Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2019

adults age 50–80 in October 2018, assessing older peoples’ health, health behaviors, experiences and feelings related to companionship and social isolation. Loneliness is also part of an un-virtuous cycle that can magnify these health risks. How to mitigate loneliness, especially among older people?

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Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2019

First, connected care: one in five U.S. In 2018, after Amazon acquired PillPack, the company filed a patent for Alexa that would observe a consumer’s cough or sneeze and predict the onset of depression or disease. Matthew talked about the “Flip the Stack” concept that he and Indu Subaiya, his partner in Health 2.0,

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Health Populi

JANUARY 31, 2018

Omron has been one of the few consumer-facing digital health companies that has taken the long-view and done the work to file for FDA clearance for a medical-grade technology that mainstream consumers can use. After mental health and diabetes, heart apps rank as the third largest categories for medical apps on the market in 2017.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Patients as health consumers face challenges paying for care, managing mental health, finding health services and taking time off work to access them, caregiving, and in transportation for care along with personal mobility issues. Today as Election Day, I recall my post published yesterday here in Health Populi on U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2019

There’s a lot of artfulness baked into the agenda and flow of this event, I learned last year when I attended my first Liberation (2018). I was engaged for that meeting to do my brand of “trend-weaving” throughout the conference, as well as be a featured speaker on the theme of consumerism in health care.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

Yet with that bullish supply side of digital health, there was a marked decline in peoples’ use of them in the past two years, found by Accenture in their latest health consumer survey, Digital is Transforming Health, So Why is Consumer Adoption Stalling?

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Health Populi

MARCH 5, 2018

The median American uses 3 social networking platforms in 2018. Facebook is the primary platform for most Americans who use social media in 2018: two-thirds of U.S. adults age 18 and over in early January 2018 for this study. Health Populi’s Hot Points : Health is social: isolation is a social determinant for ill health.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Sonde Health is interested in capturing and using a patient’s voice samples as health measures for different physical (e.g. sinus congestion) and mental health conditions (e.g. Lessons from Voice Health Innovators. Vocal Biomarker Lab. depression, suicide risk). newly diagnosed) and what (e.g.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Patients and health plan members continue evolving into medical bill payers, with their homes and budgets baked into the concept. These trends began to take hold in the U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 7, 2018

This annual survey is one of the most influential such reports released each year, providing a current snapshot of large employers’ views on healthcare, costs, and strategic options that will enable companies to continue providing health insurance to workers. orthopedic/musculoskeletal, and fertility.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2018

For further information on loneliness in the UK, here was the New York Times’ take on the appointment of the Minister for Loneliness published in January 2018. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Maneesh snapped this photo of us as we were about to say so long, for now, in Covent Garden.

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Enzyme Health

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

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InTouch Health

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Kentucky is in the process of crafting a new bill that would not only strengthen the state’s existing telehealth legislation, it would also create a cabinet-level department committee that would be responsible for overseeing and supporting all connected health programs, namely telehealth. Kentucky Doubles Down on Telehealth.

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Health Populi

JULY 29, 2022

billion in 2018. ” It turns out that if Medicare Part D paid for the 184 most common generic medications for enrollees based on Costco’s cash-prices for the same products, the U.S. government would have saved $2.6 Costco isn’t only beloved for the $1.50

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MAY 24, 2018

The individual receiving the service must be located in a rural health professional shortage area or non-Metropolitan statistical area and an eligible telehealth Originating Site (see resources below). The Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) is a great resource to stay current on state and national policy.

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Health Populi

MARCH 14, 2018

But not when it comes to digital health…at least until 2018, as Fitbit has announced a woman-focused smartwatch called the Versa which is expected to hit the market in April 2018. Girls Rule the World, Beyoncé has told us.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 10, 2019

The chaps were tongue-tied, and Stacey and I bonded at that moment and continue to be collegial friends and part of growing group of women-in-health-tech. Update on Stacey: she’s now Chief of Google’s Wear OS, part of Google’s ever-morphing health team). The Ava Fertility Tracker 2.0

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mHealth Insight

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

MD, Global Lead, Connected Health, Digital. MD, Global Lead, Connected Health, Digital. health system alone through the use of virtual healthcare tools. There has been an explosion in health and wellness apps, as well as investment into the digital health space. Ronan Wisdom. Dr Roberto Tapia-Conyer.

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mHealth Insight

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Access to personal health records will not magically improve clinical outcomes, or even motivate individuals to better manage their health and wellness. We have a classic chicken and egg situation because only once Patients get access to their data can services be built that add value.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Similarly, 17% of respondents who said they felt isolated rated their mental health as fair or poor compared to 2% of those who reported hardly ever feeling isolated. In the case of loneliness, it’s a serious health risk that leads to clinical and mental health conditions that could be mitigated by a variety of interventions.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2024

As I meditate on MLK, I think about health equity, especially potent inspiration in light of Americans’ declining lifespans , tragic maternal and child mortality outcomes, ubiquitous food insecurity, and epidemic mental health crisis.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Connectivity can happen in other ways and bolster wellness: consider art-as-medicine. where this research found Britons’ mental health improved through socializing via creative activities of all sorts. I covered this in depth in this Health Populi post earlier this year. such as in the U.K.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

Becker’s Healthcare is pleased to release the “150 Top Places to Work in Healthcare | 2018” list, which highlights hospitals, health systems and healthcare companies that promote diversity within the workforce, employee engagement and professional growth. 17 on its list of Best Workplaces in Health Care.

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Mend

JANUARY 18, 2021

Telehealth advocates aren’t impressed with the lack of support for connected health services in the latest pandemic relief package. And it eliminates geographic restrictions for the mental health treatment delivered via telehealth , while also allowing patients to be treated in their homes.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 25, 2018

We know that a top issue driving American voters to the 2018 mid-term polls was health care, in at least two dimensions: direct costs to the voters (as patients and taxpayers); and, personal and collective concerns about losing coverage due to pre-existing conditions.

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