Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

But the big growth areas were for live video telemedicine, wearable tech, and digital health tracking. This represents a shift more to “me care” in 2020 with the sharp uptake of digital platforms and wearable tech. Live video calls were used by most people across all age groups assessed (18-34, 35-54, and 55+).

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. In 2019, J.D. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2020

“Delaying procedures, reducing spending on preventive care and chronic care, and decreasing adherence to medications may have negative long-term impacts on health status, although the extent is unknown,” PwC notes. 34% “thought twice” before asking their doctor for a prescription when they felt sick.

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Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2020

As we wrestle with just “what” health care will look like “after COVID,” there’s one certainty that we can embrace in our health planning and forecasting efforts: that’s the persistence of telehealth and virtual care into health care work- and life-flows, for clinicians and consumers alike and aligned.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

Sites included: “My” doctor’s office, favored by more people who were White or Asian, and those 45 years or older. The latter is higher-cost care than would have been expended in real-time had the pandemic not kept patients away from doctor’s offices and hospitals. The post Post-Pandemic, U.S.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic, now entering Year 3 with the Omicron variant preventing many of us from attending #CES2022 in Vegas in person, has reinforced the need for such connections and alliances, for which there are now business models and ROI cases to make… to do well and do good for health citizens the world over.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

Most basic in the latter has been the lack of broadband connectivity preventing some people from the digital transformation from which other “have’s” in society benefited: the ability to work from home, attend school from home, exercise at home, and access medical services through virtual care platforms like telemedicine.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Be kind to your local health care providers; support their community initiatives (see previous bullet point), and ask your local hospital(s) what you or your organization can do to help the impending provider shortage (nurses, doctors).

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

But the road to implementing effective pop health strategies is laden with challenges: monitoring chronic illness rates and preventing community transmission, triaging emergencies over routine health care circumstances, and executing preventive services all require providers to alter their traditional fee-for-service workflow.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

In many countries and in peoples’ minds, the only “real” way to get proper treatment is to go to a doctor and, in some countries, head to a hospital or a specialist clinic. This will further Philips’ vision for Evolution of Care Settings from hospital to home and self-care modes.

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Hospitals Urgent Care Prevention Primary Care 149

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Another category of digital health growing during the pandemic is digital therapeutics; CTA recently formed an initiative to address DTx standards as the field matures from nascent to mainstream, including over two dozen members such as Bose, Doctor on Demand, Ginger, Google Health, Livongo, Philips, and ResMed, among others.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

And of course, in their favored brick-and-mortar hospital, ambulatory care center, clinic, or doctor’s office.

Primary Care 77

Primary Care Hospitals Ambulatory Care Integration 77

HIT Consultant

JANUARY 16, 2023

Racial Bias in AI Algorithms: Since AI is frequently used in healthcare, it needs to be used with a code of ethics to prevent bias. Patients prefer familiarity and personalized care, and research shows this can lead them to choose a provider of the same race or ethnic background. Nate Fox, co-founder and CTO, Ribbon Health.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

The heart has been a digital health focus at CES for several years as sensors got added to wristworn activity trackers and mobile apps married to medical technologies that were once only available for use in a doctor’s office or outpatient clinic. Home as hospital. Hygiene and the clean home.

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Hospitals Doctors Patient Experience Health Technology 73

Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2021

GWI concludes its trend on wellness media asserting that the category, “needs to be driven by scientists, wellness experts, and doctors.” ” At the same time, Hollywood has a hard time, Beth says, “thinking past celebrities.”

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The Lumify transducer plugs into the midwife’s tablet and captures a clinically fine image to collaborate in real-time with a doctor at another location. The Lumify tele-ultrasound technology is especially useful in this risk-managing time as Nikita has been diagnosed with high blood pressure – a common co-morbidity for pregnant women.

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Hospitals Remote Care Medicare Doctors 142

Health Populi

JANUARY 5, 2020

Sleeplessness is epidemic, and there’s an expanding array of innovations at CES2020 to help people from neonates to olders get quality rest.

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Healthcare Rehabilitation Doctors Health Data 119