Health Populi

MAY 5, 2021

The pandemic accelerated many Very Big Deals in digital health venture capital investment, mergers and acquisitions, and the re-emergence of SPACs in health care. In the COVID-19 era, clinicians and health systems stood up virtual care across the board as-required.

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Health Populi

MAY 12, 2021

“Compare digital health to airlines, cruise lines, and other industries” and the sector looks quite privileged, opined Matthew Holt in a discussion on a study diving deeply into the State of Digital Health , conducted by Catalyst @ Health 2.0 and sponsored by WIPFLI. million, with a median of $3.9

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Health Populi

AUGUST 18, 2020

Two new reports from Accenture update our understanding of the changed health consumer in the context of both “home: and the health care ecosystem. The 2020 tech vision for health is summarized here, tying to Accenture’s previous two years of forecasts. The Dilemma of Smart Things.

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2021

” The first chart shows the one-year trend on trust across industries through U.S. Ironically, the more people share data in a public health crisis, the more that information can be used for good to, in the case of the coronavirus, test, track, and snuff the virus. consumers’ eyes. For the U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

What a difference a pandemic can make in accelerating patients’ adoption of digital health tools. health consumers’ growing digital health “muscles” in the form of demand and confidence in using virtual care.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The pandemic has accelerated consumer trends already in motion early this year when the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) convened the annual CES 2020 in Las Vegas. What a difference a public health crisis makes, accelerating digital health beyond fitness geeks, Quantified Self adherents, and smartwatch adopters.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

When announced, the news was a signal that health care and the larger tech-enabled ecosystem that supports health and well-being is embedded in peoples’ everyday lives. We can expect to see more women-related health tech featured at CES 2022, including on education panels and speaking platforms.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2021

Expanding omni-channel, data-driven, cost-effective health care in the community, tailoring that care, and attending to mental health paint the picture of health through the lens of CVS Health. The company published the Health Trends Report 2021 today, calling out ten forces shaping health care this year.

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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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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

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

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

A key conclusion in this report is that, while most consumers want to improve the health of their homes, many people do not know “where” to start. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated consumers’ embrace of their homes as their health hubs.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

How can digital health and other consumer-facing technologies help our health? For important insights into this devastating risk-trend, read this Washington Post coverage published just a few days before the CDC reports came out. We ended 2022 with this new, sobering statistic from the Centers tor Disease Control (CDC).

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Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2021

In this year’s 2021 annual report by Deloitte into Connectivity & Mobile Trends, their report details How the pandemic has stress-tested the crowded digital home. consumers’ smartphone use for managing health grew by 50% during the public health crisis. Deloitte found that U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 28, 2020

I wrote about this challenge in 2014 in my report for California Health Care Foundation, Here’s Looking at You: How Personal Information Is Being Tracked and Used. Years ago, the Harvard Privacy Project led by Latanya Sweeney at the time had addressed privacy as, “the sword and the shield of public health.”

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Health Populi

APRIL 7, 2019

In addition to the food supply impact for the Planet Earth’s patients, climate change impacts public health in many other ways. The American Public Health Association founded the Center for Climate. Rural and urban dwellers, alike, often cannot afford data plans charged by Internet Service Providers.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

Philips, recently named as one of the largest Fortune Global Companies in 2020 (#385, up 46 spots and ranking in the top 10 largest public health care companies in the world), has been working globally with health systems since the emergence of the coronavirus in Wuhan, China in 2019. equipment and hardware).

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

“Generative AI can either deepen and restore trust or exacerbate mistrust and introduce new skepticism among consumers and health care stakeholders alike,” Deloitte explained in a report on the emergence of GenAI in health care. Layered on top of this is health citizens’ eroding trust in other aspects of U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 14, 2020

A recent IDC Health Insights presentation focused on health IT industry trends during and after the COVID-19 era. It examined some of tools and strategies that stand to gain ground in the months ahead as health systems build on lessons learned during the coronavirus crisis.

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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2020

Six in 10 patients said their trust/believe in health care providers increased as a result of COVID-19, followed by 50% of patients finding increased trust in urgent care clinics, 49% in public health institutions, 48% in independent pharmacies. 45% in pharmaceutical companies, and 44% in large retail pharmacy chains.

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E-CareManagement

JUNE 27, 2021

Data of all kinds has an important role in public health, logistics management, and the healthcare supply chain. • Robert Havasy, Senior Director, Connected Health, HIMSS. Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Economist, Advisor, Trend Weaver, THINK-Health & Founder, Health Populi blog. Steven R. .

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Health Populi

JANUARY 7, 2019

So at #CES2019, I’ve identified examples of technologies on the show floor to address heart health in each of these can-do, patient-empowering behavior changes. I provide these as exemplars in their categories, with the proviso that they do not represent clinical advice from this health economist and trend-weaver.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 20, 2023

Colin Hung spoke to Marcus Perez at Altera Digital Health about helping providers solve cash flow and throughput challenges today while planning for care-at-home and other initiatives to support future business growth. Read more… Hearing From Our Health IT Friend on Capitol Hill.

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E-CareManagement

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Data of all kinds has an important role in public health, logistics management, and the healthcare supply chain. • Robert Havasy, Senior Director, Connected Health, HIMSS. Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Economist, Advisor, Trend Weaver, THINK-Health & Founder, Health Populi blog. Steven R. .

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Health Populi

MARCH 31, 2020

But technology is also playing a role inside the home for supporting online health and fitness. 11% of people are using health and fitness services online more often, and 43% about the same. Affluent households drive this trend, CTA found: 1 in 4 affluent folks are using online health and fitness services more often.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2020

2020 will be remembered for disruption and dislocation on many fronts; among the major blips in the year will be it remembered as the largest funding year for digital health recorded, according to Rock Health’s report on the 3Q2020 digital health funding. based digital health start-ups adding up $9.4

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2020

This last chart comes out of my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen. Note how little respect people feel from health care insurance companies, the government, and telecomms. The pandemic has accelerated many trends in and beyond health care.

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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

AUGUST 6, 2021

The infection rate is once again trending up, presumably due to a combination of factors including a dramatic reduction in demand for new vaccinations, the rapid spread of the more infectious Delta variant in the U.S., To answer my over-arching question — can digital health help improve health system performance in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2020

Connected Health Mobility Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth How contact tracing, contactless experiences and remote monitoring will redefine healthcare and public health. The rapid upscaling of virtual care capacity and the mainstreaming of telehealth have given rise to new digital health tools.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Dr. Wallensky and other public health officials acknowledged “vaccine fatigue” and the relatively low uptake of vaccinations for fending off the coronavirus and the flu as well as other infectious diseases. She points to consumers’ growing demand for brands to support their health – including brands outside of the healthcare space.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

As Deeptha Khanna, Philips’ Chief Business Leader for Personal Health, said in the company’s virtual press conference, “We have [also] witnessed the reinvention of our homes as a core element of the healthcare pathway, with telehealth, virtual and remote care technologies as the key drivers for change during COVID-19. Take George and Audrey.

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Chilmark Research

JANUARY 14, 2015

And if we’ve seen one thing in digital health, it’s that if you build it, they’re not guaranteed to come. Measuring outcomes and quantifying the public health impact of an undertaking of this scale will not be easy – nor do any of these three entities really have an obligation or incentive to do so publicly.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2021

.” Calm is but one of a growing portfolio of tools that health citizens can use to manage anxiety and stress, get to sleep (and stay sleeping), and bolster mental well-being. This is one of nine key trends identified the annual go-to primer on the wellness market from the Global Wellness Institute. The future of immune health.

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Health Populi

APRIL 3, 2024

health consumers’ Spring 2024 Wellness Trends published March 27th. Once you review the Peloton Spring report, and add in the company’s 2023 Fitness Journey research (analyzing health consumer survey data fielded in August and September ’23), you’ll appreciate the fact that the population of people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2020

Next week, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) will convene CES, the Consumer Electronics Show, where over 180,000 tech-minded people from around the world will convene to kick the tires on new TVs, games, smart home devices, 5G connections, 3-D printing, drones, and to be sure, digital health innovations.

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Health Populi

MAY 17, 2021

This past weekend, and for the second time, I had the privilege and opportunity to be a panelist for the perennial hackathon meet-up of Nurse Hack 4 Health , sponsored by Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, Sonnier, and DevUp. This round, the hackathon attracted hundreds of nurses from at least 20 countries and 30 U.S.

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