Health Populi

JANUARY 3, 2022

As we enter COVID-19’s “junior year,” one unifying experience shared by most humans are feelings of pandemic fatigue: anxiety, grief, burnout, which together diminish our mental health. Mental health spiked up for virtual visits and to this day, is among the medical services in highest demand for virtual platforms.

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Health Populi

JULY 14, 2022

People whose sense of well-being shifted positively in the past two years are finding greater personal purpose and financial health, we see in Sharecare’s Community Well-Being Index – 2021 State Rankings Report. basis, moving from the 2020 grey dot to the green 2021 score. states since 2008. points, versus 17.0

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2020

Whether healthcare spending in 2021 increases by double-digits or falls by one-third directly depends on how the coronavirus pandemic will play out over the rest of 2020, based on PwC’s annual report on medical cost trends for 2021. In 2021, spending would return to pre-COVID projections. Patients Forgo Care Until 2021.”

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Health Populi

JULY 22, 2021

In the Age of COVID, over 90,000 new health apps were released, as the supply of digital therapeutics and wearables grew in 2020. Evidence supporting the use of digital health tools if growing, tracked in Digital Health Trends 2021: Innovation, Evidence, Regulation, and Adoption from IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Three mega-trends bubbled up on the platform for health — telemedicine and virtual care, broadband access, and mental health, discussed in a Birdseye Report Industry Deep Dive into Health from Brandwatch, partnering with Twitter. For this report, Brandwatch utilized only English-language public Twitter data.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Nearly all large companies are also worried about the long-term mental health impacts of the public health crisis. Access to mental and behavioral health services rank top on this list, for three in four companies.

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Digital Health Global

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

million grant to Big Brothers Big Sisters of America (BBBS) to initiate and elevate mental health programs at chapters in the four geographies, including mental health first aid training for mentors and related coursework for youth. Today, there’s a critical need to provide young people with mental health supports.

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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 Populi

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

are experiencing “death by 1,000 cuts,” according to the 2021 Medscape Physician Burnout & Suicide Report. This is a current threat to the quality and sustainability of health care in America for all patients in and beyond COVID-19. Physicians in the U.S. Four in ten U.S. I have become the typist.”

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

“The pandemic has shown that effective health spending is an investment, not a cost to be contained: stronger, more resilient health systems protect both populations and economies,” the OECD states in the first paragraph of the organization’s perennially-updated report, Health at a Glance 2021.

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Health Populi

MAY 5, 2021

One are, tele-mental and -behavioral health, is meeting the moment, with virtual therapy meeting up with under-served demand from before the public health crisis. With mental health the epidemic inside and beyond the pandemic , this area is fast-growing with anxiety and stress part of daily lives in 2021.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This is according to a new annual report from research and consulting giant PwC entitled “Top health industry issues of 2021: Will a shocked system emerge stronger?” “Some specialties, such as mental health, may find stronger footing via virtual visits.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

“This surge of people experiencing acute behavioral health problems…has the potential to further impact the healthcare system for years to come,” a report from McKinsey expects looking at the hidden costs of COVID-19’s impact on U.S. health care. could have a behavioral health need in 2021.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

I covered the event here in Health Populi, as I have for most of the past decade, highlighting the growth of digital health and, this year, the expanding Internet of Healthy Things called-out by Dr. Joseph Kvedar in 2015. Telehealth, too, is embraced by 3 in 5 people for both physical and mental health services.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 3, 2021

HIMSS this week has unveiled the list of the first recipients of its 2021 HIMSS Changemaker Awards. Al Mahri is also group chief nursing officer at Abu Dhabi Health Services Company, or "SEHA," where she was the first senior nursing leader to identify the importance of the nursing informatics specialty. Abu Dhabi, UAE.

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Health Populi

MARCH 14, 2023

While technology is embedded in this list, the headlines have more to do with social, mental, and behavioral health than pure-play technology and devices. Topping the 2023 list of patient safety concerns is the pediatric mental health crisis.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

One of the great use cases for telemedicine has proven to be mental health. Rarely does mental health require in-person tests. Telehealth will continue to grow because it fills a void in the mental health space by creating improved access for many individuals who lacked this access previously.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

One in four people would consider online options as their first-line to evaluating personal health issues — a kind of “digital step therapy,” if you will. About 1 in 2 people said that the process of shopping for health care prompted them to change their health care provider.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 16, 2021

A bipartisan group of senators this week introduced the Telemental Healthcare Access Act of 2021, geared toward reducing hurdles to providing virtual behavioral health services. would remove the statutory requirement that Medicare beneficiaries be seen in person within six months of receiving mental health services through telehealth.

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2022

As a result, commercial healthcare spending fell in 2020, rebounding in 2021. 2020-2021 was a sort of “catching-up-with-healthcare” year, seeing the PMPM spend grow by 8.7%. Commercially insured workers in low-income communities also had fewer visits per 1000 members for telehealth in 2020 and 2021.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Research from payment and analytics company Clarify Health found that mental health utilization for pediatrics has increased significantly since 2016. Inpatient admissions for mental health increased 60% from 2016 to 2021, while ED admissions increased 20%.

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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2021

News & World Report’s 2021 Healthiest Communities Rankings. News collaborated with the Aetna Foundation, CVS Health’s philanthropic arm, in this fourth annual list of the top geographies for well-being in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 1, 2022

While costs in the Index fell in 2021 (seen in the bar chart), in 2022 the MMI increased at a rate similar to pre-pandemic levels. As Annie Mann, co-author of the study, observed, “It’s been a wild ride these last few years but in 2021 the MMI finally surpasses $30,000 for a hypothetical American family.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2021

A new report from CB Insights found that global telehealth investment rose for the fourth consecutive quarter in Q2 of 2021 – with teletherapy deals representing a substantial share.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

While venture funding for digital health technology declined globally by 35% in the first three quarters of 2022 compared with 2021, this marks a “return to normal” based on the assessment in the Global State of Digital Health Report from FINN Partners and Galen Growth, published today and launched during the HLTH 2022 conference.

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Health Populi

MARCH 18, 2021

A Year into our collective coronavirus experience, Americans remain stressed, with physical health taking a back seat to our daily grinds based on the 2021 Stress in America survey from the American Psychological Association (APA). adults 18 and older in February 2021. The APA has been updating us on U.S.-stress

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Health Populi

MARCH 30, 2021

Still, the Homebody Economy will persist even post-COVID, with a growing realization that “home” has become a safe haven for many life-flows — with continued investments planned in 2021 for home renovations as well as luxury goods. consumers, and for mental/behavioral health by some 54% of people.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

This drove health consumers to virtual care platforms in the first months of the public health crisis — including lots of older people who had never used telemedicine or even a mobile health app.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2021

Our feet have become an important health focus during the pandemic, as the importance of exercise-as-medicine and mental health helper has looked to walking, running, and biking as good-for-us physical activities. In fact, value for all other categories fell between 2020 and 2021, especially hard-hit for underwear (!),

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2021

That ethos now pertains to post-pandemic health consumers’ growing use of wearable tech, remote health monitoring, and mobile apps for self-care and chronic condition management. adults in late September 2021, a year and a half into the COVID-19 pandemic. Mental health nearly doubling to 25%.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 7, 2022

"Our experience during the pandemic was that telehealth meant our member psychiatrists were able to treat more patients, which was critical as we faced a mental health crisis,” said APA CEO and Medical Director Dr. Saul Levin in a statement. WHY IT MATTERS.

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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?

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

hospitals’ operating margins went negative in January 2021 after turning north for the first time in December 2020 since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, according to the February 2021 Hospital Flash Report from Kaufman Hall, commissioned by AHA, the American Hospitals Association. The resulting revenue results among U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The Future of Wellness in 2022 is, “shifting from a ‘feel-good’ luxury to survivalism as people seek resilience,” based on the Global Wellness Institute’s forecas t on this year’s look into self-care and consumer’s spending on health beyond medical care — looking beyond COVID-19.

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