Health Populi

JANUARY 5, 2020

My focus is all-health, all-the-time, so I’m weaving the connections between connected cars, home appliances, telecoms, and Big Tech who put on the Ritz and glitz today and tomorrow for the press. A fourth reality-check is this eleventh year of Living in Digital Times ’ annual program, the Digital Health Summit.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Among nine projects I evaluated, I’ll share one with you here which is an exemplar of how a diverse group of nurses and staff from Duke University Health System came together to address, in their words, The Story of Workplace Violence. Some of these are shown on the inspiration/problems graphic here.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The survey informing the report was conducted between August 2 and September 7, 2021, among 3,616 adults 18 and older (in English, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, and Vietnamese based on consumers’ language preferences). That’s the supply side of HLTH.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has re-shaped consumers for work, school, fitness, cooking, and certainly for health care. In addition, the research also surveyed 153 provider executives, 124 pharmaceutical execs, and 128 health plan executives. In America at Home , the market research group explained how people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 17, 2023

One half-of health care financial leaders plan to invest in technology to cut costs — and most believe that AI has the potential to re-define the entire finance function as they look to Leading the transformation, a study conducted by U.S. health finance leaders thinking about emerging technologies. Bank among U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

The pandemic has put health care top-of-mind for health citizens the world over. For this analysis, the Pew research team assessed the views of some 2,600 health citizens living in 17 developed countries in February 2021. . The survey found that the pandemic has influenced politics around the world — not just in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2021

A bipartisan group comprising half of U.S. senators has reintroduced the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act of 2021. The act would expand coverage of Medicare telehealth services and make some COVID-19 telehealth flexibilities permanent, among other provisions.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2019

rural residents’ access to broadband at home continues to lag behind urban and suburban dwellers, the Pew Research Group noted in a May 2019 research note on Americans’ use of technology. In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 28, 2023

[Spoiler alert: in the Hot Points, below, I add a fifth consideration: health equity + dignity]. To gauge older Americans’ views on technology, privacy and trust, AARP conducted an online survey among 3,229 U.S. adults ages 18 and over in September and October 2023.

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2019

The University of Michigan National Poll on Healthy Aging surveyed some 2,000 U.S. adults age 50–80 in October 2018, assessing older peoples’ health, health behaviors, experiences and feelings related to companionship and social isolation. What is also universal is that loneliness can kill and hurt us.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

believe that the medical mis-information problem is worsening, learned in survey research from Merck Manuals. The consumer survey of 2,044 U.S. The doctor survey was conducted of 263 physicians by Merck Manuals at the Family Medical Experience conference. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Last week, Dr. .”

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Health Populi

JANUARY 3, 2022

And about one-in-three Americans has made a 2022 New Year’s resolution involving some aspect of mental health, the American Psychiatric Association noted approaching the 2021 winter holiday season. Stress about personal finances, too, afflicts women more than men based on APA’s survey findings.

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Health Populi

MARCH 19, 2020

adults were surveyed between 12 and 15 March 2020 on the coronavirus pandemic and their perspectives on the media and political leaders’ information credibility. About a quarter of both groups say they aren’t sure. While most people in the U.S. 29% of Americans think the virus was created in a lab.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2021

feel the stress compared with other age groups — with Gen Z and Gen Xers following. The APA’s August/COVID Resilience Survey was conducted online by The Harris Poll in August 2021 among 3,035 U.S. This group of highly-stressed people were also more likely to say they struggled to make basic daily decisions.

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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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Health Populi

MARCH 30, 2021

This analysis was based on data generated through McKinsey’s COVID-19 US Consumer Pulse Survey conducted in mid-February 2021 among 2,000+ U.S. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The third chart illustrates McKinsey’s findings on U.S. And for digital wellness, about 3 in 4 U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Over one-third had more referrals for their services, and 29% of therapists served more patients: By age group, 29% of therapists saw more adult patients 18 to 64 years of age. Stressed Out By COVID and Civil Unrest – the APA’s Stress in America Survey, Part 2, June 2020. 21% saw more adolescent patients ages 13-17.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2021

If they don't act before the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency, the groups said, Medicare beneficiaries "will lose access to virtual care options which have become a lifeline to many." "Congress not only has the opportunity to bring the U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2020

Those most negatively affected by the pandemic tend to be younger, Gen Z age group and African-American, 63% of whom felt financial pressure directly due from the virus and the national economic lockdown. Consumers , survey research from TransUnion. The analog here for the health consumer is that millions of U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 6, 2020

At the same time, peoples’ societal worries seem even more concerning: 82% fear for the health of others, and 9 in 10 consumers are worried about the impact on the larger economy outside of their own kitchen table. Finally, the Indifferents , a small group of 1 in 10 consumers, live lives as “business as usual.”

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Brian Klepper of Worksite Health Advisors , longtime consigliere to self-insured employers, unions, and value-oriented providers of medical services, explained the growth in value-based care he expects to see in the coming months: “Today’s descendants of the disruptor Managed Care companies of the 1980’s are value-focused and high performing….that

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier. The coronavirus pandemic has shown U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Telemedicine use did not vary much across physician age groups. For the patients’ insights, Doximity surveyed 2,000 people, 1,000managing chronic conditions and 1,000 who were not. For the physicians’ profile, Doximity examined 180,000 doctors’ who billed Medicare for telemedicine claims between January 2020 and June 2021.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2020

More enterprise applications will be underpinned by 5G communications by 2023, none more important than those for health care. A survey conducted by PwC five years ago found that the vast majority of consumers would welcome. These can be heavy lifts in terms of data requirements for those applications in the “Massive IoT” category.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 27, 2022

As these latter technologies developed and generated lots of digital data, researchers, clinicians, and third parties have mashed up the information for wellness and medical and other reasons that have had nothing to do with the context of health/care. A new Ipsos survey of U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

We know web-search for health information — seeking advice on symptoms, prescription drugs, or diagnoses — has been a mainstream behavior for most consumers for several years. The third chart from the GlobalWebIndex survey asks, “how do consumers feel about sharing their data?”

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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.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier. ” The coronavirus pandemic has shown U.S.

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Clear Arch Health

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

RPM is passive monitoring of a patient’s health status between face-to-face visits. This technology helps to keep clinicians informed through vital signs data that are delivered via a combination of connected health devices (i.e., glucose and blood pressure monitors, weight scales, oximeters, etc.),

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Health Populi

MAY 2, 2019

The graphic is based on work done by Juhan Sonin of GoInvo , a group that does brilliant work on health data design that’s vigilantly people-focused. GoInvo has been working for a long time on how to communicate health and healthcare data in enchanting ways. mobile consumers.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The growing use of remote health monitoring, which continuously tracks patients’ managing chronic conditions at home, will drive telehealth/virtual care volumes, along with the transactional use of virtual visits for both chronic and acute care reasons.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

JULY 6, 2015

As an innovative healthcare organization, Ochsner, a large Louisiana- based health network with 12 hospitals, 40 clinicians and an a 1,000+ Physician Group Practice, is committed to helping consumers use mobile and wearable connected health tools for self- management and care collaboration.

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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2018

Aside from the technology challenges, which are not trivial, physicians do concur with consumers about the potential benefits of virtual care to expand access, provide convenience to patients, and enable connections in-between office appointment times. “Macy’s?

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Health Populi

MARCH 5, 2018

But in the past year, the percentage of people using Facebook and its corporate sister YouTube has flattened, based on the survey report, Social Media Use in 2018 from the Pew Research Center. The Pew Research Group polled 2,002 U.S. Health Populi’s Hot Points : Health is social: isolation is a social determinant for ill health.

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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

APRIL 28, 2022

Among those doctors who were not providing telehealth by late 2021, just over one half never did so during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the 2021 Telehealth Survey Report from the AMA. Four in five U.S. physicians were using telehealth to care for patients at the end of 2021.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Connected Health Government & Policy Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth The fate of virtual care adoption is tied to the fate of broadband expansion. The United Soybean Board surveyed farm operations nationwide in 2021, for instance, and found that nearly 60% of U.S. Make no mistake, I am a believer!

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