Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2020

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.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2020

About four in 10 people 50+ are interested in “purchasing” (the word used in the AARP survey) several digital health 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.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

How can digital health 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.

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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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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2022

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 Health Policy Conference in Washington, DC.

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Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2019

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.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2024

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.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

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.

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Health Populi

JULY 28, 2019

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 digital health programs for people managing chronic disease with measureable outcomes in cost-savings and health improvement. health policy circles.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2025

The health care landscape in 2030 will feature a n expanded consumer health industry t hat will become, “an established branch of the health ecosystem focused on promoting health, preventing, disease, treating symptoms and extending healthy longevity,” according to a report published by Deloitte in September 2024, Accelerating the future: (..)

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

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: Digital Health Consumer Adoption 2018.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

Because, ultimately, we must work to bake digital health services into our emergency preparedness and response infrastructure. And then we’ve been working directly with our members to showcase the incredible work they are doing in the face of this health emergency.

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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? The top-line in the report, and the bottom-line for health citizens, was that 38% of U.S. One-half of U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 5, 2019

Increased availability of health information, services and social networks online can also improve patient experiences. The digital divide in the U.S. Digital inclusion is key for advancing and improving health care and health care cost management in America.

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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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Health Populi

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Now mix in some of the news announced at or just prior to HLTH convening in Las Vegas… Samsung shared news that it will work with b.well Connected Health for consumers to create longitudinal health records, using an app on their Galaxy smartphones.

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Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2022

But even with the explosion of funding for digital health innovations such as wearable trackers, remote health monitors, and thousands of apps downloadable to our smartphones, the burden of chronic care continues to grow.

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

the supply side of care providers, the demand side of patients, consumers, and health citizens all, and the technology developers who have fast met the pandemic need for digital health front doors, all wonder: what aspects of virtual care will persist post-pandemic? Over a year since the pandemic emerged in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Leverage digital health to scale best practices in healthcare and delivery — leaving no one behind. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The CEO of BlackDoctor.org, Reggie Ware, makes the business case for dealing with health equity, saying, “A laser focus on health equity is not charity or philanthropy.

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Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

Federal gun legislation is passed and investments in cybersecurity are maxed in this scenario, with policies and procedures in the workplace taken seriously by all health citizens. Federal investment in climate and environmental health are part of holistic health policy.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

“Telehealth certainly appears to be here to stay,” the AARP forecasts in An Updated Look at Telehealth Use Among U.S. Adults 50-Plus from AARP. Two years after the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, one-half of U.S. adults over 50 said they or someone in their family had used telehealth.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2024

Another tactic to embed in dealing across all three of the calls-to-action is the role that telehealth and virtual care can play for two of the three factors — dealing with staff shortages and sustainability in reducing carbon and saving people time while bolstering patient experience and convenience.

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Health Populi

JULY 10, 2020

health care providers set up virtual care arrangements to convene with patients. Three months into the COVID-19 crisis, how have patients felt about these telehealth visits? Within days of the coronavirus pandemic emerging in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2019

I’m glad to be getting back to health economic issues after spending the last couple of weeks firmly focused on consumers, digital health technologies and CES 2019. There’s a lot for me to address concerning health care costs based on news and research published over the past couple of weeks.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

A survey of healthcare leaders by patient engagement vendor pCare and research firm WBR Insights indicated that demand for technology to improve the patient experience is on the rise , with 65% of organizations saying more patients want a tech-enabled care experience.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2024

In the past few years, what event or innovation has had the metaphorical impact of hitting you upside the head and disrupted your best-laid plans in health care? A few such forces for me have been the COVID-19 pandemic, the emergence of Chat-GPT, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Whether you’re a patient or a physician in the U.S., Congress can’t agree on much before the 2024 summer recess, there’s one bipartisan stroke of political pens in Washington, DC, that could provide some satisfaction for both patients and doctors: bring telehealth back to patients and providers permanently.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2019

Ann Mond Johnson assumed the helm of CEO of ATA in 2018, and she’s issued a call-to-action across the health/care ecosystem for a delivery system upgrade. “ATA” is the new three-letter acronym for the American Telemedicine Association, meeting today through Tuesday at the Convention Center in New Orleans.

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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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Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2018

“Health agencies will have to become at least as sophisticated as other consumer/retail industries in analyzing a variety of data that helps uncover root causes of human behavior,” Gartner recommended in 2017. That’s because “health” is not all pre-determined by our parent-given genetics.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2024

In kicking off #CES2024, CTA’s researchers noted the acceleration of global connectivity, with gaps in peoples’ ability to connect depending where they live: by region, the percent of people connected to the internet today are, according to CTA’s data, 92% in the U.S. 87% in the E.U. 76% in Latin America 73% in China 55% in Nigeria 46% in India.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2022

What is a “pharmacy” these days? You might have recently walked into a brick-and-mortar retail pharmacy. Or, you might have refilled a prescription to help you manage a chronic condition, online.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Here’s a description of the position: New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2022

Biofourmis continues to buck health tech funding trends with this Series D extension, which comes during a downturn in digital health investment. According to a recent Rock Health report , the first half of 2022 saw 329 digital health funding deals totaling $10.3 billion—down from $14.7 About Biofourmis.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

“Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans,” the Wall Street Journal reported in today’s paper and on the WSJ.com website. ” Here’s Ascension’s press release on the collaboration , described in the title as “healthcare transformation.”

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Health Populi

APRIL 29, 2018

When you’re on the battlefield and you can’t see what lies ahead, go high, recommended General Von Clausewitz in his book, On War.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

By enabling patients to receive care in rural areas or non-traditional settings, or to access technology that is customized for their specific language and health literacy levels, RPM can reduce or eliminate many social determinants of health barriers and improve access to care for individuals.

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