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Redefining PPE As Primary Care, Public Health, and Health Equity – The Community PPE Index

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

In May 2020, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) re-visited the acronym, “PPE.” ” Perhaps Definition 3 in the OED could be updated by a blog published online in the September 25, 2020, issue of Health Affairs, A New “PPE” For A Thriving Community: Public Health, Primary Care, Health Equity.

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How Trauma-Informed Design Principles Can Be Health-Ful for All of Us – Learning from IKEA

Health Populi

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Health Populi’s Hot Points: While mental health issues were already mainstream across health citizens around the world before the COVID-19 pandemic was termed a “pandemic” in March 2020, peoples’ mental well-being eroded during the public health crisis and since then, more people have put a name to their situations and sought (..)

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Voting for Health in 2020

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

In 2020, as voting commences in-person tomorrow on 3 rd November, U.S. Health is translating across all definitions for U.S. voters in November 2020: for health care and physical health, financial health, mental health, and societal health. Issue #2 for 2018 voters was the economy. In the U.S.,

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Income Inequality is Fostering Mis-Trust, the Edelman 2020 Trust Barometer Observes

Health Populi

JANUARY 22, 2020

But in developed, wealthier parts of the world, like the U.S., “a record number of countries are experiencing an all-time high ‘mass-class’ trust divide,” according to the 2020 Edelman Trust Barometer. where private sector organizations began to more visibly take on public health objectives and missions.

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In the Past Ten Years, Workers’ Health Insurance Premiums Have Grown Much Faster Than Wages

Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

who benefits from health insurance at the workplace, the annual family premium will average $21,342 this year, according to the 2020 Employer Health Benefits Survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Over ten years, the premium dollars grew from $13,770 in 2010 to $21K in 2020. For a worker in the U.S.

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Masks Work. A Picture From Kansas That Tells A Story in Two Words.

Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2020

” The backstory: Kansas Governor Laura Kelly issued a mask mandate on July 2, 2020. T his picture tells an even quicker story that can save lives: “Masks work.”

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Virtual Health Tech Enables the Continuum of Health from Hospital to Home

Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. TripleTree is an investment bank that has advised health care transactions since 1997. In 2019, J.D.

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The $4 Trillion Health Economy of 2020

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

In 2020, national health expenditures (NHE) in the United States will exceed $4 trillion to cover 334.5 of health spending per person. The three largest line items of NHE in 2020 will be: Hospitals = $1,326 trillion = 38% of NHE. Together, these three categories will comprise just over 80% of health spending in 2020.

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Billing Medicare and Private Payers for Telehealth Visits: What to Expect Post-Public Health Emergency

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NOVEMBER 10, 2020

” While the AMA and many others are advocating for continued support of telehealth post-pandemic, healthcare providers and practice leaders should anticipate and prepare for a return to more standardized regulation after the public health emergency (PHE). i] AMA COVID-19 Update , June 17, 2020. [ii] ii] [link].

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Ten In Ten: Manatt’s Healthcare Priorities to 2031

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Their ten must-do’s for bending the cost curve while driving constructive change for a better health care system are to: Ensure access. Achieve health equity. Stability the safety net and rebuild public health. Address social determinants of health. Accelerate digital health. Innovate long-term care.

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Our Pandemic Lessons: Listening to Michael Dowling – a #HIMSS21 Wrap-Up

Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2021

health policy and regulatory leaders. An uncertain world is our workplace in the health/care ecosystem, globally, in this moment. If pre-COVID era regulations that were dismissed in the pandemic revert back, Dowling is concerned the progress made for telehealth in 2020 will slow or return to pre-pandemic levels of uptake.

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The Economics of the Pandemic Put Costs at the Top of Americans’ Health Reform Priorities

Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2021

A major side-effect of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 was its impact on the national U.S. In 2021, patients-as-health-consumers seek lower health care and prescription drug costs coupled with higher quality care, discovered by the patient advocacy coalition, Consumers for Quality Care. population).

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The She-Cession – a Financially Toxic Side-Effect of the Coronavirus Pandemic

Health Populi

AUGUST 4, 2020

Mothers in 2020’s pandemic have reduced their work hours four to five times more than fathers to care for children in a nation that hasn’t created a strong caregiving foundation. . Their article assesses the impact of COVID-19 on gender equality , published in the April 2020 issue of COVID Economics from CEPR Press.

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Necessity is the Mother(board) – How COVID-19 Inspires Local Communities to Build Broadband

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Folks who couldn’t connect couldn’t work from home, go to school from home, connect with fitness and faith communities from home — essentially live in the year 2020 and beyond in a digitally-enabled home, community, society.

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People Want to Flourish, Not Just Live – Speaking Health Politics to Real People

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. And I daresay, health reform.

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Telehealth and COVID-19 in the U.S.: A Conversation with Ann Mond Johnson, ATA CEO

Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

They are likely to stay there,” asserts “ The smartphone will see you now ,” an article in the March 7th 2020 issue of The Economist. I’d seen ATA’s initial statement on the coronavirus published on March 3 2020, so I knew Ann was on this issue. Congressional leadership on February 28 2020. No, it’s not from the U.S.

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Think Quintuple Aim This Week at #HIMSS25

Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2025

While each goal on its own is a critical driver of high performing health systems, working the five as a strategic quintet can benefit individual patients, families, communities, and the nations that fund (or share in funding) health care services to the country’s residents. There’s more!”

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SEARCH 2020 – Day Two

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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

HRSA’s 8 bureaus and offices (Ryan White, Maternal and child health, rural health policy, healthcare systems, etc.) In 2019, Health Centers across the nation served 30 million patients. Rapid Implementation of an Interprofessional 1-800-COVID19 Hotline Call Center to Support a Public Health Crisis , Dr. Kevin Sexton.

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The Most Relevant Companies in Health Care – Learning From the W2O Group

Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2021

” That year the firm began to study the relevance of, well, relevance for organizations especially operating in the health/care ecosystem. 2020 changed everything, the W2O team asserts, now issuing its latest look into the issue through the Relevance Quotient. This includes health care.

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The Coronavirus Impact on American Life, Part 1 – Life Disrupted, and Money Concerns

Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2020

Interestingly, only 30% of Republicans felt this way in March 2020, more than doubling to 70% as of early April 2020 more closely reflecting Democrats’ and Independents’ views on life-disrupted.

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Most Americans Blame Drug Companies, Insurers, and Hospitals for High Health Care Costs

Health Populi

MARCH 29, 2019

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. Chan School of Public Health. I predict that the history of the 2020 Presidential election in the U.S. Why do I say this?

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The Economics of the Pandemic Put Costs at the Top of Americans’ Health Reform Priorities

Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2021

A major side-effect of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 was its impact on the national U.S. In 2021, patients-as-health-consumers seek lower health care and prescription drug costs coupled with higher quality care, discovered by the patient advocacy coalition, Consumers for Quality Care. population).

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A Call to Embrace Civic Engagement (Including Voting Access) as a Driver of Health

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

.” Civic Engagement is a Social Determinant of Health , Eileen titled this piece in which she discusses philanthropy’s role in both strengthening democracy and bolstering public health. I wrote my book, Health Citizenship , in 2020, six months into the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

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50 Days Before the U.S. Elections, Voters Say Health Care Costs and Access Top Their Health Concerns — More than COVID-19

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The pandemic has also led to economic decline that, seven weeks before the 2020 elections in America, is top-of-mind for health citizens with the virus-crisis itself receding to second place, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation September 2020 Health Tracking Poll. President in 2020. KFF polled 1,199 U.S.

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How Trust and Geopolitics Will Impact Health and Business – Edelman 2022 Trust Barometer at the World Economic Forum in Davos

Health Populi

MAY 23, 2022

Leaders in government, business, media, and NGOs will be discussing the converging big issues of the moment: Ukraine/Russia, climate change, inflation, food supply, and to be sure, public health — with new concerns about monkey pox on the pandemic radar. “The trust gulf has widened enormously,” Dr. . As Dr. Nabarro.

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The Digital Consumer, Increasingly Connected to Health Devices; Parks Associates Kicking Off #CES2021

Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic drove U.S. But the coronavirus era also saw broadband households spending more on connecting health devices, with 42% of U.S. consumers owning digital health tech compared with 33% in 2015, according to research discussed in Supporting Today’s Connected Consumer from Parks Associates.

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Health Consumers Value Sharing and Downloading Health Data, But Privacy Concerns Remain

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier. ” The coronavirus pandemic has shown U.S. Trust is in short supply in the U.S.

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Can Telemedicine Increase Health Equity? A Conversation with Antoinette Thomas, Dave Ryan, and Me with the ATA

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

I noted this Morning Consult survey , data shown here, finding that people of color who were lower-income as of June 2020 had a more difficult time paying for Internet and phone bills than white people with lower incomes. Nothing like a public health crisis to bring new awareness to old knowledge.

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In 2023, the U.S. Will Still Be the #1 Prescription Drug Spender in the World, IQVIA Forecasts

Health Populi

JANUARY 29, 2019

More philanthropic organizations targeting neglected tropical and public health diseases. This topic will inevitably be part of ongoing political debates as we lead up to the 2020 Presidential election. The patient is the consumer is the payor of health care, including prescription drugs at the point of purchase.

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The Health Care Cost Curve is Bending Down – A New View from Deloitte

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

health care and that volumes turned downward in 2020. health care as it is currently organized, financed, and delivered. The COVID-19 pandemic has, in fact, had a positive impact on spending per se given the volume-based nature of U.S. The COVID-19 pandemic revealed many weaknesses in U.S.

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Addressing Health Equity Must Include Digital Equity Beyond Access To Medical Services and Insurance

Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2020

The 21st Century Cures Act emphasizes patients’ control of personal health information. ONC rules issues in March 2020 called for more patient-facing health tools and apps to bolster health consumer engagement and empowerment. But the emergence of the coronavirus in the U.S.

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

Health Populi

APRIL 25, 2023

in 2021, per person health care spending increased by nearly 15%, reversing 2020’s spending decline of 3.5% The latest Health Care Cost and Utilization Report from the Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) details health spending in 2021, dissecting the change in terms of utilization of services and prices by category.

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Most Americans Want the Federal Government to Ensure Healthcare for All

Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2018

But while there’s majority support for universal health care, we should think broadly about this concept at this moment. Now, in late 2018, we look toward 2019 and the 2020 Presidential elections and must also contemplate the lower darker green line. This asked people whether they would prefer a government-run health system.

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Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 1

Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2024

When we think through these different worlds and the factors shaping them, we are better prepared to deal with “stuff” that inevitably happens that can shift our world slightly, or blow it apart – like rushing about for PPE when supplies from Asia dried up in the second quarter of 2020. Just sayin’.

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While Costs Are A Top Concern Among Most U.S. Patients, So Are Challenges of Poverty, Food, and Housing

Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Three-quarters of Americans believe that hospitals, clinics and physicians should look beyond patients medical/clinical needs into root causes like access to healthy food, transportation, and safe/clean housing — the social determinants of health.

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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

Health Populi’s Hot Points: From the start of the coronavirus pandemic in early 2020, one thing became clear: that people living in households without connectivity were unable to work from home if they had a job that supported virtual work, attend school from home, or connect to loved ones, friends, and communities from home.

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Consumers’ Dilemma: Health and Wealth, Smartwatches and Transparency

Health Populi

JULY 4, 2022

Spending on mental health apps, in particular, spiked up in the COVID-19 pandemic reaching at least $500 million according to Deloitte’s analysis.

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Humana Foundation Invests in Innovative Mental Health and Nutrition Programming for Seniors and School-Aged Children

Digital Health Global

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The Foundation previously invested $3 million in 2020 to help older adults access digital health tools and maintain social connections online. and is focused on health equity, working to eliminate unjust, avoidable and unnecessary barriers in health and healthcare.

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340 organizations tell Congress to make telehealth permanent

Henry Kotula

JULY 1, 2020

While federal agencies can address some of these policies going forward, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid does not have the authority to make changes to Medicare reimbursement policy for telehealth under current law, stakeholders said. WHY THIS MATTERS. The PHE is scheduled to expire in July.

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Join us at “Transforming Community Pharmacies in to High Street Clinics”

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OCTOBER 28, 2018

The conference will highlight the potential of delivering high quality and easily accessible, personalised healthcare in North East London, including clinical and public health services and the NHS 10-year plan. Proposed action points and Close Prof David Taylor, Professor Emeritus of Pharmaceutical and Public Health Policy, UCL.

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Financial Health Is On Americans’ Minds Just Weeks Before the 2020 Elections

Health Populi

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Financial health is part of peoples’ overall health. As Americans approach November 3, 2020, the day of the real-time U.S. bill-paying households in late September 2020. Nearly 8 million workers losing jobs also losing their employer-sponsored health insurance, discussed in this research from The Commonwealth Fund.

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Juneteenth 2020: Inequality and Injustice in Health Care in America

Health Populi

JUNE 19, 2020

King’s observation: Health is broader than “health care;” “Inhuman” isn’t the same thing as “inhumane;” and, “Human lives end because of this injustice,” Dr. Galarneau underscores. ” On Juneteenth 2020, there are people coming together in Martin Luther King, Jr.’s,

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Your State as a Determinant of Health: Sharecare’s 2021 Community Well-Being Index

Health Populi

JULY 14, 2022

In 2020, Sharecare began a collaboration with the Boston University School of Public Health to expand the Index, including drivers of health such as, Healthcare access (like physician supply per 1,000 residents). basis, moving from the 2020 grey dot to the green 2021 score. points in 2020 and 16.1

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Stress in America, Like COVID-19, Impacts All Americans

Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2020

2020Elections day, 3rd November, three in four Americans say the future of America is a significant source of stress, according to the latest Stress in America 2020 study from the American Psychological Association. uniformly, with Gen Z adults feeling particularly acute emotional tolls in 2020. With thirteen days to go until the U.S.

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Redefining PPE As Primary Care, Public Health, and Health Equity – The Community PPE Index

How Trauma-Informed Design Principles Can Be Health-Ful for All of Us – Learning from IKEA

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Income Inequality is Fostering Mis-Trust, the Edelman 2020 Trust Barometer Observes

In the Past Ten Years, Workers’ Health Insurance Premiums Have Grown Much Faster Than Wages

Masks Work. A Picture From Kansas That Tells A Story in Two Words.

Virtual Health Tech Enables the Continuum of Health from Hospital to Home

The $4 Trillion Health Economy of 2020

Billing Medicare and Private Payers for Telehealth Visits: What to Expect Post-Public Health Emergency

Ten In Ten: Manatt’s Healthcare Priorities to 2031

Our Pandemic Lessons: Listening to Michael Dowling – a #HIMSS21 Wrap-Up

The Economics of the Pandemic Put Costs at the Top of Americans’ Health Reform Priorities

The She-Cession – a Financially Toxic Side-Effect of the Coronavirus Pandemic

Necessity is the Mother(board) – How COVID-19 Inspires Local Communities to Build Broadband

People Want to Flourish, Not Just Live – Speaking Health Politics to Real People

Telehealth and COVID-19 in the U.S.: A Conversation with Ann Mond Johnson, ATA CEO

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SEARCH 2020 – Day Two

The Most Relevant Companies in Health Care – Learning From the W2O Group

The Coronavirus Impact on American Life, Part 1 – Life Disrupted, and Money Concerns

Most Americans Blame Drug Companies, Insurers, and Hospitals for High Health Care Costs

The Economics of the Pandemic Put Costs at the Top of Americans’ Health Reform Priorities

A Call to Embrace Civic Engagement (Including Voting Access) as a Driver of Health

50 Days Before the U.S. Elections, Voters Say Health Care Costs and Access Top Their Health Concerns — More than COVID-19

How Trust and Geopolitics Will Impact Health and Business – Edelman 2022 Trust Barometer at the World Economic Forum in Davos

The Digital Consumer, Increasingly Connected to Health Devices; Parks Associates Kicking Off #CES2021

Health Consumers Value Sharing and Downloading Health Data, But Privacy Concerns Remain

Can Telemedicine Increase Health Equity? A Conversation with Antoinette Thomas, Dave Ryan, and Me with the ATA

In 2023, the U.S. Will Still Be the #1 Prescription Drug Spender in the World, IQVIA Forecasts

The Health Care Cost Curve is Bending Down – A New View from Deloitte

Addressing Health Equity Must Include Digital Equity Beyond Access To Medical Services and Insurance

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

Most Americans Want the Federal Government to Ensure Healthcare for All

Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 1

While Costs Are A Top Concern Among Most U.S. Patients, So Are Challenges of Poverty, Food, and Housing

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

Consumers’ Dilemma: Health and Wealth, Smartwatches and Transparency

Humana Foundation Invests in Innovative Mental Health and Nutrition Programming for Seniors and School-Aged Children

340 organizations tell Congress to make telehealth permanent

Join us at “Transforming Community Pharmacies in to High Street Clinics”

Financial Health Is On Americans’ Minds Just Weeks Before the 2020 Elections

Juneteenth 2020: Inequality and Injustice in Health Care in America

Your State as a Determinant of Health: Sharecare’s 2021 Community Well-Being Index

Stress in America, Like COVID-19, Impacts All Americans

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