Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 16, 2024

The four-year grant will support research which is believed to have applications in a broad range of medical devices, including continuous glucose monitors, smart electronic skin patches, and activity monitors. THE LARGER CONTEXT More and more medical devices are getting hooked up to hospital and home networks and the Internet.

Healthcare Cybersecurity 184

Healthcare Cybersecurity Remote care Medical Technology Public Health 184

Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2020

But many students lacked access to either or both the physical technology and the data plan-on-ramp to the Internet. This, too, was a challenge for people who needed health care at home, to avoid contact to avoid the risk of being exposed to the virus.

Digital Health 276

Digital Health Health Information Telehealth Health Data 276

Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

In October 2021, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced that Robert Ford, CEO and President of Abbott, would give a keynote speech at CES 2022, the world’s largest annual convention of the technology industry.

Digital Health 406

Digital Health Pharmaceuticals Mobile Health Life Science 406

Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: One of the fastest-growing areas of digital health that grew in the COVID-19 pandemic was use of smartphones for health and fitness. consumers’ smartphone use for managing health grew by 50% during the public health crisis. Deloitte found that U.S.

Digital Health 207

Digital Health Public Health Telehealth Health Information 207

Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

As the HLTH conference convenes over 6,000 digital health innovators live, in person, in Boston in the wake of the delta variant, what should attendees keep in mind to help HLTH make health?

Digital Health 156

Digital Health Primary Care Mental health Public Health 156

Health Populi

JANUARY 31, 2018

In 2016 at CES, I spoke with Ranndy about the company’s project #GoingforZero, a public health education campaign aiming for “zero” incidence of stroke. In this growing era of healthcare collaboration, Omron worked with AliveCor on the BP/EKG technology; here’s more detail on AliveCor’s website here.

Digital Health 204

Digital Health Connected Health Public Health Mental health 204

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

I’d called WiFi a social determinant of health in a Huffington Post column I wrote back in 2016 , recognizing the emerging virtual health opportunity and potential for furthering the digital divide without bolstering broadband “everywhere.” Nothing like a public health crisis to bring new awareness to old knowledge.

Telemedicine 156

Telemedicine Public Health Life Science Remote care 156

Health Populi

JANUARY 27, 2022

But I’m most looking forward to seeing the 30-second spot from Hologic , the medical technology company. Looking at the “S” in “ESG,” the report noted that health and safety was the most pressing social issue compared with human rights, community impact, and diversity and inclusion.

Medical Technology 156

Medical Technology Telehealth Public Health 156

Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2022

Consumers continued to invest in and use several technologies that supported self-care at home in 2021, with plans to purchase connected health devices, sports and fitness equipment in the next year.

Connected Health 316

Connected Health Digital Health Primary Care Medical Technology 316

Health Populi

JANUARY 7, 2019

With my public health hat on, I assert that smoking cessation is good for everyone (except perhaps for tobacco companies’ bottom lines). Beyond alcohol, the company is working on additional DTx categories including insomnia and depression, schizophrenia, traumatic brain injury, epilepsy, and PTSD, among other conditions.

Digital Health 180

Digital Health Medicare Public Health Primary Care 180

Health Populi

JANUARY 17, 2019

Our homes have the potential to be our health-hubs, supporting self-care and remote health care to our clinicians and health coaches, with our neighbors and communities bolstering overall public health. “Ultimately, a healthy business needs to be part of a healthy community.

Mental health 176

Mental health Primary Care Public Health Medical Technology 176

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.

Connected Health 194

Connected Health Digital Health HIPAA Telemedicine 194

Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2020

This funding record (“already” before year-end, tallied by the third quarter as Rock Health notes) was driven by “mega”-deals accelerated during the public health crisis of COVID-19. based digital health start-ups adding up $9.4 In the third quarter of 2020, some $4 billion was invested in U.S.

Digital Health 317

Digital Health Life Science Public Health Telehealth 317

Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

CES 2021 featured some obvious quick-pivoting products that had the pandemic written all over them, with sessions invariably speaking to the way the public health crisis impacted companies and strategic plans. Heart health at home.

Digital Health 194

Digital Health Public Health Life Science Patient Experience 194

Health Populi

AUGUST 6, 2021

That’s what government regulation and intervention are for, to make more fair and effective the lack of a real health care market. In the immediate term, looking from “now” to one and three years from now, we can expect the private sector to take on more public health roles.

Digital Health 406

Digital Health Primary Care Mental health Public Health 406

Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2023

“Despite breathtaking medical advancements since President Harry Truman declared war on heart disease 75 years ago, researchers have observed a disturbing trend that started in 2009: America’s death rate from heart-related conditions is climbing again,” the detailed essay explains.

Digital Health 266

Digital Health Primary Care Medical Technology Patient Experience 266

Health Populi

MARCH 14, 2023

Among the dozen+ safety issues are medication safety, health IT, workforce staffing, telehealth and digital health risks, infection prevention and control, and health equity — which ECRI noted as #1 last year in its 2021 review as “racial and ethnic disparities.”

Mental health 194

Mental health Nursing Health Technology Leadership 194

Health Populi

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Underpinning that behavior has been consumers’ personal digital transformations through the pandemic, one of those silver linings we can look to as a positive outcome for many people now empowered through consumer technology for many life-flows.

Life Science 156

Life Science Digital Health Pharmaceuticals Connected Care 156

Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

“For example, major insurance bodies are already using digital health services to communicate with patients,” he says. Traditionally, lack of formal reimbursement processes is actually a deterrent to the uptake of these—wearables, telehealth etc.

Digital Health 32

Digital Health Telemedicine Life Science mHealth 32

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

” This was one pillar for the public health prescription we were given to help mitigate the spread of a very tricky, contagious virus. Their report envisions a new normal for physical spaces, public transit and commuting, airports, urban infrastructure redevelopment, remote work, and public health.

Healthcare Innovation 240

Healthcare Innovation Public Health Leadership Digital Health 240

Telebehavioral Health Institute

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

New, bipartisan legislation has been proposed to solidify telehealth policy based on telehealth advances and supporting research. If passed, this legislation will codify critical telehealth policies implemented during the pandemic while providing another in a series of telehealth extensions.

Telehealth 105

Telehealth Medicare Medical Technology Public Health 105

Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2021

What gained in the pandemic year for trust were food and beverage and telecomms, in third and fourth places, which remind us the importance of those two basic necessities for our basic needs in the COVID-19 public health crisis and staying home to stay safe and healthy.

Public Health 199

Public Health Life Science Digital Health Medical Technology 199