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% CMS) and commercial/private side of health plan strategies. saw double-digit cost growth of nearly 12%.

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Health Populi

JULY 22, 2021

Note that telehealth was not nearly the only digital health tool employed by consumers and clinicians during the pandemic; clinical trials leveraged connected devices, care team emails proliferated (part of telehealth, broadly defined), and disease management apps supported patients managing chronic conditions from home.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 28, 2019

In the early 2000s, the state of Texas was in the midst of a widely recognized, multi-decade crisis from lack of mental health services for people in need. Psychiatric facilities were above capacity, leaving patients in mental health emergencies with either jail or emergency rooms as their only options. THE PROBLEM.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The cost of therapy or limitations in the ability of this population to attend face-to-face mental health treatment can often be difficult. 2007 ; Vizcaya-Moreno et al., The Role of Self-Help Digital Tools Mental Health Gaming as a Mental Health Tool? 2021 ; Tylee et al.,

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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. With every one of these digital health encounters, from Alexa to Zipongo, a bit of data is created. Promising, promising. It’s personal stuff, and it’s a tiny little bit about “you.”

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The first chart illustrates that most people see each of the seven industries studied as wellness channels, from the more obvious health-oriented categories like skincare and food to hospitality (hotels and airlines), financial services, and automotive (which I’ve covered as far back as 2007 here on Health Populi).

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Health Populi

JANUARY 26, 2021

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. Scott founded Crossover Health in 2007 with the vision of surrounding the patient with care.

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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

MARCH 15, 2019

in December 2007, and tracked “self-care” searches to today, 15 March 2019. As I dug in deeper to these intentions via Google searches on self-care, I found a broad range of queries covering peoples’ uniquely personal definitions of “health.” A Google search overall yielded over 2 billion results.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

rank prescription drugs, lab tests, emergency room visits, dental and vision care, preventive services, chronic disease management and mental health care as the “most essential” health care services, according to the 2019 Survey of America’s Patients conducted by The Physicians Foundation. People in the U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

.” Trust and truth underpin health engagement, we learned in the first Edelman Health Engagement Barometer launched ten years ago. 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].

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

When the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) developed the concept of the Triple Aim in 2007, it was founded on three pillars: enhancing patient experience, improving population health, and lowering per capita health care costs. Four in ten U.S. By 2014, Dr. Thomas Bodenheimer and Dr.

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Lloyd Price

MAY 17, 2020

One leading sector of the digital health space, telemedicine companies, generated three times the amount of financing they received in Q1 2019, raising $788 million in venture capital backing, compared to $220 million in the first quarter of 2019. Rock Health is a venture capital fund dedicated to digital health start-ups.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

APRIL 22, 2022

Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a significant psychiatric condition that has a variety of poor physical and mental health consequences. 2007 Apr 28; 334(7599): 894–898. Anorexia nervosa is characterized by a low body weight, a strong fear of gaining weight, and a negative body image. References: Morris, J. and Twaddle, S.,?Anorexia

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Digital Leaders HealthTech

JANUARY 28, 2020

With the increase in access to health information, the need to track health behaviours away from the hospital, and the Instagram generation getting obsessed with looking fit and healthy, we’ve seen a huge rise in the use of wearable devices for fitness. Surgical robots. Virtual reality.

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Health Populi

JULY 16, 2021

The first blog post I wrote on Health Populi back when this site launched at Labor Day 2007 was on this very topic — that the huge percentage of gross domestic product the U.S. The care economy cannot be easily or rationally separated from the fiscal economy.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: This last chart compares gains in life expectancy (longevity) between two periods, 2002-2007 and 2012-2017. life expectancy gained in the earlier period, 2002-2007, ranked relatively high with OECD countries like the UK, Australia, Canada, Hungary, Italy, New Zealand, and others.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The APA has been quantifying Stress in America since 2007; for context, at the end of that year The Great Recession kicked in , and in response President Obama’s team put together assistance to bolster the national economy, jobs, and health technology (codified in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act).

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mHealth Insight

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

In 2012, Google shut down Google Health after just three years due to “lack of widespread adoption.” It’s actually all they were about but beyond that these were small scale projects that let Google and Microsoft look innovative while they continued to make billions from business as usual eg.

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OCTOBER 3, 2018

He is working to reduce the stigma associated with mental health by writing and speaking about living with his condition. When she got a cancer diagnosis five days before Christmas in 2007, she used her research, communication, and comedy skills to navigate treatment.

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JULY 15, 2018

Christ Hospital Health Network, with over 3,500 employees, is ranked No. Hospital leadership recently refreshed the Employee Assistance Program, which looks to improve work-life balance for employees by addressing behavioral and mental health needs. 24 on the Forbes ‘ list of Best Large Companies to Work For.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2023

There’s a sort of health care “shrinkflation” that has been shaping patients-as-payors of medical bills. Dr. Robert Pearl has recently written about this, and the phenomenon has been a major recurring theme in this Health Populi blog since its inception in 2007 – when I launched this site in the midst of The Great Recession.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MAY 25, 2023

They looked at longitudinal data from the Transition to Adulthood Supplement of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics for respondents ages 18 to 23 ( n = 3,213), spanning 2007 to 2017. Pediatric Depression Treatment Using Digital CBT, Self-Guided Interventions Mental Health Gaming as a Mental Health Tool?

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Health Populi

JANUARY 17, 2023

Note that Russia, studied in the surveys between 2007 and 2022, was not included in the 2023 research). The Edelman team conducted this 23rd annual study in November 2022 in 28 countries, among over 32,000 people — some 1,150 residents per country polled.

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