Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 14, 2024

As the population ages and life expectancy increases, delivering high-quality care that achieves optimal health outcomes, enhances patient experiences, and reduces costs is essential for the future of healthcare in the U.S. The MedWand also has an ultra high-definition camera to capture images of the throat, ears, nose, skin and more.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2025

Nearly all patients have felt their symptoms had been ignored or dismissed by a doctor at some point, ECRI asserts. When this happens to a patient or their caregiver, it feels like “medical gaslighting,” ECRI explains.

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Mend

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

[Schedule a demo to learn more] Automate Patient Engagement Automating different steps of the patient journey can help engage patients early on in their care. Artificial intelligence and other innovative technologies are excellent ways to improve the patient experience and therefore increase patient engagement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 19, 2021

Enhancing the patient experience. The information from all these care experiences then needs to get integrated into the system to help create a holistic experience for the patient, according to Snyder. “We’ve definitely seen. Creating personalized patient experiences.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 16, 2020

The definition of that “modern house call” is largely based on the model of care delivered by CareMore Health — a team-based approach that serves the whole person beyond their diagnosis. adults 23 years of age and over in September and October 2019.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 12, 2024

In order to help we stopped our brilliant Healthcare IT Today Community members at this year’s ViVE to ask them – what patient experience technology is moving the needle the most right now? What patient experience technology do you think is moving the needle the most right now?

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Utilizing AI tools will create an environment where providers spend more time with patients and less on paperwork. Enhancing Patient Experience and Care Quality AI-powered coding tools ensure that every visit is documented thoroughly, leading to more accurate medical records that improve patient outcomes over time.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 5, 2021

NASDAQ: RCM), a leading provider of technology-driven solutions that transform the patient experience and financial performance of healthcare providers, today announced a definitive agreement to acquire VisitPay, the leading digital payment solution provider for approximately $300 million in cash. R1 RCM Inc.

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Health Populi

MAY 5, 2022

When it comes to peoples’ relationship to consumer packaged goods (CPG), the public health crisis has indeed impacted consumers’ purchasing behaviors and definition of “value,” based on IRI’s latest analysis of CPG shifts in 2022 and 2023. and better-for-you ingredients and functional benefits.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Or an expanded definition of a “digital therapeutic” with the car as a delivery channel or vessel for care and information source. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Abbott’s CEO Ford joins two other industry executives keynoting #CES2022: Mary Barra of General Motors and Mike Sievert of T-Mobile.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2022

Stryker (NYSE: SYK) announced today a definitive merger agreement to acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of common stock of Vocera Communications, Inc. NYSE: VCRA) for $79.25 per share, or a total equity value of approximately $2.97 billion and a total enterprise value of approximately $3.09 billion (including convertible notes).

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Or an expanded definition of a “digital therapeutic” with the car as a delivery channel or vessel for care and information source. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Abbott’s CEO Ford joins two other industry executives keynoting #CES2022: Mary Barra of General Motors and Mike Sievert of T-Mobile.

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Digital Health Wire

MARCH 10, 2025

Providers are lining up to see if ambient AI can live up to its promise of decreasing burnout while improving the patient experience and researchers are starting to wonder the same thing. Ambient scribing definitely moves the needle on several important metrics, and even the less clear-cut stats still had a positive spin to them.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 9, 2022

"The patient experience was completely rethought to add a white-glove onboarding process that included improved communication, education materials and pre-visit dedicated technical outreach. Additionally, cultural and language services are easily added to any visit to ensure patients receive care in any of 200 languages.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Interestingly, 70% of patients also viewed their clinical notes in 2022, newly-measured by the ONC survey. ” That explanation comes from IDC’s work on digital front doors turbocharged during the pandemic.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

For consumers to embrace their health data via smartphone or any other digital delivery channel, people will need to believe the overall experience is trustworthy, secure, and relevant to them based on their values and personal definition of health.

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Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2019

The context for the question was that the 1948 World Health Organization definition of health — that health is, “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”– was not so useful in the 21st century. Flourishing by definition means “to grow” or “to prosper.”

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

I’ll be the first to admit that I didn’t know the history of the stethoscope and definitely didn’t understand how it worked. Although, we certainly all know how iconic the stethoscope is in healthcare. It’s been a fixture in medicine that hasn’t really been innovated on in years. At least until now.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

As part of this rigorous study design, AMA used particular definitions for the seven tools the study gauged: remote monitoring for efficiency, remote monitoring and management for improved care, clinical decision support, patient engagement, tele-visits/virtual visits, point of care/workflow enhancement, and consumer access to clinical data.

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Health Populi

MAY 22, 2023

“It seemed like an odd pairing: shampoo and a throat swab,” observes a new report on the growth of retail health from Definitive Healthcare. But retail clinics are no longer, as the paper explains, “an experiment of a few grocery stores… they’re becoming a major force in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 6, 2018

Families USA is “the voice for health care consumers,” so advocates on behalf of patients and caregivers. The definition of opposite of value is in the second sentence: “As a nation, we spend too much and get too little in return.”

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

This is roughly equal to patients across all age cohorts in the study. One in five seniors is monitoring health issues via technologies, which include by definition websites, mobile apps, digital assistants, personal medical devices, or fitness monitors.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 29, 2023

As part of the partnership, R1 has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the Acclara business for $675 million in cash and warrants to purchase 12.2 About R1 RCM R1 is a leading provider of technology-driven solutions that transform the patient experience and financial performance of hospitals, health systems, and medical groups.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2023

In New Jersey, meanwhile, Cooper University Health Care and Cape Regional Health System have also recently signed a definitive agreement to merge resources. Ryu will serve as CEO of Risant Health when the merger is approved. While neither has reported financial distress, many U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 24, 2023

in any one’s definition of value-based health care — most especially, a consumer’s. GNC has been partnering with PursueCare for their telehealth provider network. Health Populi’s Hot Points: That’s a lot of “free” for $39.99

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Were GWI to re-calibrate this landscape today, post-pandemic, I would guestimate that the mental wellness bubble would be much larger, with personal care and beauty definitely bolstered in and in the wake of the pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

"We are definitely moving forward with investigation of remote patient monitoring as we see this is a piece of our continued growth strategy," Mistretta added. " Definite funds for telemedicine. After the huge surges of 2020, telehealth visits have remained at 25% of Virginia Hospital Center visits.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

They are definitely ones to watch. Four organizations stood out at the recent Medical Practice Excellence Leaders conference (#MPE21) hosted by MGMA: Rhinogram, Greenway, DrChrono, and MGMA itself. All of them had new products/features to offer their customers and bold plans for 2022.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Navigate the 360° around the room, and you’ll see Audrey’s tablet sitting on a coffee table which has her patient engagement app connecting her to her care team. This whole telehealth option is definitely for me, even post-COVID” she says. Now, let’s visit with Nikita and Daniel.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Hy-Vee is expanding the definition of “mobile health” through the store’s Health You Mobile RVs, vans that drive into the stores’ communities offering preventive cardiovascular care. If the consumer holds a Kroger Rx Savings Club card, then she gets a discount on products purchased in the pharmacy.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2019

The former can be thought of as software-as-medicine, and the Digital Therapeutics Alliance (yes, there’s now an industry association for the field) illustrates their broad definition of the concept in the diagram here.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 5, 2023

Language access plans (LAP) provide organizations with a roadmap to ensure access and connection that alleviate these disparities and improve patient experience. Healthcare organizations can improve efficiencies and optimize the patient experience by incorporating the latest tools and technologies into their LAPs.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Older people are re-framing their personal images and definitions of aging, from continuing to work past typical retirement age, Skyping and texting with grandchildren, and traveling to destinations well beyond the “snowbird” locales of Florida and Arizona to more active and often charitable/volunteer situations in developing economies.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Welcome to the era of Open Source Healthcare, not only the “about time” for patients to own their health, but for the launch of a new publication that will support and continue to evolve the concept. Let’s go back to some definitions and healthcare basics to understand just why Open Source Healthcare is already a thing.

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Waracle

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Join the conversation, sign up now for our next event in January – The Patient Experience – Empowering Patients. Optimising the patient experience is a tangible route to competitive advantage for any organisation invested in human health and wellbeing.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 10, 2025

Patient experience will be transformed with always-on, personalized care services while healthcare staff will collaborate with agents that help them reduce clerical work, retrieve and summarize patient histories, and recommend clinical trials and state-of-the-art treatments for their patients.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Enter the second chart, which expands what we traditionally have called “home healthcare” into new areas for care at home. Typically, home healthcare has covered (definitionally and in terms of reimbursement) services addressing activities of daily living, durable medical equipment, and hospice.

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