Health Populi

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Safety was the key driver for utilization at a rate of 46% of people using telehealth in 2020, and only 13% in 2019. The study was fielded in June-July 2020 among 4,302 U.S. For example, AmWell began collaborating with the Google cloud business, where the company invested $100 million to scale the alliance.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2023

AARP is in fact a very visible stakeholder in the 2023 CES, collaborating on the AgeTech content track at the tech conference. OMRON launched the VitalSight remote heart health monitoring program at CES 2020 , now collaborating with medical centers and physicians across America. In the U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 28, 2020

In 2020, CES featured several hundred digital health exhibitors and a growing array of Internet of Things-connected devices adjacent to health and wellness, with representation from beyond “pure” wearable health tech ranging from FDA-cleared blood pressure watches from Omron to health insurer Humana in the exhibit hall.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

It’s timely, then, that CES launched the Global Women’s HealthTecb Awards collaborating with the World Bank. Digital health as a category has been a growing feature at CES for over a decade, starting with the early wearable tech era of Fitbit, Nike, OMRON and UnderArmour, early exhibitors at CES representing the category.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2021

It’s timely, then, that CES launched the Global Women’s HealthTecb Awards collaborating with the World Bank. Digital health as a category has been a growing feature at CES for over a decade, starting with the early wearable tech era of Fitbit, Nike, Omron and UnderArmour, early exhibitors at CES representing the category.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

Check out the top causes of mortality in 2021: the death rates for heart disease significantly rose from 2020 to 2021, as did the rates of death due to unintentional injuries (those so-called Deaths of Despair from overdose, suicide, and accidents), and to be sure, COVID-19. decline in life expectancy? How about those Deaths of Despair?

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2021

2020 changed everything, the W2O team asserts, now issuing its latest look into the issue through the Relevance Quotient. The year 2020 pushed several issues into headlines and peoples’ online searches and social network shares. Five years ago, in 2016, the W2O Group said that, “Relevance is reputation.”

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Health Populi

JULY 9, 2020

FYI, Press Ganey, a leading health care patient experience organization, has created an impressive library of resources addressing the pandemic, linked here.]. How do health care providers build trust? Press Ganey asks. Most Americans, regardless of income, were concerned about costs for COVID-19 related care.

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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. This process can.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

I was scheduled to meet with Roy Jakobs, Chief Business Leader of Connected Care at Philips, at HIMSS in Orlando on 9th March 2020. This second graphic diagrams a patient journey map for the coronavirus, across the continuum of care settings from the community and home to primary care, emergency, hospital, and post-acute.

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Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2023

Here’s what I wrote about the 2020 FHI , research conducted in the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic. That was in the midst of the fast-pivot toward virtual care and telehealth on-ramps welcomed by both clinicians and patients.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2024

The concept goes back to Hippocrates, and recently became f ully embraced by the American Heart Association in collaboration with The Rockefeller Foundation. Food as medicine – Segueing from the heart to health and nutrition, the food-as-medicine (or food-is-medicine) movement has taken hold in mainstream healthcare.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Alissa Knight , an expert on hacking and cybersecurity, conducted this research by first downloading 30 mHealth apps in collaboration with the companies, to do penetration testing of their apps and APIs. With this model in mind, think about “all that is let in,” coining the Knight Ink/Approov insights into patient data leakage.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Hospitals, clinicians, long term care and other legacy health care system players must collaborate with the folks on the right side of the chart to provide continuity of care to people at home, if we are to realize the vision of connected health where people live.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The first chart quantifies that bad debt attributable to patients’ self-pay payments after insurance kicks in: that category of bad debt grew by five times between 2018 and 2021, from 11% to nearly 58%. Collection rates for the bad debt fell from 76% in 2020 to 55% in just the one year from 2020 to 2021, a drop of nearly one-third.

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Health Populi

APRIL 22, 2020

Toluna and Harris Interactive are collaborating on the COVID-19 Barometer , publishing biweekly data on consumers’ views on the coronavirus pandemic. adults between 9-20 April 2020. The data here are a snapshot of consumers taken through the Toluna-Harris poll conducted among 1,047 U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

For telehealth, that S-curve has had a very long and fairly flat front-end of the “S” followed by a hockey stick trajectory in March and April 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic was an exogenous shock to in-person health care delivery. Over a year since the pandemic emerged in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

JANUARY 26, 2023

Our grocery stores were essential touchpoints for us during the COVID-19 lockdown era and thereafter, addressing our basic needs for food and medicines and even social health from early 2020 and since.

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Walker Info - Patient Experience

JUNE 20, 2023

While recent years have shifted many of these interactions to the virtual world, there are still numerous opportunities for an interactive experience. Meeting platforms offer whiteboards and other tools that increase collaboration. Here is an example from the banking industry at the onset of COVID in 2020.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

“We” was a trio including Antoinette Thomas (@NurseTechExec1), Chief Patient Experience Officer with Microsoft, David Ryan (@DavidPRyan), former long-time Global Head of Intel’s Health/Life Science business; and, me. Thanks to my collaborators, Antoinette and Dave, demonstrating all these traits in our ATA session.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

Let’s travel to Shanghai, China where, “the covid-19 epidemic has brought millions of new patients online. They are likely to stay there,” asserts “ The smartphone will see you now ,” an article in the March 7th 2020 issue of The Economist. Congressional leadership on February 28 2020.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2020

The 21st Century Cures Act emphasizes patients’ control of personal health information. ONC rules issues in March 2020 called for more patient-facing health tools and apps to bolster health consumer engagement and empowerment. But the emergence of the coronavirus in the U.S. How to deal?

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

One contributor to lackluster return-to-healthcare volumes is patients’ forgoing care due to cost — which Trilliant Health points out has overtaken COVID-19 concerns as the key driver for avoiding medical care services. Costco hot dog in the context of the evolving retail health ecosystem.

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CollaborateMD

JUNE 18, 2024

Engaged patients participate in their care by working collaboratively with providers to make informed decisions about their treatment. Engaged patients experience better health outcomes, driven by several factors: Engaged patients understand the reasoning behind their treatment, motivating them to continue.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

This is indeed a go-to event, and a collaborator for health — not just “digital health” in those designated physical aisles on the exhibition floor, but for health/care, everywhere — via TVs, connected cars, kitchen appliances, and other wares exhibited at CES.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2019

In collaboration with highly-qualified doctors and healthcare providers, we’ve built a digital health platform that is changing the way people talk about and receive the care they need.” Hims and Hers will invest in a Columbus, Ohio-based mail order pharmacy to be operational in 2020, featuring customer support and fulfillment centers.

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Minority Nurse

JUNE 28, 2022

In 2020, the doula project was funded by a $75,000 award from UNC, the Harvey C. The main program goals are to: decrease Black maternal mortality and morbidity; improve patient experiences; provide doulas for free to families; and help those interested in becoming doulas build critical skills and later use those skills to earn wages.

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Health Populi

MAY 31, 2019

This future state will require makers and health/care stakeholders to collaborate and go beyond pure retail or pure “healthcare.” This issue, coupled with the fastest-growing line item in the consumer budget — education (and especially the growing student loan debt burden) will motivate younger voters to the polls in 2020.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

during the first quarter of 2020, digital health rose to the occasion: namely telehealth, remote and virtual care mounted by health care providers across the nation within days of the WHO calling the virus a global pandemic. Health plans. Volunteer organizations, along with other data-creating entities for public health.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Then, COVID-19 emerged as a pandemic the world over, and the move to Brussels in January 2020 was quite short-lived. My family’s plan was to, soon thereafter, split time for work and life between the U.S. and the E.U. Now, the plan is in play and I’m writing this post from our home in Brussels, Belgium. Why Brussels?

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Health Populi

JANUARY 10, 2024

I spent time on “house calls” with two concepts for smart(er) living for health and well-being: with staff in the Amazon Experience Area, and at the Samsung Health House which is a project in collaboration with the AARP AgeTech Collaborative.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The Lumify transducer plugs into the midwife’s tablet and captures a clinically fine image to collaborate in real-time with a doctor at another location. This has utility for both patient and provider. For more on Philips’ approach to pregnancy and women’s health in the COVID-19 pandemic, check out this link].

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Health Populi

MAY 31, 2022

Those mental health impacts were anxiety, depression, or suicidal ideation, found in Archangels’ research done in collaboration with the CDC culminating in the team’s landmark study revealing an epidemic of caregiver stress that worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Getting to health equity is a team sport and requires collaboration. Most patients have experienced frustrations – in the designer’s parlance, “friction” – when seeking routine care as well as during a routine medical appointment.

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Health Populi

JULY 26, 2021

HIMSS collaborated with the organizations Trust Accenture, The Chartix Group, and ZS on this year’s research. Nine in ten clinicians have recommended digital health tools to patients, and 8 in 10 clinicians strongly concurred that the pandemic resulted in helpful changes including the adoption of telehealth.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Gary’s Book Club featured my HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen at the 2020 CES. Withings expanded remote patient monitoring earlier in 2022, and began to collaborate on clinical trial data connections between consumers and researchers. FYI, “Gary” is Gary Shapiro….

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Health Populi

AUGUST 26, 2024

Fi rst, listen to the When we all vote podcast , part of the See You Now program led by Shawna Butler – nurse economist, public health advocate, and in full disclosure a long-time friend and collaborator of mine.

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