Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2019

For mainstream Americans, “the math doesn’t add up” for paying medical bills out of median household budgets, based on the calculations in the 2019 VisitPay Report. In the latest OECD report Society at a Glance 2019 , published last week, the U.S. Given a $60K median U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2019

I’m glad to be getting back to health economic issues after spending the last couple of weeks firmly focused on consumers, digital health technologies and CES 2019. There’s a lot for me to address concerning health care costs based on news and research published over the past couple of weeks.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

dropped nearly three years between 2019 and 2021, from close to 79 years down to 76. Life expectancy in the U.S. We ended 2022 with this new, sobering statistic from the Centers tor Disease Control (CDC). Specifically, there is a two-year extension of Medicare telehealth services that began in the early coronavirus era in 2020.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: When PatientsLikeMe was acquired by UnitedHealthcare earlier this year, my friends-in-health-tech Susannah Fox, Lisa Suennen and I wrote a response to the acquisition and situation on each of our blogs, and on Medium. Here’s the link to our post here on Health Populi, from July 1, 2019.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

And that will enhance patient/consumer health experience and loyalty. AI underpins all retail experience now – which is something we’re hearing in healthcare whether at HIMSS, CES, SXSW, ePharma, and other conferences since the start of 2019. How can I banish bags from my eyes? What causes eye pain?

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Health Populi

AUGUST 7, 2019

We’d been trying to schedule meeting up to do a live podcast since February, and we finally got our mutual acts together on 6th August 2019. Marc Iskowitz, Executive Editor of MM&M, warmly welcomed me to the Haymarket Media soundproof studio in New York City yesterday.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

An important one to watch seems simple on its face, but could expand access to specific patient populations who need products and services at home or close-to-home — like needing a condom at 3 am. in the current post-Dobbs health policy environment. Enter the humble vending machine. ” That is, emergency birth control.

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2021

Those issues were COVID-19, the 2020 Election, health care policy, racial divides, and equity and access. W2O notes that these five issues became more-inter-related than ever, compared with previous years’ top consumer health issues.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

I then toured a gathering of new HBW products that hinted at what I’m going to see at retail in 2019 and beyond: food-as-medicine through turmeric-based supplements, “free-from” products for my kids and for me, and products “with benefits” and experiences beyond the first-line value proposition. I exhaled in a mindful moment.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

Primary care in particular seems to be suffering, as visit volumes have yet to return to their 2019 levels. While 95% of organizations said digital engagement tools improve the patient experience, 42% said there are “significant gaps” between what patients expect and what they can provide.

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Health Populi

APRIL 19, 2023

It’s largely not via media, with only 50% of global consumers trusting that the media reports accurate information about health care. that would be only 46% of health citizens, a double-digit decline in trust from June 2019. In the U.S.,

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

By enabling patients to receive care in rural areas or non-traditional settings, or to access technology that is customized for their specific language and health literacy levels, RPM can reduce or eliminate many social determinants of health barriers and improve access to care for individuals.

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Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Senior Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer of Northwell Health (New Hyde Park, N.Y.): Operationally, hospitals and health systems will be more designed around the patient experience rather than the patient accommodating to the hospital design and operations. David Rahija. Ronda Lehman, PharmD.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

While Peloton was a punchline in some peoples’ jokes at the 2019 holiday season ( see here ), the company had an enviable growing waiting list in 2020 — the right thing at the right time.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

This is a global study, conducted among health citizens from North America, Latin America, Europe and the Asia Pacific region. adults in July and August 2019. findings were that, 83% of people want health web portals personalized to them. 70% would be interested in accessing a live health coach. Election Day 2019.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

While customer satisfaction with health insurance plans slightly increased between 2018 and 2019, patient satisfaction with hospitals fell in all three settings where care is delivered — inpatient, outpatient, and the emergency room, according to the 2018-2019 ACSI Finance, Insurance and Health Care Report.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 21, 2022

since 2019). The NielsenIQ construct here smartly observes, in the #7 driving force that will change how consumes care for their health, Policy, Legislation, & Governance. 70% of companies are obliged to ensure healthy products are less expensive than processed or unhealthy product choices.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

This has been more acute among younger workers 18 to 34, 64% of whom struggled to prioritize mental health, but nearly one-half of workers 35 to 54 also had difficulty prioritizing mental health, as well.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

“Patients as Consumers” is the theme of the Health Affairs issue for March 2019. patients in 2019 — patients, consumers, people, health citizens? Taken together, these four papers from Health Affairs lead to the following themes: By 2019, patients in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2019

asserted that by 2011, human health was marked less by infectious disease and more by non-communicable conditions that could be highly influenced, reversed and prevented through self-care by the individual and public health policy that promotes social and financial wellness.

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Health Populi

MARCH 6, 2019

There’s little Americans, by political party, agree upon in 2019. The Kaiser Family Foundation has been tracking this topic for a few years, and this month, their March 2019 Health Tracking Poll shows vast majorities of Democrats, Independents and Republicans all share these sentiments.

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