Health Populi

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

While venture funding for digital health technology declined globally by 35% in the first three quarters of 2022 compared with 2021, this marks a “return to normal” based on the assessment in the Global State of Digital Health Report from FINN Partners and Galen Growth, published today and launched during the HLTH 2022 conference.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

Health Populi’s Hot Points: The COVID-19 pandemic will persist well into 2021 based on current projections, and the health care system will continue to adapt to both clinical workflows and the public health guidance for physical distancing and hygiene.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 3, 2022

And about one-in-three Americans has made a 2022 New Year’s resolution involving some aspect of mental health, the American Psychiatric Association noted approaching the 2021 winter holiday season. Mental health spiked up for virtual visits and to this day, is among the medical services in highest demand for virtual platforms.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2021

When I say “Oscar” here on the Health Populi blog, you’re conjuring up an image of the health plan insurance innovator founded in 2012. But the ad for Patient Power was up-close-and-personal with Shepard Fairey painting in his iconic style a poster for empowered health consumers.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

consumers has accessed video telehealth services in the 12 months from June-July 2021. “Patients really like telehealth,” J.D. For health plan-provided telehealth, Humana topped the list, followed by Aetna in second place. Power — which studies customer satisfaction for living — asserts.

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Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2022

Increasingly, voice tech will be used for health care tasks and workflows among both clinicians and providers as well as patients, caregivers, and consumers. Imagine this announcement now in that outer ring, up and to the right, in this “foundation built to deliver what the market wants.” Voicebot.ai in 2019 to 56.0%

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

Most of these live video calls were also done through a service offered by consumers’ health care providers (doctors/clinicians), followed by services offered by insurance companies. Watch this dynamic continue to play out in 2021 as we emerge from the public health crisis into 2022.

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Health Populi

MAY 21, 2020

However, as patients continue to be concerned about exposure to COVID-19, 3 in 5 are concerned about being at-risk to the virus in their doctor’s office, according to research from the Alliance of Community Health Plans (ACHP) and AMCP , the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy. Another 8% had Medicaid or a state health insurance program.

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MedicalGPS

AUGUST 10, 2022

After you answer the ‘what’, not too many people will ever follow up and ask, “ why do you do what you do?”. In 2021, as stimulus checks were sent out and some of the uncertainty abated, a record number of workers quit their jobs, creating the so-called Great Resignation. The ‘what’ is straightforward enough.

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

When a new technology or product starts to get used in a market, it follows a diffusion curve whose slope depends on the pace of adoption in that market. The first chart from the CDC illustrates that dramatic growth in the use of telehealth ratcheting up since the first case of COVID-19 was diagnosed in the U.S. health citizens.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

At the start of CES 2021, I had the opportunity to catch up with Karsten Russell-Wood, Portfolio Marketing Leader, Post Acute & Home, Connected Care at Philips. We brainstormed just as CES 2021 was going to “open,” virtually, for the consumer electronics conference’s first all-virtual meeting.

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Health Populi

MAY 31, 2022

The overall finding that emerges out of patients’ own observations: that one’s race, age, insurance status, admission diagnosis, and living situation were all associated with completion of physician follow-up — or lack of follow-up.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

In short: 2021 and beyond will be different than 2019. This chart from the Edelman Trust Barometer follow-up in the age of the coronavirus screams the data point: that 93% of consumers were looking to brands to help them connect and stay emotionally close.

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Health Populi

MAY 30, 2023

Companies in blue garnered “excellent” RQs, followed by the apple green tone symbolizing “very good” designations in the eyes of U.S. Pharma peaked in reputation quotient in 2021, in the height of vaccination love and appreciation, which buoyed in particular Pfizer in this study.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Health insurance companies garnered an aggregate satisfaction index of 74 in 2019, one point up from 2018. The top-ranked health plan for customer satisfaction was Humana, with a score of 79, up one point from 2018.

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Health Populi

JUNE 1, 2023

Companies in blue garnered “excellent” RQs, followed by the apple green tone symbolizing “very good” designations in the eyes of U.S. Pharma peaked in reputation quotient in 2021, in the height of vaccination love and appreciation, which buoyed in particular Pfizer in this study.

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Health Populi

MAY 29, 2023

Companies in blue garnered “excellent” RQs, followed by the apple green tone symbolizing “very good” designations in the eyes of U.S. Pharma peaked in reputation quotient in 2021, in the height of vaccination love and appreciation, which buoyed in particular Pfizer in this study.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Drug price negotiation, say by the Medicare program, is a unifying public policy in the current era of political schisms in America, based on the findings in a special Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) Health Tracking Poll conducted in late September-early October 2021. This patient experience crosses political parties in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

APRIL 4, 2022

was Russia’s invasion into Ukraine, noted by 18% of people — from 14% of Republicans up to 23% of Democrats. The cost of filling up a car’s gas tank ranked first among U.S. Other worrisome health care cost items follow down the line, including: 45% of U.S. Overall, 55% of people in the U.S. economy improved.

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