Health Populi

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

There’s a gap between the supply of digital health tools that hospitals and health systems offer patients, and what patients-as-consumers need for overall health and wellbeing. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The HIMSS-CCM research focused on “digital patient experience.”

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

With that premise, Karsten took me on a “visit” to a neighborhood where we meet 3 different householders to see how digital health can support a health citizen’s personal demands and objectives. Our homes, too, underwent digital transformation as long as we had access to a broadband connection. Take George and Audrey.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

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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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2020

Patients represented one of three conditions, with one-third each managing cardiovascular, immunology/rheumatology, and oncology. Topline, consumers “faced difficult choices,” Accenture notes in the report, choosing whether and how to continue their personal health care seeking to limit their risks of exposure to COVID-19.

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2022

.” 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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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

There are many layers to health literacy in the digital era: Health care and medical literacy, understanding therapeutic instructions like when and how to take medicines, or hug a pillow after cardiac surgery; Financial literacy, whether a patient understands their health insurance coverage, the meaning of a co-payment, or how to navigate payments (..)

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2024

The category has competition including OURA, the Samsung Galaxy and Whoop, which I discussed here in Health Populi. Let me leave you with a recent conversation featuring Jason Oberfest, VP of OURA, hosted by Parks Associates as part of their perennial Connected Health Summit held earlier this month.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 1, 2024

Simplifying the complexities of connecting and sharing health data to gain consumer-level data and longitudinal insights can deepen relationships and deliver more meaningful healthcare experiences. The question is how to get there.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

When I first participated in NH4H several years ago, an over-arching theme was how to attract and retain nurses with concerns about ongoing shortages of nurses in the U.S. health system. Participants came from over 30 countries and from across the U.S.,

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2023

A recent essay in The Conversation , co-written by a medical ethicist, explored a range of ethical issues that Chat-GPT’s adoption in health care could present. Yesterday, Microsoft and Nuance announced their automated clinical documentation tool embedded with GPT-4 and the “conversational” (i.e., chat) model.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

JANUARY 15, 2019

We believe many patients and caregivers will benefit from having this tool available to use” Patient Experience. How does TapCloud support the oncology patient? What is the patient experience? Last month, Robert (not his real name), a 77 year old patient was diagnosed with prostate cancer.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 28, 2020

Improving patient outcomes is the primary goal of telehealth, and hospital and health system CIOs and executives should know there is no one-size-fits-all solution, said Jason Bellet, co-founder and chief customer officer at Eko, a telehealth, connected health device and remote patient monitoring technology company.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

Now, this is a reality not a vision as health citizens around the world have complied with government mandates to #StayHome, shelter-in-place, from Chinese provinces to Madrid, to northern Italy and westward to the hotspot of New York City.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The consequences of cyber risks can be incredibly severe as healthcare data is particularly personal and sensitive," said Kelly Rozumalski, secure connected health director at Booz Allen, in a statement to Healthcare IT News. "Cybersecurity isn’t always a priority when it comes to healthcare, but it should be.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2020

How to deal? There’s a mix of public sector tactics, from Federal to State to local; technology vendor tasks; health care provider jobs to do in terms of workflows and database development; and, patient-focused work.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

Most striking in the Edelman 2023 research was the finding that more consumers trusted peer voices – friends and family – on par with medical experts, and well above the advice of national health authorities and global health authorities. But how to bake in “patient-first-ness?”

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AMD Telemedicine

JANUARY 31, 2023

In instances where patients are consulting with specialists, live consultations can help practitioners render immediate, on-the-spot diagnoses or treatment suggestions, rather than patients having to transfer to different facilities for second opinions or consults.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

Time to look to the East and take some lessons on how to bring telehealth to people at home, in communities, and outside of U.S. Check out this last public health poster about Medicare and COVID-19. As the Chinese proverb goes, “A crisis is an opportunity riding the dangerous wind.”.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Given her explicit role in data analytics, she noted Humana’s commitment to, “How to find insights to help you dance at your granddaughter’s wedding” and to “show up at the baseball game next spring.”

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Years before we knew how to spell “coronavirus,” I gained Italian citizenship while retaining my U.S. My public health worker then asked if I had received the testing “prescription codes” via text and I assured him I did, and knew where the center for the test would be for me. citizenship. and the E.U.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

health care, bring people back into the system, bolster physician well-being, and deliver on the promise of high-quality care that the U.S. has known how to deliver. We have the opportunity to modernize U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 13, 2021

Most of the 2021 Fjord Trends, listed in the first graphic shown here from the report, support health citizens’ self-care at home or closer-to-home. ” In their forecast on “what’s next” for the trend, Fjord IDs health care as a key opportunity area, with the proviso that inclusive design must be a priority.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2024

In another post for contextualizing #CES2025 for health, , Ill detail some of the barriers, obstacles, and concerns on health consumers minds related to the adoption and ongoing use of digital health technologies with Trust being an over-arching issue on peoples minds.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

So, how to solve this for a retailer that operates with over 20,000 square feet physical stores, requiring over 6,000 overhead cameras and hundreds of thousands of shelf cameras? Even though Amazon is among the largest cloud computing companies in the world, tracking every moment and bar code takes a lot of storage capacity.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2024

Note that one of CES 2024 keynote speakers is Elevance Health’s President and CEO Gail Boudreaux. “Elevance Health, a health insurance company?

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

One innovative grocer has education tables hosted by trained store staff that in fact feature these three turmeric SKUs, to educate prospective consumers on the category — showing the customer how to incorporate turmeric into their lifestyle. As long as it’s fresh, authentic, and efficacious.

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Health Populi

MARCH 5, 2018

We learned from the first Edelman Health Engagement Barometer that the three top factors that consumers look for when health-engaging with any organization are trust, authenticity, and satisfaction. Social media users informed the Pew study that they don’t tend to trust personal data shared across the eight dominant social networks.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

While doctors noted to the AMA their top virtual care platform of choice was Zoom, some patients could not meet-up due to barriers of lacking a smartphone, tablet, or computer device; the ability to pay for connectivity to the Internet; or the know-how to be able to access that well-intentioned “digital front door” to a virtual visit.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 17, 2018

On the walk, we exchanged ideas on people, technology, living a good life, and how to make healthcare better for patients and providers. Yesterday, I had the next delightful meet-up in person in Koen’s city of Antwerp, where we had a walking meeting yielding over 12,000 steps, according to my Fitbit Versa watch.

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Xealth

MARCH 13, 2023

Xealth is first heading to Nashville for ViVE, March 26-29, an event dedicated to the senior digital health leaders focusing on the business of healthcare systems. We’re thrilled to be the official WiFi sponsor — connecting attendees to the internet, just like we connect health systems to patients.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JUNE 25, 2022

This article tackles the top 5 health-related causes of death in the world. With the advancement of connected health technology, remote patient monitoring (RPM) can help detect and prevent these top 5 killer diseases. Save more lives with remote patient monitoring. Heart disease. References. 2022, January 13).

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

MAY 19, 2016

Although Virtua, one of New Jersey’s largest health systems with hospitals, surgical and rehabilitation centers, is voluntarily participating in the BPCI payment bundle, their investment in the orthopedic patient experience at their Joint Replacement Institute (JRI) started long before the payment model changes.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Providence Health’s Innovation team continuously monitors these trends to identify ways to deliver a better patient care experience. ” Patient Experience with Grace Bot. Providence Health has worked closely with the patients to design the Grace bot. Patient Experience with Grace Bot.

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Digital Health Today

OCTOBER 16, 2019

For example, if we look at the way hospitals are designed today, they are all about reducing foot traffic for doctors and nurses, not about a great patient experience. So I hope that we can use digital technologies to help us re-humanize the process and digital patient experience. Q3: What does re-humanizing mean?

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Throughout the recent Connected Health Conference, the key theme was the need to balance technology with the human element. For example, the chat support patients as they prepare for a colonoscopy in their own language , ensuring the patient understands the instructions and knows how important this screening is to their health.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

During the World Congress Patient Experience & Engagement Summit in Boston, I led a panel with these innovative health systems, discussing how they are using virtual health assistants (e.g. AI Chatbots, Voice) to increase efficiency in care delivery and enhance the patient experience.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

DECEMBER 3, 2015

ClickWell clinicians and coaches support healthy patients and the ‘rising risk’ (e.g. With this highly educated, tech savvy patient population, there is a tremendous opportunity to leverage mobile tools to enhance the patient experience. “The average age of a ClickWell patient is 36 years old.

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