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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

Health Populi

Most of these live video calls were also done through a service offered by consumers’ health care providers (doctors/clinicians), followed by services offered by insurance companies. The proportion of people tracking at least one health metric digitally was 38% in 2018 and grew to over one-half, 54%, in 2020.

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From Evolution to Innovation, from Health Care to Health: How Health Plans With Collaborators Are Re-Defining the Industry

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Patients and health plan members continue evolving into medical bill payers, with their homes and budgets baked into the concept. Geisinger plans to open more clinics for primary care, senior care, and convenient/retail care. Re-building a community health system from an innovative blueprint.

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Patients have ambitious health goals, and look to doctors for help

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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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Jasper, Scaling a Human Touch for People Dealing with Cancer, Now With Walgreens

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Walgreens launched Find Care Now in 2018. In 2019, Find Care expanded services for consumers to manage chronic health conditions addressing asthma, COPD, and diabetes. Jasper’s data ecosystem complements the patient’s clinical data on the psycho-social side of the person – that is, “real life.”

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How Will the “New” Health Economy Fare in a Macro-Economic Downturn?

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Health care utilization declined due to patients foregoing, rather than delaying, care. Aside from care for COVID-19, volumes are down except for services related to mental and behavioral health (with rates of mental health prescribing increasing for antidepressant and anti-anxiety drugs).

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Telehealth Awareness, Access and Adoption: Updates from J.D. Power, the ATA and FAIR Health

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FAIR Health’s paper on A Multilayered Analysis of Telehealth published in July 2019 found that telehealth usage has substantially grown since 2015 as more states implement laws for coverage. An intriguing data point comes in Figure 14 on the distribution of non-hospital-based provider-to-patient telehealth claim lines in 2018.

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Consumers Grow to View Food as the Prescription

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Most consumers have that “appetite for health” across a wide range of conditions, with two rising to the top as “extremely important:” heart health and brain function. The survey was conducted online among 1,005 Americans age 50 and older between January and February 2018.