Health Populi

JUNE 25, 2018

Hospital and healthcare providers are getting real about improving patient and health consumer experience, the latest Kaufman Hall research finds. The company’s 2018 State of Consumerism in Healthcare report is out, subtitled, “Activity in Search of Strategy.”

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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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Health Populi

APRIL 29, 2018

Governor Mark Leavitt, who held the post of Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Bush, offered this advice at the recent Liberation 2018 conference hosted by Medecision. Part 2: Design to Liberate Healthcare , published 19 April, 2018.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

This blog appears today as part of a #HIMSS18 primer series for attendees, and the industry at large, to discuss major health IT issues that will help move health and healthcare delivery forward in 2018 – and beyond. Connected Care: VA, Virtual Health and the Patient Experience | #Engage4Health + #HIMSS18.

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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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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2022

step in the right direction” CBS News 8 San Diego covered a caregiver and cancer patient’s experience with a live shot of their thick binder, containing CDs with medical images and data from these various provider institutions laying on top of a pile of letters and lab test results.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

OCTOBER 23, 2018

This means that either they are not using all of the voice capabilities or the patient has an unexpected experience -- Alexa says … Hmm I do not know that one. Mayo Clinic's Optimizing Voice Content Creating complete Patient Experiences.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: The issue of privacy and voice assistants began to reach mass media in 2018 as smart speakers became popular holiday gifts; here’s a cautionary explanation from the University of Michigan published in November 2018 just-in-time for last year’s holiday shopping season.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Using digital health tech is a new normal for U.S. consumers, including Seniors, found in the 2018 digital health consumer survey from Deloitte. The title of the report, “Consumers are on board with virtual health options,” summarizes the bullish outlook for telehealth. Deloitte surveyed 4,530 U.S.

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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

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Our homes are evolving into our health hubs — truly our “medical homes,” which have been formally defined as a primary care gatekeeper’s office. An article published in Health Services Research in August 2018 talks about Trends in the Types of Usual Sources of Care: A Shift from People to Places or Nothing at All.

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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

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

JULY 20, 2018

The smartwatch category, with fitness tracking, is hot in 2018, some “smarter” than others. Wearable tech is an important category these days in department stores, with discount retailers like Target and Walmart, at electronics outlets like Best Buy and, of course, via Amazon’s wearable tech ma.

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Health Populi

JUNE 26, 2018

I’m blogging live while attending HXD 2018 in Cambridge, MA, the health/care design conference convened by Mad*Pow, 26th and 27th June 2018. Amy, Founder and Chief Experience Office of Mad*Pow, kicked off the conference with context-setting and inspiration.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

In an age when nearly everyone is digitally connected in some way – even many senior citizens, who are often characterized as technophobic – it only makes sense that the healthcare industry is seeing a lot of connected health devices and remote patient monitoring (RPM) technologies.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

. “The entire mindset [in health care] is changing the way you do all your business, not ‘in addition.'” healthcare consumers 18 and over in November and December 2018. ” For this study, Accenture polled 2,338 U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 29, 2022

billion in 2018. hot dog deal as well as its pharmacy, but for other consumer experiences as well…like value-priced gas. ” 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

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

“Every company is a tech company,” Christopher Mimms asserted in the Wall Street Journal in December 2018. Connectivity, artificial intelligence, and automation are now competencies every company must master, Mimms explains.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

A few topics that pique my interest address benefits for people and their pets, AI for everyday peoples’ health, and the assertively (spot-on) titled session, “don’t build more healthtech without asking patients first.”. Patient’s privacy and data security.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2019

Ann Mond Johnson assumed the helm of CEO of ATA in 2018, and she’s issued a call-to-action across the health/care ecosystem for a delivery system upgrade. “ATA” is the new three-letter acronym for the American Telemedicine Association, meeting today through Tuesday at the Convention Center in New Orleans.

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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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care innovations

JULY 18, 2018

With a focus on engaging consumers with the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and other healthcare technologies , the fifth-annual Connected Health Summit is set for August 28-30 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego, with Care Innovations® Chief Information Officer Himanshu Shah enlisted as a featured speaker. July 9, 2018.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

What’s underneath that macro “healthcare” index number of 67 is a precipitous decline in the past year for Americans’ trust in hospitals, compared with biotech, pharma, consumer healthcare, and even health insurance — all of which grew in trust between 2018 and 2019, but not so with the hospital segment of U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2018

To more effectively help patients manage diabetes , CentraForce Health used geospatial mapping of SBDoH data to develop deeper insights into peoples’ health needs and behaviors — such as eating fast food in the past 30 days, sufficient time to eat healthy food, and tendency to follow a doctor’s recommendations.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Today as Election Day, I recall my post published yesterday here in Health Populi on U.S. voters’ perspectives on health care reform looking toward Election Day 2020.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Retail Tomorrow will be convening stakeholders in Toronto on 2nd-5th October 2018 collaborating with Google Sidewalk Labs, working in partnership to re-develop the city’s waterfront in Smart Cities mode. Attendees will be brainstorming retail’s role in Smart Cities’ developing for health and wellness.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

. “With the tremendous growth of chatbots and voice assistants, we decided to develop a virtual health assistant and begin to understand how to support the patients in their search for care”, explains Maryam Gholami, Chief Product Officer at Digital Innovations, Providence Health. Patient Experience with Grace Bot.

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Health Populi

MAY 4, 2018

Health Forum, held at the Lansdowne Resort on 7-8 May 2018. I will be part of a segment called “Click for Better Health,” brainstorming digital health opportunities and consumer engagement with Jeff and Dr. Joshua Riff, CEO of Onduo. This report precedes the PwC 180?

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Here’s a snippet from a post he wrote as a new father of son Henry in January 2018. Perhaps that’s because the app provides, “a big hug around the mom,” Andrew believes. He should know. He used Philips UGrow app as a new Dad. At CES 2019, Philips launched new features in the Pregnancy+ app.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

During the World Congress Patient Experience & Engagement Summit in Boston, I led a panel with these innovative health systems, discussing how they are using virtual health assistants (e.g. AI Chatbots, Voice) to increase efficiency in care delivery and enhance the patient experience.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2024

JSK: You moved into the Amedisys organization in 2018 as Chief Information Security Officer. As a patient moves through the continuum of care, we understand and value that our patients’ experiences are private. Individuals have a fundamental right to dictate who and when their health information is leveraged.

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Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2018

It takes a good nudge from a provider to motivate a patient to access online medical records, found by ONC in their latest research into consumers’ use of EHRs detailed in Individuals’ use of online medical records and technology for health needs , the ONC Data Brief No. 40, published April 2018.

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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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Health Populi

AUGUST 21, 2020

.” Self-care in the pandemic drove virtual health care visits up across generations due to elective procedures and primary care shifting to telehealth platforms, and some consumers’ concerns about heading back to brick-and-mortar health care settings for in-person high-touch care.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

Remember the bulky Holter monitors worn at the waist to gather data about The AT-Patch from ATsens won an honoree award at CES 2021 , transforming the form factor and streamlining the patient experience of collecting electrocardiogram data over time. Sleep-as-medicine for all ages.

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Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

And it has become increasingly clear that people/consumers/patients are generally interested in sharing information that would help others and/or help themselves. A 2018 national survey found that 39% of U.S. This puts a particularly fine point on the importance of understanding what’s driving the reaction.

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