Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Most employers and their workers see the benefits of digital health in helping make health care more accessible and lower-cost, according to survey research published in Health on Demand from Mercer Marsh Benefits. There’s high demand among both decision makers and employees for a pro-health culture in companies.

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Health Populi

MAY 3, 2021

While the “in-person” visit to a doctor or medical professional continues to rank first as consumers’ most-trusted information source, the virtual doc or clinician rose in trust during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Euromonitor’s latest read on Consumer Health: Changes in Consumer Behaviour during COVID-19.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

adults 18 and over to determine peoples’ perspectives on personal health information in light of their pandemic era experiences. This study re-confirms the current state of the health consumer who has a “concerned embrace” of technology. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Earlier this year, Accenture found that U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

GlobalWebIndex “connects the dots” of consumers trends in 2020 including the topics shown in the first graphic including commerce and retail, gaming, travel, human touch, nostalgia, privacy and digital health — the first of these trends discussed in the report. A digital health assistant (eg.,

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

adults 18 and over to determine peoples’ perspectives on personal health information in light of their pandemic era experiences. This study re-confirms the current state of the health consumer who has a “concerned embrace” of technology. consumers’ adoption of digital health technology stalled.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2020

The 21st Century Cures Act emphasizes patients’ control of personal health information. ONC rules issues in March 2020 called for more patient-facing health tools and apps to bolster health consumer engagement and empowerment. Digital literacy combines with health literacy to bolster patient engagement.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Patients searching online for health information and health care provider reviews is mainstream in 2019. Digital health tracking is now adopted by 4 in 10 U.S. Rock Health’s Digital Health Consumer Adoption Report for 2019 was developed in collaboration with the Stanford Medicine Center for Digital Health.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2021

sought health information online in 2020, a slight decline from 2018. More young women than young men looked for health info online, as well as more Hispanic/Latinx and White youngers compared with Blacks. A new mental health risk arose in 2020 in the U.S. Some 8 in 10 younger people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

This was followed by finding a hospital, asking about medication information, seeking nutrition information, scheduling a visit to a doctor or hospital, connecting to a digital health device (like a Fitbit tracker or blood glucometer), finding a clinician, and researching treatment options.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Using digital health tech is a new normal for U.S. consumers, including Seniors, found in the 2018 digital health consumer survey from Deloitte. The title of the report, “Consumers are on board with virtual health options,” summarizes the bullish outlook for telehealth.

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Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2021

Among the least likely barriers were unqualified clinicians (compared with a “live” in-person doctor), the doctor’s inability to share health information with the patient, difficulty in booking an appointment, distractions from other online activities, and privacy issues. Deloitte found that U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Health Populi’s Hot Points: A new study from Weber Shandwick and KRC asked a question that speaks to consumers’ trust and willingness to engage with different sources of health information. They are, in my evolving concept of the health/care ecosystem, retail health’s front-line workers.

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Enzyme Health

MARCH 27, 2019

For Changes in Telehealth Policy ### Center for Connected Health Policy If you’re looking for a resource from an organization working to advance policies that make telemedicine possible in the first place, The Center for Connected Health Policy newsletter is a must-read. For Broad Digital Health and Telehealth News 3.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: There’s a new social determinant of health in town, and it’s broadband connectivity. The lack of broadband to rural health citizens exacerbates disparities by preventing people from digital engagement in their health and caring for loved ones.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As the world becomes increasingly digitized, the healthcare industry is rapidly adopting connected health technology. Let us talk about connected health’s conceptual model, some popular examples of devices, and their applications in actual clinical practice. What is the Connected Health Model?

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2018

9 in 10 hospitals and health systems prioritize improving the consumer/patient experience, but only 30% of providers are building these capabilities, I wrote in the Health Populi blog discussing Kaufman Hall’s research. These benefits can’t be realized in healthcare without the enterprise health cloud ensuring privacy and security.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

In an age when nearly everyone is digitally connected in some way – even many senior citizens, who are often characterized as technophobic – it only makes sense that the healthcare industry is seeing a lot of connected health devices and remote patient monitoring (RPM) technologies. Bardy Diagnostics.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

But trust is a precursor to health engagement, so trust can be a barrier to patients and providers working together to improve healthcare. In addition to the EHR/screen-time challenge, there’s also a data/health information concern: patients expect health providers to be good data stewards, protecting personal health information.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

According to the 2019 Accenture Digital Health Consumer Survey , patient’s expectations are increasing for providers to offer digital capabilities. Providence Health’s Innovation team continuously monitors these trends to identify ways to deliver a better patient care experience.

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Joseph C. Kvedar, MD – Reinventing Healthcare

JUNE 22, 2021

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]While thinking about my keynote address at the 2021 American Telemedicine Association (ATA) annual conference, I kept coming back to Daniel Kahneman’s Nobel-prize-winning theory (his book is called Thinking Fast and Slow).

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Joseph C. Kvedar, MD – Reinventing Healthcare

MARCH 11, 2021

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]According to the Consumer Technology Association, recent data shows that 59% of consumers use remote mental health services, 49% are using telehealth for physical health, and 37% are using health fitness apps – all increases compared to before the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 21, 2020

Sharing data in a public health crisis is important for both identifying people who have been infected to stop-the-spread of the virus, as well as sharing personal health information for developing treatments to cure disease. For consumers to share the intimate asset of their personal health data, the situation requires trust.

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Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2018

I leave you with one proviso which could be a barrier to patients engaging with digitized health information: in the wake of Facebook/Cambridge Analytica, there is a wake-up call for consumers to become more mindful about the security of their personal data online.

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