Contributed: Why we can't afford to pretend telehealth is digital health
Mobi Health News
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
Unlike telehealth, digital health can shift the nature of healthcare from periodic visits to continuous support.
The Growth of DIY Digital Health – What’s Behind the Zeitgeist of Self-Reliance?
Health Populi
MARCH 13, 2025
This study looked into the digital health device users’ perspectives for and experiences with sharing the data beyond their own tracking and “eyes.” ” One in 4 consumers have been alerted by a personal medical device regarding a pending health issue. appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.
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‘Telehealth isn’t a fad’: Digital health execs on virtual care in 2021
Mobi Health News
DECEMBER 10, 2021
Digital health executives and leaders weigh in on the rise of telehealth and virtual care services and whether their growth kept its momentum this year.
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Digital Health Tools Are Finding Business Models – IQVIA’s 2021 Read on the Health of Digital Health
Health Populi
JULY 22, 2021
In the Age of COVID, over 90,000 new health apps were released, as the supply of digital therapeutics and wearables grew in 2020. Evidence supporting the use of digital health tools if growing, tracked in Digital Health Trends 2021: Innovation, Evidence, Regulation, and Adoption from IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science.
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Doctors’ Recommendations Are Top Motivators for Consumers Who Buy Digital Health Devices: Trust and Health
Health Populi
OCTOBER 30, 2024
Most consumers using digital health devices felt more trust in the technology when coupled with doctors’ office reviews — another lens on the importance of trust-equity between patients and physicians. adults in October 2024 to gauge peoples’ views on digital health tools, buying trends, and trust.
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Digital Health Tools, Telemedicine, and Mobile Health Applications: How They’re Enhancing Population Health
Healthcare IT Today
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
Though our movement into a digital and remote world was accelerated by the COVID-19 Pandemic, it is a movement that has proven to be quite beneficial. We were able to roll out various digital health tools , telemedicine , and mobile health applications that not only better the lives of our patients but also our staff.
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Latest telehealth service expansions in Australia and more briefs
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 27, 2025
The transition to this system, which was launched in late November, was supported by extensive training involving over 5,500 health workers across 600 teams. Its development is part of Tasmania's digital health transformation project. million ($7 million) over four years in this telehealth service.
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Closing the Chasm Between Patients and Clinicians With Digital Health Tools – Some Health Consumer Context for #HLTHUSA
Health Populi
OCTOBER 22, 2024
The green circle diagram from Deloitte’s report documents a growing willingness among patients to use virtual health services, increasing from 80% of consumers willing to use telehealth in 2020, 84% in 2022, and 94% in 2024. In this research.
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The post COVID Italian telehealth experience
Mobi Health News
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated telehealth development in countries around the world, including Italy. In this on-demand session at the HIMSS & Health 2.0 European Digital Conference, Italian healthcare experts reflect on the progress made in digital health.
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Survey: Telehealth adoption highest among the young, educated and wealthy
Mobi Health News
DECEMBER 14, 2021
Rock Health’s 2021 Digital Health Consumer Adoption Survey also found an increase in live video telemedicine and a decrease in satisfaction with telehealth compared with in-person care.
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Digital health's record-breaking Q3 saw big raises in COVID-impacted sectors
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 5, 2020
Rock Health reports $4 billion in funding for U.S. digital health startups this quarter, much of which was driven by a flurry of telehealth investments and late-stage rounds for R&D and fitness tech companies.
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Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns
Health Populi
AUGUST 25, 2020
In the August 2020 National Poll on Heathy Aging , the University of Michigan research team found a 26% increase in telehealth visits from 2019 to 2020, March to June 2020 year-over-year. In May 2019, 14% of older patients’ health care providers offered telehealth visits, growing to 62% in June 2020 during the pandemic.
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Survey: Telehealth use increases overall in 2021, but growth stabilizes
Mobi Health News
NOVEMBER 23, 2021
The CHIME Digital Health Most Wired survey found 26% of healthcare organizations reported a quarter or more of their patients have used telehealth, compared with only 7% in 2019.
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CMS puts forward meager offering for digital health in final Medicare physician fee schedule rule
FierceHealthIT
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Days before the 2024 presidential election, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released an unpublished version of the final calendar year 2025 physician fee schedule final rule | Digital therapeutics, telehealth, rural heath clinics and opioid treatment programs all got updates in the final 2025 Medicare physician fee schedule rule, (..)
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Telehealth is Health: It’s Telehealth Awareness Week
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
By March 2020, telehealth channels were replacing visits to doctors and emergency departments as shown in the first chart from the CDC’s report on the early pandemic period. Welcome to Telehealth Awareness Week , a campaign mounted by the ATA to remind us that #TelehealthIsHealth. 34% used telehealth for preventive care.
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Digital Health Gaps in the Pandemic Through the Eyes of Younger Physicians
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 11, 2020
One universal experience health systems around the globe have witnessed in the first months of the coronavirus pandemic has been the dramatic pivot to telehealth and virtual care platforms. In the first six months of the pandemic, the tale of telehealth as told via media coverage and virtual conference content has been quite bullish.
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Telehealth Update from J.D. Power, Amwell, Cigna, GoodRx, and a Trio of Smart Doctors
Health Populi
OCTOBER 5, 2020
In the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth was a “bright spot in the ‘new normal,’” according to a report from J.D. Power, Telehealth Patient Satisfaction Surges During Pandemic but Barriers to Access Persist. Power has studied including health insurance, insurance and financial services. In the study, J.D.
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Consumers’ Embrace of Digital Health Tech Stalls, and Privacy Concerns Prevail – Accenture’s 2020 Research
Health Populi
MARCH 10, 2020
Millions of dollars and developers’ time have been invested in conceiving and making digital health tools. Some, but not necessarily a majority, of consumers see benefits in using digital health — primary for wellness and prevention, and to get a better understanding of personal health.
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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
In CTA’s 2020 Consumer Tech Forecast launched yesterday at Media Day 1 at CES, Steve Koenig VP of Research, said that, “digital health is an ecosystem of ecosystems.”. Use cases bolster productivity, enhance workforce training (think Gray’s Anatomy in multiple dimensions or surgical training on digital humans). .
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Telehealth Is Just Healthcare Now – One Post-COVID Certainty, Three Reports
Health Populi
JUNE 3, 2020
As we wrestle with just “what” health care will look like “after COVID,” there’s one certainty that we can embrace in our health planning and forecasting efforts: that’s the persistence of telehealth and virtual care into health care work- and life-flows, for clinicians and consumers alike and aligned.
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COVID-19 changed health tech. So what’s next for women’s digital health?
Mobi Health News
JANUARY 7, 2022
The growth of telehealth and remote monitoring tools could be a game changer for women’s health, particularly maternal and fetal care.
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The state of digital health and innovation Q3 2023
KevinMD
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
We witnessed a digital health explosion during the pandemic, marked by significant investments in telehealth and other sectors. Though the last two quarters have shown a reduction in funding and deal volume, Read more… The state of digital health and innovation Q3 2023 originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
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Apollo Hospitals to integrate AI copilots and more AI briefs
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 16, 2025
" National Taiwan University Hospital's telehealth system incorporates AI National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) has integrated speech-to-text AI into its telehealth platform. Optimised for healthcare, Chunghwa's technology was trained on voice data collected by the NTUH Telehealth Center.
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Policy landscape for digital health changed 'overnight' after COVID-19
Mobi Health News
APRIL 19, 2023
At HIMSS23, Jodi Daniel, managing director of Crowell Health Solutions, discussed the evolving policy landscape for telehealth, remote patient monitoring and other digital health technologies as the public health emergency comes to a close.
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SteadyMD, AmerisourceBergen partner for pharmacy telehealth and more digital health briefs
Mobi Health News
MAY 5, 2023
Boehringer Ingelheim and Click Therapeutics initiate clinical trial on PDTx treatment for schizophrenia and Akili's EndeavorRx shows promise for adults with ADHD.
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ATA Action acquires Digital Therapeutics Alliance to launch new coalition
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
APRIL 1, 2025
Together, they say they'll create an advocacy organization, the Advancing Digital Health Coalition, designed to help ensure that telehealth, virtual care and DTx interventions become dependable options for care delivery. Food and Drug Administration's Digital Health Advisory Committee.
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Google confirms Pixel Watch coming this fall and more digital health briefs
Mobi Health News
MAY 12, 2022
Also: Wysa receives FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for its mental health chatbot, and Pear Therapeutics expands its telehealth partnership program.
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Connected health tools help seniors, but a digital divide persists
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 30, 2025
Most adults aged 50 to 80 in the United States are now using digital health technologies (DHTs), with patient portals leading adoption rates, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open. Socioeconomic factors further shaped adoption patterns.
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Health is Everywhere, and Telehealth Is Health – And It’s Personal
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
That’s the promise, increasingly a reality, of telehealth. We are in the middle of Telehealth Awareness Week , an advocacy program launched by the ATA (American Telemedicine Association) whose mission I share — that #TelehealthIsHealth. called Right Here, Right Now: Ten Telehealth Pioneers Make It Work. .
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Three in Five People 50+ in the US Will Likely Use Telehealth In the Future – An Update from AARP
Health Populi
MAY 10, 2022
“Telehealth certainly appears to be here to stay,” the AARP forecasts in An Updated Look at Telehealth Use Among U.S. adults over 50 said they or someone in their family had used telehealth. One in three people over 50 in America are most interested in telehealth, with another 30% somewhat interested.
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Physicians More Bullish On the Benefits of Digital Tools for Patient Care, the AMA Tells Us
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Most doctors see the advantages of digital health tools like telehealth, consumers’ access to their health information, and point-of-care workflow solutions, the American Medical Association found in a survey of 1300 physicians, published in September 2022. Supports value-based care. Supports heath equity.
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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford
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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How Virtual Care is Morphing into “Just” Healthcare – my post in Medecision Liberation
Health Populi
MAY 5, 2021
The pandemic accelerated many Very Big Deals in digital health venture capital investment, mergers and acquisitions, and the re-emergence of SPACs in health care. This graphic comes out of my current thinking about telehealth across the continuum of care.
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Grab-backed telehealth startup Good Doctor scores $10M in Series A and more digital health fundings
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Also, SME-focused insurtech Onsurity raises $24 million from a funding round led by the International Finance Corporation.
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Most Workers and their Employers Want to Receive Digital Healthcare On-Demand
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
Most employers and their workers see the benefits of digital health in helping make health care more accessible and lower-cost, according to survey research published in Health on Demand from Mercer Marsh Benefits. There’s high demand among both decision makers and employees for a pro-health culture in companies.
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Roundup: LKCMedicine launching more AI, digital health courses and more briefs
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
LKCMedicine to introduce more AI, digital health courses Nanyang Technological University Singapore announced that more course content related to AI and digital health will be added to the refreshed curriculum of the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine.
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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
Based on this research, the team developed “The Churn Index,” a heat map/thermometer arraying which of 24 digital health solutions would be likely to be replaced in the coming months. Telehealth was one of the most-influenced digital health adoption category in the pandemic, noted by 97% of providers.
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Health Consumers After COVID-19 – A View from the Consumer Technology Association
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. Telehealth, too, is embraced by 3 in 5 people for both physical and mental health services.
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Virtual Health Tech Enables the Continuum of Health from Hospital to Home
Health Populi
APRIL 21, 2021
TripleTree is an investment bank that has advised health care transactions since 1997. As such, the team has been involved in digital health financing and innovation for 24 years, well before the kind of platforms, APIs, and cloud computing now enabling telehealth and care, everywhere.
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The Omnichannel Imperative for Healthcare: Supporting Telehealth Awareness Week 2023
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
It’s Telehealth Awareness Week , led by the ATA. I celebrate and support the effort; this Health Populi post explains the Association’s mantra that Telehealth is Health, and that telehealth is firmly embedded into healthcare’s omnichannel imperative. So why omnichannel healthcare, and why now?
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Woolworths-owned HealthyLife launches telehealth service with Global Health
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 22, 2023
Supermarket giant Woolworths' health and wellness subsidiary HealthyLife has started offering same-day telehealth services. It launched HealthyLife in 2021 with the aim of providing verified health content and selling nutrition and wellness products. Enterprise Taxonomy: Telehealth Patient Access
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Telehealth equity key to addressing digital gaps
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 13, 2024
ORLANDO – Telehealth technology has advanced rapidly over the past few years, and while it's both popular and promising, it has also shined a light on the contrast between patient populations with and without adequate access and digital health literacy, the latter of which are less likely to engage in this type of medical care.
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AMD Global Telemedicine and Carefluence® Announce Strategic Partnership to Enhance Telehealth Interoperability
AMD Telemedicine
OCTOBER 29, 2024
Streamlining Data for Better Care Chelmsford, MA – October 29, 2024 –AMD Global Telemedicine, a pioneer and industry leader in telehealth technology solutions for over 30 years, today announced a strategic partnership with Carefluence , an innovator in interoperability solutions.
Show Me The Evidence and The ROI: Digital Health Investing in 2023 via GSR Ventures
Health Populi
DECEMBER 6, 2022
With valuations of digital health companies expected to decline in 2023, investors in the sector are Missourian in spirit in “Show Me” mode: here, it’s all about the clinical evidence and ROI, according to a survey from GSR Ventures. conducted among over 50 major digital health venture capital investors.
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