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.

Nursing 207

Nursing Pharmaceuticals Patient Experience Connected Health 207

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.

Nursing 204

Nursing Patient Experience Telehealth Connected Health 204

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.

Digital Health 52

Digital Health Patient Experience EHR 52

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.

HIPAA 205

HIPAA Telehealth Digital Health Health Data 205

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.

Medical Billing 117

Medical Billing Pharmaceuticals Patient Experience 117

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).

Digital Health 348

Digital Health Health Data HIPAA Mental health 348

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

Pharmaceuticals 120

Pharmaceuticals Health Data Patient Experience Health Policy 120

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.

Telehealth 168

Telehealth Primary Care Patient Experience Digital Health 168

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?

Patient Experience 53

Patient Experience Nursing Pain management Digital Health 53

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.

Medicare 54

Medicare Interoperability Patient Experience healthcare technology 54

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.

Health Data 149

Health Data Health Information Medical Technology Health Technology 149

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.

Medical Billing 283

Medical Billing Patient Experience Health Policy 283

Xealth

OCTOBER 16, 2024

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

Digital Health 59

Digital Health Patient Experience EHR 59

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.”

HIPAA 136

HIPAA Interoperability Patient Experience Digital Health 136

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.

eHealth 168

eHealth Patient Experience Telehealth Digital Health 168

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.

Digital Health 174

Digital Health Health Data Health IT Mobile Health 174

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.

eHealth 147

eHealth Telemedicine Interoperability Patient Experience 147

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.

Mental health 230

Mental health Patient Experience 230

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.

Primary Care 153

Primary Care Patient Experience Digital Health 153

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.

Mental health 212

Mental health Primary Care Digital Health Patient Experience 212

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

Primary Care 120

Primary Care Patient Experience Connected Health Digital Health 120

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.

Life Science 117

Life Science Drug Development Patient Experience healthcare technology 117

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).

Health Data 227

Health Data Connected Health Mental health Digital Health 227

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.

Telehealth 210

Telehealth EHR Telemedicine Patient Experience 210

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.

Patient Experience 114

Patient Experience HIPAA EHR Healthcare IT 114

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.

Meaningful Use 164

Meaningful Use Public Health Connected Health Patient Experience 164

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.

Patient Experience 177

Patient Experience Public Health Connected Health Mental health 177

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.

HIPAA 174

HIPAA Mobile Health Digital Health Health Information 174

Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2019

Dr. V wrote up the concept in a 2017 article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS). Flourishing by definition means “to grow” or “to prosper.” These verbs buttress a new approach known as the flourishing index, developed by Dr. Tyler VanderWeele, one of the report’s authors.

Public Health 199

Public Health Health Policy Mental health Patient Experience 199

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.

Digital Health 136

Digital Health Patient Experience Connected Health 136

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.

Primary Care 178

Primary Care Telehealth Patient Experience Healthcare IT 178

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.

Connected Care 83

Connected Care Patient Experience Healthcare Innovation Digital Health 83

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.

Public Health 205

Public Health Medicare Health Technology Patient Experience 205

Health Populi

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The Anywhere to Anywhere VA Health Care Initiative was launched in 2017 to build a national telehealth network to reach veterans especially in rural and remote areas. The company announced a collaboration with the Department of Veterans Affairs along with Philips and T-Mobile to expand healthcare access to veterans via telehealth.

Pain management 197

Pain management Telehealth Mental health Digital Health 197

Health Populi

OCTOBER 5, 2018

trillion amounts to the entire GDP of Spain in 2017. The largest proportion, 32%, gets spent on hospital care. That equates to about $1.2 trillion in 2018. I explained in my keynote speech at the MedModular launch that $1.2 You should know that Spain allocates 9% of its GDP on healthcare – one-half of the per capita amount that the U.S.

Public Health 218

Public Health Nursing Patient Experience Digital Health 218

Society for Participatory Medicine

OCTOBER 11, 2021

I have attended hundreds of conferences: patient experience, patient education, health tech, health literacy, shared decision making — and the best part has always been meeting other advocates, patients, and family caregivers. The cost is simply too high.

ePatients 111

ePatients Patient Experience 111

Health Populi

JULY 12, 2021

Regarding the one-half of people who would be interested in an exercise class at a retail store, note that Hy-Vee grocery began collaborating on that concept with Orangetheory fitness in 2017. Health Populi’s Hot Points: A central pillar of user-centered design is to meet people where they “are.”

Life Science 194

Life Science Nursing Primary Care Pharmaceuticals 194