Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

We must be mindful that hospitals, health systems and physicians quickly stood up and adopted virtual care, especially telemedicine programs, in March and April 2020. In 2019, J.D. Power called telehealth, “the best consumer healthcare experience you’ve never tried.”

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Health Populi

JANUARY 17, 2019

Lyn and Frances tested three assumptions that they believed linked housing and health: that housing contributes to health; that housing is not routinely included in health or social planning;’ and that the potential contribution of primary care is wasted.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 8, 2023

PEP Health’s AI-powered Patient Experience Platform releases its first report offering quantitative and qualitative insights on the patient experience. Meanwhile, primary care physicians prescribed these same medications 3.5%

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Enzyme Health

APRIL 24, 2019

In 2019, several new trends are emerging that set the stage for a new consumer-focused paradigm in healthcare. Referencing patients as “consumers” has slowly infiltrated the healthcare industry vocabulary over the last decade. The discussions that take place at the ATA set the tone for the future of the digital health industry.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2021

A survey conducted on behalf of Kyruus, a patient-experience software vendor, found that the majority of consumers say they still prefer in-person care for long-term needs. Half of respondents said their primary care provider had offered virtual care visits during the pandemic.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Buoy Health AI triage bot True to their mission “Making health care easier, so life can be better”, Banner Health has invested in digital health technologies to support their patient experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 6, 2023

$140 million in funding raised since November 2020 Wellvana Health announced today that it has closed an $84 million capital raise to drive innovation in value-based care enablement for independent primary care physicians, specialists, and health systems. For more information, visit wellvana.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2019

Power has undertaken a survey on consumer satisfaction with 31 telehealth providers across 15 measures, which will be published in November 2019. I’ll also weave in the latest insights from the ATA 2019 State of the States report updating legislative/regulatory telemedicine activity at the U.S. State level.

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Health Populi

APRIL 2, 2019

Spending on medical care costs crowded out other household spending for millions of Americans in 2018, based on The U.S. adults 18 and over in January and February 2019. Healthcare Cost Crisis , a survey from West Health and Gallup. Gallup polled 3,537 U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 23, 2020

Statistically, this was an inverse-shift: In the previous year, the second quarter of 2019, 15% of telehealth encounters happened through a local physician’s practice, versus 46% in Q2 2020; and, In the second quarter of 2020, 41% of telehealth occurred through a telehealth company with a nationwide network of doctors, versus 13% in Q2 2020.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Just as we experienced “e-business” departments blurring into ecommerce and everyday business processes, so is “telehealth” morphing into, simply, health care delivery as one of many channels and platforms. Telehealth and virtual care are key education topics and exhibitor presences at HIMSS19.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

This and other studies have tracked consumers’ growing use of digital tech and wearables during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the 10% point growth from 2019 to 2020 is notable. Willingness in sharing health data with insurers, pharmacies, research institutions all fell between 2019 and 2020.

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Health Populi

JULY 30, 2020

health care system, from public health gaps to the racial gaps of health disparities between people of color dying at a much greater rate than white people in America. The pandemic has revealed many cracks in the U.S. Today’s news that the U.S. In the longer term, assuring all U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2019

In collaboration with highly-qualified doctors and healthcare providers, we’ve built a digital health platform that is changing the way people talk about and receive the care they need.” published on 30 September 2019. ” That’s a verbatim paragraph from a blog on the Hims & Hers’ Medium channel.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

Sean Lynch, Vice President of Clinical Operations at Curebase A major reason why health disparities exist in clinical trials today can be attributed to the burden traditional trial models place on participating patients. These practitioners ensure that all patients, regardless of socioeconomic status, receive the care they need.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The company invested $67 million in affordable housing in 2019, which built 2,200 homes in 24 cities in six states. CVS/health is growing its reach into the social determinants of health through its Destination: Health program. Think past the pharmacy and the company’s new Health Hub concept; think CVS/housing.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 15, 2020

At a granular level, the honesty-ethics index on Members of Congress improved, relatively speaking, from 8 points in 2016 to 12 points in 2019 — that’s a 50% improvement. Senators’ score improved but at a lower rate, from 11 points in 2016 to 13 points in 2019.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

doctors are using digital health tools in patient care, with quickening adoption of telehealth and remote monitoring technology, according to a study from the American Medical Association (AMA). This survey, conducted in 2019 among 1,359 U.S. Readings are visible to patients and transmitted to the physician’s office.

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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. In pre-pandemic times, family and friends were lifelines for patients undergoing treatments and grappling with a life-changing disease,” BDO observes at the end of the report.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 20, 2022

A key factor driving the adoption of a digital-first care model is the ability to manage patients regardless of location, thereby decreasing the use of unnecessary resources. Traditional care delivery is not working for far too many consumers. Decentralized clinical trials are already growing in popularity.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 16, 2020

To gain peoples’ perspectives on health care at home and chronic disease management, CareMore Health and Aspire Health commissioned a survey among 2,009 U.S. adults 23 years of age and over in September and October 2019.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2019

rural residents’ access to broadband at home continues to lag behind urban and suburban dwellers, the Pew Research Group noted in a May 2019 research note on Americans’ use of technology. In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

JULY 25, 2022

Health Populi’s Hot Points: When we published HealthConsuming in 2019, exactly one year before the World Health Organization called the coronavirus a “pandemic,” these forces were already in play… since then, accelerated by our collective COVID-19 experience.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 6, 2022

"But it also adds a higher level of intensity to meeting patients' needs in a more immediate way and with the best solutions available." " Before the pandemic hit in March 2020, El Camino had moved in the direction of telehealth, but virtual care was still a tool the hospital did not yet have.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

Mary was advocating for the role that AI could play to mitigate physician bias that could impede care for patients. In 2019 they conducted a pilot at Stanford in exam rooms that employed ambient listening into physician and patient conversations.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 7, 2019

For more hard-core athletes, CES 2019 features an eSports area with all flavors of digital sports from golf to hockey and tennis. This is one of many products on the #CES2019 show floor that is backed by artificial intelligence and machine learning (one of the CTA 5 Tech Trends for 2019 that I wrote about in yesterday’s Health Populi).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2022

Even before COVID-19, Louisville, Kentucky-based Baptist Health was facing a variety of challenges: access to care, patient experience, lack of specialists in its rural market and lack of new patient acquisition strategies in the digital space. THE PROBLEM. " PROPOSAL. Click here to read the special report.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 25, 2023

What’s needed is: Data connectivity and interoperability between various systems, such as electronic medical records (EMRs), clinical management platforms and telehealth solutions Transparent access to data by a patient’s entire care team, from primary care doctors to specialists and more.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Caravan Health is a privately held company formed to create sustainable methodologies for health systems to excel in value-based care. In 2019 and 2020, its partners earned $300 million in Medicare savings, more than $120 million in shared savings, and quality scores exceeding 97%, the company reported.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

This second graphic diagrams a patient journey map for the coronavirus, across the continuum of care settings from the community and home to primary care, emergency, hospital, and post-acute. Philips was involved early on in responding to health system demands in the ASEAN region, discussed here in Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2020

For 40 years, NFP’s model was solely a face-to-face model of integrated care – primary care, behavioral health, dental, midwifery and pharmacy – that included meeting social needs, transportation barriers and access to care roadblocks. THE PROBLEM. October and November are even busier.”

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Lloyd Price

APRIL 30, 2023

The key areas where Amazon has been involved: Amazon Care: Amazon launched Amazon Care, a virtual healthcare service for its employees, in 2019. Amazon Care Amazon Care is a healthcare service provided by Amazon for its employees. Amazon Care offers a combination of virtual and in-person healthcare services.

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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

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In particular , I learned so much from a conversation during CES 2019 with Sean Carney , Philips’ Chief Design Officer. These three scenarios, and Philips’ usual work-flow, involves a lot of design research, which I’ve discussed previously here on Health Populi.

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GlobalMed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

As community hubs of healthcare, they are tasked with delivering expert medical care across emergency departments, outpatient practices, surgical suites, labs, radiology departments, intensive care units and more. But consider that they’re also asked to: Provide an exceptional patient experience. Lower healthcare costs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

You and your research team just evaluated a VA telehealth program for outpatient general teleneurology care. The VA National TeleNeurology Program (NTNP) was developed in 2019 and funded by the VA Office for Rural Health to help meet the growing gap in access to neurology care across the VA.

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