Health Populi

MAY 26, 2021

The emergence of the COVID-19 vaccine “infodemic” has slowed the ability for nations around the world to emerge out of the public health crisis. Growing cynicism among some health citizens facing the politicization of public health tactics like vaccines and facial masks is what we’re talking about.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2020

healthcare system, first and foremost the nation’s patchwork public health infrastructure and health inequities in mortality rates due to COVID-19. The Commonwealth Fund ‘s biennial report, published as the pandemic continues into and beyond the third quarter of 2020, sheds light on another weakness in U.S.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 26, 2022

Scanning through the collection of blog posts from April and May, the obvious has finally occurred. Consider these six blog posts from April and May 2022. That was posted in November of 2021, with surveying ending in 2020 (just before Covid-19) and was made available within the last month.

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American Well

JULY 13, 2020

Congratulations to the winners of the 2020 Amwell Client Awards! Only three of the 17 hospitals in the IU Health system had access to 24/7 psychiatric care at the beginning of 2019. The company had nearly 47,000 telehealth registrations by end of May 2020. patients, with even higher utilization expected in 2020.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

With President Trump’s somber speech from the Oval Office last night, we wake up on 12th March 2020 to a ban on most travel from Europe to the U.S., Here is a link to the President’s full remarks from the White House website, presented at about 9 pm on 11 March 2020. recommendations for hygiene, and call to come together in America.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 11, 2020

This week, I’m sharing all the letters of the alphabet with you which reminded me keywords and themes emerging as we were learning about this dastardly public health threat beginning early in 2020. ” I added in a Pacific Coast telegram sticker and spelled out the name of the city in a child-like alpha font.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 27, 2020

Emergency HIPAA Privacy Rule Waiver During an emergency or public health crisis, some elements of the HIPAA Privacy Rule may be waived. As of March 15, 2020, the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), issued an … Read more.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 10, 2020

If you hadn’t tuned into the Health Populi blog yesterday, 10th August 2020 , you missed the first five letters of my Age of Corona alphabet, curated in my art journal created in the early weeks of the pandemic. “H” is for hand-washing.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2020

in April 2020, Gallup gauged that barely 1 in 2 people felt they were thriving. adults in late March into early April 2020 to explore Americans’ self-evaluations of their well-being. In 2020 advanced economies (including and beyond the U.S.) As COVID-19 diagnoses reached 200,000 in the U.S. Gallup polled over 20,000 U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2022

To mark this Earth Day 2022, I’ve written a brief primer on ESG for the health care community published today in the Medecision Liberate Health blog. Here in Health Populi , I’ll give you a few highlights with graphics you won’t see in that essay to illustrate some key points. Real estate, eg.,

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Health Populi

MAY 29, 2020

Now hair clippers and hair dye are flying off shelves,” CNN reported from an interview with Walmart CEO , Doug McMillon, titled, “We’re in the hair color phase of panic buying,” dated 22 April 2020. But this first-wave impact of the pandemic and #StayHome mandates have exacted a price on financial and mental health.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 7, 2021

And the survey showed that the largest drop in trust for a category from 2020-2021 was in technology ( summarized here in a single graph ) – for some, not trusted. The coauthors argue that these groups could be disproportionately harmed if biased mobility data is used to allocate public health resources.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JANUARY 26, 2023

This week’s installment concerns a recently published blog post about a controversial reimbursement requirement for telemental health telehealth after the end of the public health emergency (PHE). It was passed in the final hours as part of the much larger law in 2020 without discussion.

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Health Populi

MARCH 28, 2023

you can search through the Health Populi blog for my various takes — starting with the milestone research of Deaton and Case discussed in this post. “They are the leading cause of death among youths aged 1 to 19 years old and accounted for nearly half of the increase in all-cause mortality in 2020.”

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

I covered this announcement in the Health Populi blog at the time, and today want to double-down on the significance of Ford’s leading presence at #CES2022. When announced, the news was a signal that health care and the larger tech-enabled ecosystem that supports health and well-being is embedded in peoples’ everyday lives.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Investigators at the Harvard School of Public Health showed that association in 1993 when they compared the average lifespan of residents in U.S. Clean Air Equals Longer Life, Study Says – Scientific American Blog Network. Scientific American Blog Network. 2020, December 21). 2019, May 29). Rolling Nature.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 4, 2022

As I discussed in yesterday’s Health Populi blog on peoples’ growing use of connected health tools and apps, more Americans have adopted digital on-ramps for mental health — for therapy, for mindfulness and meditation, for anxiety and depression management, and for peer-to-peer support.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 28, 2023

[link] In January 2023, the Rockefeller Institute published a three-part blog series on trends to watch in healthcare in 2023. The series covered broad issues related to the healthcare workforce, economy, and health policy, and highlighted internal industry changes and trends in service delivery, quality, and equity.

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Advanced Medical Reviews

APRIL 17, 2019

He is scheduled to spend his last day on April 5 testifying against Congress on the budget proposal for fiscal year 2020. Protect the nation from the health effects of emerging and pandemic infectious diseases and chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) threats.

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Connected Health Initiative

JUNE 2, 2023

After a public health emergency (PHE) was announced in January of 2020 to help the nation address the COVID-19 pandemic, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) subsequently eased the burdens for using remote monitoring technologies in Medicare, including the option to waive copays, the ability to treat both new and established patients, (..)

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Clear Arch Health

MAY 18, 2023

This Clear Arch Health podcast episode features American Telemedicine Association (ATA) leadership (Ann Mond Johnson, CEO and Kyle Zebley, Sr. VP of Public Policy) talking about telehealth, the end of the Public Health Emergency, and virtual care going forward. So, the Public Health Emergency official end is May 11th.

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Clear Arch Health

MAY 18, 2023

This Clear Arch Health podcast episode features American Telemedicine Association (ATA) leadership (Ann Mond Johnson, CEO and Kyle Zebley, Sr. VP of Public Policy) talking about telehealth, the end of the Public Health Emergency, and virtual care going forward. So, the Public Health Emergency official end is May 11th.

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Connected Health Initiative

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

However, Congress recognized the importance of live audio-visual communication for visits during the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), implementing a temporary general waiver to the coverage prohibition. Under current law, Medicare is generally not able to pay for live audio and video doctor visits.

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AMD Telemedicine

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Healthcare is moving to a hybrid model with the public health emergency (or PHE) ending and waivers lifting. Although telehealth options existed in the 2010s, it was the 2020 pandemic that triggered patients and providers to flock to them. Is Telehealth Additive or Substitutive? This changes the dynamic of virtual healthcare.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2020

Entrepreneur identified five innovations that will dominate CES 2020, and I see health/care in all of them: wearable AR/VR, autonomous farming, IoT in the kitchen, personal translators, and remote health monitoring. Forbes ran a column on CES 2020 discussing AI in hearing and vision.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

References: Depression: A Global Public Health Concern. 2020, September 12). 2020, July 21). Frequently Asked Questions About Depression | Brain & Behavior Research Foundation. 2016, December 27). Brain & Behavior Research Foundation. Questions And Answers About Depression. MSUToday | Michigan State University.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 24, 2022

During the Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) Public Health Emergency in 2020, however, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced its Enforcement Policy for Non-Invasive Remote Monitoring Devices. These devices were used to support patient monitoring during the public health emergency (Policy).

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 15, 2023

According to the National Health Interview Survey , approximately 30 million Americans were without health insurance in the first half of 2020, and around 43% of adults aged 19 to 64 had inadequate coverage as of mid-2022. Finally, Medicaid Awareness Month is a time to celebrate the successes and accomplishments of the program.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Another One for Taylor” Our program launched in early 2020 but faced significant delays, not surprisingly, due to the pandemic. Broward Health, which is one of the 10 largest public health systems in the US, serves the northern half of Broward County in South Florida.

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Henry Kotula

MAY 18, 2021

A 2020 CHCF poll of 2,249 California adults revealed that even when people wanted to see a doctor for an urgent health problem, one-third did not receive care. Nearly half of those surveyed didn’t receive care for their nonurgent health problems. Pandemic Health Effects Will Outlast COVID-19.

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Health Populi

JULY 28, 2021

I addressed the changing state of post-pandemic women’s health in my latest contribution to the Medecision Liberation blog. health system during the pandemic in 2020. For example, 46% of women in poor to fair health skipped preventive health services, such as check-ups.

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American Well

APRIL 1, 2020

Mirroring the federal response, all 50 states and the District of Columbia have declared state or public health emergencies , and more than 30 have broadened access to telehealth in order to mobilize more physicians and create new pathways to care for people under quarantine. Connecticut State Department of Public Health.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

who benefits from health insurance at the workplace, the annual family premium will average $21,342 this year, according to the 2020 Employer Health Benefits Survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Over ten years, the premium dollars grew from $13,770 in 2010 to $21K in 2020. For a worker in the U.S.

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American Well

MAY 28, 2020

AU Health had already partnered with Amwell on a direct-to-consumer urgent care program, AU Health Express Care, which it planned to roll out to its employees on April 1, 2020. Within two days of setting the plan in motion, AU Health had trained and onboarded more than 100 providers on its telehealth platform.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2024

In advance of a session I’m shepherding at the upcoming AHIP 2024 conference in Las Vegas, I developed scenarios about health care in 2030 asking who “we” will be then as patient-plan members? Just sayin’. Here’s the 2×2 matrix of what my two driving force choices create for us to consider.

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MeMD

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The company’s talk therapy visits shot up 224% in 2020, but that was just the beginning: MeMD saw more visits in the first quarter of 2021 than in all of 2019 combined. Department of Health and Human Services loosened restrictions on virtual care. Teletherapy and telepsychiatry have already begun filling the gaps in care.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

OCTOBER 4, 2021

With the need to communicate regularly about public health information as well as how to access care, these two new virtual spaces have been learning how to interact and complement each other. The session outlined successful and unsuccessful interactions between the Cambridge Health Alliance and partner community organizations.

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