Health Populi

MAY 5, 2021

A closer look at this activity points to a key trend that will persist post-pandemic: that telehealth and the broader theme of virtual care is re-shaping how health care is delivered. This graphic comes out of my current thinking about telehealth across the continuum of care.

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JANUARY 24, 2022

The American Telemedicine Association announced Friday that it had launched ATA Action, a new affiliated trade organization aimed at supporting the enactment of state and federal telehealth coverage throughout the United States. Best Buy Health. Bicycle Health. Hone Health. LifePoint Health. Circle Medical.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Connected Health Government & Policy Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth The fate of virtual care adoption is tied to the fate of broadband expansion. Craig Settles Six years ago I had a stroke and telehealth saved my life. No broadband, no telehealth. Make no mistake, I am a believer!

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Telehealth has increased access to mental health services, I’ve highlighted this Mental Illness Awareness Week here in Health Populi. But telehealth has also emerged as a preferred channel for routine health care services, we learn from J.D. Power’s 2022 Telehealth Satisfaction Study.

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APRIL 30, 2021

senators has reintroduced the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act of 2021. The act would expand coverage of Medicare telehealth services and make some COVID-19 telehealth flexibilities permanent, among other provisions.

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Health Populi

JULY 15, 2022

drop from 2021, CTA expects software, gaming, video and audio streaming spending will grow by 3.5% With that macro context, CTA expects “healthy growth for health tech,” illustrated in the first chart, with over $13 bn in U.S. households will have adopted connected health monitoring devices this year (21%), CTA gauges.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 11, 2021

This week at the 2021 annual HIMSS conference, Philips is “making the case for moving to the cloud,” discussing the Philips HealthSuite, a cloud-based platform for connecting providers and patients, devices (and the data they generate), and care across the health care continuum.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

consumers’ virtual visit utilization from 2021 to 2023, showing a downturn in telehealth — from 57% of consumers attending a virtual medical appointment in 2021 falling to 42% of consumers in 2023. .” The bar chart updates our understanding of U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

TripleTree is an investment bank that has advised health care transactions since 1997. As such, the team has been involved in digital health financing and innovation for 24 years, well before the kind of platforms, APIs, and cloud computing now enabling telehealth and care, everywhere.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The combination of Kaiser Permanente and Geisinger to form Risant Health will be a test of how Kaiser can build a national brand while embedding its approach to a regional health system that has been geographically boxed-in in central Pennsylvania. Re-building a community health system from an innovative blueprint.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Over one-half of Americans would likely use virtual care for their healthcare services, and one in four people would actually prefer a virtual relationship with a primary care physician, according to the fifth annual 2020 Consumer Sentiment Survey from UnitedHealthcare.

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Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2022

Consumers continued to invest in and use several technologies that supported self-care at home in 2021, with plans to purchase connected health devices, sports and fitness equipment in the next year. TV penetration dropped to a new low of 89% with younger people employing other platforms for video viewing. 24% of U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 30, 2021

Still, the Homebody Economy will persist even post-COVID, with a growing realization that “home” has become a safe haven for many life-flows — with continued investments planned in 2021 for home renovations as well as luxury goods.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 9, 2023

SVB notes that venture funding in healthcare fell in terms of both deals and dollars each quarter of 2022 after hitting records in 2021. Healthtech (shifting toward early-stage investment with mental health and primary care dominating the category).

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JANUARY 3, 2022

And about one-in-three Americans has made a 2022 New Year’s resolution involving some aspect of mental health, the American Psychiatric Association noted approaching the 2021 winter holiday season. Mindfulness and meditation apps, food and nutrition, are also well known by over 50% of U.S.

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JULY 25, 2022

for a couple of months, having lived in and worked from Brussels, Belgium, since October 2021 (save for about ten days in March 2022). We came to appreciate the connectivity was indeed a determinant of health (which I called out in the Huffington Post in July 2016). I’ve returned to the U.S. healthcare system.

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OCTOBER 18, 2021

The survey informing the report was conducted between August 2 and September 7, 2021, among 3,616 adults 18 and older (in English, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, and Vietnamese based on consumers’ language preferences).

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FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the use of digital health tools and virtual health care; looking past the pandemic, the American Telemedicine Association is envisioning that care will be omni-channel just as other aspects of consumers’ lives are, whether shopping, banking, or now for people in school, education.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2022

In 2019, Find Care expanded services for consumers to manage chronic health conditions addressing asthma, COPD, and diabetes. These data came from a JAMA Oncology article published in April 2021). The graphic here comes from data presented in the report on the volume of estimated missed screenings in the U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

Rock Health and Stanford commissioned an online survey among 7,980 U.S. adults from early September to early October 2020 to gauge peoples’ interest in and utilization of digital health tools and telehealth. Tech companies are much better capitalized than health systems.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Volunteer organizations, along with other data-creating entities for public health. during the first quarter of 2020, digital health rose to the occasion: namely telehealth, remote and virtual care mounted by health care providers across the nation within days of the WHO calling the virus a global pandemic.

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Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2021

In this year’s 2021 annual report by Deloitte into Connectivity & Mobile Trends, their report details How the pandemic has stress-tested the crowded digital home. McKinsey’s findings contrast with Deloitte’s, taking a look back on the coronavirus pandemic impact on peoples’ health care lives and life-flows.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

A massive nationwide scale-up of telehealth and remote patient monitoring unlike anything yet seen. The hope, of course, is that the galvanizing technology innovations that have emerged from the stress and disruption of the past year will be foundational to a better, brighter world in 2021 and beyond.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

In October 2021, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced that Robert Ford, CEO and President of Abbott, would give a keynote speech at CES 2022, the world’s largest annual convention of the technology industry.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 14, 2021

" To help the new platform capitalize on its potential, Mayo Clinic worked with vendor partners to launch two new spinoff companies, each focused on a specific aspect of that AI-powered connected health. We see that all of us are carrying these super computing devices. Many of us have wearable devices.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2021

Connected Health Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Mergers & Acquisitions Network Infrastructure Telehealth Health system CIOs are reducing their tech footprint and consolidating their IT systems for agility and efficiency. At nearly $15 billion, the funding surpasses the amount for the full year 2020.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Growing orders for Peloton and other connected exercise equipment were noted by CTA’s 2021 consumer-tech forecast , anticipating this as a trend that would mainstream as scale economies and competition expanded the market segment while prices fell.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

CES 2021 featured some obvious quick-pivoting products that had the pandemic written all over them, with sessions invariably speaking to the way the public health crisis impacted companies and strategic plans. Joining Peloton in connected fitness at CES 2021 was NordicTrack, which recently announced its purchase of Precor.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

At the start of CES 2021, I had the opportunity to catch up with Karsten Russell-Wood, Portfolio Marketing Leader, Post Acute & Home, Connected Care at Philips. We brainstormed just as CES 2021 was going to “open,” virtually, for the consumer electronics conference’s first all-virtual meeting. Take George and Audrey.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Rock Health expects telemedicine encounters to be at a greater volume in 2021 versus 2019, with some “settling” to a less hyped level than seen at the height of the pandemic. Several of these organizations launched IPOs during the pandemic, and others plan to go public early in 2021.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 6, 2021

health care spending and what comes from it, according to Mirror, Mirror 2021: Reflecting Poorly , a perennial report from The Commonwealth Fund that compares health system performance across eleven developed countries. as well as the physical and mental health of the nation’s health citizens.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Between 2017 to 2021, there was also significant movement in a few other areas: identity and self-esteem (up 11 points from 2017), as well as control and reality (up 7 points between 2017 to 2021). Deloitte also notes the growing use of telehealth and online appointment scheduling the enables access to services.

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