Health Populi

JULY 22, 2021

The IQVIA team are serious about getting to the clinical evidence, and this year point out a growing base of over 2,000 studies published since 2007 — 1,500 of which were published in the past five years, so the pace of change is tilting dramatically up and to the right.

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Digital Health Global

MARCH 12, 2025

About LegitScript Since 2007, LegitScript has been committed to making the internet and payment ecosystems safer and more transparent. LegitScript Healthcare Merchant Certification provides a recognized stamp of approval for telehealth providers and unlocks an important advertising opportunity on Googles platform.

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Health Populi

MAY 30, 2018

.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: The uniquely American challenge of health disparities, especially relating to race, is a topic I’ve covered many times since the launch of Health Populi in 2007.

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Health and Wellness Blog | Uplifting People To Live A Healthier Life

OCTOBER 24, 2024

With the launch of the iPhone in 2007, personal communications changed as consumers slowly adapted to accessing friends, entertainment, finance, shopping… almost everything through their smartphones. As Apple famously announced in their seminal ad campaign in 2009, there’s an app for that.

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Health Populi

JUNE 30, 2023

As the first line chart illustrates, the peak of medical trend in the last 18 years was in 2007 when the U.S. Here’s a link to PwC’s 2007 study looking behind the numbers, noting that the 11.9% saw double-digit cost growth of nearly 12%.

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Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2018

Here is the first “good news” line chart, showing declining medical trend from 2007 to next year in 2019. That’s one-half the high point at nearly 12% in 2007. The 6% trend is equal to that of 2018, illustrating a flat scenario, roughly the same trend seen in 2016 at 6.2%.

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Health Populi

MAY 2, 2019

are concepting, which I wrote about back in 2007 focusing on Toyota’s wellness car concept. Promising, promising. With every one of these digital health encounters, from Alexa to Zipongo, a bit of data is created. It’s personal stuff, and it’s a tiny little bit about “you.”

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Here in Health Populi since launching in 2007, we’ve tracked the growth of patients-as-consumers’ financial wellness as part of overall health. That’s due to one-third of people expecting to have significantly less money due to feeling the pinch of higher costs-of-living.

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 1, 2020

Founded in 2007, the company provides a health benefits platform for employers. Health technology company Accolade filed Friday to raise as much as $100 million in an initial public offering. Accolade's S-1 filing reveals key business details publicly for the first time. Here are five things to know.

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FierceHealthIT

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Physicians were more likely to be excluded from public insurance reimbursement programs due to fraud between 2007 and 2017 if they were older, male, or had osteopathic training.

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Health Populi

MAY 31, 2019

Over the ten years between 2007 and 2017, U.S. Furthermore, income disparity between wealthy Americans and people earning lower-incomes dramatically widened: between 2007-2017, income for high-income earners grew 1,305 percent more than lower-incomes.

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2019

in December 2007, and tracked “self-care” searches to today, 15 March 2019. Today, the number of searches on Google using the phrase “self-care” reached a high, shown in the line graph I created on Google Trends and marked up in red. A Google search overall yielded over 2 billion results.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

I started the Health Populi blog in September 2007 with a post titled “Health Care is the #1 Line Item in Our National Economy… and Taking More Out of Your Pocket,” displaying this sign from Tom’s Shell gas station comparing the price of gas to an “Arm, Leg, or your First Born” posted on their sign in 2007.

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FierceHealthIT

AUGUST 3, 2023

In 2019, 13% of adolescents reported having a major depressive episode, up 60% from 2007, according to federal data. is facing a growing youth mental health crisis.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 26, 2021

Scott founded Crossover Health in 2007 with the vision of surrounding the patient with care. and Scott were with me and the emerging Health 2.0 movement as Matthew Holt and Indu Subaiya were convening the first conference, gathering input from us and others who knew the Internet would change the nature of health care.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Those were the early days of the formation of patient social networks [Patients Like me was founded in 2004, and WEGO Health and Stupid Cancer in 2007]. .” Trust and truth underpin health engagement, we learned in the first Edelman Health Engagement Barometer launched ten years ago.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2024

I tried about five different EHRs starting back in 2007, said Dr. Davis. Finding an EHR Partner Dr. Davis began his search for an EHR solution before the start of the Meaningful Use incentives in 2009. Back then, most of those systems were built for compliance and not built for ease-of-use.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

recorded in 1990-2007. For context, note that general price inflation in the U.S. for the 12 months ending January 2019 according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. This growth rate for health care costs exceeds every period measured since the high of 7.2%

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Since joining Philips in 2007, he has held leadership roles in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and at the company's global headquarters in the Netherlands. Quinlan most recently led the company's MR, CT and diagnostic X-ray imaging businesses in APAC, Japan, India, Latin America, and the Middle East and Africa.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

For example, here’s my Health Populi write-up of Toyota , for example, and its wellness car from 2007. Connected cars are emerging as a “third space” for health and wellness, and Mercedes, Toyota, Honda, Audi and other car companies have been working on concept cars in health for years. Now, consider Humana’s involvement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 10, 2019

” Since its inception in March 2007, the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, which maintains 14 strike forces operating in 23 districts, has charged nearly 4,000 defendants who have collectively billed the Medicare program for more than $14 billion.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 10, 2019

Then the iPhone emerged in 2007 , along with the now-declining Fitbit. Telehealth got its first big workout with veterans in 2007. Consider the emerging general consumer technology market. Google’s IPO was in 2004 and Facebook (coincidentally) emerged that year.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Zocdoc was founded in 2007 “with a mission to give power to the patient,” the company mantra goes. In this first research study Zocdoc has conducted on patients’ perspectives on health care, the company commissioned an online survey of 1,000 U.S. consumers 18 and over in November 2023.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 19, 2021

A child born in Japan in 2007 will have more […]. Like decarbonization, inclusion is essential to a truly sustainable society. For millions of people, accessibility is the key to inclusion; and just like the environment, it requires our action and attention.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 2, 2019

The iPhone had just been released in June of 2007, so this survey did not ask about smartphone use – there was no Digital Health (a " check engine light for your body! "); the Longevity Economy hadn’t been invented; Fitbit was a 2007 new clip-on tracker , and Facebook was still a campus toy.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2018

Health Populi’s Hot Points: One of the earliest and most important books on the benefits of “doing less” in healthcare was Shannon Brownlee’s Overtreated , which I’ve covered here in Health Populi since the start of the blog in 2007.

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Health Populi

JULY 19, 2022

I launched my Health Populi blog in September 2007 with this cartoon from the New Yorker, originally published copyright Michael Maslin in 1994.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 21, 2021

The Quantified Self , coined in 2007 as a fringe concept , is now mainstream and migrating rapidly into personal health management. Also notable, considering that most wearables are still paired with them, smartphone ownership has risen most sharply among the 70+, with 77% of survey responders indicating they own one.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The BMW iDrive example from 2007 prompted some drivers to turn around and bring the car back to the showroom. It’s almost quaint to look back at what we complained about – though some of the famous user interface disasters are well-described in a Scientific American article – Windows 8, BMW iDrive, TV remotes.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

This is our ninth acquisition since Knack’s founding in 2007, and we remain dedicated to investing resources alongside our investment partner, LKCM Headwater, to both organically and inorganically expand our high-quality RCM solutions and specialties.”

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

About Core Sound Imaging Since 2007, Core Sound Imaging has provided specialized solutions for the medical imaging workflow, including image storage, a zero-footprint viewer, and a robust suite of interpretation and structured reporting tools. Latham & Watkins LLP served as legal advisor to PSG.

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 5, 2018

Rush University Medical Center and several of its clinicians were hit this week with a malpractice lawsuit that alleges a baby born at the hospital in 2007 was left disabled following a series of medical errors.

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Health Populi

JUNE 12, 2019

The prevalence of food insecurity for children in 2017 was equal to that of the 2007 pre-recession level of 8.3%. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The USDA Report on Household Food Security in the U.S. in 2017 , published in September 2018, found that 12% of U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2019

That was the theme that started the first Health Populi blog post in 2007. Money, the economy, health care costs — these three stressors are bound up together in the American’s personal and household health economy.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 22, 2022

Starting in 2007, the DOJ's healthcare Fraud Strike Force – operating in 27 districts nationwide – has charged more than 5,000 defendants who collectively billed federal healthcare programs and private insurers approximately $24.7 " THE LARGER TREND. billion, according to the department.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

One positive -- it validated the business strategies of competitors, including the two Stanford MBAs that bought VRI in 2007. Eventually the segment reached such a level of recognition that others began to jump into the market as well, including Philips. Was that a good thing? Which they did.

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FierceHealthIT

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Fitbit launched in 2007 and was considered a pioneer of the consumer fitness tracking market, quickly becoming the market leader. Following media reports of a possible deal earlier this week, Google announced it is acquiring wearables company for $7.25 per share in cash, valuing the company at $2.1

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