HIT Consultant

JANUARY 11, 2022

What You Should Know: – Digital health funding in the U.S. billion across 729 deals, according to latest research from Rock Health , a full-service venture fund dedicated to digital health. Key Forces Shaping Digital Health Sector. reached $29.1 The total nearly doubles 2020’s $14.9B

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Health Populi

JANUARY 12, 2021

Spending on connected health monitoring devices in the U.S. will reach $845 million based on the forecast of the Consumer Technology Association, convening the annual 2021 CES this week in a virtual format. Wearables were developed beyond the wrist (a trend I spotted at CES back in 2013, discussed here through my #CES2013 lens ).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Virtua Health's successful "get human fast" online engagement platform propelled patients to interact with staff and clinicians expanded to virtual consultations, chatbots and RPM. The enterprise health system created six distinct service lines supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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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. 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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This is according to a new annual report from research and consulting giant PwC entitled “Top health industry issues of 2021: Will a shocked system emerge stronger? Healthcare right-sizes after the telemedicine explosion.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 10, 2021

In a study published in E-Health Telecommunication Systems and Networks , the team reviewed other work concerning telehealth and chronic conditions. They found that virtual care services benefited patients more if they continued for about a year rather than ending after six months. THE LARGER TREND.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

dropped nearly three years between 2019 and 2021, from close to 79 years down to 76. How can digital health and other consumer-facing technologies help our health? How can digital health and other consumer-facing technologies help our health? Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 20021-2021.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 4, 2023

While Q4 2022 signaled the tail end of the digital health funding cycle, January and February funding numbers began to suggest that sector investment was slowly but surely inching back upwards. digital health funding closed with $3.4B Inflation was easing ever so slightly. While this quarter exceeded both Q4 2022’s $2.7B

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Bill of Health

JULY 26, 2022

billion acquisition of One Medical (NASDAQ: ONEM) by Amazon triggered significant hyperventilating about the transformative and immediate impact of this transaction on the health care industry. Important Disclosure: Flare Capital was a significant investor in Iora Health and had a board seat. Last week’s $3.9

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Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2022

Consumers continued to invest in and use several technologies that supported self-care at home in 2021, with plans to purchase connected health devices, sports and fitness equipment in the next year. The percent of first-time tech purchases will increase “considerably” from 2021, on average 8 percentage points.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 16, 2022

developer of an intelligent AED and connected response platform for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) emergencies, today announced that it closed a $22 million Series A round of financing co-led by Questa Capital, Catalyst Health Ventures and repeat investor Laerdal Million Lives Fund. Avive Raises $22M for Connected AED Platform.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 2, 2022

When I talk about patient support programs (PSPs), I’m most often focused on supporting peoples’ access to medicines due to costs, bolstering health literacy, and addressing health citizens’ risks of drivers of health that can be obstacles to optimal health outcomes (those challenging social determinants of health).

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Jane Sarashon

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

to reveal trends on health care providers’ ability to collect patient service revenue. The first chart quantifies that bad debt attributable to patients’ self-pay payments after insurance kicks in: that category of bad debt grew by five times between 2018 and 2021, from 11% to nearly 58%.

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Health Populi

MARCH 16, 2021

Case and Deaton wrote the book on Deaths of Despair ( detailed here in Health Populi) , . Six years since that first study, Case and Deaton focus in on education in this 2021 article: specifically, the relationship between a person in the U.S. The trend lines for Black people without BA degrees in the U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 23, 2021

Financial Experience (let’s call it FX) is the next big thing in the world of patient experience and health care. Patients, as health consumers, have taken on more of the financial risk for health care payments. But that just isn’t happening.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. Digitally-enabled care is the future of telehealth – “telehealth” has become industry norm since the start of the pandemic and used as a catchall term for everything from virtual doctor’s appointments to at-home testing kits.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 26, 2021

Joseph Health Consortium, based in Renton, Washington, had a problem: maintaining access for its patients and needing to find creative ways to expand hospital and clinician capacity through virtual means versus traditional brick-and-mortar solutions. Joseph Health Consortium. Joseph Health Consortium. Providence St. THE PROBLEM.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

With health systems straining under the pressures caused both directly by COVID patient care and those stemming from patients who have delayed the care of non-COVID conditions and general health maintenance, strategic interventions are needed now to minimize the current acuity of the situation and achieve long term stability.

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Redox

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Investors have been pouring money into digital health for the past decade. At the close of every quarter, it seems we’re hit with a great Rock or Startup Health analysis describing how we’ve broken another set of records in dollars invested, deal sizes, quantities of deals, etc. But how has the pandemic changed this landscape?

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HIT Consultant

JULY 28, 2022

The story began to change in late 2021 as steep inflation took center stage thanks to a near-perfect confluence of excess liquidity, demand acceleration, and supply constraints. Act I: Pre-COVID (Pre-2020) Act II: Post-COVID (2020 – 2021) Act III: Post-Inflation (2022 – ?). The private debt market is tightening.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 24, 2022

As a leader in obstetrics at the medical center, her focus is on ensuring the facility's population has the resources needed to monitor patients at high risk of postpartum hypertension to reduce overall health risks in a way that doesn't disrupt the important early days of infant bonding at home. THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE.

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Hall Render

APRIL 22, 2022

HHS Secretary Outlines FY 2023 Mental Health Investments at Senate Hearing. million in ARP funds to train health workers in local communities. Patient generated data can be a key factor in reducing health inequity. Alabama health officials continue to monitor adenovirus cases. 3 hacker gangs targeting hospitals.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 19, 2022

On Thursday Amwell announced the launch of its new evidence-based and scalable behavioral health technology. The program enables healthcare organizations to offer virtual therapy and psychiatry, coaching, and digital mental health programs. THE LARGER TREND. WHY IT MATTERS. Some 60% of U.S. ON THE RECORD. ON THE RECORD.

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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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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 14, 2022

And since the conference was virtual, what better topic to start us off today than a consideration of the new Virtual-First trend that surfaced in 2021. We’ll follow that with a dive onto the couch to consider the conference’s mental health offerings and where the behavioral health sector is heading.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

How 5 health systems are spending their innovation investment dollars. CMS overhauls Direct Contracting model to include new requirements on governance, health equity in 2023. Alabama’s Covid-19 positivity rate falling, giving hope to health leader. Chief medical officer discusses state of Cullman health care.

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Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

NATIONAL 988 suicide hotline adds support for American Sign Language 3 Takeaways from Physician Compensation Trends Adventist Health completes merger with Montebello’s ailing Beverly Hospital AHA-supported bill to protect health care workers introduced in Senate AHA weighs in on CMS’ proposed ASC payment system AHA submits comments on CY 2024 (..)

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Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 13, 2021

I cannot recall a season when so many health consumer studies have been launched into my email inbox. This year-end/New Year 2022 post on my Health Populi blog will weave together many of the key findings from these consumer health/care reports that are most resonating with me and the work I’m doing….

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 12, 2023

News Three Democratic Senators have introduced legislation to expand protections for Americans’ personal health data privacy. The latest data brief from ONC shows that 87% of office-based physicians used telemedicine in 2021 , compared to just 15% in 2018 – though the majority (53%) used if for less than 25% of their total visit volume.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Today, Healthcare IT News presents the latest in its feature story series speaking with healthcare C-suite officers and other health IT leaders about the healthcare information technology and other lessons learned during the past year, and how they are applying those lessons this year and beyond. Nicholas J.

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SQA

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

After receiving complaints, ANVSA performed joint inspections with local health surveillance agencies. ” The Agency became aware of these adverse events through local health surveillance agencies, which identified health risks associated with the use of these products in invasive aesthetic procedures.

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Hall Render

APRIL 21, 2023

NATIONAL 6 health systems using GPT and AI tools 100,000 nurses left industry during the pandemic, report finds AHA backs bill to delay Medicaid DSH cuts by 2 years AHA launches info hub for healthcare quality leaders AHA opposes MedPAC recommendations to Congress on site-neutral, Part B drug, wage index policies AHA ramps up 340B protection efforts (..)

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Hall Render

MARCH 11, 2022

AHA urges Congress to address health care workforce challenges. 50 best hospital, health systems supply chains in the US, per GHX. CMS Innovation Center Launches New Initiative To Advance Health Equity. HHS working with health systems to launch single patient login for health portals. in supplemental COVID-19 aid.

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Hall Render

JUNE 2, 2023

NATIONAL 9 health systems working with Amazon, Microsoft, Apple 293 hospitals at immediate risk of closure AHA chair-elect participates in CEO roundtable on rural health care crisis AHA report demonstrates benefits of 340B program AHA Urges OCR to Suspend or Amend Online Tracking Guidance AMA and others launch collective call for health equity in Rise (..)

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