Groups, Health Policy, Patient Experience and Survey

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

Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2020

The same percentage of people over 50 own a voice assistant, a market penetration rate which more than doubled between 2017 and 2019, AARP noted in the 2020 Tech and the 50+ Survey published in December 2019. For this research, AARP worked with Ipsos to survey (online) 2,607 people ages 50 and over in June and July 2019.

HIPAA

HIPAA Health Data Digital Health Health Information

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

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Health care system financing, delivery, and workflows widely vary across nations around the world. Older people, in particular, would be more likely to use digital health tools if their clinicians recommend these technologies. This is a very important pillar for health consumer engagement and patient experience.

Interoperability

Interoperability Digital Health Patient Experience Health Data

Be Mindful About What Makes Health at HLTH

Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The survey informing the report was conducted between August 2 and September 7, 2021, among 3,616 adults 18 and older (in English, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, and Vietnamese based on consumers’ language preferences). That’s the supply side of HLTH.

Digital Health

Digital Health Primary Care Mental health Public Health

“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. than in Germany, Spain, or the U.K.,

Public Health

Public Health Digital Health Patient Experience Health Policy

The Home and Low-Touch Health Care – a Health Consumer Update from Capgemini

Health Populi

JULY 27, 2020

The need for a holistic platform the serves up a continuum-of-care tools across the patient journey became evident in a matter of months, Capgemini Research Institute calls out in The Health Fix , a research report assessing peoples’ perspectives on health care in the Age of COVIOD-19. in mid-June 2020.

Digital Health

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In the U.S., Patients Consider Costs and Insurance Essential to Their Overall Health Experience

Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2019

Patients-as-health-consumers are highly influenced by health care costs when assessing their ability or interest in seeking health care, the second chart from the VisitPay survey report illustrates. Most Americans want government to do more to help them, the OECD survey found.

Medical Billing

Medical Billing Patient Experience Health Policy

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. consumers and 277 Castle Connolly health care professionals.

Life Science

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How Health Gets Built – The Building H Index Thinking Health-By-Design

Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2022

The Building H Index is, in their words, flipping the script to reimagine how to bake health-by-design into companies’ product and service offerings. Physical activity. Engaging socially.

Mental health

Mental health Digital Health Telehealth Patient Experience

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

Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

physicians were using telehealth to care for patients at the end of 2021. 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. Four in five U.S.

Telehealth

Telehealth Primary Care Telemedicine Public Health

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

Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Brian Klepper of Worksite Health Advisors , longtime consigliere to self-insured employers, unions, and value-oriented providers of medical services, explained the growth in value-based care he expects to see in the coming months: “Today’s descendants of the disruptor Managed Care companies of the 1980’s are value-focused and high performing….that

Health Technology

Health Technology Mental health Digital Health Primary Care

Health Equity: Searching for a New Angle

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

In fact, a survey conducted by Pearl found that 71% of patients are more likely to trust their dentist’s diagnosis when their dentist is aided by AI software. This technology not only allows for more accurate diagnosis, but it also enables patients to better visualize what their providers are trying to communicate.

Primary Care

Primary Care Mental health Telehealth Patient Experience

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

If you’re in health care and don’t live under a rock, you have probably heard that United Health Group (UHG) has acquired PatientsLikeMe (PLM). And it has become increasingly clear that people/consumers/patients are generally interested in sharing information that would help others and/or help themselves.

Pharmaceuticals

Pharmaceuticals HIPAA BioTech Patient Experience

Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: An Introduction

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

See a survey cosponsored by Genpact.) The Healthy People project of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) now incorporates SDoH. Complementing this penalty, the Office of Health Policy within HHS released a report measuring the benefits of addressing SDoH in healthcare. ” The U.S.

Public Health

Public Health HIE Medicare Health IT

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. The research found that peoples’ exposure to clinician quality information doubled between 2010 and 2015, and more consumers sought quality metrics — albeit, with differences across sub-groups of people (e.g.,

Digital Health

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Benefit Cost Increases Overwhelm Flat Wages for Most in US: Pew

Health Populi

AUGUST 9, 2018

That real-people financial reality is discussed in a “Fact Tank” essay from the Pew Research Group, For most US workers, real wages have barely budged in decades. This has translated in benefit costs — particularly, health benefits — rising more quickly than peoples’ paychecks have kept pace.

Medical Billing

Medical Billing Patient Experience Health Policy

Connected Health Pulse

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

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

Trending Sources

Be Mindful About What Makes Health at HLTH

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

The Home and Low-Touch Health Care – a Health Consumer Update from Capgemini

In the U.S., Patients Consider Costs and Insurance Essential to Their Overall Health Experience

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

How Health Gets Built – The Building H Index Thinking Health-By-Design

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

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

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

Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: An Introduction

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

Benefit Cost Increases Overwhelm Flat Wages for Most in US: Pew

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