Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

With President Trump’s somber speech from the Oval Office last night, we wake up on 12th March 2020 to a ban on most travel from Europe to the U.S., His remarks focused largely on an immigration and travel policy versus science, triaging, testing and treatment of the virus itself. Prudential surveyed U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

To the surprise of no one, the new AMA Physician Practice Benchmark Survey , finds a major uptick in use of telehealth since before the pandemic: 70.3% of physicians polled say they work in practices that used videoconferencing to provide patient visits in September 2020, according to the survey – that's compared to only 14.3%

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Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2021

economy lost 140,000 jobs — the greatest job loss since April 2020 in the second month of the pandemic. The 2020-21 economic recession is the first time in U.S. As Uwe Reinhardt, health economist guru , is whispering in my ear from his heavenly perch, “It’s the virus, stupid.”

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MAY 30, 2022

I wrote early on in the pandemic that mental health impacts would be the epidemic inside and beyond the coronavirus itself. And financial stress directly and negatively impacts mental, behavioral, and physical health. This challenge has grown due to high deductibles and growing out of pocket payments for copays and coinsurance.

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Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2021

In April 2020, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control issued a report featuring evidence that in the month of March 2020, the coronavirus pandemic was not an equal-opportunity killer. adults, the annual Gallup survey on honesty and ethics in professions perennially proves. In the U.S.,

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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). Based on the extensive data mash-up across the 10 domains and nearly 500,000 surveys conducted throughout the U.S.,

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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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Health Populi

JULY 10, 2020

In Patient Perspectives on Virtual Care , Kyruus answers this question based on an online survey of 1,000 patients 18 years of age and older, conducted in May 2020. Each of these health consumers had at least one virtual care visit between February and May 2020.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2020

The same percentage of people over 50 own a voice assistant, a market penetration rate which more than doubled between 2017 and 2019, AARP noted in the 2020 Tech and the 50+ Survey published in December 2019. For this research, AARP worked with Ipsos to survey (online) 2,607 people ages 50 and over in June and July 2019.

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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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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Several new studies reveal that more patients are feeling and living out their role as health care payors as medical spending vies with other household line items. The summary’s title tells you the focus of the research: Mending Healthcare in America 2020 – Consumers + Costs. health politics looking toward November 3, 2020.

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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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Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The top-line in the report, and the bottom-line for health citizens, was that 38% of U.S. households faced serious financial problems in 2020 in the delta variant phase of the pandemic. This month’s announcement launching the Advanced Care at Home Initiative bolsters this phenomenon.

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Health Populi

MARCH 30, 2020

The 2020 WebMD survey on the state of physicians showed a growing anomie among doctors working in the U.S. The Coronavirus Pandemic reminds us of the precious and scarce resource that is our national supply of physicians in America — numbering about 750,000 active clinicians in the U.S. according to the U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 4, 2023

” I’ve pulled out a few of the data points that speak to me about population health, prevention and early diagnosis (or lack thereof), and alarm bells on women’s health — notably, young women and girls.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 19, 2018

adults, roughly one-in-five people who are sick and dealing with serious conditions, also put off treatment due to costs, Gallup learned in its survey conducted the week of the U.S. In another survey, conducted by NPR collaborating with IBM Watson Health, younger people had more trouble paying for care than older people, the survey found.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

households entered 2020 in the best financial shape they’d been in years, based on new Census data released earlier this week. 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. lacked health insurance.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2021

For parents, the strain has grown from 2020 into 2021: family responsibilities are a significant source of stress, and relationships are a source of stress. The APA’s August/COVID Resilience Survey was conducted online by The Harris Poll in August 2021 among 3,035 U.S. As a result, three in four U.S. adults 18 and over.

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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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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2020

PwC explored how COVID-19 is influencing consumers’ health care behaviors in survey research conducted in early April by the Health Research Institute. The findings were published in a May 2020 report , detailing study findings among 2,533 U.S. adults polled in early April 2020.

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Health Populi

JUNE 21, 2019

a year, PwC notes in their annual report, Medical cost trend: Behind the numbers 2020 from the firm’s Health Research Institute. As the first chart shows, trend will grow 6% from 2019 to 2020. On the consumer side, HRI conducted a national survey among 2,500 U.S. This is an increase of 0.3 This is an increase of 0.3

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The paper, Health Insurance Affordability Concerns and health Care Avoidance Among US Adults Approaching Retirement , explored the perspectives of 1,028 US adults between 50 and 64 years of age between November 2018 and March 2019.

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APRIL 1, 2019

Patients-as-health-consumers are highly influenced by health care costs when assessing their ability or interest in seeking health care, the second chart from the VisitPay survey report illustrates. is compared with peer nations on a broad range of social indicators: financial, health, social, behavioral, and digital.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The left-hand chart graphs data from the 2020 OECD Report Risks That Matter which shows that greater inequality spells less next-generation upward mobility: perceptions of intergenerational persistence in the shares of income of the richest and poorest 10% are closely related. I referred to the 2020 OECD Report Risks That Matter above.

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OCTOBER 26, 2022

The pharmacy is all these things, and increasingly digital-first, we learn in The Rx Report: A new day in retail pharmacy , a consumer survey from CVS Health. CVS Health, one of the two largest pharmacies operating in the U.S. in 2021 along with Walgreens, worked with Morning Consult to poll 2,210 U.S.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2019

adults, one in four couldn’t go on a vacation due to health care costs. For this research, Lively conducted a survey among 1,000 U.S. Guns and health care…equivalently stressing out Americans in 2019…and both top ranking issues in U.S. And across all U.S. adults age 18 and over in June 2019.

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2020

The need for a holistic platform the serves up a continuum-of-care tools across the patient journey became evident in a matter of months, Capgemini Research Institute calls out in The Health Fix , a research report assessing peoples’ perspectives on health care in the Age of COVIOD-19. in mid-June 2020.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Joseph Dieleman of the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, a group that has been long-tracking the coronavirus since its emergence. The team analyzed data from January 1 2020 to September 30 2021.

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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. People in the U.S.

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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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

RTM can potentially offer more convenient ways for patients to engage with health systems. According to the recent 2020 Digital Health Care Survey , U.S. In fact, 62% of those surveyed say they would receive health and wellness advisories. consumers want virtual care services.

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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.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 30, 2020

But most Americans, rich or not, believe that it’s unfair for wealthier people to get better health care, according to a January 2020 poll from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Harvard Chan School of Public Health, Life Experiences and Income Equality in the United States. adults 18 or older.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: The top challenges in patients seeking care noted in the first chart related to paying for treatment, following by mental and emotional well-being. This third chart comes from the latest annual Stress in America survey done by the American Psychological Association , published today on U.S.

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Lloyd Price

MAY 23, 2020

From an economic perspective, a survey of UK households three weeks into ‘lockdown’ found that 49% of households feel anxious about their finances, rising to 95% amongst the households experiencing serious financial difficulties [11]. Digital Peer Support trained 750 peer support specialists between 10 March and mid April 2020.

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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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Henry Kotula

JUNE 21, 2020

Nearly half of all Americans say they or someone they live with has delayed care since the onslaught of coronavirus , according to a survey last month from the Kaiser Family Foundation. While the survey didn’t ask people why they were putting off care, there is ample evidence that medical bills can be a powerful deterrent.

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