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Dietitians provide a health bridge between food and pharmacy

By on May 1, 2013 in Behavior change, Chronic care, Chronic disease, Complementary and alternative medicine, Consumer-directed health, Design and health, Diabetes, Environment and heatlh, FDA, Food and health, Health and Beauty, Health at home, Health care marketing, Health Consumers, Health disparities, Health Economics, Health engagement, Health literacy, Health marketing, Health social networks, Healthcare DIY, HealthcareDIY, Heart health, Home care, Kids' health, media and health, Medication adherence, mHealth, Mobile health, Moms and health, Noncommunicable disease, Nutrition, Obesity, Patient engagement, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacy, Popular culture and health, Prescription drugs, Prevention and wellness, Primary care, Retail health, Safety net and health, Seniors and health, Shopping and health, Social media and health, Supply chain, Telehealth, Telemedicine, Trust, Uninsured, Welness, Women and health

The registered dietitian is an in-demand labor resource for grocery stores around the U.S. Advertising Age covered the phenomenon of the growing clout of dietitians in food chains (April 14, 2013). Let’s dig further into this phenomenon through the Health Populi lens on healthcareDIY and peoples’ ability to bend their personal health care cost curves. Stores [...]

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The value of big data in health care = $450 billion

By on April 8, 2013 in Behavior change, Bio/life sciences, Chronic care, Chronic disease, Corporate wellness, Design and health, Digital health, Doctors, Electronic health records, Employers, Health care information technology, Health Consumers, Health disparities, Health Economics, Health engagement, Health insurance, Health IT, Health Plans, Healthcare DIY, HealthcareDIY, Hospitals, Internet and Health, Medical device, Medical innovation, Medical technology, Money and health, Patient engagement, Personal health records, Personalized medicine, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacy, PHRs, Physicians, Prevention and wellness, Primary care, Privacy and security, Public health, Supply chain, Trust, Value based health

  Exploiting Big Data in industry is Big News these days, and nowhere is the potential for leveraging the concept greater than in health care. McKinsey & Company estimates that harnessing big data across five dimensions of health care could yield nearly one-half trillion dollars’ worth of value in The ‘big data’ revolution in healthcare. The [...]

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Most consumers will look to health insurance exchanges to buy individual plans in 2013

By on March 21, 2013 in Affordable Care Act, Business and health, Consumer-directed health, Design and health, Employers, Health benefits, Health care marketing, Health Consumers, Health Economics, Health engagement, Health insurance, Health insurance exchanges, Health insurance marketplaces, Health literacy, Health marketing, Health Plans, Health policy, Health Quality, Health reform, Healthcare DIY, HealthcareDIY, Hospitals, Internet and Health, media and health, Patient engagement, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Physicians, PPACA, Retail health, Shopping and health, Social media and health, Trust

  As the Affordable Care Act, health reform, aka Obamacare, rolls out in 2013, American health insurance shoppers will look for sources of information they can trust on health plan quality and customer service satisfaction — as they do for automobiles, mobile phone plans, and washing machines. For many years, one of a handful of [...]

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Do doctors want patients to have full access their own medical information? It depends.

By on March 13, 2013 in Connected health, Consumer-directed health, Demographics and health, Design and health, Digital health, Doctors, Electronic health records, Health care information technology, Health Consumers, Health Economics, Health engagement, Health IT, Health literacy, Health policy, Health social networks, Healthcare DIY, HealthcareDIY, HITECH Act, Internet and Health, media and health, Medical technology, Patient engagement, Personal health records, PHRs, Physicians, Primary care, Privacy and security, Trust

Only one-third of U.S. physicians believe that patients should have “full access” to their electronic health records, according to Patient Access to Electronic Health Records What Does the Doctor Order?, a survey conducted by Accenture, released at HIMSS13 in March 2013. Two-thirds of doctors in the U.S. are open to patients having “limited access” to their [...]

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Patients globally would embrace Jetsons-style health care…but will health providers?

By on March 4, 2013 in Connected health, Demographics and health, Design and health, Digital health, Doctors, Electronic health records, Health at home, Health care information technology, Health Consumers, Health engagement, Health IT, Healthcare DIY, HealthcareDIY, HITECH Act, Internet and Health, Internet Demographics, Medical innovation, Medical technology, mHealth, Mobile health, Remote health monitoring, Sensors and health, Telehealth, Telemedicine, Trust

Patients are getting comfortable with remote health care – that is, receiving care from a health provider at a distance via, say, telehealth or via a Skype-type of set-up. Furthermore, 70% of people globally saying they would trust an automated device to provide a diagnosis that would help them determine whether or note they needed [...]

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