Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

deaths due to accidents, accidental overdoses, and suicide in 2017. to expand access to integrated primary and behavioral health care to younger people in America, and telehealth can be a practical and even desirable platform for doing so particular for the nation’s younger patient population. It is a critical time for the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2022

Biofourmis continues to buck health tech funding trends with this Series D extension, which comes during a downturn in digital health investment. According to a recent Rock Health report , the first half of 2022 saw 329 digital health funding deals totaling $10.3 billion—down from $14.7

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Health Populi

MARCH 5, 2019

” A prevailing current mantra in work and daily living is “digital transformation.” The digital divide in the U.S. between rural and urban health citizens, as well as other digital gaps based on demographics like income and education, bode ill for the promise of telehealth and other aspects of digital health.

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Henry Kotula

JANUARY 2, 2019

The growth of venture capital and venture capital -backed, early-stage companies (startups) deserves the attention of patients and policy makers because advancements in medicine are no longer exclusively born from providers within the delivery system and increasingly from innovators outside of it.

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Digital Health Global

OCTOBER 27, 2023

We can find academic research recommending that major health policies should emphasize reducing unhealthy lifestyles, dating three decades ago 3. Digital therapeutics have been the fastest growing area within the healthtech space in recent years, with global VC funding increasing 4x between 2017 and 2022 4.

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Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2018

“Health agencies will have to become at least as sophisticated as other consumer/retail industries in analyzing a variety of data that helps uncover root causes of human behavior,” Gartner recommended in 2017. That’s because “health” is not all pre-determined by our parent-given genetics.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The growing supply of teletherapy serving more people at scale who need and want to access services has been encouraging to see, with investments in digital mental health hitting $3.1 billion and $793mm for substance use disorder for the first three quarters of 2021 based on Rock Health’s numbers. That is indeed the case.

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Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

To address that challenge, in 2017 PLM secured a $100 million (controlling interest) investment from iCarbonX , a Chinese company that is amassing patient data to discover cures for disease. And they invested in people because the communities they built require a human touch.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2018

I wrote this post on the deal as an inflection point in American healthcare on 3rd December 2017 when CVS and Aetna announced their marriage intentions. This post updates my initial thoughts on the deal, given the morphing US healthcare market on both the traditional health services front and fast-evolving retail health environment.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2018

California, home to start-ups, mature tech platform companies (like Apple, Facebook and Google), and countless digital health developers, is in a particularly strategic place to fight the FCC and, now, the Department of Justice. Nearly two dozen other states are looking to write net neutrality laws following Governor Brown’s example.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

He was the first person to speak to me about “health citizenship.”. My friend and colleague Denise Silber, with whom I’ve been on the digital health journey from the beginning, lives in France and works globally.

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