Health Populi

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

For today’s Health Populi blog, I have curated a big hug-full of posts I’ve written over the years building the evidence base of love as a determinant of health. While love can’t solve all of the world’s problems, it is absolutely a basic human need and a positive force for health and well-being.

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KevinMD

JANUARY 1, 2024

The objective of my blog, which began in 2011, was and remains to educate the reader (clinicians, health care IT community, patients and caregivers, and other health care stakeholders about digital Read more… 5 things digital health companies need to do to achieve success originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2022

To get a sense of what that caregiving experience is like, check out her blog post, Confessions of an Exhausted Caregiver ]. In 2018, Stacy launched her website, began blogging, and got social media traction when HIMSS appointed her a digital influencer.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Here’s a link to the Accenture blog post published earlier today. It is up to us to (1) share the love and be neighborly and, (2) work harder to create worthy content that inspires, motivates, educates to counter Accenture’s “Meh-diocrity” trend.

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Health Populi

MAY 5, 2021

Read more on the virtual care phenomenon in my latest post published in the Medecision Liberation blog here. With mental health the epidemic inside and beyond the pandemic , this area is fast-growing with anxiety and stress part of daily lives in 2021.

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Health Recovery Solutions

DECEMBER 30, 2024

This blog highlights the remarkable achievements of Health Recovery Solutions (HRS) customers, Novant Health, Providence, and University Health, as well as outlines best practices and ways HRS can empower other health systems to successfully launch and operate their own HaH programs.

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Digital Health Global

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Digital Health Blogs partnered with Startup Breeze 2024 to award the most innovative proposals with a special award. The awarded projects, Often Medical and MicroVaxxine , were announced during the Startup Breeze 2024 final on October 9th. After a short while, we met with Often Medical CTO & Co-founder, Armando Ricciardi.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

And Excess Deaths” in my latest post for Medecision’s Liberation blog. O recently called 2020 “The Year of COVID.”. I riff on his observation for last year, coining this year our “Year of Vaccines. You can read my take on the upside of vaccinations and the sobering downside of mortality in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2020

I explore this growing concept in my latest essay on Medecision’s Liberation blog, How the Pandemic Is Accelerating the Hospital-At-Home Concept. The key points are that: Hospital-at-home services (H-a-H) combine home visits with virtual care and remote monitoring.

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Health Populi

APRIL 29, 2019

Welcome to the next section of HealthConsuming , the Amazon-Prime-ing of health consumers, in tomorrow’s Health Populi blog, The post Patients Become Healthcare Payors, Now Consumers – HealthConsuming Explains, Part 1 appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. can/will emerge as health citizens.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2024

You can read more at this link to my blog post discussing the company’s program to award washers to schools that help keep kids engaged in attending and engaging in learning. Stay tuned to my daily Health Populi blog postings and LinkedIn messages for #CES2025 updates between 5 and 10 January 2025.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 10, 2020

If you hadn’t tuned into the Health Populi blog yesterday, 10th August 2020 , you missed the first five letters of my Age of Corona alphabet, curated in my art journal created in the early weeks of the pandemic.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

I explain what was not only hot, but impactful, for health care providers and plans in the Medecision Liberation Blog published today. This year’s #CES2020 wasn’t as much about the shiny new things in the Internet of Things as it was about the impact for health and the Intelligence of Things.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Thinking about the social determinants of prescription drugs, how people take medicines in real life in my latest post in Medecision’s Liberate Health blog. I had one of those special lightbulb moments when listening to Mauricio Gonzalez-Arias, M.D.

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E-CareManagement

MARCH 24, 2025

See the previous blog post in this series "Beyond Awareness: Understanding the Magnitude of Point Solution Fatigue in Healthcare". The post Platform Shift: From EHRs to UDHPs (Unified Digital Health Platforms) appeared first on The Healthcare Platform Blog.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Back-posts can be found by typing “KFF employer health” in the search box at the top of the blog. Here are the past four years’ links for historical context and your reading pleasure… 2019 – “It’s the Deductible, Stupid” – Health Premiums Reach $20,576 for a Family.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2021

When I say “Oscar” here on the Health Populi blog, you’re conjuring up an image of the health plan insurance innovator founded in 2012. And this year’s Oscar winner for leading actor, Anthony Hopkins, played The Father, who with his family is dealing with dementia.

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Geonetric

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Health holidays and awareness weeks provide an excellent opportunity to educate, inspire, and build trust with your audience through email marketing, social media posts, and blog or content hub articles. As we head into 2025, […] Read 2025 Observances to Incorporate into Your Healthcare Content Marketing at Geonetric.com. Contact us.

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Health Populi

JULY 19, 2022

I launched my Health Populi blog in September 2007 with this cartoon from the New Yorker, originally published copyright Michael Maslin in 1994. Earlier this month, I asked and answered the question here on the blog, What if Costco designed the prescription drug sales model ? Gas ‘N Health Care at Costco?

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

I explore consumer-patient experience for hospitals, health plans and ambulatory care compared with other industries in the November 2021 Medecision Liberation blog , calling out the importance of two key factors that drove peoples’ positive perceptions of brands and products in the COVID19 pandemic era: digital delight and empathy.

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Joseph C. Kvedar, MD – Reinventing Healthcare

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Last month, I blogged about the 10th anniversary of my book, The Internet of Healthy Things. While taking a trip down memory lane, it was fun to: Assess how well my coauthors and I did in predicting the future. Wonder what people we interviewed are doing now.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2020

In her blog on this first day of the World Bank/IMF conference, Gita Gopinath wrote about The Great Lockdown: Worst Economic Downturn Since the Great Depression. Earlier today, the IMF published its outlook on the global economy. Read carefully. That’s “Depression,” not “Recession.”

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 28, 2021

.” As we enter Year 3 of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and civic chasms and economic uncertainty (inflation, health care costs, Great Resignations), I took this page out of Dr, Seuss in my last monthly post for Medecision’s Liberate Health blog.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

I covered this announcement in the Health Populi blog at the time, and today want to double-down on the significance of Ford’s leading presence at #CES2022. . “This marks the first time in CES history that a healthcare company will take the mainstage for a keynote at the show,” CTA’s press release stated.

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Health Populi

APRIL 11, 2019

One of the SMA objectives is to consider the Conference in advance and offer thoughts about what we’ll expect, which I did here in the HIMSS blog space. I anticipated we’d see a lot of tools and techs to support patients seeking support for accessing and paying for more affordable care.

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Health Populi

JUNE 2, 2022

Physical, mental and behavioral health took hits, depending on one’s living situation, social determinants of health risks, and even health plan, I write in the Medecision Liberate Health blog.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 13, 2024

News from Capitol Hill In a blog post, HHS Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy Micky Tripathi said behavior and not technology “is far and away the biggest impediment to progress” when it comes to information blocking.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 5, 2018

The company’s findings have l ed Smith to write in his company blog on 3rd December that, “we’ve learned that an effective solution to this problem requires targeted but limited public sector help.” There’s an important backstory to this initiative that has important health and public policy implications.

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Health Populi

MAY 26, 2021

In my latest essay written for the Medecision Liberation blog , I assert: “Healthcare, Heal Thyself!” Most industries operating in the U.S. also lost consumers’ trust during the pandemic, except for a handful of businesses — most notably, the health care industry gained a lot of American trust-equity from 2020 to 2021.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 14, 2022

Downtime and a long-overdue break beckon for me and my ever-loving mate, so this post is your week-long read until I return to the Health Populi blog on 22nd August. Take My Hand , Dolen Perkins-Valdez (especially time in this moment). Wishing you time for your own R&R break to recharge, re-boot, and relax.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 23, 2023

Check out the full plotline here on the Medecision blog portal. I weave the pragmatic story together based on datapoints from JP Morgan’s 2023 annual healthcare meeting in San Francisco and CES 2023 held in Las Vegas the previous week.

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Health Populi

JULY 3, 2024

physicians supporting patients’ empowerment is featured in The Health Care Blog , and this link will take you to this must-read story. Michael’s essay on the history of U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In a blog post on its website, T-Mobile spoke with Heather Nelson, chief information officer for Boston Children's, about what hybrid 5G could enable for the care it delivers. In tandem with that project, Boston Children's is working on another major technology initiative.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 19, 2024

Digitally enabled healthcare means building digital technologies into the fabric of our ecosystem to improve outcomes and enhance efficiency in day-to-day health and wellness.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 25, 2021

"The recent growth in telehealth utilization is largely attributable to the law of small numbers, with utilization already beginning to taper," Jain argued in a blog post exploring the research.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 9, 2021

“Making healthcare more human begins with a step in the patient’s shoes,” Rich Birhanzel wrote in Accenture’s Humanizing Healthcare blog in July 2021.

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