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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

Pharmaceutical companies will be collaborating extensively for manufacturing, supply chain requirements, post surveillance studies as well as storage. Reforms in national health policies and budget constraints will increase the appeal and appetite towards Opex business models. The road ahead.

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Telehealth Interoperability Medicare Pharmaceuticals 218

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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Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Patient Experience Public Health 234

Health Populi

APRIL 23, 2018

” These ratings cover over 2,100 pharmaceutical brands for which over 40,000 having submitted opinions. As of March 2018, there were over 3 million data points on over 600,000 drug ratings in the SERMO database, which the company terms “the FICO score for drugs.”

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Pharmaceuticals Health Data Patient Experience Health Policy 120

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

MAY 20, 2020

are self-rationing care in the era of COVID-19 by cutting spending on health care visits and prescription drugs. Patients in the U.S.

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Telehealth Telemedicine Mental health Medicare 194

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2022

Jain, physician executive with government, pharmaceutical, payer and provider experience, joins Board. Biofourmis continues to buck health tech funding trends with this Series D extension, which comes during a downturn in digital health investment. billion—down from $14.7

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Digital Health Leadership Pharmaceuticals Primary Care 52

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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Mental health Nursing Telehealth Primary Care 177

Health Populi

AUGUST 7, 2019

Here’s a link to the 30-minute conversation, where Marc combed through the over 500 endnotes from HealthConsuming ‘s appendix to explore the patient as the new health care payor, the Amazon prime-ing of people, and prospects for social determinants of health to bolster medicines “beyond the pill.”.

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Pharmaceuticals Patient Experience Mental health Connected Health 136

Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

The key issue in the US isn’t the oversupply of physicians, test, procedures — it’s the cost of care, the cost of pharmaceuticals, the cost of all healthcare goods and services. When a payor has providers and suppliers under one roof in a vertically-integrated enterprise, spending money internally will.

Primary Care 60

Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Accountable Care Health Policy 60

Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

The key issue in the US isn’t the oversupply of physicians, test, procedures — it’s the cost of care, the cost of pharmaceuticals, the cost of all healthcare goods and services. When a payor has providers and suppliers under one roof in a vertically-integrated enterprise, spending money internally will.

Primary Care 60

Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Accountable Care Health Policy 60

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.

Primary Care 128

Primary Care Mental health Telehealth Patient Experience 128

Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

The key issue in the US isn’t the oversupply of physicians, test, procedures — it’s the cost of care, the cost of pharmaceuticals, the cost of all healthcare goods and services. When a payor has providers and suppliers under one roof in a vertically-integrated enterprise, spending money internally will.

Primary Care 60

Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Accountable Care Health Policy 60

Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

The key issue in the US isn’t the oversupply of physicians, test, procedures — it’s the cost of care, the cost of pharmaceuticals, the cost of all healthcare goods and services. When a payor has providers and suppliers under one roof in a vertically-integrated enterprise, spending money internally will.

Primary Care 60

Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Accountable Care Health Policy 60

Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

The key issue in the US isn’t the oversupply of physicians, test, procedures — it’s the cost of care, the cost of pharmaceuticals, the cost of all healthcare goods and services. When a payor has providers and suppliers under one roof in a vertically-integrated enterprise, spending money internally will.

Primary Care 60

Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Accountable Care Health Policy 60

Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

The key issue in the US isn’t the oversupply of physicians, test, procedures — it’s the cost of care, the cost of pharmaceuticals, the cost of all healthcare goods and services. When a payor has providers and suppliers under one roof in a vertically-integrated enterprise, spending money internally will.

Primary Care 60

Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Accountable Care Health Policy 60

Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

The key issue in the US isn’t the oversupply of physicians, test, procedures — it’s the cost of care, the cost of pharmaceuticals, the cost of all healthcare goods and services. When a payor has providers and suppliers under one roof in a vertically-integrated enterprise, spending money internally will.

Primary Care 60

Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Accountable Care Health Policy 60

Health Populi

AUGUST 7, 2023

Consider this ecosystem diagram from the World Heart Federation, roadmap for digital health in cardiology. It’s a circular, iterative process of empowering patients and providers, improving long-term patient outcomes and patient experience, promoting universal health services coverage, and ultimately reducing health care costs.

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Digital Health Patient Experience Health Information Pharmaceuticals 156

Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

And PLM did business deals with large pharmaceutical companies who wanted the data to advance their research and development efforts – that’s how the PLM business was primarily funded. Patients knew this – PLM was emphatic about transparency in its community and the company never hid what they were doing with people’s data.

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Pharmaceuticals HIPAA BioTech Patient Experience 216

Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Kroger will expand its food-as-medicine platform, deploying tele-nutrition with registered dietitians and growing evidence-base for prescribing a Mediterranean (or DASH) diet for heart-health, among other eating styles. Growing adoption of “broad-spectrum” self-care – including digital health tools.

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Health Technology Mental health Digital Health Primary Care 156

Health Populi

MARCH 28, 2022

Foogal, a recipe app designed to support patients’ healthy cooking and eating, launched on 24th March. In its initial version, Foogal addresses several specific diet paradigms: for patients demanding a wellness protocol, an autoimmune protocol, or wanting to address insulin resistance.

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Life Science mHealth Primary Care Pharmaceuticals 280

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

health care economics, patients are now payors as health consumers with more financial skin in paying medical bills. As consumers, people have great expectations from the organizations on the supply side of health care — providers (hospitals and doctors), health insurance plans, pharma and medical device companies.

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Mental health Medical Billing Medical Technology Pharmaceuticals 166

Henry Kotula

JULY 28, 2023

The series covered broad issues related to the healthcare workforce, economy, and health policy, and highlighted internal industry changes and trends in service delivery, quality, and equity. As we noted, this was due to such factors as higher-than-normal expenses for staff, supplies, and pharmaceuticals and lower revenues.

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Public Health Digital Health Primary Care Telehealth 41

Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Consumers who DIY health and self-care are leveraging technology in greater numbers Weve seen a strong uptake of wearable technologies, especially smartwatches with multiple sensors for health and well-being (e.g., AARP has been watching the uptick of people 50 years of age and older leveraging digital health innovations.

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Mental health Digital Health Medicare Health Policy 296

Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2020

The signatures for this letter included the CHI Steering Committee Members: the American Medical Association, Apple, Bose, Boston Children’s Hospital, Cambia Health Solutions, Dogtown Media, George Washington University Hospital, Intel, Kaia Health, Microsoft, Novo Nordisk, Otsuka Pharmaceutical, Podimetrics, Proteus Digital Health, Rimidi, Roche, (..)

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Telehealth Connected Health Interoperability Pharmaceuticals 294

Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2018

During the hearing, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) challenged Azar, “As a pharmaceutical executive, you raised drug prices year after year. Note that Azar was once President of Eli Lilly, among the world’s largest pharma companies and marketer of products that treat diabetes, among other conditions.

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Medicare Pharmaceuticals Primary Care Patient Experience 153

Health Populi

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The new year will see a “looming tsunami” of high prices in healthcare, regulation trumping health reform, more business deals reshaping the health/care industry landscape, and patients growing do-it-yourself care muscles, according to Top health industry issues of 2020: Will digital start to show an ROI from the PwC Health Research Institute. (..)

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Life Science Medical Billing Health Data Primary Care 194

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

He was the first person to speak to me about “health citizenship.”. My friend and colleague Denise Silber, with whom I’ve been on the digital health journey from the beginning, lives in France and works globally.

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eHealth Mental health Nursing Public Health 45

Health Populi

MARCH 6, 2025

Uncertainties and grey areas prevail, with very shaky financial markets domestically and globally — all impacting various segments of health care systems — from hospitals and health plans to pharmaceuticals and medical devices, clinical labor markets and researchers (namely – might the U.S.

Medical Billing 316

Medical Billing Medicare Pharmaceuticals Mental health 316

Health Populi

JUNE 4, 2019

” In 2018, 45% of Americans between 19 and 64 years of age were under-insured, facing relatively flat wage growth coupled with triple-digit health care cost increases over more than a decade. The rationale for the project is that, “America’s families are hurting from high-cost, low-quality care.”

Medicare 149

Medicare Digital Health Pharmaceuticals Health Policy 149

Health Populi

APRIL 2, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: The publication of this study on 31st March 2021 coincided on the day of my podcast recording with Eugene Borukhovich and Jim Joyce on their Shot of Digital Health Podcast. That’s because our discussion theme was health care consumerism.

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Medicare Pharmaceuticals Digital Health Public Health 207

Health Populi

MAY 19, 2019

We don’t have to look 20 years out in front of us to know that tech companies and retailers are already playing growing roles in our local and virtual personal health/care ecosystems. For more on that phenomenon, see HealthConsuming ‘s chapters on digital health and the new retail health.

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Life Science BioTech Medicare Medical Billing 159