Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 7, 2022

"Our experience during the pandemic was that telehealth meant our member psychiatrists were able to treat more patients, which was critical as we faced a mental health crisis,” said APA CEO and Medical Director Dr. Saul Levin in a statement. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2022

The second bar chart illustrates the per member/per month (PMPM) spend for commercially insured workers, showing growth of over 7% from 2018 to 2019, and nearly 7% drop from 2019 to 2020 in the first year of the pandemic. But flat growth is expected for 2022, Castlight forecasts.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

.” The latter is consistent with the World Health Organization’s definition of health : “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” online adults 18 and older in September 2018.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2022

These are shown in the first diagram from the report, breaking out factors that have exacerbated challenges on both the demand and supply side of the American health economy. Many of these were already in motion before the COVID-19 pandemic emerged; the public health crisis exacerbated several of them. In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

MAY 15, 2018

Disparities in Americans’ health vary among people living in each of the 50 states. These differences in health status generally fall into two regions: north and south, found in the Commonwealth Fund’s 2018 Scorecard on State Health System Performance.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Census Bureau found that the level of health insurance enrollment fell by 1 million people in 2019 , with about 30 million Americans not covered by health insurance. In fact, the number of uninsured Americans rose by 2 million people in 2018 , and by 1.9 Race matters for health insurance in America.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Consumers point to some organizations that they perceive may be working against their better health: these include fast food manufacturers, the entertainment industry, food processors (“Big Food”), the media, government agencies, and health insurance companies. Health care delivery in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 18, 2020

The deployment of technology as a tool to enable us to bridge the distance that COVID-19 has imposed has also been accepted with an immediacy and a unity of purpose by health and care providers. The latest policy framework for Scotland guiding this digital transformation work is the Digital Health and Care Strategy from 2018.

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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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Health Populi

APRIL 11, 2018

the chronic disease burden takes a massive toll on both public health and mortality, accounting for 7 in 10 deaths in America each year. That personal health toll comes at a high price and proportion of national health expenditures. Chronic diseases are what kill most people in the world. In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

JANUARY 31, 2018

This places them on a very short list of connected health developers who have patiently developed clinical-grade health techs designed for the consumer market that have undergone regulatory scrutiny. Consumer-purchased activity trackers have been criticized by researchers for a lack of accuracy and consistency.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2018

People with diabetes come in all political stripes, and have strong health advocates on the ground both organizationally (say, the American Diabetes Association and various clinician specialty and primary care groups) and patient activists.

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American Well

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Monitor local, regional, and national public health reporting on influenza and other seasonal illnesses to better anticipate your upcoming demand for clinical services and stay up to date with public health triage and management recommendations. Avizia was acquired by American Well in July of 2018.

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American Well

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Monitor local, regional, and national public health reporting on influenza and other seasonal illnesses to better anticipate your upcoming demand for clinical services and stay up to date with public health triage and management recommendations. Avizia was acquired by American Well in July of 2018.

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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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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Through the eyes of the American patient, now health consumer, affordability continues to rank ahead of quality or access for health care based on TransAmerica’s research into healthcare consumers in a time of uncertainty.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

“Happy clinicians are the best ambassadors for virtual care,” the report asserted. “Sixty-nine percent of consumers said it was important to have a recommendation from their primary care doctor before using an alternative care setting such as virtual visits.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 21, 2020

.” Self-care in the pandemic drove virtual health care visits up across generations due to elective procedures and primary care shifting to telehealth platforms, and some consumers’ concerns about heading back to brick-and-mortar health care settings for in-person high-touch care.

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Henry Kotula

AUGUST 5, 2020

Arguably, the nation’s public health defenses should anticipate global pandemics and apply resources. Instead, COVID-19 hit the public healthcare infrastructure suddenly and hard. Overall, hospitals saw a 21% decline in operating margins in 2018-2019. Such a realignment of care delivery requires the following: ?

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Consumers using more health and wellness services also spent more money at the drug store, a further motivation for retail pharmacies to take this study’s findings to heart (and strategic import). Pharmacy Study is tracking retail pharmacy’s growth in primary care. Power’s U.S. Power expects.

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Health Populi

JULY 13, 2021

To complement the consumer study, an additional survey was undertaken among 400 health care providers including primary care physicians and specialists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, RNs and pharmacists. CVS has been tracking the growing trend of health care consumerism in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

CES 2021 featured some obvious quick-pivoting products that had the pandemic written all over them, with sessions invariably speaking to the way the public health crisis impacted companies and strategic plans. Sleep has been a key theme at CES, which I began to note in 2018 in this post on prescribing sleep for health at CES.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

The platform is being leveraged around the globe by public health departments, academic researchers, health systems and managed care organizations. Through symptom and temperature reporting, occupational health can quickly identify symptomatic and asymptomatic employees, and better allocate resources during a crisis.

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Redox

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Lisa is an excellent health tech policy follow, by the way). But unfortunately for us, ubiquity is only part of the story, as this particular function (like many public health apparatus) has withered away in recent years. Since there is no consensus transport standard that states and public health agencies use for the reporting.

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American Well

JULY 13, 2020

To meet this surge in demand, Cleveland Clinic leveraged both its providers who were already active on the platform, and also trained more than 350 primary care providers — many of whom were temporarily redeployed due to the virus — on telehealth. ?During Indiana University Health. M Health Fairview. Midland Health.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 19, 2022

OMRON’s HeartGuide earned FDA clearance for its blood pressure monitor worn on the consumer’s wrist, featured here in Health Populi in 2018. At CES 2023, OMRON will announce the company’s expanding efforts for remote heart-health monitoring (RHM) and clinical evidence generated through its launch of RHM.

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Digital Health Global

MARCH 16, 2023

Dr. Egan currently focuses on obesity medicine, menopause and primary care at true. Women’s Health. In addition to preventive care and sick visits, Dr. Egan assists gynecologists with women’s health, including the management of menopause symptoms with lifestyle and medication options. Lisa Chacko, M.D.,

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

UPMC launching a social impact program focusing on SDoH, among other projects investing in social factors that bolster public health. As I pointed out in my 2020 Health Populi trendcast , the private sector is taking on more public health initiatives as policy progress at the Federal level feels frozen.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

Becker’s Healthcare is pleased to release the “150 Top Places to Work in Healthcare | 2018” list, which highlights hospitals, health systems and healthcare companies that promote diversity within the workforce, employee engagement and professional growth. 17 on its list of Best Workplaces in Health Care.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Health Populi’s Hot Points: An update to the census-tract level broadband estimates will be published in December 2018, and this will give us updated pictures into neighborhood-specific connectivity. Broadband and its fair access rules for all health consumers through net neutrality are a bundled social determinant of health.

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Health Populi

MARCH 27, 2019

Health insurance was on the collective minds of American voters in the 2018 midterm elections. Health care, broadly defined, drove many people to the polls voting with feet and ballots to protect their access to a health plan covering a pre-existing condition or to protest the cost of expensive prescription drugs.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 29, 2018

Thus we public health folk say that a person’s ZIP code can be more important than her genetic code. Protecting pre-existing conditions in health insurance outranks lowering the price of prescription drugs and repealing the ACA, voters say.

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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2019

Harris and VP Biden on race, busing, and segregation — which in the larger public health context continue to have a direct impact on health equity, health disparities, and socio-economic status. Biden, too, told his personal story of family health trauma and financial coverage with health insurance.

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