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Why CES 2022 Will Be Keynoted by a Health Care Executive

Health Populi

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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Why #CES2022 Will Be Keynoted By A Health Care Innovator for the First Time

Health Populi

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. 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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Why Elevance Health is “Prescribing” Phones for Members

Health Populi

You’ve heard of food-as-medicine and exercise-as-medicine. Now we see the emergence of telecomms-as-medicine — or more specifically, a driver of health, access, and empowerment. This month, a paper on the digital determinants of health was published in PLOS Digital Health.

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The Growth of Emerging Consumer Electronics Categories Adds to Digital Health Platforms

Health Populi

In my own vision of the retail home health/care ecosystem, these five categories can blur and combinations can serve the consumer’s health at home and on-the-move (for truly mobile health, not just “mHealth” via phone apps).

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The CES 2022 Tech Trends to Watch Have Everything To Do With Health/Care

Health Populi

The four top trends to watch for this week at CES 2022 are transportation, space tech, sustainable technology, and digital health, based on Steve Koenig’s annual read-out that kicks off this largest annual conference featuring innovations in consumer electronics.

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Post-Pandemic, U.S. Healthcare is Entering a “Provide More Care For Less” Era – Pondering PwC’s 2022 Forecast

Health Populi

Growing digital health investments that will push patient utilization up. Health systems finding ways to provide more care using less resources. As we ponder health care utilization and medical spending in 2022, the wild cards that could increase PwC’s 6.5% Preparations for the next pandemic, and.

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Leveraging Trust, Showing Humility: How Health Care Organizations Can Serve Consumers – A New Read from McKinsey

Health Populi

consumers are undertaking several health behaviors — but far too few deriving satisfaction with the industry’s support of these healthy behaviors (shown in the right-hand circles). The first bar chart from the report tells us that most U.S.