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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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Fresenius Medical Care North America (FMCNA) is adopting and supporting new Connected Health technologies that empower patients to monitor, collect, and share health and treatment data with their physicians and care providers. Connected Health and new technologies in health care don’t come without concerns and risks.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 12, 2021

I noted the Yin-and-Yang-and the Blur of this health data ecosystem in 2013 when I attended CES, HIMSS and South-by-Southwest in a matter of weeks, kicking tires on digital health developments at all three events. By 2022, CTA projects that connected exercise equipment will reach sales of 2.5 billion.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 23, 2020

Consider an upcoming HIMSS event in Orlando with the charming title: Monitoring Grandma: Adoption of Connected Health Tech by Seniors. Back to monitoring, connected health or otherwise. Telehealth was a pioneering concept in 2008. Telehealth was a pioneering concept in 2008. This is laudable. Just saying.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2021

This news is a signal that health care and the larger tech-enabled ecosystem that supports health and well-being is embedded in peoples’ everyday lives. We can expect to see more women-related health tech featured at CES 2022, including on education panels and speaking platforms.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 31, 2018

That hasn’t yet been available to those of us who quantify our steps, weight, sleep, food intake, and other health metrics. In 2017, Hugh Langley wrote in Wareable that, “blood pressure is wearable tech’s next challenge.” Knowing your blood pressure is an important step for managing the risks of heart disease.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Patients searching online for health information and health care provider reviews is mainstream in 2019. Digital health tracking is now adopted by 4 in 10 U.S. Rock Health’s Digital Health Consumer Adoption Report for 2019 was developed in collaboration with the Stanford Medicine Center for Digital Health.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 3, 2018

.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: As workers bear a greater financial risk for covering their and their families’ healthcare costs, how to bend that cost curve downward? This coverage line item is fast-growing, from the 27% low mark in 2015 of large companies covering telemedicine to 63% in 2017 and 74% in 2018.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The growing supply of teletherapy serving more people at scale who need and want to access services has been encouraging to see, with investments in digital mental health hitting $3.1 billion and $793mm for substance use disorder for the first three quarters of 2021 based on Rock Health’s numbers. That is indeed the case.

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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

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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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.

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Health Populi

MARCH 5, 2019

” A prevailing current mantra in work and daily living is “digital transformation.” features several pages devoted to digital connectivity bolstering more effective health care delivery. Second, health care therapies can be introduced more quickly via fast networks, OECD believes.

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Health Populi

MARCH 27, 2018

Will people connect dots between their Facebook lives – and their identities on social networks, generally – with their personal health information, privacy and security? Health information breaches are more highly valued by cyber-attackers as they are worth more than, say, consumers’ bank account or credit card identities.

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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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Health Populi

DECEMBER 5, 2018

The Airband Initiative is working from Northwest Georgia to South Africa to bolster partnerships to connect agriculture, education, health, and other sectors in areas under-served by broadband. In 2017, Airband was working with 16 U.S. states; the program will expand to 25 states in 2019.

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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.

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Health Populi

JUNE 25, 2018

On the first pillar of access, some tactics are better utilized than others to expand accessible touchpoints: urgent care centers and freestanding imaging sites are more widely available to consumers compared with video and e-visits (telehealth) services. Roughly one-in-five providers is planning or developing virtual care services.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 31, 2018

There were over 400 major healthcare breaches reported between 2017 and 2018, accessing sensitive medical data, targeting patient medical equipment, and seeking to extort financial gain. October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (who knew?) and this Center demonstrates DHHS’s commitment to keeping U.S.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

There’s the 2017 AARP report that surveys caregivers about what they want from technology -- they are interested in but not currently using. Five Offerings from the Boston Connected Health Conference 2018. category tags: mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health , Voice First/AI technology , Family caregivers.

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Lloyd Price

JANUARY 30, 2019

Enthusiasm for home health technologies continues to mount, fueled by the aging population, demands for personalized healthcare and convenience, population health efforts and the shift to value-based care. billion in 2017, according to ResearchAndMarkets. Retailers are eyeing the market, too.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

JANUARY 15, 2019

The National Cancer Institute reports 2017 U.S. Eighteen months ago, we introduced this telehealth type of application to our oncology patients. NPs, Navigators) will get patients set up and show them how to use the digital health application. Our palliative team is embedded within Oncology. Nurses (e.g.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2020

Next week, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) will convene CES, the Consumer Electronics Show, where over 180,000 tech-minded people from around the world will convene to kick the tires on new TVs, games, smart home devices, 5G connections, 3-D printing, drones, and to be sure, digital health innovations.

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Health Populi

MAY 15, 2020

In case you think Hims & Hers are a marginal part of the health/care ecosystem, they began to ally with the Ochsner Health System in December 2019 as a novel digital front-door for the System’s telehealth program… pre-COVID-19 pandemic.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Between 2017 to 2021, there was also significant movement in a few other areas: identity and self-esteem (up 11 points from 2017), as well as control and reality (up 7 points between 2017 to 2021). Deloitte also notes the growing use of telehealth and online appointment scheduling the enables access to services.

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2019

The blurring of mobile and digital into overall business process is a meta-trend for the global economy, and certainly for the health care ecosystem. 2017 – Digital Healthcare at the Inflection Point, a la Mary Meeker. 2015 – Musings with Mary Meeker on the Digital/Health Nexus.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2018

California, home to start-ups, mature tech platform companies (like Apple, Facebook and Google), and countless digital health developers, is in a particularly strategic place to fight the FCC and, now, the Department of Justice. Nearly two dozen other states are looking to write net neutrality laws following Governor Brown’s example.

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Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Digital health coming of age with increased focus on individual care. During 2019, we project application of digital health will continue to go far beyond the traditional systems and empower individuals to be able to manage their own health,” Behera says. from 2017 to 2023.

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