Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The report calls out one big barrier to early adoption especially among hospitals and physicians: concerns about privacy and HIPAA compliance. The top interest health care categories for voice assistants are asking about illness symptoms above all, cited by one-third of consumers.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The “concerned” aspect of the tech-embrace in health care means consumers are also keen to have privacy data protections and procedures in place to prevent their PHI from traveling outside of trusted health care circles. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Earlier this year, Accenture found that U.S.

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Health Blawg

DECEMBER 26, 2017

The FDA had a digital health banner day on December 7, announcing one final guidance and two draft guidance documents (with a 60-day comment period). Since some digital health tools will inevitably be subject to regulation while many will not, the agency has previously issued a high-level plan for streamlining its processes.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The “concerned” aspect of the tech-embrace in health care means consumers are also keen to have privacy data protections and procedures in place to prevent their PHI from traveling outside of trusted health care circles. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Earlier this year, Accenture found that U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

This gets to transparency, regarding how these companies communicate privacy policies to users; and, for health care, this speaks to patients’ concerns about their healthcare privacy. Many personal information flows don’t fall under the HIPAA umbrella if the company isn’t a business associate.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

AUGUST 17, 2024

Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and Rural Health Clinics (RHCs) play a crucial role in providing healthcare services to underserved populations across the United States. This blog explores the potentials and challenges of digital health solutions in FQHCs and RHCs in 2024.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Data is the bread and butter of the digital health industry. HIPAA is upheld and auditing is easy. DApps release digital health researchers from the long and arduous process of acquiring specific datasets and trying to unify them. The following is a guest article by Guy Tish, Co-Founder and CTO at Briya.

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The Digital Health Corner

AUGUST 7, 2017

The FDA recently announced its Digital Health Innovation Action Plan. Digital health differs significantly from drugs and traditional medical devices around which the FDA has developed its structure and policies over decades. The Action Plan builds on and improves previous digital health guidances.

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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

AUGUST 21, 2019

Digital platforms are seen by health care providers, plans and pharma as a growing channel for serving up personalized health services. Health care organizations, whether hospitals, health plans and pharma companies, are all quickly working to develop digital health tools to better engage people in health.

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Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2018

I leave you with one proviso which could be a barrier to patients engaging with digitized health information: in the wake of Facebook/Cambridge Analytica, there is a wake-up call for consumers to become more mindful about the security of their personal data online.

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2018

9 in 10 hospitals and health systems prioritize improving the consumer/patient experience, but only 30% of providers are building these capabilities, I wrote in the Health Populi blog discussing Kaufman Hall’s research.

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Health Blawg

DECEMBER 26, 2017

The FDA had a digital health banner day on December 7, announcing one final guidance and two draft guidance documents (with a 60-day comment period). Since some digital health tools will inevitably be subject to regulation while many will not, the agency has previously issued a high-level plan for streamlining its processes.

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Health Blawg

DECEMBER 26, 2017

The FDA had a digital health banner day on December 7, announcing one final guidance and two draft guidance documents (with a 60-day comment period). Since some digital health tools will inevitably be subject to regulation while many will not, the agency has previously issued a high-level plan for streamlining its processes.

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Health Blawg

DECEMBER 26, 2017

The FDA had a digital health banner day on December 7, announcing one final guidance and two draft guidance documents (with a 60-day comment period). Since some digital health tools will inevitably be subject to regulation while many will not, the agency has previously issued a high-level plan for streamlining its processes.

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Health Blawg

DECEMBER 26, 2017

The FDA had a digital health banner day on December 7, announcing one final guidance and two draft guidance documents (with a 60-day comment period). Since some digital health tools will inevitably be subject to regulation while many will not, the agency has previously issued a high-level plan for streamlining its processes.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JUNE 13, 2024

Enter digital health solutions—an array of advanced technologies designed to revolutionize the management and monitoring of chronic care. Readers are encouraged to consult with qualified healthcare professionals regarding any questions or concerns about their health or medical conditions.

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Mobile Health Matters

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

In an effort to improve this process and foster digital health innovation, the FDA recently announced a pre-certification pilot program aimed at streamlining the SaMD regulatory approval process in response to the 21 st Century Cures Act. Turning to Coalitions for SaMD Best Practices.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 18, 2022

The Federal Trade Commission released an updated Mobile Health Apps Tool created with input from ONC, OCR, and the FDA. CB Insights released its Digital Health 150 list , with companies focused on remote monitoring and diagnostics taking 29 of the spots.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

The frequency of cybersecurity breaches in health systems is a risk factor eroding patient trust. To that end, it is interesting to note that Amazon is seeking a privacy professional experienced with HIPAA. Finally, healthcare costs are top-of-mind for patients in the U.S.

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American Well

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

“We want fee for value all day long” was one of several opening statements made by Optum CEO Larry Renfro at the start of the Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit on Tuesday November 3 in Boston. Rege advised companies developing a mobile experience to adopt a mobile-first strategy when establishing their security infrastructure.

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American Well

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

“We want fee for value all day long” was one of several opening statements made by Optum CEO Larry Renfro at the start of the Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit on Tuesday November 3 in Boston. Rege advised companies developing a mobile experience to adopt a mobile-first strategy when establishing their security infrastructure.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

AUGUST 19, 2024

The integration with digital health platforms ensures seamless data flow and easy access to historical data for trend analysis. Mobile Health Applications Mobile health applications serve as the interface between patients and healthcare providers.

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Henry Kotula

JANUARY 2, 2019

While venture capital -backed startups in digital health offer opportunities to affect the cost and quality of care, often by challenging prevailing modes of care delivery, they pose potential risks to patient care and raise important questions for policy makers. billion has been invested in digital health this decade (see Exhibit 1).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

Bardy Diagnostics is a digital health and remote patient monitoring company focused on addressing a long-standing complaint by cardiac electrophysiologists and cardiologists regarding their frequent inability to clearly distinguish the P-wave on ECG strips of existing monitors. And the list will continue to be updated over time.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

By leveraging the latest in digital health technologies, RPM empowers patients to manage their health conditions in the comfort of their own homes, while providing healthcare professionals with real-time data to make informed decisions.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 5, 2024

Through RPM, patients can use wearable devices and mobile health applications to transmit data such as oxygen saturation levels, respiratory rate, and activity levels to their healthcare providers in real-time. These apps often integrate with wearable devices, allowing seamless data sharing and analysis.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

MAY 1, 2017

Personalized & Proactive Experience: Harriet’s interactions with Sarah are driven by rich patient profile information, which contains contextual information, social determinants of health and service utilization.

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2019

For health care privacy, Americans’ HIPAA provisions surely don’t cover personal information that informs health beyond the healthcare claim the way Europeans’ GDPR or the soon-to-be-implemented California Consumer Privacy Act of 2020 do. 2015 – Musings with Mary Meeker on the Digital/Health Nexus.

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