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The Ill Health of Rural Hospitals in Four Charts

Health Populi

The first line chart illustrates rural hospital closures since 2010. Now we’ll move to the third chart, a heat map which shows those states with the highest number of rural hospital closures since 2010. Over time, depending on the politics of health care reform, the safety net and social determinants policies (e.g.,

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AHRQ program seeks provider organizations to help improve hybrid telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The program aims to improve the cancer diagnostic process in telemedicine-enabled primary care settings by strengthening safety culture and helping practices to close the loop on care transitions and other vulnerable processes along the cancer diagnostic pathway. Dr. Hardeep Singh is principal investigator.

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McKinsey’s Six Shifts To Add Life to Years — and One More to Consider

Health Populi

And loneliness can kill us, we learned, from the study Social Relationships and Mortality Risk: A Meta-analytic Review , seminal research published in 2010 led by Julianne Holt-Lunstad and collaborators from Brigham Young University and University of North Carolina.

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GAO: rural hospital closures increasing, South hardest hit

Henry Kotula

Since 2010, 86 rural hospitals have closed , and 44% of those remaining are operating at a loss — up from 40% in 2017. CMS Administrator Seema Verma released a rural health strategy in May aimed at improving access and quality of care in rural communities.

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The Burgeoning Role Of Venture Capital In Health Care

Henry Kotula

Venture capital businesses have recently funded hundreds of startups developing technology-enabled digital health products, including wearable devices, mobile health applications, telemedicine, and personalized medicine tools. billion has been invested in digital health this decade (see Exhibit 1).

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A Mid-Year Update on 2023 Healthcare Trends

Henry Kotula

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. Other notable consolidations include the finalization of tech-giant Amazon’s purchase of One Medical , a primary care network.

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Health, Politics, Inflation and Women: Health Engagement at the Voting Booth

Health Populi

Nate Silver discussed the concept here in his 2010 FiveThirtyEight blog, noting that it’s more about turnout than “enthusiasm.” The “enthusiasm gap” has long been a factor driving some folks to vote, and others to stay home and avoid the polling booth.