Health Populi

DECEMBER 5, 2024

IKEA donated the small home to the community of Towne Twin Village in greater San Antonio in October 2024. The company is collecting data to learn more about the direct impacts of people living in the pioneering space and will advocate for TID to be an industry standard that helps people heal and find stability in their lives.

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Valant

JUNE 24, 2025

Creating Patient Experiences That Matter Consider accessibility from day one. Audio-only options, captioning tools, and call-in flexibility can help you serve patients who don’t have reliable internet or aren’t comfortable with technology. Now it’s up to you to build something that makes a difference.

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Health Prime

JANUARY 15, 2025

Overcoming these obstacles is crucial for maintaining operational effectiveness, preserving financial stability, and improving the patient experience. This year presents a unique set of difficulties. overall increase in total expenses Labor costs increased by 5.4%

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Physicians Practice

JUNE 6, 2025

A recent Press Ganey survey of nearly 350,000 health-care workers found that employee engagement inched up in 2024, yet almost one in four respondents were still scanning job boards for something better. Turnover is eating medical practices alive. Below are nine no-cost tactics to lift morale today and retention tomorrow.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 30, 2024

adults in October 2024 to gauge peoples’ views on digital health tools, buying trends, and trust. Start with the rate of 1 in 4 Americans’ experience having a personal medical device alerting them to a pending health issue. For the study, Propel Software engaged Talker Research to conduct a survey among 2,000 U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2025

In an interview I did in 2024 with Bloomberg (Canada), I talked about how GLP-1s were reshaping other consumer-facing business sectors beyond medical and health care — from hospitality and airlines to mobility, consumer goods and clothing.

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Physicians Practice

JULY 15, 2025

After all, research points to payer actions that slow down cash flow for providers, such as a jump in initial claim denials, which reached 11.81% in 2024. The best models eliminate the need for a username or password by recognizing the patient simply through the QR code used or the text from which the account was accessed.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2024

I visited the Samsung Health House at CES 2024 last January: here is my write-up about what I saw and felt about the experience. In this context, news that Samsung has begun to partner with Ashley, the national furniture dealer, struck me as interesting and important.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2025

The process was conducted between May 30 and July 31, 2024, for campaigns tagged “medical” supporting humans in the U.S. The chart organizes data scraped from GoFundMe campaigns online, including the campaign, tags, goals, and location.

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The Healthcare Blog

MARCH 31, 2025

Recent technological and business trends have begun transforming healthcare into a more unified and integrated experience: HITECH (in the U.S.) An April 2024 update is entitled: Innovation Insight: Digital Health Platforms Accelerate Transformation. The UDHP trend is in very early stages.

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Health Populi

JUNE 19, 2025

consumers are leaning into health and sustainability needs between December 2024 and April 2025. Health Populi’s Hot Points: We have more evidence of U.S. consumers’ leaning into the health and sustainability from the latest dunnhumby Consumer Trends Tracker , with data from April 2025.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

to honor American Thanksgiving 2024 here in Health Populi pointing out several sources highlighting the evidence on gratitude and health… underpinned with love, the ultimate driver of health and well-being. . The post The Evidence for Gratitude and Health, 2024 Giving Thanks appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2024

I hope to provide attendees of HLTH 2024 along with my readers who aren’t in Vegas useful context for assessing the new ideas and business model announcements as well as a practical summary for those of you in planning mode for health care in 2025. PwC’s 2024 U.S. In this research.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Patients “yearn” for personalized services and relationships in health care — optimistic that technology can help deliver on that hope — we learn in Healthcare’s Future: Balancing Progress and Perception , a health consumer survey report from Lavidge. Lavidge, a communications consultancy, polled U.S.

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Physicians Practice

JULY 10, 2025

million for property placed in service post-2024. With OBBBA, the new state and local tax deduction was increased to $40,000 per year effective 2024 through 2029 with 1 percent annual increases and then reverts back to $10,000 in 2030. The new deduction Section 179 expensing cap doubles from $1.25 million to $2.5

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Health Populi

MARCH 6, 2025

The top-line of the studies is that the percent of people in America feeling financially wobbly has increased since the fourth quarter of 2024. consumers feeling less comfortable about their economic status now compared with mid-November 2024. A year ago in February 2024, the CSI was 76.9.; That’s about 30 million U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 27, 2025

For context and consideration, let’s re-visit a report from McKinsey published in November 2024 on health media. The bar chart here presents the data from McKinsey’s 2024 survey to give you a sense of where health consumers value ad-based medical content. The content feels quite prescient today.

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Health Populi

JULY 14, 2025

In my scenario planning work for AHIP’s 2024 conference , I generated four alternative futures on consumers and health care in the U.S., Health Populi’s Hot Points: The Duckbill research findings are incredibly salient and timely for health care ecosystem stakeholders in 2025 and beyond.

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Health Prime

JANUARY 29, 2025

The healthcare industry constantly evolves, and now it’s time to adapt technology tools that can help improve processes and raise the stakes of patient payments. However, according to the 2024 InstaMed Trends in Healthcare Payments Annual Report , datareveals a deep disconnect between the healthcare industry and consumers.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Published two weeks after the 2024 U.S. As employees were feeling “stuck” in their jobs and careers in 2024, they have also been struggling with prioritizing mental health. This profile comes from a November report from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau called Making Ends Meet in 2024.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2025

In revisiting the report “six months later” in the current environment of public health and health care in the U.S. and more global political-economic currents, that Deloitte’s attention to trust, writ large, and 2030’s commitment to ESG are deeply woven into the future retail health narrative. consumers.

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Health Populi

MAY 22, 2025

between 2023 and 2024, as women posting on BookTok have been fueling a rise in a genre called ‘romantasy,’ or romance fantasy.” Fantasy and science fiction book sales increased 41.3%

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

For health care, there are many uncertainties as we reflect, one week after the 2024 U.S. Pollfish conducted this study online in October 2024. elections, on probably policy and market impacts that we can expect in 2025 and beyond. health citizens and key factors shaping the American health ecosystem. than anywhere else in the world.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

JUNE 16, 2025

It’s enhancing care quality and patient experiences With AI assistance, front-end speech capabilities and ambient listening have become the cornerstone of clinical documentation enabling providers to fully focus on the individual in front of them. AI uses in healthcare: The state of implementation. Microsoft and Healthcare Dive.

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The Healthcare Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

It read: 2024 Vizient Quality and Accountability Ranking. They come from Vizients own clinical database, the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions National Healthcare Safety Network and the standardized HCAHPS patient experience surveys. Ranked #1 out of 115 participating comprehensive academic medical centers.

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Health Populi

APRIL 23, 2025

adults in 2024 on peoples’ perspectives on digital health use — wearable tech, virtual care, data sharing, and so on. Digital health has certainly gone mainstream across U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

in 2024, to $348 bn. While immunology therapies ranked first in spending, the fastest-growing therapy area by far was anti-obesity (excluding dietetics) — growing by 147% in 2024.The Now consider the Retail Rx channel: based on IQVIA’s updated December 2024 data, the GLP-1s grew 37% during last year. in the year.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 13, 2025

Thereafter, the average declined each year through 2023, when it reached 30%, and it held there in 2024. Trust “rose slightly in 2020, to a seven-year high of 38%,” Gallup notes, “reflecting enhanced public trust in healthcare workers and teachers during the pandemic. institutions.”

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2024

That’s the top-line finding in the 2024 State of Digital Health Purchasing from the Peterson Health Technology Institute (PHTI). PHTI surveyed 322 digital health decision makers working in employers, health plans, and health systems, fielding the study in July and August 2024.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 23, 2024

are dealing with Presidential Election Stress — a significant contributor to Americans’ overall stress we learn from the American Psychological Association’s study into Stress in America 2024. In 2024, “stress” is a mainstream factor in daily life whether you identify with Main Street or Wall Street.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

adults in late October 2024, with additional polling conducted earlier in October among about 5,300 U.S. His latest book, The Road to Wisdom , was published in September 2024. Pew fielded this survey among nearly 9,600 U.S. public that would connect with people.

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Health Populi

APRIL 30, 2025

adults has been on the downturn since November 2024. On the mental health front, there’s a parallel free-fall happening since November 2024, illustrated in the second graph: that is for changes in Americans’ emotional well-being, which dropped a low in February 2025… rebounding a bit in the past month.

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Health Populi

APRIL 7, 2025

families’ stress was driven first by personal finances followed by the overall national economy — further exacerbated by health and medical issues faced by their families.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

in the past few years: funding for FAM deals grew 175% in 2024 totaling over $2 billion over 4 years, based on Rock Health’s tracking data. Any fast food: burgers, fried chicken, pizza … “). As the Tufts-Kaiser program exemplifies, food-as-medicine has already been advancing in the U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 27, 2025

In the past year we can see that, while the MMI percent change was higher than consumer price inflation by a factor of nearly 4 times, the rate of growth slightly fell from 2024-2025.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2025

America’s 2024 consumer survey that provided Escoffier’s opening context for U.S. See this data from a Gallup survey, illustrating the very stark trend of young people 18-34 dropping in alcohol consumption by 13 percentage points in the 20-year period between 2001-04 to 2021-2024. It’s Research!America’s

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The Healthcare Blog

APRIL 23, 2024

They touch over 50m patients and 45,000 providers a year, and are now a significant player in the key part of patient experience–converting a patient looking into an actual appointment with the provider. I spoke with CEO Jeff Gartland at HIMSS in March 2024.– – Matthew Holt

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