Health Populi

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Now mix in some of the news announced at or just prior to HLTH convening in Las Vegas… Samsung shared news that it will work with b.well Connected Health for consumers to create longitudinal health records, using an app on their Galaxy smartphones.

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DECEMBER 2, 2019

Tracking health information doesn’t result in better outcomes in and of itself, Deloitte’s report recognizes: it takes environmental nudges, like behavioral economic strategies and public policies like healthy agricultural supports and active transportation, to move people toward healthy behaviors and sustain them.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Being Philips, what underpins that quality and experience is technology; Philips explored telehealth, AI, digital health records (DHRs), and other digital health tools that can engage patients. 84% of consumers with access to personal electronic health data want their health care professionals to have access, as well.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Stability the safety net and rebuild public health. Address social determinants of health. Accelerate digital health. Secure health data (updating privacy/HIPAA). Note that WHO’s approach to digital health adoption includes equity, access, palliative care, privacy, and security.

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2022

He had me at the statement, “I believe health data is medicine.”. The basic (well, not-so-basic) operating system starts with the electronic health record (EHR), accessing data for the patient: allergies, conditions, immunizations, labs, meds, procedures, vitals, in real-time and in a continuous longitudinal timeline.

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JANUARY 2, 2023

How can digital health and other consumer-facing technologies help our health? First, consider the stark data point(s), and then we can better respond to the question’s answer in the Hot Points , below. The post Can Consumer Electronics Help Stem the Decline of U.S. Life-Years?

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JANUARY 11, 2021

But the coronavirus era also saw broadband households spending more on connecting health devices, with 42% of U.S. consumers owning digital health tech compared with 33% in 2015, according to research discussed in Supporting Today’s Connected Consumer from Parks Associates. On average, U.S. On average, U.S.

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JANUARY 2, 2024

The first diagram shows my evolving view on what I seek out at CES each year, from the traditional tracking of weight and activity to the mainstreaming of heart function and sleep, with the addition of the connected car for health and safety, and the smart kitchen and bathroom in the mix of health-at-home.

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Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2022

Consumers continued to invest in and use several technologies that supported self-care at home in 2021, with plans to purchase connected health devices, sports and fitness equipment in the next year. households owned a smart or connected health monitoring device, with 22 million homes planning to buy at least one in the next year.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2018

While national health services funding and delivery modes will still have local models of organization and control, some over-arching concepts and cooperation are being forged. Two key issues are in my work-radar this trip: digital health cross-border, and health innovation funding.

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MARCH 1, 2018

“Health agencies will have to become at least as sophisticated as other consumer/retail industries in analyzing a variety of data that helps uncover root causes of human behavior,” Gartner recommended in 2017. That’s because “health” is not all pre-determined by our parent-given genetics.

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APRIL 16, 2024

Their home is the site for most of their health care, with sensors in the kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, and in the car all informing Quincy’s digital phenotype that further populates data into their EHR which they control and audit. Federal investment in climate and environmental health are part of holistic health policy.

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JUNE 5, 2020

revealed many weakness in the American health care system, one of which has been health inequities faced by millions of people — especially black Americans, who have sustained higher rates morbidity and mortality for COVID-19. Health Populi’s Hot Points: As the U.S. But the emergence of the coronavirus in the U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

“Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans,” the Wall Street Journal reported in today’s paper and on the WSJ.com website. Ascension is the second largest health system in the U.S., Let’s talk about Technology and Trust. Out-of-network costs?

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JULY 27, 2020

The report found three big shifts in global health citizens’ views on their personal health and health care delivery in the wake of the pandemic: Across all age groups, COVID-19 exacerbated peoples’ concerns about their physical and mental health in a very short time.

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MAY 16, 2022

These enablers include, Technology, such as the proliferation of mobile phones, DNA sequencing, and fast-declining data storage costs – all examples of Moore’s Law; and, Human factors, with technology enabling social connectivity, well-being, decentralization, and DIY ( which I detail in my book, Health Citizenship ).

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Mitchell is quoted in the story, New data says more communities built their own broadband because of COVID published in Motherboard on 10th September 2021, an important report written by Karl Bode. FYI, Mitchell’s Twitter handle is @communitynets].

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FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Seeking health information online along with researching other patients’ perspectives on doctors are now as common as booking dinner reservations and reading restaurant reviews, based on Rock Health’s latest health consumer survey, Beyond Wellness for the Healthy: Digital Health Consumer Adoption 2018.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

We must treat people like who they are matters,” using all kinds of data – public data, health data, claims data, and so on. So the new name communicates “that we all deserve a health care system that works for all of us,” Abner asserts. That name captures the aspirational view that we are connected.”.

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OCTOBER 24, 2019

Riffing on his great book, Deep Medicine: How AI Can Humanize Health Care , Eric started his talk donning my own professional hat as a heath economist, sharing data about America’s high health care spending with low ROI yield. That, too, was a prime Dr. Topol moment, wearing his health policy hat: his belief that the U.S.

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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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OCTOBER 21, 2018

As part of the long-term plan for the NHS, funding will be provided to connect patients to a variety of activities, such as cookery classes, walking clubs and art groups, reducing demand on the NHS and improving patients’ quality of life.” He studies digital health passionately, personally, viscerally.

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JANUARY 8, 2024

In kicking off #CES2024, CTA’s researchers noted the acceleration of global connectivity, with gaps in peoples’ ability to connect depending where they live: by region, the percent of people connected to the internet today are, according to CTA’s data, 92% in the U.S. 87% in the E.U.

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Enzyme Health

MARCH 27, 2019

Whether you’re interested in learning more about state-by-state policies, the latest on healthcare cybersecurity, or how to attain financial independence working in this alternate career path, these telemedicine newsletters can keep you wired in. For Broad Digital Health and Telehealth News 3.

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MARCH 5, 2019

.” The OECD broadly defined the phrase in their 2017 paper on the topic as follows: Mobility, cloud computing, the Internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI) and big data analytics are among the most important technologies in the digital economy today. So how’s digital well-being in the U.S.,

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JULY 4, 2022

“While digital health won’t necessarily replace in-person therapy or treatment for many people, it will help make healthcare more readily available to those who need it most,” GWI noted.

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APRIL 7, 2019

A fourth SDOH I’ve been advocating for the past decade is peoples’ access to digital health tools that can scale care to the person, that N of 1, wherever s/he lives. Rural and urban dwellers, alike, often cannot afford data plans charged by Internet Service Providers.

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APRIL 14, 2019

Best Buy Health has been developing partnerships in healthcare, in B2B2C mode, channeling into peoples’ homes for healthy living and aging well “in place.” Joining us on the panel will be Kaiser-Permanente as a prospective partner in such a retail health-to-services-to-home vision, underpinned by data and predictive analytics.

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APRIL 28, 2022

One-half of doctors uses telehealth for continuous monitoring of patients, Overwhelming, medical and chronic disease management are the workflows for telehealth, followed by one-half of physicians using virtual care for specialty visits and 44% for mental and behavioral health.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

It’s a data-packed and footnoted quick read on where we are right now in the pandemic, and how we’re at a moment to pivot toward health care as a civil right in America. The post Health Citizenship in the America. You can access my book on Amazon Kindle here.

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MARCH 12, 2020

Because, ultimately, we must work to bake digital health services into our emergency preparedness and response infrastructure. And then we’ve been working directly with our members to showcase the incredible work they are doing in the face of this health emergency.

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AUGUST 6, 2021

The third chart gives us a mass of dots in a general region around “higher health system performance and not-so-different levels of health care spending — a range of 9% (for New Zealand and Australia) and closer to 12% for Germany and Switzerland. The dot/data point for the U.S. You can miss the U.S.

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MARCH 9, 2022

Krista Drobac, who leads the Alliance for Connected Care, was quoted in Modern Healthcare noting that the JLL survey , “failed to specify the types of services leading to in-person referrals and whether telehealth helped patients avoid emergency or urgent care,” the journal said.

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JULY 10, 2020

Earlier in the SGP report, physicians listed key problems with telehealth, which included privacy (explaining policies to patients), cybersecurity risks, lack of data for care continuity, patient literacy with digital technology, and to be sure, reimbursement and payment parity, among other challenges.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

HRSA’s 8 bureaus and offices (Ryan White, Maternal and child health, rural health policy, healthcare systems, etc.) In 2019, Health Centers across the nation served 30 million patients. Bill England began by discussing the wide range of resources available at HRSA with his presentation, “Telehealth and Research at HRSA.

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JULY 1, 2019

A sum of their data? First, some of the backstory: PLM was way ahead of its time, recognizing the power of peer-to-peer connections and the importance of data as currency long before many others in health care figured that out. An asset to be sold or bartered?

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APRIL 29, 2018

For your further reading and experience of this wonderful conference, here are links to the previous two posts in this trio on Liberation 2018… Part 1: Liberating Healthcare Through Data Liquidity and Consumer Engagement , published 12 April 2018. Part 2: Design to Liberate Healthcare , published 19 April, 2018.

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