Health Populi

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Three mega-trends bubbled up on the platform for health — telemedicine and virtual care, broadband access, and mental health, discussed in a Birdseye Report Industry Deep Dive into Health from Brandwatch, partnering with Twitter. For this report, Brandwatch utilized only English-language public Twitter data.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

In the August 2020 National Poll on Heathy Aging , the University of Michigan research team found a 26% increase in telehealth visits from 2019 to 2020, March to June 2020 year-over-year. In May 2019, 14% of older patients’ health care providers offered telehealth visits, growing to 62% in June 2020 during the pandemic.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Telehealth has increased access to mental health services, I’ve highlighted this Mental Illness Awareness Week here in Health Populi. But telehealth has also emerged as a preferred channel for routine health care services, we learn from J.D. Power’s 2022 Telehealth Satisfaction Study.

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Health Populi

JULY 26, 2021

some aspects of “digital transformation” seem not to have fully transformed American healthcare, we learn in HIMSS’s annual 2021 State of Healthcare Report. Still, the lack of interoperability remains a barrier hindering clinicians from using digital health tools.

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Health Populi

JULY 15, 2022

drop from 2021, CTA expects software, gaming, video and audio streaming spending will grow by 3.5% With that macro context, CTA expects “healthy growth for health tech,” illustrated in the first chart, with over $13 bn in U.S. households will have adopted connected health monitoring devices this year (21%), CTA gauges.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

consumers’ virtual visit utilization from 2021 to 2023, showing a downturn in telehealth — from 57% of consumers attending a virtual medical appointment in 2021 falling to 42% of consumers in 2023. .” The bar chart updates our understanding of U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 5, 2021

The pandemic accelerated many Very Big Deals in digital health venture capital investment, mergers and acquisitions, and the re-emergence of SPACs in health care. This graphic comes out of my current thinking about telehealth across the continuum of care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2021

senators has reintroduced the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act of 2021. The act would expand coverage of Medicare telehealth services and make some COVID-19 telehealth flexibilities permanent, among other provisions. Access for Medicare beneficiaries.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 10, 2022

Cloud Computing Connected Health Network Infrastructure Population Health Telehealth Before disasters such as tornadoes or wildfires, they should consider designating municipal buildings as "generator and telehealth zones" where equipment and virtual care kiosks can be moved. But what is telehealth?

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The first chart lays out 3 timelines for consumers’ experience with health and fitness activities: those used before the COVID-19 pandemic, those currently using, and those people plan to use after the pandemic. Telehealth, too, is embraced by 3 in 5 people for both physical and mental health services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2021

Leading healthcare industry stakeholders on Monday implored top leaders in the House and Senate to help ensure, among other imperatives, that "Medicare beneficiaries [don't] abruptly lose access to nearly all recently expanded coverage of telehealth." " WHY IT MATTERS.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the use of digital health tools and virtual health care; looking past the pandemic, the American Telemedicine Association is envisioning that care will be omni-channel just as other aspects of consumers’ lives are, whether shopping, banking, or now for people in school, education.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

TripleTree is an investment bank that has advised health care transactions since 1997. As such, the team has been involved in digital health financing and innovation for 24 years, well before the kind of platforms, APIs, and cloud computing now enabling telehealth and care, everywhere.

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Health Populi

MAY 3, 2021

While the “in-person” visit to a doctor or medical professional continues to rank first as consumers’ most-trusted information source, the virtual doc or clinician rose in trust during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Euromonitor’s latest read on Consumer Health: Changes in Consumer Behaviour during COVID-19.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Between 2017 to 2021, there was also significant movement in a few other areas: identity and self-esteem (up 11 points from 2017), as well as control and reality (up 7 points between 2017 to 2021). Deloitte also notes the growing use of telehealth and online appointment scheduling the enables access to services.

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Health Populi

MARCH 30, 2021

Still, the Homebody Economy will persist even post-COVID, with a growing realization that “home” has become a safe haven for many life-flows — with continued investments planned in 2021 for home renovations as well as luxury goods.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

dropped nearly three years between 2019 and 2021, from close to 79 years down to 76. Here are links to those two reports: Mortality in the United States, 2021 , and. Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 20021-2021. Life expectancy in the U.S. decline in life expectancy? These will now be in place until the end of 2024.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2021

GWI identified nine major wellness trends for 2021: Hollywood and the entertainment industries jumping into wellness. The future of immune health. 2021 as the year of the travel-reset. 2021 as the year of the travel-reset. But back to mental health, because it is indeed the epidemic within the pandemic.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

One of the key toxic side effects of the COVID-19 public health crisis has been peoples’ growing sense of isolation and feeling lonely, increasing peoples’ need for mental and behavioral health services. The home has emerged as our health hub in the pandemic, and that won’t be just a trend: that will persist.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 9, 2023

SVB notes that venture funding in healthcare fell in terms of both deals and dollars each quarter of 2022 after hitting records in 2021. Healthtech (shifting toward early-stage investment with mental health and primary care dominating the category).

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Rock Health expects telemedicine encounters to be at a greater volume in 2021 versus 2019, with some “settling” to a less hyped level than seen at the height of the pandemic. Several of these organizations launched IPOs during the pandemic, and others plan to go public early in 2021.

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Health Populi

JULY 25, 2022

for a couple of months, having lived in and worked from Brussels, Belgium, since October 2021 (save for about ten days in March 2022). We came to appreciate the connectivity was indeed a determinant of health (which I called out in the Huffington Post in July 2016). I’ve returned to the U.S. healthcare system.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

Rock Health and Stanford commissioned an online survey among 7,980 U.S. adults from early September to early October 2020 to gauge peoples’ interest in and utilization of digital health tools and telehealth. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Digital health tools generate data.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 6, 2021

health care spending and what comes from it, according to Mirror, Mirror 2021: Reflecting Poorly , a perennial report from The Commonwealth Fund that compares health system performance across eleven developed countries. as well as the physical and mental health of the nation’s health citizens.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 10, 2021

In March 2021, Zoom conducted research into the question, “how virtual do we want our future to be?” I welcomed the opportunity to speak (via Zoom, of course) with Ron Emerson, Zoom’s Global Healthcare Lead, just a days before HIMSS 2021 kicked off.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 4, 2022

As examples of this, Steve pointed to three CES attendees’ products that speak to self-care empowerment: For telehealth and remote patient management (RPM), Essence’s VitalOn. As a connected health device, Abbott’s FreeStyle Libre 3, and. On average, consumers globally subscribe to eight online services.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

adults plan to give a health or wellness product for 2022 holiday gifting, still in post-pandemic behavior change in seeking hygienic and well-being baked into daily living. Thus, sales for air purifiers and smart/connected health monitors garner consumer interest for gifting. Nearly 1 in 2 U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2022

In 2019, Find Care expanded services for consumers to manage chronic health conditions addressing asthma, COPD, and diabetes. Patients can track nutrition and food intake, mood and mental health, financial issues, transportation, and activity (such as steps). These data came from a JAMA Oncology article published in April 2021).

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2022

Spotify, for health information as well as mis-information. Android, for connectivity. Fitbit, for connected health innovation. TED, for health story inspiration. Calm, for mental health and wellbeing. Instant Pot, for healthy cooking at home. USAA, for financial wellness.

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Digital Health Global

JUNE 19, 2023

However, total digital health funding witnessed a decline of nearly -50% between 2021 and 2022 due to macroeconomic challenges, including inflation, interest rate hikes, and supply chain issues. Health IT and telehealth were the top two segments that dominated total digital health funding globally during that period.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2021

That ethos now pertains to post-pandemic health consumers’ growing use of wearable tech, remote health monitoring, and mobile apps for self-care and chronic condition management. adults in late September 2021, a year and a half into the COVID-19 pandemic. Mental health nearly doubling to 25%.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The survey informing the report was conducted between August 2 and September 7, 2021, among 3,616 adults 18 and older (in English, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, and Vietnamese based on consumers’ language preferences). That’s the supply side of HLTH.

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Health Populi

APRIL 8, 2021

recognizing and re-committing energy and resources to social determinants of health and health justice. At the 2021 South-by-Southwest Festival held in March 2021, I interviewed Dr. Michael Osterholm, Director of CIDRAP , the Center for Infectious Disease, Research and Policy housed at the University of Minnesota.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Kroger Health (part of the Kroger food chain) has several partnerships with Medicare Advantage plans, including Select Health (part of Intermountain Health) and Priority Health in Michigan , and began to work with Anthem (now Elevance) in 2021. Collaboration can help insure as well as assure health.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 18, 2020

There is desperation, and there is hope to re-imagine and re-build a health care system and, indeed, a larger ecosystem that bolsters health for all as we look beyond the pandemic and toward 2021.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Growing orders for Peloton and other connected exercise equipment were noted by CTA’s 2021 consumer-tech forecast , anticipating this as a trend that would mainstream as scale economies and competition expanded the market segment while prices fell.

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Health Populi

MAY 12, 2021

“Compare digital health to airlines, cruise lines, and other industries” and the sector looks quite privileged, opined Matthew Holt in a discussion on a study diving deeply into the State of Digital Health , conducted by Catalyst @ Health 2.0 and sponsored by WIPFLI.

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