Health Populi

OCTOBER 17, 2023

One half-of health care financial leaders plan to invest in technology to cut costs — and most believe that AI has the potential to re-define the entire finance function as they look to Leading the transformation, a study conducted by U.S. health finance leaders thinking about emerging technologies. Bank among U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 4, 2024

And peoples’ relationships with pharmacies are also changing, with more health consumers finding greater satisfaction with their mail order pharmacy experiences than with moat retail brick and mortar chain drug stores, the latest J.D. Pharmacy Study found. Power 2024 U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 9, 2021

Kaveh Safavi, Accenture’s Senior Managing Director, Consulting, Global Health will discuss these results at #HIMSS21 on 10th August. health citizens’ minds, making people more aware of the value of their health data, privacy and security aspects. Finally, trust was the fourth aspect on U.S.

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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

JUNE 27, 2024

Patients’ experience with health care in the U.S. The study into U.S. adult consumers’ perspectives defined “patient experience” (PX) as, “The sum of all interactions, shaped by an organization’s culture, that influence patient perceptions across the continuum of care.”

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 28, 2024

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Studies According to a Surescripts report, only 27% of pharmacists and 39% of clinicians say it’s easy to share patient information.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Start with over-arching finding that, “Three out of four patients believe the U.S. healthcare system is broken and there is a strong sense of distrust,” Lavidge asserts right at the top of the study’s press release. The erosion in trust among U.S. The post 3 in 4 U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2024

For chronic disease management programs , vast majority interest across all age groups to support people managing long-term health conditions such as asthma, diabetes, or hypertension — involving a mix of education, lifestyle support changes, monitoring and tailored medical interventions.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points : Consider just the line item of “customer and patient services,” and one of all of our least-favorite patient experiences: the dreaded call center. This last graphic from the McKinsey report illustrates the pain points for patients engaging with payers’ call centers.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2024

That’s the top-line finding in the 2024 State of Digital Health Purchasing from the Peterson Health Technology Institute (PHTI). PHTI surveyed 322 digital health decision makers working in employers, health plans, and health systems, fielding the study in July and August 2024.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Unique to this study is the patient sample polled: Software Advice surveyed 876 patients in September 2023 to gauge their perspectives on wearable tech and health. ” Software Advice wondered.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2024

The study was fielded between December 2023 and February 2024. in terms of countries covered in the study. Globally, two-thirds of health care leaders see deteriorating staff well-being, physical and mental. First, the staff shortage which is a worldwide phenomenon, from Australia to the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Welcome to the new health literacy challenge the health care sector will have to deal with, and soon: lack of patients’ awareness of AI, its promises and pitfalls. “It is imperative to prioritize patient education regarding this technology,” Urte Jakimaviciute of GlobalData asserted based on the study findings.

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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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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

The study polled U.S. “It appears that telehealth is likely to continue to remain an important tool in the health care delivery tool kit — at least for those with computers and high-speed internet access,” the AARP report concludes with a caveat about connectivity/broadband access.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 4, 2023

are bullish on the role AI will play in health care in 2024, especially to lower access barriers to care and to diagnose and detect health conditions. Two new studies point to the consumerization of AI in healthcare, from Medtronic and Deloitte. Most people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2020

Patients perceived care was at least as good or better than traditional face-to-face encounters, and. Virtual care bolstered ongoing clinical trials, a large focus of this study. We’re calling it Consumer Directed Virtual Care.”.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Being Philips, what underpins that quality and experience is technology; Philips explored telehealth, AI, digital health records (DHRs), and other digital health tools that can engage patients. 84% of consumers with access to personal electronic health data want their health care professionals to have access, as well.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 22, 2022

Health Populi’s Hot Points: With even less capital and equity participation, partners can develop alliances via contracts to, say, co-brand a health plan or develop a population health program with consumer engagement through self-care, the bottom of McKinsey’s graphic just above illustrates.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

Halamka and team point out a JAMA study which overestimated the risk of heart disease in people who had high BMIs. At least 150 health systems are using Nuance DAX Copilot as an AI-based clinical scribe technology with their Epic systems. for every $1 invested. For more on the challenge of gender, check out this recent analysis of 1.8

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

doctors are using digital health tools in patient care, with quickening adoption of telehealth and remote monitoring technology, according to a study from the American Medical Association (AMA). Adoption of digital tools has grown across physicians of all ages, specialty, and gender across all technologies studied.

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Health Populi

JUNE 25, 2018

Plans and roll-outs are in progress for facility way finding support, reducing office wait times, and real-time patient feedback loops. Health care costs are a key issue for patients and healthcare consumers in 2018, for both personal households and as a mid-term election hot-button.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Power’s 2022 Telehealth Satisfaction Study. Power found in their Study which was conducted among 4,306 health care consumers who had used a telehealth service in the 12 months preceding June and July 2022 when the survey was fielded. “Patients really like telehealth,” J.D.

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AMD Telemedicine

JANUARY 31, 2023

Instead, all the relevant data — which can include patient records, MRI scans, test results, X-ray photos, and other essential data — is gathered together into a file and sent to the necessary professionals via a secure encrypted internet connection. Real-time telemedicine technologies, as you might have guessed, are more immediate.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

Rock Health and Stanford commissioned an online survey among 7,980 U.S. adults from early September to early October 2020 to gauge peoples’ interest in and utilization of digital health tools and telehealth. Can Google grow health-trust as they, too, expand their desired footprint in health care?

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 19, 2021

peoples’ expectations of their health care experience is melding with their best retail experience — and that’s taken a turn toward their digital and ecommerce life-flows. The study was fielded between October 2020 and September 2021. In the U.S., All other plans landed at 73.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 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. Most older patients who had a telehealth visit perceived the quality of an office visit was higher (56%) and offered better communication opportunity with the clinician (54%).

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Patients’ experiences with the health care industry fall short of their interactions with other industries — namely online retail, online banking and online travel, a new survey from Cedar, a payments company, learned. Survata conducted the study for Cedar among 1,607 online U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2022

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Considering the double-whammy phenomena of the Deaths of Despair combined with the impact of deaths due to the coronavirus pandemic: the U.S. This research found that our social relationships are linked both to mental health as well as morbidity and mortality — that is, death.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2023

health citizens think AI is being adopted in American health care too quickly, feeling “significant discomfort…with the idea of AI being used in their own health care,” according to consumer studies from the Pew Research Center. This is an important opportunity for AI applications to address in U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 29, 2024

AARP found that 7 in 10 people ages 50+ are “app-receptive” for health and wellness apps in Unlocking Health and Wellness Apps: Experiences of Adults Age 50-Plus , a summary of research conducted with U.S. consumers 50 and over from AARP.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

” This is the key finding in a study from PRC on the implications of nurses’ dis-engagement from their work. That context puts this year’s NurseHack4Health event all the more essential and impactful.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2024

Morgan’s InstaMed team to analyze health care payments data, describing the experiences of consumers, providers and payers in the Trends in Healthcare Payments Fourteenth Annual Report. The overall takeaway for patients in this study is that health care is disconnected from consumers, in the words of the JPM/InstaMed report.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

As they roll out new leading-edge technologies – AI and automation, telehealth and remote monitoring, EHR optimization and patient engagement – they're realizing lasting positive outcomes for their patients and their bottom lines.

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Health Populi

JULY 28, 2020

The growth of virtual care and telehealth, adoption of wearable technologies ( discussed here in Health Populi in yesterday’s coverage of the Capgemini health consumer study), and growing use of the cloud were all shown off at CES 2020.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 3, 2022

Mental health spiked up for virtual visits and to this day, is among the medical services in highest demand for virtual platforms. CTA wondered in the consumer study. How do people become aware of mental wellness tech?

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

While Millennials are more likely to current use digital health tools compared with older Americans, Seniors’ killer-app for digital health is ePrescribing, refilling prescriptions, used by nearly one-half of older people. This is roughly equal to patients across all age cohorts in the study.

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