Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

To protect his licensure, the doctor asked the patient to drive from his home in West Virginia across the border into Ohio and “pull into a McDonald’s parking lot” from which the patient could access Wi-Fi and engage with the Ohio-based doctor for the consultation. Mental health can be scaled with telehealth.

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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. For starters, we’ve been working with HHS and CMS to support their efforts.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2019

The consulting team assesses both patient experience and care pathways, beyond just the historical role of selling medical devices to health care providers. To give you an example of this process, here’s one of my favorite examples of Philips’ design-ful approach in a health care setting.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 7, 2019

Relieving stress has been a focus of digital health products at CES since the inception of the digital health program. These vibrations help calm the nervous system, the science of which is documented in this research article demonstrating a reduction in 70% of stress in as few as 30 seconds of use.

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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. " Hospital-at-home.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

with retailers, via contactless experiences, curbside pickups, BOPIS (buy online, pick up inside store), and good old-fashioned brick-and-mortar physical shopping in stores. [to to that point, I noted with interest this week’s Wall Street Journal article on the re-birth of commercial retail real estate markets in the U.S.].

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Our homes are evolving into our health hubs — truly our “medical homes,” which have been formally defined as a primary care gatekeeper’s office. An article published in Health Services Research in August 2018 talks about Trends in the Types of Usual Sources of Care: A Shift from People to Places or Nothing at All.

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Health Populi

JUNE 26, 2018

OK, then…What happens when an algorithm cuts your health care? A recent Verge article asked that not-so-unthinkable scenario. — you reveal just where you’re running on that military base that some evil-doer may want to target. And then there’s that woman who discovered that Amazon Alexa sent recordings of private (!)

Medical Billing 189

Medical Billing Public Health Patient Experience Connected Health 189

Health Populi

MARCH 8, 2018

Health Populi’s Hot Points: I’ve talked and written about this concept in the past couple of years as one way to extend healthy eating and living opportunities to people residing in food and commercial deserts — a way to overcome a key social determinant of health which is healthy food access.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

You can read more details about this evolving situation in the WSJ article linked above, and other takes in tech, business, and social media that have begun to populate the interwebs.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

the title of the article updating the winter 2022-23 sick-season asked. Most patients have experienced frustrations – in the designer’s parlance, “friction” – when seeking routine care as well as during a routine medical appointment. Growing adoption of “broad-spectrum” self-care – including digital health tools.

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Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

Disclosures: All three of the authors provide strategic advice to health care companies and organizations (including payers, providers, retailers, tech companies, emerging companies and others), including some of the companies and organizations mentioned in this article. Jane Sarasohn-Kahn Bio and her Blog, Health Populi.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 17, 2019

Health begins at home. I found evidence for that, beyond my own N of 1 understanding, in a research article published in the U K in 2000 by Lyn Harrison and Frances Heywood.

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