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. Get to Know Me is the use of technology to develop and deepen relationships with people.

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JANUARY 2, 2023

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 cannot expect Technology itself to be a panacea to this national tragedy that public policies must help solve in terms of underlying drivers of health and well-being.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 18, 2020

Note how the top line of the 2020 forecast “networks” into the 2019 trends. The Dilemma of Smart Things. Robots in the Wild, and, Innovation DNA.

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Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2023

We can expect increasing investments in surgery centers, emergency care outside of the traditional ER, patient education focused on health literacy, acute care at home (the hospital-at-home migration, continuing), more virtual critical care and e-ICUs, mental health, and nutrition.

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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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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2020

The report found three big shifts in global health citizens’ views on their personal health and health care delivery in the wake of the pandemic: Across all age groups, COVID-19 exacerbated peoples’ concerns about their physical and mental health in a very short time.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2019

I was engaged for that meeting to do my brand of “trend-weaving” throughout the conference, as well as be a featured speaker on the theme of consumerism in health care. There’s a lot of artfulness baked into the agenda and flow of this event, I learned last year when I attended my first Liberation (2018).

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Growing orders for Peloton and other connected exercise equipment were noted by CTA’s 2021 consumer-tech forecast , anticipating this as a trend that would mainstream as scale economies and competition expanded the market segment while prices fell.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Like speaking “American,” health insurance in the U.S. has evolved in a unique way, as health insurers continue to re-define just what a “health plan” is. Patients and health plan members continue evolving into medical bill payers, with their homes and budgets baked into the concept.

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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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Digital Health Primary Care Medical Technology Patient Experience 261

Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2019

When he used the word “interoperability,” I nearly fell out of my chair because that’s such a hot button in health care IT right now. Digging deeper into some of the big trends, Shelly’s observations will also ring authentic to health/care stakeholders… AI is everywhere at CES.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

In the COVID-19 era, my consumer research has revealed new workflows by people at home, seeking more empowerment, health literacy, and control by staying away from health care settings to limit personal exposure to the virus. The second trend coming from the opposite direction is a push from the hospital to the home.

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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

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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Health Populi

OCTOBER 25, 2019

But we must and we will, a group of inspiring and inspired people who work across the health/care ecosystem affirmed this week in Dallas at the conference of Medecision Liberation 2019. Gary’s son was addicted to opioids and ultimately, after many months of being clean, took his own life.

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Leadership Mental health Patient Experience Life Science 174

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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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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. Jill Gilbert is the Producer of the Digital Health Summit, and an important touch point in my world.

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DECEMBER 25, 2018

The tea leaves have been brewing here at THINK-Health as we prepared our 2019 forecast at the convergence of consumers, health, and technology. Outside of the home, I note the growth of retail health options well beyond (but including) the retail pharmacy.

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