Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 18, 2020

More than 70 percent of respondents polled by cybersecurity firm CynergisTek say they'll keep using telehealth services, even once the pandemic subsides. But they also say privacy and data security are big concerns – and that breaches involving virtual care technologies could cause them to stop using telehealth or switch physicians.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2020

Epic Systems has tapped San Francisco-based communications tech startup Twilio to provide the video-communication backend for Epic’s new telehealth platform. THE LARGER TREND. million more to aid COVID-19 telehealth deployment as part of its $200 million aid program for qualifying providers. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 1, 2020

Although telehealth can be used to address that gap, write experts from the University of California, Los Angeles in a new report, policymakers must consider the ways in which vulnerable people are left behind by technological advances. THE LARGER TREND. Seven million Californians live in a region with a shortage of physicians.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 12, 2022

What trends matter this year and beyond? Trends accelerated by the pandemic continue to emerge, and the population aged 50+ will continue to purchase and use technology, accounting for an estimated 51% of technology spending by 2030. A striking shift from care in faci lities and hospitals to care in the home. .

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 5, 2021

Health technology company Solve.Care has announced the expansion of its Global Telehealth Exchange, a virtual health service platform, to India. In March last year, the Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare issued new guidelines for telemedicine practice which boosted the use of telehealth services in the country.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 12, 2022

The report , which grew out of an NCQA roundtable discussion on the future of telehealth, outlines existing barriers to equity and recommendations for improving care delivery. The spike in telehealth use triggered by COVID-19 has prompted examinations of its potential role in both expanding access to and enacting hurdles to care.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic accelerated many trends and new workflows for patients and consumers, and health care providers, too. The convergence of basic needs like hygiene and safety, financial and health security, and living-working-learning-and-cooking-at-home has turbocharged a migration of more acute care delivered at home.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 20, 2021

Perhaps this preference for in-person is simply an acknowledgement that many health needs can’t be met by a telehealth visit," CareSide mentioned. THE LARGER TREND. The Australian government has been providing telehealth services since last year March. Enterprise Taxonomy: Digital Health Technology.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

" THE LARGER TREND. Some studies have suggested, for example, that Black and Latino patients in New York City were less likely to use telehealth during the pandemic, while others have said Black people were more likely to use virtual care. Otherwise telehealth won't work." " ON THE RECORD.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

Telehealth always has been a key pillar of technology-enabled care delivery that helps hospitals, health systems and group practices deliver quality care at a distance – and often also gain efficiencies, improve patient and provider satisfaction and save costs. Check back for additions in the days and weeks ahead.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 15, 2020

Physicians are evolving as digital doctors, embracing the growing role of data generated in electronic health records as well as through their patients using wearable technologies and mobile health apps downloaded in ubiquitous smartphones, described in The Rise of the Data-Driven Physician , a 2020 Health Trends Report from Stanford Medicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 4, 2025

Shanghai-based Ping An Health, the health technology unit of Chinese insurance firm Ping An, has launched a generative AI-powered chatbot on its mobile health application featuring the avatars of real physicians. Users can interact with them synchronously through text, voice, or video chat.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 1, 2021

Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General recognized telehealth's potential while cautioning that steps must be taken to ensure virtual care will not be compromised by fraud. "OIG is conducting significant oversight work assessing telehealth services during the public health emergency.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 5, 2021

The Philips Future Health Index 2021 report found that nearly two in three healthcare leaders are prioritizing investments in telehealth – but that priorities will shift to artificial intelligence in three years. by collaborating with other private hospitals and health technology companies. " THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 30, 2021

Through the MyCareManager dashboards, clinicians are able to review observation trends, variations, alerts and guests' overall usage of the digital health devices. They are hitting a daily health check compliance rate past 90% from about 150 guests, noted Kim Ford of Telehealth Tasmania and the Australian Telehealth Society.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Home hospitalisation, tech-enabled preventive care, and genomic data-driven personalised care are some of the emerging trends in care in the Asia-Pacific region. For him, some applications of telehealth will be further developed post-pandemic, such as the growing trend of home hospitalisation as seen in the United States.

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Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Key Trends Shaping Valuations: Consolidation and M&A: Larger companies may acquire smaller, innovative startups to expand their product portfolios and accelerate growth. By closely monitoring these trends and adapting to the evolving landscape, HealthTech companies can position themselves for long-term success and significant valuations.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 4, 2023

On 3 January, in the annual #CES update of Technology Trends to Watch, Steve Koenig, CTA’s VP of Research, reviewed the major themes with media and industry analyst folks (of which Health Populi is one). In 2023, Steve advised us to keep our eyes on six key trends: Enterprise tech. Health technology.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Here are five other posts: Will telehealth help the oldest adults during Covid-19? What happens when people avoid health-related in-person care? Family concerns about health and Covid-19 also continue to delay or prevent some move-ins to senior living communities. But is telehealth viable for the oldest?

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Health Populi

JULY 15, 2022

However, there will be some bright spots of growth for consumer tech spending, for 5G smartphones, smart home applications, gaming, and health technologies, noted in the Consumer Technology Association’s CTA U.S. Consumer Technology One-Year Industry Forecast, 2018-2023. and hardware to fall by 1.4%

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2021

Trust in the technology industry has crashed to an all-time low based on the 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer. ” The first chart shows the one-year trend on trust across industries through U.S. Most industries lost citizens’ trust between 2020 and 2021, most notably, Technology, dropping the greatest margin at 9 points.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 20, 2022

The nonprofit safety group ECRI Institute published the latest version of its annual health technology hazards report this week, pointing to cybersecurity attacks, supply chain shortfalls and damaged infusion pumps as three of the biggest dangers. THE LARGER TREND. "They can also interrupt workflow, delaying patient care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The American Telemedicine Association this week announced its new ATA Center of Digital Excellence, or CODE, which will see the telehealth group working with several major U.S. health systems on innovative ways to integrate digital pathways across the care continuum.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 3, 2022

THE LARGER TREND. It was fairly recent that Pakistan has become open to virtual health technologies, which were deployed to help it battle the ongoing pandemic. At the start of the outbreak, it launched a free telehealth service via WhatsApp. Enterprise Taxonomy: Telehealth Patient Access.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 4, 2019

Digital health could save public health services in England £7.5 This indicated that if an effective pre-triage function was set up within a telehealth app, patient pressure on GPs could be reduced by up to 73 percent. THE LARGER TREND. WHY IT MATTERS. worth £240 million ($317 million) in value.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Home health technologies will have an increasingly larger role to play in healthcare delivery as the silver tsunami of the aging population strain the system. Home-based health technologies are any preventive care technology tool that elevates health.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 6, 2020

And it became increasingly likely that CMS would make telehealth access for older adults permanent. During the pandemic, telehealth use grew sharply in the care of older adults, enabled by CMS reimbursement changes that likely will be permanent. Covid-19 and Mid-Year Look at 2020 Tech Trends for Older Adults.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Thus, each group of shareholders – physicians, health plans, employers, policymakers, health tech companies and venture capital/equity funders – has its part to play. THE LARGER TREND. " ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 12, 2021

The pandemic exposed the need for the rapid adoption of increasingly innovative digital health technologies. And while telehealth, a key component of this, has received much of the focus and spend, RPM has been gaining traction since the beginning of the pandemic. Then COVID-19 hit. Then came COVID-19.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Growing orders for Peloton and other connected exercise equipment were noted by CTA’s 2021 consumer-tech forecast , anticipating this as a trend that would mainstream as scale economies and competition expanded the market segment while prices fell.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Telehealth services will remain to replace or supplement in person visits likely throughout 2024. Older people, consumers of a significant portion of healthcare spending, will need and use many of the digital health technology categories. Will all devices default to ‘Accessibility’ and security options that you must undo?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 11, 2021

Royal Philips has published its latest Future Health Index 2021 report that explores how healthcare leaders are confronting the present challenges of the pandemic and where their current and future priorities lie. The digital transformation of the Indian health system is hinged on a three-step approach, the study found.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Physicians' use and appreciation of information technology and digital health tools has seen a big uptick over the past five years, according to a new survey from the American Medical Association. The new AMA Digital Health Research sees attitudes and expectations changing among the physicians it surveyed. THE LARGER TREND.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Growing orders for Peloton and other connected exercise equipment were noted by CTA’s 2021 consumer-tech forecast , anticipating this as a trend that would mainstream as scale economies and competition expanded the market segment while prices fell.

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Lloyd Price

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Exec Summary: The HealthTech sector is poised for significant M&A activity in 2025, driven by several key trends: Digital Health Solutions: The increasing demand for digital health solutions to improve healthcare accessibility and efficiency will drive acquisitions of innovative startups and established players in this space.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Jennifer Goldsmith, President at Tendo When effectively deployed, digital health tools offer new ways to improve population health by engaging patients in their own care. Mobile health technologies, such as nudges, self-scheduling, and asynchronous communication, empower patients to modify their behaviors.

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