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.” Federal investment in climate and environmental health are part of holistic health policy.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2024

In the first six months of the pandemic, I collected all kinds of data about how consumers’ behaviors were adapting to the repurposing of homes for living, working, educating, praying, cooking and baking (sourdough breads posted on Pinterest), exercising, and socializing….all,

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Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

households with broadband have at least one connected health device, which could be a smart watch, a fitness tracker (such as Fitbit), connected exercise equipment (like a Peloton and the NordicTrack Vault), a heart rate monitor (like OMRON’s HeartGuide), a weight scale (like Withings smart scales), or a sleep monitor (e.g.,

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

.” One of the side-effects of the COVID-19 pandemic was the digital transformation of people — using Zoom for work, going to school from home via Internet connection, attending prayer services to connect with faith communities, taking exercise classes at home in groups, virtually — via tele-exercise whether via the Y, Orangetheory, (..)

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

Payment arrangements and rates, from fee-for-service to pay-for-performance, shared-savings models, and other new-fangled reimbursement regimes, and, Social determinants of health of patient populations, dealing with health equity and barriers to care.

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Health Populi

APRIL 23, 2018

Announced last week , 23andme is leveraging the wisdom-of-patients to crowdsource treatment opinions on eighteen medical conditions, such as ADHD, asthma, depression, and migraine, among others. Note that treatments go beyond pills, including exercise, yoga, meditation, and pets in this example.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2024

Pick Two and Meet Me in the Futures The two that make me most nervous because they’re so bloody important, and for which I’m also quite uncertain, are these two: America’s social ethos on one end individualistic and at the other, community-driven; coupled with, Health care financing, thinking mostly public-sector driven versus private/commercial.

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