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A Public Health Wake-Up Call: Reading Between the Lines in IQVIA’s 2023 Use of Medicines Report

Health Populi

MAY 4, 2023

It’s a volume speaking volumes on the current picture of prescribed meds, spending and revenues, health care utilization trends, and a forecast looking out to 2027. health care: “Wake up, public health!” In my read of this year’s review, I see a flashing light for U.S.

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AMA survey: Majority of physicians say telehealth enables more comprehensive quality care

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APRIL 25, 2022

A survey conducted by the American Medical Association found that the vast majority of physician respondents say they're currently using telehealth – and many of those reporting a decrease say they're providing a mix of virtual and in-person care. THE LARGER TREND. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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What #CES2019 5 Tech Trends to Watch Mean for Health/Care

Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2019

As #CES2019 kicks off in Las Vegas with today’s first Media Day, the Consumer Technology Association presented its forecast on the 5 Technology Trends to Watch in 2019 — and they all play into health, wellness, and medical care. The five trends are: Artificial Intelligence on the Rise.

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Healthy Living Trends Inspired by COVID-19: Retailers, Food, and Consumers’ Growing Self-Care Muscles

Health Populi

JULY 12, 2021

Acosta, the retail market research pro’s, updated our understanding consumers evolving as COVID-19 Has Elevated the Health and Wellness Trends of the Recent Years , results of a survey conducted among in May 2021. In the U.S.,

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Survey Findings: Medicaid Telehealth For Behavioral Health Care

Telebehavioral Health Institute

JANUARY 26, 2023

A recent survey conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), which surveyed state Medicaid officials across 44 states in the US, including the District of Columbia, revealed an increased interest in permanently adopting pandemic-era telehealth policy expansions.

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The COVID-19 Era Has Grown Health Consumer Demand for Virtual Care

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Over one-half of Americans would likely use virtual care for their healthcare services, and one in four people would actually prefer a virtual relationship with a primary care physician, according to the fifth annual 2020 Consumer Sentiment Survey from UnitedHealthcare.

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Stress Is Playing A Big Role in Consumers’ Food Habits: Food-As-Medicine Update from IFIC

Health Populi

MAY 17, 2022

In addition, anxiety and stress are mainstream across demographics and have impacted the way people select and consume food, based on findings in the 2022 Food and Health Survey from the International Food Information Council (IFIC). adults ages 18-80 for the survey, oversampling Gen Z consumers ages 18-24.

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Singaporean health chiefs embrace digital health to tackle staff shortage: report

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 4, 2023

FINDINGS The country's Ministry of Health earlier projected a need for as much as 24,000 additional allied health professionals and support care staff to meet the demands of their nation's ageing population by 2030. The lab aims to facilitate multi-institutional, cross-border collaborations in digital health.

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Americans Grew Digital Health-Data Muscles in the Pandemic – New Insights from the Pew Charitable Trusts

Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

“Most Americans clearly recognize the potential benefits that improved health IT can offer, and they want this transformation of the health care system to continue,” the Pew Charitable Trusts research concludes in Most Americans Want to Share and Access More Digital Health Data. One pillar of that trust is privacy.

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The Latest Health Technology Vision and Consumer Behavior Insights From Accenture

Health Populi

AUGUST 18, 2020

Note how the top line of the 2020 forecast “networks” into the 2019 trends. We know that people (consumers, patients, caregivers all) have learned more about their health values during the pandemic, for themselves as individuals, their families, their neighborhoods and communities, and nations’ public health.

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Vast majority of specialists increased use of telehealth tech during COVID-19 pandemic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 26, 2020

In a new survey of U.S. The report, from data and analytics company GlobalData, found that fewer than half of the cardiology, gastroenterology, pulmonology and respiratory specialists surveyed were using telehealth before the pandemic. THE LARGER TREND. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Post-Pandemic, U.S. Healthcare is Entering a “Provide More Care For Less” Era – Pondering PwC’s 2022 Forecast

Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, health care spending in the U.S. This year, medical cost trend will rise by 7.0%, expected to decline a bit in 2022 according to the annual study from PwC Health Research Institute , Medical Cost Trend: Behind the Numbers 2022. during the public health crisis.

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Physician Burnout is a Public Health Crisis

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JANUARY 22, 2019

Editor’s Note: Given the rapidly changing health care environment, it is critical to quantify the economic impact physicians have on society. BHM watches health trends and understands the importance of improving and changing with the industry. The Harvard T.H.

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Health Consumers After COVID-19 – A View from the Consumer Technology Association

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The pandemic has accelerated consumer trends already in motion early this year when the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) convened the annual CES 2020 in Las Vegas. What a difference a public health crisis makes, accelerating digital health beyond fitness geeks, Quantified Self adherents, and smartwatch adopters.

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State Medicaid programs want to keep telehealth expansions, KFF analysis finds

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 11, 2023

The Kaiser Family Foundation recently looked at state trends with regard to expanding access to telehealth-based behavioral care during the pandemic and found that states see telemedicine as a key component of maintaining access to behavioral healthcare for Medicaid enrollees. " THE LARGER TREND. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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Physicians in favor of permanent telehealth expansion

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 27, 2021

"As consumers, we want competition which reduces the price and increases the quality," said lead author Bhavneet Walia, assistant professor of public health at Syracuse, about the study. "On one hand, from this survey, I believe telehealth can increase access," she said. " THE LARGER TREND.

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A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds

Health Populi

JULY 20, 2020

The new era of virtual care has begun and is here to stay, Accenture expects in its latest look at How COVID-19 will permanently alter patient behavior , a patient survey conducted in May 2020. Accenture polled 2,700 patients around the world, 450 participants each from China, France, Germany, Japan, the U.K., and the U.S.

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LexisNexis Risk Solutions Takes Social Determinants of Health to New Heights

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 27, 2023

During the past decade, finally, health care is starting to deal in a structured, measurable manner with the life factors and environments that play the biggest role in their patients’ health. The final chapter on social determinants of health comes out more positive than most of the others.

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Waking Up a Health Consumer in the COVID-19 Era

Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

Prudential surveyed U.S. First, foremost, Americans are concerned about the impact of a disease outbreak on their health, personal finances and the U.S. 20% are avoiding public spaces with large crowds, 15% avoiding public transit, a nd 12% staying home from work if they feel sick.

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Be Mindful About What Makes Health at HLTH

Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

As the HLTH conference convenes over 6,000 digital health innovators live, in person, in Boston in the wake of the delta variant, what should attendees keep in mind to help HLTH make health? This month’s announcement launching the Advanced Care at Home Initiative bolsters this phenomenon.

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COVID-19-triggered threat changes will linger beyond crisis, say most security pros

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 25, 2020

"Cybersecurity experts have serious concerns about the huge changes affecting IT infrastructure and data security around the world, including US critical infrastructure and their own enterprise networks," wrote Black Hat representatives in a report this month detailing the results of the Black Hat USA Attendee Survey.

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States Reimburse Many Aspects of Medicaid Telehealth without Federal Approval

Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

To clarify the workforce issue, KFF surveyed state Medicaid officials about their strategies to address the behavioral health workforce shortages for FY 2022 and FY 2023. Below are some of the findings of KFF’s Behavioral Health Survey of state Medicaid programs. Forty-four states responded to the survey.

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Your State as a Determinant of Health: Sharecare’s 2021 Community Well-Being Index

Health Populi

JULY 14, 2022

In 2020, Sharecare began a collaboration with the Boston University School of Public Health to expand the Index, including drivers of health such as, Healthcare access (like physician supply per 1,000 residents). Based on the extensive data mash-up across the 10 domains and nearly 500,000 surveys conducted throughout the U.S.,

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COVID-19 Accelerated Digital Health Investments…But It Helps to Be Bigger, Mature and Scaling

Health Populi

MAY 12, 2021

As Matthew called out, the digital health sector has a relatively rosy outlook in the pandemic economy. This pretty rosy assessment was confirmed by Sunny Kumar, partner at GSR Ventures, who discussed the results of the survey on a webinar launching the survey results on 11th May. On average, the companies raised $40.5

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Digital health apps could save NHS billions, says report

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 4, 2019

Digital health could save public health services in England £7.5 THE LARGER TREND. "It is clear from this report that digital technology has huge potential to improve efficiencies across public health services whilst simultaneously enhancing outcomes for patients," said Dentith in a statement.

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Telehealth Reimbursement: End-of-Pandemic Emergency Update

Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 9, 2023

Based on current COVID-19 recovery trends, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that the US federal Public Health Emergency (PHE) waivers will end on May 11, 2023. For a comprehensive overview, visit the Public Health Emergency Roadmap fact sheet.

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The Digital Home: A Platform for Health, via Deloitte and the COVID-19 “Stress Test”

Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2021

In this year’s 2021 annual report by Deloitte into Connectivity & Mobile Trends, their report details How the pandemic has stress-tested the crowded digital home. Deloitte’s Center commissioned an online survey among 2,009 U.S. Deloitte found that U.S.

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Health Privacy and Our Ambivalent Tech-Embrace – Lessons for Digital Health Innovators

Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2021

And there’s the ambivalence of “concerned embrace” of digital health. The phrase “concerned embrace” was coined in a 2017 Deloitte consumer study on mobile technology trends. This isn’t a universal belief among all health citizens, but a majority still embracing science for medicine].

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Report: Healthcare leaders have an optimistic outlook beyond COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2021

The report, titled ‘ A Resilient Future: Healthcare leaders look beyond the crisis ’, surveyed almost 3,000 healthcare leaders across 14 countries to determine the readiness of countries to address the global challenges in healthcare and see how they are working to build resilient healthcare systems. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Top health tech hazards for 2022: cyberattacks, supply chain shortfalls and more

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 20, 2022

"Some facilities and caregivers are now feeling the strain of using programs that were rapidly implemented during a crisis, without time for full consideration of workflow and human factors," the researchers wrote about the spike in virtual care during the public health crisis. THE LARGER TREND.

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In the Pandemic, We’re All About Food

Health Populi

JUNE 11, 2020

They also have a desire to exhibit more control,” Charlie Arnot, CEO of The Center for Food Integrity, said on the Professional Dairy Producers’ Dairy Signal webinar on consumer food trends during COVID-19. consumers’ food habits in the organization’s annual 2020 Food & Health Survey , the fifteenth year of the study.

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What will the next year look like for telehealth? 'Well above pre-pandemic levels'

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Each of those three factors will be significant to determining the future trend of telehealth adoption, which has unquestionably been accelerated by the pandemic. What will be the practice trends in telehealth that the healthcare industry sees in the coming six to 12 months?

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To Avert a GLP-1 Cost Tsunami, Add Lifestyle Interventions: Learning from Virta Health

Health Populi

JULY 17, 2023

A team of Virta Health leaders held a webinar on 13th July 2023 to explain the results of a study the company just completed assessing health plan execs’ current views on Ozempic and other GLP-1 medicines with a view on both clinical outcomes and cost implications for this growing category of drugs that address diabetes and obesity.

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Chronic Medical Conditions, Mental Health, and Equity On Employers’ Minds for 2022 – Employee Health in the Wake of COVID-19

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

With that objective, it’s always instructive to explore the annual study from the Business Group on Health, the 2022 Large Employers’ Health Care Strategy and Plan Design Survey. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, large employees have many concerns about worker and dependents’ health.

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HHS watchdog: State oversight needed for behavioral telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General issued a data brief this month aimed at providing insight into state evaluations and oversight of tele-behavioral services. THE LARGER TREND. Although CMS concurred with the first recommendation, it did not indicate whether it concurred with the other two, said OIG.

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U.S. Hospitals Will Lose $323 Billion in 2020 – Before Accounting for Growing COVID Cases

Health Populi

JULY 1, 2020

.” By early June when AHA surveyed 1,360 hospitals across 48 states, average reductions across the country were 19.5% There are two sides to this decline in volumes: the consumer/demand side, and the health system/supply side. declines in expected inpatient volume and 34.5% fall in outpatient volume.

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Premier lists rule relaxations that should be made permanent, post-pandemic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 5, 2020

Department of Health and Human Services Premier made the case that some two-dozen federal regulatory waivers – enacted early in the coronavirus pandemic to enable rapid response to COVID-19 – should be made permanent once the public health emergency has ended. THE LARGER TREND. WHY IT MATTERS.

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As 'telehealth cliff' looms, hundreds of healthcare orgs urge Congress to act

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2021

If they don't act before the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency, the groups said, Medicare beneficiaries "will lose access to virtual care options which have become a lifeline to many." "Many of the telehealth flexibilities are temporary and limited to the duration of the COVID-19 public health emergency.

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Here are the major issues facing healthcare in 2021, according to PwC

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This is according to a new annual report from research and consulting giant PwC entitled “Top health industry issues of 2021: Will a shocked system emerge stronger?” “Some specialties, such as mental health, may find stronger footing via virtual visits.

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The Trust Deficit Is Bad for Health: A Health/Care Lens on the 2022 Edelman Trust Barometer

Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2022

While WEF is mostly virtual this year due to the pandemic, Edelman has released the survey of global citizens’ views on trust in institutions right on-time and in full and sobering detail. I welcome and dig into the Edelman Trust Barometer every year, and put on my health/care lens when reviewing its findings.

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Miss one of these? Six aging and health tech blog posts from April and May

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 26, 2022

We are used to citing population surveys to cite trends. The growth has been tracked most recently in survey samples that compared the most recent with prior time periods: AARP surveyed 2063 and Pew Research surveyed 1502 adult s. And Linkage Connect surveys the oldest, with a sizable sample of 2398 older adults.

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How RPM can solve many patient and provider problems in rural areas

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 20, 2023

RPM provides tools like scales, blood pressure cuffs, blood oxygen monitors, educational content and surveys so patients with conditions such as diabetes, hypertension and COPD are able to monitor and better manage their own health. What are some trends in rural healthcare that are pushing RPM one way or the other?

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Australia permits longer telephone consults in COVID-19 hotspots

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2021

" Medicare, Australia's universal health insurance scheme, will provide patients with a A$75.75 ($56) rebate for the GP service, whose fees are equivalent to Level C face-to-face appointments. THE LARGER TREND. Enterprise Taxonomy: Population and Public Health Digital Health Care Technology. ON THE RECORD.

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Bonus Features – January 22, 2023 – 69% of digital health companies report data set gaps, 66% of patients don’t know where their healthcare data goes, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 22, 2023

News and Studies Amid the push for interoperability, data gaps persist, according to the inaugural State of Interoperability report from Health Gorilla , a health information network. This is despite the fact that 65% of survey respondents saying they believe patients should own their data.

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A Public Health Wake-Up Call: Reading Between the Lines in IQVIA’s 2023 Use of Medicines Report

AMA survey: Majority of physicians say telehealth enables more comprehensive quality care

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What #CES2019 5 Tech Trends to Watch Mean for Health/Care

Healthy Living Trends Inspired by COVID-19: Retailers, Food, and Consumers’ Growing Self-Care Muscles

Survey Findings: Medicaid Telehealth For Behavioral Health Care

The COVID-19 Era Has Grown Health Consumer Demand for Virtual Care

Stress Is Playing A Big Role in Consumers’ Food Habits: Food-As-Medicine Update from IFIC

Singaporean health chiefs embrace digital health to tackle staff shortage: report

Americans Grew Digital Health-Data Muscles in the Pandemic – New Insights from the Pew Charitable Trusts

The Latest Health Technology Vision and Consumer Behavior Insights From Accenture

Vast majority of specialists increased use of telehealth tech during COVID-19 pandemic

Post-Pandemic, U.S. Healthcare is Entering a “Provide More Care For Less” Era – Pondering PwC’s 2022 Forecast

Physician Burnout is a Public Health Crisis

Health Consumers After COVID-19 – A View from the Consumer Technology Association

State Medicaid programs want to keep telehealth expansions, KFF analysis finds

Physicians in favor of permanent telehealth expansion

A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds

LexisNexis Risk Solutions Takes Social Determinants of Health to New Heights

Waking Up a Health Consumer in the COVID-19 Era

Be Mindful About What Makes Health at HLTH

COVID-19-triggered threat changes will linger beyond crisis, say most security pros

States Reimburse Many Aspects of Medicaid Telehealth without Federal Approval

Your State as a Determinant of Health: Sharecare’s 2021 Community Well-Being Index

COVID-19 Accelerated Digital Health Investments…But It Helps to Be Bigger, Mature and Scaling

Digital health apps could save NHS billions, says report

Telehealth Reimbursement: End-of-Pandemic Emergency Update

The Digital Home: A Platform for Health, via Deloitte and the COVID-19 “Stress Test”

Health Privacy and Our Ambivalent Tech-Embrace – Lessons for Digital Health Innovators

Report: Healthcare leaders have an optimistic outlook beyond COVID-19

Top health tech hazards for 2022: cyberattacks, supply chain shortfalls and more

In the Pandemic, We’re All About Food

What will the next year look like for telehealth? 'Well above pre-pandemic levels'

To Avert a GLP-1 Cost Tsunami, Add Lifestyle Interventions: Learning from Virta Health

Chronic Medical Conditions, Mental Health, and Equity On Employers’ Minds for 2022 – Employee Health in the Wake of COVID-19

HHS watchdog: State oversight needed for behavioral telehealth

U.S. Hospitals Will Lose $323 Billion in 2020 – Before Accounting for Growing COVID Cases

Premier lists rule relaxations that should be made permanent, post-pandemic

As 'telehealth cliff' looms, hundreds of healthcare orgs urge Congress to act

Here are the major issues facing healthcare in 2021, according to PwC

The Trust Deficit Is Bad for Health: A Health/Care Lens on the 2022 Edelman Trust Barometer

Miss one of these? Six aging and health tech blog posts from April and May

How RPM can solve many patient and provider problems in rural areas

Australia permits longer telephone consults in COVID-19 hotspots

Bonus Features – January 22, 2023 – 69% of digital health companies report data set gaps, 66% of patients don’t know where their healthcare data goes, and more

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