Remove 2017 Remove Digital Health Remove Health Data Remove Health Policy
article thumbnail

What If We Built a Consumer-Enchanting Health System in the Context of HLTH 2023? Building Blocks for the Scenario

Health Populi

Marc Harrison, most recently CEO of Intermountain Health, to take on the CEO role for the launch of a new health services company: HATco, the Health Assurance Transformation Corporation. Nothing in health care happens overnight, and this concept has been hatching since 2017, GC’s press release explains.

article thumbnail

Open Table for Health: Patients Are Online For Health Search and Physician Reviews

Health Populi

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.

HIPAA 196
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The Pace of Tech-Adoption Grows Among Older Americans, AARP Finds – But Privacy Concerns May Limit Adoption

Health Populi

The same percentage of people over 50 own a voice assistant, a market penetration rate which more than doubled between 2017 and 2019, AARP noted in the 2020 Tech and the 50+ Survey published in December 2019. Communicating other information, like blood pressure, weight, or heart health) to a health care provider.

HIPAA 422
article thumbnail

Pharma Spending Gone Bipolar: Generics At One End, Specialty Drugs on the Other

Health Populi

in 2017 after accounting for discounts and rebates. a report from the IQVIA Institute for Health Data Science. a report from the IQVIA Institute for Health Data Science. The report reviews medicines spending in 2017 looking forward to 2022. In 2017, patients spent $57.8 bn net growth in 2017.

article thumbnail

6 challenges healthtech can help us tackle – Pt.1

Digital Health Global

We can find academic research recommending that major health policies should emphasize reducing unhealthy lifestyles, dating three decades ago 3. Digital therapeutics have been the fastest growing area within the healthtech space in recent years, with global VC funding increasing 4x between 2017 and 2022 4.

article thumbnail

Can AI Make Healthcare Human Again? Dr. Topol Says “Yes”

Health Populi

This is familiar territory here in Health Populi where we cover every nook and cranny of dismal U.S. health economics, and hopeful green shoots for making health care more cost-effective, high quality, engaging and even enchanting-by-design. ” The U.S.

HC 307
article thumbnail

A Matter of Trust, Perception, Risk, and Uncertainty – The Big Issues Raised by the Acquisition of PatientsLikeMe and Other Patient Data Transactions

Health Populi

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. They are willing to share a piece of themselves to do that.