Health Populi

MAY 30, 2022

I appreciated the opportunity to share my perspectives on “The Patient As the Payer: How the Pandemic, Inflation, and Anxiety are Reshaping Consumers” in a webinar hosted by CarePayment on 25 May 2022. in 2022, billing and medical payments are now embedded in patients’ experience, regardless of the type of payor.

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Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2022

The 24th Annual Technology Ownership & Market Potential Study from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) tells us that Americans in 2022 will have to manage challenging economic headwinds, shopping for technology is preparing people for their new normal — with household budgets and value in mind. By May 2022, 1 in 5 U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

In early 2022, over half of those over 50 (the AARP core membership base) told the Association they would likely use telehealth in the future. adults 50 and over in February and March 2022, to gauge older peoples’ views on virtual care now and in the future. . The study polled 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. Women thus accounted for one-third of ADHD prescriptions as of December 2022.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

We ended 2022 with this new, sobering statistic from the Centers tor Disease Control (CDC). In case you missed it in your pre-holiday wind-down, the CDC published two reports on declining life expectancy in America on December 22, 2022. Life expectancy in the U.S. Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 20021-2021.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

A survey of Surescripts users found an 8% increase in the use of electronic prescriptions for specialty medications in the first five months of 2022 compared to 2021. Surescripts also reported a 24% increase in the number of prescribers enrolled in May 2022 compared to May 2021.

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AMD Telemedicine

JANUARY 31, 2023

Another important distinction is that the reimbursement policies from private insurers vary between real-time and store-and-forward technologies. For more information on live real-time telemedicine technologies and to begin developing your own custom solution, request a demo today.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

I discussed the economic burden of health inequities in the U.S. in a 2022 essay , weaving data from several studies that quantified the cost of health disparities using various methods. health citizens. It’s a business imperative and revenue driver that, if not addressed, has serious business ramifications.”

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Health Populi

MAY 17, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated consumers, globally, to take on more DIY roles as well as self-care for health and well-being. Over 1 in 2 consumers said they felt stressed in the past 6 months (roughly October 2021 through March 2022), with 22% reporting being “very” stressed. IFIC polled 1,005 U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

“Two intersecting and interdependent systems comprise democracy in the United States,” Eileen Salinsky, Program Advisor with Grantmakers in Health, wrote in a compelling essay in April 2022. APA found in its October 2022 Stress in America study that many Americans are so stressed, they cannot function.

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Health Populi

JUNE 29, 2022

The study was fielded between October and December 2021, thus before the onset of significant inflation on household budgets in 2022. While most employed workers have been saving for retirement, many are not putting sufficient funds away for their goals, dreaming of traveling, spending more time with family, and pursuing hobbies.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Telehealth has increased access to mental health services, I’ve highlighted this Mental Illness Awareness Week here in Health Populi. But telehealth has also emerged as a preferred channel for routine health care services, we learn from J.D. Power’s 2022 Telehealth Satisfaction Study.

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Health Populi

MARCH 22, 2022

. “Medical debt is the most common collection tradeline reported on consumer credit records,” the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau called out in a report published March 1, 2022. The last bar chart shown here comes from the Survivor Views survey from the American Cancer Society, done in February 2022.

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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. adults online in mid-August 2022.

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2022

He had me at the statement, “I believe health data is medicine.”. We met up last week at the DIA Europe 2022 meeting (Drug Information Association) in the cool SQUARE Conference Center in Brussels, Belgium (my current home base for work and life).

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2022

If you made your living in commercial real estate — and especially, working with hospitals’ and health systems’ office space — would the concept of telehealth be freaking you out right now? If you heed the words of JLL’s 2022 Patient Consumer Survey , you’d chill (at least a bit).

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Digital Health Global

OCTOBER 27, 2023

While structural and technological progress has indeed been slower than expected, there is no doubt the healthcare sector is experiencing a technology-driven evolution that slowly but inexorably, will change the way we handle our health. The focus on lifestyle improvement to prevent pathologies is not new.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2024

Rumor has it via Wareable that the company could be expanding sales of the Lingo continuous glucose monitor (CGM) I discussed here during CES 2022 — currently available in the UK, and potentially expanding to the US — TBA at #CES2024 perhaps?

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Health Populi

MARCH 28, 2023

Note that these data go to 2021, so do not include the life expectancy data for young Americans from 2022 or first quarter of 2023. Today I’m pointing to homicide, the solid aqua blue line, in the graph. The increase in pediatric injury deaths was not caused by COVID-19 but due to injuries, the authors note.

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JULY 17, 2023

And those policy burdens are increasing, both nurses and doctors agree — “driving nurses away from the profession altogether,” AHA asserted, and compelling physicians to revisit their ability to operate a practice.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

As it relates to the proposed 2022 Physician Fee Schedule and the new RTM codes, there are a few specific actions that CMS can take in order to strengthen and clarify the codes as well as encourage adoption. The code set as proposed has known uncertainties.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

It felt super appropriate that I met up with Abner Mason, Founder of SameSky Health, on Valentine’s Day 2022. My initial ask of Abner was to discuss the re-branding of ConsejoSano to SameSky Health , but I first wanted to hear the man’s origin story. That name captures the aspirational view that we are connected.”.

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JANUARY 26, 2023

A recent survey conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), which surveyed state Medicaid officials across 44 states in the US, including the District of Columbia, revealed an increased interest in permanently adopting pandemic-era telehealth policy expansions.

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Health Populi

JULY 4, 2022

With one-in-three consumers saying, in the previous multi-circle graphic, that health consumers have grown price-sensitive to healthcare and medicine costs, we can expect people turning to cost-saving tactics for their health care decisions and spending in 2022 and 2023 (when a recession in the U.S.

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Digital Health Global

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

MIT alumnae launch inaugural venture capital fund focused on the collision of healthcare and technology NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Black Opal Ventures (BOV), founded by managing directors Dr. Tara Bishop and venture capitalist Eileen Tanghal, today announced their inaugural health-tech fund which has raised $58M to date.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 26, 2023

While the same proportion of Black and White patients say they are looking for a doctor with empathy and compassion, there are relatively large differences between patients based on their race, found in the Everyday Health-Castle Connolly Physician-Consumer study. The survey was conducted in December 2022 among a group of 1,001 U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 24, 2023

One-half of consumers were following a specific eating pattern or diet in the 2023, about the same percentage of people as in 2022 and significantly more consumers than the 39% following a diet in 2021. Still 56^ of Gen X and 42% of Boomers reported feeling stressed.

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Health Populi

JUNE 20, 2022

.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: Considering medical debt tops peoples’ phone bill debt and other forms of indebtedness in the U.S., we are faced with health citizens in America facing household spending crowded out with inflationary prices for food and energy, gas tank fills and college costs.

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Health Populi

MARCH 8, 2023

In September 2022, Judge O’Connor ruled it unconstitutional for the ACA to require health plans to cover preventive services. Health Populi’s Hot Points: By late January, one-in-two U.S. (If you want to learn more details on the case, it’s formally filed as Braidwood Management Inc.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

That is the through-line found in a very deep dive into 177 countries’ health data published in The Lancet in a research article on pandemic preparedness and COVID-19. The Lancet study, published on 1 February 2022, was funded by the Gates Foundation in partnership with The Bloomberg Philanthropies et al.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2022

[The link in the previous sentence will take you to my post on the Fund’s 2009 report, citing a déjà vu experience of evidence that sounds all too similar to the 2022 profile]. The 2022 Fund report, P rimary Care in High-Income Countries: How the U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 16, 2022

The future of regulation for medical, digital health, pharma, and other areas requiring risk-management. Compared with care delivery in 2022 in much of the developed world, care is organized around the needs of providers, suppliers, plans, and payers…not consumers, patients and caregivers.

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Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2022

The master-builders of the Index, Steven Downs and Thomas Goetz, explained the project’s methodology and top-line results in a Zoom call last week — actually on Earth Day 2022. We have a chronic disease problem, and it’s getting worse: “the U.S. 10% now have diabetes and another 30% are pre-diabetic.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The funds will support the company’s launch of virtual primary care services in California, Texas, and Washington in 2022, introducing an improved and long overdue healthcare experience for Latinos built on trust, community, and culture. “We To learn more about Zócalo Health’s mission and services, visit zocalo.health.

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Health Populi

APRIL 19, 2023

Globally, the gap between how well I am taking care of my health versus how well I “should” be doing has grown by 14 percentage points (worse) in the past year, comparing March 2022 to March 2023. the biggest barriers to better health are (1) cost and (2) information, the Edelman research discovered. In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

JANUARY 22, 2021

But I expect “equity,” broadly writ, will be embedded into all policies in and beyond health care over the next two years leading up to the mid-term elections in 2022 — from food to housing to workplace safety and, indeed, vaccination and treatment.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

I talked through the short, shocked, continuing story of the consumer in the era of the coronavirus epidemic: what we know-we-know in the first ten months into it, and what might come to persist post-pandemic in 2022 and beyond.

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