Society for Participatory Medicine

OCTOBER 13, 2018

Archie Cochrane influenced the thinking, and practice, of many other clinicians with his thought leadership on practice variation, practice standardization, and the use of RCTs to fine tune medical science. Cochrane Chile (hosting the Cochrane Colloquium global meeting in 2019 in Santiago). Cochrane Nigeria. Cochrane Japan.

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CMS.gov

MARCH 14, 2019

Thu, 03/14/2019 - 17:33. Leadership. I’ve heard the derisive comments from those in the health policy stratosphere that prefer centralized government command and control of health care in America. Good Ideas Must Be Evaluated. Jeremy.Booth@c…. Seema Verma. Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

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Henry Kotula

MARCH 16, 2020

Harborview Medical Center in downtown Seattle operated at 95 percent of its capacity in 2019, based on its licensed 413 beds and the days of patient care it reported to the Department of Health. Some of Seattle’s largest hospitals were already near capacity before the outbreak.

Nursing 41

Nursing Public Health Psychiatry Telemedicine 41

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

By enabling patients to receive care in rural areas or non-traditional settings, or to access technology that is customized for their specific language and health literacy levels, RPM can reduce or eliminate many social determinants of health barriers and improve access to care for individuals.

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Health Populi

MARCH 7, 2019

FAANGs have fallen in the wake of “scandal, deception and corruption,” especially related to Facebook/Cambridge Analytica (which I discussed here in Health Populi). The death of the “processed marketplace” has led to a major trend in Health, Well and Fresh.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2019

I’ve tracked that social trend here in Health Populi each year since covering the Edelman Trust Barometer , which has traced the downward sloping curve on trust globally and certainly in the U.S. The report is, sadly, ironically, very well-timed for this very moment in U.S. political, social and healthcare history.

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Public Health Leadership Mental health Health Policy 252

Health Populi

MARCH 29, 2019

citizens together is agreement that the cost of health care is too high in the country, and that pharma, health plans, and providers are to blame. Welcome to health politics in America as of March 2019, according to The Public and High U.S. Health Care Costs , a poll conducted by POLITICO and the Harvard T.H.

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Medicare Leadership Public Health Pharmaceuticals 253

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

voters in 2020 quite like supporting Medicare’s ability to negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies, shown by the October 2019 Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll. Last year, IQVIA estimated a median price for new oncologics in 2019 was $149,000. Few issues unite U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan, helming their leadership posts in the Senate and the House, respectively, had the President’s back on this from the start. It’s been a concept that, largely, only health policy wonks (like me) talked much about. What a difference a year makes.

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Leadership Public Health Medicare Health Policy 191

Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2019

Cover me… The two over-arching issues about which most Americans, across political party, converge are for health insurance coverage and lower prescription drug costs. A Washington Post op-ed published earlier this month noted, “A caravan for insulin demonstrates how the American health-care system is failing us.”

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