Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 26, 2022

Is 2022 the tipping point for technology and older adults? Scanning through the collection of blog posts from April and May, the obvious has finally occurred. Consider these six blog posts from April and May 2022. ATA 2022: Five telehealth offerings for older adults. Soon all 54 million of them will be over 65.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

JANUARY 27, 2022

Now that these innovations are here to stay (or so we hope), are we circling back to ensure adequate understanding of what is needed to achieve their full potential for public health improvement? And I propose a toast: “To stop talking about involving patients and actually do it in 2022. Connect with her at [link].

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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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Health Populi

APRIL 8, 2022

By February 2022, given inflationary pressures on households, people are shifting to lower-priced alternatives, with price top of mind versus quality. Health Populi’s Hot Points: As regular readers of the Health Populi blog have frequently noted here, trust is a key enabler of consumers’ health engagement.

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MeMD

DECEMBER 7, 2021

MeMD, a part of the Walmart Health family, shares its outlook for telehealth in 2022 in areas including value-based care, mental health, provider shortages, transparency and more. Department of Health and Human Services loosened restrictions on virtual care. Telehealth Will Enhance Value-Based Care.

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Health Populi

MARCH 28, 2023

you can search through the Health Populi blog for my various takes — starting with the milestone research of Deaton and Case discussed in this post. Note that these data go to 2021, so do not include the life expectancy data for young Americans from 2022 or first quarter of 2023. Subtitled “the sad state of U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 4, 2022

It’s Mental Illness Awareness Week : annually NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness , devotes the first week of October to advocate for people facing managing a mental illness every day and to raise public consciousness on the pervasiveness of mental illness in America. Mental Illness Awareness Week: Oct. Tuesday Oct.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 26, 2023

While the same proportion of Black and White patients say they are looking for a doctor with empathy and compassion, there are relatively large differences between patients based on their race, found in the Everyday Health-Castle Connolly Physician-Consumer study. The survey was conducted in December 2022 among a group of 1,001 U.S.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JANUARY 26, 2023

This week’s installment concerns a recently published blog post about a controversial reimbursement requirement for telemental health telehealth after the end of the public health emergency (PHE). Given the delay, it is unlikely to sustain the required two-year waiting period.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

This week, public health truths have collided with social media, the infodemic, and health citizenship. First, I read in Becker’s Health IT on February 16 that the peer-reviewed policy journal Health Affairs was prevented by a social media outlet from promoting its February 2022 issue themed “Racism and Health.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

In this excerpt, Prior explains some of the recent history of online patient-led research pioneers, including Susannah Fox and Dr. Tom Ferguson , highlights how COVID-19 long haulers are the most cutting-edge example, and points to how their methods can be applied to 21st century public health challenges. Not a member of the Society?

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Iris Telehealth

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

In November 2022, CMS finalized new rules to expand access to behavioral health. Here are a few core benefits for each person in the healthcare ecosystem: For patients: Access is everything in mental health care and these new rules from CMS help patients secure continuity of care.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 15, 2023

According to the National Health Interview Survey , approximately 30 million Americans were without health insurance in the first half of 2020, and around 43% of adults aged 19 to 64 had inadequate coverage as of mid-2022. In recognition of the vital role that Medicaid plays, April is designated as Medicaid Awareness Month.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: In the report’s discussion, KFF recognizes that this year’s study, the 22nd annual, was fielded in the unprecedented time of the coronavirus pandemic. This will inevitably change the results of what we will see one year from now in 2022.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 28, 2023

[link] In January 2023, the Rockefeller Institute published a three-part blog series on trends to watch in healthcare in 2023. The series covered broad issues related to the healthcare workforce, economy, and health policy, and highlighted internal industry changes and trends in service delivery, quality, and equity.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

a situation that was already challenging for millions of American families before the public health crisis emerged. To elevate policy issues related to food/nutrition security hosting a White House Conference on the topic in early 2022. ” I asked in this blog in 2018. month or $99 a year.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 4, 2023

According to a Market Research Future analysis , the remote system monitoring solution market will exceed USD $6 billion by 2030, rising at an 18.64% compound annual grown rate between 2022 and 2030. As technology continues to evolve, so do our health monitoring solutions. What Are the Benefits of Remote Health Monitoring?

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Health Populi

JULY 5, 2023

In today’s Health Populi blog, I will discuss a current data-based snapshot of the NHS in 2023, adding context comparing the U.S. and other countries’ health system performance to appreciate the NHS in full based on its universal coverage ambition and health equity intentions.

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Clear Arch Health

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

2023 Public Health Emergency Update: On January 30, 2023, the Biden Administration announced plans to officially bring the public health emergency (PHE) to an end by May 11, 2023 in response to current COVID-19 trends. There is even a new Behavioral Health Integration code: G0323.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Beyond some obvious things, in looking at love, Ipsos makes the connections between the emotion and its impacts on finances, housing, shopping/retail, and of course health and well-being. ” Consider declining trust in institutions, which I’ve gone on about more than you might have wanted to hear in this Health Populi blog.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 19, 2022

At CES 2023, OMRON will announce the company’s expanding efforts for remote heart-health monitoring (RHM) and clinical evidence generated through its launch of RHM. Withings expanded remote patient monitoring earlier in 2022, and began to collaborate on clinical trial data connections between consumers and researchers.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This feels especially apt right “now” as we enter 2022, Year 3 of the COVID-19 pandemic, with people mentally stressed, anxious, and shrugging off the Omicron variant – while taking on more DIY life-flows, self-care and desire for (more) control. We start at a macro bird’s-eye view with Gartner’s top US consumer and cultural trends for 2022.

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Health Populi

APRIL 30, 2021

Drug prices continue to be front-of-mind for patients with chronic conditions and cancer diagnoses, and should continue to be a top 10 issue for voters approaching 2022 mid-term elections. As such, the debate on prescription drug pricing in the U.S.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2023

At the end of each year since I launched the Health Populi blog, I have put my best forecasting hat on to focus on the next year in health and health care. There’s a sort of health care “shrinkflation” that has been shaping patients-as-payors of medical bills. consumer sentiment on the steep decline.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

AUGUST 4, 2022

As of July 29, 2022, approximately 70 countries where monkeypox is not endemic had reported outbreaks of the viral disease, with confirmed cases exceeding 20,800, prompting the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare the outbreak a global health emergency. 2022, May 21). 2022, June 9). References.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 4, 2022

adults 18 and over between July 7 and 17, 2022. Pew’s research found a 14-percentage point increase in the number of Americans who said abortion would be “very important” for their 2022 midterm votes: 59% in February 2022 compared with 73% in July 2022. voters for the November 2022 midterms.

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