Health Populi

JANUARY 9, 2020

The top two health care concerns facing Americans are out-of-pocket costs and prescriptions drug costs, according to a poll published today in Morning Consult. Health care is the top issue driving voters’ choices in the 2020 elections for most Americans.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Over one-half of Americans would likely use virtual care for their healthcare services, and one in four people would actually prefer a virtual relationship with a primary care physician, according to the fifth annual 2020 Consumer Sentiment Survey from UnitedHealthcare.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

I covered the event here in Health Populi, as I have for most of the past decade, highlighting the growth of digital health and, this year, the expanding Internet of Healthy Things called-out by Dr. Joseph Kvedar in 2015. CTA conducted a survey among 2,000 U.S. adults ages 18 and over in the second half of July 2020.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

Prudential surveyed U.S. First, foremost, Americans are concerned about the impact of a disease outbreak on their health, personal finances and the U.S. 20% are avoiding public spaces with large crowds, 15% avoiding public transit, a nd 12% staying home from work if they feel sick.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

Growing digital health investments that will push patient utilization up. Health systems finding ways to provide more care using less resources. In September 2020, PwC surveyed consumers with employer-sponsored health insurance about their preferred locations to receive a COVID-19 vaccine within one year of its approval.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Earlier this year, Accenture found that U.S.

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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. One-half of U.S.

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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. The survey was conducted online in June 2020 among 2,074 U.S. adults ages 50 to 80 years of age.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 22, 2023

News and Studies Amid the push for interoperability, data gaps persist, according to the inaugural State of Interoperability report from Health Gorilla , a health information network. This is despite the fact that 65% of survey respondents saying they believe patients should own their data.

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Health Populi

MARCH 30, 2021

And for digital wellness, about 3 in 4 U.S. This analysis was based on data generated through McKinsey’s COVID-19 US Consumer Pulse Survey conducted in mid-February 2021 among 2,000+ U.S. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The third chart illustrates McKinsey’s findings on U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

WHO/Europe and HIMSS have signed an agreement to collaborate on digital health , with the entities saying the partnership will allow for a more aligned approach to digital transformation in Europe. The American Telemedicine Association joined 375 industry stakeholders in urging the U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2021

In this year’s 2021 annual report by Deloitte into Connectivity & Mobile Trends, their report details How the pandemic has stress-tested the crowded digital home. Deloitte’s Center commissioned an online survey among 2,009 U.S. Deloitte found that U.S.

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Continue Education Journal

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Key considerations for embracing telemedicine post-pandemic: Improved access: Rural communities often have limited access to specialists, making it difficult for these individuals to get the care they need. There is still uncertainty of the fate of other services as the public health emergency ends. Fam Med Community Health.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 24, 2022

Note that this is in a mainstream news publication and not an assertion made in a clinical or medical trade journal. Next, consider some up-to-the-minute health consumer survey data from Parks Associates which convened their annual CONNECTIONS Summit at CES 2022. 55 percent of U.S. Nearly one-half of U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2021

Consumers’ satisfaction with both health plan websites and information and communication. On the supply side, BDO surveyed 100 C-level leaders across the health care provider landscape in January 2021 to assess the executives’ views on digital health technology infrastructure and tools nearly one year into the pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2020

Mild patients were admitted to the community recovery center and treated through telemedicine, and only patients with moderate levels or higher were treated in the hospital. (2) How has the use of digital health helped in dealing with the COVID-19 situation in the context of your organization? Lessons learnt. (1)

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Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2020

As we wrestle with just “what” health care will look like “after COVID,” there’s one certainty that we can embrace in our health planning and forecasting efforts: that’s the persistence of telehealth and virtual care into health care work- and life-flows, for clinicians and consumers alike and aligned.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The APA’s August/COVID Resilience Survey was conducted online by The Harris Poll in August 2021 among 3,035 U.S. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Those pandemic-era headaches and sleep habit changes have been impacting more younger people than older people in America, shown in the last chart. As a result, three in four U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 9, 2021

The rise of digital health investment and growing role of technology in health care services only accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, people took on their own versions of digital transformation at home, for work, for school, for cooking, shopping, and indeed, for health care.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 23, 2023

News and Studies The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule from CMS would continue many of the public health emergency telehealth flexibilities, such as an expanded definition of telehealth practitioners, continued payments to rural health centers and FQHCs, and the expansion of originating sites.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 27, 2023

Authors of a recent study published in Telemedicine and e-Health evaluated telehealth services supported healthcare access for transgender and gender-diverse (TDG) youth within Seattle Children’s Gender Clinic (SCGC) during the COVID-19 pandemic. More patients in the post-telehealth period used “they” pronouns.

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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? If you heed the words of JLL’s 2022 Patient Consumer Survey , you’d chill (at least a bit).

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Stressed Out By COVID and Civil Unrest – the APA’s Stress in America Survey, Part 2, June 2020. Health Populi’s Hot Points : Since well before the COVID-19 public health crisis, there has been a shortage of mental health providers in the U.S.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 10, 2023

Authors of a recent study published in Telemedicine and e-Health evaluated telehealth services supported healthcare access for transgender and gender-diverse (TDG) youth within Seattle Children’s Gender Clinic (SCGC) during the COVID-19 pandemic. More patients in the post-telehealth period used “they” pronouns.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

Philips, recently named as one of the largest Fortune Global Companies in 2020 (#385, up 46 spots and ranking in the top 10 largest public health care companies in the world), has been working globally with health systems since the emergence of the coronavirus in Wuhan, China in 2019. equipment and hardware).

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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2020

The new era of virtual care has begun and is here to stay, Accenture expects in its latest look at How COVID-19 will permanently alter patient behavior , a patient survey conducted in May 2020. Accenture polled 2,700 patients around the world, 450 participants each from China, France, Germany, Japan, the U.K., and the U.S.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 27, 2023

Authors of a recent study published in Telemedicine and e-Health evaluated telehealth services supported healthcare access for transgender and gender-diverse (TDG) youth within Seattle Children’s Gender Clinic (SCGC) during the COVID-19 pandemic. More patients in the post-telehealth period used “they” pronouns.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

Nonetheless a CVS Health survey on mental health conducted in April 2022 found that four-in-ten people age 65+ experienced mental health concerns for themselves, family or friends — a 10 percentage point increase compared with two years ago.

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Health Populi

MARCH 31, 2020

households’ changing behaviors for consuming content, stocking the pantry, engaging with social media, and using online health and fitness tools. This research surveyed 1,004 U.S. Affluent households drive this trend, CTA found: 1 in 4 affluent folks are using online health and fitness services more often. ” U.S.

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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 survey was conducted in December 2022 among a group of 1,001 U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2021

In other news, based on a recent study by US-based software reviews website Capterra, nearly eight in 10 of over a thousand Australians surveyed wanted to use telehealth again. Most of them or 79% had accessed telemedicine services via phone call, while less than 20% used videoconferencing apps. ON THE RECORD.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

He also mentioned two valid vendor directories: Digital Health Directory (ATA) [link] and University of Arizona/SWTRC telemedicine and telehealth service provider director [link]. The goal of identifying human factors is to optimize improved outcomes in telemedicine. “It’s a process,” Krupinski said.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

Among those doctors who were not providing telehealth by late 2021, just over one half never did so during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the 2021 Telehealth Survey Report from the AMA. Urgent care, the historically top use of telemedicine, is deployed by 37% of physicians in this study. Four in five U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 19, 2023

A survey from the Health Management Academy and Outbound AI reported that almost half (48%) of health systems are using AI technology for workforce management , and 85% expect to see a moderate to significant increase in the use of such tools in the next one to three years.

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Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2022

” Together, the JAMA Network Open research paper and AMA physician survey inform us with useful insights to close that health care digital divide which could make a major difference between some patients’ lives versus their demise. The post People in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

House of Representatives passed by a 416-12 vote the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID–19 Act of 2021 , which would extend the telehealth flexibilities put in place during the public health emergency until the end of 2024. Primary care in particular seems to be suffering, as visit volumes have yet to return to their 2019 levels.

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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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