Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Digital connectivity can ameliorate social isolation and anxiety, bolster mental health, and access needed medical care via telehealth channels. As a result of the pandemic, staying connected is more important than ever for older people, Best Buy Health learned in a survey of U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

In today’s data-for-cheaper-care world, it’s Our Data, Our (Lower-Cost) Health Care. . There was a survey done by PC Magazine in 2018 written up in an article titled, Would you trade your personal data for free online services?

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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

MARCH 27, 2018

On 1st March 2018, two over-arching issues remained with me leaving Las Vegas and #HIMSS18: the central, recognized role of cybersecurity threats in healthcare, and the growing use of consumer-facing technologies for self- and virtual care. Cyber-breaches are a new-normal in health care. What a difference a couple of weeks make….

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Welcome to The Great American Search for Healthcare Information from Weber Shandwick, a report analyzing consumer survey research into U.S. adults’ use of online search for health information, along with perspectives on the U.S. healthcare system and use of connected health technologies. The solution?

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Family premiums for health insurance received at the workplace grew 5% in 2018: to $19,616, according to the 2018 KFF Employer Health Benefits Survey released today by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF). Three in four large firms covers telemedicine in 2018, KFF found. in the same period. employers ask.

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Health Populi

JULY 31, 2023

Health Populi’s Hot Points: It’s informative and interesting to go back 9 years to a post I wrote here in Health Populi , discussing consumer research from Strategy&/PwC on consumers’ levels of trust with personal health data comparing tech companies, retailers, and health care providers as stewards of peoples’ PHI.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

JULY 30, 2018

The Society for Education and the Advancement of Research in Connected Health (SEARCH [link] ) was formed in 2016 by a small team of academics, researchers, and clinical professionals. Collaboration of its membership in connected health research and education projects. There have already been 3 meetings.

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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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

physicians worked in a practice that used telehealth versus 25% who did so in 2018, based on a new survey from the AMA. Beyond the sheer scale of patient volumes reached during the pandemic, virtual care was adopted by physicians across specialties well beyond primary care. In 2020, 79% of U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2020

In Accenture’s words, “COVID-19 forced a surge” in virtual health care following a stalling of consumers’ adoption of digital health in late 2019: by December 2019, 35% of consumers had been using mobile health apps on phones and tablets, down from 48% in 2018; and 18% of consumers int he U.S.

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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 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

AUGUST 7, 2018

employers are growing activist roles as stakeholders in the healthcare system, according to the 2019 Large Employers Health Care Strategy and Plan Design Survey from the National Business Group on Health (NBGH). “Our health system was not was not designed with the consumer in mind,” Marcotte observed.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

JULY 17, 2018

The SEARCH Telehealth Research Symposium, scheduled for October 24 – 25 in San Diego, CA, will focus on sharing findings from existing telehealth research to demonstrate lessons learned from connected health programs with an emphasis on planning, research, training and education. Designing & Asking Effective Survey Questions.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Across generations, from younger to older patients, cost, transparency and convenience drive consumer satisfaction, Accenture’s latest health consumer survey found. have chosen to use a non-traditional health care setting. . healthcare consumers 18 and over in November and December 2018.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

“90% of seniors say access to Lyft improves their quality of life,” the company gleaned from a consumer survey they conducted and reported in Fast Company. Our homes are evolving into our health hubs — truly our “medical homes,” which have been formally defined as a primary care gatekeeper’s office.

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2019

The University of Michigan National Poll on Healthy Aging surveyed some 2,000 U.S. adults age 50–80 in October 2018, assessing older peoples’ health, health behaviors, experiences and feelings related to companionship and social isolation.

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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2018

Aside from the technology challenges, which are not trivial, physicians do concur with consumers about the potential benefits of virtual care to expand access, provide convenience to patients, and enable connections in-between office appointment times. “Macy’s?

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The key findings in the survey of 136 health care executives were that: Digital health tools are a priority for half of the health system leaders. ” Yet it’s health care costs that rank top in U.S. health citizens’ minds in 2020 leading up to the election.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2018

Looking for health information online is just part of being a normal, mainstream health consumer, according to the third Rock Health Digital Health Consumer Adoption Survey published this week. adults were online health information hunters. By 2017, 8 in 10 U.S. adults; the poll was fielded in 2017.

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Health Populi

JULY 31, 2018

The study is based on a survey of over 1,300 U.S. teens and young adults, ages 14 to 22, polled in February and March 2018. The top-line findings alone provide an important baseline profile of TYAs’ use of the internet for health never before described.

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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.”. Health-oriented goods and services ranked highly along with the usual fast-moving consumer goods suspects.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: The top challenges in patients seeking care noted in the first chart related to paying for treatment, following by mental and emotional well-being. This third chart comes from the latest annual Stress in America survey done by the American Psychological Association , published today on U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 29, 2022

Results of a survey from Optum, Qualtrics, and DocASAP quantified consumers’ demands for digital on-ramps to health care. billion in 2018. government would have saved $2.6 Costco isn’t only beloved for the $1.50

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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

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The Index is based on a survey of 25,800 U.S. adults conducted in December 2017 into January 2018. “Our new data shows that the public has a definite opinion about what issues they feel companies should address and the social impact bar has been set high,” according to Amy Terpeluk, senior partner at Finn Partners.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2018

Three quarters of GPs surveyed have said they are seeing between one and five people a day suffering with loneliness, which is linked to a range of damaging health impacts, like heart disease, strokes and Alzheimer’s disease. You can learn more about Jo Cox and the loneliness agenda here.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 21, 2020

Deloitte’s latest wave of health care consumer market research updates the COVID-19 impacts on the U.S. health care landscape and asks the question in the study report’s title: “Are consumers already living the future of health?” ” For the general survey of U.S.

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Public Health Primary Care Interoperability Health Information 258

Consumer eHealth Engagement

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

According to the 2019 Accenture Digital Health Consumer Survey , patient’s expectations are increasing for providers to offer digital capabilities. Providence Health’s Innovation team continuously monitors these trends to identify ways to deliver a better patient care experience.

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mHealth Insight

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

But it also has significant implications for our mental and physical health. Apps are designed to grab and keep our attention, causing us to check our phones up to 200 times per day (TechMark) and a recent survey found that 46% of us “could not live without our smartphones.” (Pew MD, Global Lead, Connected Health, Digital.

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Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

A 2018 national survey found that 39% of U.S. teens and young adults say they have gone online to try to find people with health conditions similar to their own and 61% say they have read, listened to, or watched other people share about their health experiences online.

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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. Baylor Scott & White Health (Dallas).

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

One in five people over 65 feel lonely every single day , GreatCall found in a survey conducted among older Americans and featured in the report, Fighting Social Isolation Among Older Adults. GreatCall conducted a survey among seniors to gauge their perspectives on personal health issues, loneliness, and the use of technology.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This year’s Temkin Experience Index ranked health insurance among the lowest consumer-facing experiences, and Interbrands’ released their 2018 Best Global Brands report this week — which names only a couple of health-focused companies. As Adam told the New York Times this week , “These are going to be mammoth organizations.”.

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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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