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Physicians’ Confidence In and Use of AI is Rising, AMA Finds – Coupling Demand With Many Enabling Factors

Doctors’ use of and demand for augmented intelligence in medical practice is on the rise — with many factors that could bolster or risk adoption on the journey toward AI in the doctor’s office, based on the latest survey from the American Medical Association (AMA) published this week.               The AMA polled U.S. physicians in November 2024 to gauge their views on augmented intelligence (AI) addressing doctors’ use of AI, perceived opportunities and risks, and enabling factors for adoption. This study updates AMA’s survey conducted in 2023 and found significantly growing confidence and utilization

 

Health/Care at Super Bowl LIX, GLP-1s, Kaiser and Tufts on Food-As-Medicine, and the RFK, Jr. Factor: A Health Consumer Check-In

By Jane Sarasohn-Kahn on 12 February 2025 in Amazon, Beauty and health, Business and health, Chronic disease, Complementary and alternative medicine, Connected health, Consumer experience, Consumer-directed health, Demographics and health, Design and health, Determinants of health, Diabetes, Diet and health, DTC health, Entertainment and health, Exercise, Family, Financial health, Financial wellness, Fitness, Food and health, Food as medicine, Food security, GLP-1s, Grocery stores, Health and Beauty, Health apps, Health at home, Health benefits, Health care industry, Health care marketing, Health care real estate, Health Consumers, Health costs, Health Economics, Health ecosystem, Health education, Health engagement, Health equity, Health policy, Health politics, Heart disease, Heart health, Home care, Home economics, Home health, Hospital to home, Medicines, Moms and health, Money and health, Nutrition, Obesity, Omnichannel healthcare, Out of pocket costs, Patient engagement, Patient experience, Peer-to-peer health, Pets and health, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacists, Pharmacy, Popular culture and health, Population health, Prescription drugs, Prevention, Prevention and wellness, Primary care, Public health, Retail health, Safety net and health, Schools and health, SDoH, Self-care, Shopping and health, Social determinants of health, Social media and health, Social networks and health, Specialty drugs, Telehealth, Telemedicine, Transparency, Travel and health, Trust, Virtual health, Weight loss, Wellbeing, Wellness

In the wake of the always-creative ads for Super Bowl and last Sunday’s LIX bout, game-watchers got to see a plethora of commercials dedicated to the annual event’s major features: food and game-day eating. Oh, and what’s turned out to be the most controversial commercial, the one on GLP-1s from Hims & Hers. In that vein, and converging with many news and policy events, I’m trend-weaving the latest insights into that most consumer-facing of the social determinants of health: food, and in particular, health consumers viewing and adopting food as part of their health and well-being moves. First, to the

 

Health Consumer Check-In: From Digital Detox to Analog Wellness, Social Re-Wilding, and a Return to the Bookstore

As humans have undergone personal digital transformations, living omni-channel and appreciating the conveniences that being switched-on can bring, there’s a growing demand for “analog wellness.” That’s one of ten trends covered in the Global Wellness Institute’s (GWI) report on 2025 Wellness Trends, and one I want to dig into early this year as consumers are facing growing challenges to our privacy, social bullying, and workforce stressors compelling many employees to spend too many hours in digital isolation and loneliness. To paint the larger landscape of and drivers underpinning analog wellness, I will weave several important reports and studies together, all

 

Measuring Progress for Life Sciences: Trust, Patient Access, and Prevention at a Fork in the Road of Public Health

How will we know if the life sciences sector is advancing in 2025? This is the question asked at the start of the report, a Research Brief: 2025 Indicators of Progress for the Life Sciences Sector, from the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science (IQVIA).               To answer that question, IQVIA identified ten indicators for this 2025 profile on the life sciences sector. I selected four key data points for this discussion which provide particularly informative insights for my advisory work right now at the intersection of health, people/consumers, and technology: Trust for/with/in life science

 

Some Bipartisan Concurrence on Health Care Issues in the U.S. – But Trust in Health Care Isn’t Bipartisan – KFF’s January 2025 Polls

Two polls from one poll source paint at once a bipartisan and bipolar picture of U.S. health citizens when it comes to health care issues versus health care institutions in America. The Kaiser Family Foundation has hit the 2025 health policy ground running in publishing the January 2025 Health Tracking Poll last week and a poll on health care trust and mis-information yesterday.                        First, the health tracking poll which finds some concurrence between Democrats and Republicans on several big issues facing Americans and various aspects of their health care. As

 

Can the Private Sector Serve Up Sufficient Health Media to Compensate for Public Sector Gaps?

In researching several .gov websites from last Monday 20th January 2025, I had an ongoing frustrating user experience in being faced with “404 Error” messages like this one from WhiteHouse.gov. “President Trump’s First Week Hammered Public Health,” Dr. Arthur Kellerman, an ER doc, public health researcher, and patient advocate asserted in Forbes yesterday: “For now, the only health communications Americans receive will come from sources outside the government, such as professional societies, non-governmental organizations, advocacy groups, and businesses, vaccine skeptics, conspiracy theorists, foreign agents and bots posing as Americans to spread disinformation. It will be up to us to figure out what to

 

There’s a Health Gap for Women Around the World – and the World Economic Forum Has a Blueprint to Fix It

Even though women comprise one-half of the world’s population, their health outcomes and inputs do not match up to men’s: there’s a women’s health gap on Planet Earth. Meeting in Davos this week for #WEF2025, the World Economic Forum published a report on that gender-health chasm titled, Blueprint to Close the Women’s Health Gap: How to Improve Lives and Economies for All.             In collaboration with the McKinsey Health Institute, the report focuses on nine key conditions that, if addressed, could reduce the global disease burden by 27 million disability adjusted life years and add

 

Trust and Grievance in 2025: The Edelman Trust Barometer on MLK Jr. Day Converging with the World Economic Forum Kick-Off and the Inauguration of the 47th U.S. President

At the start of each new year comes the World Economic Forum meet-up in Davos, Switzerland and with that conference start today, 20 January 2025, the publication of the Edelman Trust Barometer. Now in the study’s 25th annual edition, the Edelman Trust Barometer this year finds us, globally, in a Crisis of Grievance which is eroding trust. Edelman surveyed 1,150 residents (plus or minus) in each of 28 countries around the world, yielding over 33,000 citizens’ voices sharing perspectives on trust and institutions. Interviews were fielded from late October to mid-November 2024.                 

 

How Tariffs Could Wreak Havoc on Health Care Costs and Supply Chains in the U.S.

Non-clinical goods and services can comprise $1 in $5 of net patient revenue in the U.S. health care economy, research from LogicSource gauges. The possible tariffs proposed by the next U.S. President could drive those costs up, eroding financial margins in many parts of American health care — from hospitals to drug companies and med-tech innovators. Simply put, “President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to enact across-the-board tariffs isn’t going over well in the health care industry,” POLITICO reported.               Why worry about tariffs’ impacts on health care? Ask the CFO of Reckitt, Shannon Eisenhardt, who spoke

 

Connecting for Health at Home: A Unified Field Theory from #CES2025 (On Samsung, Withings, and Panasonic)

There were over 4,500 exhibitors on the show floor of the 2025 CES in Las Vegas last week, addressing every imaginable aspect of consumers’ daily lives as we increasingly coexist with technology to support life, liberty, and our personal pursuits of happiness….. ….and health. My focus is always on health, and in the past decade and a half, health/care, everywhere. So my lens on #CES2025 looked out for specific point solutions for health, medical care, fitness and well-being, along with adjacencies for mobility/auto, environmental health (think: clean air, clean water), kitchen appliances and food-tech, and home care (not the medical

 

Nurses Rank Highest in Honesty and Ethics in Professions Far Above All Other Work Roles in America – The Gallup Annual Survey 2025

While nursing has ranked top of U.S. professions for honesty and ethics for over a decade, U.S. adults speak even more assuredly in 2025 that nurses far outrank other professions in America. according to the latest Gallup Poll. The study summary report is titled, “Americans’ Ratings of U.S. Professions Stay Historically Low.”                       The data speak for itself — in 2025, the margin of people who put nurses on top of all other professions in America is much wider than in past years — and physicians have fallen further down

 

Healthy Aging at Home – Learning from AARP at #CES2025

You would expect an auto manufacturer, a Big Tech, or a big-screen TV company would commandeer the largest exhibit booths at CES 2025, the largest annual conference of consumer-facing technology stakeholders. We can add another exhibitor to the largest CES “real estate” presences at #CES2025: that would be AARP hosting the AgeTech Collaborative. And a pickleball court, too!         Why feature pickleball at a AARP booth at CES? Well, IMHO health is everywhere at #CES2025, and pickleball, the fastest-growing sport in the U.S., is good for many facets of health: physical to be sure, and also social

 

How Disrupting the Generic ED Meds Sales Model Marries to Our Digital Coexistences – Mark Cuban at the Shelly Palmer Innovation Series Breakfast #CES2025

                What was Mark Cuban doing “gate-crashing” Shelly Palmer’s Innovation Breakfast? My worlds of content and health care collided in a serendipitous way this morning when, at the conclusion of my annual beloved experience attending and learning at the Shelly Palmer Innovation Series breakfast which focuses on content, media, entertainment, and now AI mashing up everywhere, all at once, Mark Cuban appeared as a late-breaking guest in fireside chat with Shelly. Here’s my photo to prove it, circa 903 am this morning.        Before even chatting about AI, X, and his

 

Vitamin Sleep – Sleep-Tech Innovations from #CES2025

Sleep, or lack thereof, is a public health challenge around the world whatever your postal code or demographic profile. Can technology help us bridge the sleep deprivation gap, or is technology destined to ruin our mind-body-spirit health? At CES 2025, you won’t be surprised that it’s a bull market for sleep-tech across a growing portfolio of device and product types. Beyond the always visible display of new-and-improved beds which have tempted CES-goers into cat-nap trials for many years on the show floor, we find many form-factors for sleep assistance this year.               First, some

 

How GLP-1s Are Showing Up at CES 2025

CES 2025: as you read the acronym and year, your brain registered an image like consumer technology and the start of a new year, or some variation of those thoughts. When you saw the title of this post with the acronym “GLP-1,” your brain might not have connected the dots between a medicine and “CE,” consumer electronics. But here we are in real-time, in real life, at the convergence of pharmaceuticals and medicines and consumer-facing technology. And keep in mind that we’re at the annual meeting of CES which is convened by the Consumer Technology Association, CTA. GLP-1s are showing

 

CTA Tech Trends to Watch for 2025 – Health-Context for Kicking off #CES2025

People are living everyday life in digital coexistence — where the connected technologies we use for communication and entertainment now enable life-flows across our lives, morning to night, at work and play and even while we’re sleeping. Welcome to the five key tech-trends for 2025, brought to life Sunday afternoon by Melissa Harrison, CTA’s Vice President of Marketing & Communications tag-teaming with Brian Comiskey, Senior Director, Innovation & Trends. This annual session at CES always provides a practical context for exploring the annual conference, the largest in the world covering technology used by everyday people. And this year, the trends

 

Seeing Health/Care Everywhere at CES 2025: My Preview for #CES2025

Health/care is everywhere is the mantra on the back of my business card. And at #CES2025, that will indeed be the situation.           The 2025 convening of CES (once known as the Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas officially kicks off on 7 January 2025. But I’ll be there beginning 3rd January, scheduling pre-show meetings with innovators, analysts, and my own clients who will be attending the meeting. This will be my 15th year participating in CES, and marking over a decade as a member of the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). As someone who has tracked

 

The Rough Guide to Health/Care Consumers in 2025: The 2025 Health Populi TrendCast

By Jane Sarasohn-Kahn on 20 December 2024 in Aging, Aging and Technology, AI, AI and health, Beauty and health, Business and health, Caregivers, Chronic disease, Connected health, Connectivity, Consumer electronics, Consumer experience, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Demographics and health, Design and health, Determinants of health, Diabetes, Diet and health, Digital health, DTC health, Empathy, Employers, Exercise, Family, Financial health, Financial wellness, Fitness, Food and health, Food as medicine, GenAI, GLP-1s, Grocery stores, Happiness, Health access, Health and Beauty, Health at home, Health benefits, Health care industry, Health citizenship, Health Consumers, Health costs, Health Economics, Health ecosystem, Health engagement, Health equity, Health insurance, Health marketing, Health Plans, Health policy, Health politics, Health privacy, Healthcare DIY, Heart disease, Home care, Home economics, Home health, Hospitals, Love and health, Medicaid, Medical innovation, Medicare, Medicines, Mental health, Misinformation and health, Money and health, Nutrition, Obesity, Omnichannel healthcare, Out of pocket costs, Patient engagement, Patient experience, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacists, Pharmacy, Physicians, Play and health, Popular culture and health, Prescription drugs, Privacy and security, Quality, Retail health, Self-care, Sensors and health, Shopping and health, Sleep, Smart homes, Smartphones, Smartwatches, Social determinants of health, Social health, Social networks and health, Stress, Telehealth, Telemedicine, Trust, Value based health, Wearable tech, Wearables, Weight loss, Wellbeing

At this year-end time each year, my gift to Health Populi readers is an annual “TrendCast,” weaving together key data and stories at the convergence of people, health care, and technology with a look into the next 1-3 years. If you don’t know my work and “me,” my lens is through health economics broadly defined: I use a slash mark between “health” and “care” because of this orientation, which goes well beyond traditional measurement of how health care spending is included in a nation’s gross domestic product (GDP); I consider health across the many dimensions important to people, addressing physical,

 

National Healthcare Spending in the U.S. Was Nearly $5 Trillion (with a “T”) in 2023 – New Data from CMS

What would $5 trillion be valued around the world or on the stock market? The economy of Germany was gauged around $5 trillion in 2024. India could be the world’s 3rd largest economy by 2026 valued at $5 trillion. Nvidia could be a $5 trillion company in 2025, as could Amazon. But today we report out the latest data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that national health spending in America reached $4.9 trillion in 2023. The full report on national health expenditures (NHE) in the U.S. was published today in Health Affairs, which came off embargo

 

Health-Tech at the Holidays: 2024 Consumer Health-Tech Trends Under the Tree

One in two U.S. adults plans to purchase at least one health and wellness digital health technology product to gift during the winter 2024 holiday season, according to the 2024 Consumer Technology Holiday Purchase Patterns study served up by CTA, the Consumer Technology Association — aka the annual host of CES. Specifically, 41% of givers are looking to buy a dedicated health monitoring device, and 31% a product covering connected sports or fitness.             For this annual study, CTA conducted an online survey among 1,205 U.S. adults 18 and over in August-September 2024 to gauge