Health Populi

OCTOBER 17, 2023

.” And across all technologies assessed in this study, it was AI and machine learning that the health care finance execs pointed to as a top-three investment priority, followed by improving the patient experience (among 37%), and automating business processes (32%). Bank explained in the report. AI can help here, too.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

” If you’ve been a patient facing a diagnosis of an illness, whether rare or common, you may well have felt these various feelings stirring inside your self. In place of “government,” you might use the words “hospital” or “health insurance” or “drug company.”

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The app pulled together content from a variety of sources, customizing that information for instant access as well as ongoing education and training and evidence-based best practices. And that was clearly some of the secret to the sauce of that project’s success in the hackathon, with other standouts as well.

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2020

health care — the onerous patient experience in finding and accessing care, assessed in the 2020 Change Healthcare – Harris Poll Consumer Experience Index. ” That burdensome patient experience leads to one in two people in America avoiding seeking care, the poll found. Two in three U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 4, 2022

Last night, Steve discussed these trends for media attendees, of which I am one (gratefully) participating in #CES2022 virtually from the hygienic comfort and safety of my home health hub (more on that later in this post). All four of these mega-themes impact health and well-being in some way. “Space Tech?”

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Fresenius Medical Care North America (FMCNA) is adopting and supporting new Connected Health technologies that empower patients to monitor, collect, and share health and treatment data with their physicians and care providers. Connected Health and new technologies in health care don’t come without concerns and risks.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2024

The “disconnect” between health care and patient-payers is that in peoples’ everyday consumers lives, they pay bills primarily online (when the amount is due) as well as via automated payments for recurring bills. The financial lives of patients in America continues to play out in U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

There’s a gap between the supply of digital health tools that hospitals and health systems offer patients, and what patients-as-consumers need for overall health and wellbeing. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The HIMSS-CCM research focused on “digital patient experience.”

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2024

Not known for its salubrious qualities, Las Vegas will nonetheless be a locus for health, medical care, and well-being inspiration next week when the Consumer Technology Association convenes the annual CES featuring innovations in consumer technology. “Elevance Health, a health insurance company?

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

I covered this announcement in the Health Populi blog at the time, and today want to double-down on the significance of Ford’s leading presence at #CES2022. When announced, the news was a signal that health care and the larger tech-enabled ecosystem that supports health and well-being is embedded in peoples’ everyday lives.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 3, 2022

Younger people, Moms, people earning lower incomes, and people of color are feeling less mentally well entering 2022 than consumers in other demographic groups, the APA/Morning Consult poll found. Mindfulness and meditation apps, food and nutrition, are also well known by over 50% of U.S. CTA wondered in the consumer study.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2022

” Here are a few current examples of enabling pillars to support people in their self-care for chronic conditions, well-being, and acute care outside of the hospital. Start with connectivity to the home and elsewhere by phone. The authors of the essay are part of Kearney’s Health Practice team.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2022

Patients can track nutrition and food intake, mood and mental health, financial issues, transportation, and activity (such as steps). Together, these “data points” are our personal real world evidence of daily living – reflecting our risks for determinants of health (social and otherwise) and well-being.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The poorly-conceived rollout of EHRs following the HITECH Act legislation and incentives, from design to implementation, led to a lot more insights about how technology can be well-intended and an epic fail for those who were meant to benefit from a shiny new thing.

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Health Populi

JULY 23, 2020

Note in the “Appeal of Telehealth Approaches” diagram above that most patients would look to a telehealth program that would allow them to share data form the medical devices in their home, and to share data in mobile health apps from the phone to the health system.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points : Consider just the line item of “customer and patient services,” and one of all of our least-favorite patient experiences: the dreaded call center. This last graphic from the McKinsey report illustrates the pain points for patients engaging with payers’ call centers.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 9, 2023

. “A reorientation around platform innovations” (think: fostering scaled platforms to streamline solutions as well as develop new revenue streams). “A decisive pivot to value-based care” (think: delivering a consumer experience aligned with their values as well as value at scale). .

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Health Populi

AUGUST 9, 2021

” The answer: probably not, at least in terms of consumers’ mainstream adoption, unless the tech “support a more human healthcare experience.” Kaveh Safavi, Accenture’s Senior Managing Director, Consulting, Global Health will discuss these results at #HIMSS21 on 10th August.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

JANUARY 15, 2019

We felt it would be valuable to extend TapCloud to our general oncology patients because we had seen such a positive response using it for those with high symptom burden and advance disease. We believe many patients and caregivers will benefit from having this tool available to use” Patient Experience.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2022

The first graphic from the report illustrates four dimensions of health and the factors underneath each of them that can bolster or diminish our well-being: personal behaviors (such as sleep and diet), personal attributes (like financial situation and genetics), interventions (e.g.,

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Health Populi

JULY 28, 2020

Twelve years ago, when I began to attend CES, digital health was a nascent category featured with products featured in a couple of aisles in exhibit booths then dominated by Fitbit, Nike and UnderArmour.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

More clinicians are also optimistic that, five years from now, more patients will actively maintain their health, use monitoring tools to assess health, and know about their personal Social Determinants of Health, as well. clinician perspectives versus peers in other countries is the issue of health care costs.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 19, 2024

In their dialogue, Boudreaux discussed Elevance Health’s “whole-health approach… about simplifying healthcare and building rust with customers. Digitally enabled healthcare means building digital technologies into the fabric of our ecosystem to improve outcomes and enhance efficiency in day-to-day health and wellness.”

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

Layered on top of this is health citizens’ eroding trust in other aspects of U.S. public health, as well. A copilot for health equity Mary Stutts, CEO of the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association (HBA), spoke at South-by-Southwest 2024 this month on a panel brainstorming AI’s role in health care.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 18, 2020

Accenture recommends that health care payers and providers redesign digital experiences that “amplify personal agency,” empowering consumers ability to access services on their own terms and tastes, as well as control personal information. “The past several months have been an emotional rollercoaster.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2021

The most obvious trend from which CVS Health benefits, as well as is defining, is the growing opportunity for primary care to be delivered in the community and in peoples’ homes. Health care is omni-channel. Diabetes Care is Community Care.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2021

This news is a signal that health care and the larger tech-enabled ecosystem that supports health and well-being is embedded in peoples’ everyday lives. Beyond tracking activity/steps, exercise and weight via digital means, more patients began to track blood pressure with connected cuffs and wrist-worn devices.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

” Thus the call for value-based payment which can, when well-designed, align the four stakeholders’ interests. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Some of that evidence is being generated right now through the deployment of care at home channeled through Best Buy Health, which Deborah Di Sanzo discussed in the webinar.

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AMD Telemedicine

JANUARY 31, 2023

Knowing the differences between the two, as well as their unique advantages and considerations, is essential for making the best-informed decisions regarding your facility’s investment in the technology needed for telemedicine within your practice.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The campaign is backed by Healthcare UK, HIMSS, the European Connected Health Alliance (ECHA) Association of British HealthTech Industries (ABHI), Scottish Development International, Innovate UK, and Silver Buck. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER CONTEXT. ON THE RECORD.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2021

Authors of the report were Victoria Rideout, longtime expert on families, youth, and media; Susannah Fox, “Internet Geologist” well-known for her work on peer-to-peer health care and the origins of the Internet in health care (and in full disclosure, my close friend); and Alanna Peebles and Michael Robb, researchers at Common Sense.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

One very important finding in this study is that access to one’s health data demonstrates consumers are more collaborative with their clinicians — and are more open to sharing their data. 84% of consumers with access to personal electronic health data want their health care professionals to have access, as well.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Such collaboration expands Walmart’s hand in building out omnichannel health care in patients’ communities, closer to home as well as online. The grocery store as health assurance partner. Through the pandemic, grocery stores strengthened their role as health destinations – especially those with co-located pharmacies.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

adults say their concerns about personal health and wellness increased in the past year: in particular, stress and anxiety, and sleep and eating habits. adults in late July 2020, gauging consumers’ interest in personal health and well-being and home technologies’ potential impacts on mental and physical health.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

But the coronavirus era also saw broadband households spending more on connecting health devices, with 42% of U.S. consumers owning digital health tech compared with 33% in 2015, according to research discussed in Supporting Today’s Connected Consumer from Parks Associates. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic drove U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

Last month, AARP published research on older peoples’ perspectives on their state of mental health and well-being. “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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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The PHTI notes many benefits from using digital health, organized in this second chart captured from the report: For patients, the ability to self-care at home, more timely and convenient access to services (both primary and specialty care), improving medication management, and enhancing the healthcare experience (when well-designed).

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