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It’s interesting that Rock Health’s digitalhealth funding line graph echoes the left side of the Economist graph. The pandemic has accelerated funding in digitalhealth tools across many forms, shown in Rock Health’s second chart here on top funded value and clinical propositions.
It’s National Health IT Week in the US, so I’m kicking off the week with this post focused on how digitalhealth can bolster economic development. As the only health economist in the family of the 2018 HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors, this is a voice through which I can uniquely speak. Fast forward nine years later.
As someone who has tracked and worked with the digitalhealth industry since the inception of the Internet in health care, my portfolio of advisory work has tracked with the S-curve of adoption of, broadly speaking, computers and connectivity in health care. And you’ll hear more updates from me live from #CES2025.
This speaks to the fact that in emerging countries, health citizens are often leap-frogging health access using digitalhealth tools, compared with patients and consumers in wealthier nations which have capital-intensive, bricks-and-mortar built medical care infrastructures.
But as I write in HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen , it will take health-baked public policies and stronger privacy rights in America to bolster better personal and community health and fiscal outcomes.
Two “C’s” underpin this important digital transformation: the “Consumer” and “Connected.”. This week, two organizations mission-driven by these “C” words aligned to bolster digitalhealth care transformation for all people — not just those of us advantaged by a bountiful local, accessible portfolio of social determinants of health (SDoH).
“Digital transformation” is the corporate strategy flavor of the moment across industries, and the health are sector isn’t immune from the trend. As this 13th year of the annual Health 2.0 This year’s conference will convene thought leaders across a range of themes, and as is the Health 2.0
As HIMSS 2025, the largest annual conference on health information and innovation meets up in Las Vegas this week, we can peek into what’s on the organization’s CEO’s mind leading up to the meeting in this conversation between Hal Wolf, CEO of HIMSS, and Gil Bashe, Managing Director of FINN Partners.
Stability the safety net and rebuild public health. Address social determinants of health. Accelerate digitalhealth. Secure health data (updating privacy/HIPAA). Note that WHO’s approach to digitalhealth adoption includes equity, access, palliative care, privacy, and security.
Being Philips, what underpins that quality and experience is technology; Philips explored telehealth, AI, digitalhealth records (DHRs), and other digitalhealth tools that can engage patients. Patients view their health care professionals as “sherpas” to digitalhealth data.
August 19 th marked a significant moment in the field of global healthcare as the World Health Organization (WHO) and the G20 India presidency jointly unveiled the groundbreaking Global Initiative on DigitalHealth (GIDH). This initiative is one of the key deliverables of India’s G20 Presidency. What will be the outcomes?
revealed many weakness in the American health care system, one of which has been health inequities faced by millions of people — especially black Americans, who have sustained higher rates morbidity and mortality for COVID-19. But the emergence of the coronavirus in the U.S. Lack of inclusive design. the authors call out.
The public health crisis accelerated “what’s next” for health care delivery, detailed in A New Era of Virtual Health, a report published by TripleTree. TripleTree is an investment bank that has advised health care transactions since 1997.
While national health services funding and delivery modes will still have local models of organization and control, some over-arching concepts and cooperation are being forged. Two key issues are in my work-radar this trip: digitalhealth cross-border, and health innovation funding.
Folks who couldn’t connect couldn’t work from home, go to school from home, connect with fitness and faith communities from home — essentially live in the year 2020 and beyond in a digitally-enabled home, community, society.
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.
How can digitalhealth and other consumer-facing technologies help our health? To put a fine point answering our question, there is evidence that technology can enable and scale programs and services that channel drivers of health to people when designed with intention, value- and values-orientation, and privacy-by-design.
Digitalhealth improves service delivery and clinical outcomes, and we know that cannot happen if we don’t look at the data." 1) Jembi - Rwanda Health Information Exchange (RHIE) The RHIE project comprises of an international project team and is funded by the IDRC, Rockefeller Foundation, PEPFAR and the HIPPP initiative.
These codes also represent one of the latest advancements to modernize reimbursement for digitalhealth. Nevertheless, new categories of digitalhealth reimbursement have become increasingly clear. RTM can potentially offer more convenient ways for patients to engage with health systems.
An expert panel will gather during the first day of the event to discuss how digitalhealth can be improved via cross-border collaborations. The purpose of cross-collaboration is to improve aspects in digital healthcare, such as quality, outcomes, safety, interoperability, sustainability, and accessibility of care.
About four in 10 people 50+ are interested in “purchasing” (the word used in the AARP survey) several digitalhealth innovations: Communicating with a health care provider that you’ve taken a medication as prescribed. Communicating other information, like blood pressure, weight, or heart health) to a health care provider.
The coolest thing in healthpolicy in the 21st century!! ” Amitabh Chandra gave the opening context-setting talk about the effects of health care cost-sharing on patients-as-consumers. Kavita Patel to assert in the first panel of the day that, “2713 is my favorite number.”
The challenges and opportunities of integrating social determinants of health into care delivery. HealthPolicy: The impact of healthcare policy on patient outcomes and access to care. The role of telehealth and remote patient monitoring in improving access to care. The future of healthcare financing and payment models.
Founded in Italy, Slow Food is based on the idea that eating locally sourced food, cooked at home, by hand, shared and savored with other people bolsters health on all levels – physical, emotional, financial.
This most recent effort has brought together a wide range of healthcare representatives, including: Adventist HealthPolicy Association. Despite enjoying bipartisan support, telehealth has yet to see meaningful action from Congress in the COVID-19 era – and many advocates appear to be getting antsy. Alliance for Connected Care.
In summing up the patient-centered interoperability goal, Ardy summarized: “We’ve created the Mint.com of health data.” ” Health Populi’s Hot Points: Many of my beloved and brilliant colleagues are convening this week at HealthDataPalooza and the National HealthPolicy Conference in Washington, DC.
In seeking solutions to support our mental health and resilience, I want to highlight an innovation launching today from HopeLab and Grit DigitalHealth who collaborated on Nod.
The first diagram shows my evolving view on what I seek out at CES each year, from the traditional tracking of weight and activity to the mainstreaming of heart function and sleep, with the addition of the connected car for health and safety, and the smart kitchen and bathroom in the mix of health-at-home.
Health Populi’s Hot Points: Earlier this year, Accenture found that U.S. consumers’ adoption of digitalhealth technology stalled. One of the driving forces was found to be privacy concerns about health data protections. That brings us to another of the four health citizenship pillars: trust.
Health Populis Hot Points: As a health economist, a major concern for me in looking at a very uncertain payment/reimbursement and healthpolicy future is sustainability of health systems, providers and clinicians, and patients ability to cover the costs of their medical care.
The second story is Livongo, as new to the health/care ecosystem as Walgreens (founded in 1901) is mature in it. The company has developed digitalhealth programs for people managing chronic disease with measureable outcomes in cost-savings and health improvement. healthpolicy circles.
This concept is recommended in the last chapter of HealthConsuming as the plot moves to the question of whether health consumers will emerge as health citizens in America. Tomorrow, we’ll focus on the promise of digitalhealth and the perils of privacy.
healthpolicy and regulatory leaders. An uncertain world is our workplace in the health/care ecosystem, globally, in this moment. “We don’t un-learn,” Dr. Amy Abernethy asserte d as she shared her pandemic perspectives on a panel with 2 other former U.S.
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.
Remember that digitalhealth literacy is a “super determinant of health.” ” The post My Health, My Data – Thinking Consumers, Privacy and Self-Care at HIMSS 2023 appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. and Seeing is Believing – Inside the World’s Biggest Hospital), among other themes.
Seeking health information online along with researching other patients’ perspectives on doctors are now as common as booking dinner reservations and reading restaurant reviews, based on Rock Health’s latest health consumer survey, Beyond Wellness for the Healthy: DigitalHealth Consumer Adoption 2018.
In a previous post I discussed the merits of music as an ideal digitalhealth tool. I would submit that the potential for digital tech to prolong independence and/or improve lives of caregivers in the home or at a distance must be the subject of clinical studies.
A cautionary report that should sober-up the most bullish of digitalhealth enthusiasts came from IDC’s recent research published June 7 noting that, globally, wearable technology purchases fell for the first time since the firm has watched the space.
NABIP, whose members represent professionals in the health insurance benefits industry, drafted and adopted a new American Healthcare Consumer Bill of Rights launched at the meeting.
As more mobile app users — consumers, patients, and caregivers — use these handy digitalhealth tools, much of the data we share can be re-identified and monetized by third parties well beyond those we believe we’re sharing with.
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