Health Populi

JULY 28, 2020

This week, announcements from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and Withings further bolster the case for the private sector bolstering public health in this pandemic…and future ones to come beyond the Age of the Coronavirus. On 27th July, CTA announced the Association’s launch of the Public Health Tech Initiative.

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Health Populi

JULY 23, 2020

Parks Associates fielded this study the second half of May 2020, surveying 5,008 heads-of-broadband households balancing the sample of respondents for age, gender, income, and education. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Familiarity with virtual care breeds demand, based on the Parks Associates study.

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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2020

Patients perceived care was at least as good or better than traditional face-to-face encounters, and. Virtual care bolstered ongoing clinical trials, a large focus of this study. Fully one-third of patients starting using each of these 3 telehealth modalities during COVID-19. We’re calling it Consumer Directed Virtual Care.”.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2021

For most young people, the public health crisis has been more about that social distancing from friends, a collective sense of isolation, and mental and behavioral health impacts. A new mental health risk arose in 2020 in the U.S. A new mental health risk arose in 2020 in the U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

In the Fear of Going Out Era spawned by the COVID-19 pandemic, many patients were loath to go to the doctor’s office for medical care, and even less keen on entering a hospital clinic’s doors. The study identified several key concerns about telehealth visits, shown in the graphic.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

The pandemic era relaxation of state licensure requirements addressed this chasm, providing greater access to patients who needed services as well as de-tabooing that access when patients felt nervous about in-person visits to therapists in a community, in-person setting. In fact, most people living and working in the U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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