Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2022

If you made your living in commercial real estate — and especially, working with hospitals’ and health systems’ office space — would the concept of telehealth be freaking you out right now? The firm asserts that, and I quote from the report, “telehealth is not replacing the physical office by any means.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2021

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. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, in a statement.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Beyond health, the report also addresses a landscape of sectors, including retail and eCommerce, fitness, commuting (for work), and travel, along with various lifestyle areas. The first line is the most dramatic shift, illustrating the use of telehealth or remote medical services used pre-pandemic by 10% of consumers.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Most consumers who own smartwatches and health and fitness trackers also use those devices every day, as shown in the household penetration/usage chart here from the report. I’ve been tracking this study since its inception, when it focused on “Connectivity and Mobile Trends.”

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Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2019

Kaveh was brainstorming the future of telehealth a decade from “now,” with three innovators attending #ATA19: Deepthi Bathina of Humana, Matthew Holt of Catalyst Health (and Co-Founder of Health 2.0), and Kim Swafford of Providence St. First, connected care: one in five U.S. Joe’s deploys telehealth in eight states.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

treated more patients in the first six months of the coronavirus pandemic, shifting their practices to telehealth platforms. For this study, APA polled 1,787 licensed psychologists (both members and non-members in the Association) in the U.S. This year, APA has published four reports on consumers’ mental health in the pandemic.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In the Spring of 2020, a number of institutions—health, education, judicial, and others—went through a wrenching technological transformation: To prevent the spread of COVID-19, they took refuge online. Clinical sites that had long ignored the appeals of telehealth advocates suddenly adopted virtual visits. Improved workflows.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

Rock Health and Stanford commissioned an online survey among 7,980 U.S. adults from early September to early October 2020 to gauge peoples’ interest in and utilization of digital health tools and telehealth. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Digital health tools generate data.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

One of the key toxic side effects of the COVID-19 public health crisis has been peoples’ growing sense of isolation and feeling lonely, increasing peoples’ need for mental and behavioral health services. The home has emerged as our health hub in the pandemic, and that won’t be just a trend: that will persist.

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Health Populi

JULY 10, 2020

health care providers set up virtual care arrangements to convene with patients. Three months into the COVID-19 crisis, how have patients felt about these telehealth visits? The top reasons health consumers sought virtual care were for wellness check-ins and routine check-ups, among 41% of virtual care consumers.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

One universal experience health systems around the globe have witnessed in the first months of the coronavirus pandemic has been the dramatic pivot to telehealth and virtual care platforms. In the first six months of the pandemic, the tale of telehealth as told via media coverage and virtual conference content has been quite bullish.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2021

“Americans remain in limbo between lives once lived and whatever the post-pandemic future holds,” the American Psychological Association observes in their latest read into S tress in America 2021, with this phase of the perennial study focused on Stress and Decision-Making During the Pandemic. out of 10.0. Most people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 3, 2021

Similarly, 42% of global health citizens were very or extremely comfortable with consulting a therapist online or via a mobile health app for mental health counsel and support.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

” This is the key finding in a study from PRC on the implications of nurses’ dis-engagement from their work. They framed the challenge with a key statistic that will stay in your mind once you hear it: that health care workers are 5x more likely to experience workplace violence than employees in private industry.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Two main factors underpin clinicians’ feelings of burnout: turnover and understaffing, and compassion fatigue, shown in the graph among two-thirds of the providers in the study. And third, investing in clinician mental health resources garnered 42% of clinicians’ interest in the BDO survey.

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Health Populi

JULY 22, 2021

Key to note: the patient is at the center, receiving care at home, one of the key digital transformations of consumers during the pandemic as we morphed our homes into digital hubs for work, education, faith, cooking and baking, fitness, and of course, for health care.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Digital connectivity can ameliorate social isolation and anxiety, bolster mental health, and access needed medical care via telehealth channels. As a result of the pandemic, staying connected is more important than ever for older people, Best Buy Health learned in a survey of U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 6, 2020

Growing downloads and use of fitness and health apps, more workouts at home via fitness portals and online gym offerings, and mental health programs like Headspace and Calm have grown in the COVID-19 pandemic. Accenture’s study also asked whether we will have a “home-working revolution?”

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Health Populi

JULY 25, 2022

From connectivity to home care, entertainment and food — and for the first time, two pharma companies named in a study largely focused on consumer goods and services — people adapted their homes for health and wellness across all domains: physical, mental and emotional, financial, and social.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 10, 2021

As the first chart from the study illustrates, most people in America expect hybrid lifestyles, from fitness and retail to entertainment and education. health citizens want their health care to be hybrid, too. Zoom had already been a telehealth partner to many healthcare systems and organizations before COVID-19.

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Health Populi

MARCH 31, 2020

The Consumer Technology Association has conducted the COVID-19 Impact Study assessing the use of technology at home , exploring U.S. households’ changing behaviors for consuming content, stocking the pantry, engaging with social media, and using online health and fitness tools.

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care innovations

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Changes to policy regarding telehealth and remote patient management (RPM) — and, specifically, changes affecting the reimbursement for these services offered by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) — are having an effect on the usage of digital delivery on the larger healthcare industry.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Most employers and their workers see the benefits of digital health in helping make health care more accessible and lower-cost, according to survey research published in Health on Demand from Mercer Marsh Benefits. In total, Mercer interviewed 16,564 workers and 1,300 senior decision makers in companies.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Regardless of the clinical area or solution a digital health start-up is addressing, investors are saying “show me the money and the ROI” for that venture: Virtually all of the investors studied told GSR that a measurable teturn on investment would be important or very important for most companies.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2021

At the same time, 2 in 3 people were also concerned aobut the privacy of their health information on apps. And there’s the ambivalence of “concerned embrace” of digital health. The phrase “concerned embrace” was coined in a 2017 Deloitte consumer study on mobile technology trends.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

This challenge has been exacerbated by many patients postponing care resulting in missed preventive screenings and delaying needed chronic care – which Teladoc has described as a growing “health debt” resulting from pandemic-related changes in health behaviors. Collaboration can help insure as well as assure health.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

And as the RWJF/NPR/Harvard Chan study shows, these social determinants risks travel in groups and double-down on those health risks for people who rent, people of color, those without access to healthy food, and folks who earn lower incomes. That’s the supply side of HLTH.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

Six in ten people are open to health and wellness services via virtual channels, over half like the idea of remote monitoring linking with at-home devices, and 1 in 2 people would be open to routine appointments through telehealth. This bolsters Accenture’s finding discussed above about the use of IM/AI in health care.

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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. The diagram illustrates Accenture’s “Disruptability Index” study published last year.

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Health Populi

JULY 29, 2022

Results of a survey from Optum, Qualtrics, and DocASAP quantified consumers’ demands for digital on-ramps to health care. The Optum study found a gap between patients’ expectations for accessing information and easy scheduling and what folks have experienced. Here’s another lens on the Optum health consumer data.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 31, 2018

Omron has been one of the few consumer-facing digital health companies that has taken the long-view and done the work to file for FDA clearance for a medical-grade technology that mainstream consumers can use. After mental health and diabetes, heart apps rank as the third largest categories for medical apps on the market in 2017.

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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.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 7, 2018

This annual survey is one of the most influential such reports released each year, providing a current snapshot of large employers’ views on healthcare, costs, and strategic options that will enable companies to continue providing health insurance to workers. orthopedic/musculoskeletal, and fertility.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JULY 26, 2022

The good news is that Telehealth, especially Remote Patient Monitoring or RPM, could result in annual savings for the United States of up to $6 billion. trillion in annual health care expenditures are for people with chronic or mental health conditions. According to the CDC, 90% of the nation’s $4.1

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Health Populi

AUGUST 18, 2020

While this study targets the consumer goods industry, there is much for health care to glean from the findings. On the Consumer Goods & Services part of Accenture comes their latest wave (7) of research into people continue to be shaped by their experience in the age of the coronavirus.

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Health Populi

APRIL 9, 2019

Younger people score lower on psychological needs, the outcome of being a digital native and negative impacts on mental health and well-being among younger citizens. Women score lower than men across all four pillars except for basic needs. Skills are not keeping pace with needs in the larger economy.

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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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