...Another tip of the cap to HISTalk 9 Nov. And who said all of telehealth is suffering? Online direct-to-consumer marketer Hims & Hers posted a third consecutive $100 million+ quarter in revenue. Their Q3 revenue was up 95% versus Q3 last year, reaching $144.8 million. They also gained 70,000 new online subscribers for a total of 991,000, up 80% year over year. Q4 guidance is up to $159 million to $162 million, with a full-year revenue forecast of $519 million to $522 million. And yes–they’re profitable. Their embarrassing TV spots notwithstanding, they seem to have found The Magic Formula. FierceHealthcare... Continue Reading
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News roundup UK, AU, NZ: BMA England’s concerns on digital medical records; Australia and NZ’s health connectivity initiatives advance
...of Data Saves Lives going back to June 2021. Forming a “centre of excellence” for Australian healthcare connectivity is the Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) and the Australian e-Health Research Centre under the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). Terminology and interoperability are central to connectivity and governance. A third agency, the National Clinical Terminology Service (NCTS), will provide terminology services and tools, including an online browser, a mapping and authoring platform, and CSIRO’s national syndication server Ontoserver. According to the release, “under the new partnership, ADHA will retain responsibility for governance and the strategic role of end-to-end management,... Continue Reading
Telehealth-only follow up increased repeat ED visits by 2.8%, return admissions by 1.1%: JAMA Network study
...discussion of how the lack of a physical examination during telehealth may hamper clinicians in fully evaluating evolving illness or deterioration. “Telehealth is not well suited to evaluate specific concerns, such as chest pain, abdominal pain, or shortness of breath, which represent a large proportion of post-ED follow-up visits” based on two other qualitative studies. “The association of telehealth with increased health care utilization warrants further study to evaluate its appropriateness as modality for post-ED follow-up.” Association Between In-Person vs Telehealth Follow-up and Rates of Repeated Hospital Visits Among Patients Seen in the Emergency Department (JAMA Network Open–PDF, online link)... Continue Reading
Theranos’ Holmes sentencing now 18 November, defense wants to expand hearing scope; Balwani can’t join in
...Theranos building had been torn down and a residential development complex built in its place, and the Palo Alto Walgreens where the first pilot took place had been replaced by a rug store. He wanted to “forgive her for the pain and suffering her actions have caused in his life” and to express his condolences on the child growing up without a mother. Unfortunately, he didn’t stop there on Memory Lane but took a drive up to the well-known location of her rental house, where recollections do differ and increased his tsuris as a result. Mercury News, Palo Alto Online... Continue Reading
Meta facing some Senate scrutiny on Meta Pixel’s health data collection–and how it’s used
...investigated how these snippets of code, routinely used by developers to track website performance, could be sending to Facebook through online appointment schedulers and patient portals highly sensitive patient information. As we noted then from the article, “None of the hospitals using the Pixel have patient consent forms permitting the transmission of individual patient information, nor business associate agreements (BAAs) that permit this data’s collection.” Facebook’s defense is that it does not use this information in any identifiable way. Developments have moved quickly since then. According to The Markup, 28 of the 33 hospitals in the initial report have removed... Continue Reading
News roundup: Oracle’s modernizing Cerner’s tech, but VA hedges training with AWS; Redesign Health’s $65M raise; Kyruus buys Epion Health; Zócalo Health raises $5M seed; Cigna Evernorth adds to digital formulary
...including services such as online check-in, telehealth, integrated reminders for scheduling, and patient education. The acquisition expands Kyruus to 500 health systems and medical groups. Terms and management transitions were not disclosed. For Kyruus, which acquired patient navigation too. HealthSparq from investor Cambia Health Solutions, this helps them build out an end-to-end provider-patient platform. Kyruus release, Mobihealthnews Startup Zócalo Health raised seed funding of $5M to launch virtual healthcare in California, Texas, and Washington. Zócalo (Spanish for plaza or town square) will offer in those states “virtual first family medicine service designed by Latinos, for Latinos”. Already operating in California,... Continue Reading
Perspectives: Creating consistent standards isn’t a once and done job
...and leads the Transformation Directorate’s Partnerships team. This is the second Perspectives contributed by Wysa, an AI-enabled therapy coach for mental and emotional wellness. It recently was granted an FDA Breakthrough Device Designation prior to premarket review. Interested contributors should contact Editor Donna. (Pictures and graphs are welcome) Technology is evolving and becoming more and more commonplace in healthcare. As a result of the pandemic, more people are open to the idea of digital treatment tools, and the NHS has pledged to provide ways to ensure that digital inclusion is accelerated. On-demand healthcare, virtual reality, online treatment sessions, big data,... Continue Reading
News roundup: RPM at 79 ScionHealth hospitals, 74% of employers like virtual care despite concerns, Alma Health garners $130M, NIH’s $25M for cancer care telehealth research, Parks’ virtual Connected Health Summit 30-31 Aug
...will be online Tuesday 30 and Wednesday 31 August. More information and registration here. Aug 30 – New Opportunities in Connected Health Services: Monitoring and Home Care • Health and Safety Monitoring • Home Care Services Aug 31 – Successful Strategies for Engaging Consumers • Choice in Care: Telehealth, Kiosks, and Retail Clinics • AI in Health: Creating Personalized Insights • Wellness and Consumer Engagement Part of Wednesday’s session will include “Who’s Paying for Healthcare? New Business Models”. There’s a surprising finding–74% of US internet households with children at home have used telehealth services in the past 12 months versus... Continue Reading
Oracle in Federal court class-action lawsuit on global privacy violations; Cerner VA EHR had 498 major outage incidents, 7% of time since rollout
...world’s largest surveillance database of billions of people using the billions of data points most everyone generates online over decades. All three plaintiffs are privacy-rights advocates: Michael Katz-Lacabe of the Center for Human Rights and Privacy; Dr. Jennifer Golbeck, director of the University of Maryland’s Social Intelligence Lab; and Dr. Johnny Ryan, a Senior Fellow at the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL), and at the Open Markets Institute. Dr. Ryan’s organization, the ICCL, stated that “Oracle’s dossiers about people include names, home addresses, emails, purchases online and in the real world, physical movements in the real world, income, interests... Continue Reading
Perspectives: why digital apps need an in-house clinical safety lead
...is so widely loved by patients and revered around the world is its commitment to doing the best thing by patients. Where many patients are is online. With over 350,000 digital health apps on the market, and an average of 250 new health apps released every day, how can we uphold safety standards while putting the best tools into the hands of clinicians, patients, employers, and employees? Unfortunately, most tech and digital organizations don’t have in-house clinical safety officers to be accountable for clinical safety and ensure that effective clinical risk management is carried out at all stages of development... Continue Reading
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