Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

But the big growth areas were for live video telemedicine, wearable tech, and digital health tracking. This represents a shift more to “me care” in 2020 with the sharp uptake of digital platforms and wearable tech.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

“Yes,” we concurred on our session convened by the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) EDGE session today. We covered, The theory that telemedicine should increase health equity — where are we and what are the barriers to getting there? Understanding the health inequities borne by “telemedicine.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Abo-Hamzy sat down with Home Health Care News to talk about the emerging home-based care models that will be driving the health care-to-home trend in the future. Ultimately, I believe home care represents the future of health care. What drew you to this industry? Empowering.

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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

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Through the partnership, MedArrive will offer its services to those 40,000 or so Superior patients, many of which have very complex health care needs. The idea is that, through MedArrive’s capabilities and offerings in the home, care gaps will be closed, and social drivers of health will be addressed.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

We must be mindful that hospitals, health systems and physicians quickly stood up and adopted virtual care, especially telemedicine programs, in March and April 2020. In 2019, J.D. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services. Describing that low-utilization in their report, J.D.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

2020 saw three factors combine to define the future of “Hospital at Home” care in a way that will become a new care reality over the coming years. Growing Acceptance of Telemedicine by Patients. Arik Ben Ishay, CEO & Co-Founder of Biobeat. Changing Patient Attitudes.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2021

That is the intention of a the coalition, Moving Health Home, launched last week. A consortium of cross-industry stakeholders, including Amazon, Ascension, and Intermountain Healthcare, among others, seeks to re-imagine what “home care” should and can be.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2020

“Delaying procedures, reducing spending on preventive care and chronic care, and decreasing adherence to medications may have negative long-term impacts on health status, although the extent is unknown,” PwC notes.

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Health Populi

JULY 7, 2023

Patients most frequently make visits for primary or preventive care, followed by seeing a specialist, and seeking urgent care, the first bar chart illustrates. In the last year, 42% of U.S. adults had a telehealth visit, down from 45% the year before.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic, now entering Year 3 with the Omicron variant preventing many of us from attending #CES2022 in Vegas in person, has reinforced the need for such connections and alliances, for which there are now business models and ROI cases to make… to do well and do good for health citizens the world over.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 16, 2023

Racial Bias in AI Algorithms: Since AI is frequently used in healthcare, it needs to be used with a code of ethics to prevent bias. Patients prefer familiarity and personalized care, and research shows this can lead them to choose a provider of the same race or ethnic background. Nate Fox, co-founder and CTO, Ribbon Health.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The San Francisco-based in-home care startup has grown fairly rapidly since then, landing key partnerships with organizations like Cover Health (Nasdaq: CLOV) and a strategic investment from The SCAN Group. MedArrive is currently working with Bright’s newly enrolled Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicare members. “In

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

To enable health care at home, across the continuum from health promotion, to disease prevention, chronic care management, safe and healthy aging-in-place, and palliative care at the end-of-life, it takes a village — in the form of a health/care services ecosystem.

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Geek Doctor

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

In a time of COVID, the current care models just can’t remain in place. We need innovative ways to address the high cost of acute care. One solution that is taking a front seat is telemedicine. Also, "On an intention-to-treat basis, patients treated in hospital-at-home had a shorter length of stay (3.2

Hospitals 76

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Health Populi

MARCH 31, 2020

Other research such as this report from Kaiser Health News identified the quick adoption of telemedicine services in the COVID-19 pandemic. [Sidebar: this has been a criticism of a digital health divide based on socioeconomic status for some time].

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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. Retinal screening can prevent diabetic retinopathy and give early warnings about heart attack, stroke, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. While regular eye check-ups can help prevent this, 60% of U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

We must be mindful and attend to digital divides that this fast-pivot toward the virtual care channel has revealed. Like COVID-19 itself, there are social determinants and factors that the pandemic has revealed preventing people from fully engaging in life and health care in the broader contours of the public health crisis.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 28, 2022

However, payers are working to reduce the cost of care to reel in healthcare costs and keep premiums lower to remain competitive, driving key changes. Ambulatory Surgery and Home Care. Ambulatory surgeries are resulting in less time spent in the high-cost acute care setting, reducing payer costs.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

This will further Philips’ vision for Evolution of Care Settings from hospital to home and self-care modes. Telehealth has fast-morphed into a much-demanded virtual visit platform for millions of patients, now consumers making proactive decisions about just where and how they want to participate in health care.

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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. These technologies can help seniors in areas such as medication management, fall prevention, cognitive functioning, and social isolation.

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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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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 30, 2021

Based in Los Angeles, CA, Axle Health enables any healthcare company to offer in-home visits to their patients. mcare enables remote delivery of wrap around care coordination and integration of existing virtual care and remote patient care solutions, promising real medication adherence defined as right med, right time, right person.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Structural challenges, especially painful due to EHR barriers — with the promise of APIs (application programming interfaces) and the ongoing development of clinical decision support tools.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

As we ponder health care utilization and medical spending in 2022, the wild cards that could increase PwC’s 6.5% Healthcare is Entering a “Provide More Care For Less” Era – Pondering PwC’s 2022 Forecast appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. The post Post-Pandemic, U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The most common conditions employers, plans, and health systems are covering via digital tools are diabetes, among two-thirds of the purchasers; primary care, for 62%; and mental health, preventive care, and cardiovascular conditions for over 50% of purchasers.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

One-half of doctors uses telehealth for continuous monitoring of patients, Overwhelming, medical and chronic disease management are the workflows for telehealth, followed by one-half of physicians using virtual care for specialty visits and 44% for mental and behavioral health. Specialty care. Care coordination and continuity.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 28, 2021

I frequently use this book when conducting futures and scenario planning sessions with clients in health/care. One of my favorite Dr. Seuss characters is the narrator featured in the book, I Had Trouble In Getting to Solla-Sollew.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

have still not returned to usual care , some delays due to cost and some postponing needed care due to concerns about exposure to viral risks. The latest research notes that the volume of preventive screenings in the U.S. Many patients in the U.S. Consulting cross-borders: a bridge (or border) too far?

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

At the start of CES 2021, I had the opportunity to catch up with Karsten Russell-Wood, Portfolio Marketing Leader, Post Acute & Home, Connected Care at Philips. We brainstormed just as CES 2021 was going to “open,” virtually, for the consumer electronics conference’s first all-virtual meeting.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

In January 2020, before we knew how to spell “coronavirus,” millions of consumers were already “Amazon-Primed” for everyday life-flows and consumer behaviors.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2021

Election Night, November 3, 2020, CNN’s John King stood in front of the “Key Race Alert” screen, announcing state-by-state polling results with the oft-used headline, “Too Early To Call.”

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Rising costs, generational shifts, digital transformation, and fast-growing investments in new health care models and technologies are forcing change in the legacy health care, noted in the State of Consumerism in Healthcare 2021: Regaining Momentum , from Kaufman, Hall & Associates.

Primary Care 83

Primary Care Hospitals Ambulatory Care Integration 83

Health Populi

JANUARY 17, 2019

Health begins at home. Lyn and Frances tested three assumptions that they believed linked housing and health: that housing contributes to health; that housing is not routinely included in health or social planning;’ and that the potential contribution of primary care is wasted.

Primary Care 70

Primary Care Medical Technology Integration Patient Experience 70

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Albertsons, the grocery group with popular brands like Acme, Safeway, and Vons, announced a merger with Rite Aid , the retail pharmacy chain.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

For more context on Philips’ pivot to hospital-to-home care in the wake of pandemic, see my post here on Health Populi published on the company’s commitment to connected care across the continuum]. Hygiene and the clean home.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2020

Connected Health and the ATA Conference – covering digital health and value-based care, reimbursement, home care, and clinician/technology partnerships. The agenda for that session looks like a blur between HIMSS, Health 2.0,

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