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Mental Health at CES 2022 – The Consumer’s Context for Wellbeing in the New Year

Health Populi

As we enter COVID-19’s “junior year,” one unifying experience shared by most humans are feelings of pandemic fatigue: anxiety, grief, burnout, which together diminish our mental health. Mental health spiked up for virtual visits and to this day, is among the medical services in highest demand for virtual platforms.

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Zocdoc Learns What Patients Want: Primary Care Access ASAP, and the Role of Women as Chief Health Officers

Health Populi

pap smear, gyn exam), dermatology, and mental health issues. 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. We can also see the growing demand for omnichannel health care in this study.

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The Cost of Treating Patients is On the Rise: PwC Goes What’s Behind the 2024 Medical Spending Numbers

Health Populi

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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The Promise of Digital Health and the Privacy Perils – HealthConsuming Explains, Part 4

Health Populi

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.” mobile consumers.

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Dr. Burnout – The 2021 Medscape Physician Burnout & Suicide Report

Health Populi

What factors contributed most to clinician burnout in this year’s survey? At the top of the list of stressors was the same issue hurting physician well-being last year: too many bureaucratic tasks, felt by 58% of the surveyed doctors. And 8 in 10 doctors felt burnout before the start of COVID-19. Four in ten U.S.

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Will Consumers Cross the Cost-and-Trust Chasm Between Prescription Drugs and Hospitals?

Health Populi

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.

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As COVID-19 Rocks Markets, Digital Health Start-Ups Rake In Cash

Lloyd Price

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.