2022, Health Policy, Public Health and Telehealth

A Public Health Wake-Up Call: Reading Between the Lines in IQVIA’s 2023 Use of Medicines Report

Health Populi

MAY 4, 2023

health care: “Wake up, public health!” ” 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.

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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. Four in five U.S.

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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

“Telehealth certainly appears to be here to stay,” the AARP forecasts in An Updated Look at Telehealth Use Among U.S. adults over 50 said they or someone in their family had used telehealth. adults 50 and over in February and March 2022, to gauge older peoples’ views on virtual care now and in the future.

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Thinking About Telehealth Through the Lens of Real Estate – Listening to JLL

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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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. Policy and reimbursement consultancy Applied Policy hired Steven Johnson as Health Policy Director.

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Survey Findings: Medicaid Telehealth For Behavioral Health Care

Telebehavioral Health Institute

JANUARY 26, 2023

Medicaid Telehealth has emerged as a crucial component in extending and facilitating access for individuals with behavioral health needs. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of telehealth to deliver healthcare services safely and effectively.

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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.

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

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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Rebuilding Resilience, Trust, and Health – Deloitte’s Latest on Health Care and Sustainability

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Consider: chatbots, AI, triage-via-telehealth, and other digital investments that can address higher-cost sites and redundant services. Community, with collaboration around data, mission, and inclusion key to bolstering public health and trust that then inspires health engagement and mutualism.

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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. ” The Commonwealth Fund offers several policy prescriptions for 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. Their ability to recover in 2021 and 2022 as the national economy heals and again grows will be a crucial time period to strategic plan and executive for a future that is not defined by a traditional inpatient bed.

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Love and Health: The Education of Abner Mason, SameSky Health

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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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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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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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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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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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. This will inevitably change the results of what we will see one year from now in 2022.

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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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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. Black maternal mortality is but one of a long list of health disparities and inequities in the U.S.

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

Health Populi

JULY 5, 2023

In part, these health outcomes can be significantly influenced by factors both within the health care system as well as the environment, social care, and other drivers of health (those social determinants of health we cover here in Health Populi as core to our wheelhouse and advisory work). health care system?”

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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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2023 Preview of Telemental Health Laws & Behavioral Telehealth Regulations

Telebehavioral Health Institute

DECEMBER 22, 2022

After continuing COVID-related telemental health laws and behavioral telehealth regulations in 2022, many key issues for 2023 are already decided. Both federal and state legislative groups have focused heavily on passing behavioral telehealth regulations to be enacted in 2023 and are poised to extend in subsequent years.

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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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Health in the 2022 U.S. Midterm Elections – Women, Prescription Drugs, and Who Shows Up to Vote

Health Populi

OCTOBER 16, 2022

On Tuesday November 8, 2022, health and medical issues will be on many U.S. Health policy experts from Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, AARP, and the United States of Care recently shared perspectives on the health care issues on voters’ and policy makers’ minds for the 2022 midterm elections.

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A Public Health Wake-Up Call: Reading Between the Lines in IQVIA’s 2023 Use of Medicines Report

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

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

Thinking About Telehealth Through the Lens of Real Estate – Listening to JLL

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

Survey Findings: Medicaid Telehealth For Behavioral Health Care

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

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

Rebuilding Resilience, Trust, and Health – Deloitte’s Latest on Health Care and Sustainability

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

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

Love and Health: The Education of Abner Mason, SameSky Health

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

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

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

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

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

A Mid-Year Update on 2023 Healthcare Trends

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

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

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

2023 Preview of Telemental Health Laws & Behavioral Telehealth Regulations

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

Health in the 2022 U.S. Midterm Elections – Women, Prescription Drugs, and Who Shows Up to Vote

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