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Consumers Intend to Invest in Technology — With Budget and Value in Mind

Health Populi

Consumers continued to invest in and use several technologies that supported self-care at home in 2021, with plans to purchase connected health devices, sports and fitness equipment in the next year. households owned a smart or connected health monitoring device, with 22 million homes planning to buy at least one in the next year.

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Our Home Is Our Health Hub: CTA and CHI Align to Address Digital and Health Equity

Health Populi

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).

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What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

Health Populi

In summing up the patient-centered interoperability goal, Ardy summarized: “We’ve created the Mint.com of health data.” ” Health Populi’s Hot Points: Many of my beloved and brilliant colleagues are convening this week at HealthDataPalooza and the National Health Policy Conference in Washington, DC.

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Dispatches from the Frontlines: Connected Health and COVID-19

Connected Health Initiative

The Connected Health Initiative (CHI) and our members worked tirelessly with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Congress, and state officials to expand access to connected health solutions during COVID-19 pandemic.

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The Digital Consumer, Increasingly Connected to Health Devices; Parks Associates Kicking Off #CES2021

Health Populi

But the coronavirus era also saw broadband households spending more on connecting health devices, with 42% of U.S. consumers owning digital health tech compared with 33% in 2015, according to research discussed in Supporting Today’s Connected Consumer from Parks Associates. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic drove U.S.

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8 must-know lessons from telehealth's new normal

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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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Our Pandemic Lessons: Listening to Michael Dowling – a #HIMSS21 Wrap-Up

Health Populi

health policy and regulatory leaders. An uncertain world is our workplace in the health/care ecosystem, globally, in this moment. “We don’t un-learn,” Dr. Amy Abernethy asserte d as she shared her pandemic perspectives on a panel with 2 other former U.S.