Health Populi

DECEMBER 28, 2021

.” As we enter Year 3 of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and civic chasms and economic uncertainty (inflation, health care costs, Great Resignations), I took this page out of Dr, Seuss in my last monthly post for Medecision’s Liberate Health blog. along with health disparities and inequities.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 9, 2023

. “We hope our work will inspire others to join our health assurance movement and usher in a new era of better health for everyone in our communities,” the GC team envisions. Samsung Health already works with Walgreens, ThedaCare, Lee health, and Rise Health whose data could be accessed by patients using their services.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2022

It is powered by a team of digital health veterans, social workers specialized in oncology, and data scientists who enable patients to engage in their own care coordination, beyond the clinical. The platform connects patients to the Jasper Care Guides – the high-touch aspect of the service.

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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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Digital Health Global

APRIL 27, 2023

Prior to Kyruus, Boumenot was Chief Outcomes Officer for b.well Connected Health. Before that, he was the Chief Product Officer for Signify Health. About Kyruus: Kyruus is on a mission to connect people to the right care. He also held several senior leadership roles at athenahealth.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

The use of telehealth visits grew from 4% of older people having ever used virtual platforms by May 2019, to 30% of older patients using telehealth in June 2020. Among these visits, 76% were with a primary care provider, 32% with a specialty care provider, and 18% with a mental health provider, the study found.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2024

A decade+ later, we see the maturing of the patient-as-consumer, taking on more self-care beyond fitness and wellness blurring into medical and acute care as hospitals re-locate services and monitoring to people at home and people becoming more activated in tracking chronic conditions, from head-to-toe.

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Health Populi

MARCH 5, 2018

Health Populi’s Hot Points : Health is social: isolation is a social determinant for ill health. We learned from the first Edelman Health Engagement Barometer that the three top factors that consumers look for when health-engaging with any organization are trust, authenticity, and satisfaction. 46% of U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 4, 2022

Here, note the growth of connected TVs, more spending on laptops and computers (driven heavily by continued working-from-home and educating supported in homes), gaming (again, with homes even more focusing on entertainment and family and individual fun time), and wireless headphones — part of that 21st century living.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2022

People spend one-half of their lives in “less-than-good health,” we learn early in the paper, Adding years to life and life to years from the McKinsey Health Institute. This research found that our social relationships are linked both to mental health as well as morbidity and mortality — that is, death.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

Six in ten people are open to health and wellness services via virtual channels, over half like the idea of remote monitoring linking with at-home devices, and 1 in 2 people would be open to routine appointments through telehealth. Nearly one-half would also be keen on mental health appointments and specialty visits for chronic conditions.

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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

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.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 18, 2020

That information control is a major issue for 70% of health care consumers, “concerned about data privacy and commercial tracking associated with ‘my’ online activities, behaviors, location and interests,” Accenture’s survey learned.

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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

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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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2019

Whether for drug discovery, preventing hospital readmissions, making sound human resource decisions, or addressing population health challenges, Big Data are flowing into more cognitive systems to mine information and inform clinicians’ decisions at the point of care and researchers’ ongoing search for better treatments.

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Health Populi

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. That’s a big if: in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Liberation can mean patients accessing services where and when needed, without friction of bias, inequities, healthcare deserts and shortages, or payment barriers.

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Health Populi

JULY 10, 2020

The most bullish clinicians about providing telehealth visits as an on-going alternative to in-office visits are behavioral/mental health providers and primary care physicians, 93% and 62% of whom expect to provide more telehealth to patients.

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Health Populi

JULY 29, 2022

Zocdoc launched a data ecosystem enabled through application programming interfaces to streamline care coordination and referrals between primary care providers and specialists, aiming to provide consumers with a better experience and more convenient care access. Here’s another lens on the Optum health consumer data.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

By saving time, telehealth allows the doctor to fit more patients into the week.Several respondents said that televisits would bring more people into the health care system, especially mental health patients. As Hartsfield says, “Patient engagement strategies have never been more critical.”

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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

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

These companies have critical work ahead…[to] improve clinical outcomes; alleviating the burdensome administrative and technological roadblocks that prevent doctors and nurses from doing what they do best; and aligning performance and the interests of patients, providers, and greater society.”

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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

JUNE 10, 2020

Each institution had their own workflows and so Philips had to coordinate and develop an approach baking in interoperability and a cloud-based solution – consistent with the connected care journey the company had embarked on.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

health citizens face physical, financial, and mental health challenges of a syndemic, inflation, and stress – all of which will shape peoples’ demand side for health care and digital technology, and a supply side of providers challenged by tech-enabled organizations with design and data chops. Entering 2023, U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2023

“Are we losing the battle against heart disease?” ” asks the lead article featured in the January 2023 issue of the AARP Bulletin.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 17, 2018

See Adam wearing Google glasses and Eve next to a digital twin, health devices, remote health tech and skin-worn sensors. Having read Koen’s books and spending time with this digital health futurist thinker-doer-and-maker, I know that he is my personal Gardener of Health-Tech Delights.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

Let’s travel to Shanghai, China where, “the covid-19 epidemic has brought millions of new patients online. Will the coronavirus inspire greater adoption of telehealth in the U.S.? 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

MARCH 21, 2023

Pew Research Center has published several analyses based on the data collected in the December 2022 consumer survey. I’ll focus on a few of the health/care data points here, but I recommend your reviewing the entire set of reports to get to know how U.S. For pain management and chatbots for mental health?

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Health Populi

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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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

JULY 26, 2021

Still, the lack of interoperability remains a barrier hindering clinicians from using digital health tools. Security, too, remains a block with 41% of clinicians still concerned over the security of patient data. al. ); and, caregiver stressors will continue to plague millions of health citizens.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 10, 2024

But we find that many of the applications in this data-device ecosystem were relevant and useful for younger people, as well. 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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