Health Populi

JULY 25, 2022

Telehealth and “digital front doors” for health care became a new experience for most people accessing virtual care for the first time in 2020 and 2021, now persisting most prominently for mental health access — too long under-served and under-supplied in the traditional/legacy U.S. healthcare system.

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Health Populi

JULY 7, 2020

Among these eight segments, the hottest categories of digital health investment in the first six months of 2020 were on-demand health care (like telehealth and virtual care), monitoring of disease, treatment, and fitness/wellness.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 31, 2018

Omron has been one of the few consumer-facing digital health companies that has taken the long-view and done the work to file for FDA clearance for a medical-grade technology that mainstream consumers can use. Omron seeks to jump that hurdle through FDA clearance.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2019

As an example of this trend, Accenture points to Mindstrong which leverages AI and machine learning to divine digital phenotypes of consumers-patients that inform mental health support.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 14, 2022

We start with key lessons from the pandemic, confront the supply-side challenges we’ve already seen the start of, confess to our thorny sub-optimal solutions to the opioid crisis and mental health epidemic, and deal with the scourge of health equity that mars U.S. health care outcomes, bioethics, and moral imperatives.

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Health Populi

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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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Patients as health consumers face challenges paying for care, managing mental health, finding health services and taking time off work to access them, caregiving, and in transportation for care along with personal mobility issues. A few key data points illustrate the magnitude of the frustration: 50% of U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

But there are opportunities to learn from patients and advocacy groups at the meeting to inform the demand side of the health/care equation, and that’s crucial to understanding consumer experience, values and sense of value that enables people to get the care they need. That’s the supply side of HLTH.

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Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2023

We can expect increasing investments in surgery centers, emergency care outside of the traditional ER, patient education focused on health literacy, acute care at home (the hospital-at-home migration, continuing), more virtual critical care and e-ICUs, mental health, and nutrition.

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Health Populi

JULY 16, 2019

The ear, for example, is a newer physical site for health applications for heart health, for example (well beyond listening to an exercise playlist to sustain cardio workouts). VR/AR applications have evidence for pain abatement and mental health bolstering for people with PTSD or anxiety.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2023

“Despite breathtaking medical advancements since President Harry Truman declared war on heart disease 75 years ago, researchers have observed a disturbing trend that started in 2009: America’s death rate from heart-related conditions is climbing again,” the detailed essay explains.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

Will the coronavirus inspire greater adoption of telehealth in the U.S.? Let’s travel to Shanghai, China where, “the covid-19 epidemic has brought millions of new patients online. They are likely to stay there,” asserts “ The smartphone will see you now ,” an article in the March 7th 2020 issue of The Economist.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 7, 2019

Self-care is the new health care as patients, now consumers at greater financial risk for medical spending, are learning. At #CES2019, I’m on the lookout for digital technologies that can help people adopt and sustain healthy behaviors that can help consumers save money on medical care and enhance quality of life-years.

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Health Populi

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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Health Populi

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Think of Deb as the proverbial shoe-maker’s child with no shoes: she leads a company helping drive digital transformation in health care, but two people she loved, and she herself, had all been failed by some aspect of fragmented health care delivery in America.

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Leadership Mental health Patient Experience Life Science 174

Health Populi

JANUARY 17, 2019

Green plants are an important ingredient for wellness, with benefits for thinking, for mental health and mood, and for cleaner air, as this post in Healthline discusses. The kitchen is often thought of being the hub of health in the home as most consumers now view food-as-medicine ( covered most recently here in Health Populi ).

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