Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2021

Expanding omni-channel, data-driven, cost-effective health care in the community, tailoring that care, and attending to mental health paint the picture of health through the lens of CVS Health. The Next Step Forward in Cardiac Care. The Mental Health Shadow of COVID-19.

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Health Populi

MAY 5, 2021

This graphic comes out of my current thinking about telehealth across the continuum of care. Before the pandemic, the dominant work-flow for telemedicine was for triage, primary care and pediatrics (think: your child registers a 105-degree fever on a Saturday night and the pediatrician’s office is closed).

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: Bloomberg reported that Walmart’s projected visit volume for the company’s new health clinic in Duluth, Georgia, exceeded expectations. Indeed, outpatient and ambulatory care is the New Black for hospitals and health care.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

But on the upside, note that a growing percentage of health consumers were very satisfied with the virtual health encounter, up from 39% in 2021 to 56% very satisfied in 2023.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

Among people 50 and over, the doctor’s visit for routine care is the top reason for using virtual care, among 2 in 3 older people. That’s an important behavior change to take into future planning for primary care services targeted to older peoples’ chronic care management and remote health monitoring.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

Among these visits, 76% were with a primary care provider, 32% with a specialty care provider, and 18% with a mental health provider, the study found. Four in ten older people who had experienced telehealth also said they would be interested in telehealth for mental health care in the future.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Mental health can be scaled with telehealth. map and citizens’ access has been marked with mental health supply shortages. Mental health via virtual platforms has sustained significant use since the waning of the public health crisis. Convenience isn’t just a nice-to-have: it has economic ROI.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

There’s an 11th imperative I add to the ten called out here, and it’s attending to mental health with grace, public policies, and resource allocation. Achieving health equity, bringing mental health services to all who need them, ideally at parity with physical health services.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Telehealth will help many people meet up with health care access — but not necessarily universally or equitably. Mental health will continue to be the epidemic beyond the pandemic. Healthcare delivery will be omnichannel, featuring digital front doors and new primary care on-ramps.

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Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

There is more PE-backed innovation for smaller niched digital tech companies that deliver services to The CEOs of health care-self-care, and more out of pocket spending by Quincy and their friends and family base don personal preferences. Health equity is prioritized in Quincy’s community as a community investment.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

This year, APA has published four reports on consumers’ mental health in the pandemic. These numbers raise questions about peoples’ access to mental health services, particularly among people of color more disproportionately negatively affected by COVID-19: Black and LatinX health citizens.

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Health Populi

MAY 11, 2020

Integrate mental health with health care. Get people care — primary care, mental health care, and specialty care that addresses the evidence that some people with chronic and serious conditions have avoided care due to fear of being exposed to the virus, due to cost, or both.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

health citizens face physical, financial, and mental health challenges of a syndemic, inflation, and stress – all of which will shape peoples’ demand side for health care and digital technology, and a supply side of providers challenged by tech-enabled organizations with design and data chops. Which virus is it?”

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Health Populi

AUGUST 6, 2021

key detractors from good performance on these measures include: Lack of universal access to care for all Americans (the Fund points out that 30 mm people in the U.S. Less adequate primary care “backbone” with large gaps in PCP coverage throughout the United States. bn for on-demand care by July 1st, 2021.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The combination of Kaiser Permanente and Geisinger to form Risant Health will be a test of how Kaiser can build a national brand while embedding its approach to a regional health system that has been geographically boxed-in in central Pennsylvania. Re-building a community health system from an innovative blueprint.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Financial stressors were a kind of toxic side effect of the pandemic, observed by the spring of 2020 just weeks into the public health crisis. A new article in Nature details the mental health concerns exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic, which included economic problems faced by many families.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 12, 2021

Spending on connected health monitoring devices in the U.S. the CTA forecast saw a 73% increase in connected health device spending in 2020, and expects 34% growth in 2021. By 2023, connected health monitoring revenue will exceed $1 billion – akin to a blockbuster drug. For the U.S.,

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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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Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Key clinical spaces holding the most promise, investors said, were oncology, mental health, primary care, and neurology. AI drug discovery and clinical trial technology (each at 27%), and, Interoperability (22%).

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Health Populi

JANUARY 9, 2023

Healthtech (shifting toward early-stage investment with mental health and primary care dominating the category). Specifically, oncology was down 32%, cardiovascular declining by 27%, mental health falling 49%, neurology by 51%, and gastroenterology by 33%.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

Those “waves of demand” TripleTree described will impact every segment of care delivery and sponsor, including small to mid-sized physician practices, employers, behavioral/mental health, public/government-sponsored health care programs, and the pharma and life science industry.

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Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2019

She asserts that leveraging AI and machine learning for low acuity issues can automate as much as 80% of care, for both physical and behavioral/mental health. Matthew talked about the “Flip the Stack” concept that he and Indu Subaiya, his partner in Health 2.0, Joe’s deploys telehealth in eight states.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2024

Once they are created, the intent is for health systems to test them across the country to evaluate clinical efficacy and financial sustainability. "Telehealth revolutionized access to primary care and mental health services," Ku noted. "PARADIGM will do the same for advanced hospital-level care."

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2021

adults ready to receiving ongoing treatment for a chronic condition via virtual care compared with less than half that percent of provider execs open to managing chronic conditions virtually in terms of the effectiveness of doing so. Similarly, there is a gap between the 37% of U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 13, 2021

.” Then add in “sweet teams are made of this,” and you have the making of telehealth enabling health/care across the continuum, as I show in my drawing here. Sweet teams are increasingly inter-disciplinary, including primary care, bundling in mental health, health coaches and nutritionists.

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Health Populi

JULY 23, 2020

One of the public health hallmarks of the pandemic era has been stress, documented by the American Psychological Association’s Stress in America survey. That further enhances patient experience, and further enables the patient to self-manage care at home where it’s safe, hygienic, and risk-managed.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Telehealth has increased access to mental health services, I’ve highlighted this Mental Illness Awareness Week here in Health Populi. But telehealth has also emerged as a preferred channel for routine health care services, we learn from J.D. Power’s 2022 Telehealth Satisfaction Study.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2022

In 2019, Find Care expanded services for consumers to manage chronic health conditions addressing asthma, COPD, and diabetes. Patients can track nutrition and food intake, mood and mental health, financial issues, transportation, and activity (such as steps). “There are people behind those data points.”

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

Concerningly, more people dealing with a chronic condition avoided health care more than people without a chronic disease — 48% versus 31%, meaning that 1 in 2 patients with a diagnosed condition delayed health care during the pandemic in 2020. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Digital health tools generate data.

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Health Populi

JULY 10, 2020

The most bullish clinicians about providing telehealth visits as an on-going alternative to in-office visits are behavioral/mental health providers and primary care physicians, 93% and 62% of whom expect to provide more telehealth to patients.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 25, 2018

There’s evidence that companies who cover health insurance are baking more financial wellness into a broader culture of health in the workplace, along with more attention to mental health. Outside of the home, I note the growth of retail health options well beyond (but including) the retail pharmacy.

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Health Populi

MARCH 30, 2021

Looking at the disruptive oval (grey), see telemedicine broken into physical and mental — with intent to use physical telemedicine post-COVID-19 among 50% of U.S. consumers, and for mental/behavioral health by some 54% of people. User growth rates for both telemedicine segments are forecasted over 60%.

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Health Populi

JULY 25, 2022

Telehealth and “digital front doors” for health care became a new experience for most people accessing virtual care for the first time in 2020 and 2021, now persisting most prominently for mental health access — too long under-served and under-supplied in the traditional/legacy U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2023

We can expect increasing investments in surgery centers, emergency care outside of the traditional ER, patient education focused on health literacy, acute care at home (the hospital-at-home migration, continuing), more virtual critical care and e-ICUs, mental health, and nutrition.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2022

This research found that our social relationships are linked both to mental health as well as morbidity and mortality — that is, death. The bar chart illustrates the result of the meta-analysis which considered 148 studies on mortality and risk factors.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 9, 2020

Check out some of the lower-ranking consumer demand issues that also hold opportunity for tech developers: namely, difficulty in getting appointments with specialists and primary care providers, and long distances to access needed services.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2020

In my new book, Health Citizenship: How a virus opened hearts and minds , I track the pandemic’s role in opening patients’ hearts and minds for care at home, using DIY platforms like smartphones, tablets and computers, along with downloading and employing mobile health apps.

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