Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2021

2021 is the 20th anniversary of the University of Michigan Center for Value-Based Insurance Design (V-BID). Note: I may be biased as a University of Michigan graduate of both the School of Public Health and Rackham School of Graduate Studies in Economics]. The coolest thing in health policy in the 21st century!!

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

As the HLTH conference convenes over 6,000 digital health innovators live, in person, in Boston in the wake of the delta variant, what should attendees keep in mind to help HLTH make health? The top-line in the report, and the bottom-line for health citizens, was that 38% of U.S. One-half of U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2022

Consumers continued to invest in and use several technologies that supported self-care at home in 2021, with plans to purchase connected health devices, sports and fitness equipment in the next year. The percent of first-time tech purchases will increase “considerably” from 2021, on average 8 percentage points.

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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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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. Dowling leads one of the largest health systems in the U.S., The three spoke about navigating compliance (think: regulations and reimbursement) in an uncertain world.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

physicians were using telehealth to care for patients at the end of 2021. Among those doctors who were not providing telehealth by late 2021, just over one half never did so during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the 2021 Telehealth Survey Report from the AMA. Four in five U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 26, 2023

Health Populi’s Hot Points : Emotional support is just as important as medical support, Accenture observed in the Health and Life Science Experiences study conducted in 2021.

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Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2022

” Health Populi’s Hot Points: The American Medical Association polled physicians in late 2021 to gauge doctors’ perspectives on telehealth. The report lays out physicians’ majority support for telehealth and key issues preventing further adoption and proliferation of use across the U.S.

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Health Populi

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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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

the supply side of care providers, the demand side of patients, consumers, and health citizens all, and the technology developers who have fast met the pandemic need for digital health front doors, all wonder: what aspects of virtual care will persist post-pandemic? health citizens.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

But for those of us working with and innovating solutions for health and health care, #CES2021 was baked with health goodness , in and beyond “digital health” categories. In my consumer-facing health care work, I’ve adopted the mantra that our homes are our health hubs.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2022

Biofourmis continues to buck health tech funding trends with this Series D extension, which comes during a downturn in digital health investment. According to a recent Rock Health report , the first half of 2022 saw 329 digital health funding deals totaling $10.3 billion—down from $14.7

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Health Populi

AUGUST 6, 2021

health care spending and what comes from it, according to Mirror, Mirror 2021: Reflecting Poorly , a perennial report from The Commonwealth Fund that compares health system performance across eleven developed countries. as well as the physical and mental health of the nation’s health citizens. Of course not.

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Digital Health Global

OCTOBER 27, 2023

We can find academic research recommending that major health policies should emphasize reducing unhealthy lifestyles, dating three decades ago 3. The focus on lifestyle improvement to prevent pathologies is not new.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Power points out several granular perspectives to keep in mind as we design and implement omnichannel health care services: Two-thirds of U.S. consumers has accessed video telehealth services in the 12 months from June-July 2021. “Patients really like telehealth,” J.D.

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Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2020

In fact, health care is tightly integrated into our household economies and so in the pandemic, the economy, uncertainty about the duration of COVID-19, and public are Americans’ top three concerns for their nation. The recession of 2020 (which may last into 2021) was quickly ushered in due to the lockdown of the U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2020

The concerning learning here is that the self-rationing, or postponing, health care behaviors of millions of patients dealing with chronic conditions can exacerbate those issues, from foot health to vision health, delayed diagnoses for acute conditions, or un-managed care that will occasion an inpatient admission later in 2020.

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Health Populi

APRIL 8, 2021

The National Academy of Medicine is publishing nine reports addressing health stakeholder segments impacted and re-shaped by COVID-19 — for public health, quality and safety, health care payers, clinicians, research, patients-families-communities, health product manufacturers, digital health, and care systems.

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Health Populi

JULY 5, 2023

Figure 6 from the King’s Fund report arrays health spending per capita data points from the OECD’s 2021 national survey, finding the UK (the red dot on the graph) to the left of the red average line on the x-axis for per capita spending and just north of the average line of spending as a share of GDP on the y-axis.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 28, 2023

The series covered broad issues related to the healthcare workforce, economy, and health policy, and highlighted internal industry changes and trends in service delivery, quality, and equity. Attention to Health Equity: A notable aspect of the pandemic was the disparate impact it had on people of color and other marginalized groups.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

What this means for telehealth and connected health policy. They ushered in an unprecedented wave of connected health technologies, particularly for Medicare beneficiaries. Between March 2020 and February 2021, over 28 million Medicare beneficiaries, or more than 40%, used telehealth services. Why this is so important.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

What this means for telehealth and connected health policy. They ushered in an unprecedented wave of connected health technologies, particularly for Medicare beneficiaries. Between March 2020 and February 2021, over 28 million Medicare beneficiaries, or more than 40%, used telehealth services. Why this is so important.

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Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2022

Health Populi’s Hot Points: This Medscape study into physicians’ thoughts and feelings complements other research the organization has conducted with doctors earlier this year: specifically, the Medscape Physician Burnout & Depression Report 2022 , which I covered in Health Populi here in January 2022.

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Health Populi

MAY 31, 2022

Doubling-down on the issue of disparities exacerbated by digital health technology, Boston-based researchers published their view on Telehealth’s Double-Edged Sword: Bridging or Perpetuating Health Inequities in the Journal of General Internal Medicine in March 2022.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Dr. Halamka, President of the Mayo Clinic Platform, was speaking at the HIMSS 2021 annual conference on the meeting’s digital channel. Artificial intelligence and health equity were two key themes discussed during #HIMSS21, and Dr. Halamka’s concerns echoed through the week-long event. ” asked Dr. John Halamka.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2021

Welcome to the sobering 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer, released this week as the world’s technology innovators and analysts are convening at CES 2021, and the annual JP Morgan Healthcare meetup virtually convened. My goal here is to do my part to improve information hygiene for my brothers and sisters in the health/care ecosystem.

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Health Populi

APRIL 2, 2021

cannot afford to pay for quality health care — an especially acute challenge for Black and Hispanic Americans, according to a West Health-Gallup poll conducted in March 2021, a year into the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s because our discussion theme was health care consumerism. One in five people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Will health consumers who used virtual care settings continue to do so once the pandemic eases, say in the second quarter of 2021? A Biden Presidency with a Democratic Congress in both houses would portend a very different health reform outcome than a Trump Presidency with a continue split legislature. and other driving forces.

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