Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2020

It’s déjà vu all over again for Americans’ well-being: we haven’t felt this low since the advent of the Great Recession that hit our well-well-being hard in December 2008. As COVID-19 diagnoses reached 200,000 in the U.S. in April 2020, Gallup gauged that barely 1 in 2 people felt they were thriving.

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DigitalHealth

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

For those of us old enough to remember the 2008 financial crisis, US President Barack Obama’s Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, invoked a universal truth […]

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Health Populi

APRIL 11, 2019

Trust is a precursor to health engagement, I learned way back in 2008 when I collaborated with Edelman on the first Health Engagement Barometer in 2008. This chart illustrated data from that survey, showing that trust, authenticity and satisfaction were the top three drivers among consumers looking to engage for health.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Warren Buffett wrote Berkshire Hathaway shareholders in 2008, asserting that, “Price is what you pay. ” I ask in an essay published today on Crossover Health’s website titled Value-Based Care: Driving a Social Contract of Trust and Health. The answer: embrace value-based care. Value is what you get.” ” The U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In Declining Use of Primary Care Among Commercially Insured Adults in the United States, 2008-2016 , the researchers analyzed data from a national sample of adult health plan members between 18 and 64 years of age and saw that visits to PCPS fell by 24.2%, from 169.5 visits per 100 member-years.

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Health Populi

MAY 18, 2023

For some context, it’s useful to know that the CFPB was created as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act passed by Congress and signed by President Obama in July 2010 in the wake of the 2008-9 financial crisis in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 2020

If you have Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 systems, doing nothing isn’t an option. After January 14, 2020, Windows 7 and Server 2008 will no longer receive critical security patches and updates from Microsoft. What will your executives, board, and the public think if you report a breach that could have been prevented?

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Electronic Health Reporter

JULY 1, 2019

BlueKeep is a vulnerability (CVE-2019-0708) that affects Windows 7, Windows XP, Server 2003, 2008 and 2008 R2, which many feel will be exploited soon. The first months of 2019 have seen a record number of reported security vulnerabilities. But potentially the riskiest, is BlueKeep. The concern […].

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eVisit

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The Kaiser Family Foundation released data showing a 65% increase in the cost of employee provided healthcare for family coverage from 2008 to 2018. In 2008 the total cost for an employer to cover an employee’s family was $12,679. That cost jumped up to $19,616 in just 10 years, and as an employer, you pay 70% or more.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

For a fun blast-from-the-telehealth-past, see this paper I wrote for the California Health Care Foundation in 2008 (!) called Right Here, Right Now: Ten Telehealth Pioneers Make It Work. .

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Health Populi

JUNE 30, 2023

The chart on the median price of newly marketed drugs between 2008 and 2002 shows the cost in 2022 reaching $222,000. Take prescription drugs pushing medical trend upward. Since 2019, we can see the hockey-stick increase in the price of specialty drugs fast-growing.

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Health Populi

JUNE 23, 2022

emerged from the Great Recession of 2008. By April, one-half of people living in America said their financial situation was getting worse, a reversal of fortune from several steady years of personal financial improvement which kicked off in 2011 as the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 4, 2022

And, to finance mental health care embedded into a whole-health system for which Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici advocated in 2008 via their Mental Health Parity Act. Key to scalability is to integrate behavioral health into primary care –requiring a huge shift in the way we look at mental health as, simply and profoundly, health.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 4, 2020

This is markedly different than the Great Recession of 2008, the last major financial crisis: that financial decline was coined a “ManCession,” taking a more significant toll out of more typically men’s jobs like construction and manufacturing where fewer women worked.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 28, 2020

Apple’s Safari did not appear until 2003 and Google Chrome in 2008 – eventually these dominated the browser market, though three cheers for the existence of privacy-oriented browser Brave (2016) and search tool DuckDuckGo (2008). No doubt both will disappear into acquisitions.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 20, 2019

After a record drop in the uninsured rate from 2008 to 2016 in response to […]. Now that the 2019 health insurance Open Enrollment period has concluded, healthcare industry stakeholders are watching closely for any shifts in consumer behavior regarding enrollment and the overall uninsured rate.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 5, 2022

This lightbulb moment finding happened in the 2008 Edelman Health Engagement Barometer study and it holds true today… This is particularly impactful in the current moment as Elizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos, was found guilty by a jury of her peers. Morning Consult polled 2,200 U.S.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 26, 2019

Pharmaceutical manufacturers face growing pressure from legislators, employers and consumers to control prescription drug costs, which have increased by as much as 15 percent between 2008 and 2016. In late February, a congressional committee grilled executives from seven pharmaceutical companies over relentless price hikes and […].

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Health Populi

JULY 14, 2022

states since 2008. People whose sense of well-being shifted positively in the past two years are finding greater personal purpose and financial health, we see in Sharecare’s Community Well-Being Index – 2021 State Rankings Report. Sharecare has been annually tracking well-being across the 50 U.S.

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Digital Health Global

APRIL 6, 2023

Since its founding in 2008, Noom has established itself as the leading digital health platform, harnessing behavior change and technology to create long-term positive health outcomes. Founded in 2008, Noom’s mission is to help people everywhere lead healthier lives.

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Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2020

consumer credit card debt ballooned to record highs in February 2020 since just before the Great Recession of 2008, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. This worsened between February and late April 2020, the second chart shows, with less than 50% of people able to pay a $500 healthcare bill in full at the time of service.

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Health Populi

APRIL 23, 2020

million, the greatest jobs lost since the 2008 Great Recession…erasing all job gains since then, this Washington Post story explained today. Across income groups among likely U.S. Job losses as of 22nd April 2020 tallied to 26.5

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Health Populi

JANUARY 17, 2023

Trust is also the precursor for health engagement, Edelman learned back in 2008 when it launched a survey called the Edelman Health Engagement Barometer. I had the great good fortune to work with the team on the study launch and follow-up surveys for several years.

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Continue Education Journal

JUNE 19, 2019

Another study in 2008 tested if acupuncture was an effective assistant treatment when coupled with vitro fertilization. Acupuncture in support of infertility aid has become a rather niche profession for a minority of acupuncturists.

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Health Populi

MAY 30, 2022

told the Gallup Poll in April 2022 that their financial situation has eroded in the past year, up to 1 in 2 people which is a statistic we haven’t seen since the Great Recession of 2008. As a result, more people in the U.S.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

2008; Chóliz 2010). Concerns about phone addiction began appearing early in the literature (Billieux et al. Other concerns involving dangerous consequences were phone use while driving (Bianchi and Phillips 2005 ; White et al. 2004 ), and using phones in forbidden areas (Nickerson et al. Since then, the evidence-base has grown considerably.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

The She-Cession, discussed here in Health Populi, has been especially burdensome to women’s personal economics and financial health compared with the 2008 Great Recession which hit men harder economically.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 10, 2023

While the shared ledger idea can be traced back to the 80s, blockchain technology emerged in 2008 as the foundation for decentralized currency, namely Bitcoin. . Unlike traditional distributed databases with centralized management, blockchain offers a shared database, providing security, transparency, traceability, and speed.

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LeanIX

JUNE 11, 2019

Time is almost up for enterprises to decide how best to migrate from Microsoft SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 before official support services are discontinued. Come July 9, 2019 the following options must be completely evaluated by Enterprise Architects and their stakeholders:

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 22, 2023

The term (and features) arose from the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act , amended by Congress in 2008, when the focus was on reducing/eliminating discrimination against people with disabilities. Accessibility and usability – who knew they were different?

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 19, 2018

in 2008, one in three Americans delayed medical treatment due to costs. It would not be surprising to know that when the Great Recession hit the U.S. Ten years later, as media headlines and the President boast an improved American economy, the same proportion of people are self-rationing healthcare due to cost.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Increased availability of opioid prescription drugs, chronic pain (for which opioids are often prescribed), and the economic crisis which began in 2008 may all have contributed to an increase in overdoses, suicide, and increased liver disease associated with alcohol abuse.”

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Health Populi

JULY 9, 2020

in 2020 is quite different from the Great Recession of 2008: this national financial decline has hit Main Street harder than Wall Street, women harder than men, and people of color more acutely. The economic recession in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2023

DEA’s ability to identify providers operating legally and appropriately from those that are not could be managed under a special registration regime, required initially of DEA in the 2008 Ryan Haight Online Pharmacy Act. That registry could also solve the confusion issue for pharmacies.

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Health Populi

JULY 28, 2020

Since launching in 2008, Withings has developed a portfolio of well-designed, consumer-facing digital health tools such as weight scales, blood pressure monitors, and digital thermometers.

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Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2021

Dr. Fendrick was part of a team that wrote one of the first research articles on the effects of increasing patient cost sharing on health disparities — published in 2008 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. .” Out of the mouths of Mom’s, right?!

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2023

Since 2008, NightWatch has found success by focusing on exceptional customer service provided by an outstanding clinical team. We are incredibly proud of the company we have built,” said Christopher Vaught, owner of Vaught, Inc., the parent company of NightWatch.

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