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

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 28, 2020

The same percentage of people over 50 own a voice assistant, a market penetration rate which more than doubled between 2017 and 2019, AARP noted in the 2020 Tech and the 50+ Survey published in December 2019. One-half of 50+ Americans use a tablet, and 17% own wearable tech. legislators can get on the same privacy page.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

“We” was a trio including Antoinette Thomas (@NurseTechExec1), Chief Patient Experience Officer with Microsoft, David Ryan (@DavidPRyan), former long-time Global Head of Intel’s Health/Life Science business; and, me.

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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

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

OCTOBER 26, 2022

It is ironic and very concerning to consider, in this context, the latest data on the outflow of health care professionals from the field, accelerating since the emergence of the pandemic in 2020.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 12, 2020

So board games and Old School jigsaw puzzles gained sales in the second quarter of 2020. Interestingly, playing board games gained favor during the pandemic, as more people were staying home with loved ones and friends looking for past times off-the-grid and away from digital platforms. S is for social distancing.

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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.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2019

With high health spending and lower life expectancy dollar for dollar, financial and health in-security will surely be voters’ priorities in 2020. Patients Consider Costs and Insurance Essential to Their Overall Health Experience appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. The post In the U.S.,

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Rutledge says that Medicare, which already penalizes hospitals when one of their patients is readmitted within 30 days, will increase penalties if the hospital has not addressed the patient’s SDoH. One of the resulting papers lists a large number of public sources for SDoH data (pages 26-30).

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

That is for the immediate-near term under the fragmented, high-cost health care system that currently challenge American health citizens. Today as Election Day, I recall my post published yesterday here in Health Populi on U.S. voters’ perspectives on health care reform looking toward Election Day 2020.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2024

When we think through these different worlds and the factors shaping them, we are better prepared to deal with “stuff” that inevitably happens that can shift our world slightly, or blow it apart – like rushing about for PPE when supplies from Asia dried up in the second quarter of 2020. Just sayin’.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

In my consumer-facing health care work, I’ve adopted the mantra that our homes are our health hubs. Reflecting on my many conversations during CES last week, I’m evolving the concept to our homes morphing into health delivery platforms.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Most patients have experienced frustrations – in the designer’s parlance, “friction” – when seeking routine care as well as during a routine medical appointment. Clearly, patients’ experiences as consumers of healthcare lack the service levels they expect as payors based on this MITRE-Harris Poll.

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Health Populi

MAY 31, 2022

Those mental health impacts were anxiety, depression, or suicidal ideation, found in Archangels’ research done in collaboration with the CDC culminating in the team’s landmark study revealing an epidemic of caregiver stress that worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Beyond current employees, companies in health care are also looking to hire workers with skills to support new capabilities and product offerings. Clearly, digital transformation is top-of-mind for healthcare organizations pondering their workforce strategies for 2020. Their poll of consumers found that 7 in 10 U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2019

asserted that by 2011, human health was marked less by infectious disease and more by non-communicable conditions that could be highly influenced, reversed and prevented through self-care by the individual and public health policy that promotes social and financial wellness.

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2021

The latest (March 2021) Kaiser Family Foundation Tracking Poll learned that at least one in three Americans were recently “struggling” to pay living expenses since December 2020, with six in ten families affected by COVID-19 having lost a job or income.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2021

adults across political parties favor allowing the Federal government authority to negotiate for drug prices — even after hearing the arguments against the health policy. This patient experience crosses political parties in the U.S., The post Support for Drug Price Negotiation Brings Partisans Together in the U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Health care pocketbook issues rank first and second place for Americans in these months leading up to the 2020 Presidential election, according to research from POLITICO and the Harvard Chan School of Public Health published on 19th February 2020. And that is health citizenship-bonding patient experience.

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