Health Populi

JUNE 1, 2018

Health care features prominently in the nearly-300 slides curated by Mary Meeker in her always- informative report on Internet Trends 2018. Meeker, of Kleiner Perkins, released the report as usual at the Code Conference, held this year on 30 May 2018 in Silicon Valley. 2015 – Musings with Mary Meeker on the digital/health nexus.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 5, 2019

of their household income on health insurance premiums and deductibles based on The Commonwealth Fund’s latest report on employee health care costs, Trends in Employer Health Coverage, 2008-2018: Higher Costs for Workers and Their Families. Workers covered by health insurance through their companies spend 11.5% of household income.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 16, 2020

One-half of consumers also believe people would be more likely to be healthier longer with care delivered at home, and nearly half of people also think people could be more adherent to medical advice and less stressed in the process.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Most Americans have been surprised by a medical bill, a NORC AmeriSpeak survey found. patients blamed doctors and pharmacies, although a majority of consumers still put responsibility for surprise healthcare bills on them (71% and 64% net). adults 18 and over in August 2018. Who’s responsible? Plus ça change.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Beyond the physical and emotional pain that people experience when they become a patient, in the U.S. 98% of Americans rank paying their medical bills is an important pain point in their patient journey, according to Embracing consumerism: Driving customer engagement in the healthcare financial journey , from Experian Health.

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Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2018

It takes a good nudge from a provider to motivate a patient to access online medical records, found by ONC in their latest research into consumers’ use of EHRs detailed in Individuals’ use of online medical records and technology for health needs , the ONC Data Brief No. 40, published April 2018.

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2022

step in the right direction” CBS News 8 San Diego covered a caregiver and cancer patient’s experience with a live shot of their thick binder, containing CDs with medical images and data from these various provider institutions laying on top of a pile of letters and lab test results.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

consumers, including Seniors, found in the 2018 digital health consumer survey from Deloitte. This includes patient-facing applications like video visits, remote monitoring, asynchronous visits, and medication adherence, among other applications. This is roughly equal to patients across all age cohorts in the study.

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Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2018

That’s how media outlets will cover the top-line of PwC’s report Medical cost trend: Behind the numbers 2019. medical trend growth projected for 2019 that will impact healthcare providers, insurers, and suppliers to the industry. However, there are other forces underneath the stable-looking 6.0% economy by 2026.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

People travel further and wait longer for medical services than for veterinary care (second in this line-up), auto repair, banking, and household services. Our homes are evolving into our health hubs — truly our “medical homes,” which have been formally defined as a primary care gatekeeper’s office.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Seeking health information online along with researching other patients’ perspectives on doctors are now as common as booking dinner reservations and reading restaurant reviews, based on Rock Health’s latest health consumer survey, Beyond Wellness for the Healthy: Digital Health Consumer Adoption 2018. Tech companies?

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

People dealing with chronic conditions are keener to share personally-generated data than people that don’t have a chronic disease, Deloitte’s 2018 Survey of U.S> Specifically, 50% of health consumers search to see their providers are in-network, to avoid surprise medical bills. > Health Care Consumers learned.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

Use of wearable tech nearly halved, from 33% to 18%, between 2018 and 2020. People would especially welcome virtual services from traditional medical care providers, as opposed to virtual care from a technology or social media company, a retailer, or a medical startup.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Among people who have health insurance, managing the costs of their medical care doesn’t rank as a top frustration. And maintaining good mental health and staying on-track with health goals come close to managing uncovered costs, Oliver Wyman’s 2018 consumer survey learned. health-insured adults in July 2018.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 5, 2018

On the demand side, we’ve done a poor job trying to nudge patients and consumers toward rational economic decision making, lacking transparency, information symmetry, and basic health literacy. trillion to national healthcare spending in 2018. trillion in 2018. Start with the fact that America will allocate $3.7 trillion a year.

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Health Populi

MAY 5, 2022

Wearing our health and wellness lens, IRI’s data has shown broad-based category growth for wellness supplements since 2018, with a 10% growth rate per annum. The third chart serves up examples of the manufacturers by category which IRI has divined exemplify winners in the post-COVID CPG marketplace.

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Health Populi

APRIL 30, 2018

Three-fourths of healthcare providers experienced a data breach in 2017, according to the HIMSS 2018 Cybersecurity Survey. Only 41% of healthcare workers say they receive security training, a Forrester study learned in January 2018. The link will take you to the Request, and input will be accepted until 31 May 2018.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

healthcare consumers 18 and over in November and December 2018. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Patients, now consumers and ultimately payors managing up to their deductible and out-of-pocket health care costs, are clearly seeking health care services on their terms — based on value and personal values.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

This was followed by finding a hospital, asking about medication information, seeking nutrition information, scheduling a visit to a doctor or hospital, connecting to a digital health device (like a Fitbit tracker or blood glucometer), finding a clinician, and researching treatment options.

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Health Populi

APRIL 3, 2024

The phrase “patient safety” summons up a list of common sources such as medication errors, surgical errors, health care-associated infections, diagnostic errors, among other adverse events and harms people experience in the course of receiving health care. “First, do no harm” is a key M.O. in health care.

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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2018

One-third of physicians have concerns about using virtual care services, such as medical errors that may result, access to technology, and data security. The smartwatch category, with fitness tracking, is hot in 2018, some “smarter” than others. from Deloitte. One in two U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 29, 2018

Governor Mark Leavitt, who held the post of Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Bush, offered this advice at the recent Liberation 2018 conference hosted by Medecision. Part 2: Design to Liberate Healthcare , published 19 April, 2018.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

It feels like the vision industry is at an inflection point at this moment, I intuited during yesterday’s convening of Decoding the Consumer: The new science of customer behavior, the theme of the 13th annual global leadership summit hosted by Vision Monday, a program of Jobson Medical Information which is part of the WebMD family.

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Health Populi

JUNE 26, 2018

I’m blogging live while attending HXD 2018 in Cambridge, MA, the health/care design conference convened by Mad*Pow, 26th and 27th June 2018. Amy, Founder and Chief Experience Office of Mad*Pow, kicked off the conference with context-setting and inspiration. Today was Day 1 and I want to recap my learnings and share with you.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Furthermore, health plan members now see themselves as medical bill payers, seeking value and consumer-level services for their health insurance premium investment. Its meaning was, “insurance against loss through illness of the insured,” especially, “insurance providing compensation for medical expenses.”

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

This blog appears today as part of a #HIMSS18 primer series for attendees, and the industry at large, to discuss major health IT issues that will help move health and healthcare delivery forward in 2018 – and beyond. Patients as Consumers: How Leading Providers are Digitally Transforming Patient Consults | #Engage4Health + #HIMSS18.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Here’s where you can do just that beginning on 8th November 2018 at Open Source Healthcare. and what American healthcare can glean from the better outcomes and lower medical spending that Europeans enjoy. and what American healthcare can glean from the better outcomes and lower medical spending that Europeans enjoy.

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Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2018

Sleep, too, or lack thereof, is top-of-mind for so many consumers: there was a growing category of sleep-assisting digital health tools featured at the 2018 CES, which I covered here in the Huffington Post. One-third of people cite mental health as a goal, closely followed by improving finances.

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Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2018

The survey was conducted online among 1,005 Americans age 50 and older between January and February 2018. Health Populi’s Hot Points: As patients morph into health consumers, seeking food options that make health, they’re also savvy buyers, who clip coupons, shop private labels, and look for value-priced products in their lives.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

And bad debt — write-offs that come out of uncollected patient bill balances after “significant collection efforts” by hospitals and doctors — is challenging their already-thin or negative financial margins.

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Health Populi

JULY 29, 2022

Just about one year ago, DG appointed the company’s first Chief Medical Officer, which I covered here in Health Popul i in a post titled, “Dollar General, the Latest Retail Health Destination?” billion in 2018. These three topics all occurred in the past couple of weeks. government would have saved $2.6

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2022

from HealthConsuming to the consumer experience. Day 2 – On Amazon’s planned acquisition of One Medical. Supporting the medical community for research and innovation, physician-patient relationships, and bolstering public health.

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Health Prime

JANUARY 24, 2024

These ongoing industry trends can also facilitate physicians’ tasks, allowing them to focus on patients while ensuring proper revenue collection. Specifically, medical providers must invest in robust telehealth solutions to facilitate virtual consultations, remote patient monitoring, and seamless patient communication.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

One reason is because a medical data breach is more valuable than a hack of, say, consumers’ credit card identities. Emerging categories, like medical cannabis, was also a new-new thing to add to the growing menu of possible healthy things Amazon could channel.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Retail Tomorrow will be convening stakeholders in Toronto on 2nd-5th October 2018 collaborating with Google Sidewalk Labs, working in partnership to re-develop the city’s waterfront in Smart Cities mode. Attendees will be brainstorming retail’s role in Smart Cities’ developing for health and wellness.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2022

Walgreens launched Find Care Now in 2018. And they have helped people co-create health outcomes as quantified in the cancer care experience slide shown here. Providers should consider new ways to not only mitigate the damage that has been done, but also find ways to anticipate and address similar challenges in the future.”

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2019

Research published in JAMA Internal Medicine in December 2018 found that as out-of-pocket costs for insulin have increased over the past few years, many patients use less insulin than needed. The therapy treats thalassemia, a genetic disease that affects 1,000 people in the U.S. and 300,000 people worldwide.

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