2022, Health Policy and Patient Experience

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

Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

This report provides insightful context for the upcoming annual ATA Conference for 2022 , being held in-person in Boston kicking off May 1st. The post Telehealth Update from the AMA – Setting the Context for ATA 2022 appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. Creating An Opportunity in a Time of Uncertainty.”

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The Patient as Consumer and Payer – A Focus on Financial Stress and Wellbeing

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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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

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. Partnerships.

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Real-Time Versus Store-and-Forward Telehealth Technology

AMD Telemedicine

JANUARY 31, 2023

In instances where patients are consulting with specialists, live consultations can help practitioners render immediate, on-the-spot diagnoses or treatment suggestions, rather than patients having to transfer to different facilities for second opinions or consults.

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Three in Five People 50+ in the US Will Likely Use Telehealth In the Future – An Update from AARP

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

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.

Digital Health

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“Healthcare Isn’t Healthy:” the Global Challenge of Health Equity, and Calls-to-Action

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.”

Public Health

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What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

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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Telehealth-As-Healthcare Is a Mainstream Expectation Among Consumers, J.D. Power Finds

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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Consumers’ Trust In Pharmacists As Providers Grows Along with Omnichannel Health Care

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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What to Expect For Health/Care at CES 2024

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?

Mental health

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What Are Patients Looking for in a Doctor? It Depends on Who You Ask…and Their Race

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. consumers and 277 Castle Connolly health care professionals.

Life Science

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How Health Gets Built – The Building H Index Thinking Health-By-Design

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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Primary Care in the U.S. – Still a Weak Backbone for the Health of Health Citizens

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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Consumers Expect Every Company to Play a Meaningful Role in “My Health” – New Insights from the 2023 Edelman Trust Barometer

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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Biofourmis Raises Additional Funding from Intel Capital in Series D Extension and Names Top Healthcare Leaders to its Board

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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Pharma Spending Gone Bipolar: Generics At One End, Specialty Drugs on the Other

Health Populi

APRIL 23, 2018

a report from the IQVIA Institute for Health Data Science. The report reviews medicines spending in 2017 looking forward to 2022. million prescriptions cost patients between $250 to $500, totaling $3.9 Prescription drug spending on branded products grew nearly $5 billion less than in 2016; generic drug spending fell by $5.5

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When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

the title of the article updating the winter 2022-23 sick-season asked. Thus, the sage advice as we approach gatherings for Christmastime 2022: “Close your mouth and step away from the human,” by Katherine Wu of The Atlantic. We enter 2023 with home economics setting our tables as a context for our overall health and well-being.

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

Health Populi

MAY 31, 2022

Along with the potential of the home evolving as a patient, consumer, and caregiver’s health hub come the realities and challenges of peoples’ daily lives: those social (and other) determinants of health (SDoH) and living situations that are real obstacles for many patients’ discharged to home.

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Health Equity: Searching for a New Angle

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

By enabling patients to receive care in rural areas or non-traditional settings, or to access technology that is customized for their specific language and health literacy levels, RPM can reduce or eliminate many social determinants of health barriers and improve access to care for individuals.

Primary Care

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: An Introduction

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Rutledge says that Medicare, which already penalizes hospitals when one of their patients is readmitted within 30 days, will increase penalties if the hospital has not addressed the patient’s SDoH. Another report from CODE calls for better tagging of data with SDoH.

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From Better for Me to Better for “We” — NielsenIQ’s New Consumer Hierarchy of Health

Health Populi

JANUARY 21, 2022

Policy, legislation, and governance. I looked at the latest 2022 Edelman Trust Barometer earlier this week , observing how consumers around the world are looking for solutions from the private sector — not so much from governments, who mainstream citizens feel have let them down in the past several years. New outlooks on life.

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In the New Inflationary Era, Gas and Health Care Costs Top Household Budget Concerns

Health Populi

APRIL 4, 2022

Inflation and rising prices are the biggest problem facing America, most people told the Kaiser Family Foundation March 2022 Health Tracking Poll. Underpinning that household budget concern are gas and health care costs. Monthly health insurance premium, among 36% of people. Overall, 55% of people in the U.S.

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Nurses Continue to Rule in Honesty and Ethics in U.S. Professions – Healthcare Professions Still Top Gallup’s Annual Poll

Health Populi

JANUARY 13, 2022

The pandemic has wreaked havoc on nurses’ mental health and well-being, driving many to sign onto their individual “Great Resignations.” and other countries’) health care systems. ” There has been a nursing shortage long before COVID-19 hit the U.S.

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Connected Health Pulse

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

The Patient as Consumer and Payer – A Focus on Financial Stress and Wellbeing

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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

Real-Time Versus Store-and-Forward Telehealth Technology

Three in Five People 50+ in the US Will Likely Use Telehealth In the Future – An Update from AARP

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

“Healthcare Isn’t Healthy:” the Global Challenge of Health Equity, and Calls-to-Action

What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

Telehealth-As-Healthcare Is a Mainstream Expectation Among Consumers, J.D. Power Finds

Consumers’ Trust In Pharmacists As Providers Grows Along with Omnichannel Health Care

What to Expect For Health/Care at CES 2024

What Are Patients Looking for in a Doctor? It Depends on Who You Ask…and Their Race

How Health Gets Built – The Building H Index Thinking Health-By-Design

Primary Care in the U.S. – Still a Weak Backbone for the Health of Health Citizens

Consumers Expect Every Company to Play a Meaningful Role in “My Health” – New Insights from the 2023 Edelman Trust Barometer

Biofourmis Raises Additional Funding from Intel Capital in Series D Extension and Names Top Healthcare Leaders to its Board

Pharma Spending Gone Bipolar: Generics At One End, Specialty Drugs on the Other

When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

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

Health Equity: Searching for a New Angle

Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: An Introduction

From Better for Me to Better for “We” — NielsenIQ’s New Consumer Hierarchy of Health

In the New Inflationary Era, Gas and Health Care Costs Top Household Budget Concerns

Nurses Continue to Rule in Honesty and Ethics in U.S. Professions – Healthcare Professions Still Top Gallup’s Annual Poll

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