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NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The New York State Health Home program is designed for the neediest Medicaid patients and aims to reduce overall healthcare costs by decreasing inpatient costs (and utilization) by addressing social determinants of health such as housing, transportation and food. THE PROBLEM. "This will be led by innovation in healthcare technology.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

There’s more evidence that doctors and patients, both, want to use telehealth after the COVID-19 pandemic fades. Doximity’s second report on telemedicine explores both physicians’ and patients’ views on virtual care, finding most doctors and health consumers on the same page of virtual care adoption.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. In 2019, J.D. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

“Do personal health trackers belong in the doctor’s office?” Thus, the responses shared here were collected among a relatively more health-engaged consumer who has also been keen to use wearable health technologies in their approaches to self-care outside of the doctor’s office.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

This new work-flow for clinicians led to fast-adoption of virtual care platforms – telemedicine, tele-conferencing with patients via apps like Zoom and Skype along with commercially-built telehealth channels, and the prescription and use of remote health monitoring devices placed in patients’ homes.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

“In the event that a client needs a referral, they can go to Sollis rather than wait for their doctor. That care navigation tool is very attractive to us. If it’s something we can’t assist with in the home setting — Sollis has those relationships.”

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Oh, what a difference a pandemic can make in consumers’ life-flows for ecommerce and health care. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, health care as we know it in the U.S. has been shaken at the root: that is, in terms of brick-and-mortar, fee-for-service delivery and financing.

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Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2020

As we wrestle with just “what” health care will look like “after COVID,” there’s one certainty that we can embrace in our health planning and forecasting efforts: that’s the persistence of telehealth and virtual care into health care work- and life-flows, for clinicians and consumers alike and aligned.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 3, 2025

” Inside the model The initial joint venture, Home Recovery Care LLC, provided all essential components of inpatient hospital care within the home through telemedicine, in-home providers and comprehensive care management oversight.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 5, 2018

When we consider “health reform,” broadly, it’s not just about hospitals and doctors and drug prices. Investing in the infrastructure and bases for healthy communities would go a long way to improving health status, and in the long game, conserve medical care spending. In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2020

Bottom-line, by using technology to support communication and care, Accenture explains, health care providers were able to maintain and often improve the care experience. We should expect COVID-19 to continue to accelerate this trend to “consumer-directed virtual care” and the emergence of the hospital-at-home care.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Add to this the fact that patients with multiple chronic illnesses see multiple doctors – all creating care plans and prescribing medications to address their specialized areas. Additionally, given the current shortage of home care workers , trained aides are hard to come by. In addition, President Biden’s $1.9

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 14, 2023

The study, which was fielded between December 2022-January 2023, features responses from 500 respondents working in the healthcare field, including doctors, nurses, technicians and administrators across the United States. And today, patients are increasingly choosing to recover or receive care at home.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Be kind to your local health care providers; support their community initiatives (see previous bullet point), and ask your local hospital(s) what you or your organization can do to help the impending provider shortage (nurses, doctors).

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2020

34% “thought twice” before asking their doctor for a prescription when they felt sick. People with complex chronic conditions also adjusted these personal medical work-flows: 35% skipped annual physicals and well visits. 23% skipped recommended lab tests or screenings. 21% skipped elective procedures.

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MAY 3, 2021

While the “in-person” visit to a doctor or medical professional continues to rank first as consumers’ most-trusted information source, the virtual doc or clinician rose in trust during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Euromonitor’s latest read on Consumer Health: Changes in Consumer Behaviour during COVID-19.

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APRIL 28, 2022

physicians were using telehealth to care for patients at the end of 2021. Among those doctors who were not providing telehealth by late 2021, just over one half never did so during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the 2021 Telehealth Survey Report from the AMA. Specialty care. Four in five U.S. Mental and behavioral health.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

Sites included: “My” doctor’s office, favored by more people who were White or Asian, and those 45 years or older. The latter is higher-cost care than would have been expended in real-time had the pandemic not kept patients away from doctor’s offices and hospitals.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 17, 2022

One of Florida’s largest not-for-profit public health systems — Lee Health — is beefing up its virtual- and at-home care capabilities. When looking for a strategic partner, Lee Health was focused on a variety of factors, according to John Witenko, the system director of virtual health and telemedicine at Lee Health. “We

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

doctors are using digital health tools in patient care, with quickening adoption of telehealth and remote monitoring technology, according to a study from the American Medical Association (AMA). This survey, conducted in 2019 among 1,359 U.S. This survey, conducted in 2019 among 1,359 U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2022

One factor defining convenience is travel time to a facility: 40% of patients with in-person doctor’s appointments traveled less than 15 minutes to receive care, and 43% spent between 15 and 30 minutes getting to the doctor’s office.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

Among people 50 and over, the doctor’s visit for routine care is the top reason for using virtual care, among 2 in 3 older people. That’s an important behavior change to take into future planning for primary care services targeted to older peoples’ chronic care management and remote health monitoring.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

That a pharmaceutical company executive is speaking on the main stage at CES speaks to digital health’s mainstreaming beyond elite athletes and smartwatches that track activity.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Historically, we see in the first decade of the 2000’s CVS Pharmacy’s rebranding as CVS Health, moving into the start of One Medical, toward 20-teens launch of Optum Care, and then the expansion of Amazon and Dollar General in retail health in the 2020s. adults saying inflation has made it harder to pay medical bills.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

And often, Seniors have trouble seeing their primary doctor on a regular basis, with many of these care gaps exposed during the COVID-19 pandemic. “I The Heal platform, for example, remains a “trimodal” combination of in-person visits, telemedicine and remote patient monitoring, Vertrees said. “We’re

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2021

That a pharmaceutical company executive is speaking on the main stage at CES speaks to the category’s mainstreaming beyond elite athletes and smartwatches that track activity.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 16, 2023

These new offerings threaten to siphon younger, healthier patients from health systems, putting increased pressure on hospitals to integrate at-home care models and own the digital front door. In the olden days, before hospitals and doctors’ offices were commonplace, most people were treated by doctors who made house calls.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

Most basic in the latter has been the lack of broadband connectivity preventing some people from the digital transformation from which other “have’s” in society benefited: the ability to work from home, attend school from home, exercise at home, and access medical services through virtual care platforms like telemedicine.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Access to doctors and nurses through Urgent Care on the phone. The company notes the top three features and services that older people seek in a mobile phone are emergency notifications, voice assistance, and access to telehealth. Other features in the Lively Flip are: 24 x 7 access to the GreatCall Urgent Response call center.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 31, 2022

The company uses its AI-enabled telemedicine platform to train medical assistants and offer streamlined diagnostic reports. patients skip their annual exam because of appointment availability and few at-home care options, according to the press release. With Spect, we can use their technology in the home,” Trigub said. “We

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Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2021

Among the least likely barriers were unqualified clinicians (compared with a “live” in-person doctor), the doctor’s inability to share health information with the patient, difficulty in booking an appointment, distractions from other online activities, and privacy issues.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Another category of digital health growing during the pandemic is digital therapeutics; CTA recently formed an initiative to address DTx standards as the field matures from nascent to mainstream, including over two dozen members such as Bose, Doctor on Demand, Ginger, Google Health, Livongo, Philips, and ResMed, among others.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 7, 2023

Age-tech solutions can take various forms, including wearable devices, mobile apps, remote monitoring systems, virtual reality, and telemedicine. High-Quality Care From Anywhere One of the significant challenges in senior care is their inability to travel to healthcare facilities for regular check-ups and appointments.

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Health Populi

JULY 29, 2024

Only 11% of these app-receptive older consumers rely on doctor recommendations for health and wellness apps. Older H&W receptive consumers are deemed “self-motivated” via AARP’s findings, and they rely on recommendations (43% of these consumers), general searches (39%), and app reviews (29%).

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

For DTC telehealth, LiveHealth Online ranked #1 with an Index score of 869, followed by Doctor on Demand, eVisit, MyTelemedicine, and Teladoc all ranking above the average Index score among DTCs of 843. CVS Health and Walgreens ranked last at 825 and 822 Indices.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

In many countries and in peoples’ minds, the only “real” way to get proper treatment is to go to a doctor and, in some countries, head to a hospital or a specialist clinic. That’s the hospital side of the challenge of digital disruption. Then consider the patient/consumer perspective.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The Lumify transducer plugs into the midwife’s tablet and captures a clinically fine image to collaborate in real-time with a doctor at another location. The Lumify tele-ultrasound technology is especially useful in this risk-managing time as Nikita has been diagnosed with high blood pressure – a common co-morbidity for pregnant women.

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