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Empathy Is As Important as the Medical Treatment – the 2021 Accenture Health Experience As Backdrop to HIMSS 2021

Health Populi

AUGUST 9, 2021

At the same time, people took on their own versions of digital transformation at home, for work, for school, for cooking, shopping, and indeed, for health care. As the report concludes, “people’s sentiments and behaviors” with respect to technology in health care “provide no clear answer.”

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Still Struggling with Stress in America in 2021

Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2021

“Americans remain in limbo between lives once lived and whatever the post-pandemic future holds,” the American Psychological Association observes in their latest read into S tress in America 2021, with this phase of the perennial study focused on Stress and Decision-Making During the Pandemic. As a result, three in four U.S.

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HIMSS publishes its first-ever report on Connected Health maturity in APAC

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AUGUST 31, 2021

In an organisation-first, HIMSS has published a report exploring the maturity of Connected Health in the APAC region. In the broader scheme of things, Connected Health technologies have the power to enhance patient engagement, patient access to care, and patient empowerment. WHAT IT'S ABOUT. ACCESSING THE REPORT.

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The Pandemic Accelerated Consumers’ Digital Health Tech Ownership As Big Tech Morphs To Big Health

Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2021

The pandemic ushered in millions of peoples’ first digital health experiences, many of which will persist according to the 23rd Annual U.S. CTA conducted an online survey among 2,409 U.S. adult 18 and over in April 2021 to gather data for this annual report. in the next 12 months. In 2020, one-fourth of U.S.

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Healthcare Via the Cloud, Across the Enterprise and in the Patient’s Home – a Sustainable View from Philips at HIMSS 2021

Health Populi

AUGUST 11, 2021

This week at the 2021 annual HIMSS conference, Philips is “making the case for moving to the cloud,” discussing the Philips HealthSuite, a cloud-based platform for connecting providers and patients, devices (and the data they generate), and care across the health care continuum.

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Consumers Continue to Spend on Technology, Seeking “A Happy, Healthy Connected Life”

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

consumers will continue to spend their disposable incomes on connected consumer devices, but will be looking for more balance in their digital lives according to Deloitte’s fourth annual 2023 Connected Consumer Survey. For the survey, Deloitte polled 2,018 U.S. adults in the second quarter of 2023. While 2 in 3 U.S.

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“My Doctor’s Office” Should Accept Wearable Tech Health Data, Most Patients Say

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

“Do personal health trackers belong in the doctor’s office?” “Yes,” the company’s latest consumer survey found, details of which are discussed in a report published on their website. This proportion of folks interested in sharing their wearable health data grew from 56% in 2021 to 91% in 2023.

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Consumers Intend to Invest in Technology — With Budget and Value in Mind

Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2022

Consumers continued to invest in and use several technologies that supported self-care at home in 2021, with plans to purchase connected health devices, sports and fitness equipment in the next year. The percent of first-time tech purchases will increase “considerably” from 2021, on average 8 percentage points.

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Health Plan Consumer Experience Scores Reflect Peoples’ Digital Transformation – ACSI Speaks

Health Populi

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The American Customer Satisfaction Index Insurance and Health Care Study 2020-2021 published today, recognizing consumers’ value for the quality of health insurance companies’ mobile apps and reliability of those apps. The study was fielded between October 2020 and September 2021. All other plans landed at 73.

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Consumers’ Health Concerns Grow in the Pandemic Across All Categories – And More Trust Virtual Care

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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Telehealth is Health: It’s Telehealth Awareness Week

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

By the spring of 2021, telehealth use stabilized, but health systems had built the processes and policies to deliver on the promise of omni-channel health care — from the patient’s home and hands (via smartphones) into community sites closer-to-home, and returning to brick-and-mortar medical buildings.

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Connected Wellness Growing As Consumers Face Tighter Home Economics

Health Populi

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The bottom-line here is that the most connected 10% of consumers were 1.65 times more likely to be engaged in preventive digital health activities than the average person. consumers, dominated by more Gen z, millennials and bridge millennials more like to adopt digital health than Gen X and Baby Boomers. More granularly, 15.7%

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The CES 2022 Tech Trends to Watch Have Everything To Do With Health/Care

Health Populi

JANUARY 4, 2022

My friend Dorit Donoviel can be an Exhibit A for that, with her pioneering work leading space-health research at the Baylor College of Medicine. As a connected health device, Abbott’s FreeStyle Libre 3, and. Withings’ FDA-cleared smartwatch as a health/care wearable technology. That’s on average.

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The Rise of the Homebody Economy and Healthcare to the Home

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. And for digital wellness, about 3 in 4 U.S.

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The COVID-19 Era Has Grown Health Consumer Demand for Virtual Care

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Over one-half of Americans would likely use virtual care for their healthcare services, and one in four people would actually prefer a virtual relationship with a primary care physician, according to the fifth annual 2020 Consumer Sentiment Survey from UnitedHealthcare.

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The Digital Home: A Platform for Health, via Deloitte and the COVID-19 “Stress Test”

Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2021

In this year’s 2021 annual report by Deloitte into Connectivity & Mobile Trends, their report details How the pandemic has stress-tested the crowded digital home. Deloitte’s Center commissioned an online survey among 2,009 U.S.

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People in the U.S. Without the Internet Were More Likely To Die in the Pandemic

Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2022

” Health Populi’s Hot Points: The American Medical Association polled physicians in late 2021 to gauge doctors’ perspectives on telehealth. The report lays out physicians’ majority support for telehealth and key issues preventing further adoption and proliferation of use across the U.S.

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For older adults, the future of wearables is predictive

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APRIL 21, 2021

billion global market in 2021. According to Gartner’s January 2021 forecast , this was driven by increased consumer interest in tracking their health status during the pandemic (smart watches) and the growth of remote work (purchases and upgrades to headphones and ear-warn devices). Wearable devices make up an $81.5

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The Latest Health Technology Vision and Consumer Behavior Insights From Accenture

Health Populi

AUGUST 18, 2020

That information control is a major issue for 70% of health care consumers, “concerned about data privacy and commercial tracking associated with ‘my’ online activities, behaviors, location and interests,” Accenture’s survey learned.

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Americans Grew Digital Health-Data Muscles in the Pandemic – New Insights from the Pew Charitable Trusts

Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

“Most Americans clearly recognize the potential benefits that improved health IT can offer, and they want this transformation of the health care system to continue,” the Pew Charitable Trusts research concludes in Most Americans Want to Share and Access More Digital Health Data. One pillar of that trust is privacy.

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The Reluctance of Consumers to Share Personal Information – The Challenge of Data for Health “Blurring”

Health Populi

JANUARY 27, 2022

As these latter technologies developed and generated lots of digital data, researchers, clinicians, and third parties have mashed up the information for wellness and medical and other reasons that have had nothing to do with the context of health/care. A new Ipsos survey of U.S.

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How Virtual Care Will Play Out in 2022 – a Look Post-CES and JPM

Health Populi

JANUARY 24, 2022

Next, consider some up-to-the-minute health consumer survey data from Parks Associates which convened their annual CONNECTIONS Summit at CES 2022. broadband households owned a connected health device, and 25 percent owned a connected medical device. 55 percent of U.S. 55 percent of U.S.

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COVID-19 Accelerated Digital Health Investments…But It Helps to Be Bigger, Mature and Scaling

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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Doximity Study Finds Telehealth Is Health for Every Day Care

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Doximity’s second report on telemedicine explores both physicians’ and patients’ views on virtual care, finding most doctors and health consumers on the same page of virtual care adoption. For the physicians’ profile, Doximity examined 180,000 doctors’ who billed Medicare for telemedicine claims between January 2020 and June 2021.

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Consumers Embrace Tech But Privacy Remains a Concern – The Morning Consult Poll of Consumers and Tech

Health Populi

JANUARY 5, 2022

adults in early December 2021 for this survey, Health Populi’s Hot Points: Trust is a pre-cursor for health engagement, with authenticity running a close second as a factor that health consumers lean into when partnering with organizations for their health. Morning Consult polled 2,200 U.S.

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Telehealth Update from the AMA – Setting the Context for ATA 2022

Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

physicians were using telehealth to care for patients at the end of 2021. Among those doctors who were not providing telehealth by late 2021, just over one half never did so during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the 2021 Telehealth Survey Report from the AMA. Four in five U.S.

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How Young People Are Using Digital Tools to Help Deal with Mental Health

Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2021

Authors of the report were Victoria Rideout, longtime expert on families, youth, and media; Susannah Fox, “Internet Geologist” well-known for her work on peer-to-peer health care and the origins of the Internet in health care (and in full disclosure, my close friend); and Alanna Peebles and Michael Robb, researchers at Common Sense.

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Mental Health at CES 2022 – The Consumer’s Context for Wellbeing in the New Year

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. Stress about personal finances, too, afflicts women more than men based on APA’s survey findings.

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Bonus Features – July 9, 2023 – Providers spend 11% less time writing clinical notes than they did three years ago, 54% of surgeons unsure about first-to-market products, and more

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JULY 9, 2023

News and Research The Connected Health Initiative released recommendations for state-level policymakers to strike a balance between protecting personal health information and supporting the use of digital health tools.

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Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

In May 2019, 14% of older patients’ health care providers offered telehealth visits, growing to 62% in June 2020 during the pandemic. 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. This engaging video features commentary with researchers from U-M.

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CONNECT for Health Act reintroduced, would expand telehealth access

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APRIL 30, 2021

senators has reintroduced the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act of 2021. The CONNECT Act would aim to answer at least some of those questions, at least where Medicare is concerned. Allow health centers and rural health clinics to provide telehealth services.

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Telehealth-As-Healthcare Is a Mainstream Expectation Among Consumers, J.D. Power Finds

Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Power found in their Study which was conducted among 4,306 health care consumers who had used a telehealth service in the 12 months preceding June and July 2022 when the survey was fielded. Power points out several granular perspectives to keep in mind as we design and implement omnichannel health care services: Two-thirds of U.S.

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Be Mindful About What Makes Health at HLTH

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).

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Health Consumers After COVID-19 – A View from the Consumer Technology Association

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Beyond health, the report also addresses a landscape of sectors, including retail and eCommerce, fitness, commuting (for work), and travel, along with various lifestyle areas. CTA conducted a survey among 2,000 U.S. Expect MDLive’s IPO in 2021. adults ages 18 and over in the second half of July 2020.

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Managing the Risks of Fast-Growing Digital Health

Health Populi

APRIL 5, 2021

Beazley conducted a survey among 376 digital health and wellness practitioners and divined four key themes from the research on risk, growth, insurance, and understanding. For growth, Beazley learned that 90% of business were planning for growth in 2021, 62% were raising capital, and one-third were innovating new products and services.

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Patient experience: new perspectives on person-focused care

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JUNE 15, 2022

News The future of healthcare: What 2022 could bring A look ahead at what the uptick in interest and usage of digital health will mean for the future of. By HIMSS Media | December 01, 2021. Health IT and racial justice: Expanding access, ending disparities, empowering communities. Health IT Investment: The Next Five Years.

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Patients Don’t Trust Big Tech with Personal Health Information Much Preferring Healthcare Providers as Data Stewards

Health Populi

JULY 31, 2023

Health Populi’s Hot Points: It’s informative and interesting to go back 9 years to a post I wrote here in Health Populi , discussing consumer research from Strategy&/PwC on consumers’ levels of trust with personal health data comparing tech companies, retailers, and health care providers as stewards of peoples’ PHI.

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Broadband is the Achilles' heel of telehealth

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Connected Health Government & Policy Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth The fate of virtual care adoption is tied to the fate of broadband expansion. The United Soybean Board surveyed farm operations nationwide in 2021, for instance, and found that nearly 60% of U.S.

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Patients-As-Health Care Payers Define What a Digital Front Door Looks Like

Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2023

You may not know that the company has a significant footprint in health care and financial technology. This results of the consumer and provider surveys combines those corporate interests, discussed in this report. You may know the name Experian as one of the largest credit rating agencies for consumer finance in the U.S.

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Wearables Are Good For Older People, Too — The Latest From Laurie Orlov

Health Populi

JUNE 1, 2021

This bar chart from the AARP’s latest survey into older peoples’ ownership by tech device type lays the foundation for the forecast. This is the base of the demand side for digital health, where older (over 50 years of age) health consumers can utilize devices they already use in daily life for health, wellness, and security.

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Economic Anxieties Rise, Medical and Vacation Plans Delayed: the COVID-19 Consumer in June 2020

Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2020

Consumers , survey research from TransUnion. Health Populi’s Hot Points: “COVID-19 has exacted a heavy toll on the United States, claiming lives as well as livelihoods,” research from McKinsey observes in a June 2020 survey report, Redefining value and affordability in retail’s next normal.

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Zoom Became a Household Name in the Pandemic. It’s Working to Do the Same in Healthcare – At #HIMSS21

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 Privacy and Our Ambivalent Tech-Embrace – Lessons for Digital Health Innovators

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. Morning Consult polled 2,200 U.S. Blood sugar or diabetes, by 2.5

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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

Health Populi

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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Empathy Is As Important as the Medical Treatment – the 2021 Accenture Health Experience As Backdrop to HIMSS 2021

Still Struggling with Stress in America in 2021

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HIMSS publishes its first-ever report on Connected Health maturity in APAC

The Pandemic Accelerated Consumers’ Digital Health Tech Ownership As Big Tech Morphs To Big Health

Healthcare Via the Cloud, Across the Enterprise and in the Patient’s Home – a Sustainable View from Philips at HIMSS 2021

Consumers Continue to Spend on Technology, Seeking “A Happy, Healthy Connected Life”

“My Doctor’s Office” Should Accept Wearable Tech Health Data, Most Patients Say

Consumers Intend to Invest in Technology — With Budget and Value in Mind

Health Plan Consumer Experience Scores Reflect Peoples’ Digital Transformation – ACSI Speaks

Consumers’ Health Concerns Grow in the Pandemic Across All Categories – And More Trust Virtual Care

Telehealth is Health: It’s Telehealth Awareness Week

Connected Wellness Growing As Consumers Face Tighter Home Economics

The CES 2022 Tech Trends to Watch Have Everything To Do With Health/Care

The Rise of the Homebody Economy and Healthcare to the Home

The COVID-19 Era Has Grown Health Consumer Demand for Virtual Care

The Digital Home: A Platform for Health, via Deloitte and the COVID-19 “Stress Test”

People in the U.S. Without the Internet Were More Likely To Die in the Pandemic

For older adults, the future of wearables is predictive

The Latest Health Technology Vision and Consumer Behavior Insights From Accenture

Americans Grew Digital Health-Data Muscles in the Pandemic – New Insights from the Pew Charitable Trusts

The Reluctance of Consumers to Share Personal Information – The Challenge of Data for Health “Blurring”

How Virtual Care Will Play Out in 2022 – a Look Post-CES and JPM

COVID-19 Accelerated Digital Health Investments…But It Helps to Be Bigger, Mature and Scaling

Doximity Study Finds Telehealth Is Health for Every Day Care

Consumers Embrace Tech But Privacy Remains a Concern – The Morning Consult Poll of Consumers and Tech

Telehealth Update from the AMA – Setting the Context for ATA 2022

How Young People Are Using Digital Tools to Help Deal with Mental Health

Mental Health at CES 2022 – The Consumer’s Context for Wellbeing in the New Year

Bonus Features – July 9, 2023 – Providers spend 11% less time writing clinical notes than they did three years ago, 54% of surgeons unsure about first-to-market products, and more

Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

CONNECT for Health Act reintroduced, would expand telehealth access

Telehealth-As-Healthcare Is a Mainstream Expectation Among Consumers, J.D. Power Finds

Be Mindful About What Makes Health at HLTH

Health Consumers After COVID-19 – A View from the Consumer Technology Association

Managing the Risks of Fast-Growing Digital Health

Patient experience: new perspectives on person-focused care

Patients Don’t Trust Big Tech with Personal Health Information Much Preferring Healthcare Providers as Data Stewards

Broadband is the Achilles' heel of telehealth

Patients-As-Health Care Payers Define What a Digital Front Door Looks Like

Wearables Are Good For Older People, Too — The Latest From Laurie Orlov

Economic Anxieties Rise, Medical and Vacation Plans Delayed: the COVID-19 Consumer in June 2020

Zoom Became a Household Name in the Pandemic. It’s Working to Do the Same in Healthcare – At #HIMSS21

Health Privacy and Our Ambivalent Tech-Embrace – Lessons for Digital Health Innovators

The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

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