Connected Health, Patient Experience and Public Health

News from the Consumer Technology Association and Withings Further Demonstrates Private Sector’s Role in the Pandemic and Public Health

Health Populi

JULY 28, 2020

This week, announcements from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and Withings further bolster the case for the private sector bolstering public health in this pandemic…and future ones to come beyond the Age of the Coronavirus. On 27th July, CTA announced the Association’s launch of the Public Health Tech Initiative.

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The Growth of DIY Digital Health – What’s Behind the Zeitgeist of Self-Reliance?

Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2025

Importantly, impactfully in terms of health care, three-fourths of folks using medical devices at home said after receiving that alert, their issue was successfully diagnosed once consulting with a doctor. Thus the call for being design-ful along the way of designing, deploying, and supporting connected health devices.

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How Trauma-Informed Design Principles Can Be Health-Ful for All of Us – Learning from IKEA

Health Populi

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Health Populi’s Hot Points: While mental health issues were already mainstream across health citizens around the world before the COVID-19 pandemic was termed a “pandemic” in March 2020, peoples’ mental well-being eroded during the public health crisis and since then, more people have put a name to their situations and sought (..)

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Designing Digital Health for Public Health Preparedness and Equity: the Consumer Tech Association Doubles Down

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

At the same time, CTA has published a paper on Advancing Health Equity Through Technology which complements and reinforces the PHTI announcement and objective. Tribal health departments. Over 160,000 public and private labs. Hospitals and health care providers. Health plans. value-based).

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Telehealth Platforms: Building Blocks for Omnichannel, Networked Healthcare

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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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

In an age when nearly everyone is digitally connected in some way – even many senior citizens, who are often characterized as technophobic – it only makes sense that the healthcare industry is seeing a lot of connected health devices and remote patient monitoring (RPM) technologies.

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3 in 4 U.S. Patients Say the Healthcare System is Broken — But Technology Can Help

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

While technology can scale some service delivery and transparency, we should be mindful to design apps and tools and tech-enabled services with principles of ethics-by-design, privacy-by-design, and public health principles promoting access and equity.

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Virtual Health Tech Enables the Continuum of Health from Hospital to Home

Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. TripleTree is an investment bank that has advised health care transactions since 1997.

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The Latest Health Technology Vision and Consumer Behavior Insights From Accenture

Health Populi

AUGUST 18, 2020

We know that people (consumers, patients, caregivers all) have learned more about their health values during the pandemic, for themselves as individuals, their families, their neighborhoods and communities, and nations’ public health.

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How Young People Are Using Digital Tools to Help Deal with Mental Health

Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2021

For most young people, the public health crisis has been more about that social distancing from friends, a collective sense of isolation, and mental and behavioral health impacts. After a year of living with and “in” the coronavirus pandemic, younger people in the U.S.

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Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

In the Fear of Going Out Era spawned by the COVID-19 pandemic, many patients were loath to go to the doctor’s office for medical care, and even less keen on entering a hospital clinic’s doors.

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The Top Patient Safety Risks in 2025 Are Mostly About the “Human OS” – Reading ECRI’s Annual Report

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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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

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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The Digital Transformation of Home for Health – Brainstorming with Karsten Russell-Wood of Philips

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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A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds

Health Populi

JULY 20, 2020

Six in 10 patients said their trust/believe in health care providers increased as a result of COVID-19, followed by 50% of patients finding increased trust in urgent care clinics, 49% in public health institutions, 48% in independent pharmacies.

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Empathy Is As Important as the Medical Treatment – the 2021 Accenture Health Experience As Backdrop to HIMSS 2021

Health Populi

AUGUST 9, 2021

” At the HIMSS conference today, Dr. Adrienne Boissy, Chief Experience Office of the Cleveland Clinic, led a day of patient experience sessions that addressed a range of these issues and others. Unfortunately, ironically, those of us attending the HIMSS Conference virtually, digitally, could not access those sessions.

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Telehealth and COVID-19 in the U.S.: A Conversation with Ann Mond Johnson, ATA CEO

Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

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? Check out this last public health poster about Medicare and COVID-19. The President signed the $8.3

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What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2022

You should know him for his work leading Scripps Research Translational Institute along with his must-read books , The Patient Will See You Now , Deep medicine , and The Creative Destruction of Medicine.

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Three in Five People 50+ in the US Will Likely Use Telehealth In the Future – An Update from AARP

Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

Thanks to AARP for conducting multiple studies on health and well-being that are informing our work into the future of health care, reducing health disparities, and bolstering public health for all.

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How Philips Has Pivoted In the COVID-19 Pandemic: Connected Care From Hospital to Home

Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

This second graphic diagrams a patient journey map for the coronavirus, across the continuum of care settings from the community and home to primary care, emergency, hospital, and post-acute. Philips was involved early on in responding to health system demands in the ASEAN region, discussed here in Healthcare IT News.

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Connected 'smart' communities will be a key part of 21st century healthcare

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Chris Gibbons, founder and CEO of The Greystone Group, during the HIMSS session – which is now on-demand and explores how providers and federal, state and local policymakers are changing the way they think about the internet of things and connected health tools as they focus on population health management.

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

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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AI: Patients Included

Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

adults’ levels of trust in health care services and suppliers, finding the greatest trust lies with a consumer’s local pharmacy (for 77% of consumers), followed by hospitals (for 73% of people) and in third rank, health technology (63%). Layered on top of this is health citizens’ eroding trust in other aspects of U.S.

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Ten Forces Shaping Health Care in 2021: A View from CVS Health

Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2021

Expanding omni-channel, data-driven, cost-effective health care in the community, tailoring that care, and attending to mental health paint the picture of health through the lens of CVS Health. The company published the Health Trends Report 2021 today, calling out ten forces shaping health care this year.

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Health Care Planning for 2022 – Start with a Pandemic, Then Pivot to Health and Happiness

Health Populi

DECEMBER 28, 2021

I frequently use this book when conducting futures and scenario planning sessions with clients in health/care. One of my favorite Dr. Seuss characters is the narrator featured in the book, I Had Trouble In Getting to Solla-Sollew.

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Why #CES2022 Will Be Keynoted By A Health Care Innovator for the First Time

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.

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Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

Due to the collective ethos in the community, gun safety has been addressed as a public health issue, and the health care system and employers are committed to assuring cybersecurity and the protection of individuals’ health data. Telehealth happens across the U.S.

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Fresenius Connected Health: Improving Patient Care Through New Technology

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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COVID-19 Has Accelerated Consumers’ Interest in Healthy Home Tech

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

health consumers would eventually morph into health citizens, owning and not just renting our health. That book ended with a chapter asking whether U.S. cast to communicate their collective political will.

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

Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

The pandemic era relaxation of state licensure requirements addressed this chasm, providing greater access to patients who needed services as well as de-tabooing that access when patients felt nervous about in-person visits to therapists in a community, in-person setting.

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The Thematic Roadmap for AHIP 2024: What the Health Insurance Conference Will Cover

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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Workforce Shortages and Health Care Cost Pressures Inspire RSNA 2023 (and yes, AI’s in the mix, too)

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

We’ll see many more developments like this one as the health care industry continues to get more serious about its role in climate change, ESG, and public health. On the product front, it was fascinating to see the BlueSeal Mobile system providing Mobile Helium for MR featuring a lighter magnet and 0 helium refill costs.

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From Evolution to Innovation, from Health Care to Health: How Health Plans With Collaborators Are Re-Defining the Industry

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Patients and health plan members continue evolving into medical bill payers, with their homes and budgets baked into the concept. The program resulted in a reduction of both trips to the emergency department and hospitalizations among patients dealing with congestive heart failure. Connectivity as a social determinant of health.

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Mental Health at CES 2022 – The Consumer’s Context for Wellbeing in the New Year

Health Populi

JANUARY 3, 2022

As we enter COVID-19’s “junior year,” one unifying experience shared by most humans are feelings of pandemic fatigue: anxiety, grief, burnout, which together diminish our mental health.

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Nurses Hacking for Health and Compassionomics

Health Populi

MAY 17, 2021

The hearts and minds of nurses are fertile and inspirational sources and engines for health care innovation. This past weekend, and for the second time, I had the privilege and opportunity to be a panelist for the perennial hackathon meet-up of Nurse Hack 4 Health , sponsored by Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, Sonnier, and DevUp.

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Add Behavioral Data to Social Determinants For Better Patient Understanding

Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2018

The paper presents several case studies where providers and payors adopted SBDoH in population health strategies: To reduce teen pregnancy , The University of Texas Prevention Research Center at UT Health School of Public Health worked with young women in the Sunnyside neighborhood in Houston to identify population segments, learning about teens’ (..)

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Be Mindful About What Makes Health at HLTH

Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

As the HLTH conference convenes over 6,000 digital health innovators live, in person, in Boston in the wake of the delta variant, what should attendees keep in mind to help HLTH make health?

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Addressing Health Equity Must Include Digital Equity Beyond Access To Medical Services and Insurance

Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2020

The 21st Century Cures Act emphasizes patients’ control of personal health information. ONC rules issues in March 2020 called for more patient-facing health tools and apps to bolster health consumer engagement and empowerment. But the emergence of the coronavirus in the U.S.

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In Search of Clinical Effectiveness, But “Investment Exuberance?” Not So Much. Insights From FINN Partners and Galen Growth at HLTH 2022

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

While venture funding for digital health technology declined globally by 35% in the first three quarters of 2022 compared with 2021, this marks a “return to normal” based on the assessment in the Global State of Digital Health Report from FINN Partners and Galen Growth, published today and launched during the HLTH 2022 conference.

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Why Elevance Health is “Prescribing” Phones for Members

Health Populi

JANUARY 19, 2024

Now we see the emergence of telecomms-as-medicine — or more specifically, a driver of health, access, and empowerment. You’ve heard of food-as-medicine and exercise-as-medicine.

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Telehealth Update from the AMA – Setting the Context for ATA 2022

Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

As the pandemic exacerbated many risks of social determinants of health like food security and the ability to earn a wage in hospitality or caregiving jobs, so, too, did the public health crisis shine a light on a newer determinant of health: connectivity as a basic human need.

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Heart Health at #CES2019 – Food and Tech as Medicine

Health Populi

JANUARY 7, 2019

With my public health hat on, I assert that smoking cessation is good for everyone (except perhaps for tobacco companies’ bottom lines). Beyond alcohol, the company is working on additional DTx categories including insomnia and depression, schizophrenia, traumatic brain injury, epilepsy, and PTSD, among other conditions.

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Design, Empathy and Ethics Come to Healthcare: HXD

Health Populi

JUNE 26, 2018

Deborah Brown, who is Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer for Health in the New York City Office of the Deputy Mayor, discussed her challenging role in helping drive design thinking in public health for all New Yorkers – especially the most vulnerable citizens.

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News from the Consumer Technology Association and Withings Further Demonstrates Private Sector’s Role in the Pandemic and Public Health

The Growth of DIY Digital Health – What’s Behind the Zeitgeist of Self-Reliance?

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How Trauma-Informed Design Principles Can Be Health-Ful for All of Us – Learning from IKEA

Designing Digital Health for Public Health Preparedness and Equity: the Consumer Tech Association Doubles Down

Telehealth Platforms: Building Blocks for Omnichannel, Networked Healthcare

A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

3 in 4 U.S. Patients Say the Healthcare System is Broken — But Technology Can Help

Virtual Health Tech Enables the Continuum of Health from Hospital to Home

The Latest Health Technology Vision and Consumer Behavior Insights From Accenture

How Young People Are Using Digital Tools to Help Deal with Mental Health

Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

The Top Patient Safety Risks in 2025 Are Mostly About the “Human OS” – Reading ECRI’s Annual Report

The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

The Digital Transformation of Home for Health – Brainstorming with Karsten Russell-Wood of Philips

A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds

Empathy Is As Important as the Medical Treatment – the 2021 Accenture Health Experience As Backdrop to HIMSS 2021

Telehealth and COVID-19 in the U.S.: A Conversation with Ann Mond Johnson, ATA CEO

What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

Three in Five People 50+ in the US Will Likely Use Telehealth In the Future – An Update from AARP

How Philips Has Pivoted In the COVID-19 Pandemic: Connected Care From Hospital to Home

Top 10 Healthcare IT News stories of 2020

Connected 'smart' communities will be a key part of 21st century healthcare

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

AI: Patients Included

Ten Forces Shaping Health Care in 2021: A View from CVS Health

Health Care Planning for 2022 – Start with a Pandemic, Then Pivot to Health and Happiness

Why #CES2022 Will Be Keynoted By A Health Care Innovator for the First Time

Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Fresenius Connected Health: Improving Patient Care Through New Technology

COVID-19 Has Accelerated Consumers’ Interest in Healthy Home Tech

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

The Thematic Roadmap for AHIP 2024: What the Health Insurance Conference Will Cover

Workforce Shortages and Health Care Cost Pressures Inspire RSNA 2023 (and yes, AI’s in the mix, too)

From Evolution to Innovation, from Health Care to Health: How Health Plans With Collaborators Are Re-Defining the Industry

Mental Health at CES 2022 – The Consumer’s Context for Wellbeing in the New Year

Nurses Hacking for Health and Compassionomics

Add Behavioral Data to Social Determinants For Better Patient Understanding

Be Mindful About What Makes Health at HLTH

Addressing Health Equity Must Include Digital Equity Beyond Access To Medical Services and Insurance

In Search of Clinical Effectiveness, But “Investment Exuberance?” Not So Much. Insights From FINN Partners and Galen Growth at HLTH 2022

Why Elevance Health is “Prescribing” Phones for Members

Telehealth Update from the AMA – Setting the Context for ATA 2022

Heart Health at #CES2019 – Food and Tech as Medicine

Design, Empathy and Ethics Come to Healthcare: HXD

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