Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 2, 2025

Now the hospital can connect the physician in the ED or any location to help, for example, EMS staff interpret an EKG or authorize them to initiate certain medications. Enterprise Taxonomy: Telehealth Patient Access Population and Public Health Interoperability Care Data and Information Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. TripleTree is an investment bank that has advised health care transactions since 1997.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 8, 2025

For example, we are considering using AI to support physicians in ophthalmology , such as the prediction of retinal diseases, as well as neurology and radiology. It is likely we will also see an increase in dynamic and interactive population health dashboards for general practices subscribed to NQPHN’s data program.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 7, 2025

Sleep, or lack thereof, is a public health challenge around the world whatever your postal code or demographic profile. Can technology help us bridge the sleep deprivation gap, or is technology destined to ruin our mind-body-spirit health? There’s more.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 28, 2023

Healthcare IT Today sat down with Dr. Stephanie Deitrick, Chief Data and Analytics Officer for the City of Tempe, to learn more about their public health initiatives and how it relates to being a 20-minute city.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

CHA launched a portal on the act of love , featuring lots of science-based articles and features to bolster health literacy on the topic of vaccines, vaccinations, and public health. The social media assets include badges, example tweets, stories and images that can be used to bolster the #LoveThyNeighbor vaccination message.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

He holds a master's degree in communications and leadership theory from Gonzaga University and has extensive experience in health system IT and clinical and business operations, as well as in the public health and environmental health sectors. We spoke with Scott to get a sneak preview of this timely HIMSS25 session.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2020

That mindset from “my” to “our” wellness is part of my observation of a growing ethos for collective well-being called out in my book, Health Citizenship: How a virus opened up hearts and minds , published in September. ” The COVID-19 crisis exacerbated consumers’ financial stress: in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

The coronavirus spawned another kind of gift to China and the nation’s health citizens: telemedicine, the essay explains. How would you improve what’s in the bill to optimize the use of telehealth in this challenging public health moment? What can we expect to hear relevant to the public health challenge?

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2025

adults seeking medical information online, there is a ripe market for so-called “health influencers” and other bad actors to put out mis-information for profit and notoriety, with the rate of unsafe treatments putting people at-risk of adverse events and medical mishaps. With 3 in 5 U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2019

asserted that by 2011, human health was marked less by infectious disease and more by non-communicable conditions that could be highly influenced, reversed and prevented through self-care by the individual and public health policy that promotes social and financial wellness. And I daresay, health reform.

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Health Populi

MARCH 27, 2025

There is an important distinction between a desert vis-a-vis a swamp when it comes to food and health: a food desert is an area with a high poverty rate where at least one-third of residents live over one mile from the closest grocery store in an urban area or over ten miles from a grocer in a rural area.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2025

A great example of this is the ALERT study, which uses AI to identify causes for the undertreatment of minority patients with heart valve disease who may benefit from minimally invasive therapies. This may require a lower-cost and simpler wearable solution.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 5, 2020

For example, AI-based algorithms could be most helpful in providing information about patients who have already been diagnosed with COVID-19 or who are suspected of being infected. For example, they can engage people and provide education about their disease or ask them to take certain precautions.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2022

Without a strong financial backbone (again, in risk management mode), health care’s pharma and life science companies, med tech suppliers, hospitals, health plans, and retail health channels cannot implement innovative visions for new services, new products, and new markets. The healthcare provider examined 1.5

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2018

The NHS “supply shortage” is a result of financial cuts to both social care and public health. This article in the BMJ published earlier this year called for increasing these investments to ensure further erosion of population and public health outcomes, and to prevent further health disparities in the UK.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 16, 2022

For example, Babylon Health offers a symptom checker and AI/ML driven diagnosis recommendations to patients. A global trend gaining traction is telcos in health seeking to be the enabler to bridge the different ecosystem proponents such as consumers, healthcare service providers and the payors through high-speed networks (e.g.,

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Beth McGroarty speaks eloquently about the loneliness epidemic, which continues to plague some of us in different ways: still viscerally remembering or being conscious of physical distancing, for example, or avoiding going to the gym continuing our online fitness gatherings.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 18, 2020

This assurance has given clear support to the use of technologies such as mobile messaging and video-enabled services, for example. One example is the creation of an expanded team with capabilities in technology roll-out, change management and health improvement, which has led to the expansion of video-enabled consultation.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

live under a broadband monopoly, explicitly pointing to Comcast as a prime example of an obstructive force in building out broadband to the last mile and citizen’s home. Among many reasons broadband continues to lag in certain parts of the U.S. is the monopoly power of ISPs: ILSR gauges that 83 million people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 12, 2024

From bandages to home hygiene, OTC pain meds and DIY home projects, Morning Consult’s look into the most-trusted brands of 2024 give us insights into health consumers. I’ve been tracking this study since before the public health crisis of the coronavirus, and it always offers us a practical snapshot of the U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2021

Those issues were COVID-19, the 2020 Election, health care policy, racial divides, and equity and access. W2O notes that these five issues became more-inter-related than ever, compared with previous years’ top consumer health issues. Keep an eye on the “S” in ESG for health care, along with E and G.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 28, 2024

WHAT IT'S ABOUT During the groundbreaking ceremony, Health Minister Ong Ye Kung revealed that the EGH campus will be "digitally enabled from the start," particularly offering telemedicine. "For example, during a tele-consult, doctors can verbally ask if the patients are keeping up with their rehab[ilitation] exercises.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 12, 2020

For example, they’ve announced previously an effort to expand LOINC to support public health needs and grants to expand HL7 standards related to the public health […].

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Hamad Husainy, DO, FACEP, Chief Medical Officer at PointClickCare Integration of social determinants of health (SDoH) data into existing workflows is critical for improving care outcomes at scale. When patients can’t afford prescriptions, their symptoms worsen, leading to more severe health issues.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 2, 2023

ON THE RECORD "Pregnancy loss is a deeply personal experience, and the ability for women to manage this in the comfort and privacy of their own home instead of attending the [ED], will go a long way in helping navigate such an incredibly difficult time," said SA Minister for Health and Wellbeing Chris Picton.

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GlobalMed

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

By making healthcare more accessible, telehealth ensures that more people receive timely medical attention, ultimately improving health outcomes. For example, via virtual consultations, patients are able to connect with their healthcare providers without ever leaving their home.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 15, 2020

Syndromic surveillance is a public health campaign that can track symptoms of disease in the community and use the resulting insights to predict hospital utilization during a surge, inform reopening, enable quick policy changes, or reallocate resources. Here are some examples why: Weeks after […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 20, 2022

Hopefully the Congress and state legislatures will act soon to ensure the temporary reimbursement expansions for telemedicine will continue after the public health emergency ends. Other examples include virtual care in patients’ homes and assisted living communities.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2023

I have become more bullish on Burn Awareness as I’ve come to learn more about the impact burns have on public, family, and children’s health globally. Burns are a global public health challenge, which I detailed here in Health Populi earlier this year. Meet Krissie.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

My personal tour, thanks to Karsten and the Philips team, bolsters my own forecast that our homes, neighborhoods and local communities will be where our health and health care will be made and delivered in and beyond the public health crisis.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 20, 2023

The COVID-19 public health emergency may be coming to an end in May. Mehra discusses whether virtual-first is the way to go, what the impending end of the public health emergency means for virtual care, how patients implementing technology into their healthcare routines can help and where telehealth will be in five and 10 years.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 14, 2025

Dr. Ateev Mehrotra is chair of the department of health services, policy and practice at Brown University School of Public Health. That's just another example of where we're stifling innovation by these short-term extensions. He is an expert in telemedicine policy. Those companies are struggling right now.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 5, 2022

To analyze which physicians made the transition sooner, the researchers used Epic electronic health record data to analyze visits between Oct. 1, 2019, and Dec. The researchers organized physicians into four categories: Innovators (those with virtual visits before March 15, 2020).

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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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced earlier this month , for example, that it would add 11 virtual services to its reimbursement list during the COVID-19 public health emergency – following in the footsteps of its earlier flexibilities for virtual care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 17, 2020

Some, for example, focus more on behavioral health, while others concentrate on private providers or substance use treatment. Experience the education, innovation and collaboration of the HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition… virtually. HIMSS20 Digital.

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