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How Digital Health Can Stimulate Economic Development

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. Fast forward nine years later.

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Prelude to Health 2.0 2019: Thinking Consumers At the Center of Digital Health Transformation

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

“Digital transformation” is the corporate strategy flavor of the moment across industries, and the health are sector isn’t immune from the trend. As this 13th year of the annual Health 2.0 This is my lens as I enter this year’s annual Health 2.0 The post Prelude to Health 2.0

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Despite Greater Digital Health Engagement, Americans Have Worse Health and Financial Outcomes Than Other Nations’ Health Citizens

Health Populi

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Tracking health information doesn’t result in better outcomes in and of itself, Deloitte’s report recognizes: it takes environmental nudges, like behavioral economic strategies and public policies like healthy agricultural supports and active transportation, to move people toward healthy behaviors and sustain them.

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The Digital Consumer, Increasingly Connected to Health Devices; Parks Associates Kicking Off #CES2021

Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

But the coronavirus era also saw broadband households spending more on connecting health devices, with 42% of U.S. consumers owning digital health tech compared with 33% in 2015, according to research discussed in Supporting Today’s Connected Consumer from Parks Associates. On average, U.S. On average, U.S.

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Lose the COVID-19 public health emergency, but keep the progress

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

David Gray When President Joe Biden recently declared on national television that “the pandemic is over,” he offered a glimpse into the strategy his administration will be using on COVID-19 going forward: We’re ready to move on. What this means for telehealth and connected health policy.

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How Coronavirus Is Re-Shaping Consumer Behavior, From the Amusement Park to the Voting Booth

Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2020

Health Populi’s Hot Points: In challenging moments like this COVID-19 pandemic threat, we look for gifts of learning and opportunity — and this is one where the case for telehealth and broadband connectivity comes to the fore. TIME magazine covered this yesterday in a mainstream media story.

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Lose the COVID-19 public health emergency, but keep the progress, says HIMSS GR director

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

David Gray When President Joe Biden recently declared on national television that “the pandemic is over,” he offered a glimpse into the strategy his administration will be using on COVID-19 going forward: We’re ready to move on. What this means for telehealth and connected health policy.

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Health Consumers Expect Healthcare to be Digital (and Secure), Philips Future Health Index Finds

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Being Philips, what underpins that quality and experience is technology; Philips explored telehealth, AI, digital health records (DHRs), and other digital health tools that can engage patients. Patients view their health care professionals as “sherpas” to digital health data.

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Hims and Hers and Hearts – Cardiology Blurs Into DTC Retail Health

Health Populi

AUGUST 7, 2023

Heart disease is the #1 cause of death for men worldwide, so Hims seeks this heart-health mission as core to its growth and mission. ED symptoms can precede cardiovascular disease by two to three years in advance, and with that in mind, this strategy for Heart Health by Hims was born.

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Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

Federal gun legislation is passed and investments in cybersecurity are maxed in this scenario, with policies and procedures in the workplace taken seriously by all health citizens. Federal investment in climate and environmental health are part of holistic health policy. Consider the Wild Cards.

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Digital Inclusion As Upstream Health Investment

Health Populi

JULY 5, 2021

Health care, through telehealth, health education, and wearable sensors that make up the Internet of Things for medical and healthcare.

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Health Consumers Value Sharing and Downloading Health Data, But Privacy Concerns Remain

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Earlier this year, Accenture found that U.S.

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Loneliness, Public Policy and AI – Lessons From the UK For the US

Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2018

This initiative resulted in a strategy for tackling loneliness in the United Kingdom. Three quarters of GPs surveyed have said they are seeing between one and five people a day suffering with loneliness, which is linked to a range of damaging health impacts, like heart disease, strokes and Alzheimer’s disease.

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A Nutrition Label for Health IT

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

WHO believes that while AI has enormous potential for strengthening health care delivery and benefit low- and middle-income countries (and health citizens, I would add), ethical considerations and human rights “must be placed at the centre of the design, development, and deployment of AI technologies for health,” WHO insists.

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Love and Health: The Education of Abner Mason, SameSky Health

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

For example, Abner now sees that every Medicaid RFP has health equity embedded in it. We then came full circle to my initial question: why the re-branding strategy, moving from “ConsejoSano” to “SameSky Health?”. So the new name communicates “that we all deserve a health care system that works for all of us,” Abner asserts.

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In 2020, PwC Expects Consumers to Grow DIY Healthcare Muscles As Medical Prices Increase

Health Populi

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Internally, health industry business leaders are prioritizing several workforce strategies in the new year, first and foremost to confront digital transformation. Clearly, digital transformation is top-of-mind for healthcare organizations pondering their workforce strategies for 2020.

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The ROI on Virtual Care – Thinking About Value and Future Prospects With the AMA

Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

the supply side of care providers, the demand side of patients, consumers, and health citizens all, and the technology developers who have fast met the pandemic need for digital health front doors, all wonder: what aspects of virtual care will persist post-pandemic? Over a year since the pandemic emerged in the U.S.,

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Telehealth-As-Healthcare Is a Mainstream Expectation Among Consumers, J.D. Power Finds

Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Here, I share research from Avtex’s Omnichannel Healthcare Report which illustrates this point: that “all channels must be part” of healthcare’s strategy going forward. We are talking about omni-channel delivery, which integrates across communications channels based on patients’ preferences.

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Add Behavioral Data to Social Determinants For Better Patient Understanding

Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2018

The Sage team explains that, by layering knowledge about peoples’ behaviors, beliefs, and attitudes on top of the traditional SDOH factors, health care providers can mash-up SBDoH – “socio-behavioral determinants of health” — your new acronym to add to your growing list of healthcare ABCs.

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The Two Canoes: Fee-for-Service Reimbursement for Remote Patient Monitoring

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AUGUST 21, 2018

Thank you to the Alliance for Connected Care, The Center for Connected Health Policy, Krista Drobac, Nathaniel Lacktman, David Ryan, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Service and many others for your persistence in driving change and moving American healthcare forward. Asia and Europe.

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Re-Imagining Healthcare – a Lesson from Von Clausewitz in the Fog of War

Health Populi

APRIL 29, 2018

.” I interpret this to mean that, in gaining perspective from “elevated ground,” we can both manage risk (the defensive play in Von Clausewitz’s strategic thinking) as well as operating with “separate masses” on multiple fronts (in the offensive strategy).

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Will Technology Cure Americans’ Health Care System Ills? Considering Google and Ascension Health’s Data Deal

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I’ve pointed to the Dignity Health campaign #HelloHumanKindness as a best practice communications and branding strategy for helping heal healthcare. Is there a different, higher moral role for a faith-based healthcare provider versus a not-for-profit (non-faith based) or for-profit provider?

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A Matter of Trust, Perception, Risk, and Uncertainty – The Big Issues Raised by the Acquisition of PatientsLikeMe and Other Patient Data Transactions

Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

She is the author of the recently-published book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen. . She works with exceptional leaders seeking to build value in a transforming health care world. Lisa Suennen is Managing Director at Manatt, Phelps & Philips.

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How Digital Health Can Stimulate Economic Development

Prelude to Health 2.0 2019: Thinking Consumers At the Center of Digital Health Transformation

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Despite Greater Digital Health Engagement, Americans Have Worse Health and Financial Outcomes Than Other Nations’ Health Citizens

The Digital Consumer, Increasingly Connected to Health Devices; Parks Associates Kicking Off #CES2021

Lose the COVID-19 public health emergency, but keep the progress

How Coronavirus Is Re-Shaping Consumer Behavior, From the Amusement Park to the Voting Booth

Lose the COVID-19 public health emergency, but keep the progress, says HIMSS GR director

Health Consumers Expect Healthcare to be Digital (and Secure), Philips Future Health Index Finds

Hims and Hers and Hearts – Cardiology Blurs Into DTC Retail Health

Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Digital Inclusion As Upstream Health Investment

Health Consumers Value Sharing and Downloading Health Data, But Privacy Concerns Remain

Loneliness, Public Policy and AI – Lessons From the UK For the US

A Nutrition Label for Health IT

Love and Health: The Education of Abner Mason, SameSky Health

In 2020, PwC Expects Consumers to Grow DIY Healthcare Muscles As Medical Prices Increase

The ROI on Virtual Care – Thinking About Value and Future Prospects With the AMA

Telehealth-As-Healthcare Is a Mainstream Expectation Among Consumers, J.D. Power Finds

Add Behavioral Data to Social Determinants For Better Patient Understanding

The Two Canoes: Fee-for-Service Reimbursement for Remote Patient Monitoring

Re-Imagining Healthcare – a Lesson from Von Clausewitz in the Fog of War

Will Technology Cure Americans’ Health Care System Ills? Considering Google and Ascension Health’s Data Deal

A Matter of Trust, Perception, Risk, and Uncertainty – The Big Issues Raised by the Acquisition of PatientsLikeMe and Other Patient Data Transactions

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