Healthcare ECONOMIST

MAY 18, 2023

Josh Makower, a physician-inventor, entrepreneur, and professor at Stanford University, testifies about the challenges faced by medical technology innovators in accessing timely reimbursement for their breakthrough medical technologies. Kesselheim MD, JD, MPH Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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Bill Of Health

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The tendency to exclude older adults in the design process of technology is accelerating gaps in health care access and quality of life. For example, in both South Korea and Japan, it is widely advertised that kiosks in doctor’s offices and hospitals can reduce labor costs while increasing efficiency for patients.

Doctors 76

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 16, 2021

In addition to the accessibility issues outlined above, digital care appointments often leave patients feeling unseen or unheard by their doctors. If telehealth and remote care tools are to fulfill the promise of greater efficiency, accessibility, and convenience for all, they must have buy-in from doctors. This is a critical misstep.

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Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2024

There is much more data and nuance to explore in the report, and I recommend you do so whether you operate in health care in the public sector (government), in technology, or health care services — the latter, and especially doctors, being among the most trusted touch-points for truth in health care.

Prevention 77

Prevention Doctors Medical Technology Patient Experience 77

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

We see a child receiving a vaccination from a doctor, held by a woman in a white gown (presumably, a nurse). According to various art historians’ analyses of the image, the occasion takes place in a medical laboratory with the child surrounded by animals providing the vaccine’s serum. Or a doctor and a nurse?

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2020

” The most trusted spokespeople globally were found to be — far and away #1 — doctors and health authorities, among 4 in 5 consumers across the 12 nations polled. Finally, 61% of U.S. But the situation still gets worse.

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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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Remote Care Doctors Medical Technology Patient Experience 96

Health Populi

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Compared with patients living in other nations, Americans are also more likely to be willing to share their personal health data with doctors, device developers, research organizations, and emergency services. consumers 18-64 years of age assessed the state of medical debt in the U.S.

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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

JULY 20, 2018

Consumers are more bullish demanding virtual and digital health tools from their physicians than doctors are in providing it, based on the research findings in What can health systems do to encourage physicians to embrace virtual care? One-fourth of doctors plan to implement this capability in the next two years. from Deloitte.

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Patient Safety Movement

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

DOCTOR DELIVERS LETHAL EPIDURAL AT BROOKLYN HOSPITAL An article last week in The New York Times told the story of an anesthesiologist at a Brooklyn public hospital, with a history of making life-threatening errors in administering epidurals, who made a fatal mistake in July 2020.

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Patient Safety Movement

APRIL 1, 2023

Ramsay, MD, FRCA, Chief Executive Officer, PSMF Doctor’s Day, March 30 This Doctors’ Day we want to recognize all the safe care given by the medical professional community. The AHRQ report concludes that misdiagnosis-related harm rates in the ED are consistent with what has been found in other clinical settings.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 4, 2022

That patient must manage many clinical and lifestyle workflows through one 24-hour day — for example, measuring blood glucose levels, tracking blood pressure and activity/exercise, and communicating with a nurse practitioner, health coach, or doctor’s office as well as receiving advice or support from clinical team members.

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Telemedicine Doctors Nursing Health Technology 174

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.

Pharmaceuticals 161

Pharmaceuticals Prevention Doctors Health Technology 161

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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Patient Safety Movement

APRIL 27, 2023

Medical technology companies are developing new devices to assist us. Is it the nurse, doctor, pharmacist, or therapist who now face the reality of their own situation and that of their patient? For example, scanners can ensure the right drug is administered to the right patient at the right time and in the correct dose.

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Patient Safety Movement

JULY 25, 2023

Mike Durkin, OBE, MBBS, FRCA, FRCP, DSC In the News Details of Day 2 of the PSMF’s World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit was posted on Yahoo! An article published by CNN Health updated the state of current efforts to create a National Patient Safety Board.

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Patient Safety Prevention Hospitals Doctors 52

Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2023

In this year’s golden anniversary news at CES 2023, OMRON launched the Viso remote health monitoring program with the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), supporting patients in self-care in partnership with their doctors to improve Britons’ health and longevity.

Prevention 104

Prevention Doctors Hospitals Medical Technology 104

Health Populi

MAY 16, 2022

Medical technology, with prolific sensors and devices that connect consumers, patients, and caregivers across the continuum from healthy to high-risk acute patients (that’s the Hospital@Home segment of people). Digital transformation, built on “radically interoperable” data on open, secure platforms.

Regulations 68

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Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2022

” Based on the Teladoc PR, the process begins with a consumer waking her Amazon voice assistant saying, “Alexa, I want to talk to a doctor.” Teladoc on Alexa will initially launch via audio with video visits coming soon.”

Doctors 62

Doctors Medical Technology Patient Experience Telemedicine 62

Patient Safety Movement

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The American Lung Association urges adults to ask their doctor if they are up to date on their CDC-recommended adult vaccinations and take a personal risk assessment at Lung.org/pneumococcal. Though the CDC recommends all adults 65 years or older receive pneumococcal vaccination, vaccination rates among US adults remain low.

Patient Safety 52

Patient Safety Prevention Hospitals Healthcare Quality 52

Health Populi

JANUARY 31, 2018

Once cleared (planned for Fall 2018), the clinical quality of the data output promises to be a huge advance for consumer-marketed wearable technology that doctors can trust. After mental health and diabetes, heart apps rank as the third largest categories for medical apps on the market in 2017.

Doctors 81

Doctors Prevention Healthcare Accountability 81

Health Populi

JANUARY 13, 2021

Almost overnight, school lessons and doctors’ appointments were online. “Historically, people have often been quick to adopt new digital technology and slower to adapt to what it can help them achieve,” Fjord noted.

Primary Care 68

Primary Care Doctors Medical Technology Patient Experience 68

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

For sleep solutions, improving mental and physical health also ranked first, followed by convenience, a mate wanting it, recommendations from professionals like a doctor or health coach, and an ability to monitor sleep when not home — in the case of a wearable technology like a Fitbit watch or Oura ring.

Prevention 105

Prevention Doctors Medical Services Medical Technology 105

Patient Safety Movement

JUNE 28, 2023

He identified the integration of innovative medical technology and devices as crucial for effecting change. During Men’s Health Month, it is worth highlighting that many diseases that disproportionately impact men, like heart disease and cancer, are preventable through regular doctor visits and healthier lifestyle choices.

Patient Safety 52

Patient Safety Prevention Hospitals Healthcare 52

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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Doctors Medical Services Healthcare Medical Technology 134

Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2019

On the pure tech side, say for AI and 5G, the technology is falling into place soon; but that’s easier compared with everything that’s needed to commercialize and scale adoption. . “Trust is the most sacred asset that any organization has,” he called out. Our health care human capital are trusted citizens in the U.S.

Doctors 75

Doctors Regulations Nursing Hospitals 75

Patient Safety Movement

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

However, as the report explains, some experts are concerned that widespread genetic testing may also identify mutations whose impact is unclear, creating anxiety and leading to further testing and to treatment of questionable value—putting patients at higher risk of harm from medical errors needlessly.

Patient Safety 52

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Patient Safety Movement

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Your doctor can check your blood pressure, weight, A1C and cholesterol blood levels, foot complications, and other warning signs of risk factors for prediabetes or the development of worsening related symptoms for those with an existing diabetes diagnosis. Get Routine Care to Stay Healthy : Regular checkups are paramount.

Patient Safety 52

Patient Safety Prevention Hospitals Pharmaceuticals 52

Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

On average, U.S. households with broadband have at least one connected health device, which could be a smart watch, a fitness tracker (such as Fitbit), connected exercise equipment (like a Peloton and the NordicTrack Vault), a heart rate monitor (like OMRON’s HeartGuide), a weight scale (like Withings smart scales), or a sleep monitor (e.g.,

Telemedicine 73

Telemedicine Doctors Medical Services Hospitals 73

Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

The WeDoctor app, part of Tencent, deployed 20,000 online doctors donating time for free. A couple of intriguing examples: Ali Health, part of Alibaba (the e-commerce giant), launched a free online clinic in locked-down Hubei (whose capital is Wuhan) where in five days, 100,000 patients received remote consultations.

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Telemedicine Medicare Prevention Regulations 116

Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2019

I’m an omnivore of Accenture’s research, and this year’s Digital Health Tech Vision 2019 tells the big top-line truth that, “digital is no longer a differentiator.” ” There’s no more eHealth or mHealth — it’s all health, it’s all digital.

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Healthcare Rehabilitation Doctors Medical Technology 98

Healthcare It News

MARCH 17, 2022

By providing ready-made, suitable selection and processing applications, innovative medical technology providers can help healthcare institutions prevent the kind of “filter failure” This occurs when the data that is available is not properly assembled and structured in a comfortable format [4].

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Healthcare Integration Medical Technology Health Data 363

Patient Safety Movement

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The doctors and hospital took no responsibility for what had happened. Hospitals are encouraged to make a formal commitment to ZERO preventable deaths, and healthcare technology companies are asked to sign the Open Data Pledge to share their data so that predictive algorithms that can identify errors before they become fatal can be developed.

Patient Safety 52

Patient Safety Accountability Prevention Hospitals 52

Health Populi

AUGUST 21, 2018

Consumers-patients highly trust their doctors, their nurses, their pharmacists, above all professions in the U.S. Making those connections via telehealth and virtual health technology, from a pure technical standpoint, is do-able today.

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Telemedicine Population Health Primary Care Healthcare 78

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

health care economics, patients are now payors as health consumers with more financial skin in paying medical bills. As consumers, people have great expectations from the organizations on the supply side of health care — providers (hospitals and doctors), health insurance plans, pharma and medical device companies.

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Hospitals Doctors Healthcare Medical Technology 62

Health Populi

MARCH 14, 2023

Ten years ago, ECRI named the top 10 health technology hazards for 2013: they were alarm hazards, medication administrative errors using infusion pumps, unnecessary exposure and radiation burns from diagnostic radiology procedures, patient/data mismatches in EHRs and other HIT systems, interoperability failures with medical devices and health IT systems, (..)

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