Health Populi

JULY 7, 2023

Patients most frequently make visits for primary or preventive care, followed by seeing a specialist, and seeking urgent care, the first bar chart illustrates. In the last year, 42% of U.S. adults had a telehealth visit, down from 45% the year before.

Urgent Care 118

Urgent Care Life Sciences Prevention Hospitals 118

Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

We must be mindful that hospitals, health systems and physicians quickly stood up and adopted virtual care, especially telemedicine programs, in March and April 2020. In 2019, J.D. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services. Describing that low-utilization in their report, J.D.

Hospitals 152

Hospitals Life Sciences Telemedicine Primary Care 152

Health Populi

JANUARY 26, 2023

When asked to rank what characteristics patients want in their physicians, more Black patients identified the doctor’s respect for an sensitivity toward my gender, race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status along with providing easy access to technologies such as online scheduling and telemedicine.

Doctors 62

Doctors Life Sciences Telemedicine Health Data 62

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.

Pharmaceuticals 161

Pharmaceuticals Prevention Doctors Health Technology 161

Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic disrupted and re-shaped the annual CES across so many respects — the meeting of thousands making up the global consumer tech community “met” virtually, both keynote and education sessions were pre-recorded, and the lovely serendipity of learning and meeting new concepts and contacts wasn’t so straightforward. (..)

Hospitals 73

Hospitals Doctors Patient Experience Health Technology 73

HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The crisis also demonstrated flaws in the American healthcare infrastructure by revealing that only curative care infrastructure (as opposed to preventative care) continued to dominate the pandemic response. For example, only patients who showed symptoms would receive treatment with admission into hospitals.

Telemedicine 86

Telemedicine Rehabilitation Primary Care Prevention 86