KevinMD

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Virtual primary care, unlike virtual urgent care, involves doctors who take the time to get to know their patients, creating (and nurturing) trusted doctor-patient relationships. Virtual primary care requires that doctors be consistently available for providing ongoing care to their patients.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Now, to the news… and what it means… Start with Kroger and Hy-Vee, national grocery chains, both of which are expanding their health care reach via pharmacists’ licensure practice expansions, and new concepts of mobile health.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Or an expanded definition of a “digital therapeutic” with the car as a delivery channel or vessel for care and information source. This is an actual intersection of the Internet of Things for Health — a new riff on mobile health/care, literally!

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Health Populi

MAY 5, 2022

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Our homes have morphed into our health hubs, as we have undergone our personal brands of digital transformation, taking on more DIY tasks (baking, cooking, home renovation), and to be sure, self-care medical care.

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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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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Or an expanded definition of a “digital therapeutic” with the car as a delivery channel or vessel for care and information source. This is an actual intersection of the Internet of Things for Health — a new riff on mobile health/care, literally!

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2024

This is not a build-it-and-they-will-come business proposition anymore: digital health tools must address specific clinical conditions and deliver on outcomes. These clinical priorities vary by purchaser-type: for example, diabetes and obesity solution in particular are in highest demand by health plans.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Over one-half of Americans would likely use virtual care for their healthcare services, and one in four people would actually prefer a virtual relationship with a primary care physician, according to the fifth annual 2020 Consumer Sentiment Survey from UnitedHealthcare.

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Health Populi

JULY 23, 2020

Note in the “Appeal of Telehealth Approaches” diagram above that most patients would look to a telehealth program that would allow them to share data form the medical devices in their home, and to share data in mobile health apps from the phone to the health system.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

What enables those deflating cost-reducers is the growing adoption of digital health tools, from telehealth and virtual care to self-care in patients’ hands at home and on-the-go via mobile health apps.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Considering the “poor health” bar in the graph, we can see the opportunity for telehealth and home visits to people who may have mobility and other challenges leaving the home space. Why should that be, in a physical sense?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

The guide offers clarification for billing for remote patient monitoring, synchronous (real-time) asynchronous (store-and-forward) telehealth services and billing for virtual healthcare services, as well as mobile health services.

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KevinMD

JULY 11, 2020

In so far as our current public health emergency is concerned, telehealth has obvious, indisputable benefits.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 13, 2021

.” Then add in “sweet teams are made of this,” and you have the making of telehealth enabling health/care across the continuum, as I show in my drawing here. Sweet teams are increasingly inter-disciplinary, including primary care, bundling in mental health, health coaches and nutritionists.

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KevinMD

MAY 16, 2021

It will not come as a surprise to my fellow clinicians that the pandemic has spurred a boom in digital health and health technology innovation, evidenced by the increasing sales pitches we receive for these new solutions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2024

These include the development of a miniaturized self-shielded CT scanner that achieves >80% reduction in size, weight and power from standard scanners along with software that connects remote medical devices with electronic health records and provides real-time, interactive decision support.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Self-care is the new black, as I have written and proselytized. Prevention is especially powerful for heart health – the social determinants of healthy eating/nutritious food, physical activity, and access to primary care all bolster a healthy heart and resilient living.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic accelerated digital transformation of organizations, including health care providers.

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Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2021

The Wall Street Journal featured the grocery chain Kroger in an article yesterday titled, COVID-19 Vaccinations, Tests Give Boost to Kroger’s Health Ambitions. With 2,250 pharmacies and 220 clinics largely in the Midwest and the southern U.S.,

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KevinMD

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Among the many recurring topics, this year has been the impact of machine learning in our lives, especially the implications for our future work life. Prophecies range from ubiquitous utopian machine servants to a dystopian ravaging, hollowing out the work and economic standing of the middle and lower classes. What can machine learning do?

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KevinMD

APRIL 15, 2019

Telehealth, using video to have an acute medical care visit, puts some of the power of choice back into our patient’s hands.

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KevinMD

OCTOBER 27, 2018

The Kaiser Health News article, " Spurred By Convenience, Millennials Often Spurn The ‘Family Doctor’ Model ," caught my eye.

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KevinMD

MARCH 6, 2019

I have been practicing telemedicine successfully for four years. In 2015, I had to beg doctors to work in telemedicine. Because so many doctors were wary of it, I started to get licensed in multiple states, and now, I have 15 state licenses. Well, what a difference a few years makes. Now, in 2019, I […]. Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com.

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KevinMD

APRIL 30, 2019

As we go through our careers, we are given the responsibility of educating the next generation of students and residents to become proficient and competent in medicine. In telehealth, which also requires training my colleagues, is it necessary? If so, what should be part of it? Part of the equivocation with this question of creating […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 28, 2023

" Others, meanwhile, are focused on remote monitoring, secure information exchange, patient engagement, mobile health workforce and training tools. A "BedSense" App provides insights into the needs of memory care and nursing home residents. The nearly two-dozen firms in this new cohort are: Momo Medical.

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Digital Health Global

JUNE 17, 2024

Leading Mobile Health Provider Brings Together Industry Experts to Help Drive Innovation and Elevate Patient Care NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–DocGo Inc. Clive Kevan Fields, MD, is Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer of VillageMD, a national primary care provider through their locations called Village Medical.

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Health Populi

JULY 5, 2021

Without access to connectivity during the pandemic, too many people could not work for their living, attend school and learn, connect with loved ones, or get health care.

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KevinMD

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

Stated simply, telemedicine is the process of seeking care from a medical provider using your phone or laptop. This field is exploding, and I have no doubt popularity will continue to grow as large health systems and pharmacy giants dive in.

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KevinMD

DECEMBER 27, 2018

The article is filed under the keywords “AI,” “Watson,” “health,” “health care,” and “Doctor: This product is a piece of s**t.” Over the course of several years, IBM’s fledgling Watson for Oncology program has received a wide range of reviews. Among them is a harsh critique published by Gizmodo.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2024

Health care access is a challenge in rural and urban areas, cities and suburbs, and across more demographic groups than you might realize, as we see wait times grow for appointments, primary care shortages, and delays in screening plaguing health systems around the world.

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KevinMD

DECEMBER 2, 2017

Online dating is all the rage these days. Statistics suggest that over a third of couples now meet online. For a lot of older readers of this blog, who met their husband or wife the traditional way and are baffled by this whole new world (and don’t get me wrong, there were probably many ways in which those days were better!),

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

Will the coronavirus inspire greater adoption of telehealth in the U.S.? Let’s travel to Shanghai, China where, “the covid-19 epidemic has brought millions of new patients online. They are likely to stay there,” asserts “ The smartphone will see you now ,” an article in the March 7th 2020 issue of The Economist.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

DECEMBER 3, 2015

In January 2015, Stanford Medicine launched ClickWell Care, a new type of Primary Care clinic which leverages technology to allow patients to virtually connect with their own Stanford primary care clinicians and wellness coaches via video or phone visits. “Initially we created this virtual model for our ACO.

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Continue Education Journal

JUNE 12, 2019

With telemedicine, patients are able to seek services from providers in larger communities without having to coordinate travel plans or using the distance as a valid excuse to not seek treatment or care. The switch to telehealth services will also help stabilize the increasing healthcare costs.

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KevinMD

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

With this post, I aim to show that these opportunities for systemic change to the health care delivery model […].

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KevinMD

MAY 22, 2018

Modern technology needs to do better. This is the message delivered by every CEO after every Silicon Valley scandal in recent memory. This time, they should really do it. Medicine can show them how. Let's have the professionals building our future abide by industry-wide standards, just as doctors do.

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KevinMD

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Health care is obsessed with new technology. Every week, a new article comes out promising disruption of medical care as we know it through personalized genetic therapy, app extensions that transform smartphones into ultrasounds or autonomous surgical robots.

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