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4 Steps for Operationalizing the FDA’s Call To Improve Health Outcomes for All Patients

HIT Consultant

In April, FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf laid out areas of challenge and opportunity when it comes to improving health outcomes, restoring public trust in science, and making the most of our ongoing investments in data analytics and clinical research.

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The American healthcare system is broken — here’s what we can do to fix it

Healthcare Dive

Value-based care is key to transforming health outcomes and empowering doctors and patients, Texas physician Kevin Spencer argues

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The Tik Tok’ing of Medical Mis-Information: Doctors’ and Patients’ Roles in Curating Healthy Advice

Health Populi

Doctors in the U.S. Doctors and patients, both, have roles to play in addressing medical misinformation online. That’s less than half of the percentage of doctors saying so — 98%, virtually all U.S. ” In the COVID-19 public health emergency, the U.S.

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Indian doctors group taps Eka Care for online healthcare platform

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Eka Care mobile app provides doctors with a platform to connect with their patients; conduct teleconsultations; manage digital, physical, and ad-hoc appointments; schedule automated follow-ups; create digital prescriptions and reports; and use advanced practice analytics to inform decisions.

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What Are Patients Looking for in a Doctor? It Depends on Who You Ask…and Their Race

Health Populi

While the same proportion of Black and White patients say they are looking for a doctor with empathy and compassion, there are relatively large differences between patients based on their race, found in the Everyday Health-Castle Connolly Physician-Consumer study.

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Physicians More Bullish On the Benefits of Digital Tools for Patient Care, the AMA Tells Us

Health Populi

Most doctors see the advantages of digital health tools like telehealth, consumers’ access to their health information, and point-of-care workflow solutions, the American Medical Association found in a survey of 1300 physicians, published in September 2022.

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Should I Get Another Booster? How Doctors Can Help Patients Navigate the Next Phase of COVID-19

HIT Consultant

A lot depends on the individual, the state of their health, and their comfort with risk. However, these interactions can serve as great opportunities to build trust and better engage patients in their health, which can ultimately strengthen the patient-provider connection.

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In Search of Clinical Effectiveness, But “Investment Exuberance?” Not So Much. Insights From FINN Partners and Galen Growth at HLTH 2022

Health Populi

The report analyzes data from over 12,000 digital health ventures tracked by Galen Growth’s HealthTech Alpha platform. One of Galen Growth’s unique lenses in their ongoing research is their attention to the detail of the clinical evidence supporting digital health innovations.

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Should I Get Another Booster? How Doctors Can Help Patients Navigate the Next Phase of COVID-19

HIT Consultant

A lot depends on the individual, the state of their health, and their comfort with risk. However, these interactions can serve as great opportunities to build trust and better engage patients in their health, which can ultimately strengthen the patient-provider connection.

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Crescendo Health Launches to Improve and Accelerate Clinical Trials By Unlocking Patient Health Data

Healthcare IT Today

Crescendo Health’s real-world data platform creates partnerships between researchers and patients to gain greater longitudinal insights into health outcomes from clinical research. About Crescendo Health.

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Health Disparities in America: JAMA Talks Structural Racism in U.S. Health Care

Health Populi

“Racial and ethnic inequities in the US health care system have been unremitting since the beginning of the country. The coronavirus pandemic has changed so many aspects of American health care for so many people, including doctors. health care.

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The Biggest Threat to Our Health Isn’t the Next Pandemic or Cancer…It’s Climate Change

Health Populi

and the issue of pandemic preparedness for the next “Disease X” became part of global public health planning. But the biggest health threat to human life is climate change, according to a new report from the World Health Organization titled The Health Argument for Climate Action.

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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

In the COVID-19 pandemic, health care spending in the U.S. This year, medical cost trend will rise by 7.0%, expected to decline a bit in 2022 according to the annual study from PwC Health Research Institute , Medical Cost Trend: Behind the Numbers 2022. population health burden.

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Primary Care in the U.S. – Still a Weak Backbone for the Health of Health Citizens

Health Populi

Compared with health citizens living in other wealthy countries, people living in the U.S. are still among the least likely to have a regular doctor or place to go for care. have a PCP relationship, compared with 71% of health citizens in Germany and the Netherlands.

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Redefining PPE As Primary Care, Public Health, and Health Equity – The Community PPE Index

Health Populi

” Perhaps Definition 3 in the OED could be updated by a blog published online in the September 25, 2020, issue of Health Affairs, A New “PPE” For A Thriving Community: Public Health, Primary Care, Health Equity. For more on this issue, see Health Populi here ].

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Sicker Consumers Are More Willing to Share Health Data

Health Populi

> Health Care Consumers learned. This and other insights about the patient journey are published in Inside the patient journey , a report from Deloitte that assesses three key touch points for consumer health engagement. These three patient journey milestones are searching for care, using new channels of care, and tracking and sharing health data, Deloitte maps. The post Sicker Consumers Are More Willing to Share Health Data appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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How MedModular Fits Into the New Lower-Cost, High-Quality, Consumer-Enchanted Healthcare World

Health Populi

In American health economics, there’s a demand side and a supply side. On the demand side, we’ve done a poor job trying to nudge patients and consumers toward rational economic decision making, lacking transparency, information symmetry, and basic health literacy. Many of us who choose to work in the health/care ecosystem do so based on a personal experience. healthcare cost curve and improve health outcomes at the same time?

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Using RPM to manage customized, specialty care between office visits

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

From the comfort, ease and safety of their own homes, patients are seeing doctors of all stripes. But what about what happens with patients between doctor appointments, namely for patients with chronic illnesses? That’s a huge number for improved health outcomes using RPM.

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How health IT can advance health equity for transgender and nonbinary patients

Healthcare It News

The Biden Administration recently issued an executive order advancing LGBTQ+ health equity. Health IT experts contend that technology can advance health equity for the transgender patient population, as this group has traditionally been marginalized by the healthcare industry.

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OptimizeRx AI pilot identifies non-adherence risks

Healthcare It News

healthcare providers to their patients, launched a pharmaceutical pilot to identify doctors whose patient treatment plans are at risk of lapsing due to costs.

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Patients Have AI-Disconnect When it Comes to Their Health Care – Pew Research Center Insights

Health Populi

health citizens think AI is being adopted in American health care too quickly, feeling “significant discomfort…with the idea of AI being used in their own health care,” according to consumer studies from the Pew Research Center. Most U.S.

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How UPMC's virtual-first healthcare model works

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The increase in telehealth adoption by physicians and patients alike continues to allow UPMC to develop new digital health tools that offer greater access to high-quality care from the comfort of their own home.

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Why #CES2022 Will Be Keynoted By A Health Care Innovator for the First Time

Health Populi

I covered this announcement in the Health Populi blog at the time, and today want to double-down on the significance of Ford’s leading presence at #CES2022. Our homes emerged as our health hubs in the #StayHome and quarantine times.

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Cardinal Health’s Outcomes™ acquires smart prescription platform ScalaMed

Healthcare IT Today

Cardinal Health (NYSE:CAH) today announced the acquisition of ScalaMed, a HIPAA-compliant, smart platform that transfers prescriptions directly to patients via a secure mobile app. The acquisition transfers ScalaMed’s technology and assets to Outcomes™, a Cardinal Health company.

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What 2023 holds for EHR optimization, SDOH, patient access, health equity and more

Healthcare It News

Consumerism, autonomous operations, interoperability , healthcare access, health equity – these are some of the top issues facing healthcare CIOs and other health IT leaders in 2023, according to Pega Vice President of Healthcare Life Sciences Susan Taylor.

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Taking a patient-centric approach to value-based care

Healthcare It News

After all, value-based care – which rewards healthcare providers with incentives based on the quality of care they provide to patients – has been shown to improve healthcare outcomes and reduces costs for patients.

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How telehealth can help inpatient care, and what a hybrid future looks like

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telehealth opens up many new avenues to expand access to care, streamline the delivery of care, create new workflows and improve patient outcomes. Another example is a health system struggling with the shortage of experienced nurses.

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Senior Companion Platform Papa Raises $150M at $1.4B Valuation

HIT Consultant

– Since its 2017 founding, Papa and its Papa Pals have served members in all 50 states, across Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, and employer health plans. Digital Health Startups Aging Care Senior Care

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Rethinking Behavioral Health Support in the ED: 3 Keys for Innovation

HIT Consultant

Now, as mental health-related visits in emergency departments (EDs) continue to rise , healthcare professionals must consider: “How can we create better behavioral health supports for people in crisis?” But EDs are ill-equipped to treat these complex health issues.

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New Digital Health Command to rise in Victoria

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A new Digital Health Command will be established in Victoria as part of the state government's latest hospital infrastructure project. It will also monitor health outcomes, providing data to support future clinical trials and the development of new medical technology.

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Rapid telehealth rollout was beneficial for nursing homes, but had downsides too

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"For those with cognitive impairments, they might not understand on a telehealth call why or how their doctor is talking to them through a computer screen," explained Kimberly Powell, an assistant professor in the MU Sinclair School of Nursing and lead author of the study, in a statement.

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Cityblock Health & MDwise Brings VBC to 10K Medicaid Members in IN

HIT Consultant

– As part of this strategic collaboration, Cityblock will open comprehensive care clinics to provide care services for these individuals, addressing physical health, behavioral health and social determinants of health in one place.

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Advocate Aurora Enterprises scoops up MobileHelp for RPM, personal emergency response

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A subsidiary of Advocate Aurora Health, AAE invests in and sometimes buys consumer health and wellness companies to expand the Illinois health system's capabilities beyond traditional clinical care.

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Healthcare Fragmentation Isn’t So Bad, If It Comes with Better Outcomes

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Nate Maslak, Founder & CEO at Ribbon Health. The ability to seek treatment from a doctor specializing in your specific medical need is beneficial and improves health outcomes.

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Virtual care system designed for COVID-19 grows into a multiuse digital health tool

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In 2019, Cleveland-based University Hospitals saw an opportunity to use automation and digital care technologies to improve patient engagement, clinical care and outcomes. MARKETPLACE There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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