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Health Consumers Expect Healthcare to be Digital (and Secure), Philips Future Health Index Finds

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Among the top obstacles are lack of access to data-sharing systems coupled with lack of interoperability between health IT investments, preference for paper and phone, and data privacy and security concerns. The Dilemma is the risk of “too little” or “too much” health data being shared.

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What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2022

In summing up the patient-centered interoperability goal, Ardy summarized: “We’ve created the Mint.com of health data.” ” Health Populi’s Hot Points: Many of my beloved and brilliant colleagues are convening this week at HealthDataPalooza and the National Health Policy Conference in Washington, DC.

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The Home and Low-Touch Health Care – a Health Consumer Update from Capgemini

Health Populi

JULY 27, 2020

patients’ electronic health records lack the level of interoperability that the COVID-19 pandemic could have better leveraged. That’s a big if: in the U.S., could develop a national COVID-19 pandemic surveillance system.

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Virtual Health Care Can Reduce Carbon Emissions: the Environmental ROI on Telehealth

Health Populi

MAY 7, 2023

Every stakeholder in health care as an individual as well as member of an organization has a role to play in addressing climate change. Check out an essay on the role of health informatics in climate disaster published in JAMIA by two health IT experts with the Australian institute of Health Innovation at Macquarie University in Sydney.

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Three in Five People 50+ in the US Will Likely Use Telehealth In the Future – An Update from AARP

Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

. “While it is understandable to see a decline in mental health or emotional well-being during trying times, this is not a normal part of aging.

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How Digital Health Can Stimulate Economic Development

Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

It’s National Health IT Week in the US, so I’m kicking off the week with this post focused on how digital health can bolster economic development. As the only health economist in the family of the 2018 HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors, this is a voice through which I can uniquely speak.

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Loneliness, Public Policy and AI – Lessons From the UK For the US

Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2018

That’s when, here in the UK, I cut my own professional teeth on the role of health IT to help measure and manage health care resources, quality and patient outcomes under severe resource constraints.

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Data Well-Being: A Pillar of Health Citizenship for US Consumers

Health Populi

AUGUST 28, 2020

consumers believe they have an obligation to share personal health information to stop the spread of the coronavirus. In the COVID-19 era, most U.S. However, only 44% would be willing to share their personal data with a national database, a MITRE study learned.

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Health Consumers Value Sharing and Downloading Health Data, But Privacy Concerns Remain

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

are growing their health IT muscles and literacy, accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic. 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.

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Addressing Health Equity Must Include Digital Equity Beyond Access To Medical Services and Insurance

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. But the emergence of the coronavirus in the U.S.

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The Single Market for Healthcare in Europe: Learnings for the U.S.

Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2018

When I asked my longtime colleague and friend Robert Mittman, with whom I collaborated at Institute for the Future for a decade, how he managed international travel and jet lag, he said simply, “The time zone you’re in is the time zone you’re in.”

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Prelude to Health 2.0 2019: Thinking Consumers At the Center of Digital Health Transformation

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

“Digital transformation” is the corporate strategy flavor of the moment across industries, and the health are sector isn’t immune from the trend. As this 13th year of the annual Health 2.0

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Will Technology Cure Americans’ Health Care System Ills? Considering Google and Ascension Health’s Data Deal

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

“Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans,” the Wall Street Journal reported in today’s paper and on the WSJ.com website. ” Here’s Ascension’s press release on the collaboration , described in the title as “healthcare transformation.”

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Great Expectations for Health Care: Patients Look for Consumer Experience and Trust in Salesforce’s Latest Research

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

health care economics, patients are now payors as health consumers with more financial skin in paying medical bills. As consumers, people have great expectations from the organizations on the supply side of health care — providers (hospitals and doctors), health insurance plans, pharma and medical device companies.

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Re-Imagining Healthcare – a Lesson from Von Clausewitz in the Fog of War

Health Populi

APRIL 29, 2018

When you’re on the battlefield and you can’t see what lies ahead, go high, recommended General Von Clausewitz in his book, On War.

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Emerging with A Stronger Healthcare System Post-COVID: NAM’s Lessons Learned

Health Populi

APRIL 8, 2021

The report on health care systems and providers was released this week: COVID-19 Impact Assessment: Lessons Learned and Compelling Needs was authored by experts on the front-line of health care delivery, medical education, and health policy. The paper describes the landscape of the U.S.

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A Nutrition Label for Health IT

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

How could a nutrition label help to address this risk and bolster confidence in and competence from AI in health care? What health IT can learn from the history of the nutrition label. Assuring these features will “cook up” health IT solutions for the benefit of health citizens and their health care providers.

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Can the U.S. Improve Health System Performance with Digital Health Tools? Pondering A Big Question for #HIMSS21

Health Populi

AUGUST 6, 2021

health care spending and what comes from it, according to Mirror, Mirror 2021: Reflecting Poorly , a perennial report from The Commonwealth Fund that compares health system performance across eleven developed countries. Simply put, is the equation, “Spend more, get less” a sustainable business model? Of course not.

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The Home and Low-Touch Health Care – a Health Consumer Update from Capgemini

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Health Consumers Value Sharing and Downloading Health Data, But Privacy Concerns Remain

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Prelude to Health 2.0 2019: Thinking Consumers At the Center of Digital Health Transformation

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