Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2025

“Cycle 3 isn’t just a change in health care,” Deloitte explains in the report. [An historic sidebar: read this origin story of Jean Nidetch here in a 2017 New York Times essay – it’s a great yarn that still rings all too true in the swipe-left-online-dating era]. “It’s a change in how we live.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic pushed telehealth into the spotlight with exponential adoption, helping to prove its value. On this note, Karsten Russell-Wood, portfolio leader for post-acute and home at Philips, shares his viewpoints with Healthcare IT News on the biggest priorities to ensure telehealth is sustained long term.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Seeking health information online along with researching other patients’ perspectives on doctors are now as common as booking dinner reservations and reading restaurant reviews, based on Rock Health’s latest health consumer survey, Beyond Wellness for the Healthy: Digital Health Consumer Adoption 2018.

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Health Populi

MARCH 18, 2024

health care delivery landscape, patients-as-health care consumers are becoming more savvy and discriminating based on their “maturity” and exposure to various flavors of telehealth. Consumers’ valuing convenience won’t last forever as they will seek more features to stay with telehealth services.

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GlobalMed

DECEMBER 23, 2024

The rapid evolution of telehealth has transformed the healthcare landscape, offering patients access to medical services anytime and anywhere. In this blog post, well explore how the incorporation of AI, remote monitoring, and augmented reality into telehealth platforms is revolutionizing patient care and improving health outcomes.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2020

Most older Americans would share data collected through a wearable tech device with their health care provider, but a minority (35%) would share that information with a health insurance company. One-third of older people wouldn’t share their health data with any third party at all.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Following the release of a report by STAT and The Markup, which found 49 of 50 telehealth startups may fall short of legal requirements for HIPAA compliance, a bipartisan group of US senators has fiercely criticized several prominent telehealth startups for sharing patient data with Facebook, Google, and other major advertising platforms.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2018

Looking for health information online is just part of being a normal, mainstream health consumer, according to the third Rock Health Digital Health Consumer Adoption Survey published this week. adults were online health information hunters. By 2017, 8 in 10 U.S. In the meantime, in the U.S.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Senators Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisconsin, and Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, introduced the Health Data Use and Privacy Commission Act this week, aimed at starting the process of modernizing health data use and privacy policies. "As a doctor, the potential of new technology to improve patient care seems limitless.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2020

The 21st Century Cures Act emphasizes patients’ control of personal health information. ONC rules issues in March 2020 called for more patient-facing health tools and apps to bolster health consumer engagement and empowerment. Digital literacy combines with health literacy to bolster patient engagement.

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Health Populi

MARCH 7, 2018

As I wrote here in April 2017, telehealth and virtual healthcare are mainstreaming. This week at the 2018 annual HIMSS conference, telehealth is playing a mainstream role in discussions about right-sizing and right-placing healthcare. But only 38% would share wearable health data with an employer, and 41% with a government agency.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Patients searching online for health information and health care provider reviews is mainstream in 2019. Digital health tracking is now adopted by 4 in 10 U.S. Rock Health’s Digital Health Consumer Adoption Report for 2019 was developed in collaboration with the Stanford Medicine Center for Digital Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2023

It will deliver regular health checks and provide greater access to professional help while also giving incentives to further encourage patients to self-manage their own conditions at home. Enterprise Taxonomy: Telehealth Population and Public Health Patient Access Care

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Some of the key behaviors Deloitte gauged to measure health care consumerism were, Increasing use of technology and willingness to share personal health information. Interest in and use of virtual care/telehealth. Levels of self-efficacy and prevention. Use of tools for prescription drugs and self-care.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 15, 2023

Adding to the growing number of recent FTC investigations about data being shared by telehealth platforms for profit, Cerebral reportedly notified 3.1 million users that their protected health information was shared with tech companies like Meta, Google, and TikTok.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In today’s technology-driven world, patients now expect a seamless healthcare experience, which translates to a digital “one-stop shop” for managing their personal health information. . However, today patients are increasingly utilizing existing technology to participate in their own health journey more actively. .

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

For example, the telehealth market continues to mature in a post-pandemic world – particularly in more developed countries. Digital solutions such as telehealth, as well as other services and technologies can be expanded into developing territories to decrease costs involved in healthcare.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2022

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Health system IT leaders need to be ready to enable care delivery anywhere, anytime, to any patient. New advances in cloud and telehealth/remote monitoring are forcing the issue.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 27, 2022

For some historical context, the authors (all affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania [medical school or Wharton (business school)] start with HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act which served up privacy protections based on the health information technology of the time.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Furthermore, this week Google made news about how it will absorb the DeepMind AI business into the larger Google Health unit. Some analysts and privacy lawyers question how Google will handle patients’ (assumed private) health data, a volatile question for the UK’s National Health Service as I draft this post.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

Before dissolving , MAeHC had assigned its contract with the New England Healthcare Exchange Network to the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium. It selected the projects of six grantees: Athol Memorial Hospital , which will implement and evaluate school-based telehealth technology at rural school districts.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 18, 2025

We are seeing a shift from fragmented, siloed information to a more connected ecosystem that supports personalized, data-driven decision-making. Other digital health innovations, such as smart and wearable devices and telehealth to monitor patient status, are having a direct impact on underserved areas.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2021

A CyberScoop report published on Friday found that the telehealth provider Doxy.me had allowed third parties to access data about providers via its virtual waiting room. In other words, that information was also potentially being shared via the URL with third parties. No patient health data was exposed.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2022

– Microsoft has announced advancements in cloud technologies for healthcare and life sciences with the general availability of Azure Health Data Services and updates to Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. The goal of Azure Health Data Services is interoperability that drives better patient outcomes and clinical advances.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 19, 2025

By HIMSS TV | May 31, 2024 Topic: Analytics Artificial Intelligence Business Intelligence Career Planning Clinical Cloud Computing Compliance & Legal Connected Health Data Warehousing Decision Support Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Government & Policy Health Information Exchange (HIE) Imaging Innovation (..)

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 17, 2020

Microsoft is previewing its new Azure IoT Connector for FHIR, an API feature that enables healthcare organizations to scale secure connectivity for an array of devices streaming protected health information. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The legal action is one of what is likely to be an increasing number of fines issued to telehealth companies profiting from sharing consumers’ health data with advertisers, among other infractions. Under its health Breach Notification, the FTC took enforcement action, imposing a $1.5

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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

The bill expands privacy protections for Washington State’s health citizens beyond HIPAA’s provisions. The My Health, My Data Act defines “consumer health data” as “personal information that is linked or reasonably linkable to a consumer and that identifies a consumer’s past, present, or future physical or mental health.”

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 24, 2023

has admitted that it inappropriately shared private health data on 3.1 million of its users, a problem that arose from its use of pixel-based tracking technologies which gather and share data on people who visit the site. million in civil penalties for failing to let consumers know about unauthorized disclosures of their data.

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

By focusing on methodology, healthcare can move beyond simply adopting new technologies and towards a more strategic, data-driven, and patient-centred approach to improving health outcomes. This includes AI, machine learning, telehealth platforms, wearable devices, and more.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 22, 2024

This means if a person visits multiple facilities, they must use different portals to access their health data. There is a risk of unauthorized access to or breaches of patients' personal health information (PHI). There are worries about the affordability and accessibility of digital health solutions.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JUNE 30, 2015

If you read our blog post 5 Top Telemeds Trend of 2015 , you know that telehealth is slowly revolutionizing the healthcare world for the better. From remote patient monitoring to distance education, telehealth practices and services are benefiting not only healthcare providers and organization but also patients. Telehealth.

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E-CareManagement

JUNE 27, 2021

While there have been many events on interoperability and data sharing, what’s unique here is our focus on the BUSINESS rationale for health data sharing. • This shift creates a business imperative to share information, not to hoard it. Hoarding data is not only bad for business but can be catastrophic in a crisis.

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E-CareManagement

OCTOBER 19, 2020

While there have been many events on interoperability and data sharing, what’s unique here is our focus on the BUSINESS rationale for health data sharing. • This shift creates a business imperative to share information, not to hoard it. Hoarding data is not only bad for business but can be catastrophic in a crisis.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 25, 2024

MediSecure hack exposed data of 13 million Australians Approximately 12.9 million Australians had their health information stolen in the recent MediSecure hack. In an update, MediSecure said affected individuals included those who used its service between March 2019 and November 2023.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 13, 2023

This time, the FTC has issued a proposed order demanding BetterHelp stop sharing consumers’ health data. million to settle charges that it shared sensitive health data, including data on consumers’ mental health challenges, with third parties including Facebook and Snapchat.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The Federal Trade Commission has cited telehealth and prescription drug discount provider GoodRx for sharing sensitive consumer health data with several advertising platforms, in violation of its own privacy promises to consumers. The agency has filed a proposed order demanding that GoodRx pay $1.5 including Facebook and Google.

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