Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Seeking health information online along with researching other patients’ perspectives on doctors are now as common as booking dinner reservations and reading restaurant reviews, based on Rock Health’s latest health consumer survey, Beyond Wellness for the Healthy: Digital Health Consumer Adoption 2018.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2024

Health Populi’s Hot Points: From the start of the coronavirus pandemic in early 2020, one thing became clear: that people living in households without connectivity were unable to work from home if they had a job that supported virtual work, attend school from home, or connect to loved ones, friends, and communities from home.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

deaths due to accidents, accidental overdoses, and suicide in 2017. to expand access to integrated primary and behavioral health care to younger people in America, and telehealth can be a practical and even desirable platform for doing so particular for the nation’s younger patient population. It is a critical time for the U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2018

On July 18, 2017, Neil Gomes, Chief Digital Officer at Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health in Philadelphia, tweeted this: When I saw this tweet, I was especially struck by Gomes’s phrase, “Designed & developed with heart/love by my @DICEGRP.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Chris Gibbons, founder and CEO of The Greystone Group, during the HIMSS session – which is now on-demand and explores how providers and federal, state and local policymakers are changing the way they think about the internet of things and connected health tools as they focus on population health management.

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Meaningful Use Public Health Connected Health Patient Experience 146

Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

This was followed by finding a hospital, asking about medication information, seeking nutrition information, scheduling a visit to a doctor or hospital, connecting to a digital health device (like a Fitbit tracker or blood glucometer), finding a clinician, and researching treatment options.

HIPAA 174

HIPAA Mobile Health Digital Health Health Information 174

Health Populi

JUNE 1, 2018

I’ve mined Meeker’s report for several years here on Health Populi: 2017 – Digital healthcare at the inflection point, via Mary Meeker. 2015 – Musings with Mary Meeker on the digital/health nexus. 2014 – Healthcare at an inflection point: digital trends via Mary Meeker.

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Health Populi

MARCH 5, 2019

” A prevailing current mantra in work and daily living is “digital transformation.” Increased availability of health information, services and social networks online can also improve patient experiences. The digital divide in the U.S.

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eHealth Patient Experience Telehealth Digital Health 156

Health Populi

MARCH 5, 2018

We’ll see voice-first developers like Orbita, which appeared at HIMSS last year, expanding tools for health-focused digital voice assistants; I learned about their Alexa skills in 2017 developed for people dealing with aging at home. adults used in 2017, according to a survey Pew conducted last year. 46% of U.S.

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Digital Health Health Data Health IT Patient Experience 174

Health Populi

JUNE 25, 2018

Deloitte calculated another way to measure the ROI of patient delight by looking at hospitals’ financial performance, finding that those providers who scored more highly on patient experience yielded better financial outcomes — highly correlated to patient-nurse engagement.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

The two organizations have collaborated to launch a new benchmarking study into health-beauty-wellness (HBW) sales, launched this weekend at the GMDC HBW Conference in Orlando. Overall, 2017 to 2018 year-on-year, HBW sales were flat-to-no growth, notwithstanding the consumer and influencer buzz around the categories.

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Health Populi

MARCH 8, 2018

Health Populi’s Hot Points: I’ve talked and written about this concept in the past couple of years as one way to extend healthy eating and living opportunities to people residing in food and commercial deserts — a way to overcome a key social determinant of health which is healthy food access.

Primary Care 120

Primary Care Patient Experience Connected Health Digital Health 120

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

When I first spoke with Anish Sebastian and Juan Pablo Segura in 2017, I knew they were onto something really important, impactful, and absolutely delightful for the woman at low-risk during pregnancy. I’ve known this company for a couple of years, meeting them when they were but a young start-up. Over one in four women in the U.S.

Digital Health 180

Digital Health Telehealth Patient Experience Health Technology 180

Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2018

“Health agencies will have to become at least as sophisticated as other consumer/retail industries in analyzing a variety of data that helps uncover root causes of human behavior,” Gartner recommended in 2017. That’s because “health” is not all pre-determined by our parent-given genetics.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 10, 2019

I assert this through my health lens, as well as health-economic perspective. Start with Fitbit, among the most mature digital health suppliers featured at CES over time. I met Stacey Burr who led adidas digital sports group way back when, at CES in the Zip era. She and I were among the only women in the room.

Digital Health 240

Digital Health HIPAA Mental health Patient Experience 240

Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

To address that challenge, in 2017 PLM secured a $100 million (controlling interest) investment from iCarbonX , a Chinese company that is amassing patient data to discover cures for disease. And they invested in people because the communities they built require a human touch.

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Pharmaceuticals HIPAA BioTech Patient Experience 216

Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2018

I wrote this post on the deal as an inflection point in American healthcare on 3rd December 2017 when CVS and Aetna announced their marriage intentions. This post updates my initial thoughts on the deal, given the morphing US healthcare market on both the traditional health services front and fast-evolving retail health environment.

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