Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

The use of telehealth visits grew from 4% of older people having ever used virtual platforms by May 2019, to 30% of older patients using telehealth in June 2020. Among these visits, 76% were with a primary care provider, 32% with a specialty care provider, and 18% with a mental health provider, the study found.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

But there are opportunities to learn from patients and advocacy groups at the meeting to inform the demand side of the health/care equation, and that’s crucial to understanding consumer experience, values and sense of value that enables people to get the care they need. That’s the supply side of HLTH.

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Digital Health Primary Care Mental health Public Health 156

Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

We begin 2023 with the opening of CES 2023, the world’s largest annual meet-up of consumer electronics innovators, companies, and retailers. How can digital health and other consumer-facing technologies help our health? Life expectancy in the U.S.

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Digital Health Health Policy Mental health Telehealth 182

Health Populi

JANUARY 13, 2021

.” Then add in “sweet teams are made of this,” and you have the making of telehealth enabling health/care across the continuum, as I show in my drawing here. Sweet teams are increasingly inter-disciplinary, including primary care, bundling in mental health, health coaches and nutritionists.

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Telehealth Primary Care Mental health Medical Technology 170

Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2019

This meeting convenes the company’s clients, partners, and staff to share best practices, spark insights and learnings, and enable networking between people attending the meeting. Terri Kline, President and CEO (retired), Health Alliance Plan. Joseph Gonnella, Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 4, 2022

As examples of this, Steve pointed to three CES attendees’ products that speak to self-care empowerment: For telehealth and remote patient management (RPM), Essence’s VitalOn. As a connected health device, Abbott’s FreeStyle Libre 3, and. Welcome to #CES2022: where health/care is everywhere.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2019

As an example of this trend, Accenture points to Mindstrong which leverages AI and machine learning to divine digital phenotypes of consumers-patients that inform mental health support. We live on-demand lives in daily life-flows and tasks, so people expect that experience and service level in health care.

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Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2023

Roughly 2 in 5 healthcare leaders look to technology to connect with out-of-hospital settings, cloud-based tech to support access to information “everywhere,” decision support tech (such as AI in clinical settings), communications, workflow applications, and patient-facing mobile check-in and registration.

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Telehealth Primary Care Mental health Digital Health 156

Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2024

Couple this with the sustainability companies working on accessibility, energy, food-tech, smart cities, and clean water, and we find CES convening a meeting that is working hard to walk the talk about “inclusion.” Some of the exhibitors collaborating in the HS4A showcase include Abbott, AARP, Bosch, Nasdaq, and Siemens.

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Patient Experience Public Health Mental health Connected Health 170

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

To start, HATco will acquire the Summa Health system in Ohio to build out that blueprint for the benefit of all health citizens in the community. Of particular note is the organization’s “promise of health assurance – care that is more proactive, accessible, and affordable to people everywhere.” Retail health-meets-Medicare.

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Primary Care Medicare Medical Billing Public Health 212

Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

I was scheduled to meet with Roy Jakobs, Chief Business Leader of Connected Care at Philips, at HIMSS in Orlando on 9th March 2020. People at Philips are going out of their way to make it happen,” noting “extraordinary efforts” and teams mobilizing in the pandemic to meet the moment. What a difference 90 days makes.

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Connected Care Digital Health Telehealth Public Health 374

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

We see the patient facing various health care touchpoints — including the hospital, wellness and medical centres, insurers, pharmacies, providers, retail health sites (both virtual and brick-and-mortar), and the home. That requires hearing her, valuing her, understanding her.

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Telehealth Interoperability Digital Health Patient Experience 203

Health Populi

JULY 16, 2019

CTA is annual convener of CES, the world’s largest consumer electronics meet-up.]. and in-vehicle technology — all of which can support health and medical applications beyond commoditized activity tracking devices. Consumer Technology Sales and Forecasts, July 2019 , from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA).

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Digital Health mHealth Mobile Health Mental health 156

Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2023

Now, Valencell is out and proudly getting into chronic disease management with this program, pending FDA clearance to help patients manage hypertension. For sleep , the ASLEEP exhibit at CES 2023 may win the prize for largest-footprint in the meeting.

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Digital Health Primary Care Medical Technology Patient Experience 261

Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2019

These skills are already helping make health care better for providers in medical practice and consumers and caregivers at home for aging support, medication adherence, and mental health. ” Health Populi’s Hot Points: Shelly’s intro to #CES2019 resonated with my health/care lens on this meeting.

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Interoperability BioTech Mental health Nursing 188

Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

If we begin to see a rapid rise in the number of COVID-19 cases, this restriction would limit many telehealth providers that do not currently serve Medicare populations from supporting and relieving pressure on local providers that would need help to meet increased demand from patients seeking care. Clearly, the U.S.

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Telehealth Medicare Telemedicine Public Health 292

Health Populi

AUGUST 7, 2019

We’d been trying to schedule meeting up to do a live podcast since February, and we finally got our mutual acts together on 6th August 2019. Marc Iskowitz, Executive Editor of MM&M, warmly welcomed me to the Haymarket Media soundproof studio in New York City yesterday.

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Pharmaceuticals Patient Experience Mental health Connected Health 130

Health Populi

OCTOBER 17, 2018

A few months ago, I had a delightful opportunity to first meet Koen face-to-face in my town of Philadelphia, where we spent time exchanging perspectives on the evolving patient-as-consumer in the midst of an un-delightful healthcare system, whether in Europe or the USA.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

By saving time, telehealth allows the doctor to fit more patients into the week.Several respondents said that televisits would bring more people into the health care system, especially mental health patients. Meanwhile, patients like the convenience and safety of online visits.

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Telehealth Mental health Medicare Telemedicine 100

Health Populi

JULY 29, 2022

Consider… MedWand was granted FDA 510(k) clearance for the company’s telemedicine innovative (and clinically-validated) vitals and remote examination tools which enable doctors and patients to meet up virtually for check0ups that can capture blood pressure, blood glucose spirometry, and weight data along with temperature, blood oxygen levels, (..)

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Digital Health Telemedicine Primary Care Telehealth 203

Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

health citizens face physical, financial, and mental health challenges of a syndemic, inflation, and stress – all of which will shape peoples’ demand side for health care and digital technology, and a supply side of providers challenged by tech-enabled organizations with design and data chops. Which virus is it?”

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Health Technology Mental health Digital Health Primary Care 156

Health Populi

JANUARY 7, 2019

I’ve been waiting and waiting for this innovation to come through the FDA journey, and it did so in December: I covered this long-awaited clearance here in Health Populi. This is the first of its kind on the market, and as much as I appreciate the clinical efficacy of it, I love that it’s UX-designed for mainstream consumers.

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Digital Health Medicare Public Health Primary Care 169

Health Populi

MAY 17, 2021

The hearts and minds of nurses are fertile and inspirational sources and engines for health care innovation. 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.

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Nursing Mental health FHIR Digital Health 284

Health Populi

OCTOBER 25, 2019

I was engaged at this conference to wear several hats — as a keynote speaker, a sort of “emcee,” and, finally, to trend-weave the many talks and discussions happening throughout the meeting. Deb Gage, Medecision CEO, kicked off the meeting. I quite like that new-and-improved Cliff’s Notes metaphor.

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Leadership Mental health Patient Experience Life Science 174

Health Populi

JULY 26, 2021

Payors’ identified the top factors driving health care costs up including an aging population, growing utilization of medical services, implementing safety measures (think: PPE and the ongoing challenge of adverse events), mental health (a growing epidemic inside the pandemic), possible future outbreaks, and (some) patients’ (unhealthy) lifestyles.

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Interoperability Mental health Telehealth Digital Health 170

Health Populi

JANUARY 17, 2019

Congressman and House of Representatives Majority Leader ( with whom I collaborated at CES in 2016 ); Morad Fareed, (another CES collaborator of mine on that Wizards of Maternal Health panel )’ and David Pogue, who leads Corporate Responsibility at CBRE Group, among many other experts. Oh, did I mentioned Leonardo DiCaprio?

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Mental health Primary Care Public Health Medical Technology 165

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

In full transparency, I enjoy and appreciate the opportunity to meet with Roy (or very occasionally Ido, the co-founding brother-other-half) every year at HIMSS and sometimes at CES. This is happening in retail, with the “A” word “Amazon” invoked at every health care meet-up over the past year and ongoing.

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Telehealth Telemedicine Digital Health EHR 184

Health Populi

JANUARY 10, 2019

How time is a tincture and retail health, well, a business recognizing that some demographics (like women committed to health, fitness, stress reduction, mental health promotion, and resilience) have money to spend on high-value and evidence-based products. Wait – “Stanley Black & Decker?

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Digital Health HIPAA Mental health Patient Experience 240

Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2022

Spotify, for health information as well as mis-information. Android, for connectivity. Fitbit, for connected health innovation. TED, for health story inspiration. Calm, for mental health and wellbeing. Is always finding new ways to meet my needs, for the heart. USAA, for financial wellness.

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Mental health Connected Health Health Information Patient Experience 156

Health Populi

JANUARY 5, 2020

This is my ninth year attending CES, and at the beginning, “digital health” was more about gadgets and wearable tech than the broader theme of connected health that I’m weaving.

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Digital Health Connected Health Leadership Health Data 298

Health Populi

DECEMBER 25, 2018

There’s evidence that companies who cover health insurance are baking more financial wellness into a broader culture of health in the workplace, along with more attention to mental health. Outside of the home, I note the growth of retail health options well beyond (but including) the retail pharmacy.

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