2021, Connected Health, Survey and Telemedicine

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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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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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. consumers, and for mental/behavioral health by some 54% of people.

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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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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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Telehealth is Health: It’s Telehealth Awareness Week

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In April 2020, telemedicine morphed into mainstream medical care as hospitals and physicians risk-managed exposure to infection by meeting with patients, virtually, when possible. physicians worked in a practice that used telehealth versus 25% who did so in 2018, based on a new survey from the AMA. In 2020, 79% of U.S.

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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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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 Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

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.

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

Health Populi

JUNE 1, 2021

For older people who are digital immigrants, they will remember their initial Zoom get-together’s with much-missed family, ordering groceries online in the first ecommerce purchase, and using telemedicine for the first time as a digital health front-door.

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Patient experience: new perspectives on person-focused care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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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CONNECT for Health Act reintroduced, would expand telehealth access

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 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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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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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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Broadband is the Achilles' heel of telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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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Telemedicine’s Reimbursement Outlook for 2020

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JANUARY 22, 2020

Telemedicine reimbursement is always changing. Specific statutes can shape telemedicine growth as well, such as encouraging specialty consults but not remote patient monitoring – depending on which service is best compensated. The deadline for 2021 consideration is Feb. So what can we expect for 2020 ? Commercial Payers.

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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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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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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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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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As 'telehealth cliff' looms, hundreds of healthcare orgs urge Congress to act

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2021

Patient satisfaction surveys and claims data from CMS and private health plans tell a compelling story of the large-scale transformation of our nation’s health care system over the past year and,importantly, demonstrate strong patient interest and demand for telehealth access post-pandemic.

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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 Coronavirus Pandemic Turbocharged Digital Health Investment in 2020

Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Within the mega-deal trend, Rock Health pointed to three facets of the go-go digital health investment climate: expanding virtual care, research and development digital transformation, and fitness and wellness demand. Several of these organizations launched IPOs during the pandemic, and others plan to go public early in 2021.

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The 2022 Health Populi TrendCast for Consumers and Health Citizens

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). We segue then to a view from Kaiser Family Foundation’s Health Tracking Poll focusing on the cost of health care and prescription drugs.

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Still Struggling with Stress in America in 2021

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

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The Rise of the Homebody Economy and Healthcare to the Home

Doximity Study Finds Telehealth Is Health for Every Day Care

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

Telehealth is Health: It’s Telehealth Awareness Week

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

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

Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Patient experience: new perspectives on person-focused care

CONNECT for Health Act reintroduced, would expand telehealth access

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

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

Broadband is the Achilles' heel of telehealth

Telemedicine’s Reimbursement Outlook for 2020

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

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

Be Mindful About What Makes Health at HLTH

Managing the Risks of Fast-Growing Digital Health

As 'telehealth cliff' looms, hundreds of healthcare orgs urge Congress to act

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

The Coronavirus Pandemic Turbocharged Digital Health Investment in 2020

The 2022 Health Populi TrendCast for Consumers and Health Citizens

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