Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Furthermore, health plan members now see themselves as medical bill payers, seeking value and consumer-level services for their health insurance premium investment. The examples of collaborations and alliances described here have been just a toe in much deeper water that’s the evolving health/care ecosystem.

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OCTOBER 21, 2019

This year is the centennial of Dr. Osler’s passing, so it’s especially timely that I introduce this post with his legendary assertion in the context of kicking off the 2019 Medecision Liberation conference.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2023

AARP is in fact a very visible stakeholder in the 2023 CES, collaborating on the AgeTech content track at the tech conference. The track covers all aspects of aging well, from financial health to entertainment, mental acuity and of course, physical health.

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JUNE 10, 2020

I’d interviewed Roy at CES 2020 in Las Vegas in January to catch up on consumer health developments, and the March meeting was going to cover Philips’ innovations on the hospital and acute care side of the business, as well as to learn more about Roy’s new role as head of Connected Care.

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MARCH 5, 2018

This new study on social media use in 2018 has important implications for healthcare and for attendees of the annual HIMSS conference this year. The obvious pearl is that not all social networks fit all people: when you’re a marketing a health care service or product, know your end-user’s media preferences.

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Health Populi

JULY 26, 2021

Payors’ identified the top factors driving health care costs up including an aging population, growing utilization of medical services, implementing safety measures (think: PPE and the ongoing challenge of adverse events), mental health (a growing epidemic inside the pandemic), possible future outbreaks, and (some) patients’ (unhealthy) lifestyles.

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OCTOBER 25, 2019

But we must and we will, a group of inspiring and inspired people who work across the health/care ecosystem affirmed this week in Dallas at the conference of Medecision Liberation 2019. Gary’s son was addicted to opioids and ultimately, after many months of being clean, took his own life.

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Leadership Mental health Patient Experience Life Science 174

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MAY 17, 2021

How waiting times in hospital emergency departments can be shortened to lower the risks of adverse events and quality problems that can be averted by seeing patients sooner. We also saw the use of blockchain, AI and cognitive computing, smartphones, neural networks, among other tools in the digital health toolkit. .

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JANUARY 10, 2024

For more details from the company, Amazon made several announcements at CES 2024 most of which impact peoples’ personal health ecosystems. For several years I’ve been tracking the Baracoda smart mirror; this year at CES, the French company unveiled BMind , reputed to be the first smart mirror for mental wellness.

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Mental health Digital Health Health Technology Patient Experience 170

Health Populi

JANUARY 5, 2020

My focus is all-health, all-the-time, so I’m weaving the connections between connected cars, home appliances, telecoms, and Big Tech who put on the Ritz and glitz today and tomorrow for the press.

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