Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2020

The same percentage of people over 50 own a voice assistant, a market penetration rate which more than doubled between 2017 and 2019, AARP noted in the 2020 Tech and the 50+ Survey published in December 2019. One-half of 50+ Americans use a tablet, and 17% own wearable tech.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 5, 2019

The topline of this study is that average annual growth in employer premiums rose faster between 2016 and 2017, by about 5% for both single and family plans. Workers covered by health insurance through their companies spend 11.5%

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

Overall, 2017 to 2018 year-on-year, HBW sales were flat-to-no growth, notwithstanding the consumer and influencer buzz around the categories. GMDC and AT Kearney had a meeting in June 2017. While sales for HBW via FDM channels were pretty flat between 2017 and 2018, “the basket is upgrading,” Knight said.

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Health Populi

JUNE 25, 2018

Deloitte calculated another way to measure the ROI of patient delight by looking at hospitals’ financial performance, finding that those providers who scored more highly on patient experience yielded better financial outcomes — highly correlated to patient-nurse engagement.

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Xealth

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Through the secure Xealth platform, clinicians can find and order the right digital health tools and programs for patients directly from the EHR workflow, send these digital health orders to the patients email or patient portal, and then monitor activity.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Rock Health analysts expect that wearable tech use will continue to grow with more use cases for remote health monitoring coupled with consumers and patients being incentivized to continue their use. Telehealth adoption also grew from 2017 to 2018. Live video use roughly doubled, from 19% in 2017 to 34% in 2018.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

If you’re under 65 and were uninsured or had problems affording health care in 2017, you tended to be less healthy — in fair or poor health — compared with others who lacked insurance or money to pay for care. In 2017, healthcare made up 18.2% of the U.S. GDP and the cost of a PPO for a family of four was $14,500.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

In the extensive privacy discussion in my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen , I cited Deloitte’s 2017 Global Mobile Consumer Survey which described consumer privacy as “a concerned embrace of technology” (see page 14 within the report link).

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Health Populi

APRIL 23, 2018

in 2017 after accounting for discounts and rebates. The report reviews medicines spending in 2017 looking forward to 2022. billion prescriptions dispensed in 2017, and generic drugs accounted 90% of them. That’s the navy blue component in each bar, indicating the $5 bn drop in 2017). In 2017, patients spent $57.8

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Empowering Patients with Transparency Advancements in healthcare technology have brought remarkable transparency to benefit management, streamlining processes for healthcare organizations and ultimately enhancing patient experiences.

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Health Populi

APRIL 9, 2018

Peoples’ experience with health plans rank at the bottom of the roster, on par with rental cars and TV/Internet service providers. While BCBS of Florida had the greatest improvement over 2017, CIGNA dropped the most. This top-ranked health plan was rated 184 out of 318 companies across the 20 industries in the overall study.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

JANUARY 15, 2019

The National Cancer Institute reports 2017 U.S. According to Deloitte’s report in Evidence Based Oncology ( The American Journal of Managed Care publication), many organizations are exploring ways to control costs and enhance care quality for oncology patients (e.g. How does TapCloud support the oncology patient?

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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. Health data insecurity is the new normal. A big piece of addressing the cybersecurity healthcare challenge is educating people who work in healthcare settings, and that has been under-funded.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2019

In quintiles, 2017 median income ranged from the bottom fifth of homes with $13K, fourth group $35K, middle quintile $61K (close to the median overall), second group at $99K, and top at $221K. Few people want to pay in person or by phone.

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Xealth

OCTOBER 16, 2024

We are seeing technology support the provider and patient experience, a role that will strengthen in the coming years.

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2018

On July 18, 2017, Neil Gomes, Chief Digital Officer at Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health in Philadelphia, tweeted this: When I saw this tweet, I was especially struck by Gomes’s phrase, “Designed & developed with heart/love by my @DICEGRP.”

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Health Populi

MARCH 5, 2019

” The OECD broadly defined the phrase in their 2017 paper on the topic as follows: Mobility, cloud computing, the Internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI) and big data analytics are among the most important technologies in the digital economy today. The digital divide in the U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 5, 2018

We’ll see voice-first developers like Orbita, which appeared at HIMSS last year, expanding tools for health-focused digital voice assistants; I learned about their Alexa skills in 2017 developed for people dealing with aging at home. adults used in 2017, according to a survey Pew conducted last year. 46% of U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 11, 2019

eHealth is one of the tools that could be used towards achieving VBHC, and the MOPH has a long-term strategy to drive the growth and development of eHealth from 2017-2026. ii) Patient experience. iii) Unlocking the value of AI. (iv) iv) Value-based care. (v) v) Health 2.0.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

I’ve mined this report in previous years – you can review my findings from the 2017 report here in the Health Populi post, Health is Everywhere in 2016. Brands and marketing. Food and drink. Health (as a category itself). Lifestyle. Among the ten trend-examples in the Health section, I pulled out Healing Cafés here.

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Health Populi

MAY 31, 2019

Over the ten years between 2007 and 2017, U.S. Furthermore, income disparity between wealthy Americans and people earning lower-incomes dramatically widened: between 2007-2017, income for high-income earners grew 1,305 percent more than lower-incomes.

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Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2018

Aetna worked with Market Measurement to conduct 1,000 interviews among people 18 years of age and older in December 2017. But two-thirds of women are keen to spend an extra hour a day on well-being. An additional survey of 400 physicians was conducted, split between 200 primary care providers and 200 specialty physicians.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

With AllStripes’ strong relationships across patient communities, PicnicHealth expands its footprint and enhances its ability to guide critical and deep evidence generation. “AllStripes and PicnicHealth share a common vision of elevating clinical studies by putting patients at the core of the research experience.

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Health Populi

MARCH 8, 2018

Amazon began to extend Prime delivery for people with SNAP (food stamp) benefits in June 2017, which the Los Angeles Times discussed in this article. In 2017, in 24 states, 50% of babies were born into families enrolled in Medicaid. If a family with low-income deems $5.99 If a family with low-income deems $5.99

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 19, 2023

In fact, as healthcare leaders increasingly prioritize patient access , chat’s success in other businesses has spurred the rapid onboarding of chat solutions to help address healthcare-specific engagement and accessibility challenges. Although widely used in many other industries, its adoption is just beginning to take off in healthcare.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Nothing in health care happens overnight, and this concept has been hatching since 2017, GC’s press release explains. “More ‘patient’ capital with decades-long time horizon” (think: ‘patient’ in terms of longer-term expectations).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 14, 2020

Back in 2017, Millennium Physician Group, one of the largest independent physician groups in the U.S., Consequently, the group felt healthcare delivery was moving away from the physician’s office and into the patient’s home, with services like routine check-ups via telehealth and remote patient monitoring.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

wellness" and more, said Gibbons — to say nothing of completely reshaping the patient experience. spent $327 billion on diabetes management in 2017, Dhar said. The total spending on addiction, and all its ancillary costs, is likely to exceed $740 billion.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2024

In 2017, a few years before we uttered “Covid” or “PPE,” I wrote about broadband connectivity as a social determinant of health in the Huffington Post. The pandemic made it all the more obvious to most people.

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Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2019

“Shallow Medicine” is the theme of this discussion, which includes the word cloud shown here describing Americans’ views on doctors in 2017, published in a JAMA Surgery article called, “Patient Perceptions About Their Physician in 2 Words: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.” ” The U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

For more on the connected car as a third-space for health care, see my post from CES 2017, Your car as a mobile health platform.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Here's an interesting one: This story actually dates from way back in the pre-pandemic past of 2017. Comparing 11 top telehealth platforms: Company execs tout quality, safety, EHR integrations. CMS final rule poses big hurdles for payers. On March 9, just days from when the pandemic became real for most people in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

JUNE 1, 2018

I’ve mined Meeker’s report for several years here on Health Populi: 2017 – Digital healthcare at the inflection point, via Mary Meeker. Meeker, of Kleiner Perkins, released the report as usual at the Code Conference, held this year on 30 May 2018 in Silicon Valley.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

“Back in 2017, UCHealth was very close to pursuing a buy-it strategy, but we ultimately were persuaded by our engineers that we had all the necessary pieces to do this ourselves, and that building it would pay off in the long run,” he said. “We’ve also seen success in our patient experience metrics,” he noted.

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New Age Healthcare

JULY 27, 2017

This is reflective by the improving patient experience, enhanced health outcomes, increased efficiency in providing quality healthcare, and also by the ocean of successful start-ups that have evolved in the health-tech space. A lot of these models are being debated globally amongst industry experts on various platforms.

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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

JUNE 12, 2023

I share five of the top takeaways from the survey here, but urge you to read the entire survey report—and share it with others in your organization—for a fuller understanding of what patients expect and how providers can leverage technology to deliver on those expectations. How can technology improve provider consistency?

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