Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

How can digital health and other consumer-facing technologies help our health? 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. public and personal health?

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Health Populi

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. Lack of inclusive design.

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Digital Health Global

AUGUST 21, 2023

August 19 th marked a significant moment in the field of global healthcare as the World Health Organization (WHO) and the G20 India presidency jointly unveiled the groundbreaking Global Initiative on Digital Health (GIDH). This initiative is one of the key deliverables of India’s G20 Presidency. What will be the outcomes?

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

On February 4 th , 2020, in a hospital in northern California, the first known inpatient diagnosed with COVID-19 died. On March 11 th , the World Health Organization called the growing prevalence of the coronavirus a “pandemic.”. On May 25 th , George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, died at the hands of police in Minneapolis.

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2020

in mid-June 2020. The report found three big shifts in global health citizens’ views on their personal health and health care delivery in the wake of the pandemic: Across all age groups, COVID-19 exacerbated peoples’ concerns about their physical and mental health in a very short time.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

HRSA’s 8 bureaus and offices (Ryan White, Maternal and child health, rural health policy, healthcare systems, etc.) In 2019, Health Centers across the nation served 30 million patients. The post SEARCH 2020 – Day Two appeared first on LearnTelehealth. offer many services in several healthcare arenas.

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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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Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2021

The coolest thing in health policy in the 21st century!! ” Amitabh Chandra gave the opening context-setting talk about the effects of health care cost-sharing on patients-as-consumers. have struggled to pay for living expenses since December 2020, a year into the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

These codes also represent one of the latest advancements to modernize reimbursement for digital health. Nevertheless, new categories of digital health reimbursement have become increasingly clear. RTM can potentially offer more convenient ways for patients to engage with health systems.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

They are likely to stay there,” asserts “ The smartphone will see you now ,” an article in the March 7th 2020 issue of The Economist. I’d seen ATA’s initial statement on the coronavirus published on March 3 2020, so I knew Ann was on this issue. Congressional leadership on February 28 2020.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

JULY 14, 2020

The following attachment is a list of legislative and regulatory updates compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee). The post South Central Legislative/Regulatory Update – June 2020 appeared first on LearnTelehealth.

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Health Populi

APRIL 7, 2020

as most people are “social distancing” or sheltering in place, based on numbers from the early April 2020 Kaiser Family Foundation health tracking poll on the impact of the coronavirus on American life. These and other self-care tactics are taking hold in the U.S.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 27, 2018

. "Rwanda’s eHealth Strategic Plan for 2016–2020 is the key driver to economic growth and to improving the lives of people. Digital health improves service delivery and clinical outcomes, and we know that cannot happen if we don’t look at the data." The Future - What's Next?

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

For this report, Deloitte interviewed 60 health care chief financial officers to gauge their perspectives during the pandemic looking at the future of their organizations in the post-COVID environment. In July 2020, Punit Renjen. The first chart comes out of the health care report, which was published in September 2020.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2021

health policy and regulatory leaders. An uncertain world is our workplace in the health/care ecosystem, globally, in this moment. If pre-COVID era regulations that were dismissed in the pandemic revert back, Dowling is concerned the progress made for telehealth in 2020 will slow or return to pre-pandemic levels of uptake.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Earlier this year, Accenture found that U.S.

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Health Populi

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. One-half of U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2024

The first diagram shows my evolving view on what I seek out at CES each year, from the traditional tracking of weight and activity to the mainstreaming of heart function and sleep, with the addition of the connected car for health and safety, and the smart kitchen and bathroom in the mix of health-at-home.

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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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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2020

PwC explored how COVID-19 is influencing consumers’ health care behaviors in survey research conducted in early April by the Health Research Institute. The findings were published in a May 2020 report , detailing study findings among 2,533 U.S. adults polled in early April 2020.

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Health Populi

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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Health Populi

MAY 16, 2022

Delivering health care during the heights of the COVID-19 pandemic proved to both patients and their clinicians that virtual care was not only a viable channel for care, but very often a preferable “place” to collaborate for treatment.

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Health Populi

JUNE 15, 2022

Even before the coronavirus emerged in early 2020, the U.S. And the caregiver crisis was already a huge challenge , all caregivers already knew in 2019 into 2020. We learned tough lessons about the supply of PPE in the initial phase of the pandemic, where Personal Protective Equipment was in short supply.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2024

When we think through these different worlds and the factors shaping them, we are better prepared to deal with “stuff” that inevitably happens that can shift our world slightly, or blow it apart – like rushing about for PPE when supplies from Asia dried up in the second quarter of 2020. Just sayin’.

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Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2022

” Medscape underscores that in 2020, 31 million U.S. residents had no health insurance coverage, and another 38 million people were enrolled in “inadequate” health plans — deemed to be “under-insured.” 13% are “somewhat concerned.” In particular, check out the sections on.

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Health Populi

JULY 4, 2022

Smartwatch purchases grew during the pandemic, too: since the second quarter of 2020, low-income Americans had the fastest growth in smartwatch adoption, with 1 in 5 people now owning a smartwatch — increasing 46% in that relatively short period, GWI calculated.

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Health Populi

JULY 5, 2023

But that NHS-love-equity has eroded since the start of the pandemic: there has been a precipitous fall in public dissatisfaction with the NHS riding from 25% in 2020 to 41% in 2021. health care system?” side of the health policy pond, noting public dissatisfaction among U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2024

Health Populi’s Hot Points: From the start of the coronavirus pandemic in early 2020, one thing became clear: that people living in households without connectivity were unable to work from home if they had a job that supported virtual work, attend school from home, or connect to loved ones, friends, and communities from home.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2022

It is ironic and very concerning to consider, in this context, the latest data on the outflow of health care professionals from the field, accelerating since the emergence of the pandemic in 2020.

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Digital Health Global

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The Foundation previously invested $3 million in 2020 to help older adults access digital health tools and maintain social connections online. and is focused on health equity, working to eliminate unjust, avoidable and unnecessary barriers in health and healthcare.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 27, 2018

Developing a precision-medicine-ready system using cancer as a starting point can inform health policies, data systems, laboratory networks, and diagnostic capacity growth while stemming rising mortality rates. Furthermore, these developments will also support diagnosing and treating other diseases.

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Lloyd Price

MAY 23, 2020

Methods We used email and social media to announce an urgent call for support to investigate the scale and nature of the mental health impact of COVID-19 [14]. From Google Trends data, searches for ‘anxiety symptoms’ doubled between the weeks beginning 8 March and 22 March 2020.

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2025

As HIMSS 2025, the largest annual conference on health information and innovation meets up in Las Vegas this week, we can peek into what’s on the organization’s CEO’s mind leading up to the meeting in this conversation between Hal Wolf, CEO of HIMSS, and Gil Bashe, Managing Director of FINN Partners.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 6, 2021

It’s interesting that Rock Health’s digital health funding line graph echoes the left side of the Economist graph. The pandemic has accelerated funding in digital health tools across many forms, shown in Rock Health’s second chart here on top funded value and clinical propositions.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

But for those of us working with and innovating solutions for health and health care, #CES2021 was baked with health goodness , in and beyond “digital health” categories. In my consumer-facing health care work, I’ve adopted the mantra that our homes are our health hubs.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

With President Trump’s somber speech from the Oval Office last night, we wake up on 12th March 2020 to a ban on most travel from Europe to the U.S., His remarks focused largely on an immigration and travel policy versus science, triaging, testing and treatment of the virus itself. Prudential surveyed U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 28, 2020

adults 18 and over in mid-June 2020 to gauge peoples’ perspectives on health data and privacy. consumers felt in April 2020 about sharing personal data with tech companies and federal agencies. People seek more “digital sanctuaries” and protections that enable data security and peace of mind.

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