Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

The four stories we generate are: Retail Health For All, starring “The Consumer” DIY Healthcare, starring “The CEO” Fragmentation Meets Bureaucracy, starring “The Castaway,” and, “One World, One Health,” starring “The Health Citizen.” Telehealth happens across the U.S.

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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. million, with a median of $3.9

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Mend

MARCH 27, 2023

The COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) has been in place for three years. This has had myriad effects on Telehealth policies as well as how providers deliver digital care. Two areas that saw growth in digital health include behavioral and mental health services.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

NABIP, whose members represent professionals in the health insurance benefits industry, drafted and adopted a new American Healthcare Consumer Bill of Rights launched at the meeting. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Is there an American Civil Right for health care?

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APRIL 13, 2020

workers were stressed before COVID-19; now, stress levels are through the roof,” based on data analyzed by Ginger , the digital behavioral health innovator, asserting this major mental health headline in its latest press release. It’s a mental health crisis, too.” “U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2021

Expanding omni-channel, data-driven, cost-effective health care in the community, tailoring that care, and attending to mental health paint the picture of health through the lens of CVS Health. The company published the Health Trends Report 2021 today, calling out ten forces shaping health care this year.

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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.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The pandemic certainly gave us the gift of knowledge in having to face the ubiquity of mental health in Americans’ overall health and well-being… or lack thereof. billion and $793mm for substance use disorder for the first three quarters of 2021 based on Rock Health’s numbers. Most people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 1, 2019

Today, the Brookings Institution convened a meeting on the funding for social determinants of health to address disparities, costs, and quality of healthcare in America. Chapter 7 of my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen , is titled, “ZIP Codes, Genetic Codes, Food and Health.”

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Public health, prevention and personalized medicine = $375 billion. Mental wellness = $131 billion. From Wellness Tech to Technological Wellness – a fresh take on digital health. Health & Wellness Coaching Gets Certified – the maturation of the health coaching industry.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

We begin 2023 with the opening of CES 2023, the world’s largest annual meet-up of consumer electronics innovators, companies, and retailers. How can digital health and other consumer-facing technologies help our health? We ended 2022 with this new, sobering statistic from the Centers tor Disease Control (CDC).

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Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2021

Kroger is the fourth-largest pharmacy operator by script count,” the Journal noted, adding details about Walmart, CVS Health, and Walgreens all fast-expanding their respective health care footprints. Brian Owens noted on our call on the evolving wellness consumer that, “health and hygiene will emerge as the next digital.”

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

This drove health consumers to virtual care platforms in the first months of the public health crisis — including lots of older people who had never used telemedicine or even a mobile health app.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Connecting from our homes — now our health hubs, workplaces, schools, entertainment centers, and gyms — is necessary like air and water for survival across daily life flows. Digital connectivity can ameliorate social isolation and anxiety, bolster mental health, and access needed medical care via telehealth channels.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Patients’ postponing health care will continue for some, resulting in worse prognoses for them along with the need for providers to engage people where they are to bolster trust in their return to care sites. along with health disparities and inequities. Mental health will continue to be the epidemic beyond the pandemic.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

I was scheduled to meet with Roy Jakobs, Chief Business Leader of Connected Care at Philips, at HIMSS in Orlando on 9th March 2020. People at Philips are going out of their way to make it happen,” noting “extraordinary efforts” and teams mobilizing in the pandemic to meet the moment. What a difference 90 days makes.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2023

Technology can help support these modifiable behaviors that can help us re-shape our life-long health… some with the support of technologies we can find at #CES2023 in and beyond the digital health exhibition space. For sleep , the ASLEEP exhibit at CES 2023 may win the prize for largest-footprint in the meeting.

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Lloyd Price

JANUARY 15, 2024

Mental Health and Wellbeing: Increased awareness and stigma reduction around mental health are likely, with sessions on mental health services and support systems. Global Health Challenges: Collaboration on tackling global health issues like pandemics and antibiotic resistance will be a key takeaway.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2018

The NHS “supply shortage” is a result of financial cuts to both social care and public health. This article in the BMJ published earlier this year called for increasing these investments to ensure further erosion of population and public health outcomes, and to prevent further health disparities in the UK.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

An end to the Public Health Emergency (PHE) is likely to be announced and end mid-January followed by a grace period of approximately 5 months. And with the Public Health Emergency (PHE) set to expire in January, stakeholders are urgently calling upon Congress to pass the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID-19 Act of 2021.

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Digital Health Today

MAY 19, 2020

William Kassler of IBM Watson Health explains the roles of Fear, Resilience and Self-care. Our guest in this episode is Dr. Kassler has held a variety of roles at Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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Digital Health Global

JUNE 7, 2023

Amid growing mental health crisis, the product release enables immediate access to non-drug treatment option as Akili prepares FDA submission Available nationwide without a prescription, clinical data shows improvements in focus in 83% of adults with ADHD BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)– $AKLI #ADHD –Akili, Inc.

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Digital Health Global

MARCH 16, 2023

Federer has served on the United Nations International Telecommunications Union (UN-ITU) advisory board, as well as participated in engagements with the World Economic Forum, and is considered a thought leader in digital health. Department of Health and Human Services.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

How would you improve what’s in the bill to optimize the use of telehealth in this challenging public health moment? What can we expect to hear relevant to the public health challenge? Because, ultimately, we must work to bake digital health services into our emergency preparedness and response infrastructure.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

For example, 56% of counties in the US do not have a psychiatrist, 64% of counties have a shortage of mental health providers, and 70% of counties are without a child psychiatrist according to McKinsey & Company. There is still uncertainty of the fate of other services as the public health emergency ends.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 8, 2022

The Department of Health and Human Services once again (for the ninth time) extended the public health emergency this past month , stretching it beyond mid-July. But sooner or later, that provision of the Public Health Service Act will draw to a close. Providers have been promised at least 60 days' notice.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 31, 2018

” I’m glad to report that we’ll be there before the end of the year, based on my meet-up with Omron Healthcare at #CES2018. This places them on a very short list of connected health developers who have patiently developed clinical-grade health techs designed for the consumer market that have undergone regulatory scrutiny.

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Health Populi

MARCH 31, 2020

Grandparents, physically separated from beloved grandchildren, have become “Baby Zoomers” with Boomers adopting Zoom , Skype and Facetime for virtual meet-ups with family members. [At Affluent households drive this trend, CTA found: 1 in 4 affluent folks are using online health and fitness services more often.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2024

Couple this with the sustainability companies working on accessibility, energy, food-tech, smart cities, and clean water, and we find CES convening a meeting that is working hard to walk the talk about “inclusion.” Some of the exhibitors collaborating in the HS4A showcase include Abbott, AARP, Bosch, Nasdaq, and Siemens.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 7, 2019

With my public health hat on, I assert that smoking cessation is good for everyone (except perhaps for tobacco companies’ bottom lines). Relieving stress has been a focus of digital health products at CES since the inception of the digital health program. Quitting smoking. Reducing stress.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Mimi Winsberg, Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer at Brightside Health We have been in an uncertain time for regulation around telemedicine, and there are a few key trends to watch. Olivia Currin-Britt, Senior Director, Client Success at Savista I anticipate a future where digital mental health will be subject to stricter regulations.

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Health Populi

APRIL 3, 2024

Meet “The Guy Who Didn’t Know His Cholesterol” conceived by Roz Chast, the great cartoonist regularly featured in The New Yorker, this one in the magazine’s March 11th, 2024 issue. What is also persisting is the fitness-committed health consumer’s embrace of a virtuous circle of mind, body, and social health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

But at the same time, the pandemic public health emergency is scheduled to end in May, which means action is needed by lawmakers to keep reimbursement going in 2023. The cost-reducing and affordability aspects of virtual-first care also will influence payer adoption as a benefit covered by health plans and insurance.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The Price is Right, such an appropriate name for a “reverse pipeline” workforce solution that to me felt like Uber Meets eBay Meets Nursing. Beyond the pandemic — if we can try and think that far beyond the current and endemic phase of this public health crisis — the U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 17, 2021

The hearts and minds of nurses are fertile and inspirational sources and engines for health care innovation. 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.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2024

Providers who can rapidly scale their workforces and technology to meet demand will lead the pack in this now highly competitive space. Andrew Norden, Chief Medical Officer at OncoHealth In 2024, I expect we’ll see greater interest in and adoption of oncology digital health solutions. Brianna Zink, RN, MSN, Sr.

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