Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Next in preference for virtual health was dealing with a general illness (40%), followed by a mental health visit (for 35%), preventive care (33%), weight management (32%), and chronic care management (23%).

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Digital Health Mental health Telehealth Medicare 156

Health Populi

JULY 23, 2020

One of the public health hallmarks of the pandemic era has been stress, documented by the American Psychological Association’s Stress in America survey. That further enhances patient experience, and further enables the patient to self-manage care at home where it’s safe, hygienic, and risk-managed.

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Telehealth Mental health Patient Experience Public Health 340

Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

Last month, AARP published research on older peoples’ perspectives on their state of mental health and well-being. “While it is understandable to see a decline in mental health or emotional well-being during trying times, this is not a normal part of aging.

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Telehealth Mental health Public Health Medicare 315

Health Populi

DECEMBER 28, 2021

along with health disparities and inequities. Telehealth will help many people meet up with health care access — but not necessarily universally or equitably. Mental health will continue to be the epidemic beyond the pandemic. Mortality will be up in the U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

The use of telehealth visits grew from 4% of older people having ever used virtual platforms by May 2019, to 30% of older patients using telehealth in June 2020. Among these visits, 76% were with a primary care provider, 32% with a specialty care provider, and 18% with a mental health provider, the study found.

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Telehealth Primary Care Mental health Telemedicine 427

Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

Concerningly, more people dealing with a chronic condition avoided health care more than people without a chronic disease — 48% versus 31%, meaning that 1 in 2 patients with a diagnosed condition delayed health care during the pandemic in 2020. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Digital health tools generate data.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2023

For pain management and chatbots for mental health? For mental health, 46% of consumers thought AI chatbots should only be used by people that are also seeing a therapist. Less than half of people expect AI in health and medicine to improve patient outcomes.

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Mental health Pain management Patient Experience Connected Health 291

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The AMA reminds us of the health benefits of gratitude this season, along with a dose of physical activity as a side dish to our bountiful (if we’re fortunate) Thanksgiving food-fests. ” UCLA cites other studies on the evidence of gratitude to benefit anxiety, depression, sleep health, heart health, and stress.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2020

More enterprise applications will be underpinned by 5G communications by 2023, none more important than those for health care. These can be heavy lifts in terms of data requirements for those applications in the “Massive IoT” category.

Digital Health 371

Digital Health Mental health Telemedicine Interoperability 371

Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2024

At CES 2025, I’ll be updating my environmental analysis of consumer-facing health tech in the categories shown in my chart here: tracking food, weight, activity, sleep, safety, kitchens and cooking, heart functions, mental health, gait, home care, cars and mobility, and bathrooms.

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Digital Health Health Policy Mental health Medicare 156

Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

Those “waves of demand” TripleTree described will impact every segment of care delivery and sponsor, including small to mid-sized physician practices, employers, behavioral/mental health, public/government-sponsored health care programs, and the pharma and life science industry.

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Telehealth Public Health Life Science Primary Care 390

Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Mental health can be scaled with telehealth. map and citizens’ access has been marked with mental health supply shortages. Mental health via virtual platforms has sustained significant use since the waning of the public health crisis. Convenience isn’t just a nice-to-have: it has economic ROI.

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Telehealth Mental health Public Health Medical Billing 207

Health Populi

MAY 17, 2021

How waiting times in hospital emergency departments can be shortened to lower the risks of adverse events and quality problems that can be averted by seeing patients sooner. We also saw the use of blockchain, AI and cognitive computing, smartphones, neural networks, among other tools in the digital health toolkit.

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Nursing Mental health FHIR Interoperability 296

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Even with the 32% drop in oncology investments, the therapeutic area retains the top position for most-invested space, followed by mental health and cardiovascular disease investments. Only 16% of mental health ventures yielded evidence signals over 40, the benchmark shown in the second chart from the report.

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Digital Health Mental health Health Technology Patient Experience 240

Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2022

This research found that our social relationships are linked both to mental health as well as morbidity and mortality — that is, death. The bar chart illustrates the result of the meta-analysis which considered 148 studies on mortality and risk factors.

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Life Science Mental health Pharmaceuticals Medical Technology 317

Health Populi

JULY 25, 2022

Telehealth and “digital front doors” for health care became a new experience for most people accessing virtual care for the first time in 2020 and 2021, now persisting most prominently for mental health access — too long under-served and under-supplied in the traditional/legacy U.S. healthcare system.

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Digital Health Mental health Telehealth Nursing 317

Health Populi

JANUARY 4, 2022

As examples of this, Steve pointed to three CES attendees’ products that speak to self-care empowerment: For telehealth and remote patient management (RPM), Essence’s VitalOn. As a connected health device, Abbott’s FreeStyle Libre 3, and.

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Digital Health Telemedicine Telehealth Connected Health 436

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

They framed the challenge with a key statistic that will stay in your mind once you hear it: that health care workers are 5x more likely to experience workplace violence than employees in private industry.

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Nursing Mental health Telehealth Patient Experience 374

Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Telehealth has increased access to mental health services, I’ve highlighted this Mental Illness Awareness Week here in Health Populi. But telehealth has also emerged as a preferred channel for routine health care services, we learn from J.D. Power’s 2022 Telehealth Satisfaction Study.

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Telehealth Mental health Nursing Primary Care 218

Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2019

As an example of this trend, Accenture points to Mindstrong which leverages AI and machine learning to divine digital phenotypes of consumers-patients that inform mental health support.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

These program expansions are value-addes to the basic telehealth value proposition, allowing providers to tailor the telehealth program to a targeted patient population based on consumers’ values, medical conditions, and media/communications preferences.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 9, 2023

. “We hope our work will inspire others to join our health assurance movement and usher in a new era of better health for everyone in our communities,” the GC team envisions. Next, consider the news that Best Buy will sell continuous glucose monitoring systems supplied by Dexcom.

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Health Populi

JULY 10, 2020

The most bullish clinicians about providing telehealth visits as an on-going alternative to in-office visits are behavioral/mental health providers and primary care physicians, 93% and 62% of whom expect to provide more telehealth to patients.

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Telehealth Primary Care Mental health Patient Experience 292

Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2022

Jasper’s data ecosystem complements the patient’s clinical data on the psycho-social side of the person – that is, “real life.” Patients can track nutrition and food intake, mood and mental health, financial issues, transportation, and activity (such as steps). “There are people behind those data points.”

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Mental health Digital Health Patient Experience Connected Health 156

Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

Six in ten people are open to health and wellness services via virtual channels, over half like the idea of remote monitoring linking with at-home devices, and 1 in 2 people would be open to routine appointments through telehealth. Nearly one-half would also be keen on mental health appointments and specialty visits for chronic conditions.

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Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

There is more PE-backed innovation for smaller niched digital tech companies that deliver services to The CEOs of health care-self-care, and more out of pocket spending by Quincy and their friends and family base don personal preferences. The community ethos bolsters social cohesion and mental health. Imagine if the U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2024

Confronting and addressing access and health equity. Health access is a key factor for patient experience from appointment scheduling in a timely manner to “feeling” embraced by the health system in terms of health equity and access to contemporary protocols.

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Pharmaceuticals Patient Experience Mental health Digital Health 177

Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

Telehealth has fast-morphed into a much-demanded virtual visit platform for millions of patients, now consumers making proactive decisions about just where and how they want to participate in health care.

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Connected Care Digital Health Telehealth Public Health 374

Health Populi

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Think of Deb as the proverbial shoe-maker’s child with no shoes: she leads a company helping drive digital transformation in health care, but two people she loved, and she herself, had all been failed by some aspect of fragmented health care delivery in America.

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Leadership Mental health Patient Experience Life Science 174

Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2024

A decade+ later, we see the maturing of the patient-as-consumer, taking on more self-care beyond fitness and wellness blurring into medical and acute care as hospitals re-locate services and monitoring to people at home and people becoming more activated in tracking chronic conditions, from head-to-toe.

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Mental health Digital Health Telehealth Health Policy 218

Health Populi

JULY 26, 2021

Payors’ identified the top factors driving health care costs up including an aging population, growing utilization of medical services, implementing safety measures (think: PPE and the ongoing challenge of adverse events), mental health (a growing epidemic inside the pandemic), possible future outbreaks, and (some) patients’ (unhealthy) lifestyles.

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Interoperability Mental health Telehealth Digital Health 177

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.

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Health Technology Digital Health Public Health Patient Experience 406

Health Populi

JULY 27, 2020

The report found three big shifts in global health citizens’ views on their personal health and health care delivery in the wake of the pandemic: Across all age groups, COVID-19 exacerbated peoples’ concerns about their physical and mental health in a very short time.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 13, 2021

.” Then add in “sweet teams are made of this,” and you have the making of telehealth enabling health/care across the continuum, as I show in my drawing here. Sweet teams are increasingly inter-disciplinary, including primary care, bundling in mental health, health coaches and nutritionists.

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Telehealth Primary Care Mental health Medical Technology 177

Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2021

This news is a signal that health care and the larger tech-enabled ecosystem that supports health and well-being is embedded in peoples’ everyday lives.

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Digital Health Pharmaceuticals Mobile Health Health Technology 367

Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

We cannot expect Technology itself to be a panacea to this national tragedy that public policies must help solve in terms of underlying drivers of health and well-being. But there are technology innovations that can help people deal with addiction through, for example, digital therapeutic solutions.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 28, 2024

Wolters Kluwer Health launched ClinicalPulse , a continuing education solution for nurse practitioners. b.well Connected Health updated its platform to offer a configurable AI architecture. Illinois-based Advanced Heart Group chose NextGen for EHR , practice management, patient experience, and ambient assistance.

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