Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2021

Taken together, my trend-weave opens the over-arching umbrella of ESG goals – for Environmental, Social, and Governance pillars have become strategic and impactful talking points in C-suites across all industry sectors.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2019

There’s a growing trend in direct-to-consumer telemedicine companies recently noted in JAMA in a viewpoint titled, “Prescriptions on Demand.”

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Henry Kotula

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Here’s a look at five payer trends to watch for in 2018, and some tips for preparing to deal with them. Insurance companies have created policies, designed plans and narrowed provider networks to bring down healthcare costs. We see a trend toward rationalizing the levels of payments across various sites of service,” he said.

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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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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 30, 2023

Ongoing collaboration and innovation are necessary to overcome the challenges in the health industry and ensure that patients have access to the care they need. Patient Experience In the US healthcare system, providing high-quality patient care is a top priority for healthcare leaders. Health Equality In the U.S.,

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2022

“Through edge computing and edge-to-cloud processing capabilities, Biofourmis is redefining the patient and provider journey leveraging advanced technology.”. Biofourmis continues to buck health tech funding trends with this Series D extension, which comes during a downturn in digital health investment.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2025

These converge to an over-arching trend of self-reliance across the health care continuum, among younger and older people, working folks and retirees. The post What is a Consumer Health Company? Riffing Off of Deloittes Report on CHCs/A 2Q2025 Look at Self-Care Futures appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

And as the RWJF/NPR/Harvard Chan study shows, these social determinants risks travel in groups and double-down on those health risks for people who rent, people of color, those without access to healthy food, and folks who earn lower incomes.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

For important insights into this devastating risk-trend, read this Washington Post coverage published just a few days before the CDC reports came out. One last comparative point to keep in mind: the U.S. Specifically, there is a two-year extension of Medicare telehealth services that began in the early coronavirus era in 2020.

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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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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Most patients have experienced frustrations – in the designer’s parlance, “friction” – when seeking routine care as well as during a routine medical appointment. Clearly, patients’ experiences as consumers of healthcare lack the service levels they expect as payors based on this MITRE-Harris Poll.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

That is, 45% of those who skipped care and were sicker resulted in worsening health status, not surprising but coupled with those with lower family income, a signal that demands attention be paid to the underlying drivers of health for these health citizens.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

While customer satisfaction with health insurance plans slightly increased between 2018 and 2019, patient satisfaction with hospitals fell in all three settings where care is delivered — inpatient, outpatient, and the emergency room, according to the 2018-2019 ACSI Finance, Insurance and Health Care Report.

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Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

This change is occurring as the result of clinical innovations, patient preferences, financial incentives, electronic health records, telemedicine, and an increased focus on improving quality of care and clinical outcomes.

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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. In my book HealthConsuming , I quoted Esther Dyson, long-time investor and do-er in making health care better: she told me that, people should own and not rent their health.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

In that vein, and converging with many news and policy events, I’m trend-weaving the latest insights into that most consumer-facing of the social determinants of health: food, and in particular, health consumers viewing and adopting food as part of their health and well-being moves.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

” For some of these people, that phone-addiction is a self-diagnosis of a mental health challenge. Analog Wellness , atrend cited #1 of 10 in the latest Global Wellness Trends Report on The Future of Wellness: 2025 Trends. One antidote?

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