Telehealth is the future but it is obscured by a dismal present
KevinMD
JULY 11, 2020
In so far as our current public health emergency is concerned, telehealth has obvious, indisputable benefits.
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Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns
Health Populi
AUGUST 25, 2020
This drove health consumers to virtual care platforms in the first months of the public health crisis — including lots of older people who had never used telemedicine or even a mobile health app. But a telehealth encounter was seen as more convenient than an office visit by 56% of older people.
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Telehealth Platforms: Building Blocks for Omnichannel, Networked Healthcare
Health Populi
JULY 23, 2020
the use of telehealth services tripled in the past year, as healthcare providers limited patients from in-person visits for care and patients sought to avoid exposure to the coronavirus in medical settings. What’s new in this fast-pivot to virtual care is the type of telehealth services used, shown in the first chart from the report.
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News from the Consumer Technology Association and Withings Further Demonstrates Private Sector’s Role in the Pandemic and Public Health
Health Populi
JULY 28, 2020
This week, announcements from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and Withings further bolster the case for the private sector bolstering public health in this pandemic…and future ones to come beyond the Age of the Coronavirus. On 27th July, CTA announced the Association’s launch of the Public Health Tech Initiative.
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Telehealth and COVID-19 in the U.S.: A Conversation with Ann Mond Johnson, ATA CEO
Health Populi
MARCH 12, 2020
Will the coronavirus inspire greater adoption of telehealth in the U.S.? I asked myself, then went to my Oracle of Telehealth: Ann Mond Johnson, CEO of ATA (once named the American Telemedicine Association). It is clear that there’s no better use case for digital/tele/virtual health than what is unfolding right now.
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A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds
Health Populi
JULY 20, 2020
Patients embraced virtual care and communications at very high rates in the first months of the pandemic, and want to continue to use telehealth platforms after the pandemic ends. Fully one-third of patients starting using each of these 3 telehealth modalities during COVID-19. We’re calling it Consumer Directed Virtual Care.”.
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Health Consumers After COVID-19 – A View from the Consumer Technology Association
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
I covered the event here in Health Populi, as I have for most of the past decade, highlighting the growth of digital health and, this year, the expanding Internet of Healthy Things called-out by Dr. Joseph Kvedar in 2015. Telehealth, too, is embraced by 3 in 5 people for both physical and mental health services.
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The COVID-19 Era Has Grown Health Consumer Demand for Virtual Care
Health Populi
NOVEMBER 9, 2020
One in four people would consider online options as their first-line to evaluating personal health issues — a kind of “digital step therapy,” if you will. The home has emerged as our health hub in the pandemic, and that won’t be just a trend: that will persist.
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A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being
Health Populi
APRIL 12, 2024
Congress can’t agree on much before the 2024 summer recess, there’s one bipartisan stroke of political pens in Washington, DC, that could provide some satisfaction for both patients and doctors: bring telehealth back to patients and providers permanently. S 2016) and second, re-introduce and sign the Telehealth Modernization Act.
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Trust-Busted: The Decline of Trust in Technology and What It Means for Health
Health Populi
APRIL 6, 2021
Ironically, the more people share data in a public health crisis, the more that information can be used for good to, in the case of the coronavirus, test, track, and snuff the virus. Health disparities, continued digital divide, health inequities, are unsustainable if we prioritize advancing public health.
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Black surgical patients used telehealth more often in late 2020
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 19, 2022
"Digital literacy, access to technology, and the ability to effectively communicate with providers through virtual platforms have now become critical social determinants of health," they added. The data emerging from telehealth patterns amid the pandemic has suggested that virtual care use may be a complicated issue.
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People in the U.S. Without the Internet Were More Likely To Die in the Pandemic
Health Populi
MARCH 25, 2022
.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: The American Medical Association polled physicians in late 2021 to gauge doctors’ perspectives on telehealth. The report lays out physicians’ majority support for telehealth and key issues preventing further adoption and proliferation of use across the U.S.
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How Grocery and Retail Companies Are Delivering Health and Healthcare
Health Populi
MARCH 25, 2021
It was the COVID-19 pandemic that accelerated some early-adopting health consumers viewing their home as their ultimate site for self-care and health care. Brian Owens noted on our call on the evolving wellness consumer that, “health and hygiene will emerge as the next digital.”
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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford
Health Populi
MARCH 2, 2021
But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.
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How Young People Are Using Digital Tools to Help Deal with Mental Health
Health Populi
MARCH 17, 2021
For most young people, the public health crisis has been more about that social distancing from friends, a collective sense of isolation, and mental and behavioral health impacts. A new mental health risk arose in 2020 in the U.S.
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Post-Pandemic, U.S. Healthcare is Entering a “Provide More Care For Less” Era – Pondering PwC’s 2022 Forecast
Health Populi
JUNE 8, 2021
Health systems finding ways to provide more care using less resources. 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. during the public health crisis.
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The Future of Healthcare: Telehealth. Here’s Why You Need to Consider Telemedicine in 2019
Continue Education Journal
JUNE 12, 2019
Telehealth and Telemedicine Definition. We often hear telehealth and telemedicine used interchangeably, so let’s set the record straight – telehealth is the umbrella term that refers to medical services that healthcare practitioners provide to patients from a distance. Telehealth in 2019.
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Digital Health Tools Are Finding Business Models – IQVIA’s 2021 Read on the Health of Digital Health
Health Populi
JULY 22, 2021
Today, one-half of the categories speak to more “medical”/clinical areas that are disease specific, addressing women’s health, medication adherence, and healthcare administration workflows.
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For Ryan Health, telehealth seeds planted during the pandemic have flourished
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MAY 15, 2023
Ryan Health has seven primary care centers, seven school-based health centers, two community outreach centers at transitional housing sites, and one mobile health center, all located throughout Manhattan. Besides the telehealth platform, we lacked webcams and laptops for providers.
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Older People Are Digital Migrants, and Best Buy Health Is Paving the Road for the Journey
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
Connecting from our homes — now our health hubs, workplaces, schools, entertainment centers, and gyms — is necessary like air and water for survival across daily life flows. Digital connectivity can ameliorate social isolation and anxiety, bolster mental health, and access needed medical care via telehealth channels.
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Why #CES2022 Will Be Keynoted By A Health Care Innovator for the First Time
Health Populi
DECEMBER 27, 2021
This is an actual intersection of the Internet of Things for Health — a new riff on mobile health/care, literally! As cars grow more connected via Bluetooth like our TVs, autos morph into a third space for health, which I’ve considered here in Health Populi and in some of my futures work with clients.
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In the Pandemic, We’re All About Food
Health Populi
JUNE 11, 2020
More people who felt in very good health (67%) shopped in a grocery store at least once a week compared with 50% of people in fair/poor health. Furthermore, two-thirds of people using that digital health tool said the device led to healthy changes in their life.
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How Virtual Care Will Play Out in 2022 – a Look Post-CES and JPM
Health Populi
JANUARY 24, 2022
A new study from CIGNA and its subsidiary MDLive touts the cost-effectiveness of telehealth to improve health outcomes, reducing the need for unnecessary lab work, reducing duplication of care, and connecting patients with high-performing providers. We have some early data points we can weave into the answer to this question.
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Digital Health Adoption Across Communities is Uneven By Rurality, Race, Health Plan, and Gender
Health Populi
MAY 17, 2022
While telehealth, mobile health apps, and wearable technology are all growing for mainstream consumers, there are gaps in adoption based on where a person lives, their health insurance plan type, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender. adults 18 and over in August 2021.
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Five Public Health Needs for Digital Health Technology
The Digital Health Corner
NOVEMBER 28, 2016
Digital health technology has seen an incredible growth in the last few years, fueled by a combination of consumerization of wearable technologies, ubiquity of mobile devices, proliferation of technology incubators, attention by government health and regulatory agencies and involvement of large companies heretofore not focused on healthcare.
The Demand for Self-Care At-Home Will Grow Post-Pandemic – Insights from IRI
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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Managing the Risks of Fast-Growing Digital Health
Health Populi
APRIL 5, 2021
With such turbocharged growth on the supply side, Beazley, experts in specialty insurance, explores the risks of digital health and wellness in a new report, Digital health, telehealth and wellness: Attitudes to risk and insurance.
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Bringing Telehealth to the Rehabilitation Industry
Advanced Medical Reviews
MAY 2, 2019
The future of telehealth continues to build interest due to its convenience and cost-effectiveness. Not only does it increase access to care and reduce travel time—especially for people living in rural areas—but telehealth also decreases the number of hospital stays and can improve communication between clinicians. utilize telehealth.
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Digital Inclusion As Upstream Health Investment
Health Populi
JULY 5, 2021
Health care, through telehealth, health education, and wearable sensors that make up the Internet of Things for medical and healthcare. Economic sustainability, through online banking, employment, and ecommerce shopping options. Community and social context, enabling engagement and decreasing isolation’s impacts.
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Asynchronous video telemedicine helps TB patients, saves costs in Guam
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 18, 2019
The Guam Department of Public Health and Social Services has to cope with a very serious tuberculosis problem. To help overcome the challenges it faced with directly observed therapy, the Guam Department of Public Health and Social Services turned to a healthcare technology from emocha Mobile Health.
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Addressing Health Equity Must Include Digital Equity Beyond Access To Medical Services and Insurance
Health Populi
JUNE 5, 2020
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. But many students lacked access to either or both the physical technology and the data plan-on-ramp to the Internet.
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Revolutionizing Healthcare: The power of Digital Health in dietary education for chronic conditions
Digital Health Global
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
In this context, digital health emerges as a catalyst for revolutionizing healthcare delivery. Digital health encompasses electronic health (eHealth) and mobile health (mHealth), which leverage electronic platforms and mobile technologies, including wearable devices and apps, to provide health information and services.
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The Smartphone Is the Consumer’s Personal Health Platform – Implications from Deloitte’s 2018 Survey
Health Populi
NOVEMBER 15, 2018
I discussed that important public health/economic challenge here in Health Populi from a RAND report.]. Eight in 10 people 65 and older have multiple chronic conditions, and 50% of people 45-64 do, as well. which 1 in 2 U.S. adults over 55 manage. [I
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Health Consumers Value Sharing and Downloading Health Data, But Privacy Concerns Remain
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
health consumers the importance of personal health data as an asset — that’s both a personal one and, in aggregate mashed up with fellow health citizens’ data — a public health asset. .” The coronavirus pandemic has shown U.S. Trust is in short supply in the U.S.
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Stay Calm In Your Head(space) – An Update on Meditation-As-Medicine
Health Populi
JANUARY 28, 2021
These two apps fall into what HealthXL characterizes as mindfulness and meditation apps in the larger behavioral and mental health digital ecosystem, shown in their chart here.
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The Digital Home: A Platform for Health, via Deloitte and the COVID-19 “Stress Test”
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.
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Health Privacy and Our Ambivalent Tech-Embrace – Lessons for Digital Health Innovators
Health Populi
OCTOBER 8, 2021
These efforts, each assessing evidence bases and real-world information, will help to bolster health citizens’ confident adoption in the tools when they are cleared or approved by the agencies. This isn’t a universal belief among all health citizens, but a majority still embracing science for medicine].
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Heart-Love – Omron’s Holy Grail of Blood Pressure Tracking on the Wrist
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.
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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MAY 6, 2020
The quickly evolving COVID-19 public health emergency has warranted the growing use of telehealth and non-invasive remote monitoring devices to facilitate patient monitoring while reducing patient and healthcare provider contact and possible exposure to the virus. It also provides medication adherence tools.
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Magellan Health uses smartphone-based AI tech to help Hep C patients
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 12, 2019
There are other vendors with similar technologies on the health IT market today. For example, to help overcome the challenges it faced with directly observed therapy, the Guam Department of Public Health and Social Services turned to a healthcare technology from Baltimore-based emocha Mobile Health.
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DocGo Establishes Medical Advisory Board
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. During his 30-year career in academic medicine and public health, Dr. Bobrow has been dedicated to promoting equitable, high-quality medical care for all.
Brazil’s HealthTech sector is new hot spot
Lloyd Price
OCTOBER 10, 2018
Telehealth and mobile health apps To help make healthcare advice, diagnosis and monitoring more accessible, telehealth services in Brazil are expanding. Others offering similar clinical services on demand in Brazil today include Clínica Sim, Dr. Sem Filas, Docway and GlobalMed. billion according to The World Bank.
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Why Elevance Health is “Prescribing” Phones for Members
Health Populi
JANUARY 19, 2024
Now we see the emergence of telecomms-as-medicine — or more specifically, a driver of health, access, and empowerment. You’ve heard of food-as-medicine and exercise-as-medicine.
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COVID-19 Accelerated Digital Health Investments…But It Helps to Be Bigger, Mature and Scaling
Health Populi
MAY 12, 2021
and intriguingly, “Health care professionals seem most excited about adopting consumer technologies that we already use.” ” “Clinicians have this combined feeling of being overwhelmed by current technology and feeling those systems aren’t doing enough to help them care for patients.”
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