Health Populi

JULY 28, 2020

This week, announcements from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and Withings further bolster the case for the private sector bolstering public health in this pandemic…and future ones to come beyond the Age of the Coronavirus. On 27th July, CTA announced the Association’s launch of the Public Health Tech Initiative.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

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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Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic drove U.S. But the coronavirus era also saw broadband households spending more on connecting health devices, with 42% of U.S. consumers owning digital health tech compared with 33% in 2015, according to research discussed in Supporting Today’s Connected Consumer from Parks Associates.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 18, 2020

Two new reports from Accenture update our understanding of the changed health consumer in the context of both “home: and the health care ecosystem. The 2020 tech vision for health is summarized here, tying to Accenture’s previous two years of forecasts. The Dilemma of Smart Things.

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Health Populi

JULY 25, 2022

Here are Morning Consult’s assessment of the Top 20 fastest-growing consumer brands of 2020 — all of which had everything to do with our pandemic lives. The next chapter in HealthConsuming is called “Digital Health – Wearable, Shareable, Virtual.” healthcare system.

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2020

health care — the onerous patient experience in finding and accessing care, assessed in the 2020 Change Healthcare – Harris Poll Consumer Experience Index. ” That burdensome patient experience leads to one in two people in America avoiding seeking care, the poll found.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

The public health crisis accelerated “what’s next” for health care delivery, detailed in A New Era of Virtual Health, a report published by TripleTree. TripleTree is an investment bank that has advised health care transactions since 1997. In 2019, J.D.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

When announced, the news was a signal that health care and the larger tech-enabled ecosystem that supports health and well-being is embedded in peoples’ everyday lives. We can expect to see more women-related health tech featured at CES 2022, including on education panels and speaking platforms.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 3, 2022

And about one-in-three Americans has made a 2022 New Year’s resolution involving some aspect of mental health, the American Psychiatric Association noted approaching the 2021 winter holiday season. This week, digital health will span from head to toe, from body (outside and in) to the home and connected car.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

How can digital health and other consumer-facing technologies help our health? Health Populi’s Hot Points: N0w to the question at-hand for the week: can consumer-facing technologies help us bolster our health and well-being and — Holy Grail time — reverse the U.S. public and personal health?

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2023

Technology can help support these modifiable behaviors that can help us re-shape our life-long health… some with the support of technologies we can find at #CES2023 in and beyond the digital health exhibition space. In the U.S. At CES 2023, Valencell announced a cuff-less blood pressure monitor via finger-measurement.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

This drove health consumers to virtual care platforms in the first months of the public health crisis — including lots of older people who had never used telemedicine or even a mobile health app. The survey was conducted online in June 2020 among 2,074 U.S. adults ages 50 to 80 years of age. AARP sponsored the poll.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2022

Jasper launched just over one year ago , spinning out of 7wireVentures and Redesign Health. Jasper was designed as a digital platform to serve people with cancer, their caregivers and providers. The platform connects patients to the Jasper Care Guides – the high-touch aspect of the service.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2021

This news is a signal that health care and the larger tech-enabled ecosystem that supports health and well-being is embedded in peoples’ everyday lives. We can expect to see more women-related health tech featured at CES 2022, including on education panels and speaking platforms.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

I was scheduled to meet with Roy Jakobs, Chief Business Leader of Connected Care at Philips, at HIMSS in Orlando on 9th March 2020. This second graphic diagrams a patient journey map for the coronavirus, across the continuum of care settings from the community and home to primary care, emergency, hospital, and post-acute.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 19, 2021

peoples’ expectations of their health care experience is melding with their best retail experience — and that’s taken a turn toward their digital and ecommerce life-flows. The study was fielded between October 2020 and September 2021. Emergency room experience stayed at an index of a (low) 66.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

As the HLTH conference convenes over 6,000 digital health innovators live, in person, in Boston in the wake of the delta variant, what should attendees keep in mind to help HLTH make health? The top-line in the report, and the bottom-line for health citizens, was that 38% of U.S. One-half of U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2020

in mid-June 2020. The report found three big shifts in global health citizens’ views on their personal health and health care delivery in the wake of the pandemic: Across all age groups, COVID-19 exacerbated peoples’ concerns about their physical and mental health in a very short time.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2020

The 21st Century Cures Act emphasizes patients’ control of personal health information. ONC rules issues in March 2020 called for more patient-facing health tools and apps to bolster health consumer engagement and empowerment. But the emergence of the coronavirus in the U.S. Lack of inclusive design.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2024

The first diagram shows my evolving view on what I seek out at CES each year, from the traditional tracking of weight and activity to the mainstreaming of heart function and sleep, with the addition of the connected car for health and safety, and the smart kitchen and bathroom in the mix of health-at-home.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2021

fielded between September and November 2020. The first chart details what younger people, ages 14 to 22, searched online in 2018 compared with 2020. sought health information online in 2020, a slight decline from 2018. A new mental health risk arose in 2020 in the U.S. Some 8 in 10 younger people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

On the supply side, we witnessed a hockey stick inflection point in the growth of virtual health care services from the start of the pandemic in early 2020. Telehealth, in its many flavors and across platforms, enables omnichannel care — meeting the patient where she is, how she wants to be met, and when.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Do read this entire report if you have any role to play with health IT and building consumer trust with their personal electronic records as well as growing adoption of digital health tools (including apps, wearable tech, and remote health monitoring devices) in and beyond the pandemic. As a result, most U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2020

I’ll be midwifing a panel this afternoon at 440 pm Eastern time, initially focused on how health care can garner patient loyalty. That theme was given to us in the fourth quarter of 2019, when initial planning for ATA 2020 had begun. What a difference a few months make. This is shown in the last slide with the blue bars.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2021

Since the early phase of the pandemic, CVS Health expanded the use of Epic MyChart, the report explains, to deliver COVID-19 test results to patients as well as provide an on-ramp to patients seeking telehealth visits. Health care is omni-channel.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

.” The vast majority of consumers are concerned about some aspect of their home’s health, like air or water quality, according to Healthy Home Technologies , a report published in October 2020 by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), convener of the annual CES. For the research, CES interviewed 1,500 U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

If you read this blog, you know one of the fastest-growing “aisles” at the annual conference is digital health. Humana joined up with CTA’s Health and Fitness Technology Division this month. You can read more about Broussard’s consumer-centric approach discussed at HIMSS 2015 here in Health Populi ).

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

For telehealth, that S-curve has had a very long and fairly flat front-end of the “S” followed by a hockey stick trajectory in March and April 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic was an exogenous shock to in-person health care delivery. Over a year since the pandemic emerged in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2023

Here’s what I wrote about the 2020 FHI , research conducted in the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic. That was in the midst of the fast-pivot toward virtual care and telehealth on-ramps welcomed by both clinicians and patients.

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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2020

The new era of virtual care has begun and is here to stay, Accenture expects in its latest look at How COVID-19 will permanently alter patient behavior , a patient survey conducted in May 2020. Accenture polled 2,700 patients around the world, 450 participants each from China, France, Germany, Japan, the U.K.,

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

Let’s travel to Shanghai, China where, “the covid-19 epidemic has brought millions of new patients online. They are likely to stay there,” asserts “ The smartphone will see you now ,” an article in the March 7th 2020 issue of The Economist. Congressional leadership on February 28 2020.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2024

Health Populi’s Hot Points: From the start of the coronavirus pandemic in early 2020, one thing became clear: that people living in households without connectivity were unable to work from home if they had a job that supported virtual work, attend school from home, or connect to loved ones, friends, and communities from home.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

These factors shot telehealth and related technologies and services like connected health and remote patient monitoring through the stratosphere. Welcome to the third installment in Healthcare IT News ' latest feature series, "Health IT Investment: The Next Five Years. Moore is all for telemedicine. " B.J.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 16, 2018

With GreatCall, Best Buy consolidates a role at the convergence of Internet of Healthy Things (thank you, Dr. Joe Kvedar ), smart and connected homes, wearable tech, and self-care. We’ve observed and covered the go-go growth of digital health devices, smart homes, and aging tech at CES over the past decade.

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Health Populi

JULY 10, 2020

In Patient Perspectives on Virtual Care , Kyruus answers this question based on an online survey of 1,000 patients 18 years of age and older, conducted in May 2020. Each of these health consumers had at least one virtual care visit between February and May 2020.

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Waracle

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2020, we saw an explosion of innovation across the digital health landscape. Digital health and healthcare innovation is a really hot ticket for capital flows at this precise moment. In July 2020, it was estimated that there were 5.2 Revolutionising patient experience. What’s not to like!

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Then, COVID-19 emerged as a pandemic the world over, and the move to Brussels in January 2020 was quite short-lived. My family’s plan was to, soon thereafter, split time for work and life between the U.S. and the E.U. Now, the plan is in play and I’m writing this post from our home in Brussels, Belgium. Why Brussels?

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