Health Populi

JULY 26, 2022

With PillPack, I wrote here in June 2018 that Amazon got 50 U.S. As we all grapple with what this means at this preliminary stage and then what could evolve over time, I focus on the dual aspect of the opportunity: is this about primary care or is this about data? bn and MGM Studios for $8.5 To be sure, it’s both.

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Health Populi

APRIL 2, 2019

Spending on medical care costs crowded out other household spending for millions of Americans in 2018, based on The U.S. One in three Americans overall are concerned they won’t be able to pay for health care services or prescription drugs: that includes 35% of people who are insured, and 63% of those who do not have insurance.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 26, 2023

Thinking about patients with multiple chronic conditions, accessibility issues, cultural, financial, or language barriers, developing a positive, trusting relationship becomes even more challenging. Our quarterback is our primary care physician, but increasingly, they’re burdened under time and workflow pressure.

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Health System CIO

MAY 27, 2021

Decreasing costs is always a key goal in healthcare, but what’s just as important is identifying initiatives that can improve care quality, patient experience, and staff satisfaction, says Peter Pronovost, MD. “We Improving communication between joint specialists and primary care providers, which can help reduce readmissions.

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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. Why should that be, in a physical sense?

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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. An additional survey of 400 physicians was conducted, split between 200 primary care providers and 200 specialty physicians.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2022

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.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2022

> adults have an active Amazon Prime membership (adjacent to One Medical’s primary care services), and that 42% of Americans shop at a Walmart location every week. Trilliant points out that “existing consumer loyalty increases competitive pressures on traditional providers,” noting that 62% of U.S>

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Health Populi

JANUARY 16, 2020

“All healthcare is social,” Dr. Sachin Jain, CEO and President of CareMore Health, wrote about the latter in Forbes in April 2018 — and his essay is worth reading if you missed it the first time around. And so the modern house call enables more social care, the CareMore model shows us.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 21, 2022

In 2018, Scottsdale Physician Group in Scottsdale, Arizona, saw a need that simply was not being met. Some patients were not getting the medical care they needed, when they needed, because of a variety of issues. “What is just as exciting for us, however, is the patient experience,” he stressed.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2019

An intriguing data point comes in Figure 14 on the distribution of non-hospital-based provider-to-patient telehealth claim lines in 2018. health care system. I’ve copied the chart here.

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Health Populi

JULY 29, 2022

Zocdoc launched a data ecosystem enabled through application programming interfaces to streamline care coordination and referrals between primary care providers and specialists, aiming to provide consumers with a better experience and more convenient care access. billion in 2018.

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Lloyd Price

APRIL 30, 2023

The key areas where Amazon has been involved: Amazon Care: Amazon launched Amazon Care, a virtual healthcare service for its employees, in 2019. PillPack: In 2018, Amazon acquired PillPack, an online pharmacy that specializes in delivering medications to customers' homes.

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Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2018

The survey was conducted online among 1,005 Americans age 50 and older between January and February 2018. Health Populi’s Hot Points: As patients morph into health consumers, seeking food options that make health, they’re also savvy buyers, who clip coupons, shop private labels, and look for value-priced products in their lives.

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In Hand Health

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Grow Your PT Practice Beyond Patient Visits. If you’re a physical therapist or a primary care physician who has recommended physical therapy (PT) to patients, you’re likely familiar with these excuses and misperceptions. Editorial originally appeared in Healthcare Business Today. I don’t have time. It’s too expensive.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2023

Often, a patient’s financial distress is not recognized until it results in unpaid claims, which negatively impacts not just the patient, but also the wider healthcare system. Physician-to-physician consultations – or eConsults – enable primary care physicians to quickly treat lower acuity issues themselves.

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American Well

APRIL 26, 2016

According to a Willis Towers Watson analysis, telemedicine has the potential to lower health care costs for U.S. A number that is expected to reach 90% by 2018. Consumers (patients) are interested, but it will take time for virtual care to become synonymous with traditional in-person care. The result?

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care innovations

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Health Systems 2018,” the survey runs down the topics most of interest to C-suite executives at 35 of the nation’s largest health systems. That’s according to a new survey from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center ’s Center for Connected Medicine. Yet, most of the executives choose to pursue the delivery of these services nonetheless.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

The Equality Health telehealth system for primary care practices is available for free to primary care practices in the extensive Equality Health network of independent primary care providers. Patients can securely connect online, including in low-bandwidth environments, using their cell phone or computer.

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Health Populi

JUNE 20, 2019

Kroger also employees 23,000 health care professionals employed in about 3,000 pharmacies in the chain. In fact, Kroger Health is the umbrella under which all of the food chain’s health and wellness assets fit: Kroger struck a deal with GoodRx in December 2018 to expand its prescription drug discount program.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2023

"In our ambulatory virtual programs, we manage complex chronically ill patients," said Annie Bannister, RN, executive director of vEngagement at Mercy. "For the first time, these patients with complex, chronic illnesses had real-time access to providers ─ something unheard of in their world. '" she continued.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 27, 2022

Pairing clinicians with patients requires tremendous amounts of time and planning, and doing this task manually only complicates the matter. . The process begins when a patient is referred to a specialist home health provider by his or her primary care physician.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

That sudden experiment allowed for valuable insights that healthcare organizations in 2021 can use to fine-tune where they should land on the spectrum of virtual and in-person – in ways that make the most sense for care delivery, patient experience, reimbursement and clinical research.

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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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mHealth Insight

JANUARY 25, 2018

beta, debuting a feature for customers to see their medical records right on their iPhone” 24 January 2018, Apple Newsroom. Many Patients will uncover problems and have concerns about the Health Records and helping understand and rectify these issues will not be served well by the 2,000 year old office visit only model.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Pharmacy Study is tracking retail pharmacy’s growth in primary care. consumers in 2018 to 48% in 2020, with NPS scores among these customers increasing from 64 to 68, shown in the second chart. Power study discovered that in 2020, more consumers interacted with the retail pharmacy’s pharmacist than people did 2018.

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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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mHealth Insight

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

who is a Primary Care Physician, Professor at UCSF & coFounder at Open mHealth (follow her on Twitter @IdaSim ). billion in investments in 2018. However, no standard models exist for who should pay for mobile health technology that is recommended or prescribed to patients. Authored by Ida Sim, M.D.,

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 19, 2022

OMRON’s HeartGuide earned FDA clearance for its blood pressure monitor worn on the consumer’s wrist, featured here in Health Populi in 2018. Withings expanded remote patient monitoring earlier in 2022, and began to collaborate on clinical trial data connections between consumers and researchers.

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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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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

While customer satisfaction with health insurance plans slightly increased between 2018 and 2019, patient satisfaction with hospitals fell in all three settings where care is delivered — inpatient, outpatient, and the emergency room, according to the 2018-2019 ACSI Finance, Insurance and Health Care Report.

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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.

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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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