Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2019

DNNs have already been adopted in gaming, images (useful for image recognition for biometrics, for example), voice/speech/translation, and autonomous cars. Cloud computing and the ability to store massive amounts of data, and. Open-source algorithms.

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APRIL 21, 2021

The report dives into the stakeholder groups, offering market maps with examples of companies and innovators in each innovation space, from digital front doors like Dexcare, Phreesia and Doctor.com, scheduling access via Symplr, ZocDoc and DocASAP, and digital diagnosis and triage from Gyant and K Health, et.

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2020

This graph compares consumers’ demands by digital health channels for accessing various points of care across personal health care life-flows. That’s the required sausage-making behind the scenes of Capgemini’s bullish forecast on digital health consumers.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

We cannot expect Technology itself to be a panacea to this national tragedy that public policies must help solve in terms of underlying drivers of health and well-being. But there are technology innovations that can help people deal with addiction through, for example, digital therapeutic solutions.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 20, 2025

Tell us a little bit about yourself and Bamboo Health. My name is Vatsala Kapur, and I’m the Vice President of External Affairs at Bamboo Health. At Bamboo Health, were committed to transforming physical and behavioral health through innovative technology solutions.

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AMD Telemedicine

JANUARY 31, 2023

In contrast, real-time technology is very effective for practitioners who see large numbers of patients, do frequent follow-up visits, or must provide immediate advice to patients who require medical attention. Patient experience, trust, and satisfaction are other significant benefits offered by live technology.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2024

For health care in 2030, I’ve thought about each driving force and then gotten more granular in the second column focusing a bit deeper on the factor and how it might play out in 2030.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2019

Cosgrove recently left his CEO post at Cleveland Clinic, where he pioneered telemedicine and virtual health in and beyond the Cleveland target market to the larger healthcare ecosystem. Cleveland Clinic is a prime example of a hospital system imagining and re-shaping what a hospital will be in the future.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

An important one to watch seems simple on its face, but could expand access to specific patient populations who need products and services at home or close-to-home — like needing a condom at 3 am. in the current post-Dobbs health policy environment. Enter the humble vending machine. ” That is, emergency birth control.

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2021

Those issues were COVID-19, the 2020 Election, health care policy, racial divides, and equity and access. W2O notes that these five issues became more-inter-related than ever, compared with previous years’ top consumer health issues.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Patients-as-consumers increasingly expect retail-enchanting service levels from health care – especially as patients pay medical bills increasingly out-of-pocket. Convenience can take the form of time: for example, time to drive to an appointment and/or time required to be away from work to attend to that appointment.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

This week, Health 2.0 2019 will feature examples of all of these technologies and services. My focus will be on how these can be best designed and delivered to bolster self-care in this participatory health mode, to deliver on the Quadruple Aim.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

A study in JAMA Internal Medicine learned that providing shared transportation through, for example, Lyft or Uber, does not in itself increase appointment show-ups. Patients’ missed-appointment rates were roughly equal between those offered a ride service and those who were not: 36.5% million U.S. versus 36.7%.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

were sensible, weight management would be treated as a public health issue,” David Cutler writes in the JAMA Health Forum dated August 15, 2024. health care” citing the example of weight loss medications — in short, the uptake of GLP-1 drugs to address Type 2 diabetes first, and subsequently obesity.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Given that the field is increasingly digitized and data-driven, health IT is responsible for collecting and analyzing social determinants of health (SDoH). An example of calling out SDoH was cited by Dr. Sherri Onyiego, Medical Director for the Texas Market at Equality Health. So let’s face SDoH head on.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2021

The building blocks assume that patients and providers are on-site, together, at the same time. Everything needs to be reimagined for remote care, said Canino at Johns Hopkins Health Systems. Yesterday, for example, the bus rolled up at 7 a.m. The hospital's current EHR is Cerner Soarian. " Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

On the supply side are the brands you find in front of the pharmacy and in health-and-beauty aisles, from companies like Burt’s Bees and Bayer Consumer Health, Colgate-Palmolive and Unilever, as well as smaller firms such as Tweezerman, KT Health and Boiron (which has made homeopathic medicines understandable and accessible to Everyday People).

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

“We” was a trio including Antoinette Thomas (@NurseTechExec1), Chief Patient Experience Officer with Microsoft, David Ryan (@DavidPRyan), former long-time Global Head of Intel’s Health/Life Science business; and, me.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

For example, an algorithm focused on minimizing healthcare costs might prioritize cheaper treatments that are less effective for certain populations. The consequences of not addressing these biases can have a negative impact on patients from marginalized communities who are already not receiving equitable care.

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Health Populi

APRIL 23, 2018

Announced last week , 23andme is leveraging the wisdom-of-patients to crowdsource treatment opinions on eighteen medical conditions, such as ADHD, asthma, depression, and migraine, among others. This information will be gathered on the websites Conditions pages, an example of which is shown here.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

In order to achieve health equity, we must build a solid foundation of patient trust and communication. In dentistry, for example, chairside AI software has been instrumental in strengthening trust. For example, the U.S. These are two key tactics that directly address mental health inequity.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2023

They have more time to improve the patient experience and spend less time making sense of the EHR. They learn to perform a step-by-step process that considers all the important elements from previous records to ensure patient safety and meet organizational needs.

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MAY 6, 2018

Oakam, for example, offers an in-app game in which customers climb a “ladder” of client categories to earn a higher status and discounts. Back to The Economist ‘s financial inclusion report: “Digital technology provides data through the apps that users download on their phones.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Figures for the last quarter show that almost 500 children had been waiting for treatment for more than a year and although recent health policy has brought an increase in funding and staffing, it is believed that only 25% of those needing care actually receive it.

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MARCH 3, 2025

Other IT innovations are helping enable team-based care and interoperability; see Validic’s work with AWS as one example in this space (in this instance, health IoT and remote patient monitoring), but that’s just one of many applications to seek out to ameliorate this crucial challenge.

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JANUARY 21, 2025

For example, check out the huge gap in post-partum hemorrhage: 90% of the burden (measured in DALYs) occurs in lower income nations, but most of the clinical trials for the condition happen in higher-income countries. Where more trials are funded in higher income countries, but burden of disease is greater in lower-income nations.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2023

For example, pharmacies often carry clinics that provide vaccinations, but in France, one can go to a pharmacy for care and sterilization of minor wounds while only paying for bandages, medication and other supplies used in the visit. Senior Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer of Northwell Health (New Hyde Park, N.Y.):

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Henry Kotula

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Insurance companies have created policies, designed plans and narrowed provider networks to bring down healthcare costs. Expect payers to accelerate those programs and policies and search for more cost-saving levers in 2018. They’ve shown success.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

At last year’s 2020 CES, I wrote here in Health Populi that evidence and innovation was beginning to bridge health consumers keen to take on self-care for their hearts, and their physicians. Water weight retention connects to heart health, for example, and can also be an indicator for other acute conditions.

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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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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Key to the plan’s success (crossing fingers) is that the participants must submit an equity plan that requires collecting data as well as developing measures to track success in meeting the goals for addressing social determinants of health. Getting to health equity is a team sport and requires collaboration.

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Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

One can probably find examples of and exceptions to that at your local gas station. Regardless of where you sit or stand, we have to acknowledge that the companies are also the creators of jobs filled by actual people who are also committed to doing good, not just well.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2022

For example, comparatively less U.S. ” The Commonwealth Fund offers several policy prescriptions for the U.S. to consider in bolstering a strong primary care backbone for the nation’s health citizens: To narrow the wage gap between primary care/generalist doctors and specialists, noting that the U.S>

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The data highlights the top pressure points fueling the wellbeing cycle: 61% of those surveyed say they experience overwhelming societal expectations to appear well. For example, those who practice meditation report 12% higher wellbeing. 53% say there is a lot of conflicting information about the best ways to improve wellbeing.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 21, 2022

We are more “conscious consumers,” expecting both the usual, traditional product efficacy — whether for household cleaning products or over-the-counter medicines — and at the same time, the dual expectation in NielsenIQ’s words to deliver on the health of the planet along with the health of themselves.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2024

While not every aspect of medical care is shoppable, many factors are research-able and in doing so, bolsters a persons health literacy and empowerment. The category of food, for example, is a major focus for most consumers related to their health, medical conditions, and overall well-being.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

dumping and hazardous materials storage) in lower-income neighborhoods Redlining, which has resulted in certain neighborhoods (e.g., How to address these risk to personal and community peace?

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