Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2020

Today kicks off the first all-virtual conference of the ATA, the American Telemedicine Association. ATA’s CEO Ann Mond Johnson and team turned on a dime over the past few months, migrating the already-planned live conference scheduled in early May to this week, all online. and indeed, in countries already impacted by the crisis).

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 9, 2023

What if… you were given the opportunity to build a health system from scratch in this new era of platforms, cloud computing, AI and machine learning, curious-digital-empowered consumers, and collaborators in retail and community settings operating close to peoples’ homes and workplaces?

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

Most striking in the Edelman 2023 research was the finding that more consumers trusted peer voices – friends and family – on par with medical experts, and well above the advice of national health authorities and global health authorities.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2024

The financial lives of patients in America continues to play out in U.S. consumers’ broader health care experiences as financial health is baked into peoples’ overall sense of health and well-being.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Start with connectivity to the home and elsewhere by phone. Last week, Shannon Guzman who is AARP’s Director of Housing and Livable Communities spoke in detail at the Parks Associates Connected Health Summit about the fact that “being connected is more important now than ever,” an ethos shared by millions of older people.

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2022

We met up last week at the DIA Europe 2022 meeting (Drug Information Association) in the cool SQUARE Conference Center in Brussels, Belgium (my current home base for work and life). In summing up the patient-centered interoperability goal, Ardy summarized: “We’ve created the Mint.com of health data.”

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

“Digital transformation” is the corporate strategy flavor of the moment across industries, and the health are sector isn’t immune from the trend. As this 13th year of the annual Health 2.0 This year’s conference will convene thought leaders across a range of themes, and as is the Health 2.0

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Health Populi

JANUARY 4, 2022

The four top trends to watch for this week at CES 2022 are transportation, space tech, sustainable technology, and digital health, based on Steve Koenig’s annual read-out that kicks off this largest annual conference featuring innovations in consumer electronics.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2024

Connected heart health is a big segment for digital health at CES, including blood pressure, The CES 2024 Innovation Awards have anointed several heart-health innovators before the conference, seven of which are shown here in the diagram titled “Heart Health” curated from company press releases in advance of the meeting.

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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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Health Populi

JULY 28, 2020

One of the long-time exhibitors at CES is Withings, who once again showed off a host of new-new things for personal health and wellness at CES 2020. Well-known for its direct-to-consumer connected health devices in the forms of weight scales and fitness watches, Withings announced focused on sleep and heart health in its CES 2020 launches.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

While venture funding for digital health technology declined globally by 35% in the first three quarters of 2022 compared with 2021, this marks a “return to normal” based on the assessment in the Global State of Digital Health Report from FINN Partners and Galen Growth, published today and launched during the HLTH 2022 conference.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

As the HLTH conference convenes over 6,000 digital health innovators live, in person, in Boston in the wake of the delta variant, what should attendees keep in mind to help HLTH make health? The top-line in the report, and the bottom-line for health citizens, was that 38% of U.S. One-half of U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

This report provides insightful context for the upcoming annual ATA Conference for 2022 , being held in-person in Boston kicking off May 1st. The meeting will be a strategically important, as the title of the conference asks: “What Now? Creating An Opportunity in a Time of Uncertainty.”

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Health Populi

APRIL 29, 2018

Governor Mark Leavitt, who held the post of Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Bush, offered this advice at the recent Liberation 2018 conference hosted by Medecision. A sensitive and discriminating judgment is called for; a skilled intelligence to scent out the truth.”.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

The patient-consumer experience. Central to this theme on the HIMSS exhibition floor will be the Personalized Health Experience at Booth 888 in Hall A. I spent time on the phone before the conference with John Sharp of HIMSS. Patient’s privacy and data security. The patient’s personal data-space.

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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2020

The new patient workflow became making treatment work at home with virtual support, the second graphic illustrates. Fully one-third of patients starting using each of these 3 telehealth modalities during COVID-19.

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Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

This post follows up Part 1 of a two-part series I’ve prepared in advance of the AHIP 2024 conference where I’ll be brainstorming these scenarios with a panel of folks who know their stuff in technology, health care and hospital systems, retail health, and pharmacy, among other key issues.

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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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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

Communicating via video conference technology is not the same as in-person encounters, and older patients have identified this deficiency in the virtual visit in the U-M study.

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Health Populi

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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mHealth Insight

MARCH 5, 2018

Fortunately I’ve managed to convince/beg the brilliant Dr Chris Bickford MD to step into my conference-floor-pounding-shoes and provide some opinions and live updates from the world’s biggest Health IT Conference and Exhibition being held in Las Vegas. TheWaitIsOver. Piedmont Healthcare, a $3.5

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Health Populi

JUNE 26, 2018

Design-thinking has come to health/care, finally, and Amy Cueva has been beating this drum for a very long time. I’m delighted to be in her collegial circle, speaking at the conference about the evolving healthcare consumer who’s financially strapped, stressed-out, and Amazon Primed for customer service.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: I snapped this photo, a promotional ad from Lyft, at HIMSS19 in Orlando two weeks ago. This was the first image that greeted me as I entered the Orange County Convention Center to retrieve my badge for the conference.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The doctor survey was conducted of 263 physicians by Merck Manuals at the Family Medical Experience conference. The consumer survey of 2,044 U.S. adults was conducted for Merck Manuals by The Harris Poll.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

It also demonstrated the power and utility of increasingly powerful yet affordable connected health devices, which could be distributed to populations who need them most as important sentinel surveillance tools. And as information has emerged from other conferences that were held around the same time , it was the right one.)

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

health citizens. Some national health plans have already looked to acquire telehealth companies and embed virtual care into their models. Look, too, to the upcoming annual 2021 ATA Conference and Expo that will bring current and futures thinking to attendees every week in June.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

This blog appears today as part of a #HIMSS18 primer series for attendees, and the industry at large, to discuss major health IT issues that will help move health and healthcare delivery forward in 2018 – and beyond. Patients as Consumers: How Leading Providers are Digitally Transforming Patient Consults | #Engage4Health + #HIMSS18.

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Health Populi

JUNE 1, 2018

Health care features prominently in the nearly-300 slides curated by Mary Meeker in her always- informative report on Internet Trends 2018. Meeker, of Kleiner Perkins, released the report as usual at the Code Conference, held this year on 30 May 2018 in Silicon Valley. 2015 – Musings with Mary Meeker on the digital/health nexus.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

If you read this blog, you know one of the fastest-growing “aisles” at the annual conference is digital health. Humana joined up with CTA’s Health and Fitness Technology Division this month.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2019

Ann worked with Accor, the hotel chain, on health care projects, based in Paris; I lived in London, a consultant with the Touche Ross (now Deloitte) health care team, working with the NHS, the private health sector, and on the Continent.

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Health Populi

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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Health Populi

DECEMBER 9, 2019

At AHIP this week, it’s particularly important to call out the fact, confirmed in various and different-themed consumer market research, that health plans don’t deliver retail-levels of consumer experience, the theme of this conference.

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Waracle

APRIL 22, 2021

Whether you need a patient to complete a basic wellbeing task like making an appointment, all the way through to much more complicated engagements with complimentary software that speaks to medical devices, devices that we carry around on 365 days a year are opening the door to habitual engagement with care. What’s not to like!

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Health Populi

AUGUST 16, 2018

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Best Buy ranks top of the list of top 100 consumer electronics retailers as tallied by TWICE, a leading publication on the consumer electronics industry who partners with CTA (the Consumer Technology Association, operator of the annual CES conference).

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

Consumers who have long purchased over-the-counter medicines, anti-dandruff shampoo, whitening toothpaste, and cosmetics-with-benefits at food, drug and mass merchant retailers are switching to other places to shop for health, new data from AT Kearney and GMDC have found.

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Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2018

To more effectively help patients manage diabetes , CentraForce Health used geospatial mapping of SBDoH data to develop deeper insights into peoples’ health needs and behaviors — such as eating fast food in the past 30 days, sufficient time to eat healthy food, and tendency to follow a doctor’s recommendations.

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