2021, Health Policy, Public Health and Telehealth

Addressing Lives and Livelihoods with a Whole-of-Government Approach – The First Wave of Biden Health Policy

Health Populi

JANUARY 27, 2021

President Biden’s first few days on the job gave us a very clear view on how he sees conquering COVID: through a whole-of-government approach to public policies that bolster directly addressing the virus, along with the many forces shaping how we got here and how to come out of the pandemic era stronger. Ultimately, U.S.

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

“The expansion of telehealth and the offering of new telehealth services that were not previously covered really enabled physicians to care for their patients in the midst of this crisis,” said Todd Askew, the AMA’s senior vice president of advocacy, during a recent “AMA COVID-19 Update. Provider Considerations.

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Still Struggling with Stress in America in 2021

Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2021

“Americans remain in limbo between lives once lived and whatever the post-pandemic future holds,” the American Psychological Association observes in their latest read into S tress in America 2021, with this phase of the perennial study focused on Stress and Decision-Making During the Pandemic. adults 18 and over. out of 10.0.

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Telehealth Update from the AMA – Setting the Context for ATA 2022

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. Mental and behavioral health.

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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.

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Bonus Features – July 31, 2022 – House passes bill to extend telehealth flexibility to 2024, only 60% of practices hit their 2021 revenue goal, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

House of Representatives passed by a 416-12 vote the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID–19 Act of 2021 , which would extend the telehealth flexibilities put in place during the public health emergency until the end of 2024. Johnson is a 12-year CMS veteran who worked on MSSP’s quality reporting requirements.

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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. Dowling leads one of the largest health systems in the U.S., Prior to the emergence of COVID-19, the use of telehealth in U.S. Scale matters to survive a public health crisis.

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Can Consumer Electronics Help Stem the Decline of U.S. Life-Years? A Preface for #CES2023

Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

dropped nearly three years between 2019 and 2021, from close to 79 years down to 76. Here are links to those two reports: Mortality in the United States, 2021 , and. Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 20021-2021. Life expectancy in the U.S. decline in life expectancy? These will now be in place until the end of 2024.

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People in the U.S. Without the Internet Were More Likely To Die in the Pandemic

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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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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Health Disparities and the Risks of Social Determinants for COVID-19 – 14 Months of Evidence

Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2021

The rate of vaccinations against the coronavirus, too, significantly varied by race and ethnicity as of March 11, 2021. For some people such as American Indian and Native Alaskan folks, geography, remoteness, and lack of public health infrastructure are challenges. In the U.S., The percentages of people in the U.S. population).

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

Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2021

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. A major side-effect of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 was its impact on the national U.S. population).

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Value-Based Health Care Needs All Stakeholders at the Table – Especially the Patient

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

Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2021

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. A recent TransUnion study found that younger than older Americans’ health care behaviors shifted in the public health crisis.

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Be Mindful About What Makes Health at HLTH

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?

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

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Mitchell is quoted in the story, New data says more communities built their own broadband because of COVID published in Motherboard on 10th September 2021, an important report written by Karl Bode. who have indeed built up local connections for residents — health citizens, all.

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Genentech’s Look Into the Mirror of Health Inequities

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This year Genentech followed up the 2020 exploration of patients’ perspectives, adding in the health care provider/physician view on health equity. This time around for the 2021 research into health equity, Genentech polled 2,200 U.S. Key findings in this year’s 2021 study were that: Inequities within the U.S.

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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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Consumers Intend to Invest in Technology — With Budget and Value in Mind

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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Behavioral Health Side-Effects in the COVID Era

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The first chart illustrates data on the impact of COVID-19 on behavioral health across different population groups. could have a behavioral health need in 2021. health care system in terms of workflow and payment parity. Overall, 1 in 3 people in the U.S.

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Lose the COVID-19 public health emergency, but keep the progress

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Accountable Care Compliance & Legal Government & Policy Telehealth Workforce Healthcare organizations must urge the Senate to pass critical telehealth legislation, and enact at least a two-year extension of the important PHE-era policies while working toward a permanent solution.

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Our Homes Are Health Delivery Platforms – The New Home Health/Care at CES 2021

Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

CES 2021 featured some obvious quick-pivoting products that had the pandemic written all over them, with sessions invariably speaking to the way the public health crisis impacted companies and strategic plans. Joining Peloton in connected fitness at CES 2021 was NordicTrack, which recently announced its purchase of Precor.

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Lose the COVID-19 public health emergency, but keep the progress, says HIMSS GR director

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Accountable Care Compliance & Legal Government & Policy Telehealth Workforce Healthcare organizations must urge the Senate to pass critical telehealth legislation, and enact at least a two-year extension of the important PHE-era policies while working toward a permanent solution.

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Emerging with A Stronger Healthcare System Post-COVID: NAM’s Lessons Learned

Health Populi

APRIL 8, 2021

health care system that existed before the public health crisis. What lessons can be learned from the COVID-19 stress-test to build American health care back better? health system, including 637 health systems, two-thirds of which are not-for-profit and most operating in one state.

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

Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: In the report’s discussion, KFF recognizes that this year’s study, the 22nd annual, was fielded in the unprecedented time of the coronavirus pandemic. Job losses in the public health crisis have resulted in millions of American workers and families losing health benefits.

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Happy 75th Birthday, NHS – Through A U.S. Health Care Lens

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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Can the U.S. Improve Health System Performance with Digital Health Tools? Pondering A Big Question for #HIMSS21

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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The Color of Care – Oprah and The Smithsonian Channel Partner on Health Equity

Health Populi

APRIL 20, 2022

A new documentary and educational campaign on health equity will be launched on May 1st, 2022, from Oprah’s Harpo Productions studio partnering with The Smithsonian Channel. Alma Adams (D-NC) introduced the Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act of 2021 in the U.S. health care system. ” In parallel, Rep.

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A Mid-Year Update on 2023 Healthcare Trends

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. The most notable impact of the non-renewal of the PHE was the end of continuous Medicaid public health insurance coverage.

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Social Determinants of Health Risks Challenge the Promise of Hospital-to-Home

Health Populi

MAY 31, 2022

. “Today, anyone can access care by walking into an emergency room,” they observed, “but when it comes to telehealth, patients have to use a number of proprietary portals and platforms that are health system specific.

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Trust Plummets Around the World: The 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer in #CES2021 and Microsoft Context

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. The pandemic year and lifestyle found global health citizens focus on, well, health, hygiene, and safety.

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How to Restore Americans’ Confidence in U.S. Health Care: Deal With Access and Cost

Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2021

Now that hygiene protocols are well-established in health care providers’ settings, at least two other major consumer barriers to seeking care must be addressed: cost and access. One-in-three people were also dealing with a mental health conditions, split roughly between anxiety disorders and depression of some type.

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The Next-Normal Health Care Consumer After the Pandemic

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?

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Addressing Lives and Livelihoods with a Whole-of-Government Approach – The First Wave of Biden Health Policy

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

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Still Struggling with Stress in America in 2021

Telehealth Update from the AMA – Setting the Context for ATA 2022

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

Bonus Features – July 31, 2022 – House passes bill to extend telehealth flexibility to 2024, only 60% of practices hit their 2021 revenue goal, and more

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

Can Consumer Electronics Help Stem the Decline of U.S. Life-Years? A Preface for #CES2023

People in the U.S. Without the Internet Were More Likely To Die in the Pandemic

Ten In Ten: Manatt’s Healthcare Priorities to 2031

Health Disparities and the Risks of Social Determinants for COVID-19 – 14 Months of Evidence

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

Value-Based Health Care Needs All Stakeholders at the Table – Especially the Patient

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

Be Mindful About What Makes Health at HLTH

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

Genentech’s Look Into the Mirror of Health Inequities

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

Consumers Intend to Invest in Technology — With Budget and Value in Mind

Behavioral Health Side-Effects in the COVID Era

Lose the COVID-19 public health emergency, but keep the progress

Our Homes Are Health Delivery Platforms – The New Home Health/Care at CES 2021

Lose the COVID-19 public health emergency, but keep the progress, says HIMSS GR director

Emerging with A Stronger Healthcare System Post-COVID: NAM’s Lessons Learned

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

Happy 75th Birthday, NHS – Through A U.S. Health Care Lens

Can the U.S. Improve Health System Performance with Digital Health Tools? Pondering A Big Question for #HIMSS21

The Color of Care – Oprah and The Smithsonian Channel Partner on Health Equity

A Mid-Year Update on 2023 Healthcare Trends

Social Determinants of Health Risks Challenge the Promise of Hospital-to-Home

Trust Plummets Around the World: The 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer in #CES2021 and Microsoft Context

How to Restore Americans’ Confidence in U.S. Health Care: Deal With Access and Cost

The Next-Normal Health Care Consumer After the Pandemic

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