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Digital Health Tools Are Finding Business Models – IQVIA’s 2021 Read on the Health of Digital Health

Health Populi

Evidence supporting the use of digital health tools if growing, tracked in Digital Health Trends 2021: Innovation, Evidence, Regulation, and Adoption from IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science. In the Age of COVID, over 90,000 new health apps were released, as the supply of digital therapeutics and wearables grew in 2020.

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Doctor’s Failure to Follow Up on Medical Test Leads to Large Settlement

Pulmonology Advisor - Practice Management

Ordering diagnostic tests is a standard procedure for physicians; yet if the test results aren’t reviewed and acted upon, what was the point of ordering the test? Unfortunately, it’s not uncommon for physicians to order tests and then fail to follow up on results — often due to the sheer volume of patients that the physician sees.

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Trust My Doctor and Fear the Office: The Telehealth Opportunity in and Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic

Health Populi

Patients’ concerns of COVID-19 risks have led them to self-ration care in the following ways: 41% have delayed health care services. Thus, 38% of people would delay an elective procedure and 27% would delay a diagnostic test in a hospital setting for at least six months.

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Viasat [VSAT] + 19Labs: Delivering Rural Healthcare Globally

19 Labs

With Viasat 3 and global coverage coming up, every rural community around the world can get healthcare through GALE. April 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Viasat Inc. Currently, 19labs is assisting healthcare and education groups prepare applications under the recently expanded 2021 FCC telemedicine grant program. CARLSBAD Calif.,

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I Am Afraid of Early Cancer Detection

Sensible Medicine

This week will be a straight up critical appraisal (with a bit of a critique of Wall Street Journalism Churnalism thrown in). This was the validation article in a series of diagnostic test articles. This study was a case-control, diagnostic test study. We then work up every positive test.

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Digital Health Funding Updates from FINN + Galen and Silicon Valley Bank – Context for JPM2023

Health Populi

SVB notes that venture funding in healthcare fell in terms of both deals and dollars each quarter of 2022 after hitting records in 2021. Devices, the only one of the four sectors to match, relatively, record investments in 2021.

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Viasat [VSAT] + 19Labs: Delivering Rural Healthcare Globally

19 Labs

With Viasat 3 and global coverage coming up, every rural community around the world can get healthcare through GALE. April 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Viasat Inc. Currently, 19labs is assisting healthcare and education groups prepare applications under the recently expanded 2021 FCC telemedicine grant program. CARLSBAD Calif.,