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News from the Consumer Technology Association and Withings Further Demonstrates Private Sector’s Role in the Pandemic and Public Health

Health Populi

JULY 28, 2020

This week, announcements from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and Withings further bolster the case for the private sector bolstering public health in this pandemic…and future ones to come beyond the Age of the Coronavirus. On 27th July, CTA announced the Association’s launch of the Public Health Tech Initiative.

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The Growth of DIY Digital Health – What’s Behind the Zeitgeist of Self-Reliance?

Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2025

The Propel study’s insights build on what we know is a growing ethos among health consumers seeking to take more control over their health care and the rising costs of medical bills and out-of-pocket expenses. ” One in 4 consumers have been alerted by a personal medical device regarding a pending health issue.

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Obesity is a Public Health Epidemic in the U.S. — The Case for GLP-1 Coverage, Affordability and Equity

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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3 in 4 U.S. Patients Say the Healthcare System is Broken — But Technology Can Help

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Start with over-arching finding that, “Three out of four patients believe the U.S. healthcare system is broken and there is a strong sense of distrust,” Lavidge asserts right at the top of the study’s press release. The erosion in trust among U.S. The post 3 in 4 U.S.

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Telehealth Platforms: Building Blocks for Omnichannel, Networked Healthcare

Health Populi

JULY 23, 2020

Parks Associates fielded this study the second half of May 2020, surveying 5,008 heads-of-broadband households balancing the sample of respondents for age, gender, income, and education. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Familiarity with virtual care breeds demand, based on the Parks Associates study.

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A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds

Health Populi

JULY 20, 2020

Patients perceived care was at least as good or better than traditional face-to-face encounters, and. Virtual care bolstered ongoing clinical trials, a large focus of this study. 45% in pharmaceutical companies, and 44% in large retail pharmacy chains. We’re calling it Consumer Directed Virtual Care.”.

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Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

In the Fear of Going Out Era spawned by the COVID-19 pandemic, many patients were loath to go to the doctor’s office for medical care, and even less keen on entering a hospital clinic’s doors. The study identified several key concerns about telehealth visits, shown in the graphic.

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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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Empathy Is As Important as the Medical Treatment – the 2021 Accenture Health Experience As Backdrop to HIMSS 2021

Health Populi

AUGUST 9, 2021

Kaveh Safavi, Accenture’s Senior Managing Director, Consulting, Global Health will discuss these results at #HIMSS21 on 10th August. health citizens’ minds, making people more aware of the value of their health data, privacy and security aspects. Finally, trust was the fourth aspect on U.S.

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Three in Five People 50+ in the US Will Likely Use Telehealth In the Future – An Update from AARP

Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

The study polled U.S. “It appears that telehealth is likely to continue to remain an important tool in the health care delivery tool kit — at least for those with computers and high-speed internet access,” the AARP report concludes with a caveat about connectivity/broadband access.

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The Latest Health Technology Vision and Consumer Behavior Insights From Accenture

Health Populi

AUGUST 18, 2020

On the Consumer Goods & Services part of Accenture comes their latest wave (7) of research into people continue to be shaped by their experience in the age of the coronavirus. While this study targets the consumer goods industry, there is much for health care to glean from the findings.

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How Young People Are Using Digital Tools to Help Deal with Mental Health

Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2021

For most young people, the public health crisis has been more about that social distancing from friends, a collective sense of isolation, and mental and behavioral health impacts. A new mental health risk arose in 2020 in the U.S. Compare that to 36% of young people who did not have COVID-19 touch their family.

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Well-Being Burnout – Lululemon’s 4th Annual Study Into Our Pressured Lives

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Lululemon has published the 2024 Global Well-Being Report , a study into peoples’ perspectives on their personal health from the company best known for athleisure wear and self-care. The post Well-Being Burnout – Lululemon’s 4th Annual Study Into Our Pressured Lives appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Telehealth Bolsters Patient Satisfaction (J.D. Power), and Providers Are Working to Catch Up (BDO)

Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2021

Two studies published in May 2021 illustrate the value and importance of telehealth to patients in 2020, and a disconnect among many C-level executives working in hospitals, academic medical centers, and other care provider organizations. Commercial Member Health Plan Study. Together, the two reports from J.D.

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“Healthcare Isn’t Healthy:” the Global Challenge of Health Equity, and Calls-to-Action

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Discrimination in health care is reported by more people in the U.S. we learn in the research reported in The Intersection of Health Equity in Communities & Business Strategy: A Call-to-Action , from Omnicomm PR Group (OPRG) and Atlantic Insights. nations in the study. health citizens. as in the non-U.S.

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The Most Relevant Companies in Health Care – Learning From the W2O Group

Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2021

” That year the firm began to study the relevance of, well, relevance for organizations especially operating in the health/care ecosystem. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Why care about “relevance” as described in this study? FYI, I did not have a hand in this study. .

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What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2022

You should know him for his work leading Scripps Research Translational Institute along with his must-read books , The Patient Will See You Now , Deep medicine , and The Creative Destruction of Medicine.

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The Most Trusted Brands of 2024 Tell Us A Lot About Health Consumers

Health Populi

JUNE 12, 2024

From bandages to home hygiene, OTC pain meds and DIY home projects, Morning Consult’s look into the most-trusted brands of 2024 give us insights into health consumers. I’ve been tracking this study since before the public health crisis of the coronavirus, and it always offers us a practical snapshot of the U.S.

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AI: Patients Included

Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

adults’ levels of trust in health care services and suppliers, finding the greatest trust lies with a consumer’s local pharmacy (for 77% of consumers), followed by hospitals (for 73% of people) and in third rank, health technology (63%). Layered on top of this is health citizens’ eroding trust in other aspects of U.S.

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Wellness in 2023 Is About Connections, Mental Health and Science – Global Wellness Summit’s 2023 Trends

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

This is consistent with other studies from the past few years, as consumers’ faith in governments and media has dramatically eroded. As Ipsos reminds us and GWS’s report reinforces, more people want to feel more empowered when it comes to health across all dimensions — physical, mental, financial, spiritual.

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VA working with Apple to broaden telehealth access for veterans

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The new iPad initiative has its roots in the VA's Connected Tablet program , which launched in 2016 and, research shows, has created a more satisfying patient experience and made veterans less likely to miss appointments. " Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN. Email the writer: mike.miliard@himssmedia.com.

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Healthcare Costs, Access to Data, and Partnering With Providers: Patients’ Top User Experience Factors

Health Populi

OCTOBER 23, 2020

As patients returned to in-person, brick-and-mortar health care settings after the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic, they re-enter the health care system with heightened consumer expectations, according to the Beryl Institute – Ipsos Px Pulse report, Consumer Perspectives on Patient Experience in the U.S.

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The Digital Transformation of Home for Health – Brainstorming with Karsten Russell-Wood of Philips

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Some of those things have to do with self-care for health. My personal tour, thanks to Karsten and the Philips team, bolsters my own forecast that our homes, neighborhoods and local communities will be where our health and health care will be made and delivered in and beyond the public health crisis.

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Digital health intervention for children with ADHD to improve mental health intervention, patient experiences, and outcomes: a study protocol

BMC Digital Health

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is the most prevalent childhood psychiatric condition with profound public health, personal, and family consequences. ADHD requires comprehensive treatment; howe.

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What data and technologies are needed to propel telehealth quality?

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 7, 2021

Virtual care aligns with strategic imperatives to improve health outcomes, enhance patient safety, and optimize the patient experience for populations with medical complexity and high healthcare needs. As a result, it will pay off if healthcare can continue the expansion of telehealth started by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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A Toxic Side Effect of the Coronavirus: Financial Unwellness

Health Populi

JULY 16, 2020

The economic hit from the pandemic has disproportionately impacted people of color, younger people, women, small business owners, gig workers, and people working in retailer harder than other folks, the study learned. Concerns about finance and health vary by age, the first table shows.

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Add Behavioral Data to Social Determinants For Better Patient Understanding

Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2018

The Sage team explains that, by layering knowledge about peoples’ behaviors, beliefs, and attitudes on top of the traditional SDOH factors, health care providers can mash-up SBDoH – “socio-behavioral determinants of health” — your new acronym to add to your growing list of healthcare ABCs.

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CMS launches Acute Hospital Care at Home program to help with COVID-19 surge

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

For more how ASCs can temporarily enroll as hospitals during the public health emergency, see this new guidance from CMS. As for acute care at home, this past December Mass General Brigham conducted what it says was the country's first randomized controlled study of hospital-level home care for acutely ill adults.

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Your Grocery Store as Health/Care Destination: Welcome Kroger to the Clinical Trials Community

Health Populi

JANUARY 26, 2023

The focus on the first clinical study will be for microbiome-based biomarkers associated with colorectal cancer to address gut and immune health. The Little Clinic retail health sites operated by Kroger’s affiliate will collaborate with Persephone Biosciences to bolster recruitment in the ARGONAUT clinical study ( NCT04638751 ).

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The Retail Health Battle Royale in the U.S. – A Week-Long Brainstorm, Day 3 of 5 – Apple as “Intelligent Health Guardian”

Health Populi

JULY 27, 2022

The second graphic from the report breaks out the health consumer/health citizen from the health/care industry and ecosystem: Being that intelligent guardian for our health and fitness, including partnering with third parties for digital health tools and apps, and. It will be about health.”

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Celebrating World Sleep Day 2024 – Sleep Equity for Global Health

Health Populi

MARCH 14, 2024

. “Because sleep is essential to health, everyone must have access to adequate sleep regardless of location, socioeconomic status, environmental conditions and disruptions, social structures and histories, community and interpersonal relationships, and individual beliefs and behaviors,” the sponsors of World Sleep Day explain.

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The Thematic Roadmap for AHIP 2024: What the Health Insurance Conference Will Cover

Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2024

Confronting and addressing access and health equity. Health access is a key factor for patient experience from appointment scheduling in a timely manner to “feeling” embraced by the health system in terms of health equity and access to contemporary protocols.

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Value-based healthcare – what it means for Thailand

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 11, 2019

However, the challenge lies in how government institutions such as the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) can meaningfully engage the private healthcare sector in moving towards VBHC. ii) Patient experience. v) Health 2.0. iii) Unlocking the value of AI. (iv) iv) Value-based care. (v)

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Population Health Outcomes: The Impact of Social Determinants of Health and the Initiatives Being Implemented

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Ryne Natzke, Chief Revenue Officer at TrustCommerce , a Sphere Company One of the main goals of population health is to reduce health inequities among different population groups. One area where there can be significant discrepancies between population groups is the ability to afford care.

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Workforce Shortages and Health Care Cost Pressures Inspire RSNA 2023 (and yes, AI’s in the mix, too)

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

We’ll see many more developments like this one as the health care industry continues to get more serious about its role in climate change, ESG, and public health. On the product front, it was fascinating to see the BlueSeal Mobile system providing Mobile Helium for MR featuring a lighter magnet and 0 helium refill costs.

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From Evolution to Innovation, from Health Care to Health: How Health Plans With Collaborators Are Re-Defining the Industry

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Patients and health plan members continue evolving into medical bill payers, with their homes and budgets baked into the concept. At the same time, health system leaders in the study cite three key strategies topping their list, including the need to grow revenue, recruit and retain staff ( think: burnout ), and reduce costs.

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In U.S. Health Care, It’s Still the Prices, Stupid – But Transparency and Consumer Behavior Aren’t Working As Planned

Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2019

Increasingly, as patients bear more first-dollar costs through high-deductible health plans, co-payments and co-insurance sharing, the patient-as-payor has become more sensitive to these prices. Chan School of Public Health with POLITICO looked into Americans’ Health and Education Priorities for the New Congress in 2019.

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What the Latest Pew Consumer Data Means for #HIMSS18

Health Populi

MARCH 5, 2018

The first chart from the Pew study illustrates that there are several other social networks tightly clustered in terms of use beyond Instagram, including Pinterest, Snapchat, LinkedIn, Twitter, and WhatsApp. adults age 18 and over in early January 2018 for this study. adults using the site compared with 68% using Facebook.

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Peering Into the Hidden Lives of Patients: a Manifesto from Paytient and Nonfiction

Health Populi

MARCH 19, 2024

That’s the title of a new report that captures the results of a survey conducted in January 2024 among 1,516 employed Americans who received employer-sponsored health insurance. I live and breathe and work with patient and consumer health financial data every working day.

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How MedModular Fits Into the New Lower-Cost, High-Quality, Consumer-Enchanted Healthcare World

Health Populi

OCTOBER 5, 2018

This week, Kaiser Family Foundation published its 2018 study into employer-sponsored benefits, finding that the average cost is about $20,000 this year. Start with the fact that America will allocate $3.7 trillion to national healthcare spending in 2018.

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How Virtual Therapeutics Will Revolutionize Medicine - the revolutionary new kind of care

Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

A leading doctor unveils the groundbreaking potential of virtual medicine Brennan Spiegel has spent years studying the medical power of the mind, and in VRx he reveals a revolutionary new kind of care: virtual medicine. Spiegel is also professor of medicine and public health at UCLA. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

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AstraZeneca launches Evinova, a health-tech business to accelerate innovation across the life sciences sector, the delivery of clinical trials and better health outcomes

Digital Health Global

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Coming from within the sector and with proven experience, Evinova will be uniquely placed to deliver science-based, evidence-led and human experience-driven solutions with the aim of improving patient experience and outcomes.” Site interaction is available through a single-sign-on portal.

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Most Americans Follow an Eating Pattern in Search of Energy, Protein, and Well-Being – With Growing Financial Stress: A Food as Medicine Update

Health Populi

JUNE 20, 2024

IFIC covered two very current aspects of health consumers’ lives and perspectives in this year’s study: the role of financial health in overall health and home economics (impacting food choices), and opinions about the GLP-1 drugs for weight loss. published this month on spending by program for FY 2023.

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Telehealth Update from the AMA – Setting the Context for ATA 2022

Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

One-half of doctors uses telehealth for continuous monitoring of patients, Overwhelming, medical and chronic disease management are the workflows for telehealth, followed by one-half of physicians using virtual care for specialty visits and 44% for mental and behavioral health. Follow the meeting on Twitter at #ATA2022.

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The Growth of DIY Digital Health – What’s Behind the Zeitgeist of Self-Reliance?

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Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

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Three in Five People 50+ in the US Will Likely Use Telehealth In the Future – An Update from AARP

The Latest Health Technology Vision and Consumer Behavior Insights From Accenture

How Young People Are Using Digital Tools to Help Deal with Mental Health

Well-Being Burnout – Lululemon’s 4th Annual Study Into Our Pressured Lives

Telehealth Bolsters Patient Satisfaction (J.D. Power), and Providers Are Working to Catch Up (BDO)

“Healthcare Isn’t Healthy:” the Global Challenge of Health Equity, and Calls-to-Action

The Most Relevant Companies in Health Care – Learning From the W2O Group

What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

The Most Trusted Brands of 2024 Tell Us A Lot About Health Consumers

AI: Patients Included

Wellness in 2023 Is About Connections, Mental Health and Science – Global Wellness Summit’s 2023 Trends

VA working with Apple to broaden telehealth access for veterans

Healthcare Costs, Access to Data, and Partnering With Providers: Patients’ Top User Experience Factors

The Digital Transformation of Home for Health – Brainstorming with Karsten Russell-Wood of Philips

Digital health intervention for children with ADHD to improve mental health intervention, patient experiences, and outcomes: a study protocol

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A Toxic Side Effect of the Coronavirus: Financial Unwellness

Add Behavioral Data to Social Determinants For Better Patient Understanding

CMS launches Acute Hospital Care at Home program to help with COVID-19 surge

Your Grocery Store as Health/Care Destination: Welcome Kroger to the Clinical Trials Community

The Retail Health Battle Royale in the U.S. – A Week-Long Brainstorm, Day 3 of 5 – Apple as “Intelligent Health Guardian”

Celebrating World Sleep Day 2024 – Sleep Equity for Global Health

The Thematic Roadmap for AHIP 2024: What the Health Insurance Conference Will Cover

Value-based healthcare – what it means for Thailand

Population Health Outcomes: The Impact of Social Determinants of Health and the Initiatives Being Implemented

Workforce Shortages and Health Care Cost Pressures Inspire RSNA 2023 (and yes, AI’s in the mix, too)

From Evolution to Innovation, from Health Care to Health: How Health Plans With Collaborators Are Re-Defining the Industry

In U.S. Health Care, It’s Still the Prices, Stupid – But Transparency and Consumer Behavior Aren’t Working As Planned

What the Latest Pew Consumer Data Means for #HIMSS18

Peering Into the Hidden Lives of Patients: a Manifesto from Paytient and Nonfiction

How MedModular Fits Into the New Lower-Cost, High-Quality, Consumer-Enchanted Healthcare World

How Virtual Therapeutics Will Revolutionize Medicine - the revolutionary new kind of care

AstraZeneca launches Evinova, a health-tech business to accelerate innovation across the life sciences sector, the delivery of clinical trials and better health outcomes

Most Americans Follow an Eating Pattern in Search of Energy, Protein, and Well-Being – With Growing Financial Stress: A Food as Medicine Update

Telehealth Update from the AMA – Setting the Context for ATA 2022

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