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The Growth of DIY Digital Health – What’s Behind the Zeitgeist of Self-Reliance?

Health Populi

The Propel study’s insights build on what we know is a growing ethos among health consumers seeking to take more control over their health care and the rising costs of medical bills and out-of-pocket expenses. That includes oral health and dental bills: 2 in 5 U.S.

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Think Quintuple Aim This Week at #HIMSS25

Health Populi

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. Reduce per capita costs. 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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Most Workers and their Employers Want to Receive Digital Healthcare On-Demand

Health Populi

This is particularly true for health care in America, where workers have traded off wages for health care coverage for over a decade. Concerns about coverage for pre-existing conditions, the cost of medicines, and avoiding surprise medical bills are top-of-mind for Americans in this politically-charged year in the U.S.

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Seeing Health/Care Everywhere at CES 2025: My Preview for #CES2025

Health Populi

Fitness tech: Connected fitness has been a key segment at CES for many years, and these products and programs are integrating AI and more personalization into their tracking and recommendations for users. I’m particularly keen to check out one of the CES 2025 Innovation Award Honorees, G-Grip , an AI powered smart golf club.

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Health Care Finance Leaders Look to Cut Costs and Improve Patients’ Financial Experience — Think AI and Venmo

Health Populi

health finance leaders thinking about emerging technologies. Bank fielded a survey among 200 senior health care financial leaders in the U.S., 30% of whom were group CFOs, 20% regional/divisional CFOs, 25% senior managers, and the remaining various flavors of financial managers. Bank among U.S. AI can help here, too.

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Lockdown Economics for U.S. Health Consumers

Health Populi

On the medical spending front, Bankrate’s survey noted that 1 in 3 Americans did not seek healthcare in the past year due to costs. Without assurance that these medical bills would be paid, there are people in the U.S.

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From Evolution to Innovation, from Health Care to Health: How Health Plans With Collaborators Are Re-Defining the Industry

Health Populi

As a constant observer and advisor across the health/care ecosystem, for me the concept of a “health plan” in the U.S. Furthermore, health plan members now see themselves as medical bill payers, seeking value and consumer-level services for their health insurance premium investment.