Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Rock Health’s research has tracked peoples’ use of telemedicine, wearable technology, digital health tracking, and online health information since 2015, and the results this round show relative flattening of adoption across these various tools. What do health trackers track, then?

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

That second point is illustrated by the first diagram, showing the interconnected nature of data sources that are generated by the U.S. health/care ecosystem of: Some 3,000 health departments and boards of health. 59 state and territorial health departments. Hospitals and health care providers. Health plans.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

FYI, I am sharing these data with permission from CTA, grateful to be able to do so. The first chart lays out 3 timelines for consumers’ experience with health and fitness activities: those used before the COVID-19 pandemic, those currently using, and those people plan to use after the pandemic. consumers in the pandemic.

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Health Populi

JULY 22, 2021

Evidence supporting the use of digital health tools if growing, tracked in Digital Health Trends 2021: Innovation, Evidence, Regulation, and Adoption from IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 15, 2020

Physicians are evolving as digital doctors, embracing the growing role of data generated in electronic health records as well as through their patients using wearable technologies and mobile health apps downloaded in ubiquitous smartphones, described in The Rise of the Data-Driven Physician , a 2020 Health Trends Report from Stanford Medicine.

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Health Populi

APRIL 5, 2021

With such turbocharged growth on the supply side, Beazley, experts in specialty insurance, explores the risks of digital health and wellness in a new report, Digital health, telehealth and wellness: Attitudes to risk and insurance.

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Health Populi

JULY 17, 2018

With the vast majority of patients’ medical records now digitized in electronic health records systems, the opportunities to mine, learn from, and act on the findings are promising for U.S. Data Veracity. AI enables enterprises to take in a lot of data and make sense of it, with the power of better informing decisions.

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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. 24% of U.S. households intend to buy a smart speaker in the next 12 months, two-thirds of whom are repeat purchasers.

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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. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic drove U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 16, 2022

Delivering health care during the heights of the COVID-19 pandemic proved to both patients and their clinicians that virtual care was not only a viable channel for care, but very often a preferable “place” to collaborate for treatment.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2024

This innovator positions itself as “dataware for food managers” and offers several solutions — including helping clients manage diet and promote health eating, leveraging food raw data.

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Health Populi

JULY 7, 2020

Among the largest deals valued at over $100 mm were ClassPass (raising $285 mm), in the business of virtual fitness classes; Alto Pharmacy, a digital prescription service ($250 mm); AmWell, the telehealth company ($194 mm); Element Science (wearable defibrillators, $146 mm); and, Insitro (rising $143 mm, for AI drug discovery).

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Health Populi

AUGUST 12, 2021

The IoB ecosystem includes the technologies that are part of the health care Internet of Things, as well as EHRs, robotic surgery systems, and smart ventilators which also generate data about peoples’ health and wellness.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2020

But while the new ONC rules may make it easier for health consumers to access personal health information, the Field of Dreams phenomenon subverts the noble goal: we may “build” a system for people to access health data (like Blue Button), but patients may not “come.”

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Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2022

At the same time, the pandemic fostered growing experience with and appreciation for virtual care platforms and on-ramps to health care when needed. Patients have come to accept telehealth in their health care workflows when they value virtual care’s virtues: convenience, access, availability among other features.

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Health Populi

JULY 25, 2022

As patients-as-consumers experienced physical distancing from their traditional health care providers starting in March 2020, more people took to ecommerce, contactless payments, and social connections on Zoom and Facetime — across the generations. healthcare system.

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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

JULY 20, 2018

One-third of physicians have concerns about using virtual care services, such as medical errors that may result, access to technology, and data security. consumers are now tracking health via digital tools, and one-half of these share the data generated by their apps. One in two U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2023

That was in the midst of the fast-pivot toward virtual care and telehealth on-ramps welcomed by both clinicians and patients. This is the eighth annual global FHI report, with detailed country-specific analyses to follow for the U.S. Here’s what I wrote about the 2020 FHI , research conducted in the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Some of the key behaviors Deloitte gauged to measure health care consumerism were, Increasing use of technology and willingness to share personal health information. Interest in and use of virtual care/telehealth. Interest in emerging technologies like AI and robotics. Levels of self-efficacy and prevention.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 10, 2020

On the “pro” side of the equation are, Immediate access to real-time health data. On the “cons” side, consider, Varying data accuracy and potential for false readings. On the “cons” side, consider, Varying data accuracy and potential for false readings. Unproven benefits.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: This week during the HLTH conference, we’ll learn about exciting developments in new digital health products and services embedding AI, leveraging virtual care and telehealth, serving up new models of primary care, and a growing supply of mental health services that can scale beyond traditional face-to-face (..)

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2019

Secure US to Secure ME calls out the risk of cybersecurity across healthcare organizations’ entire ecosystem of inter-connected payers, providers, technology vendors and, to be sure, patients whose data are a personal precious asset at increasing risk of hacking.

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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

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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JANUARY 20, 2019

So that brings Philips into the larger ecosystem of the healthy city which can be informed through data generated in smart, connected homes (see my post covering one wellness home concept here in Health Populi).

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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

JANUARY 18, 2021

Heart health at home. The heart has been a digital health focus at CES for several years as sensors got added to wristworn activity trackers and mobile apps married to medical technologies that were once only available for use in a doctor’s office or outpatient clinic.

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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

DECEMBER 19, 2022

So we can think about the home’s “HealthQuarters” by “room,” such as the bedroom (for sleep and healthy sex-lives), the bathroom (for weight and mood observed in the mirror, or the toilet as a collector of health data), the kitchen (for healthy food and cooking), and the overall home environment itself for air and water quality.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 17, 2019

Microsoft partnered with Zillow (also a partner in the KB Home project) to mine data on housing and wages in the area. Housing prices have increase 96% in eight years, boosting home prices beyond the reach of too many workers whose wages have stayed relatively flat over the period.

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Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Meaningful small data. Healthcare data analytics focus will shift from ‘big data’ to ‘meaningful small data’ by hospital specialty, according to Behera. Increasing digitization of healthcare workflows is leading us to a data explosion along the care cycle, globally,” he says. Patient data and risk analytics.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2021

It’s clear that health citizens with lower information hygiene have lower willingness to get a COVID-19 vaccination in the next year compared with consumers embodying higher information hygiene, vetting data sources and engaging with news. The facility stores as much data as in 50,000 Libraries of Congress, he described.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Without attending to health, the economic viability of cities will be threatened. “Data is suddenly on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs,” Adam Beck stated as leader of the Smart Cities Council for Australia and New Zealand. We are far from there this new month of September 2020, six months into the pandemic.

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