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Tools for Paying Medical Bills Don’t Help Health Consumers Manage Their Financial Health

Health Populi

There’s a gap between the supply of digital health tools that hospitals and health systems offer patients, and what patients-as-consumers need for overall health and wellbeing. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The HIMSS-CCM research focused on “digital patient experience.”

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Will Technology Cure Americans’ Health Care System Ills? Considering Google and Ascension Health’s Data Deal

Health Populi

What’s underneath that macro “healthcare” index number of 67 is a precipitous decline in the past year for Americans’ trust in hospitals, compared with biotech, pharma, consumer healthcare, and even health insurance — all of which grew in trust between 2018 and 2019, but not so with the hospital segment of U.S.

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Shelly Palmer De-Hypes CES 2019 & Has Lessons for Health/Care

Health Populi

Digging deeper into some of the big trends, Shelly’s observations will also ring authentic to health/care stakeholders… AI is everywhere at CES. As my friends at #JPM this week are hearing in San Francisco, AI is part of virtually every biotech and med-tech story. But it’s not necessarily useful for everything.

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A Matter of Trust, Perception, Risk, and Uncertainty – The Big Issues Raised by the Acquisition of PatientsLikeMe and Other Patient Data Transactions

Health Populi

To address that challenge, in 2017 PLM secured a $100 million (controlling interest) investment from iCarbonX , a Chinese company that is amassing patient data to discover cures for disease. When this occurred, it didn’t cause more than a ripple of interest outside biotech. But the U.S. citizens’ personal data.