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Behavioral Health Side-Effects in the COVID Era

Health Populi

“This surge of people experiencing acute behavioral health problems…has the potential to further impact the healthcare system for years to come,” a report from McKinsey expects looking at the hidden costs of COVID-19’s impact on U.S. health care. health care system in terms of workflow and payment parity.

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Income Inequality is Fostering Mis-Trust, the Edelman 2020 Trust Barometer Observes

Health Populi

Together, these three factors erode workers’ confidence in jobs and their personal household economies and financial health. The second chart comes from the study, quantifying global citizens’ trust levels by industry sector since 2012. Technology was the only industry whose trust-equity fell in the year.

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A Tale of Two America’s for Health

Health Populi

The top row illustrates that the ACA covered a lot of people with health insurances between 2012 and 2016. The lower row shows that the level of self-rationing due to costs fell across the entire northern section of America, leaving at least 15% of people living in the deeper south to continue to ration in 2016 as they did in 2012.

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Call It Deferring Services or Self-Rationing, U.S. Consumers Are Still Avoiding Medical Care

Health Populi

have been self-rationing medical care for many years, well before any of us knew what “PPE” meant or how to spell “coronavirus.” ” Nearly a decade ago, I cited the Kaiser Family Foundation Health Security Watch of May 2012 here in Health Populi. Patients in the U.S.

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Telehealth Awareness, Access and Adoption: Updates from J.D. Power, the ATA and FAIR Health

Health Populi

After the most common patient diagnosis, acute upper respiratory infections (historically the most common complaint presenting in retail clinics), the second and third most frequent reasons for telehealth diagnoses were for mood/affective disorders and anxiety and other nonpsychotic mental disorder. That is, mental health issues.

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Bonus Features – December 17, 2023 – 97% of hospitals now capable of enabling electronic access to patient records, 70% of hospitals face hidden business continuity challenge, plus 31 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

News In a blog post, ONC highlighted trends in patient access to electronic health information. Though this is a significant increase from 2012, numbers haven’t budged much since 2015. Pair Team expanded into seven more California counties ; the company provides virtual primary care for Medicaid beneficiaries.

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A Fresh Look at Telehealth Patient Demographics in 2019

Enzyme Health

Recent telehealth adoption statistics show a strong growing trend in favor of the service - According to a 2019 report from nonprofit FAIR Health , telehealth utilization grew 53% from 2016 to 2017 nationwide, more than any other service, including urgent care, retail clinics, ambulatory surgery centers, and ERs.