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What’s Causing Fewer Primary Care Visits in the US?

Health Populi

For context, I re-visited a similar recent study on this topic, published in the November/December 2019 Annals of Family Medicine, looking at national trends in primary care visit use between 2008 and 2015. Note in the chart the emerging trend by 2015 of PCPs emailing with patients and offering after-hours appointments.

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The Digital Consumer, Increasingly Connected to Health Devices; Parks Associates Kicking Off #CES2021

Health Populi

But the coronavirus era also saw broadband households spending more on connecting health devices, with 42% of U.S. consumers owning digital health tech compared with 33% in 2015, according to research discussed in Supporting Today’s Connected Consumer from Parks Associates. broadband households in 2020 from 17% in 2015.

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Real-Time Versus Store-and-Forward Telehealth Technology

AMD Telemedicine

This article was originally published in July 2015 but was updated in January 2023. Another important distinction is that the reimbursement policies from private insurers vary between real-time and store-and-forward technologies.

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The New Deaths of Despair in America – Among U.S. Children

Health Populi

Angus Deaton and Anne Case published their first of many research papers on Deaths of Despair in 2015. The phenomenon of Deaths of Despair is the short-hand name for rising mortality among certainly people living in the U.S. due to overdose, accidents, and suicide.

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A BA Degree as Prescription for a Longer Life – Update on Deaths of Despair from Deaton and Case

Health Populi

At that point, the research shows that Americans without a college degree had rising death rates due to drugs, suicide, and alcoholic liver disease — considered together as the “deaths of despair,” they coined in 2015.

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Study: Neonatal Telehealth Reduces Transfers and Boosts Hospital Revenue

BHM Healthcare Solutions

Editor’s Note: Healthcare organizations are increasingly looking to adopt telehealth programs, but they face a number of policy barriers that hinder their plans, according to the Center for Connected Health Policy. Payers are rapidly becoming educated and are keen on closing the gap.

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The U.S. is a Nation in Pain – America’s Life Expectancy Fell Again in 2016

Health Populi

states had the biggest increases in alcohol, drug and suicide deaths between 2015 and 2016, and in six states and Washington DC the death rates grew by over 20% — particularly in the Mid-Atlantic region. While this is a national challenge, there are regional differences underneath these numbers. The Northeast and Midwestern U.S.