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What If We Built a Consumer-Enchanting Health System in the Context of HLTH 2023? Building Blocks for the Scenario

Health Populi

Marc Harrison, most recently CEO of Intermountain Health, to take on the CEO role for the launch of a new health services company: HATco, the Health Assurance Transformation Corporation. Nothing in health care happens overnight, and this concept has been hatching since 2017, GC’s press release explains.

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Open Table for Health: Patients Are Online For Health Search and Physician Reviews

Health Populi

Seeking health information online along with researching other patients’ perspectives on doctors are now as common as booking dinner reservations and reading restaurant reviews, based on Rock Health’s latest health consumer survey, Beyond Wellness for the Healthy: Digital Health Consumer Adoption 2018.

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Still Struggling with Stress in America in 2021

Health Populi

The growing supply of teletherapy serving more people at scale who need and want to access services has been encouraging to see, with investments in digital mental health hitting $3.1 billion and $793mm for substance use disorder for the first three quarters of 2021 based on Rock Health’s numbers. That is indeed the case.

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Access to Technology Is the New Pillar for Well-Being: CES & the UN Partner for Human Security for All

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: From the start of the coronavirus pandemic in early 2020, one thing became clear: that people living in households without connectivity were unable to work from home if they had a job that supported virtual work, attend school from home, or connect to loved ones, friends, and communities from home.

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The Pace of Tech-Adoption Grows Among Older Americans, AARP Finds – But Privacy Concerns May Limit Adoption

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The same percentage of people over 50 own a voice assistant, a market penetration rate which more than doubled between 2017 and 2019, AARP noted in the 2020 Tech and the 50+ Survey published in December 2019. Communicating other information, like blood pressure, weight, or heart health) to a health care provider.

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World Health Day 2019: Let’s Celebrate Food, Climate, Insurance Coverage and Connectivity

Health Populi

Last week, The Lancet published its comprehensive study on the Health effects of dietary risks in 195 countries, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study. The study looked into the food intake among people in 195 countries and their health outcomes (mortality and morbibidity).

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Pharma Spending Gone Bipolar: Generics At One End, Specialty Drugs on the Other

Health Populi

in 2017 after accounting for discounts and rebates. a report from the IQVIA Institute for Health Data Science. a report from the IQVIA Institute for Health Data Science. The report reviews medicines spending in 2017 looking forward to 2022. billion prescriptions dispensed in 2017, and generic drugs accounted 90% of them.