Digital Health Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

To uncover what factors are currently patients’ top priorities, Accenture surveyed more than 21k US healthcare consumers since 2017, finding that loyalty is now more important and harder to come by than ever. 30% of respondents switched to a new provider in 2021, up 4% since 2017.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

JANUARY 15, 2019

The National Cancer Institute reports 2017 U.S. According to Deloitte’s report in Evidence Based Oncology ( The American Journal of Managed Care publication), many organizations are exploring ways to control costs and enhance care quality for oncology patients (e.g. How does TapCloud support the oncology patient?

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Xealth

JUNE 15, 2023

SEATTLE—June 15, 2023— Xealth , the leader in enabling digital health at scale, announced today that it was recognized as a Top Company in Remote Patient Monitoring upon conclusion of extensive research and company outreach by AVIA Marketplace, the leading digital health marketplace.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 9, 2023

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.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 26, 2023

Breitenstein, Venture Partner at Define Ventures, is joining Laudio’s Board of Directors and brings a wealth of digital health experience as the Founder of FOLX Health and former Chief Product Officer at Optum Analytics. Every health system CEO says that labor productivity and burnout is their top issue.

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

They are a fast growing digital health company delivering real benefits to NHS Trusts with a reputation for product excellence and strong technical delivery. He was awarded the CBE for his services to Health and Social Care in 2018. Rob Shaw said “I’m delighted to join Zesty.

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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

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

JANUARY 28, 2020

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.

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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

APRIL 23, 2018

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. billion prescriptions dispensed in 2017, and generic drugs accounted 90% of them.

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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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New Age Healthcare

JULY 27, 2017

This is reflective by the improving patient experience, enhanced health outcomes, increased efficiency in providing quality healthcare, and also by the ocean of successful start-ups that have evolved in the health-tech space. A lot of these models are being debated globally amongst industry experts on various platforms.

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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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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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Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2018

Sleep, too, or lack thereof, is top-of-mind for so many consumers: there was a growing category of sleep-assisting digital health tools featured at the 2018 CES, which I covered here in the Huffington Post. One-third of people cite mental health as a goal, closely followed by improving finances.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 11, 2019

eHealth is one of the tools that could be used towards achieving VBHC, and the MOPH has a long-term strategy to drive the growth and development of eHealth from 2017-2026. ii) Patient experience. v) Health 2.0. The last lesson is to take a problem-driven approach. iii) Unlocking the value of AI. (iv)

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2022

Biofourmis continues to buck health tech funding trends with this Series D extension, which comes during a downturn in digital health investment. According to a recent Rock Health report , the first half of 2022 saw 329 digital health funding deals totaling $10.3 billion—down from $14.7 About Biofourmis.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

The report analyzes results of a survey of over 2,000 Change Healthcare customers (from academia, government, technology vendors, hospitals, providers, and health plans), conducted in October-November 2017. The CarePayment poll was conducted in November-December 2017. healthcare?

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Health Populi

APRIL 9, 2018

Peoples’ experience with health plans rank at the bottom of the roster, on par with rental cars and TV/Internet service providers. This top-ranked health plan was rated 184 out of 318 companies across the 20 industries in the overall study. Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey ranked second among the plans.

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Health Populi

MAY 1, 2018

When I attended South-by-Southwest in 2015, that was the company’s initial bold foray into digital health, beginning to divest assets and businesses that did not relate to health and healthcare. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Health is where we live, work, play, pray, learn and view art.

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New Age Healthcare

JULY 27, 2017

This is reflective by the improving patient experience, enhanced health outcomes, increased efficiency in providing quality healthcare, and also by the ocean of successful start-ups that have evolved in the health-tech space. A lot of these models are being debated globally amongst industry experts on various platforms.

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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.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2023

The following is a guest article by Mike Pattwell, Principal Business Advisor, Value Based Care at Edifecs Consumers are at the heart of healthcare — their fears are forcing healthcare innovators to shift priorities to deliver consumer-centric digital health offerings. This is true today, tomorrow, and far into the future.

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Health Populi

MAY 31, 2019

Over the ten years between 2007 and 2017, U.S. consumer spending for education, food and health care substantially grew, crowding out spending for other categories like transportation and housing.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Digital health has the potential to radically change the way people approach their wellness and, since launching in 2017, we’ve outpaced even our own expectations, delivering more than 1 million Hims & Hers products to our customers. published on 30 September 2019.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

The prevalence ( if not ubiquity ) of broadband, combined with fast-advancing robotics, ingestible technologies and wearable sensors as thin and lightweight as temporary tattoos – to name just a few recent innovations – are set to transform "medical services, public health, social services.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

healthcare system, which operates on a fee-for-service insurance infrastructure, is leading to increased provider burnout, patient dissatisfaction, and ballooning costs. increase 241% from 2017 to 2021. About Hint Health. The existing U.S. The broken system is accelerating the growth of DPC, which saw membership across the U.S.

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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

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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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 10, 2018

The new cycler with Connected Health technology delivers a well-balanced, improved feature-set to enhance the peritoneal dialysis patient experience. Designing a low-cost adaptable and personalized remote patient monitoring system. Wall Street Journal, June 25, 2017. Am Heart J 2017 June;188:65-72.Smith

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In Hand Health

JULY 16, 2018

Largely because it gives the PT and patient more flexibility in how, when and at what pace they communicate. A study released by RAND in March, 2017, shows rapid growth in the use of telehealth. According to Eric Wicklund of mHealthIntelligence , “ A survey by UPMC’s Center for Connected Medicine of the nation’s largest health systems.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Workers covered by health insurance through their companies spend 11.5% of their household income on health insurance premiums and deductibles based on The Commonwealth Fund’s latest report on employee health care costs, Trends in Employer Health Coverage, 2008-2018: Higher Costs for Workers and Their Families.

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