Health Populi

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Health Populi’s Hot Points: While mental health issues were already mainstream across health citizens around the world before the COVID-19 pandemic was termed a “pandemic” in March 2020, peoples’ mental well-being eroded during the public health crisis and since then, more people have put a name to their situations and sought (..)

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MARCH 2, 2021

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

Editor’s Note: This feature story initially was published on May 6, 2020. Connected health devices run the gamut from wearable heart monitors, to Bluetooth-enabled scales, to Fitbits. They also keep patients with less severe cases out of hospitals, so preserving precious bed space for patients with severe cases.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2021

fielded between September and November 2020. The first chart details what younger people, ages 14 to 22, searched online in 2018 compared with 2020. sought health information online in 2020, a slight decline from 2018. A new mental health risk arose in 2020 in the U.S. Some 8 in 10 younger people in the U.S.

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JULY 28, 2020

In 2020, CES featured several hundred digital health exhibitors and a growing array of Internet of Things-connected devices adjacent to health and wellness, with representation from beyond “pure” wearable health tech ranging from FDA-cleared blood pressure watches from Omron to health insurer Humana in the exhibit hall.

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AUGUST 18, 2020

These reports are Accenture’s annual Digital Health Technology Vision 202 0 , and an analysis of the firm’s Wave 7 of consumer research, answering the question, How will COVID-19 change the consumer? The 2020 tech vision for health is summarized here, tying to Accenture’s previous two years of forecasts.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

TripleTree expects a “domino effect from virtual health adoption that will drive waves of demand across areas that complement virtual health and address other vulnerabilities exposed by COVID-19,” the report forecasts. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services. In 2019, J.D.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2021

Since the early phase of the pandemic, CVS Health expanded the use of Epic MyChart, the report explains, to deliver COVID-19 test results to patients as well as provide an on-ramp to patients seeking telehealth visits. Health care is omni-channel.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

There’s a gap between the supply of digital health tools that hospitals and health systems offer patients, and what patients-as-consumers need for overall health and wellbeing. Only 1 in 5 health systems plans to offer a tool to help patients-consumers “get estimates for costs of care.”

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

physicians and nurses as the pandemic emerged in early 2020. . “Improves resource allocation for staff” speaks to the crisis issue of clinician burnout. Burnout (translated through anxiety, stress, depression, and suicidality) was already a challenge for U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic drove U.S. But the coronavirus era also saw broadband households spending more on connecting health devices, with 42% of U.S. consumers owning digital health tech compared with 33% in 2015, according to research discussed in Supporting Today’s Connected Consumer from Parks Associates.

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JULY 20, 2020

The new era of virtual care has begun and is here to stay, Accenture expects in its latest look at How COVID-19 will permanently alter patient behavior , a patient survey conducted in May 2020. Accenture polled 2,700 patients around the world, 450 participants each from China, France, Germany, Japan, the U.K.,

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

I was scheduled to meet with Roy Jakobs, Chief Business Leader of Connected Care at Philips, at HIMSS in Orlando on 9th March 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.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

See that their home is a one-story design in the connected health neighborhood, a good choice for a couple seeking to age well in their home without stairs. Our homes, too, underwent digital transformation as long as we had access to a broadband connection. Take George and Audrey.

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JULY 25, 2022

Here are Morning Consult’s assessment of the Top 20 fastest-growing consumer brands of 2020 — all of which had everything to do with our pandemic lives. We came to appreciate the connectivity was indeed a determinant of health (which I called out in the Huffington Post in July 2016). healthcare system.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The green circle diagram from Deloitte’s report documents a growing willingness among patients to use virtual health services, increasing from 80% of consumers willing to use telehealth in 2020, 84% in 2022, and 94% in 2024.

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Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2020

I’ll be midwifing a panel this afternoon at 440 pm Eastern time, initially focused on how health care can garner patient loyalty. That theme was given to us in the fourth quarter of 2019, when initial planning for ATA 2020 had begun. What a difference a few months make. This is shown in the last slide with the blue bars.

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DECEMBER 27, 2021

Digital health as a category has been a growing feature at CES for over a decade, starting with the early wearable tech era of Fitbit, Nike, OMRON and UnderArmour, early exhibitors at CES representing the category.

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OCTOBER 26, 2023

As of 2022, three in four consumers were offered online access to their medical records by a health care provider or health insurance plan, and well over one-half accessed their medical record or portal — growing by 50% over the two years, 2020 to 2022 (from 38% to 57%).

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MARCH 12, 2020

Let’s travel to Shanghai, China where, “the covid-19 epidemic has brought millions of new patients online. They are likely to stay there,” asserts “ The smartphone will see you now ,” an article in the March 7th 2020 issue of The Economist. Congressional leadership on February 28 2020.

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OCTOBER 19, 2021

peoples’ expectations of their health care experience is melding with their best retail experience — and that’s taken a turn toward their digital and ecommerce life-flows. The study was fielded between October 2020 and September 2021. Emergency room experience stayed at an index of a (low) 66.

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OCTOBER 6, 2021

Digital health as a category has been a growing feature at CES for over a decade, starting with the early wearable tech era of Fitbit, Nike, Omron and UnderArmour, early exhibitors at CES representing the category.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Deloitte presented this graphic for an integrated data and analytics platform supporting remote patient monitoring data feeds in a June 2020 report noting that remote patient monitoring could trigger a multi-channel data tsunami. As a result, most U.S.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2020

.” The vast majority of consumers are concerned about some aspect of their home’s health, like air or water quality, according to Healthy Home Technologies , a report published in October 2020 by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), convener of the annual CES. For the research, CES interviewed 1,500 U.S.

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JULY 10, 2020

In Patient Perspectives on Virtual Care , Kyruus answers this question based on an online survey of 1,000 patients 18 years of age and older, conducted in May 2020. Each of these health consumers had at least one virtual care visit between February and May 2020.

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OCTOBER 24, 2022

"We ultimately chose Rimidi because their clinical management platform integrates with cellular-enabled connected blood pressure cuffs, which meant the only ask of our patients was to put on the cuff and press a single button and the data would come to us regardless of their WiFi, broadband, etc.," " she explained.

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JUNE 6, 2022

The firm assessed the toxic side effect that COVID-19 had on cancer care and patients — current and not-yet-diagnosed. in the first half of 2020, and the decline of cancer diagnoses between March and May 2020 — the latter based on the expected number of diagnoses from the previous year’s experience.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 3, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic certainly accelerated the fast-adoption of telehealth for all kinds of patient questions and needs starting in the late second quarter of 2020. Mental health spiked up for virtual visits and to this day, is among the medical services in highest demand for virtual platforms.

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JUNE 5, 2020

The 21st Century Cures Act emphasizes patients’ control of personal health information. ONC rules issues in March 2020 called for more patient-facing health tools and apps to bolster health consumer engagement and empowerment. But the emergence of the coronavirus in the U.S.

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JANUARY 2, 2023

Health Populi’s Hot Points: N0w to the question at-hand for the week: can consumer-facing technologies help us bolster our health and well-being and — Holy Grail time — reverse the U.S. Inf act, heart health is table-stakes for much of wearable technology in 2023. public and personal health?

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The important aspects of that is to provide care outside of bricks-and-mortar physician offices, to improve resource allocation, to demonstrate awareness of new technology, and to allow physicians to see more patients, among other underlying adoption drivers.

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

For telehealth, that S-curve has had a very long and fairly flat front-end of the “S” followed by a hockey stick trajectory in March and April 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic was an exogenous shock to in-person health care delivery. Over a year since the pandemic emerged in the U.S.,

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JULY 27, 2020

The need for a holistic platform the serves up a continuum-of-care tools across the patient journey became evident in a matter of months, Capgemini Research Institute calls out in The Health Fix , a research report assessing peoples’ perspectives on health care in the Age of COVIOD-19. in mid-June 2020.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

On the supply side, we witnessed a hockey stick inflection point in the growth of virtual health care services from the start of the pandemic in early 2020. Let’s put the answer into supply and demand terms. Hospitals, clinics and physician offices all pivoted, quickly, to provide care at a distance.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

This is indeed a go-to event, and a collaborator for health — not just “digital health” in those designated physical aisles on the exhibition floor, but for health/care, everywhere — via TVs, connected cars, kitchen appliances, and other wares exhibited at CES.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Health plans. Volunteer organizations, along with other data-creating entities for public health. during the first quarter of 2020, digital health rose to the occasion: namely telehealth, remote and virtual care mounted by health care providers across the nation within days of the WHO calling the virus a global pandemic.

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OCTOBER 18, 2021

As the HLTH conference convenes over 6,000 digital health innovators live, in person, in Boston in the wake of the delta variant, what should attendees keep in mind to help HLTH make health? The top-line in the report, and the bottom-line for health citizens, was that 38% of U.S.

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