Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2019

FAIR Health’s paper on A Multilayered Analysis of Telehealth published in July 2019 found that telehealth usage has substantially grown since 2015 as more states implement laws for coverage. An intriguing data point comes in Figure 14 on the distribution of non-hospital-based provider-to-patient telehealth claim lines in 2018.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2018

The daily life of a person managing diabetes feels many costs: at work, on relationships, at play, during sleep, on time, on mental health, and to be sure, on personal finances. The fiscal bottom-line for PwD: 1 in 2 patients has sometimes gone without diabetes care due to cost.

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mHealth Insight

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Transforming Community Pharmacies into High Street Clinics is a conference organised by NELLPC and will be held from 9-5pm on Thursday the 15th November 2018 at The Old Town Hall, 29 Broadway, Stratford, London, E15 4BQ. Proposed action points and Close Prof David Taylor, Professor Emeritus of Pharmaceutical and Public Health Policy, UCL.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 14, 2020

In our review of 2018 Uniform Data System data—the most recent available—from a 100 percent sample of US CHCs, we found that our nation’s health centers are largely unprepared for this transformation. Across the US, 56 percent of 1,330 CHCs did not have any telehealth use in 2018 ( exhibit 1 ).

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American Well

OCTOBER 3, 2016

At this time, parents only pay for the medicine and any future follow up with their personal primary care physician. There are also thoughts about building an on-demand service app that patients can use to call from home – instead of heading to urgent care or emergency department. Answering the Call for Tele-Pediatric Care.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

where this research found Britons’ mental health improved through socializing via creative activities of all sorts. I covered this in depth in this Health Populi post earlier this year. The World Health Organization called for “prescribing” clean air for the world’s children, 90% of whom were breathing toxic air in 2018.

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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2019

Primary care must be available to all, noting that his father who was recently quite ill was financially saved by Medicare coverage. Biden, too, told his personal story of family health trauma and financial coverage with health insurance. Even countries like the U.K. and Canada have some private insurance.

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