Lloyd Price

MAY 23, 2020

The aim of this study is to document initial observations from multiple digital services providers during the COVID-19 crisis, especially those related to mental health and wellbeing. Digital services providers reported a diverse range of mental health concerns.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

TripleTree expects a “domino effect from virtual health adoption that will drive waves of demand across areas that complement virtual health and address other vulnerabilities exposed by COVID-19,” the report forecasts. In 2019, J.D. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2019

Power has undertaken a survey on consumer satisfaction with 31 telehealth providers across 15 measures, which will be published in November 2019. I’ll also weave in the latest insights from the ATA 2019 State of the States report updating legislative/regulatory telemedicine activity at the U.S. State level.

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Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2021

counties revealed that most of observed racial disparities for COVID-19 deaths persisted after controlling for overall 2019 mortality rates and COVID-19 cases per 100,000. For some people such as American Indian and Native Alaskan folks, geography, remoteness, and lack of public health infrastructure are challenges.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 22, 2020

Note that peoples’ faith in healthcare remained steady from 2019 to this year (just a 1 point decline in the index). Health Populi’s Hot Points: Since CVS/pharmacy morphed into CVS/health when it quit tobacco five years ago in 2014 , I began to intuit a shift in the U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 19, 2023

People have expanded their definitions of health in 2023, with mental health supplanting physical health for the top-ranked factor in feeling healthy. It’s largely not via media, with only 50% of global consumers trusting that the media reports accurate information about health care. In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

JUNE 21, 2019

As the first chart shows, trend will grow 6% from 2019 to 2020. for 2019, which was flat from the previous year. That costs are inching up are concerning to employers providing health benefits, who have become dissatisfied with efforts to contain health spending, PwC learned from its survey research.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

This is a global study, conducted among health citizens from North America, Latin America, Europe and the Asia Pacific region. adults in July and August 2019. findings were that, 83% of people want health web portals personalized to them. 70% would be interested in accessing a live health coach. Election Day 2019.

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Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2022

These conditions, such as diabetes and heart disease, exacerbated for some patients due to peoples’ “medical distancing” — avoiding or postponing outpatient visits for routine health services and chronic care management. deaths per 100,000 population between 2019 and 2020.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

rank prescription drugs, lab tests, emergency room visits, dental and vision care, preventive services, chronic disease management and mental health care as the “most essential” health care services, according to the 2019 Survey of America’s Patients conducted by The Physicians Foundation.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

For these deaths of despair, job security and unemployment, social connections and loneliness, access to healthcare services (THINK: mental health, anxiety, depression, pain), and education are all pathways to socioeconomic status and social security (meant in the phrase as written, not as the U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 30, 2020

feel this way, up from 56% in 2018 and 2019. Partner with community-based organizations, schools and professional organizations to disseminate information on stress and impact on health disparities. Advocate for and fund mental health services for people under stress, among other strategies. In this pandemic era, the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 7, 2020

A few weeks ago, we published Health Citizenship: How a virus opened hearts and minds. The last chapter of HealthConsuming, published in 2019, asked whether U.S. health consumers would claim their health citizenship.

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Enzyme Health

MARCH 27, 2019

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Health Populi

AUGUST 7, 2019

We’d been trying to schedule meeting up to do a live podcast since February, and we finally got our mutual acts together on 6th August 2019. Marc Iskowitz, Executive Editor of MM&M, warmly welcomed me to the Haymarket Media soundproof studio in New York City yesterday.

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Health Populi

JULY 14, 2022

Health Populi’s Hot Points: In 2021, the difference between the Top 10 and Bottom 10 in the Sharecare Well-Being Index was 17.7 points in 2019. points, versus 17.0 points in 2020 and 16.1 ” Note that top-ranked states have nearly 1.6 lower rates of severe risks for financial stress.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Here’s little Janie in her tutu, about the time Daddy drove us into Detroit around July 30, 2019, to witness the devastation in Detroit and what his friends would face in rebuilding their businesses, communities and family lives in the coming days, weeks, months, and years.

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Health Populi

MAY 14, 2019

To further bolster SDoHs that address health equity, public policies can and must also be baked with health, from transportation to food systems and education. “The new Thrive Local network will start rolling out summer 2019,” K-P’s press release said.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

During the Q&A session, an attendee asked me to address the growing call for sustainability in business, and in particular ESG goals and the Business Roundtable’s 2019 statement on the purpose of a corporation.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

The 2019 Physician Fee Schedule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published new billing codes for services that allow clinicians to prescribe asynchronous telehealth services, e-consults between clinicians to consult on a patient case, and virtual check-ins for patients and their doctors.

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GlobalMed

JULY 8, 2019

Medicaid is the largest payer for mental health services in the United States. Virtual care can appeal to behavioral health patients who fear the perceived stigma of visiting a psychiatric facility. Check a resource like Center for Connected Health Policy to find out the specific rules in your state.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

I then toured a gathering of new HBW products that hinted at what I’m going to see at retail in 2019 and beyond: food-as-medicine through turmeric-based supplements, “free-from” products for my kids and for me, and products “with benefits” and experiences beyond the first-line value proposition. I exhaled in a mindful moment.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 1, 2019

For employers, per capita health spending on someone with a complex chronic illness is eight times that of a healthy person. Lastly, employers are beginning to recognize the importance of helping their employees manage their mental health and wellbeing.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

Even in large metropolitan areas, many individuals still lack adequate access to basic healthcare services, especially for mental health. Along with other health policy, system infrastructure changes, and digital health solutions, RPM can and should be part of a multi-prong approach to advance strides in achieving health equity.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Roughly the same proportion of companies offered health benefits to at least some workers between 2019 and 2020, about 56% of firms. 31% of workers enrolled in a high-deductible health plan with a savings option, 13% in an HMO, and 8% in a point-of-service plan (POS, a hybrid of an HMO and PPO). and inflation, 2.1%.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 6, 2021

allocates more national spending to health care than any other country (among these OECD nations as well as countries not included in this research). In 2019, that reached nearly 17% of the national economy. as well as the physical and mental health of the nation’s health citizens. We’re #1!

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Two separate and new OECD reports, updating health and the global economic outlook, raise two issues that are inter-related: that gains in longevity are stalling, with chronic illnesses and mental ill health affecting more people; and, as wealth grows more concentrated among the wealthy, the economic outlook around most of the world is also slowing.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Rising health care costs continue to concern most Americans, with one in two people believing they’re one sickness away from getting into financial trouble, according to the 2019 Survey of America’s Patients conducted for The Physicians Foundation. health care system every other year.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 21, 2022

since 2019). The altruistic need is inspiring several microcultures which NielsenIQ describes as: Aging with dignity, with independence and good health. Mental health advocacy, looking to end the stigma around mental health especially in workplace culture and health care.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

the health/care ecosystem warmly embraced social determinants of health as a concept in 2019. A few of the mainstreaming-of-SDoH signposts in 2019 were: Cigna studying and focusing in on loneliness as a health and wellness risk factor. I covered this in depth in this Health Populi post earlier this year.

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Health Populi

JULY 12, 2022

“This context is important for psychiatrists and other mental health clinicians to take into account as we see our patients, especially as it pertains to affordability and availability of care.”. was quoted in the Poll’s press release. The second column here tells us that overall, 31% of U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 8, 2019

Two-thirds of Rx’s were dispensed to treat chronic conditions, notably hypertension, mental health, lipid management, diabetes, and anti-coagulants. GoodRx found a “huge spike” in Rx price increases in the first week of January 2019. over all generics and brands. The 20 most expensive medications in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2019

asserted that by 2011, human health was marked less by infectious disease and more by non-communicable conditions that could be highly influenced, reversed and prevented through self-care by the individual and public health policy that promotes social and financial wellness.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2020

“We are facing a national mental health crisis that could yield serious health and social consequences for years to come,” APA introduces their latest read into stressed-out America. APA found generational differences in Americans’ perceptions of their mental health comparing this year with last year.

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Health Populi

MAY 21, 2020

“The COVID-19 pandemic has altered every aspect of American life, from health and work to education and exercise,” the new Stress in America 2020 study from the American Psychological Association begins. workers also say that the economy is a significant stress for them, up from 46% in August 2019. in different ways.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2020

reported feeling lonely in 2019 with folks saying they don’t have enough social support, with too few meaningful interactions, poor physical and mental health, and insufficient balance in one’s life, Cigna learned. Six in 10 people in the U.S.

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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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