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. Telehealth, too, is embraced by 3 in 5 people for both physical and mental health services.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

One in four people would consider online options as their first-line to evaluating personal health issues — a kind of “digital step therapy,” if you will. On the consumerism front, UHC found that over one-half of people have gone online via either web search or mobile app to find medical services and seek price transparency.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Mental Health Integration : With approximately 1 in 5 adults in the U.S. experiencing mental illness each year, integrating mental health into chronic disease management is a public health imperative.

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Health Populi

MAY 12, 2021

and intriguingly, “Health care professionals seem most excited about adopting consumer technologies that we already use.” ” “Clinicians have this combined feeling of being overwhelmed by current technology and feeling those systems aren’t doing enough to help them care for patients.”

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The Digital Health Corner

JANUARY 19, 2017

After a hiatus I am returning to my beloved Digital Health Corner. In a previous post I discussed important public health issues that digital technology can address. The classification of substance abuse as a chronic condition by the ACA has implications with regards to digital health. Among them is drug addiction.

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Health Populi

MARCH 5, 2018

This begs the question, then, how to leverage the important social platform for the betterment of health, healthcare, and patient and caregiver engagement? At #HIMSS18, we will see the usual health IT suspects in the mix this year with newer entrants who are opening up health data to better flow and liquidity across data siloes.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2020

This funding record (“already” before year-end, tallied by the third quarter as Rock Health notes) was driven by “mega”-deals accelerated during the public health crisis of COVID-19. based digital health start-ups adding up $9.4 In the third quarter of 2020, some $4 billion was invested in U.S.

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