Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2023

As the prospects for the drug companies who manufacture prescription drugs made for patients managing diabetes and obesity are on the uptick, the likes of the makers of Pringles and Oreos are in the throes of re-thinking and -making snack foods and other products that some consumers aren’t filling their baskets with.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 19, 2024

– The FDA clearance marks a pivotal moment, establishing the first-ever regulatory category for digital bone marrow aspirate analysis software in the US. Bone marrow aspirates (BMAs) play a crucial role in diagnosing these and other blood conditions.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 2, 2023

What You Should Know: The Consumer Health Division of Bayer announced this week it has launched a Precision Health business unit focused on developing new products across its range of everyday health categories.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 26, 2024

an Internet Brands company and a leader in health information services for consumers, physicians and other healthcare professionals, today announced it has joined forces with Healthwise, Incorporated , the patient and member health education and engagement company, through the acquisition of Healthwise’s current operating assets.

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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2022

While inflation and financial stress is depressing consumer demand for many purchases the “legacy of COVID-19” is having lost-lasting impacts on how people see their homes — especially as sites for health and wellness. Two-thirds of consumers consider staying in good mental and physical shape “extremely important.”

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Jane Sarashon

JANUARY 8, 2024

That’s the central thesis in a timely report from Capgemini Research Institute, Connected products: Enhancing consumers’ lives with technology. Thus, the research assesses consumers’ use and affinity for devices beyond smartphones and tablets, further explained below.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 28, 2023

The governor of Nevada recently signed a new consumer health data privacy bill into law that strengthens consumer health data privacy and gives Nevada residents new rights over their health data. Responses to consumer requests are required without undue delay and no later than 45 days after the request is authenticated.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 19, 2021

"This plan to provide clear, concise and correct medical billing information will lead to the creation of a national model to make all healthcare billing instantaneous and understandable, removing friction points for consumers and providers," said Gupta. ON THE RECORD.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 6, 2023

What You Should Know: Sika Health , a leading HSA/FSA payment solution for eCommerce merchants, today announced the launch of Sika Health Marketplace, the go-to shopping destination that makes it easy and hassle-free for consumers to shop eligible products at leading health and wellness brands and retailers with their pre-tax funds.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 24, 2023

This, as Michael Carrier and Steve Shadowen note , “can significantly decrease consumer welfare, impairing competition from generic drugs to an extent that greatly exceeds any gains from the ‘improved’ branded product.” As such, product hopping is generally viewed as problematic.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Even as consumers’ confess a tighter spending economy for 2022 holiday shopping, peoples’ intent to buy wearable tech for health and fitness and other wellness devices appear on gifting lists in the U.S., Thus, sales for air purifiers and smart/connected health monitors garner consumer interest for gifting.

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Health Populi

MAY 31, 2023

As we exit the long-tail of the COVID-19 pandemic, we should focus on macroeconomic forces that will set the table for health care costs, employment, consumer spending, and of course, inflation. Costs in this category are expected to increase by 9% in 2023. consumers with employer-sponsored health insurance, conducted in April 2023.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

“Businesses which have witnessed a rise in brand value…have all transcended their established category norms and play a more significant and meaningful role in society and consumers’ lives,” we learn in the Interbrand Best Global Brands 2023 report, subtitled, “How Iconic Brands Lead Across Arenas.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 21, 2021

The deal has brought the consumer telehealth and wellness company approximately $280 million in proceeds that it will use to grow and invest in new product categories.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 18, 2024

A new statistical analysis of 90 distinct hospital websites, drawn from a nationally representative sample of 100 community hospitals, finds that those providers – when they had privacy policies available for consumption – were inadequate in how they accurately disclosed the use of third-party tracking technologies to consumers.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced that Robert Ford, CEO and President of Abbott, will give a keynote speech at CES 2022, the world’s largest annual convention of the technology industry. Our homes emerged as our health hubs in the #StayHome and quarantine times.

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HIPAA Journal

JULY 10, 2023

The Personal Data Privacy Act gives state residents new rights over their personal data and allows them to find out about the information that is being collected about them, inspect that information, correct errors, and request the deletion of their personal data and consumers must not be discriminated against for exercising any of those rights.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

In October 2021, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced that Robert Ford, CEO and President of Abbott, would give a keynote speech at CES 2022, the world’s largest annual convention of the technology industry. Our homes emerged as our health hubs in the #StayHome and quarantine times.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2023

And that includes heart health, which is ubiquitous at #CES2023 if you consider the holistic journey of the consumer and her heart, from prevention and fitness to tracking and treatment, and care at home — clinical, social, and nutrition. In 2023, OMRON celebrates 50 years of working on consumer-facing technologies for heart health.

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Jane Sarashon

JULY 15, 2022

Supply chain challenges, inflation, and plummeting consumer economic sentiment are setting the stage for a decline in consumer electronics revenues for 2022. Consumer Technology One-Year Industry Forecast, 2018-2023. About 1 in 5 U.S. households will have adopted connected health monitoring devices this year (21%), CTA gauges.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2024

Not known for its salubrious qualities, Las Vegas will nonetheless be a locus for health, medical care, and well-being inspiration next week when the Consumer Technology Association convenes the annual CES featuring innovations in consumer technology. “Elevance Health, a health insurance company?

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Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2023

consumers’ purchases of technology in their households will contract this year. Consumer-facing health-tech categories won’t be spared, we learn in the 2023 U.S. Consumer Technology Ownership & Market Potential Study , an annual update from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). In 2023, U.S.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 18, 2024

– Myndshft software-as-a-service automates and simplifies time-consuming healthcare patient access tasks associated with prior authorization, eligibility and benefits verification, and patient financial responsibility, freeing providers and payers to concentrate more fully on patient care.

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Health Populi

MAY 8, 2023

In this 400+ page report, you can find most datapoints you’re interested in covering the global consumers’ use of the internet, mobile apps, and social media. By category, health and fitness mobile apps fall between dating and sports apps for consumers downloading and paying for mobile apps via Google Play.

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Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2022

Consumers continued to invest in and use several technologies that supported self-care at home in 2021, with plans to purchase connected health devices, sports and fitness equipment in the next year. But these purchases will be made with greater attention to budget and value consumer mindsets firmly focused on (and stressed by) inflation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

According to the report, adoption is encouraging across the seven categories: Telehealth and virtual visits. Uptake doubled – from 14% in 2016 to 28% in 2019 – the largest growth among the digital health tool categories. This category includes audio/video connections used to see patients remotely.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

What You Should Know: – Cost concerns increasingly outweighed worries about the pandemic as the top reason Americans deferred healthcare, according to a new study by Qualtrics , the leader and creator of the experience management category. Nearly half (48%) of consumers said they deferred the care they needed in 2020.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 9, 2024

Medical coding is one of the most time-consuming, understaffed, and inherently error-prone parts of the health system revenue cycle. 1 in the “Reduce Cost of Care” category. CodaMetrix is recognized by KLAS Research as No. For more information, visit us at codametrix.com and on LinkedIn. Originally announced March 12th, 2024

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Health Populi

JULY 7, 2023

The definition of “convenience” in the eyes of patients, consumers, and caregivers is multi-faceted, with the concept of “location” shifting both physically and digitally. “Why is a real estate services company doing research into consumers’ views on health care?” ” you might ask.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2021

Consumer Technology Ownership & Market Potential Study , published by the Consumer Technology Association. CTA tracked consumers’ use of technology throughout the pandemic, and the first chart illustrates important findings that illustrate the digital transformation of people through COVID-19. in the next 12 months.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

For the first time, all hearing aids will fall under two categories: prescription hearing aids and OTC hearing aids. – Prescription hearing aids will require a consumer to have a prescription for a hearing aid from a physician, audiologist or a licensed hearing instrument specialist. These are vitally important goals.

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Health Populi

JULY 24, 2023

This is available to consumers 18 years of age and older. Before we explore the details and what’s under the hood of the offer, note the price and how it’s communicated in this snippet from the program’s website: the health consumer can “unlock $400 in value for just $39.99.”

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Health Populi

JANUARY 3, 2022

Underneath this overall statistic are important differences across various groups of people that will be important to bear in mind as we learn about the new-new digital health and connected home innovations being unveiled at CES 2022, the annual convening of consumer electronics stakeholders. CTA wondered in the consumer study.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 4, 2023

While CTA forecasts a sobering consumer technology revenue picture for 2023, one of the few bright spots is health and fitness technology services, expected to increase by 9 percent in 2023. The chart illustrates that consumers’ spending on software and services is expected to hold steady in 2023, still above pre-pandemic levels.

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Health Populi

JULY 29, 2021

Power assesses consumers’ perceptions of pharmacies by category, including those retail chains along with supermarket operated, mass merchants, and mail order channels. And with that use boosts the consumer’s Net Promoter Score, or satisfaction, with the pharmacy company. Pharmacy Study. Each year, J.D. Power found.

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Health Populi

JULY 22, 2021

The range of clinical areas covered by these apps is shown in the “wheel” above, illustrating that mental and behavioral health, diabetes, heart and cardiovascular, digestive system, and respiratory applications together represented over one-half of the digital health categories and disease states in 2021.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JULY 24, 2023

Oregon and Delaware have recently joined an increasing number of states enacting comprehensive privacy legislation intended to safeguard consumer [1] personal data by tightening regulation of businesses controlling and processing personal data. [2] 3] Background and Scope of Application Oregon. 4] Delaware. 4] Delaware.

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