Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 5, 2021

It's a matter of population health as well – and we have to get it right sooner rather than later. This is the chance to rethink strategies to deliver care. There are many opportunities for telehealth outside of rural care. Vendors should incorporate equity into their design.

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2025

Telehealth and remote health monitoring, virtually “seeing” and treatment patients in lower cost settings (such as the home) is one key strategy for value-based care. Another component of health equity is peoples’ access to health insurance (mostly an SDoH risk factor in the U.S.,

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Health System CIO

APRIL 24, 2018

Unless providers are reimbursed based on outcomes and quality – and not on services rendered, as is often the case – they’re not going to embrace connected health as a strategy, says Dr. Joe Kvedar.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2018

This initiative resulted in a strategy for tackling loneliness in the United Kingdom. Three quarters of GPs surveyed have said they are seeing between one and five people a day suffering with loneliness, which is linked to a range of damaging health impacts, like heart disease, strokes and Alzheimer’s disease.

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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

JANUARY 30, 2019

Nearly one-half of consumers also said they’d be comfortable receiving health services from a technology company like Google or Microsoft. This is consistent with a previous survey by PwC’s firm Strategy& conducted several years ago which asked consumers what industries they would trust to help them manage their health.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 19, 2025

Social media falls to the bottom with only 48% of global citizens trusting this sector — far below the next-lowest industry, fashion, with 63% of people trusting it.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Fresenius Medical Care North America (FMCNA) is adopting and supporting new Connected Health technologies that empower patients to monitor, collect, and share health and treatment data with their physicians and care providers. Connected Health and new technologies in health care don’t come without concerns and risks.

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Health Populi

JULY 5, 2021

Health care, through telehealth, health education, and wearable sensors that make up the Internet of Things for medical and healthcare.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 24, 2022

Their research shows growing demand for connected solutions for air quality, telehealth, independent living solutions, and other health-adjacent services: Consumer usage of telehealth services increased from 15 percent in Q2 2019 to 64 percent in 2021. 55 percent of U.S. Nearly one-half of U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2021

This last chart from a 2014 PwC/Strategy& report on the birth of the healthcare consumer is data I often turned to as U.S. consumers became increasingly comfortable with “digitally-enabled companies” — say, Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft — to help manage personal health.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

The pandemic has put health care top-of-mind for health citizens the world over. public health sector. public health crisis, and five strategies the U.S. An essay in the Stanford Social Innovation Review tries to reimagine the U.S. Kevin Kirkpatrick identifies five realities behind the U.S,

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

For example, Abner now sees that every Medicaid RFP has health equity embedded in it. We then came full circle to my initial question: why the re-branding strategy, moving from “ConsejoSano” to “SameSky Health?”. So the new name communicates “that we all deserve a health care system that works for all of us,” Abner asserts.

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Chilmark Research

JANUARY 14, 2015

The Walgreens PR team has been busy of late, announcing a spate of partnerships that aim to transform them from a brick-and-mortar retail pharmacy into a digital one-stop shop for health care consumers. But their strategy to leverage wearables, at-home biometrics, virtual visits, and in-app tools is worth a closer look.

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Connected Health Initiative

AUGUST 24, 2023

ET (followed by reception) Location: National Press Club, 529 14th St NW, Washington, DC 20045 Washington, DC — The Connected Health Initiative (CHI), in collaboration with Duke AI Health, is thrilled to announce the upcoming event: “Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Digital Healthcare.”

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The APA reminds us that stress is ubiquitous, but there are buffers and counter-vailing strategies that can help people mitigate the negative effects of stress. This is the ultimate driver of health and well-being — the real connected health. [I’ve

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Additionally, it can help them track how well the connected health tools are working as part of a telehealth, remote monitoring or other virtual care program. Among the tools on offer via Xealth's platform: Babyscripts, Glooko, SilverCloud Health, Welldoc and others. "Our patients expect to be treated like consumers.

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Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2018

The Sage team explains that, by layering knowledge about peoples’ behaviors, beliefs, and attitudes on top of the traditional SDOH factors, health care providers can mash-up SBDoH – “socio-behavioral determinants of health” — your new acronym to add to your growing list of healthcare ABCs.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 7, 2018

employers are growing activist roles as stakeholders in the healthcare system, according to the 2019 Large Employers Health Care Strategy and Plan Design Survey from the National Business Group on Health (NBGH). 70% of employers said these new market entrants will be necessary to disrupt the market in a positive way.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 27, 2021

The healthcare industry has been learning about virtual mental health services for quite some time. Providers need an escalation strategy. The COVID-19 pandemic, however, provided a crash course in this care delivery mode.

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Health Populi

JULY 2, 2024

As part of the agency’s AI strategy, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services developed a rubric for AI “hygiene” shown in this chart. The HHS AI strategy is organized in four focus areas: the workforce, innovation and R&D, democratizing tools and resources, and promoting trust.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 5, 2022

Remote patient monitoring is moving into the mainstream as more patients have acquainted themselves with virtual care during the pandemic and connected health technologies mature and evolve. Increasingly, healthcare organizations are planning out their RPM and hospital at home programs to capitalize on the potential.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 9, 2021

health care, learning from and collaborating with industries outside of pure-play “healthcare” will be a winning strategy to better inform more engaging design and consumer adoption and persistent use of digital tools across the evolving omni-channel health care ecosystem.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2022

To improve measurement of a “modernized” understand of health, with better data and more holistically across the many dimensions that make health. To scale what works, based on evidence and proven interventions — which depends on our reducing biases in our assumptions, models and strategies.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2024

looking back and looking forward to the future of cybersecurity in health care and some wisdom to help us manage that future world of risks. Our security strategy is anchored in compassion, empathy, and helpfulness. Finally, we’ll post the last third of our conversation. That’s more than just corporate culture jargon for us.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The Center for Connected Health Policy is a great resource for organizations interested in following the evolving landscape of telehealth policy. TSIM consists of six phases: pipeline, strategy, development, implementation, operations and continuous quality improvement.

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Health Populi

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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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Some of that evidence is being generated right now through the deployment of care at home channeled through Best Buy Health, which Deborah Di Sanzo discussed in the webinar.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 24, 2024

As you continue to debate the role of AI in your health/care work, as well as develop your organization’s strategy and staff complement, the WHO report (through this lens) gives us some insights into how to optimally approach governance when moving forward in this next phase of health care innovation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 25, 2019

Kvedar, vice president of connected health at Partners HealthCare and a professor of dermatology at Harvard Medical School, has served as ATA president before – from 2004-2005 – and also served on its board for several years. The American Telemedicine Association has elected Dr. Joseph C. Kvedar to be its next president.

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Health Populi

MAY 31, 2024

Richard: At Amedisys, as our security strategy developed, we always knew that we wanted a data centric approach to protection. We relied too heavily on the machine learning aspect of our classification strategy. The biggest lesson learned for us was we didn’t focus enough on Exact Data Matching.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2024

Remote monitoring and hospital-to-home strategies will be part of a growing distributed care delivery system, designed with the best practices of privacy-by-design, ethics-by-design, and omnichannel platforms that are enchanting and seamless for patients and caregivers to access and use.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

As part of this objective and mission, WEF supported The Atlanta Heart Failure Pilot project, an example of how stakeholders in a region can come together, map out a collaborative strategy, adopt informatics standards, improve healthcare and drive economic benefits – and better health outcomes.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

At the same time, health system leaders in the study cite three key strategies topping their list, including the need to grow revenue, recruit and retain staff ( think: burnout ), and reduce costs. These trends began to take hold in the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Without security strategies and assurances, patients-as-consumers would be less likely to want to share their healthcare data with providers and researchers, and patient care and cures will be the poorer for that.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Ro see’s itself as a “full stack” health care company, from diagnosis, prescription, treatment delivery all organized on one platform. The company’s strategy is articulated on its website: “We promised to make the complicated straightforward. The expensive affordable. And the frustrating delightful.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The consequences of cyber risks can be incredibly severe as healthcare data is particularly personal and sensitive," said Kelly Rozumalski, secure connected health director at Booz Allen, in a statement to Healthcare IT News. "Cybersecurity isn’t always a priority when it comes to healthcare, but it should be.

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