Health Populi

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

and post-pandemic job growth in 2021, the cost of health insurance premiums rose faster than either the price of goods or wages. That family health plan premium reached $22,221, an increase of 22% since 2016, we learn in the annual report from Kaiser Family Foundation, 2021 Employer Health Benefits Survey.

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American Well

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Telemedicine Today: September 2016. Welcome to the (delayed) September 2016 edition of Avizia’s Telemedicine Today! Texas A&M uses Telehealth to Treat Mental Health in Rural Communities. Now, telemedicine is expanding to offer mental health care. The mental health issues aren’t going to go away.”.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2021

To pay for health care expenses, the average nest-egg required for a couple retiring in the U.S. in 2021 will be $300,000 according to the 20th annual Fidelity Investments Retiree Health Care Cost Estimate. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The coronavirus pandemic had at least two major toxic side effects for patients in the U.S.:

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Health Populi

MARCH 18, 2021

For some working Americans, the stress has led to diagnoses of mental health disorders — especially acute among essential workers, shown in the second graphic from the report. parents’ level of anxiety and stress and subsequent impacts on physical and mental health. The APA also looked closely at U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 25, 2022

We came to appreciate the connectivity was indeed a determinant of health (which I called out in the Huffington Post in July 2016). healthcare system.

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American Well

JANUARY 24, 2016

Welcome to the the first edition of Avizia’s Telemedicine Today for 2016! 2016 is already shaping up to be another BIG year in the world of Telehealth and Telemedicine. The majority of the telehealth visits are for primary care or mental health. 3 Ways Telemedicine is Changing Healthcare.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2020

More than four times as many Black women believe that it’s a bad time to be Black in America in 2020 versus 2011, we learn from The Undefeated Survey on Race and Health from Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF). The Undefeated was started in May 2016, and has been a thought leader on topics of race and sports in America.

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Digital Health Wire

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The flash flood of ViVE news is officially here, and one of the biggest stories from the first wave was DarioHealth’s acquisition of mental health digital therapeutics startup Twill for $10M plus another $20M in stock.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 29, 2020

The latest report from the CDC on Suicide Rates by Industry and Occupation provides a current analysis of the National Violent Death Reporting System which collects data from 32 states, this data set from 2016. The national average suicide rate for men in 2016 was 27.4 per 100,000 males; for women, the suicide rate was 7.7

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Health Populi

JUNE 21, 2019

each year between 2006 and 2016, employees’ healthcare cost sharing grew 4.5%. a year, PwC notes in their annual report, Medical cost trend: Behind the numbers 2020 from the firm’s Health Research Institute. Whether one is of higher or lower income, dealing with health care costs is a stressor for people in America.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

year from 2016. The rates of death for younger ages significantly grew between 2016 and 2017 in the age cohorts 25-34 and 35-44. That’s due to the fact that the age-adjusted rate of drug overdose deaths with synthetic opioids (not methadone) increased by 45% between 2016 and 2017. How long can people living in the U.S.

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Digital Health Global

MARCH 28, 2023

The document describes five expert proposals and a possible clinical-organizational process for the integration of Digital Therapeutics across depression care pathways in the Italian national health service, formulated by a multistakeholder panel coordinated by Alberta M.C.

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Health Populi

MAY 15, 2018

The top-line of this national health scorecard is that “deaths of despair” are surging, due to suicide, alcohol, opioids, and other drugs whose use has grown by 50% since 2005 to 2016. The social determinants of health — income and good jobs, using tobacco, and having health insurance — bolster good health.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Financial stress is a factor ranking high for people dealing with both mental health challenges and chronic health conditions. Our relationship with our self — “self-worth and purpose” — ranks high, too, for people dealing with a mental health condition. Looking under the 52% of U.S.

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Digital Health Global

JUNE 6, 2023

iOS 17, iPadOS 17, and watchOS 10 introduce mental health and vision health features, and the Health app arrives on iPad CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple today announced new health features in iOS 17, iPadOS 17, and watchOS 10, expanding into two impactful areas and providing innovative tools and experiences across platforms.

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Lloyd Price

MAY 11, 2023

Spotify plans to use Neko Health's technology to develop new features for its music streaming service, such as personalized playlists based on a user's health data. In 2022, the company launched a pilot program in the United States that provides mental health counseling to Spotify employees.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Isolation has produced an increase in mental health issues, loneliness and depression – and that would be for those who have a good grasp of what is going on – for those in long-term care , for those with dementia, unable to be hugged by family, it is far worse. Home Care Assistance received $100 million in 2016. Read more. .

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

AUGUST 28, 2020

Magazine SBHC began using telehealth in 2016 through the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Institute for Digital Health & Innovation: Public Schools Program (formerly called STAR), and they continue to enhance and develop their telehealth services. Parents of students using telehealth have mentioned to Ms.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

"More than 200,000 or approximately two-thirds of the 294,000 VA Video Connect appointments in FY 2019 were for tele-mental health visits," said VA officials. ON THE RECORD.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

For more than a decade, a body of literature has been evolving around the idea of well-being as being more than the absence of a mental health disorder (Dey et al., The presence of psychological well-being is defined by the World Health Organization as the presence of both social and psychological health.

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Chronic loneliness is associated with memory loss, physical deterioration, eroding mental health, and lower life expectancy, the U-M point out. Loneliness is also part of an un-virtuous cycle that can magnify these health risks. How to mitigate loneliness, especially among older people?

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Digital Health Wire

APRIL 26, 2023

The extended reality (AR/VR) market has a new XR therapeutic powerhouse after XRHealth and Barcelona-based Amelia Virtual Care announced plans to merge into a new company capable of addressing both physical and mental health issues. XRHealth operates virtual therapeutic care rooms that allow patients with complex conditions (i.e.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 11, 2019

It's all part of the VA's Accessing Telehealth through Local Area Stations, or ATLAS, services initiative, which will provide clinical services – which the VA notes will vary by location – including primary care, nutrition, mental health and social work. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Jennifer Richman, associate professor of psychiatry at University of Rochester Medical Center, and Michael Hasselberg, NP, senior director of digital Health at U of Rochester. Moreover, when behavioral or mental health would present at the emergency department, "there were no onsite psychiatric resources," said Hasselberg.

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Health Populi

MAY 1, 2019

.” That’s the first sentence of Chapter 7 in my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen. This data point comes from research published in JAMA in April 2016 on the association between income and life expectancy in the U.S.

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GlobalMed

AUGUST 3, 2021

When seeking treating for stigmatized conditions such as HIV or mental health issues, they may choose to forego virtual visits altogether rather than risk someone overhearing a discussion with their healthcare providers. Consider Amy, 47, who has been diagnosed with mental health issues and chronic conditions.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2018

In the US, when it comes to life and death, it’s good to live in Hawaii, Utah, Minnesota, North Dakota, and Iowa — the top five states with the greatest life expectancy and healthy life expectancy at birth in 2016.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The WHO stated that depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide and the demand for curbing depression and other mental health conditions is on the rise globally. population over age 18, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. References: Depression: A Global Public Health Concern.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The cost of therapy or limitations in the ability of this population to attend face-to-face mental health treatment can often be difficult. Pediatric depression treatment can involve incorporating digitized Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) interventions ( Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, n.d. 2016 ; Watts et al.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The new iPad initiative has its roots in the VA's Connected Tablet program , which launched in 2016 and, research shows, has created a more satisfying patient experience and made veterans less likely to miss appointments.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

AUGUST 10, 2022

The increasing popularity of wearable devices for tracking and diagnosing mental health problems has led to several questions about their implications. Impact of wearable devices on mental and behavioral health. Impact of wearable devices on mental and behavioral health. One such device is the smartphone.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Embracing participatory medicine has helped Gabe Howard @GabeHoward29 manage his bipolar and anxiety disorders, and allowed him to become an award-winning writer, mental health activist, speaker and educator on a topic that stigmatizes so many. Register here.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

I’ve mined this report in previous years – you can review my findings from the 2017 report here in the Health Populi post, Health is Everywhere in 2016. Among the ten trend-examples in the Health section, I pulled out Healing Cafés here.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Previous research has found that virtual reality pain management is effective in decreasing acute pain after medical procedures related to transient pain, such as distraction strategies among both adults ( Kenney & Milling, 2016 ; Mallari et al., 2019 ; Malloy & Milling, 2010 ) and children ( Kenney & Milling, 2016 ; Gates et al.,

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Iris Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Over the past few years, the number of Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioners (PMHNPs) has been steadily increasing — passing the 12,000 mark in 2016. Like psychiatrists, all PMHNPs receive training around assessing, diagnosing, and treating patients with mental health needs.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 6, 2023

Read more… Preventing Genetic Testing Fraud: 5 Actions for Health Plans. Medicare payments for genetic testing quadrupled from 2016 to 2019, which has unfortunately led to a rise in a rise in fraud, waste, and abuse. Read more… An Innovative Technique to Addressing Clinicians’ Mental Health. at Valencell.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 18, 2023

Anne Zieger summarized the agency’s order demanding that BetterHelp stop sharing patients’ data, including mental health data, with third parties such as Facebook and Snapchat. Read more… Lessons Learned from Health IT in the Golden State. Attacks on healthcare have more than double since 2016.

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