoting public health across Washington. “Our shared mission of using health data to improve patient outcomes will be more achievable than ever.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

” While the AMA and many others are advocating for continued support of telehealth post-pandemic, healthcare providers and practice leaders should anticipate and prepare for a return to more standardized regulation after the public health emergency (PHE). Anticipated New CMS Rules for Telehealth. Staying Ahead of Change.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

While technology can scale some service delivery and transparency, we should be mindful to design apps and tools and tech-enabled services with principles of ethics-by-design, privacy-by-design, and public health principles promoting access and equity.

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Health Populi

JULY 23, 2020

One of the public health hallmarks of the pandemic era has been stress, documented by the American Psychological Association’s Stress in America survey. FYI, on 1st – 3rd September 2020, Parks Associates will be convening a Connected Health Summit, focused on consumer engagement and innovation.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Their ten must-do’s for bending the cost curve while driving constructive change for a better health care system are to: Ensure access. Achieve health equity. Stability the safety net and rebuild public health. Address social determinants of health. Accelerate digital health. Innovate long-term care.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

My curated six-pack of love and health care chosen for Valentine’s Day 2022… #LoveThyNeighbor – a Faith-Based Call for Vaccination – on The Catholic Health Association’s commitment to vaccinating America.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. TripleTree is an investment bank that has advised health care transactions since 1997.

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Health Populi

MAY 5, 2021

In the COVID-19 era, clinicians and health systems stood up virtual care across the board as-required. One are, tele-mental and -behavioral health, is meeting the moment, with virtual therapy meeting up with under-served demand from before the public health crisis.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

I covered the event here in Health Populi, as I have for most of the past decade, highlighting the growth of digital health and, this year, the expanding Internet of Healthy Things called-out by Dr. Joseph Kvedar in 2015. Most people using at-home connected exercise equipment also foresee doing so after the coronavirus fades.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

One in four people would consider online options as their first-line to evaluating personal health issues — a kind of “digital step therapy,” if you will. The post The COVID-19 Era Has Grown Health Consumer Demand for Virtual Care appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The American Telemedicine Association, the Connected Health Initiative and other industry groups issued a letter to Congress on Friday urging legislators to extend temporary telehealth flexibilities until the end of 2021. WHY IT MATTERS. Taking Stock of Progress and Looking Ahead.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Health Populi’s Hot Points : Since well before the COVID-19 public health crisis, there has been a shortage of mental health providers in the U.S. Watch this space for more evidence-based tools to help all of us deal with the toxic side effects of the public health crisis, ongoing.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2021

Scale matters to survive a public health crisis. Dowling pointed to the benefits of being a large integrated health care system with multiple hospitals, ambulatory care services and a broad portfolio of capabilities that enabled Northwell Health to be responsive to the needs of the pandemic and deal with the crisis.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 18, 2020

We know that people (consumers, patients, caregivers all) have learned more about their health values during the pandemic, for themselves as individuals, their families, their neighborhoods and communities, and nations’ public health.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2021

For most young people, the public health crisis has been more about that social distancing from friends, a collective sense of isolation, and mental and behavioral health impacts. After a year of living with and “in” the coronavirus pandemic, younger people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

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.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 7, 2025

Sleep, or lack thereof, is a public health challenge around the world whatever your postal code or demographic profile. Can technology help us bridge the sleep deprivation gap, or is technology destined to ruin our mind-body-spirit health?

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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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

JUNE 16, 2022

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. households owned a smart or connected health monitoring device, with 22 million homes planning to buy at least one in the next year.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

and globally), there is a major and dangerous disconnect between that “feeling” and the raw reality that without a strong nurse backbone, health care, public health, and individual patient health are compromised. Even as nurses are lauded as being “the most” trusted profession in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 31, 2018

Omron has been one of the few consumer-facing digital health companies that has taken the long-view and done the work to file for FDA clearance for a medical-grade technology that mainstream consumers can use. Omron seeks to jump that hurdle through FDA clearance.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 12, 2021

During the pandemic, health care providers needed to deal with the security of devices rapidly procured and deployed within institutions and also outside the walls of providers, such as in field hospitals meeting the surge of coronavirus patients. 32% of medical imaging devices were running on unsupported operating systems, and.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 24, 2022

Teladoc Health. In the near term, ATA Action says it is pushing for at least a year's extension of the temporary flexibilities put in place during the COVID-19 public health emergency, along with longer-term goals of making policies permanent. Reinstating benefits for millions of Americans.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2018

The NHS “supply shortage” is a result of financial cuts to both social care and public health. This article in the BMJ published earlier this year called for increasing these investments to ensure further erosion of population and public health outcomes, and to prevent further health disparities in the UK.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2020

This week, two organizations mission-driven by these “C” words aligned to bolster digital health care transformation for all people — not just those of us advantaged by a bountiful local, accessible portfolio of social determinants of health (SDoH).

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Health Populi

APRIL 7, 2019

In addition to the food supply impact for the Planet Earth’s patients, climate change impacts public health in many other ways. The American Public Health Association founded the Center for Climate.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2025

Each year, ECRI (the ECRI Institute) publishes an annual report on the Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for the year. The 2025 list was published today. My read of it is that most of these risks have to do with what I’ve been referring to as the Human OS, the Human Operating System, in my talks and teachings.

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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2020

Six in 10 patients said their trust/believe in health care providers increased as a result of COVID-19, followed by 50% of patients finding increased trust in urgent care clinics, 49% in public health institutions, 48% in independent pharmacies. 45% in pharmaceutical companies, and 44% in large retail pharmacy chains.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

How would you improve what’s in the bill to optimize the use of telehealth in this challenging public health moment? What can we expect to hear relevant to the public health challenge? Check out this last public health poster about Medicare and COVID-19. The President signed the $8.3

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 26, 2022

The American Telemedicine Association and its ATA Action affiliate on Monday expressed support for a bipartisan bill that would extend the virtual care flexibilities of the public health emergency another two years. They also called for the legislation to safeguard two other provisions they said were key to health equity.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

Thanks to AARP for conducting multiple studies on health and well-being that are informing our work into the future of health care, reducing health disparities, and bolstering public health for all.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 5, 2022

Doing so reinforces a virtuous cycle that informs clinical research and health innovations. Every technology that touches on health and well-being at CES is part of a connected health ecosystem. Ensuring that data is used for good helps to bolster trust that motivates health citizens to share that data.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 17, 2020

In addition to the regional TRCs, the National Telehealth Technology Assessment Resource Center and the Center for Connected Health Policy evaluate different types of telehealth technology and track telehealth-related policy, respectively. HIMSS20 Digital.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2021

If they don't act before the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency, the groups said, Medicare beneficiaries "will lose access to virtual care options which have become a lifeline to many." "Many of the telehealth flexibilities are temporary and limited to the duration of the COVID-19 public health emergency.

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