Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: While the 2007-8 Great Recession was considered more of a “He-Cession,” this round of U.S. You can see million-person differences for registered nurses, nursing assistants, and personal care aides, and half-million worker deltas for LPNs and medical assistants.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Townsville has been providing virtual specialist care in rural and remote areas since 2007 and is ideally positioned as a coordinating centre for ATP given its dispersed location. WHY IT MATTERS. The latest federal funding will help ATP "significantly" expand the reach of clinical tele-trials, according to director Kaye Hewson.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2020

This concept has underpinned Health Populi since I wrote the first post in this blog in September 2007 on the cost of health care, featuring this picture from Tom’s Shell characterizing the high costs of petrol at the pump in the midst of the oil crisis.

Medical Billing 275

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Health Populi

JULY 22, 2021

The IQVIA team are serious about getting to the clinical evidence, and this year point out a growing base of over 2,000 studies published since 2007 — 1,500 of which were published in the past five years, so the pace of change is tilting dramatically up and to the right.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

. “Provisional life expectancy at birth in the first half of 2020 was the lowest level since 2006 for both the total population and for males, and was the lowest level since 2007 for females,” the report observes.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The first chart illustrates that most people see each of the seven industries studied as wellness channels, from the more obvious health-oriented categories like skincare and food to hospitality (hotels and airlines), financial services, and automotive (which I’ve covered as far back as 2007 here on Health Populi).

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2019

The report, Medical Bankruptcy: Still Common Despite the Affordable Care Act , updates research from 2007 which was conducted by two of this new study’s authors, Dr. David Himmelstein and Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, along with other colleagues. In the 2007 analysis, a roughly similar proportion of U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 16, 2021

The first blog post I wrote on Health Populi back when this site launched at Labor Day 2007 was on this very topic — that the huge percentage of gross domestic product the U.S. The care economy cannot be easily or rationally separated from the fiscal economy.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

I wrote my first post on Health Populi nearly eleven years ago Labor Day week 2007. of the GDP and that PPO reached $28,166 — nearly two times the 2007 cost. The theme was, “Health Care is the #1 Line Item In Our National Economy…and Taking More Out of Your Pocket.” of the U.S. .” of the U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 31, 2019

Over the ten years between 2007 and 2017, U.S. Furthermore, income disparity between wealthy Americans and people earning lower-incomes dramatically widened: between 2007-2017, income for high-income earners grew 1,305 percent more than lower-incomes.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 26, 2021

Scott founded Crossover Health in 2007 with the vision of surrounding the patient with care. and Scott were with me and the emerging Health 2.0 movement as Matthew Holt and Indu Subaiya were convening the first conference, gathering input from us and others who knew the Internet would change the nature of health care.

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FierceHealthIT

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Physicians were more likely to be excluded from public insurance reimbursement programs due to fraud between 2007 and 2017 if they were older, male, or had osteopathic training.

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Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2018

Here is the first “good news” line chart, showing declining medical trend from 2007 to next year in 2019. That’s one-half the high point at nearly 12% in 2007. The 6% trend is equal to that of 2018, illustrating a flat scenario, roughly the same trend seen in 2016 at 6.2%.

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Digital Health Global

AUGUST 18, 2023

According to a research conducted between 2007 and 2012, the number of children between the ages of 6 and 17 diagnosed with anxiety has increased by 20 percent over time. Barbie has five different audio guides that can be played through a click on her necklace.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

In 2007, former First Lady Rosalynn Carter allied with David Wellstone, Paul’s son, to lobby Congress to pass mental health insurance legislation. . health care system in terms of workflow and payment parity. Paul died in a plane crash in 2002.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 3, 2022

Health Populi’s Hot Points: In this first week of January 2022 with CES kicking off its show of digital health innovations, along with other consumer categories of electronics at home and in connected cars ( which I covered here in Health Populi back in 2007 before I began to attend CES!),

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 19, 2021

A child born in Japan in 2007 will have more […]. Like decarbonization, inclusion is essential to a truly sustainable society. For millions of people, accessibility is the key to inclusion; and just like the environment, it requires our action and attention.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: This last chart compares gains in life expectancy (longevity) between two periods, 2002-2007 and 2012-2017. life expectancy gained in the earlier period, 2002-2007, ranked relatively high with OECD countries like the UK, Australia, Canada, Hungary, Italy, New Zealand, and others.

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Health Populi

MAY 30, 2018

.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: The uniquely American challenge of health disparities, especially relating to race, is a topic I’ve covered many times since the launch of Health Populi in 2007.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 17, 2023

Note that Russia, studied in the surveys between 2007 and 2022, was not included in the 2023 research). The Edelman team conducted this 23rd annual study in November 2022 in 28 countries, among over 32,000 people — some 1,150 residents per country polled.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 10, 2019

Then the iPhone emerged in 2007 , along with the now-declining Fitbit. Telehealth got its first big workout with veterans in 2007. Consider the emerging general consumer technology market. Google’s IPO was in 2004 and Facebook (coincidentally) emerged that year.

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Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Investors including Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, have put $95m into ZocDoc since its launch in 2007. ZocDoc, an American health tech company, allows potential patients to search for a physician by location, speciality or the type of insurance they accept. Patients can schedule an appointment on their smartphones. The company claims 2.5m

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Christina's Considerations

JUNE 21, 2018

The CDC just released data on unintentional injuries for persons age 65+ in the US between 2007 and 2016. While unintentional injuries are the seventh leading cause of death, falls account for the largest percentage. 1/4 of US residents aged.

Patient Experience 71

Patient Experience 71

FierceHealthIT

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Fitbit launched in 2007 and was considered a pioneer of the consumer fitness tracking market, quickly becoming the market leader. Following media reports of a possible deal earlier this week, Google announced it is acquiring wearables company for $7.25 per share in cash, valuing the company at $2.1

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 2, 2019

The iPhone had just been released in June of 2007, so this survey did not ask about smartphone use – there was no Digital Health (a " check engine light for your body! "); the Longevity Economy hadn’t been invented; Fitbit was a 2007 new clip-on tracker , and Facebook was still a campus toy.

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Health Populi

JULY 19, 2022

I launched my Health Populi blog in September 2007 with this cartoon from the New Yorker, originally published copyright Michael Maslin in 1994.

Medical Billing 203

Medical Billing 203

Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 21, 2021

The Quantified Self , coined in 2007 as a fringe concept , is now mainstream and migrating rapidly into personal health management. Also notable, considering that most wearables are still paired with them, smartphone ownership has risen most sharply among the 70+, with 77% of survey responders indicating they own one.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

For example, here’s my Health Populi write-up of Toyota , for example, and its wellness car from 2007. Connected cars are emerging as a “third space” for health and wellness, and Mercedes, Toyota, Honda, Audi and other car companies have been working on concept cars in health for years. Now, consider Humana’s involvement.

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 5, 2018

Rush University Medical Center and several of its clinicians were hit this week with a malpractice lawsuit that alleges a baby born at the hospital in 2007 was left disabled following a series of medical errors.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The BMW iDrive example from 2007 prompted some drivers to turn around and bring the car back to the showroom. It’s almost quaint to look back at what we complained about – though some of the famous user interface disasters are well-described in a Scientific American article – Windows 8, BMW iDrive, TV remotes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 22, 2022

Starting in 2007, the DOJ's healthcare Fraud Strike Force – operating in 27 districts nationwide – has charged more than 5,000 defendants who collectively billed federal healthcare programs and private insurers approximately $24.7 " THE LARGER TREND. billion, according to the department.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Those were the early days of the formation of patient social networks [Patients Like me was founded in 2004, and WEGO Health and Stupid Cancer in 2007]. .” Trust and truth underpin health engagement, we learned in the first Edelman Health Engagement Barometer launched ten years ago.

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Health Populi

MAY 2, 2019

are concepting, which I wrote about back in 2007 focusing on Toyota’s wellness car concept. Promising, promising. With every one of these digital health encounters, from Alexa to Zipongo, a bit of data is created. It’s personal stuff, and it’s a tiny little bit about “you.”

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

When the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) developed the concept of the Triple Aim in 2007, it was founded on three pillars: enhancing patient experience, improving population health, and lowering per capita health care costs. Four in ten U.S. By 2014, Dr. Thomas Bodenheimer and Dr.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The iPhone had just been released in June of 2007, so this survey did not ask about smartphone use – there was no Digital Health (a " check engine light for your body! "); the Longevity Economy hadn’t been invented; Fitbit was a 2007 new clip-on tracker , and Facebook was still a campus toy.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 10, 2019

” Since its inception in March 2007, the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, which maintains 14 strike forces operating in 23 districts, has charged nearly 4,000 defendants who have collectively billed the Medicare program for more than $14 billion.

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2019

in December 2007, and tracked “self-care” searches to today, 15 March 2019. Today, the number of searches on Google using the phrase “self-care” reached a high, shown in the line graph I created on Google Trends and marked up in red. A Google search overall yielded over 2 billion results.

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