Experts debate telemedicine merits and myths
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 12, 2018
At next week's Connected Health Conference, doctors from Harvard and UPMC will tackle the question of whether telemedicine's costs outweigh its benefits.
The next investment priorities for telehealth, RPM and connected health
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
When it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic and health IT, if there's just one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that telehealth has gone mainstream. Thanks to new regulations from the government and subsequent new rules from commercial payers, telemedicine services are being reimbursed. Moore is all for telemedicine.
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Health Happens at Home: Lessons from the Parks Connected Health Summit
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
To be sure, many of us who have been preaching that our ZIP codes are more impactful to our health than our genetic codes have known the evidence backing the social and behavioral determinants of health for a long time. I attended all three days’ worth of sessions in this well-planned and -executed virtual meeting.
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Partners' Kvedar to tackle physician adoption challenges at next week's Connected Health Conference
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 11, 2019
How will the rise of nontraditional healthcare offerings like telemedicine affect the traditional healthcare system?
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Connected Health Initiative asks Senate to pass Telehealth Modernization Act
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
The Connected Health Initiative on Monday published an open letter to Sen. expressing support for the Telehealth Modernization Act and stressing the urgency of safeguarding access to virtual care before the public health emergency is set to expire. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.,
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Advances in telemedicine are on the way in 2022
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
DECEMBER 20, 2021
These changes to the healthcare landscape were helped partly by requirements of the COVID-19 pandemic and partly by the subsequent loosening of telemedicine reimbursement and licensure regulations by the government. Will the government and commercial payers continue to reimburse for telemedicine? But what's to happen in 2022?
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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors
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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First connected health service in Malaysia launched
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 12, 2023
Private tertiary hospital Subang Jaya Medical Centre has launched what could be the first connected health service in Malaysia. Rival hospitals like Sunway Medical Center and IHH Healthcare already launched their respective telemedicine services when the pandemic started.
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Health Is Everywhere at #CES2021 – CTA’s CES 2021 Tech Trends to Watch
Health Populi
JANUARY 12, 2021
Spending on connected health monitoring devices in the U.S. Increase in virtual telemedicine appointments increased ten times in 15 days. the CTA forecast saw a 73% increase in connected health device spending in 2020, and expects 34% growth in 2021. For the U.S.,
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Amwell, LG Electronics team up on connected health tools
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 11, 2022
The push toward at-home care amidst the COVID-19 pandemic has opened the door for innovators to develop devices that promote more seamless delivery of telemedicine. Sokwoo Rhee, senior vice president and head of LG North American Innovation Center, LG NOVA at LG Electronics. THE LARGER TREND.
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Evolution of Stel Life’s Connected Health Hub
Healthcare IT Today
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
I always love watching the evolution of connected health. In the early days, many of the wearable devices weren’t connected to much of anything. Now, connecting those devices to the cloud is key and essential to all of the remote patient monitoring companies out there.
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The Rise of the Homebody Economy and Healthcare to the Home
Health Populi
MARCH 30, 2021
Looking at the disruptive oval (grey), see telemedicine broken into physical and mental — with intent to use physical telemedicine post-COVID-19 among 50% of U.S. consumers, and for mental/behavioral health by some 54% of people. User growth rates for both telemedicine segments are forecasted over 60%.
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Joe Kvedar, VP of Connected Health, Partners HealthCare, Chapter 1
Health System CIO
FEBRUARY 8, 2017
From digital cameras to population health, Dr. Joe Kvedar talks about the rise of connected health, and how his organization has evolved to meet the changing needs of patients and providers. Shared vision for Connected Health. Connected Health Fellows Program & Innovators Challenge.
How Virtual Care is Morphing into “Just” Healthcare – my post in Medecision Liberation
Health Populi
MAY 5, 2021
A closer look at this activity points to a key trend that will persist post-pandemic: that telehealth and the broader theme of virtual care is re-shaping how health care is delivered. In the COVID-19 era, clinicians and health systems stood up virtual care across the board as-required.
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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford
Health Populi
MARCH 2, 2021
But the big growth areas were for live video telemedicine, wearable tech, and digital health tracking. The second chart focuses in on telemedicine adoption by channel, comparing six years of Rock Health’s consumer research.
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Women are less likely to use video for telehealth care
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 6, 2021
A wide-ranging study published this past week in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that older people, women, Black and Latinx individuals, and patients with lower household incomes were less likely to use video for telemedicine care during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. " WHY IT MATTERS.
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The CES 2022 Tech Trends to Watch Have Everything To Do With Health/Care
Health Populi
JANUARY 4, 2022
As a connected health device, Abbott’s FreeStyle Libre 3, and. Withings’ FDA-cleared smartwatch as a health/care wearable technology. adults that attended a video meeting did so for medical-related purposes — such as virtual health care, telemedicine, remote monitoring consultation.
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Will Trade Data for (Cheaper) Health Care – USC’s View of the Future
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
adults in August 2019 regarding 25 issues concerning health care and digital technology. Key findings were that… 80% of people believe access to health care is a basic right available to all citizens regardless of ability to pay, an opinion shared by most Americans — even those who call themselves “very conservative” (56%).
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Dr. Roboto? Stanford Medicine Foresees Digital Doctors “Maturing”
Health Populi
JANUARY 15, 2020
The study title citing the “data-driven physician” is based on the key survey finding that doctors are preparing to embrace data, from both traditional sources and new ones — including information generated by patients themselves via wearable tech and remote health sensors — into clinical practice.
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Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns
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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Joe Kvedar is new president-elect of American Telemedicine Association
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 25, 2019
The American Telemedicine Association has elected Dr. Joseph C. 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. WHY IT MATTERS.
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Doximity Study Finds Telehealth Is Health for Every Day Care
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Doximity’s second report on telemedicine explores both physicians’ and patients’ views on virtual care, finding most doctors and health consumers on the same page of virtual care adoption. For the physicians’ profile, Doximity examined 180,000 doctors’ who billed Medicare for telemedicine claims between January 2020 and June 2021.
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Congress should include telehealth in year-end funding, say ATA, HIMSS
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.
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Tech optimization: Getting the most out of telehealth
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 28, 2020
With the sudden easing of restrictions by the government and equally sudden reimbursement from payers in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s very clear telemedicine has never been more used or more vital. Hospitals and health systems have gone from dozens to thousands of telehealth visits per week. " Jason Bellet, Eko.
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Telehealth: ATA president says 'we have a lot more work to do'
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 23, 2020
"Telehealth is now a household world," said American Telemedicine Association president Dr. Joe Kvedar during his keynote address Monday, the first day of the virtual ATA2020 conference. " Another way to reimagine healthcare through telemedicine will be through home testing and home devices.
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Real-Time Versus Store-and-Forward Telehealth Technology
AMD Telemedicine
JANUARY 31, 2023
When it comes to clinical telemedicine , there are two general categories that most “sharing” technologies tend to fall into: live real-time and store-and-forward technologies. Real-time telemedicine technologies, as you might have guessed, are more immediate.
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HIMSSCast: Using data to work toward telehealth equity
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 5, 2021
In a recent study, researchers examined data from nearly 150,000 unique patients who scheduled telemedicine visits from March 16 to May 11, 2020. They investigated who completed those visits, and how.
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HIMSS21 tech news: Secure telehealth connections, remote diabetes care with Fitbit
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 11, 2021
Kajeet, a vendor of wireless connectivity and software and hardware solutions for controlled Internet access, has debuted Kajeet Connected Health, an Internet of Things (IoT) solution designed to enable the secure and reliable delivery of telemedicine services. Neal, chairman, CEO and founder of Kajeet.
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A “Great Re-Set” for Telehealth and Remote Monitoring? Panda Health Says That’s a “Yes”
Health Populi
JUNE 14, 2023
The fast-growing adoption of telemedicine and remote patient monitoring from the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic led to hospitals and health systems launching new or expanding existing virtual care programs to accommodate a new reality for work-flow and patient care.
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Most Workers and their Employers Want to Receive Digital Healthcare On-Demand
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
Fully one-half of employees would be keen on apps to help find a doctor or care when and where needed, and just about 1 in 2 workers would like an app that helps find expert physicians anywhere in the world (think: specialists via telehealth) as well as electronic and portable personal health records.
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News from the Consumer Technology Association and Withings Further Demonstrates Private Sector’s Role in the Pandemic and Public Health
Health Populi
JULY 28, 2020
One of the long-time exhibitors at CES is Withings, who once again showed off a host of new-new things for personal health and wellness at CES 2020. Well-known for its direct-to-consumer connected health devices in the forms of weight scales and fitness watches, Withings announced focused on sleep and heart health in its CES 2020 launches.
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The Digital Consumer, Increasingly Connected to Health Devices; Parks Associates Kicking Off #CES2021
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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Telehealth In 2030 – Notes From the Future At #ATA19 with Safavi, Holt, Bathina and Swafford
Health Populi
APRIL 18, 2019
What will telemedicine look like in 2030? imagined Kaveh Safavi, Accenture’s Senior Managing Director and Health of Global Healthcare Practice. Telemedicine used to be about solving access to no care,” Kaveh introduced the conversation. Now, it’s about serving people who already have care through different mechanisms.”.
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Statement from the Connected Health Institute on the DEA publishing its extension of teleprescription rules
Connected Health Initiative
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
The Connected Health Initiative commends the Administration’s extension of telemedicine flexibilities for prescribing controlled medications, ensuring continued access for countless patients who rely on digital healthcare options.”
EarlySense eyes RPM growth with sale of contact-free monitoring tech to Hillrom
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 1, 2021
"We look forward to bringing this critical technology to additional customers around the world as we deliver on our vision of Advancing Connected Care." Connected health devices run the gamut from wearable heart monitors to Bluetooth-enabled scales and Fitbits. " THE LARGER TREND. To read the report, click here.
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Telehealth and COVID-19 in the U.S.: A Conversation with Ann Mond Johnson, ATA CEO
Health Populi
MARCH 12, 2020
The coronavirus spawned another kind of gift to China and the nation’s health citizens: telemedicine, the essay explains. COVID-19 accelerated telemedicine adoption, the story goes, being accessed mainstream through major regions of China. The WeDoctor app, part of Tencent, deployed 20,000 online doctors donating time for free.
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“Digital Health Is An Ecosystem of Ecosystems” – CTA’s 2020 Trends to Watch Into the Data Age
Health Populi
JANUARY 6, 2020
And so the CTA presentation talked about evidence-based telemedicine, augmenting MDs, and enhancing medication adherence through well-designed devices like Pria from Stanley Black & Decker — which I wrote about last year at CES as one of my own favorite finds from #CES2019.
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Connecting Health Data: Powering Clinical Research, Patient Engagement Programs and More
Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 1, 2024
Add to that the surge in digital health solutions, including mobile apps, wearable devices, and telemedicine platforms. Then consider how more personalized recommendations and programs may better motivate the consumer to take action to improve their health.
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Telehealth is Health: It’s Telehealth Awareness Week
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
In April 2020, telemedicine morphed into mainstream medical care as hospitals and physicians risk-managed exposure to infection by meeting with patients, virtually, when possible.
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When the next storm hits, telehealth could be a lifesaver
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 26, 2021
"When it comes to climate events – huge, natural disaster kinds of events … all the issues are compounded," said William Kiefer, CEO of Chambers Health, a community-based system in southeastern Texas. During the storm, many patients and providers alike were unable to make it into health facilities.
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Health/Care Everywhere – Re-Imagining Healthcare at ATA 2019
Health Populi
APRIL 14, 2019
“ATA” is the new three-letter acronym for the American Telemedicine Association, meeting today through Tuesday at the Convention Center in New Orleans. Ann Mond Johnson assumed the helm of CEO of ATA in 2018, and she’s issued a call-to-action across the health/care ecosystem for a delivery system upgrade.
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Two Forms of Telemedicine: Synchronous vs. Asynchronous
Lloyd Price
JANUARY 17, 2020
What is Synchronous Telemedicine? 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 Asynchronous Telemedicine?
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Virtual Health Tech Enables the Continuum of Health from Hospital to Home
Health Populi
APRIL 21, 2021
TripleTree expects a “domino effect from virtual health adoption that will drive waves of demand across areas that complement virtual health and address other vulnerabilities exposed by COVID-19,” the report forecasts. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services. In 2019, J.D.
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Dispatches from the Frontlines: Connected Health and COVID-19
Connected Health Initiative
JUNE 24, 2020
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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