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For Public Health, U.S. Consumers See Opioids, Obesity, and Guns Top 3 Public Health Threats – But Lowering Healthcare & Drug Costs is Job 1 for Government

Health Populi

Obesity continues to be a threat in second place across the three rounds, very much on peoples’ minds especially as the category of GLP-1 drugs has received major mass media attention in 2023 for weight reduction and diabetes management. cancer, Parkinson’s, etc.).

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Digital Health Tools Are Finding Business Models – IQVIA’s 2021 Read on the Health of Digital Health

Health Populi

The range of clinical areas covered by these apps is shown in the “wheel” above, illustrating that mental and behavioral health, diabetes, heart and cardiovascular, digestive system, and respiratory applications together represented over one-half of the digital health categories and disease states in 2021.

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What to Expect For Health/Care at CES 2024

Health Populi

So this category of products has been front-of-mind for consumers spending out-of-pocket dollars on the promise of a good night’s sleep for many years and CES has featured many sleep-tech innovators for many years.

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Health Care Financing: How Inflation and Health Care Prices Could Hit the U.S. Consumer

Health Populi

The latest Health Care Cost and Utilization Report from the Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) details health spending in 2021, dissecting the change in terms of utilization of services and prices by category. Total spending, cumulatively, increased by 21.2% between 2017 and 2021.

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2024 UPDATE: Market Overview Technology for Aging Now Available

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The purpose of the document, however, is to aggregate and review trends from 2023 that shape 2024, technology changes that matter, and offer, by category, a sampling of products, services, and sites of relevance to the older adult market. What’s new in this version of the report? Most everything.

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2023 CMS Physician Fee Schedule: Details, Takeaways and Our Thoughts

Connected Health Initiative

CMS states that it expects to continue to permit direct supervision through virtual presence through at least the end of CY 2023 under its previously finalized policy which continues through the end of the calendar year in which the PHE ends.

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Aging and Health Technology Watch 2020 Research – A Recap

Aging in Place Technology Watch

In 2020, a modest category became mainstream. It took the aging of the baby boomers and the sheer size of the aging population to turn a 2009 market niche into a 2020 major market category. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , Boomer-Senior Tech Business.