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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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How BioPharma Can Play in Consumers’ Retail Experience Expectations

Health Populi

.” Patients’ financial experience is now embedded in the overall health care experience as the patient as health consumer is also a key payor in the financing of personal medical care. households earning over $180,000 a year are now worried about medical bills in America. And even 40% of U.S.

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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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Despite Greater Digital Health Engagement, Americans Have Worse Health and Financial Outcomes Than Other Nations’ Health Citizens

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: A plurality of other nations’ health citizens would be keen to access these tools — especially, to evaluating quality and satisfaction rankings. health care is Americans’ growing financial exposure to first-dollar costs as patients continue to morph into medical bill payors.

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

Health Populi

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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As Workers’ Healthcare Costs Increase, Employers Look to Telehealth and Wearable Tech to Manage Cost & Health Risks

Health Populi

While this is an impressive number in terms of companies offering remote health options to workers, few workers actually take advantage of this benefit, KFF found in a separate analysis. Adoption of wearable tech and mobile health apps in companies’ wellness programs is expanding.

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A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

Health Populi

Patients-as-consumers increasingly expect retail-enchanting service levels from health care – especially as patients pay medical bills increasingly out-of-pocket. Convenience isn’t just a nice-to-have: it has economic ROI.