Jane is a health economist, advisor and trend-weaver to organizations focused at the intersection of health, technology and people. Jane founded THINK-Health after working with health care consultancies in the US and Europe. Jane’s clients span the health/care ecosystem: technology, pharma and life sciences, providers, plans, retail, financial services and consumer goods. She founded the Health Populi blog in 2007.
Jane advises on strategy via environmental analysis, scenario and strategic planning, and health policy analysis. She is on the advisory boards of CAQH’s U.S. Health Efficiency Index, healthBank, Onboard Health, the W20 Group, and Women of Color in Pharma. Jane is also on the Board of The Clinic of Chester County, PA. Jane is a frequent speaker and contributor to the Huffington Post, Tincture, and the Washington Post Health Care Rx panel.
Among many social media kudos, Jane and Health Populi have been named…
* One of Ten Biggest Influencers in Digital Pharma in Q42020, Pharmaceutical Technology, February 2021
* One of the Top Ten Health-Tech Influencers, GlobalData, February 2021
* A Top 100 Healthcare Blog, Website & Influencer in 2021, Feedspot, January 2021
* One of 30 Health IT Influencers to Follow in 2020, HealthTech, September 2020
* Top Health IT Advocate of the Year, Medigy and HITMC, June 2020
* One of the Top 100 Most Influential Economists in the World, May 2020
* One of the Top Ten Health-Tech Influencers, GlobalData, February 2020
* A HIMSS Social Media Ambassador, February 2019 (6th years in a row since inception)
* One of 40 Healthcare Transformers by Medical Marketing & Media, January 2016
* One of Klick Health’s Top 41 Health-Oriented Social Media Influencers, May 2015
* In Rock Health’s The State of Women in Healthcare, 2015, March 2015
Jane holds an MA (Economics) and MHSA (Health Policy) from the University of Michigan. Jane holds passports as a citizen of both the United States and Italy/the European Union.
Beyond her work, she is even more passionate about family and home, preparing Slow Food and picking produce at her local CSA, doing arts and crafts for mental health and mindfulness, and living a full and balanced life. Follow Jane on Twitter along with nearly 30,000 others @HealthyThinker. See more on Jane at www.healthpopuli.com.
Jane’s latest book, Health Citizenship: How a virus opened hearts and minds, was published in September 2020. The book tracks the collective shock of the COVID-19 pandemic on U.S. health consumers, the accelerated growth of the home as health hub, adoption of self-care, and greater political will supporting a new social contract for health care in America.
Jane’s book, HealthConsuming™: From Health Consumers to Health Citizens, was published in May 2019. Jane connects the dots between patients-as- payors, the Amazon Prime-ing of consumers, digital health innovations that engage people in self-care, and peoples’ growing sense of health citizenship. The book was chosen for Gary’s Book Club at CES 2020 as The book was chosen for Gary’s Book Club at CES 2020 as one of the top nine must-read books in 2020 by Gary Shapiro, CEO and President of the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) which annually convenes the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Jane also co-authored the chapter “Old Media to New in Health: from Information to Interactivity,” with healthcare journalist Michael Millenson, in Information Technology for Patient Empowerment in Healthcare, published by DeGruyter in March 2015.
Jane has also contributed chapters in many books and is often-quoted in national and trade publications. Jane’s chapter on “The New DIY Health Consumer” was published in Participatory Healthcare: A Person Centered Approach to Healthcare Transformation, published by Taylor & Francis Group in August 2016.
This followed up Jane’s chapter on “Patients and Personal Health IT in the Era of Accountable Care” in the HIMSS’ book, Engage! Transforming Healthcare through Digital Patient Engagement, published by HIMSS in March 2013.
