Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

I’d interviewed Roy at CES 2020 in Las Vegas in January to catch up on consumer health developments, and the March meeting was going to cover Philips’ innovations on the hospital and acute care side of the business, as well as to learn more about Roy’s new role as head of Connected Care.

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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. Can Google grow health-trust as they, too, expand their desired footprint in health care?

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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. Once adjusted for volumes, the higher expenses are more evident as hospitals struggle to hold down per-patient costs.”

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2019

“ATA” is the new three-letter acronym for the American Telemedicine Association, meeting today through Tuesday at the Convention Center in New Orleans. Ann Mond Johnson assumed the helm of CEO of ATA in 2018, and she’s issued a call-to-action across the health/care ecosystem for a delivery system upgrade.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In 2021, nearly one-half of hospitals and health systems ranked in Tier 2, with in Kaufman Hall’s words, “a thoughtful approach to becoming more consumer centric,” investing in digital infrastructure and programs across the enterprise.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Top-line, Accenture points to four pillars on which the pharma industry can “reinvent its relevance,” as the report title suggests: To express greater empathy, understanding the patient experience of delaying treatment, financial impacts, and mental health challenges the pandemic has caused.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

healthcare spending, with curves moving up and to the right, and the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund moving into the opposite direction toward insolvency by 2033. For this discussion, I’ll pick six exhibits from the Report’s roughly 140 exhibits — starting with the big picture of the unsustainable nature of U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Health care is undergoing similar digital and omnichannel transformation following other industries. Hospital care is coming home. Most patients given the choice would rather receive acute, hospital-level care in the comfort, safety, and hygiene of their own homes.

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Health Populi

JULY 7, 2023

. “Why is a real estate services company doing research into consumers’ views on health care?” See my Hot Points below, discussing my views on the morphing of health care real estate from Pill Hill and inpatient hospitals to the home and closer-to-home sites. ” you might ask.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2022

with a client group in the past several months has had a line item on the agenda to brainstorm the impact and opportunity of care-at-home, hospital-to-home, or Care Everywhere. In addition, post-acute and long-term care, infusions, and dialysis exist but require a more complete offering to scale to the home.

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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. Specialty care. Care coordination and continuity.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In my experience, folks want care that is in the home, or close to home, that is aligned with their health goals. The health care system today, in its current state, is not structured to support that. You need to understand what your patients are going through. Listen to those around you.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Thanks to new regulations from the government and subsequent new rules from commercial payers, telemedicine services are being reimbursed. These factors shot telehealth and related technologies and services like connected health and remote patient monitoring through the stratosphere. Moore is all for telemedicine. " B.J.

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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2020

Livongo’s approach, and others in this next-generation of consumer-facing virtual care tools, addresses the three patient-satisfaction drivers Accenture’s study revealed: a more personalized experience, quicker response, and more convenient access through new communication channels.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2021

A consortium of cross-industry stakeholders, including Amazon, Ascension, and Intermountain Healthcare, among others, seeks to re-imagine what “home care” should and can be.

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Primary Care Home Care Integration Hospitals 174

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

On the supply side, we witnessed a hockey stick inflection point in the growth of virtual health care services from the start of the pandemic in early 2020. Hospitals, clinics and physician offices all pivoted, quickly, to provide care at a distance. Let’s put the answer into supply and demand terms.

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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 12, 2022

consumers’ utilization of health care has been pretty stable, the type of visit encounters is shifting away from hospital inpatient cases to ambulatory care, urgent and retail health care sites, data from Kaufman Hall and Sg2 tell us. While overall U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2023

To further benefit institutions’ fiscal health, care will move closer to patients — at home, in the community to lower-cost settings, and via hybrid channels of telehealth and virtual care outside of the hospital.

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Ambulatory Care Hospitals Primary Care Healthcare 62

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Under “new partner services,” Parks Associates lists broadband, home security, retail health and tech (from Best Buy Health to CVS health and Walmart, among others), and the “tech giants” (namely Amazon, Apple, and Google), personal emergency response services (PERS), et al.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Continue to promote COVID-19 vaccinations, boosters, and the self-care routines such as masking with effective facial coverings and physical distancing, along with testing. Learn more about climate change’s impact on health care and what you and your organization can do to help re-shape the future.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2024

I talked about the “battle of the (wrist)bands” witnessed at CES 2013, and spotted the early hints of the consumer’s connected home for health. The Pet Economy and health — Having a pet to care for has been shown to yield health benefits.

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Hospitals Healthcare Medical Technology Patient Experience 81

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Molly and I then segued into how the health system incumbent players — hospitals, plans, clinicians, and life science companies — can (and should be) part of the telehealth ecosystem and solutions to deliver care, everywhere.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

” As we are amazed and exuberant about the digital future of health care this week at HLTH, let’s keep health — equitable, accessible, culturally compatible, high-value — in our hearts and minds.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

This will be driven by care postponed and returning as non-urgent “in the same form” as would have been expected during the pandemic; and, care postponed and returning with greater acuity requiring more intense attention and resources.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 16, 2023

These players have a wealth of consumer data at their disposal, and those in the retail space have existing locations in some of the most vulnerable areas of the country in terms of access to care (in 2017, 90 percent of Americans lived within 10 miles of a Walmart compared to 82 percent who lived the same distance from a hospital).

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Health Populi

APRIL 22, 2020

And, 28% plan to improve personal self-care to be better prepared. One in four consumers also said that hospitals and physicians should offer more care via telehealth platforms. On the personal level 38% believe personal health will be a bigger issue for them in the future.

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

For telehealth, that S-curve has had a very long and fairly flat front-end of the “S” followed by a hockey stick trajectory in March and April 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic was an exogenous shock to in-person health care delivery.

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Urgent Care Medical Technology Patient Experience Population Health 77

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

. “As long as we talk about controlling costs in a system whose larger ecology produces diseases we want to treat, we won’t get too far” without supported people in self-care, Dr. Smith asserted. Dr. Smith noted there’s a huge reservoir of untapped labor in patients.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

Keep in mind that as our homes evolve into a major place for us to make health, this is the consumer-demand side in health care. Health consumers will have an impact on the supply side of the health care system — hospitals, physicians, pharma, medical device companies, and health plans. The home gym.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Philips, a longtime major exhibitor at CES, created an entirely new online experience for the CES attendees – a sort of virtual gallery of different exhibits that are accessed from a single point in a “room” with various entry points. George tells us about being discharged home after dealing with heart failure in the hospital.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The CFPB will also continue to monitor medical debt, and for good reason: this Kaiser Health News research program has been highlighting providers’ lawsuits suing patients for unpaid bills, such as this column asking, “Will your hospital sue you?”. 2023’s journey toward value in health care.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 17, 2019

Health begins at home. Lyn and Frances tested three assumptions that they believed linked housing and health: that housing contributes to health; that housing is not routinely included in health or social planning;’ and that the potential contribution of primary care is wasted.

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Vie Healthcare

JANUARY 28, 2022

Patients receiving JOGO treatment show better health outcomes than patients receiving standard treatments. Offering a new revenue stream and opportunities to enhance hospital margins. Overcoming patient challenges with telemedicine, and the role of health coaches. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE PDF TRANSCRIPT.

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Vie Healthcare

JANUARY 28, 2022

Patients receiving JOGO treatment show better health outcomes than patients receiving standard treatments. Offering a new revenue stream and opportunities to enhance hospital margins. Overcoming patient challenges with telemedicine, and the role of health coaches. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE PDF TRANSCRIPT.

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Physical Therapy Telemedicine Hospitals Healthcare 52

Health Populi

JANUARY 5, 2020

Note that representatives from several health plans are attending and speaking at CES 2020 and the Digital Health Summit this week.

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