Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

The first chart illustrates consumers’ use of digital health tools, showing that online health information and online provider reviews. But the big growth areas were for live video telemedicine, wearable tech, and digital health tracking.

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Health Populi

JULY 17, 2018

But can we nudge stakeholders in health and healthcare to “do no harm?”. This and other important questions will be brainstormed on the webcast hosted by Accenture on Wednesday 18 July 2018 as we discuss the five trends that paint the firm’s Digital Health Tech Vision 2018. Extended Reality. Data Veracity.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2021

The first chart details what younger people, ages 14 to 22, searched online in 2018 compared with 2020. sought health information online in 2020, a slight decline from 2018. More young women than young men looked for health info online, as well as more Hispanic/Latinx and White youngers compared with Blacks.

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Mobile Health Matters

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Data needs to be available in a connected hub of records in which patients can grant physicians and insurance providers access to their personal health information. In 2018 we will have an opportunity to look at mobile healthcare through a new lens.

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Health Populi

MARCH 27, 2018

On 1st March 2018, two over-arching issues remained with me leaving Las Vegas and #HIMSS18: the central, recognized role of cybersecurity threats in healthcare, and the growing use of consumer-facing technologies for self- and virtual care. Cyber-breaches are a new-normal in health care. What a difference a couple of weeks make….

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Patients searching online for health information and health care provider reviews is mainstream in 2019. Digital health tracking is now adopted by 4 in 10 U.S. Rock Health’s Digital Health Consumer Adoption Report for 2019 was developed in collaboration with the Stanford Medicine Center for Digital Health.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

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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Health Populi

AUGUST 21, 2020

.” Self-care in the pandemic drove virtual health care visits up across generations due to elective procedures and primary care shifting to telehealth platforms, and some consumers’ concerns about heading back to brick-and-mortar health care settings for in-person high-touch care.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2020

In Accenture’s words, “COVID-19 forced a surge” in virtual health care following a stalling of consumers’ adoption of digital health in late 2019: by December 2019, 35% of consumers had been using mobile health apps on phones and tablets, down from 48% in 2018; and 18% of consumers int he U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: The issue of privacy and voice assistants began to reach mass media in 2018 as smart speakers became popular holiday gifts; here’s a cautionary explanation from the University of Michigan published in November 2018 just-in-time for last year’s holiday shopping season.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Using digital health tech is a new normal for U.S. consumers, including Seniors, found in the 2018 digital health consumer survey from Deloitte. The title of the report, “Consumers are on board with virtual health options,” summarizes the bullish outlook for telehealth. Deloitte surveyed 4,530 U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 31, 2018

teens and young adults, ages 14 to 22, polled in February and March 2018. The top-line findings alone provide an important baseline profile of TYAs’ use of the internet for health never before described. Nearly 9 in 10 young adults have gone online to seek health information.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

This blog appears today as part of a #HIMSS18 primer series for attendees, and the industry at large, to discuss major health IT issues that will help move health and healthcare delivery forward in 2018 – and beyond.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2024

And in 2018, a new statistic emerging that the rate among women for deaths due to opioid overdoses rose. For an in-depth look into this phenomenon, see my report, Here’s Looking at You: How Personal Health Information is Getting Tracked and Used, written for the California Healthcare Foundation. Finally, read what U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2018

Looking for health information online is just part of being a normal, mainstream health consumer, according to the third Rock Health Digital Health Consumer Adoption Survey published this week. adults were online health information hunters. By 2017, 8 in 10 U.S. adults; the poll was fielded in 2017.

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Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2018

It takes a good nudge from a provider to motivate a patient to access online medical records, found by ONC in their latest research into consumers’ use of EHRs detailed in Individuals’ use of online medical records and technology for health needs , the ONC Data Brief No. 40, published April 2018.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

It’s National Health IT Week in the US, so I’m kicking off the week with this post focused on how digital health can bolster economic development. As the only health economist in the family of the 2018 HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors, this is a voice through which I can uniquely speak. GDP, in 2018.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

As I approach my 20-somethingth HIMSS, having been a member of the organization for most of my professional life, I’ll be focusing on the mainstreaming health IT Zeitgeist as I meet with innovators and experts this week in Orlando. I’ll give you four big reasons: The patient is expecting a consumer experience from health care.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

What’s underneath that macro “healthcare” index number of 67 is a precipitous decline in the past year for Americans’ trust in hospitals, compared with biotech, pharma, consumer healthcare, and even health insurance — all of which grew in trust between 2018 and 2019, but not so with the hospital segment of U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Here’s where you can do just that beginning on 8th November 2018 at Open Source Healthcare. Health Populi’s Hot Points: As I learned about the launch of Open Source Healthcare this week, I’m in Europe on a sort of EU and UK health care tour with clients and colleagues, brainstorming what European health care can learn from the U.S.,

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

adults conducted in December 2017 into January 2018. “Our new data shows that the public has a definite opinion about what issues they feel companies should address and the social impact bar has been set high,” according to Amy Terpeluk, senior partner at Finn Partners. The Index is based on a survey of 25,800 U.S.

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Digital Health Today

AUGUST 17, 2020

Governments will create policies and governance in favor of precision medicine, and society will develop a new social conscience driving the establishment of universal access to longevity health. Will APAC lead the way in reinventing tomorrow’s healthcare? The paper is available free of charge and can be downloaded here.

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Enzyme Health

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Telehealth Talk [link] SouthCentral Telehealth Resource Center produced this program featuring various telehealth professionals discussing topics related to the world of connected health. Start listening with Neuwirth’s end-of-2018 episode reflecting on the year and discussing emerging trends in healthcare.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

. “With the tremendous growth of chatbots and voice assistants, we decided to develop a virtual health assistant and begin to understand how to support the patients in their search for care”, explains Maryam Gholami, Chief Product Officer at Digital Innovations, Providence Health.

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