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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MARCH 2, 2021

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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Health Populi

JULY 28, 2020

In 2020, CES featured several hundred digital health exhibitors and a growing array of Internet of Things-connected devices adjacent to health and wellness, with representation from beyond “pure” wearable health tech ranging from FDA-cleared blood pressure watches from Omron to health insurer Humana in the exhibit hall.

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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. Only 1 in 5 health systems plans to offer a tool to help patients-consumers “get estimates for costs of care.”

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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 16, 2022

physicians and nurses as the pandemic emerged in early 2020. . “Improves resource allocation for staff” speaks to the crisis issue of clinician burnout. Burnout (translated through anxiety, stress, depression, and suicidality) was already a challenge for 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

APRIL 21, 2021

TripleTree expects a “domino effect from virtual health adoption that will drive waves of demand across areas that complement virtual health and address other vulnerabilities exposed by COVID-19,” the report forecasts. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services. In 2019, J.D.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2022

The firm assessed the toxic side effect that COVID-19 had on cancer care and patients — current and not-yet-diagnosed. in the first half of 2020, and the decline of cancer diagnoses between March and May 2020 — the latter based on the expected number of diagnoses from the previous year’s experience.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 18, 2020

These reports are Accenture’s annual Digital Health Technology Vision 202 0 , and an analysis of the firm’s Wave 7 of consumer research, answering the question, How will COVID-19 change the consumer? The 2020 tech vision for health is summarized here, tying to Accenture’s previous two years of forecasts.

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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. We came to appreciate the connectivity was indeed a determinant of health (which I called out in the Huffington Post in July 2016). healthcare system.

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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

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

JANUARY 2, 2023

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. Inf act, heart health is table-stakes for much of wearable technology in 2023. public and personal health?

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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

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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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

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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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. Let’s put the answer into supply and demand terms. Hospitals, clinics and physician offices all pivoted, quickly, to provide care at a distance.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Deloitte presented this graphic for an integrated data and analytics platform supporting remote patient monitoring data feeds in a June 2020 report noting that remote patient monitoring could trigger a multi-channel data tsunami. As a result, most U.S.

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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

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Digital health as a category has been a growing feature at CES for over a decade, starting with the early wearable tech era of Fitbit, Nike, OMRON and UnderArmour, early exhibitors at CES representing the category.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Health plans. Volunteer organizations, along with other data-creating entities for public health. during the first quarter of 2020, digital health rose to the occasion: namely telehealth, remote and virtual care mounted by health care providers across the nation within days of the WHO calling the virus a global pandemic.

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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

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.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Digital health as a category has been a growing feature at CES for over a decade, starting with the early wearable tech era of Fitbit, Nike, Omron and UnderArmour, early exhibitors at CES representing the category.

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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

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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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2020

The need for a holistic platform the serves up a continuum-of-care tools across the patient journey became evident in a matter of months, Capgemini Research Institute calls out in The Health Fix , a research report assessing peoples’ perspectives on health care in the Age of COVIOD-19. in mid-June 2020.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2024

Note that Chewy, the subscription pet goods company, launched a telehealth service for pets in October 2020 — another tech-trend in the growing pet economy, of which you can read more in Health Populi here.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2023

As timing would have it, this week BrandSpark published its most-trusted health care brands by pharmacists , identifying OMRON’s blood pressure monitors as the top-ranked devices in the category. In the U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 3, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic certainly accelerated the fast-adoption of telehealth for all kinds of patient questions and needs starting in the late second quarter of 2020. Mental health spiked up for virtual visits and to this day, is among the medical services in highest demand for virtual platforms.

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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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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.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The important aspects of that is to provide care outside of bricks-and-mortar physician offices, to improve resource allocation, to demonstrate awareness of new technology, and to allow physicians to see more patients, among other underlying adoption drivers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

Editor’s Note: This feature story initially was published on May 6, 2020. Connected health devices run the gamut from wearable heart monitors, to Bluetooth-enabled scales, to Fitbits. They also keep patients with less severe cases out of hospitals, so preserving precious bed space for patients with severe cases.

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Waracle

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2020, we saw an explosion of innovation across the digital health landscape. In July 2020, it was estimated that there were 5.2 Revolutionising patient experience. Let’s take an example patient experience and talk about how our mobile devices can create a new and better experience for patients.

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