Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2025

What does this mean for our health, well-being, and sense of community and connectivity? I’m preparing a new talk to give later this week to a global group of business people involved in high-cost health care. The convener has asked me to speak about health equity and social determinants of health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The American Telemedicine Association, the Connected Health Initiative and other industry groups issued a letter to Congress on Friday urging legislators to extend temporary telehealth flexibilities until the end of 2021. WHY IT MATTERS. That flexibility, in turn, shed light on how arbitrary some of those restrictions were.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 19, 2025

Note that 40% of respondents in the Edelman Trust Barometer approve of hostile activism to drive change, varying across age groups as shown on the right side of the graphic. Then 41% of people 35-65 approve of hostile activism, and finally 26% of folks 55 and older approving of hostile activism.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2020

This week, two organizations mission-driven by these “C” words aligned to bolster digital health care transformation for all people — not just those of us advantaged by a bountiful local, accessible portfolio of social determinants of health (SDoH). The social determinants of health tend to travel in groups.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2024

PwC’s research found that many consumers would prefer a virtual care visit over an in-person doctor visit, varying by age group: More younger patients under 35 years of age prefer virtual care compared with people over 55 — but even among older people in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Note differences in growth versus mature markets, which I noted above; and, Mercer developed four worker personae for health engagement: “Sign Me Up,” a tech savvy engaged group; “Impress Me,” who are educated and not loyal, and quite willing to try out digital health tools; “Get Me Comfortable,” a generally less (..)

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2019

The key categories of interventions to address loneliness and isolation included: Social facilitation with peers or others who may be lonely, such as group-based activities, day care centres, and technology-based solutions like videoconferencing and social networking. What is also universal is that loneliness can kill and hurt us.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2024

For hospital-at-home, 7 in 10 or more people across all age groups would be interested, for treatment equal to services provided in a traditional hospital setting but delivered in the comfort and safety of home. The category has competition including OURA, the Samsung Galaxy and Whoop, which I discussed here in Health Populi.

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2025

We’ll see dozens of vendors with AI-baked into offerings that speak to population health, especially as value-based care continues to be demanded by certain payers and health plan benefit designs. With any design, if you build it and people don’t come, it’s a fail (the Field-of-Dreams effect).

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 13, 2022

This strategic investment enables FOLX Health to invest further in their recently launched enterprise and virtual health offerings as well as new product offerings that will further engage and support the LGBTQIA+ community across mental and behavioral health. ABOUT 7WIREVENTURES.

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Digital Health Global

APRIL 1, 2025

As part of the provincial governments recent Budget 2025 announcement, Dexcom G7 and Dexcom G6 CGM systems are now publicly covered for residents living with diabetes age 18-25 and those over 65 who use any type of insulin, in addition to the previously reimbursed group of people ages 2-18.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

elections, I quote from the How’s Life 2024 report about the nature of “social capital” and how this plays out in the lives of people living in America: “Social capital is about a society’s networks, norms and shared values that foster co-operation among different groups. in 2023.

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Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2022

” The researchers used spatial analysis to explore disproportionate mortality outcomes for COVID-19 experienced by different racial and ethnic groups: comparing overall death rates with those of Hispanic or Latinx, Non-Hispanic Black or African-American, and Non-Hispanic White populations. Underneath the overall statistic of 2.4

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DigitalHealth

MAY 5, 2023

The latest Digital Health News industry roundup includes Thriva's CQC registration and TSC Connected Care acquiring the assets of Connected Health Group.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Kyle Brewer, telehealth administrator at University of Mississippi Medical Center; Kuldeep CEO of Biofourmis; Laura Kreofsky, VP at Pivot Point Consulting, and Neil Patel, president of Healthbox, offered their perspectives on the new connected health tools and data management imperatives needed to make RPM work.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2021

A bipartisan group comprising half of U.S. senators has reintroduced the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act of 2021. Advocates cheered the CONNECT for Health Act's reintroduction, calling it a major move toward expansion of access to virtual services.

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Health Blawg

JULY 2, 2018

I had a wide-ranging conversation with Joe Kvedar, VP, Connected Health at Partners Healthcare in Boston, where he is leveraging personal health care technologies to improve health care delivery and help providers and patients manage chronic conditions, maintain health and wellness and improve adherence, engagement and clinical outcomes.

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Health Blawg

JULY 2, 2018

I had a wide-ranging conversation with Joe Kvedar, VP, Connected Health at Partners Healthcare in Boston, where he is leveraging personal health care technologies to improve health care delivery and help providers and patients manage chronic conditions, maintain health and wellness and improve adherence, engagement and clinical outcomes.

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Health Blawg

JULY 2, 2018

I had a wide-ranging conversation with Joe Kvedar, VP, Connected Health at Partners Healthcare in Boston, where he is leveraging personal health care technologies to improve health care delivery and help providers and patients manage chronic conditions, maintain health and wellness and improve adherence, engagement and clinical outcomes.

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Health Blawg

JULY 2, 2018

I had a wide-ranging conversation with Joe Kvedar, VP, Connected Health at Partners Healthcare in Boston, where he is leveraging personal health care technologies to improve health care delivery and help providers and patients manage chronic conditions, maintain health and wellness and improve adherence, engagement and clinical outcomes.

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Health Blawg

JULY 2, 2018

I had a wide-ranging conversation with Joe Kvedar, VP, Connected Health at Partners Healthcare in Boston, where he is leveraging personal health care technologies to improve health care delivery and help providers and patients manage chronic conditions, maintain health and wellness and improve adherence, engagement and clinical outcomes.

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Health Populi

JULY 28, 2020

has highlighted the huge demand for health technology solutions. The group includes leading experts who are on the frontlines of dealing with COVID-19, and we hope to create a blueprint that will guide the effective use of technology to combat these scenarios in the future.”.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Over one-third had more referrals for their services, and 29% of therapists served more patients: By age group, 29% of therapists saw more adult patients 18 to 64 years of age. The second chart sparks an important insight into therapy-seeking patients’ mindsets: 44% of therapists had fewer cancellations or no-shows.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 12, 2021

How to protect vulnerable groups of people? How to protect peoples’ privacy, using perhaps the GDPR or CCPA (California’s privacy protection) as models for a national approach to American health citizens’ privacy? What’s unclear is how public policy and regulation can/will meet this moment.

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Digital Health Today

OCTOBER 16, 2019

This Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday (October 16-18) I will be in Boston covering the Connected Health Conference (a HIMSS event) for Digital Health Today. Above all, I'm looking forward to meeting other members of our Digital Health Today community at the conference! The post Let’s Connect! Carrie Nixon.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Fresenius Medical Care North America (FMCNA) is adopting and supporting new Connected Health technologies that empower patients to monitor, collect, and share health and treatment data with their physicians and care providers. Connected Health and new technologies in health care don’t come without concerns and risks.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 22, 2022

No one player — not even the ever-integrating and -acquisitive organizations like UnitedHealth Group, CVS Health, or Amazon — can go this alone. The Swiss Re table calls out five stakeholder groups, one of which was not called out in the McKinsey analysis: collaborating with consumers/patients.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

What’s driving health care providers to tap into social networks, Volpp and Mohta believe, is the growing financial risk assumed by health systems. ” The post Building Trust and Truth in Patient Social Networks appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Health Populi

MAY 6, 2020

Finally, the Indifferents , a small group of 1 in 10 consumers, live lives as “business as usual.” No surprise, then, that this group is the least-stressed of all five consumer segments, least likely to purchase hygiene and cleaning products. They are not product-hoarders and shop for people beyond their own households.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

In fact, 60 percent of 18 to 34-year-olds admit to smartphone overuse, the highest level of any age group. I’ve mined the US data of this global survey to divine insights for health/care. First and foremost among these is the growth of smartphone adoption across all age groups.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2021

If they don't act before the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency, the groups said, Medicare beneficiaries "will lose access to virtual care options which have become a lifeline to many." "Congress not only has the opportunity to bring the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 17, 2020

"COVID-19 has introduced quite an interesting challenge to healthcare professionals around the country," said Emma Fauss, Medical Informatics Group CEO, during the Cisco-sponsored discussion, Unlocking Patient Data from the Bedside for Remote Care at Scale. Maybe they connected to an in-unit solution," said Sweetzir.

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Health Populi

MAY 2, 2019

The graphic is based on work done by Juhan Sonin of GoInvo , a group that does brilliant work on health data design that’s vigilantly people-focused. GoInvo has been working for a long time on how to communicate health and healthcare data in enchanting ways.

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Connected Health Initiative

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This wrongly groups sophisticated clinical decision support software and programs that analyze complex medical images with basic scheduling tools and word processors, providing an insufficient reimbursement for these more complicated tools. We look forward to more support for changes like this one going forward.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 3, 2022

And about one-in-three Americans has made a 2022 New Year’s resolution involving some aspect of mental health, the American Psychiatric Association noted approaching the 2021 winter holiday season.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 17, 2021

"Ideal for group sessions, the new tile features a patient selector that ensures user data will only be viewable and remain secure between the patient and their healthcare provider," wrote Ramakrishnan. ON THE RECORD.

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Health Populi

MARCH 31, 2021

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.

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