Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Patients “yearn” for personalized services and relationships in health care — optimistic that technology can help deliver on that hope — we learn in Healthcare’s Future: Balancing Progress and Perception , a health consumer survey report from Lavidge.

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JULY 3, 2024

health history that teaches us about some of the crucial roots of shared decision making between patients and their physicians… still among the most-trusted relationships in the health care ecosystem. That’s the best sort of connected health – bound by trust and empathy.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2024

Health care access is a challenge in rural and urban areas, cities and suburbs, and across more demographic groups than you might realize, as we see wait times grow for appointments, primary care shortages, and delays in screening plaguing health systems around the world. The study was fielded between December 2023 and February 2024.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2025

In revisiting the report “six months later” in the current environment of public health and health care in the U.S. and more global political-economic currents, that Deloitte’s attention to trust, writ large, and 2030’s commitment to ESG are deeply woven into the future retail health narrative.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

“Clinical transformation with AI is easier without patients.” Generative AI can either deepen and restore trust or exacerbate mistrust and introduce new skepticism among consumers and health care stakeholders alike,” Deloitte explained in a report on the emergence of GenAI in health care. for every $1 invested.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Whether you’re a patient or a physician in the U.S., Congress can’t agree on much before the 2024 summer recess, there’s one bipartisan stroke of political pens in Washington, DC, that could provide some satisfaction for both patients and doctors: bring telehealth back to patients and providers permanently.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Furthermore, health plan members now see themselves as medical bill payers, seeking value and consumer-level services for their health insurance premium investment. Instacart, the grocery delivery company, is a fast-emerging stakeholder addressing food security through its operation, Instacart Health.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 10, 2024

The growing movement of health care to the home is evident by a growing list of point solutions featured at CES 2024. Digital health has been a fast-growing category of consumer-facing devices at CES for over a decade. At CES 2024, we can find other innovations that fit into the smart bathroom.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Most people over 70 years of age recognize technology’s role in supporting peoples’ health, we learn from a new report on 2024 Tech Trends and Adults 50+ from AARP. Entering 2024, there appears to be less a digital divide in the U.S. adults ages 18 and over in September and October 2023.

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2024

adult consumers’ perspectives defined “patient experience” (PX) as, “The sum of all interactions, shaped by an organization’s culture, that influence patient perceptions across the continuum of care.” adults in March 2024. The study into U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 4, 2024

And peoples’ relationships with pharmacies are also changing, with more health consumers finding greater satisfaction with their mail order pharmacy experiences than with moat retail brick and mortar chain drug stores, the latest J.D. Power 2024 U.S. Pharmacy Study found.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 19, 2024

To implement this program and get connectivity into consumers’ hands and homes, Elevance Health is collaborating with several telecomms companies including Verizon, AT&T, Samsung, and T-Mobile. Funding is supported by the FCC’s Affordable Connectivity Program.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 28, 2024

Wolters Kluwer Health launched ClinicalPulse , a continuing education solution for nurse practitioners. b.well Connected Health updated its platform to offer a configurable AI architecture. Illinois-based Advanced Heart Group chose NextGen for EHR , practice management, patient experience, and ambient assistance.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 4, 2023

are bullish on the role AI will play in health care in 2024, especially to lower access barriers to care and to diagnose and detect health conditions. This post weaves their findings together and suggests some planning points for 2024. Most people in the U.S. Medtronic collaborated with Morning Consult to poll 2,213 U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2024

Best Buy Health, the health-focused operation which is part of the electronics retailer Best Buy, worked with Sage Growth Partners to assess 1,000 U.S. consumers, 18 years and over, on their perspectives on health care, technology, aging in place, and caregiving. The research was fielded in April 2024.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Lululemon has published the 2024 Global Well-Being Report , a study into peoples’ perspectives on their personal health from the company best known for athleisure wear and self-care. This year’s report is titled, The Pressure to Be Well. That pressure is coming from peoples’ experiencing “well-being burnout.”

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2024

As we start the month of April 2024 in the U.S., This is also the time my research clock alarm goes off for an important annual report that describes the latest profile of the patient-as-payer in the U.S. it’s tax season in America with Federal (and other) income taxes due on the 15th of the month. ‘Tis the season for J.P.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2024

On February 22, 2024, I went to a CVS Pharmacy-Inside-Target in my community to fill a prescription for benzonatate 200 mg capsules. That’s TMI for me to write about in the Health Populi blog, but this story has a current-events twist: the pharmacist could not electronically link with my insurance company to transact my payment.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

Bolstering the impact of digital health technologies — and particularly remote health monitoring and clinically-prescribed wearable tech — was the late December 2922 health policy news that telehealth provisions would be included in the FY2023 Omnibus Appropriations Bill.

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Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

This post follows up Part 1 of a two-part series I’ve prepared in advance of the AHIP 2024 conference where I’ll be brainstorming these scenarios with a panel of folks who know their stuff in technology, health care and hospital systems, retail health, and pharmacy, among other key issues.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 23, 2024

are dealing with Presidential Election Stress — a significant contributor to Americans’ overall stress we learn from the American Psychological Association’s study into Stress in America 2024. In 2024, “stress” is a mainstream factor in daily life whether you identify with Main Street or Wall Street.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

AUGUST 21, 2024

The Role of Remote Patient Monitoring in Modern Obstetrics Home monitoring systems has established itself as a vital tool in modern obstetrics, particularly for managing high-risk pregnancies like hypertension during pregnancy. Initially, Medicare offers approximately $19 for enrolling a patient and setting up the device.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Most patients have experienced frustrations – in the designer’s parlance, “friction” – when seeking routine care as well as during a routine medical appointment. Clearly, patients’ experiences as consumers of healthcare lack the service levels they expect as payors based on this MITRE-Harris Poll.

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Health Populi

JULY 25, 2024

Globally, patients are growing consumer muscles leaning into trust that’s building on communications that connect with them, based on insightful research from Smart Communications. This consumer research was fielded by Toluna and Harris Interactive in February and March 2024.

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Health Populi

JUNE 25, 2024

health care organizations have experienced a data breach, one-third in the last 3 years, according to Software Advice’s 2024 Healthcare Data Security Survey released in May 2024. At least one-half of U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2024

How AI can democratize and enchant health care – the WHO perspective In January 2024 I explored the World Health Organization’s report on Ethics & Governance of Artificial Intelligence for Health in my Health Populi blog. Let me explain from a global to a local lens….

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2024

patients consumers, caregivers, health citizens all is a tough nut to crack. While I have mature chops in forecasting, futures work, and scenario planning, the uncertainties as of late December 2024 can feel like they overwhelm and outnumber the certainties, and wild cards abound. voters minds in the 2024 elections.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2025

In an interview I did in 2024 with Bloomberg (Canada), I talked about how GLP-1s were reshaping other consumer-facing business sectors beyond medical and health care — from hospitality and airlines to mobility, consumer goods and clothing.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The marketing for purchasing digital health technologies is expecting to grow, driven by increased consumer demands for tech-based solutions, improved outcomes enabled through the innovations, and cost savings derived from deploying the technologies.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2024

I visited the Samsung Health House at CES 2024 last January: here is my write-up about what I saw and felt about the experience. In this context, news that Samsung has begun to partner with Ashley, the national furniture dealer, struck me as interesting and important.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 27, 2025

For context and consideration, let’s re-visit a report from McKinsey published in November 2024 on health media. “Consumers are more actively engaged than ever in the health ecosystem,” the report explains. ” For consumers to engage with these health media sources, it takes trust.

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Health Populi

MARCH 6, 2025

In tracking this last health factor for U.S. The top-line of the studies is that the percent of people in America feeling financially wobbly has increased since the fourth quarter of 2024. consumers feeling less comfortable about their economic status now compared with mid-November 2024. That’s about 30 million U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

adults in late October 2024, with additional polling conducted earlier in October among about 5,300 U.S. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Francis Collins ran the National Institutes of Health during the COVID-19 pandemic. His latest book, The Road to Wisdom , was published in September 2024.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

. “Health is becoming more holistic, as most of us globally feel that we need to do more for our physical as well as our mental wellness… The interconnectedness of health with other systems, such as nutrition and technology, is also being examined,” Team Ipsos explains in their report on the consumer survey data.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

in the past few years: funding for FAM deals grew 175% in 2024 totaling over $2 billion over 4 years, based on Rock Health’s tracking data. Any fast food: burgers, fried chicken, pizza … “). As the Tufts-Kaiser program exemplifies, food-as-medicine has already been advancing in the U.S.

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