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Tools for Paying Medical Bills Don’t Help Health Consumers Manage Their Financial Health

Health Populi

There’s a gap between the supply of digital health tools that hospitals and health systems offer patients, and what patients-as-consumers need for overall health and wellbeing. Nowhere in the top 10 most commonly provided digital tools is one for price transparency, cost comparing or cost estimating. .

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As COVID-19 Rocks Markets, Digital Health Start-Ups Rake In Cash

Lloyd Price

While many industries plummeted in the first quarter of the year, digital health companies closed the first quarter of 2020 with unprecedented levels of funding. Private equity and venture capital financing of digital health start-ups reached an all-time high of just over $3 billion in Q1 2020.

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Third Culture Capital Leads Latest Funding Round for Ciba Health

Digital Health Global

3CC prioritizes early-stage investments in “Third Culture entrepreneurs” whose unique perspectives have the potential to help transform healthcare and address health disparities by optimizing care delivery in healthtech and biotech. Ciba Health was recently named among NY Digital Health 100 winners for 2023.

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Digital Health Technologies in Clinical Trials

Digital Health Global

Digital Health Technologies ( DHTs ) have revolutionized the landscape of clinical trials, particularly in neurology research, by enabling the collection of real-world data outside traditional clinical settings. in 2020, with projections suggesting up to 70% of clinical trials incorporating wearable sensors by 2025.

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Value-Based Health Care Needs All Stakeholders at the Table – Especially the Patient

Health Populi

To that point, consider the March 2021 Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll which learned that over one in three people in the U.S. have struggled to pay for living expenses since December 2020, a year into the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The Evolution of Self-Care for Consumers – Learning and Sharing at CHPA

Health Populi

To meet the future, Scott Melville, CEO of CHPA, described the organization’s 2020 project which is determining the categories the Association should represent. Among Scott’s many insightful comments, one really resonated with me and my health-economics mindset: on the growing presence of value-based insurance design in the U.S.

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JPM Healthcare Conference 2024

Digital Health Today

One notable example, StartUp Health , hosted its annual “StartUp Health Festival” in conjunction with the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference through 2020, before relocating it to participate with other major healthcare events, specifically ViVE and HLTH. Why is JPM Week important?