Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

Those “waves of demand” TripleTree described will impact every segment of care delivery and sponsor, including small to mid-sized physician practices, employers, behavioral/mental health, public/government-sponsored health care programs, and the pharma and life science industry.

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Health Populi

JULY 7, 2023

We are witnessing patients-as-health-consumers’ shifting expectations for experience in health care to be convenient — for several aspects of that experience.

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Iris Telehealth

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Integrated care acknowledges that mental health and physical health don’t exist in silos and makes high-quality care a reality for patients across the country. The overlap between medical and behavioral conditions is part of what makes integrated care so essential. For patients.

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Primary Care Mental health Psychiatry Telehealth 98

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Michigan's Henry Ford Health System offers a 100% virtual care program for behavioral health integration that is delivered to patients either directly in a primary care clinic or the patient's home. Therapists are supported by a psychiatrist and a specialized behavioral health pharmacist.

Primary Care 148

Primary Care Mental health Patient Experience Healthcare IT 148

Iris Telehealth

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

While NPs are essential to addressing the provider shortage and improving the patient experience, they’re also indispensable when it comes to mental health treatment. The type of NP working in the mental health field is called a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner or a PMHNP.

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Nursing Mental health Telehealth Primary Care 98

Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2022

In 2019, Find Care expanded services for consumers to manage chronic health conditions addressing asthma, COPD, and diabetes. Jasper’s data ecosystem complements the patient’s clinical data on the psycho-social side of the person – that is, “real life.” “There are people behind those data points.”

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Aside from care for COVID-19, volumes are down except for services related to mental and behavioral health (with rates of mental health prescribing increasing for antidepressant and anti-anxiety drugs). Contrast those statistics with the fact that fewer than 2% of Americans are treated at any given health system.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 20, 2022

A key factor driving the adoption of a digital-first care model is the ability to manage patients regardless of location, thereby decreasing the use of unnecessary resources. Traditional care delivery is not working for far too many consumers. Video also provides a powerful delivery mechanism for mental healthcare.

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Iris Telehealth

MARCH 26, 2024

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the adoption of virtual care across all medical specialties and primary care has been critical, especially in behavioral health. Today, behavioral health usage rates remain high. For example, a nurse might have a question, or a patient might need to be seen twice during the day.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2024

Playing a crucial role in hospital-at-home programs, these technologies complement in-home visits and provide patients with a complete range of hospital services, including mental health, nephrology, and case management. I am particularly excited about digital therapies for mental health. Currently, in the U.S.,

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Lloyd Price

MAY 6, 2021

Hapvida , Brazil’s largest low-cost health insurance player –after going on a buying spree of local insurers and providers– has just announced a $20B fusion with competitor Notre Dame Intermedica. For example, Fleury and Sabin , two large diagnostics players, launched a healthtech focused VC fund, called Kortex.

Primary Care 75

Primary Care Telemedicine Mental health Pharmaceuticals 75

Lloyd Price

MAY 29, 2023

Post-acute care: Virtual wards can help patients who have been discharged from the hospital or other healthcare facility to continue their care at home. Mental health: Virtual wards can provide care for patients with mental health conditions, such as depression, anxiety, and schizophrenia.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 28, 2024

It can be especially effective for patients in those underserved or rural areas where we see the largest issues with access to care due to health provider shortages. Currently, 100mm people live in primary care physician shortage areas and 160MM live in mental health provider shortage areas.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 6, 2023

The Health Center Summit is an event that is tailored specifically for eClinicalWorks’ community health and federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) customers. They provide everything from primary care to pediatrics to dental, and mental health services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

That sudden experiment allowed for valuable insights that healthcare organizations in 2021 can use to fine-tune where they should land on the spectrum of virtual and in-person – in ways that make the most sense for care delivery, patient experience, reimbursement and clinical research.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Here’s a recent example of health and wellness embedded in a connected car from Hyundai, one of many auto manufacturers re-imagining health as a benefit of driving in a car.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

The coronavirus spawned another kind of gift to China and the nation’s health citizens: telemedicine, the essay explains. For example, only health care providers that have an existing relationship with a Medicare patient would be eligible per the requirements in the legislation.

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Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2021

Growing numbers of consumers are looking at health more holistically — physical and mental wellness together — and spending money on goods to support that goal. Beyond overall wellness, though, consumers are also turning more to food and beverage (F&B) purchases for chronic illness support: for example, U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2023

I’ve thought about Valencell as a sort of “Intel-inside” many other fitness and wearable technology products over the years I’ve been tracking digital health tools. Now, Valencell is out and proudly getting into chronic disease management with this program, pending FDA clearance to help patients manage hypertension.

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Digital Health Primary Care Medical Technology Patient Experience 261

Health Populi

JULY 29, 2022

Zocdoc launched a data ecosystem enabled through application programming interfaces to streamline care coordination and referrals between primary care providers and specialists, aiming to provide consumers with a better experience and more convenient care access. For the second year in a row, H-E-B received J.D.

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Digital Health Telemedicine Primary Care Telehealth 203

Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

The chart labeled Figure 9 shows consumers’ different levels of “willingness” to seek care in each of four locations based on their employer-based health care coverage. For example, over 70% of patients are willingness to use a video virtual care visit based on the claim cost of $78.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2021

In fact, growth has been exponential, and it has been very positive in terms of making the patient experience even better." Fisne offers a personal example. "We have found that a lot of our patients have really enjoyed the opportunity to do telehealth, they've really gotten on board," he continued.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

This highlights the dire need to address patient access to care. Even in large metropolitan areas, many individuals still lack adequate access to basic healthcare services, especially for mental health. In order to achieve health equity, we must build a solid foundation of patient trust and communication.

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Primary Care Mental health Telehealth Patient Experience 103

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 News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

“Clinicians and healthcare organizations rose to the challenge, though, in being open to and adopting virtual care while ensuring that patients could still access in-person care when needed.” "We rapidly scaled our telehealth solution from primary care to all specialty care in a span of less than two weeks."

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Health Populi

JANUARY 7, 2019

Using food and tech as medicine can help people avoid going on medications like statins and others for heart health. An important example of this self-care approach is the evidence-based Ornish food regimen which is reimbursed by Medicare (as a form of cardiac rehabilitation).

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Digital Health Medicare Public Health Primary Care 169

Redox

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Telehealth is the obvious example here. Pre-covid, most health systems saw telehealth as a nice-to-have feature, something their few digital native patients would vibe with. Nowadays, it’s the primary way providers see patients. Rezilient has created robotics that can more thoroughly examine patients remotely.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

Emergency departments and urgent cares are over capacity nationwide, and patients often wait weeks to see their primary care physician. Healthcare staffing shortages will continue to negatively impact patient experience in 2023. Chris Baird, Chief Marketing Officer at Weave.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

On the supply side are the brands you find in front of the pharmacy and in health-and-beauty aisles, from companies like Burt’s Bees and Bayer Consumer Health, Colgate-Palmolive and Unilever, as well as smaller firms such as Tweezerman, KT Health and Boiron (which has made homeopathic medicines understandable and accessible to Everyday People).

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Medicare Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Patient Experience 193

Health Populi

APRIL 30, 2023

Despite some improvement in the representation of women by cinema, TV shows, and brands, distortions in media remain that are risks to women receiving appropriate health care. Thus, it’s incumbent on brands and companies to move from the “then” world to the “Now.”

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Mental health Primary Care Patient Experience 156

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

As a result, patients have less pain and swelling, faster recovery of motion, and quicker returns to activity or sport. For example, athletes’ recovery times from ACL/UCL reconstructions basically halved in time from what they used to be. Trend #3: WALANT is on the rise.

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Health IT Primary Care Digital Health Mental health 75

Lloyd Price

AUGUST 28, 2019

And the healthcare giant, which has developed or acquired its way to market dominance, now has the ability to guide patients to their preferred providers, treatments and services. Not only does it ignore the way people use technology, it puts the patient experience second. For example, look at Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Consider the plethora of EHR systems, scheduling idiosyncrasies, physician adoption and workflow considerations, and patient matching challenges, for example. On the health system (provider) side, there is substantial pressure to reduce costs and at the same time, provide innovative services.

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Telehealth Telemedicine Digital Health EHR 184

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2023

Research shows that 38% of consumers want more personalized and inclusive healthcare options, and organizations are beginning to invest in technology and infrastructure that will enhance the patient experience and empower them to make educated care decisions. Ted Shannon, CFO at Strive Health.

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Health IT Patient Experience Mental health Private practice 90

Health Populi

JANUARY 21, 2022

We are more “conscious consumers,” expecting both the usual, traditional product efficacy — whether for household cleaning products or over-the-counter medicines — and at the same time, the dual expectation in NielsenIQ’s words to deliver on the health of the planet along with the health of themselves.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 5, 2020

Beauty-as-healthcare is also expanding, notably in retail employing AI to personalize shopping experiences at Ulta, Sally Beauty and LuluLab, for example. Sleeplessness is epidemic, and there’s an expanding array of innovations at CES2020 to help people from neonates to olders get quality rest.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 25, 2018

An example of legislation newly-crafted to hit the House floor in January 2019 comes from Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) in the form of the Affordable Drug Manufacturing Act. Outside of the home, I note the growth of retail health options well beyond (but including) the retail pharmacy.

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