KevinMD

DECEMBER 2, 2017

For a lot of older readers of this blog, who met their husband or wife the traditional way and are baffled by this whole new world (and don’t get me wrong, there were probably many ways in which those days were better!), Online dating is all the rage these days. Statistics suggest that over a third of couples now meet online.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Or make that next year, since this year is winding down: here are the blog posts: Wa s this a ‘breakthrough’ on hearing aid pricing? Given the persistent (if perhaps wrong-headed) belief that 'aging in place' at home is the goal and that AgeTech is the solution, this should be the year in which pay is revisited and tech is deployed.

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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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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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Digital Health

APRIL 29, 2018

That is my official blog post foreshadowing. Caveat Emptor, Caveat Venditor. The digital health rocket seems to have gotten supercharged lately, at least when it comes to fundraising. Depending on who you ask, either $1.62 billion (Rock Health’s count) or $2.5 billion (Mercom) or $2.8

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Mobi Health News

MAY 9, 2018

Through keynote speeches and simultaneously released online blog posts, the company highlighted a handful of tech-driven healthcare efforts that seem to be bearing fruit.

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MARCH 29, 2018

Just two months after announcing the beta, Apple is now launching its Apple Health Records feature into the wild, the company announced in a blog post today. The feature will aggregate existing patient-generated data in a user's Health app with data from their EHR — if the user is a patient

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 2, 2018

Samsung is developing the long-awaited successor to its Gear S3 smartwatch and could launch it sometime this year, according to a report from SamMobile, a blog focused on all things Samsung. Citing insider sources, SamMobile co-founder Martin Reinders revealed the scoop during a Facebook Live chat last week.

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MAY 2, 2018

In a recent medium.com blog post, Daphne Koller — an artificial intelligence researcher at the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University and, until just a few months ago, chief computing officer at

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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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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Here are the blog posts from August 2024: AI make the case for remote monitoring app suites? Yet when asked about the utility of monitoring technology for use in later life, the 65+ segment was the least interested among age cohorts, a clear “What me, worry?” Asking ChatGPT a question on an iPhone returns a detailed answer.

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CE App

MARCH 27, 2020

The post Join Healthcare’s Powerful Telehealth Response to COVID-19 appeared first on CE App Blog. As American systems respond to this surplus of demand, providers should be cognizant of new changes to the telehealth landscape and how to prepare their practices. Federal Government recently announced that they.

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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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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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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

As my friends Deven McGraw, Chief Regulatory Officer at Ciitizen (whom I profiled here in Health Populi ), and Vince Kuraitis, longtime health strategy guru and author of the blog e-CareManagement.com , characterized this challenge, “The Goldilocks Dilemma” in The Health Care Blog. Enhanced data privacy and data protection.

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Health Populi

MARCH 31, 2021

Here’s your link to “Housing Is Key To Health” in the Medecision Liberation blog. Read about a wonderful development from Communidad Partners, working with the Veritas Impact Partners group, channeling telehealth to housing programs serving residents with lower incomes. It’s brilliant.

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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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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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CiscoHealth

MARCH 3, 2023

Each of these four blogs will dive into diff… Read more on Cisco Blogs Part 1 of the 4-part Wi-Fi 6E Series This is part 1 of a 4-part series entitled “Something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue”.

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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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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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Health Populi

MAY 28, 2020

Do click on the link and read the insights I wanted to share with Medecision’s stakeholders – health plans, health systems, and the entire health/care ecosystem.

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Health Recovery Solutions

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

This blog will explore how the telehealth landscape has changed in response to COVID-19, and what lies in store for the future of telehealth in 2022 and beyond. Until recently, telehealth was seen as a niche field with huge potential that remains unexplored.

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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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