While Congress and the President arm-wrestled through the Health Summit, the private sector doesn’t sit still waiting in a frozen state for the result of inside-Beltway-health-baseball. Employees/consumers and employers have aligning in mutual self-interest when it comes to health care benefits, costs, and disease management, according to a survey sponsored jointly by Deloitte and the [...]
Archive | February, 2010
Help wanted: primary care docs, nurses and health information professionals
In the coming months and years, I anticipate that Monster.com and other online job services will grow their revenues from the health industry. Three important studies this month confirm that, while health care eats up nearly one-fifth of the U.S. economy, there are shortages of professionals to fill two important jobs that are growing: primary [...]
Can GE, Intel and Mayo bring good things to home monitoring?
Three major consumer and health industry brand names are coming together to launch a telehealth home monitoring project: GE, Intel and the Mayo Clinic. Each organization has a deep bench and history in the health vertical, covering different segments of the market. With this project, 3 industry leaders partner to learn about home health monitoring’s [...]
Employers say health engagement is low, but tactics seem more actuarial than action-oriented
While the stock market and companies’ profitability improves, much of that has been done on the backs of employees: through reductions in force and job cuts, and re-working of benefits. Health benefits are a prime target for cost management as companies try to survive through the long recovery. Combined with insurance companies’ cost increases (most [...]
Looking for Mr. Expert – global citizens trust specialists
This year, it’s academics, experts, and industry analysts we trust — as for a “person like yourself?” Not as much — but in health, it is different.The Edelman Trust Barometer for 2010 finds that specialists are the most credible sources for information about companies. Edelman cites a ‘trust rebound’ since last year, except for general [...]
About Jane & Health Populi
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn is a health economist and management consultant that serves clients at the intersection of health and technology.
Her clients include all stakeholders in health, including providers, payors and plans; companies in biopharma, medical devices, financial services, technology and consumer goods; non-profits and NGOs. Jane's lens on health is best-defined by the World Health Organization: health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
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ePatients: a connected, collaborative, creating community
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Patients want online communication with doctors, and more clinicians are listening
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Meeker & Murphy on Mobile – through the lens of health
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Patient Power Through Data Liberación, and Private Sector to the Rescue – Health 2.0 DC Takeaways
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The Connected Consumer – she loves her iPad, and she’ll be able to Connect for Health
- On the road to retail health: healthcareDIY and primary care, everywhere
- The Trust Deficit – what does it mean for health care?
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help comes to health care: well-designed front-of-pharmacy DIY health products
- From 9 Tablet Tips to the 15 Most Wired Hospitals « ScienceRoll: [...] Top 15 Hospitals are very wired Health Popu...
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Richard Fine: Hi Jane, I was just forwarded this and wanted t...
- help comes to health care: well-designed front-of-pharmacy DIY health products | Health Populi: [...] objective to lessen confusion are welcome co...
- Hey Big Spender. 1% of US Citizens Incur 20% of All Health Cost | Care And Cost: [...] Posted 1/16/12 on Health Populi [...]...
