Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

Millions of dollars and developers’ time have been invested in conceiving and making digital health tools. Some, but not necessarily a majority, of consumers see benefits in using digital health — primary for wellness and prevention, and to get a better understanding of personal health.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2020

“Digital transformation” was the mantra for all industries before we heard about the COVID-19 virus. Since the emergence of the pandemic, the coronavirus has accelerated the adoption of digital platforms, AI, and ecommerce.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The idea of health care consumerism isn’t just an American discussion, Deloitte points out in its 2019 global survey of healthcare consumers report, A consumer-centered future of health. The third chart arrays health consumers’ interest in price comparison tools, and it’s no surprise that one in two U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 9, 2019

Beyond access to broadband connectivity, this basic need also encompasses peoples’ trust with digital tech. Misuse of personal data is the top driver of distrust in the tech industry around the world, among 64% of global citizens. This is why I so often repeat that broadband connectivity is a social determinant of health.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 9, 2021

The rise of digital health investment and growing role of technology in health care services only accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, people took on their own versions of digital transformation at home, for work, for school, for cooking, shopping, and indeed, for health care.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 18, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic hastened digital transformation for both the health care industry and for individuals — as health consumers, patients, caregivers, and health citizens. While this study targets the consumer goods industry, there is much for health care to glean from the findings.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In full disclosure, Susannah Fox is a long-time colleague, collaborator, and indeed friend of mine since meeting her when she was working at the Pew Research Center, helping us define and explain the earliest days of the Internet in health care. or Health 2.0”

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

I covered the event here in Health Populi, as I have for most of the past decade, highlighting the growth of digital health and, this year, the expanding Internet of Healthy Things called-out by Dr. Joseph Kvedar in 2015. CTA conducted a survey among 2,000 U.S. adults ages 18 and over in the second half of July 2020.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The American Customer Satisfaction Index Insurance and Health Care Study 2020-2021 published today, recognizing consumers’ value for the quality of health insurance companies’ mobile apps and reliability of those apps. This last table organizes that data by consumer-facing industry for 2021.

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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

MARCH 2, 2021

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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Health Populi

MAY 3, 2021

The first four most-trusted sources for health information in 2021 remained the same short-list from 2020: doctors in-person, pharmacists, nutritionists and dieticians, and government or NGOs. Around one-third to nearly 40% of all health citizens were concerned about these health issues a year into the pandemic.

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Health Populi

JUNE 1, 2021

For older people who are digital immigrants, they will remember their initial Zoom get-together’s with much-missed family, ordering groceries online in the first ecommerce purchase, and using telemedicine for the first time as a digital health front-door. Medical alert/personal emergency response systems for safety.

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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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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 23, 2020

Consider an upcoming HIMSS event in Orlando with the charming title: Monitoring Grandma: Adoption of Connected Health Tech by Seniors. Pew hasn’t bothered lately, but AARP recently published a survey of tech ownership among the 50+. Back to monitoring, connected health or otherwise. Just saying.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2019

Social, mobile, analytics and the cloud now underpin the health care industry. We’ve been SMAC’ed, and Accenture’s Digital Health Tech Vision 2019 believes we’re in a post-digital era ripe with opportunity. ” bubble chart of industry positions.

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Health Populi

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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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2022

If you made your living in commercial real estate — and especially, working with hospitals’ and health systems’ office space — would the concept of telehealth be freaking you out right now? If you heed the words of JLL’s 2022 Patient Consumer Survey , you’d chill (at least a bit).

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

To manage personal health finances, patients-as-payors are increasingly willing to face trade-offs and change personal behaviors to lower health care costs, based on research in The Future of Health Care Study from USC’s Center for the Digital Future. The Center analyzed the perspectives of 1,000 U.S.

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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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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2020

The need for a holistic platform the serves up a continuum-of-care tools across the patient journey became evident in a matter of months, Capgemini Research Institute calls out in The Health Fix , a research report assessing peoples’ perspectives on health care in the Age of COVIOD-19. in mid-June 2020. This process can.

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Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2020

consumers would be interested in using telehealth going forward, McKinsey’s consumer survey from May 20, 2020, found. On the provider side of the telehealth equation, telehealth visits fast-scaled between 50 to 175 times pre- and post-COVID’s emergence, McKinsey’s physician survey learned. Some 3 in 4 U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 29, 2022

” Well beyond our individual genetic codes, our health is made where we live, work, play, pray, learn, and shop… also well beyond hospitals and doctors’ offices in-between appointments, and often paid-for out-of-pocket quite separate from peoples’ health insurance plans.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

They framed the challenge with a key statistic that will stay in your mind once you hear it: that health care workers are 5x more likely to experience workplace violence than employees in private industry. They responded with one word: “Trust.”

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Patients’ experiences with the health care industry fall short of their interactions with other industries — namely online retail, online banking and online travel, a new survey from Cedar, a payments company, learned. 33% of patients would like digital payment options.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2023

In health care, one of the “gifts” inspired by the coronavirus pandemic was the industry’s fast-pivot and adoption of digital health tools — especially telehealth and more generally the so-called “digital front doors” enabling patients to access medical services and personal work-flows for their care.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 20, 2022

health citizens’ trust in digital health technology? For these trust-tech insights, Edelman surveyed 15,000 citizens between August 31 and September 12, 2022, residing in 12 countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, S. How might this play into U.S.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Power survey on the subject attested]. That study resulted in the paper, A Call for Care That’s Personal, Accessible and Social , which the company’s CMO, Nicole Althaus, and I will be discussing today at AHIP’s Consumer Experience and Digital Health Forum in Chicago.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2019

As #CES2019 kicks off in Las Vegas with today’s first Media Day, the Consumer Technology Association presented its forecast on the 5 Technology Trends to Watch in 2019 — and they all play into health, wellness, and medical care. Digital Health Tech Empowers Patients. Envisioning the Smart Home of the Future.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 15, 2022

From digital front doors to intelligent hospital rooms, chatbots to portals, hospital-at-home to human-centered AI, forward-looking health systems put the patient at the center of their strategic plans – not just because doing so offers a competitive advantage, but because it's the right thing to do.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

The company quickly learned that scaling in a pandemic can’t just be a physical phenomenon – the need to ramp up, so much so quickly, had to be grounded in digital solutions versus only physical ones (e.g., At that point, the company left behind other businesses not core to health. Health Populi’s Hot Points: As of late May 2020, U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 27, 2018

. • Health information breaches are more highly valued by cyber-attackers as they are worth more than, say, consumers’ bank account or credit card identities. Cyber-breaches are a new-normal in health care. Only 30% conduct such training on a monthly basis or more.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 7, 2018

employers are growing activist roles as stakeholders in the healthcare system, according to the 2019 Large Employers Health Care Strategy and Plan Design Survey from the National Business Group on Health (NBGH). “Our health system was not was not designed with the consumer in mind,” Marcotte observed.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Top Headlines VC firm General Catalyst is creating Health Assurance Transformation Corp., which will partner with 20+ health system partners to guide their transition to value-based care and potentially acquire a health system “where we can demonstrate the blueprint of this transformation for the rest of the industry.”

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

That process will involve working with seven current Qualified Health Information Network candidates, along with any future QHIN applicants. Five in six (83%) of hospital executives are worried about losing business to ambulatory surgery centers, according to survey data from Alexander Group. That said, operating margins were 1.1%

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

consumers told Salesforce that life circumstances have caused them to miss a medical appointment; 40% have challenges finding health services nearby; and, 44% of people said taking time off of work to get care is challenging. ” The cost of health care was the most commonly cited source of health care stress (among 64%).

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2019

But more people are taking care into their own hands, and welcome a growing role for technology to play in enabling self-care, supporting prevention, and improving treatment of diagnosed conditions, according to The Future of Connected Health , a consumer survey from ResMed. For this research, ResMed interviewed 3,001 U.S.

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