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While Virtual Care is “Table Stakes” in Health Care, Consumers Are Growing More Protective About Data-Sharing

Health Populi

While virtual care is ubiquitous across the U.S. health care delivery landscape, patients-as-health care consumers are becoming more savvy and discriminating based on their “maturity” and exposure to various flavors of telehealth. Rock Health polled 8,014 U.S.

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Partnering Up in the Health Care Ecosystem to Drive Transformation – for Organizations and Health Consumers Alike

Health Populi

And that data will be generated from many sources, frequently siloed and decentralized which can prevent aggregation, mash-up, and analysis. In particular, the volume of health data from wearables, implantables, and other decentralized technologies is growing by 48% annually, according to a recent report from the Swiss Re Institute.

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5 Key Trends Driving Purchasing Decisions in Healthcare IT

HIT Consultant

Trend #1: Consolidation of IT Procurement In recent years, changes to the health systems in countries such as the US and UK, for example, are making standalone hospitals a thing of the past. The mandate of these healthcare networks is clear – to improve patient experiences and population health outcomes while simultaneously reducing costs.

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When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

Health Populi

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

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A Matter of Trust, Perception, Risk, and Uncertainty – The Big Issues Raised by the Acquisition of PatientsLikeMe and Other Patient Data Transactions

Health Populi

PLM shared data with academic researchers to allow scientific advancement to flourish in partnership with patients, who could suggest research questions based on their own experiences. 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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Our Homes as HealthQuarters – Finding Health and Well-Being at CES 2023

Health Populi

So we can think about the home’s “HealthQuarters” by “room,” such as the bedroom (for sleep and healthy sex-lives), the bathroom (for weight and mood observed in the mirror, or the toilet as a collector of health data), the kitchen (for healthy food and cooking), and the overall home environment itself for air and water quality.

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In 2020, PwC Expects Consumers to Grow DIY Healthcare Muscles As Medical Prices Increase

Health Populi

In my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen , we begin with the premise of the patient-as-payor seeking access to health care, avoiding negative financial side effects and a sense of justice and ownership and control in one’s personal health, health data, and the larger health care system.