Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2024

As someone who has tracked and worked with the digital health industry since the inception of the Internet in health care, my portfolio of advisory work has tracked with the S-curve of adoption of, broadly speaking, computers and connectivity in health care.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2020

doctors are using digital health tools in patient care, with quickening adoption of telehealth and remote monitoring technology, according to a study from the American Medical Association (AMA). This is the new retail health, with the patient as payor and consumer, and clinicians getting on-board.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 2, 2021

Connected Health Mergers & Acquisitions Telehealth The ongoing wave of mergers and acquisitions makes sense for startups and their VC backers. What does it mean for CIOs at their health system customers? The deal announcement confirms a consolidation trend underway in the digital health space. billion deal.

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Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2023

On the upside, smartwatch market penetration held steady in 2023, as this favorite form of wearable technology is “providing consumers a personalized digital health and fitness dashboard at their fingertips.” Consider the expanded functionality on the recently-announced Apple watchOS 10, for example.

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AUGUST 27, 2018

Looking for health information online is just part of being a normal, mainstream health consumer, according to the third Rock Health Digital Health Consumer Adoption Survey published this week. adults were online health information hunters. By 2017, 8 in 10 U.S. adults; the poll was fielded in 2017.

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MAY 29, 2018

Trust has become a key currency in provider/patient/supplier relationships: 94% of health executives say treating customers as partners is important to gain trust, according to the Digital Health Tech Vision 2018 from Accenture. Accenture’s vision this year is built on five pillars: Citizen AI. Extended Reality. Data Veracity.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

In an age when nearly everyone is digitally connected in some way – even many senior citizens, who are often characterized as technophobic – it only makes sense that the healthcare industry is seeing a lot of connected health devices and remote patient monitoring (RPM) technologies. Bardy Diagnostics.

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Health Populi

JULY 15, 2022

Driving health tech growth in the forecast are connected health monitoring devices: think blood pressure and blood glucose meters which tie to mobile apps via smartphones. This category will see double-digit growth of 17% in 2022 (estimated) and 14% next year, CTA forecasts, with an average unit price of about $50.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

When announced, the news was a signal that health care and the larger tech-enabled ecosystem that supports health and well-being is embedded in peoples’ everyday lives. We can expect to see more women-related health tech featured at CES 2022, including on education panels and speaking platforms.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Stability the safety net and rebuild public health. Address social determinants of health. Accelerate digital health. Secure health data (updating privacy/HIPAA). Note that WHO’s approach to digital health adoption includes equity, access, palliative care, privacy, and security.

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Health Populi

JULY 16, 2019

In my own vision of the retail home health/care ecosystem, these five categories can blur and combinations can serve the consumer’s health at home and on-the-move (for truly mobile health, not just “mHealth” via phone apps).

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Health Populi

JUNE 1, 2021

For older people who are digital immigrants, they will remember their initial Zoom get-together’s with much-missed family, ordering groceries online in the first ecommerce purchase, and using telemedicine for the first time as a digital health front-door.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

“Digital transformation” is the corporate strategy flavor of the moment across industries, and the health are sector isn’t immune from the trend. As this 13th year of the annual Health 2.0 This year’s conference will convene thought leaders across a range of themes, and as is the Health 2.0

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2021

This news is a signal that health care and the larger tech-enabled ecosystem that supports health and well-being is embedded in peoples’ everyday lives. We can expect to see more women-related health tech featured at CES 2022, including on education panels and speaking platforms.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

live under a broadband monopoly, explicitly pointing to Comcast as a prime example of an obstructive force in building out broadband to the last mile and citizen’s home. Among many reasons broadband continues to lag in certain parts of the U.S. is the monopoly power of ISPs: ILSR gauges that 83 million people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

GlobalWebIndex “connects the dots” of consumers trends in 2020 including the topics shown in the first graphic including commerce and retail, gaming, travel, human touch, nostalgia, privacy and digital health — the first of these trends discussed in the report. A digital health assistant (eg.,

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

The public health crisis accelerated “what’s next” for health care delivery, detailed in A New Era of Virtual Health, a report published by TripleTree. TripleTree is an investment bank that has advised health care transactions since 1997.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

As Deeptha Khanna, Philips’ Chief Business Leader for Personal Health, said in the company’s virtual press conference, “We have [also] witnessed the reinvention of our homes as a core element of the healthcare pathway, with telehealth, virtual and remote care technologies as the key drivers for change during COVID-19. Take George and Audrey.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2018

While national health services funding and delivery modes will still have local models of organization and control, some over-arching concepts and cooperation are being forged. Two key issues are in my work-radar this trip: digital health cross-border, and health innovation funding.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2021

” Then I took to my red digital pen, identifying companies that are “health adjacent” putting self-care in peoples’ hands, homes, and communities. For example, Mayo Clinic and Johns Hopkins Medicine made the cut into the top ten brands across the dozens of companies that Prophet considered in 2021.

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JUNE 14, 2023

Based on this research, the team developed “The Churn Index,” a heat map/thermometer arraying which of 24 digital health solutions would be likely to be replaced in the coming months. Telehealth was one of the most-influenced digital health adoption category in the pandemic, noted by 97% of providers.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2025

adults seeking medical information online, there is a ripe market for so-called “health influencers” and other bad actors to put out mis-information for profit and notoriety, with the rate of unsafe treatments putting people at-risk of adverse events and medical mishaps. With 3 in 5 U.S.

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MARCH 20, 2025

Given that Harm recently participated in the annual 2025 HIMSS conference , I was keen to know how his collegial physicians and health IT professionals were reacting to the idea of unvendoring. RPA is a great example of health technology in the unvendor environment.

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JUNE 10, 2019

Social, mobile, analytics and the cloud now underpin the health care industry. We’ve been SMAC’ed, and Accenture’s Digital Health Tech Vision 2019 believes we’re in a post-digital era ripe with opportunity. Get to Know Me is the use of technology to develop and deepen relationships with people.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 24, 2022

TIME magazine’s coverage of how CES featured telehealth covered four stories including Abbott’s Neurosphere, Jasper Health’s oncology platform, EarlySense InSight at Home, and BioIntelliSense biosticker and biobutton devices for remote patient monitoring. 55 percent of U.S. Nearly one-half of U.S. Nearly one-half of U.S.

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MARCH 12, 2020

The coronavirus spawned another kind of gift to China and the nation’s health citizens: telemedicine, the essay explains. For example, only health care providers that have an existing relationship with a Medicare patient would be eligible per the requirements in the legislation.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

If you read this blog, you know one of the fastest-growing “aisles” at the annual conference is digital health. Humana joined up with CTA’s Health and Fitness Technology Division this month. You can read more about Broussard’s consumer-centric approach discussed at HIMSS 2015 here in Health Populi ).

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JANUARY 10, 2020

The digital health presence at CES 2020 is the fastest-growing segment of consumer technologies at the Show this year, increasing by 25% over 2019. In fact, in our search for devices and tools underpinned with clinical proof, evidence is growing for consumer-facing technology for heart-health, demonstrated by this year’s CES.

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JULY 27, 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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OCTOBER 22, 2021

health care administrative spend that could be freed up to, for example, cover more peoples’ health insurance or extend food benefits to bolster nutrition security and prevent physical wasting during cancer treatment for a person enrolled in Medicaid.

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JANUARY 26, 2021

In 2020, investments in digital health reached $14.1 health care system, or more aptly “non-system” as my old friend J.D. One example of this “re-bundling” approach to primary care is Crossover Health, founded and led by Dr. Scott Shreeve. Fragmentation is a hallmark of the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

By Bill Siwicki | August 28, 2023 News How remote patient monitoring can save cancer patients' lives In one example, RPM helped detect impending potentially fatal adverse events 18 hours in advance of. By Kat Jercich | February 24, 2022 News Mount Sinai Health tackles digital health inequity with robust RPM program The result?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 20, 2021

For example, in response to the rising behavioral health provider shortage, we can expect to see technology that can enable group sessions with multiple patients receiving counsel and support at once. As costs come down, health plans can more easily find an ROI [return on investment] to subsidize the use of these devices.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Consider the plethora of EHR systems, scheduling idiosyncrasies, physician adoption and workflow considerations, and patient matching challenges, for example. On the health system (provider) side, there is substantial pressure to reduce costs and at the same time, provide innovative services.

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JANUARY 4, 2023

Next think about e-commerce: so many health consumers and patients depended on delivery of prescription drugs, over-the-counter medicines, supplements, and durable medical supplies to self-care at home. Digital therapeutics, “new ways to manage health conditions;” and, Fitness tech.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2020

Connected Health Mobility Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth How contact tracing, contactless experiences and remote monitoring will redefine healthcare and public health. The rapid upscaling of virtual care capacity and the mainstreaming of telehealth have given rise to new digital health tools.

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