Health Populi

AUGUST 18, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic hastened digital transformation for both the health care industry and for individuals — as health consumers, patients, caregivers, and health citizens. While this study targets the consumer goods industry, there is much for health care to glean from the findings.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2025

For me, growing up and witnessing the start of the company and ads for the weight-loss innovator starring founder Jean Nidetch, made the company synonymous with the weight-loss industry. [An “Cycle 3 isn’t just a change in health care,” Deloitte explains in the report. “It’s a change in how we live.”

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Health plans are designed to provide a range of medical services, preventive care, and financial protection against the costs of healthcare. Neither of these explanations satisfies my current view of where I see the industry at this moment, and especially as I work through my forecast to 2030.

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2025

.” Gil writes in his interview leading up to HIMSS 2025 that, “With the health-ecosystem landscape tracking the early days of a new administration, uncertainties remain ranging from regulatory shifts to funding allocations.” ” So given the many “uncertainties” facing the U.S.

Digital Health 177

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Their ten must-do’s for bending the cost curve while driving constructive change for a better health care system are to: Ensure access. Achieve health equity. Stability the safety net and rebuild public health. Address social determinants of health. Accelerate digital health. Innovate long-term care.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 7, 2025

Sleep, or lack thereof, is a public health challenge around the world whatever your postal code or demographic profile. Can technology help us bridge the sleep deprivation gap, or is technology destined to ruin our mind-body-spirit 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. Taking Stock of Progress and Looking Ahead.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

Q2 – – Some industry observers have called this, “telehealth’s big moment.” How would you improve what’s in the bill to optimize the use of telehealth in this challenging public health moment? What can we expect to hear relevant to the public health challenge? Health Populi’s Hot Points: So, can the U.S.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

In October 2021, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced that Robert Ford, CEO and President of Abbott, would give a keynote speech at CES 2022, the world’s largest annual convention of the technology industry. THINK: cars, comms, and care.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2021

Scale matters to survive a public health crisis. Dowling pointed to the benefits of being a large integrated health care system with multiple hospitals, ambulatory care services and a broad portfolio of capabilities that enabled Northwell Health to be responsive to the needs of the pandemic and deal with the crisis.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

See that their home is a one-story design in the connected health neighborhood, a good choice for a couple seeking to age well in their home without stairs. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The six photos shown above are but a few examples displayed and explained in the Philips Innovation Gallery. Take George and Audrey.

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Digital Health Public Health Connected Health Telehealth 361

Health Populi

AUGUST 9, 2021

” The first chart illustrates something attendees at #HIMSS21 as well as all health/care industry stakeholders should adopt as a mantra: Empathy is as important as the medical treatment. Kaveh Safavi, Accenture’s Senior Managing Director, Consulting, Global Health will discuss these results at #HIMSS21 on 10th August.

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Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2022

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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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

“Most Americans clearly recognize the potential benefits that improved health IT can offer, and they want this transformation of the health care system to continue,” the Pew Charitable Trusts research concludes in Most Americans Want to Share and Access More Digital Health Data. Patients in the U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

health care overall impacts trust in the AI-health layer This AI/trust lens overlaps Americans falling faith in the American health care system in a compounding way. health care ecosystem. Layered on top of this is health citizens’ eroding trust in other aspects of U.S. public health, as well.

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Advanced Medical Reviews

MAY 2, 2019

As an industry worth $35 billion with a growth of 3.2 The physical therapy industry has been focused on employer-based healthcare, artificial intelligence and machine learning, especially in the role of big data and enrollment in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) for billing. Physical Therapy. Occupational Therapy.

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Telehealth mHealth Mobile Health Health Policy 88

Health Populi

AUGUST 14, 2022

“Tom Lawry reminds us that the health care industry can shift from glacial to warp speed when it needs to. Given the right tools, we can evolve from health systems to systems of health, baked with Responsible Intelligence to do good while embedded with respect, inclusion, and transparency.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 26, 2022

The American Telemedicine Association and its ATA Action affiliate on Monday expressed support for a bipartisan bill that would extend the virtual care flexibilities of the public health emergency another two years. They also called for the legislation to safeguard two other provisions they said were key to health equity.

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Telehealth Public Health Medicare Connected Health 176

Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2025

Each year, ECRI (the ECRI Institute) publishes an annual report on the Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for the year. The 2025 list was published today. My read of it is that most of these risks have to do with what I’ve been referring to as the Human OS, the Human Operating System, in my talks and teachings.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Health Populi’s Hot Points: An article in an August 2020 Forbes noted that, “Coronavirus May Help Best Buy Become A Key Healthcare Player. ” He forecasted that GreatCall could increase its phone subscriber based to 5 million by 2024, five times the current volume. .”

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2018

The NHS “supply shortage” is a result of financial cuts to both social care and public health. This article in the BMJ published earlier this year called for increasing these investments to ensure further erosion of population and public health outcomes, and to prevent further health disparities in the UK.

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Public Health Mental health Digital Health Health IT 258

Health Populi

MAY 29, 2019

Enlightened health/care industry and public policy stakeholders have begun to embrace and address social determinants of health. The data to inform the answer was aggregated from social networks, patient forums, news sources and research papers and analyzed by Quid, a data analytics firm.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

Philips, recently named as one of the largest Fortune Global Companies in 2020 (#385, up 46 spots and ranking in the top 10 largest public health care companies in the world), has been working globally with health systems since the emergence of the coronavirus in Wuhan, China in 2019.

Connected Care 374

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2021

Leading healthcare industry stakeholders on Monday implored top leaders in the House and Senate to help ensure, among other imperatives, that "Medicare beneficiaries [don't] abruptly lose access to nearly all recently expanded coverage of telehealth." " WHY IT MATTERS.

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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.

Connected Health 194

Connected Health Digital Health HIPAA Telemedicine 194

Health Populi

DECEMBER 13, 2021

We’ve seen more financial and money-focused media bringing health care cost stories under their mastheads. So have investment banks, ratings agencies, and large financial services companies, as the pandemic has cast every industry’s eyes to public health and health spending.

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Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2018

“Health agencies will have to become at least as sophisticated as other consumer/retail industries in analyzing a variety of data that helps uncover root causes of human behavior,” Gartner recommended in 2017. That’s because “health” is not all pre-determined by our parent-given genetics.

Public Health 205

Public Health Medicare Health Technology Patient Experience 205

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The issues of health equity and sustainability are also on the minds of RSNA and attendees, and we are seeing evidence of this in content as well as product development. The health care industry is a major contributor to the world’s carbon footprint, and radiology plays a role in this, too. In the U.S.,

Public Health 218

Public Health Telehealth Patient Experience Connected Health 218

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 27, 2019

I pose, prompted by this month’s survey from POLITICO and the Harvard Chan School of Public Health on data privacy and e-cigarettes. There are interesting results revealed by party ID: More Democrats trust doctors, hospitals, health plans, and credit card companies with their personal data.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

America’s ability to leverage and derive a solid ROI from its massive EHR and digital health investments that will drive economic development depends on the collective embrace of a healthcare ecosystem beyond one individual institution or healthcare industry segment.

Digital Health 154

Digital Health EHR Telehealth Health Information 154

Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2020

COVID-19 has taught health care providers and patients about the benefits of telehealth, enabling early detection, supporting and triaging patients (away from the emergency department and hospital outpatient clinics), and moving care to the home and more convenient, accessible, and risk-managed community-based settings.

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Connected Health Initiative

JUNE 24, 2020

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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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2024

This week, AHIP (the acronym for the industry association of Americans Health Insurance Plans) is convening in Las Vegas for its largest annual 2024 meeting. I’ll be updating attendees on the latest Edelman Trust Barometer data for health care, calling out our friends and family on par for trust with scientists and “experts.”

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Pharmaceuticals Patient Experience Mental health Digital Health 177

Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2022

.” I was particularly keen to dig into this study based on its sponsoring organization: JLL is a real estate services company serving over a dozen vertical markets — including health care, life sciences, senior housing, and retail, among other industry sectors.

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Telehealth Medicare Life Science Mental health 240

Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2021

I’ve explored the mine of insights the GWI team has unearthed for the new year, and will focus on one that has fast-grown as the converging forces of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic recession and household financial downturn, and rising anxiety for social and civil justice have, together, wreaked havoc on our mental and behavioral health.

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