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The Next Site for Hospital Care Is the Original One — Your Home

Health Populi

I explore this growing concept in my latest essay on Medecision’s Liberation blog, How the Pandemic Is Accelerating the Hospital-At-Home Concept. The key points are that: Hospital-at-home services (H-a-H) combine home visits with virtual care and remote monitoring.

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The Retail Health Battle Royale in the U.S. – A Week-Long Brainstorm, Day 1 of 5

Health Populi

The pandemic has seen many health consumers’ growing adoption of remote health tracking (say, blood glucose or blood pressure devices), smartwatches coupled with health apps, connected fitness, and sleep — now seen by mainstream consumers as a key ingredient to overall health and wellbeing.

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“My Doctor’s Office” Should Accept Wearable Tech Health Data, Most Patients Say

Health Populi

Note that the patient sample was limited to consumers who had seen a health care provider in the past two years and who also owned and used a personal wearable health device such as an Apple Watch or Fitbit.

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Hospital at Home: Prospects and Challenges, and Learnings from Best Buy Health

Health Populi

With the urgent need to identify more efficient and lower-cost health care delivery models, we look to growing evidence for digital health technologies that support the Hospital at Home (HaH) model, considered in a new review article published in late February in npj Digital Medicine, The hospital at home in the USA: current status and future prospects. (..)

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Why #CES2022 Will Be Keynoted By A Health Care Innovator for the First Time

Health Populi

As Ford is quoted in the CES 2022 press release, “CES is the ideal stage to spotlight how technology is allowing people to take control of their health. Health is at the center of our ability to live a full life, and the acceleration of health technology has the potential to improve more lives in more places than ever before.

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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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Why CES 2022 Will Be Keynoted by a Health Care Executive

Health Populi

As Ford is quoted in the CES 2022 press release, “CES is the ideal stage to spotlight how technology is allowing people to take control of their health. Health is at the center of our ability to live a full life, and the acceleration of health technology has the potential to improve more lives in more places than ever before.