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Health Consumers Expect Healthcare to be Digital (and Secure), Philips Future Health Index Finds

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Being Philips, what underpins that quality and experience is technology; Philips explored telehealth, AI, digital health records (DHRs), and other digital health tools that can engage patients. Patients view their health care professionals as “sherpas” to digital health data.

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“Healthcare Isn’t Healthy:” the Global Challenge of Health Equity, and Calls-to-Action

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Discrimination in health care is reported by more people in the U.S. we learn in the research reported in The Intersection of Health Equity in Communities & Business Strategy: A Call-to-Action , from Omnicomm PR Group (OPRG) and Atlantic Insights. nations in the study. health citizens. as in the non-U.S.

Public Health

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Three in Five People 50+ in the US Will Likely Use Telehealth In the Future – An Update from AARP

Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

The study polled U.S. “It appears that telehealth is likely to continue to remain an important tool in the health care delivery tool kit — at least for those with computers and high-speed internet access,” the AARP report concludes with a caveat about connectivity/broadband access.

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Be Mindful About What Makes Health at HLTH

Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

As the HLTH conference convenes over 6,000 digital health innovators live, in person, in Boston in the wake of the delta variant, what should attendees keep in mind to help HLTH make health? The top-line in the report, and the bottom-line for health citizens, was that 38% of U.S. One-half of U.S.

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The Pace of Tech-Adoption Grows Among Older Americans, AARP Finds – But Privacy Concerns May Limit Adoption

Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2020

Across all of the tech categories AARP studies, younger-elders between 50 and 59 tend to demonstrate higher levels of device adoption than people 70 and older. Communicating other information, like blood pressure, weight, or heart health) to a health care provider. One in 4 people 50+ use the device at least several times a day.

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What Are Patients Looking for in a Doctor? It Depends on Who You Ask…and Their Race

Health Populi

JANUARY 26, 2023

While the same proportion of Black and White patients say they are looking for a doctor with empathy and compassion, there are relatively large differences between patients based on their race, found in the Everyday Health-Castle Connolly Physician-Consumer study. The post What Are Patients Looking for in a Doctor?

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Bonus Features – July 31, 2022 – House passes bill to extend telehealth flexibility to 2024, only 60% of practices hit their 2021 revenue goal, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Value-based payment platform provider Clarify Health launched Clarify Access , an analytics tool designed to help pharma companies develop market access strategies.

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What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2022

This capability is attracting pharmaceutical and life science companies, health care providers and research organizations to take a closer look at Seqster’s offering. In summing up the patient-centered interoperability goal, Ardy summarized: “We’ve created the Mint.com of health data.”

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Telehealth-As-Healthcare Is a Mainstream Expectation Among Consumers, J.D. Power Finds

Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Power’s 2022 Telehealth Satisfaction Study. Power found in their Study which was conducted among 4,306 health care consumers who had used a telehealth service in the 12 months preceding June and July 2022 when the survey was fielded. “Patients really like telehealth,” J.D.

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The ROI on Virtual Care – Thinking About Value and Future Prospects With the AMA

Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

the supply side of care providers, the demand side of patients, consumers, and health citizens all, and the technology developers who have fast met the pandemic need for digital health front doors, all wonder: what aspects of virtual care will persist post-pandemic? Over a year since the pandemic emerged in the U.S.,

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A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

are living omnichannel lives : whether in retail via ecommerce, buying online and picking up in store, or banking online, or studying for college degrees via Coursera, people live, work, play, pray, and learn offline and on-, in real-time and asynchronously. In fact, most people living and working in the U.S.

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Most Virtual Care Consumers, Satisfied With Visits in the COVID Era, Expect It for Future Care

Health Populi

JULY 10, 2020

Among satisfaction deflectors were perceived quality of care, an impersonal experience, and technical issues. Commercial conferencing platforms like Zoom (23%), Facetime (17%), and Skype (9%) were also stood up by clinicians touching base with patients for telehealth encounters. What about physicians?

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Telehealth Update from the AMA – Setting the Context for ATA 2022

Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

One-half of doctors uses telehealth for continuous monitoring of patients, Overwhelming, medical and chronic disease management are the workflows for telehealth, followed by one-half of physicians using virtual care for specialty visits and 44% for mental and behavioral health. Follow the meeting on Twitter at #ATA2022.

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In U.S. Health Care, It’s Still the Prices, Stupid – But Transparency and Consumer Behavior Aren’t Working As Planned

Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2019

I’m glad to be getting back to health economic issues after spending the last couple of weeks firmly focused on consumers, digital health technologies and CES 2019. There’s a lot for me to address concerning health care costs based on news and research published over the past couple of weeks.

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Consumers’ Trust In Pharmacists As Providers Grows Along with Omnichannel Health Care

Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The American Pharmacists Association and the National Alliance of State Pharmacy Associations studied pharmacists’ and pharmacy personnel’s workplace issues and well-being at the end of 2021, finding that 75% of these workers lacked time and personnel to safely perform their duties.

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Featured Health IT Job: Data Scientist

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Here’s a description of the position: New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State.

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Add Behavioral Data to Social Determinants For Better Patient Understanding

Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2018

The Sage team explains that, by layering knowledge about peoples’ behaviors, beliefs, and attitudes on top of the traditional SDOH factors, health care providers can mash-up SBDoH – “socio-behavioral determinants of health” — your new acronym to add to your growing list of healthcare ABCs.

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Will Technology Cure Americans’ Health Care System Ills? Considering Google and Ascension Health’s Data Deal

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Note that hospitals garnered only about one-half of people in this study, and pharma and health plans fell to one-third of Americans’ responses to the question. Now check out the third chart, which is a summary of the Edelman Trust Barometer for 2019 noting Americans’ trust in various industries.

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Great Expectations for Health Care: Patients Look for Consumer Experience and Trust in Salesforce’s Latest Research

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

But as payors, health consumers face challenges in getting care, so great expectations are met with frustration and eroding trust with the system, according to the latest Connected Healthcare Consumer report from Salesforce published today as the company announced expansion of their health cloud capabilities.

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When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The Business Group on Health’s survey into large employers’ plans for health benefit designs in 2023 has a strong focus on value, concurring with employee benefit consulting studies from Mercer, SHRM, and WTW, among others. Growing adoption of “broad-spectrum” self-care – including digital health tools.

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Our Homes Are Health Delivery Platforms – The New Home Health/Care at CES 2021

Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

But for those of us working with and innovating solutions for health and health care, #CES2021 was baked with health goodness , in and beyond “digital health” categories. In my consumer-facing health care work, I’ve adopted the mantra that our homes are our health hubs.

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Social Determinants of Health Risks Challenge the Promise of Hospital-to-Home

Health Populi

MAY 31, 2022

Amidst bullish forecasts for the promise of hospital-to-home discharges, the ability for many patients to make this migration would be a difficult bridge to cross. Earlier this year, McKinsey addressed how “Care at Home” ecosystems can reshape the way health systems — and people — envision patient care.

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Health Equity: Searching for a New Angle

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

By enabling patients to receive care in rural areas or non-traditional settings, or to access technology that is customized for their specific language and health literacy levels, RPM can reduce or eliminate many social determinants of health barriers and improve access to care for individuals.

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A Matter of Trust, Perception, Risk, and Uncertainty – The Big Issues Raised by the Acquisition of PatientsLikeMe and Other Patient Data Transactions

Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

For more color, read Jane’s April 2008 report, “The Wisdom of Patients,” where she wrote about PLM in its start-up phase (see section on page 20 entitled “ An Ongoing, Live Outcomes Study ”). And they invested in people because the communities they built require a human touch.

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Patients, Health Consumers, People, Citizens: Who Are We In America?

Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

“Patients as Consumers” is the theme of the Health Affairs issue for March 2019. Now consider what happens when consumers (the noun chosen by the authors of the second paper I’m adding to the mix) access data, information and tools for self-management in health care.

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In 2020, PwC Expects Consumers to Grow DIY Healthcare Muscles As Medical Prices Increase

Health Populi

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Health care access and costs — which tend to be inter-related issues for a patient facing medical issues in the present day — are top-of-mind for Americans these days. They’re a major cause of stress and anxiety, according to the American Psychological Association’s Stress in America study.

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Health Consumers Expect Healthcare to be Digital (and Secure), Philips Future Health Index Finds

“Healthcare Isn’t Healthy:” the Global Challenge of Health Equity, and Calls-to-Action

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Three in Five People 50+ in the US Will Likely Use Telehealth In the Future – An Update from AARP

Be Mindful About What Makes Health at HLTH

The Pace of Tech-Adoption Grows Among Older Americans, AARP Finds – But Privacy Concerns May Limit Adoption

What Are Patients Looking for in a Doctor? It Depends on Who You Ask…and Their Race

Bonus Features – July 31, 2022 – House passes bill to extend telehealth flexibility to 2024, only 60% of practices hit their 2021 revenue goal, and more

What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

Telehealth-As-Healthcare Is a Mainstream Expectation Among Consumers, J.D. Power Finds

The ROI on Virtual Care – Thinking About Value and Future Prospects With the AMA

A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

Most Virtual Care Consumers, Satisfied With Visits in the COVID Era, Expect It for Future Care

Telehealth Update from the AMA – Setting the Context for ATA 2022

In U.S. Health Care, It’s Still the Prices, Stupid – But Transparency and Consumer Behavior Aren’t Working As Planned

Consumers’ Trust In Pharmacists As Providers Grows Along with Omnichannel Health Care

Featured Health IT Job: Data Scientist

Add Behavioral Data to Social Determinants For Better Patient Understanding

Will Technology Cure Americans’ Health Care System Ills? Considering Google and Ascension Health’s Data Deal

Great Expectations for Health Care: Patients Look for Consumer Experience and Trust in Salesforce’s Latest Research

When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

Our Homes Are Health Delivery Platforms – The New Home Health/Care at CES 2021

Social Determinants of Health Risks Challenge the Promise of Hospital-to-Home

Health Equity: Searching for a New Angle

A Matter of Trust, Perception, Risk, and Uncertainty – The Big Issues Raised by the Acquisition of PatientsLikeMe and Other Patient Data Transactions

Patients, Health Consumers, People, Citizens: Who Are We In America?

In 2020, PwC Expects Consumers to Grow DIY Healthcare Muscles As Medical Prices Increase

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