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A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

health care, bring people back into the system, bolster physician well-being, and deliver on the promise of high-quality care that the U.S. deaths due to accidents, accidental overdoses, and suicide in 2017. The post A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Access to Technology Is the New Pillar for Well-Being: CES & the UN Partner for Human Security for All

Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2024

Such gaps in connectivity threaten peoples’ individual well-being, but also social and political stability that impacts the entire world’s security. And not to overlook, as well, the promise of AI to do good at scale at the enterprise-level, globally. 87% in the E.U. 76% in Latin America 73% in China 55% in Nigeria 46% in India.

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2017 A Ground Breaking Year for Telehealth

Clocktree

JANUARY 5, 2018

2017 was a ground breaking year for the world of telehealth. Online video evaluations helped providers respond to the people left stranded by the hurricane, and they were able to provide medical advice for injuries as well as other basic medical questions people around the state had. Access to online care has never been better.

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More Working Americans Enrolled in High-Deductible Health Plans in 2017

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

workers were enrolled in a high-deductible health plan in the first 9 months of 2017, according to the latest research published by the National Center for Health Statistics, part of the Centers for Disease Control in the U.S. million Americans in 2017. In the first nine months of 2017, 43.2% Over four in 10 U.S.

The Suicide Rate in America Increased by 40% between 2000 and 2017. Blue Collar Workers Were Much More At Risk.

Health Populi

JANUARY 29, 2020

between 2000 and 2017, a 40% increase. Integrating workplace safety and health and wellness programs to advance the overall well-being of workers. The post The Suicide Rate in America Increased by 40% between 2000 and 2017. The rate of suicide in the U.S. rose from 12.9 per 100,000 population to 18.0

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Consumers Expand Their Definition of Well-Being to Include Food-As-Medicine

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Viewing food-as-medicine is going mainstream for health consumers, who look beyond the “medicine” in that phrase toward a broader concept of personal well-being. This is the theme of a new report from the FMI Foundation called The Power of Health and Well-Being in Food Retail.

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The Number of Unintended Deaths From Car Accidents, Falls and Overdoses in America Grew 40% Between 1999 and 2017

Health Populi

JULY 18, 2019

grew by 40% between 1999 and 2017, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). There was three-times faster-paced growth in unintentional deaths in the later years of this study (2014-2017) than in the first seven years studied (1999-2006)–1.9% deaths per 100,000 in 2017. annual growth in the later years.

Public Health

The Hair Economy in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Control, Wellness, and Self-Care

Health Populi

MAY 29, 2020

The barbershop and beauty salon are important community touch points for health, wellness, and social connection in so many peoples’ lives. ” In the COVID-19 pandemic, how we’re dealing with hair is a metaphor for personal control, for political statements, for mental health, and for overall well-being. .”

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Direct Primary Care Well Represented at #HLTH2022

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

It was a pleasant surprise to see Direct Primary Care (DPC) well represented at the recent #HLTH2022 conference. There is real momentum building for this alternate form of care. Two leading DPC technology innovators, were prominent in the exhibit hall and on the main stage: Hint Health and Elation Health.

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Championing Local Well-Being: How we can create a blueprint for social prescribing

Digital Leaders HealthTech

APRIL 9, 2024

Research from the Campaign to End Loneliness states that loneliness can increase the risk of early mortality by 26%, associated with elevated blood pressure and acute stress responses, as well as putting people at a heightened risk of poorer mental health. In 2019, social prescribing was included in the NHS Long Term Plan.

Mental health

What is Psychological Well-Being in Young People? The Role of Self-Help Digital Tools

Telebehavioral Health Institute

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

What is Psychological Well-Being? 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., Psychological Well-Being & Current Intervention Research. The study used two definitions: social and psychological well-being.

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The True Costs of Diabetes Go Well Beyond the Wallet

Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2018

Diabetes impacts peoples’ leisure-time activities — that would be “fun” — as well, with nearly one-half of PwD having to miss a planned outing or other personal event due to diabetes. Upwell Health surveyed 5,255 people with diabetes online in 2017. One-third of PwC had to give up a hobby or interest.

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IoT and The Rise of the Machines in Healthcare

Health Populi

AUGUST 12, 2021

.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: Beyond the Internet of Things, RAND has been thinking about the Internet of Bodies, how wearable (external) and digestible or implantable (internal) sensors can help people track wellness and illness with the promise of benefiting overall health. million units with revenues of $4.5

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8 Benefits of Meditation to Mental Health and Well-Being

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Meditation is used to promote quiet and physical relaxation, to improve psychological balance, to aid in illness recovery, and to improve overall health and well-being. According to a study, the use of meditation among American adults has tripled between 2012 and 2017, rising from 4.1 percent in 2017. [1]. percent to 14.2

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Dual-Hormone ILet Poised to Begin FDA Testing in 2017

Insulin Nation

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Upon completion of this study, Beta Bionics expects to undertake the pivotal trial necessary for its FDA clearance application in 2017. The first arm of that trial, to start in mid 2017, will involve delivery of insulin only. Dr. Damiano expects that additional pediatric trials will be needed, as well.

Grocery and Golf Goodness: Food, Fitness, and Fresh Come Together

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

FreshTake, a new grocery store from a family-owned food chain, will open its doors in 2024, located in a Whole Foods location that closed in 2017. Before that, Hannaford in upstate New York started up a wellness center with exercise classes and health services to complement its pharmacy.

Steps to Telehealth Success – Preparing for 2017

American Well

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Preparing for 2017. As the year comes to a close and healthcare organizations prepare for 2017, telehealth success initiatives are expected to remain high on the list of priorities. Avizia was acquired by American Well in July of 2018. The post Steps to Telehealth Success – Preparing for 2017 appeared first on American Well.

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More People Using Meditation and Yoga as Medicine, Especially Women

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

substantially grew between 2012 and 2017, many more women than men use these holistic medicine approaches. In 2017, 14.3% Marginally more women visit chiropractors, as well (11.1% These alternative medicine approaches are also growing in wellness tourism, as more people feel the real negative health impacts of stress.

Digital Health

Why #CES2022 Will Be Keynoted By A Health Care Innovator for the First Time

Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

When announced, the news was a signal that health care and the larger tech-enabled ecosystem that supports health and well-being is embedded in peoples’ everyday lives. That post was written in tandem of CES 2017 when I did a deep dive into the potential for autos to bolster wellness and promote safety and hygiene (well pre-COVID).

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Voice First: Speaking Up about Health and Wellness

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 18, 2018

Voice First is changing health and wellness offerings today. But there are experiments and pilots for using Voice First technologies for health and wellness applications. As some have said repeatedly, Voice First does not mean Voice only – and a 29-word response, well, for some questions, the less said, the better.

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Health Care Financing: How Inflation and Health Care Prices Could Hit the U.S. Consumer

Health Populi

APRIL 25, 2023

between 2017 and 2021. But there is an important inflationary/increasing difference in spending for prescription drugs compared to the other three categories: prescription drugs grew the most cumulatively in the period 2017 to 2021, by 29%, followed by inpatient, outpatient, and professional services which each increased roughly 19-20%.

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Enhancing Student Wellness through School-Based Telemedicine

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

JUNE 27, 2018

The targeted programs – behavioral health, obesity reduction and prevention, and oral health – were designed to enhance the clinical and educational services offered by using telehealth to provide on-the-spot care as well as distance education.” ” Program Model. HRSA Data Warehouse.

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A New Chevy Equinox SUV, a Year in Grad School, or Health Care for Four – The 2022 Milliman Medical Index

Health Populi

JUNE 1, 2022

MMI 2017 Health Care Costs for Family of Four Will Reach $27,000 in 2017. Health consumers have tended to demonize pharma more than they have hospitals, but the pandemic raised trust in (some) pharma companies as well as for local health systems supporting communities’ health in the public health crisis.

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The Link Between Administrative Burden and Physician Burnout

Continue Education Journal

JULY 20, 2021

This burnout leads to measurable increases in exhaustion in the workplace as well as depersonalization from work. Burnout poses a risk to both patient safety and physician well-being. Administrative burden causes inefficiencies in both time and money in healthcare while playing a large role in the declining well-being of providers.

Why CES 2022 Will Be Keynoted by a Health Care Executive

Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2021

This news is a signal that health care and the larger tech-enabled ecosystem that supports health and well-being is embedded in peoples’ everyday lives. That post was written in tandem of CES 2017 when I did a deep dive into the potential for autos to bolster wellness and promote safety and hygiene (well pre-COVID).

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Telehealth is Health: It’s Telehealth Awareness Week

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Beyond the sheer scale of patient volumes reached during the pandemic, virtual care was adopted by physicians across specialties well beyond primary care. Health and wellness are expanding in the retail health, closer-to-patients’-homes ecosystem of care. In 2020, 79% of U.S.

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VA, VHA, Verizon partner to increase rural veterans' telehealth access

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

To help conquer the digital divide preventing rural veterans from accessing the range of health and wellness benefits they are eligible for, the U.S. THE LARGER TREND Remote broadband connectivity is a roadblock to telehealth and other virtual care services for veterans and others who live in rural as well as certain urban areas.

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American Well partners recognized as “top” healthcare leaders

American Well

DECEMBER 19, 2016

American Well is proud to say that three of our clients, Intermountain Healthcare, CVS Health, Cleveland Clinic, have been recognized for their outstanding work in improving life at sustainable costs. We are proud to partner with these pioneering healthcare organizations, and look forward to transform healthcare together in 2017.

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American Well partners recognized as “top” healthcare leaders

American Well

DECEMBER 19, 2016

American Well is proud to say that three of our clients, Intermountain Healthcare, CVS Health, Cleveland Clinic, have been recognized for their outstanding work in improving life at sustainable costs. We are proud to partner with these pioneering healthcare organizations, and look forward to transform healthcare together in 2017.

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On-demand senior care platform Papa scores $60M for growth

Mobi Health News

APRIL 13, 2021

Papa got its start in 2017 by matching young adults, called Papa Pals, with seniors to provide assistance and companionship. .

Digital Health

Kohl’s and the Rebranded Weight Watchers in Retail Health

Health Populi

JANUARY 29, 2019

For the past two holiday shopping seasons in 2017 and 2018, I’d noticed pre-print ads in my local Sunday newspaper from Kohl’s, the value-priced retailer, featuring wearable technology for health. WW’s latest tagline is, “Wellness that works.” ” What does Kohl’s get from this collaboration?

South Central Legislative/Regulatory Update – November 2017

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Adds that the interpretation of clinical laboratory studies as well as pathology and histopathology studies performed by physicians without Mississippi licensure is not the practice of telemedicine provided a Mississippi licensed physician is responsible for accepting, rejecting, or modifying the interpretation.

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Study: U.S. Insulin May be Substandard, As Well As Costly

Insulin Nation

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

On December 21, 2017, Alan W. The next step for Carter and Heinemann is to test larger samples and to include insulin analogs, as well as biosimilars. Carter and Lutz Heinemann published a report in the Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology that suggests that insulin vials sold in U.S. But this will require further funding.

The Ultimate Health Outcome, Mortality, Is Rising in America

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

years of age, if you were born in 2017. That’s the latest data on Mortality in the United States, 2017 , soberly brought to you by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, part of the U.S. The rates of death for younger ages significantly grew between 2016 and 2017 in the age cohorts 25-34 and 35-44. year from 2016.

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Consumers Changing the Channel on Where They Shop for Health

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

The two organizations have collaborated to launch a new benchmarking study into health-beauty-wellness (HBW) sales, launched this weekend at the GMDC HBW Conference in Orlando. Overall, 2017 to 2018 year-on-year, HBW sales were flat-to-no growth, notwithstanding the consumer and influencer buzz around the categories.

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Still Struggling with Stress in America in 2021

Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2021

for Black as well as Asian adults, and 4.8 These people were more likely to say their stress was higher in the past month than earlier in the pandemic, as well as higher than before the pandemic. billion has been invested in mental health digital health cumulatively from 2017 to H1 2021. Their stress index topped at 5.6

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The Evolution of a Patient Ambassador – Learning from Stacy Hurt

Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2022

Consider: fighting health insurance appeals, crafting countless medical necessity letters, justifying being discharged against medical orders, and other battles fought hand-in-hand with her husband on behalf of Emmett and his well-being. My work is my life, and my life is my work,” she confessed.

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Open Table for Health: Patients Are Online For Health Search and Physician Reviews

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Seeking health information online along with researching other patients’ perspectives on doctors are now as common as booking dinner reservations and reading restaurant reviews, based on Rock Health’s latest health consumer survey, Beyond Wellness for the Healthy: Digital Health Consumer Adoption 2018. In the U.S.,

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A National Study Utilizes Routine Health Data to Investigate Transfusion-Transmitted Diseases

Digital Health Global

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

million transfusions between 1968 and 2017. Among the diseases confirmed to be transfusion-transmitted were viral hepatitis and its complications, as well as other conditions such as pneumonia of unknown origin. The researchers analyzed a nationwide transfusion database called SCANDAT-3S, encompassing data on 1.72

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The Promise of Digital Health and the Privacy Perils – HealthConsuming Explains, Part 4

Health Populi

MAY 2, 2019

Broadband connectivity, cloud computing, data analytics and well-conceived artificial intelligence (AI) enable the use of data generated from digital health tools to benefit our health. are concepting, which I wrote about back in 2007 focusing on Toyota’s wellness car concept. Promising, promising. mobile consumers.

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What Would Healthcare Feel Like If It Acted Like Supermarkets – the 2018 Temkin Experience Ratings

Health Populi

APRIL 9, 2018

If there is any good news for health plans in this year’s Temkin Experience Ratings compared to the 2017 results, it’s at the margin of “very poor” performance: last year, health plans has the worst performance of any industry (with the bar to the furthest point on the left as “low scoring”).

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Healthcare Companies’ Reputations Go North While All Other Industries’ Reps Fall; and, A Lesson from Campbell’s Soup

Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2018

consumers, who ranked the sector as the only industry whose reputations rose between 2017 and 2018. The Reputation Institute has published its annual 2018 US RepTrak Industry Rankings , finding that all industries but healthcare took negative hits on reputation from 2017 to 2018. Healthcare has a reputation halo in the eyes of U.S.

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Modernizing Medicine To Pay $45 Million To Settle False Claims, Kickback Allegations

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

EHR vendor Modernizing Medicine has agreed to pay $45 million to the federal government to settle a whistleblower suit alleging that the vendor engaged in varied kickback schemes as well as causing its provider customers to submit false claims. The lawsuit was filed in 2017 by law firms Phillips and Cohen LLP and Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC.

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Tech-enabled Home Care Redux? Do investors remember 2016?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In fact, 2013-2017 saw the rise, rise, and then fall of Home Hero – which raised $18 million, closing in 2017 and Hometeam’s $40 million in 2016. . That same 2018 article noted a serious worker turnover problem, up to 67% per year (then) as well as critical shortage of workers. Home Care Assistance received $100 million in 2016.

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A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

Access to Technology Is the New Pillar for Well-Being: CES & the UN Partner for Human Security for All

Trending Sources

2017 A Ground Breaking Year for Telehealth

More Working Americans Enrolled in High-Deductible Health Plans in 2017

The Suicide Rate in America Increased by 40% between 2000 and 2017. Blue Collar Workers Were Much More At Risk.

Consumers Expand Their Definition of Well-Being to Include Food-As-Medicine

The Number of Unintended Deaths From Car Accidents, Falls and Overdoses in America Grew 40% Between 1999 and 2017

The Hair Economy in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Control, Wellness, and Self-Care

Direct Primary Care Well Represented at #HLTH2022

Championing Local Well-Being: How we can create a blueprint for social prescribing

What is Psychological Well-Being in Young People? The Role of Self-Help Digital Tools

The True Costs of Diabetes Go Well Beyond the Wallet

IoT and The Rise of the Machines in Healthcare

8 Benefits of Meditation to Mental Health and Well-Being

Dual-Hormone ILet Poised to Begin FDA Testing in 2017

Grocery and Golf Goodness: Food, Fitness, and Fresh Come Together

Steps to Telehealth Success – Preparing for 2017

More People Using Meditation and Yoga as Medicine, Especially Women

Why #CES2022 Will Be Keynoted By A Health Care Innovator for the First Time

Voice First: Speaking Up about Health and Wellness

Health Care Financing: How Inflation and Health Care Prices Could Hit the U.S. Consumer

Enhancing Student Wellness through School-Based Telemedicine

A New Chevy Equinox SUV, a Year in Grad School, or Health Care for Four – The 2022 Milliman Medical Index

The Link Between Administrative Burden and Physician Burnout

Why CES 2022 Will Be Keynoted by a Health Care Executive

Telehealth is Health: It’s Telehealth Awareness Week

VA, VHA, Verizon partner to increase rural veterans' telehealth access

American Well partners recognized as “top” healthcare leaders

American Well partners recognized as “top” healthcare leaders

On-demand senior care platform Papa scores $60M for growth

Kohl’s and the Rebranded Weight Watchers in Retail Health

South Central Legislative/Regulatory Update – November 2017

Study: U.S. Insulin May be Substandard, As Well As Costly

The Ultimate Health Outcome, Mortality, Is Rising in America

Consumers Changing the Channel on Where They Shop for Health

Still Struggling with Stress in America in 2021

The Evolution of a Patient Ambassador – Learning from Stacy Hurt

Open Table for Health: Patients Are Online For Health Search and Physician Reviews

A National Study Utilizes Routine Health Data to Investigate Transfusion-Transmitted Diseases

The Promise of Digital Health and the Privacy Perils – HealthConsuming Explains, Part 4

What Would Healthcare Feel Like If It Acted Like Supermarkets – the 2018 Temkin Experience Ratings

Healthcare Companies’ Reputations Go North While All Other Industries’ Reps Fall; and, A Lesson from Campbell’s Soup

Modernizing Medicine To Pay $45 Million To Settle False Claims, Kickback Allegations

Tech-enabled Home Care Redux? Do investors remember 2016?

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