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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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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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

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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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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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

survey sample included 375 people identifying as Black, White, Hispanic, or Asian/Indigenous (summing to the N of 1,500). 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.

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Health Populi

JUNE 20, 2022

Note that nearly 1 in 2 of high-income Americans, earning at least $100,000 a year, had had health care debt in the past five years, shown in the first chart from the Kaiser Family Foundation Health Care Debt Survey. health citizens. ” The KFF Survey wondered, “Who has health care debt? .

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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 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

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

JUNE 29, 2022

The study was fielded between October and December 2021, thus before the onset of significant inflation on household budgets in 2022. And what was that the TCRS survey said about managing stress? That big nut would be $315,000. So much for Savings, Planning, and Preparation.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

RTM can potentially offer more convenient ways for patients to engage with health systems. According to the recent 2020 Digital Health Care Survey , U.S. In fact, 62% of those surveyed say they would receive health and wellness advisories. consumers want virtual care services.

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Health Populi

MARCH 8, 2023

Many health citizens in the U.S. would likely skip receiving preventive health care services if the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) coverage for them goes away, a Morning Consult survey found. In September 2022, Judge O’Connor ruled it unconstitutional for the ACA to require health plans to cover preventive services.

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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. Continuity. Comprehensiveness. Coordination. Only 45% of U.S.

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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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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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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

who benefits from health insurance at the workplace, the annual family premium will average $21,342 this year, according to the 2020 Employer Health Benefits Survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation. This will inevitably change the results of what we will see one year from now in 2022. For a worker in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2022

physicians are worried about big social issues, according to a Medscape survey report, Physicians’ Views on Today’s Divisive Social Issues 2022. residents had no health insurance coverage, and another 38 million people were enrolled in “inadequate” health plans — deemed to be “under-insured.”

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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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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. With the shortage expected to continue, it will be important to enact additional policies that bolster the workforce.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

See a survey cosponsored by Genpact.) The Healthy People project of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) now incorporates SDoH. Complementing this penalty, the Office of Health Policy within HHS released a report measuring the benefits of addressing SDoH in healthcare. ” The U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

In fact, a survey conducted by Pearl found that 71% of patients are more likely to trust their dentist’s diagnosis when their dentist is aided by AI software. For health plans, one critical area that can have a significant impact on health outcomes is member communication.

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Health Populi

MAY 23, 2022

When we think about the state of Trust in in mid-2022, there is some good news: Trust is rising (at least in democratic countries, while falling in autocratic ones). While government got a nudge up the Trust Barometer in 2020 at the start of the pandemic, business has held its leading edge in trust equity with global citizens in 2022.

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Health Populi

JULY 12, 2022

Inflation and the fear of economic recession were the top two causes of anxiety in America, followed by gun violence, in June 2022. For some context about these findings, note that this survey was fielded between June 18 and 20, 2022; that was, 24 days after the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas. adults in June.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 17, 2023

The Edelman team conducted this 23rd annual study in November 2022 in 28 countries, among over 32,000 people — some 1,150 residents per country polled. Note that Russia, studied in the surveys between 2007 and 2022, was not included in the 2023 research). insights along with those touching on health. .”

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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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Health Populi

AUGUST 8, 2022

cut back on healthcare due to costs in the first half of 2022, according to the latest poll on health care costs form Gallup and West Health , gauging Americans’ financial health in June 2022. had delayed care or prescription meds between January and June 2022. Nearly 100 million people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Even more health citizens will expect this kind of health industry engagement in our second year of COVID (call it the Year of Vaccines) and beyond into 2022. This last chart comes from the Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll completed at the end of 2020.

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Health Populi

JULY 7, 2022

Americans’ trust in institutions hit new historic lows in 2022, Gallup found in its latest poll of U.S. published this week of Independence Day 2022. The chart illustrates trends in peoples’ faith in institutions from 2021 to 2022, seeing the largest declines in trust for the U.S. sentiment across all major sectors.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 13, 2022

While there was an 8-point gap between Republicans and Democrats for honesty/ethics for military officers in this year’s survey, the ethics-perception drop among GOP voters over one year was much greater than for Dems. Now let’s get deeper into the health care profession numbers, because there is an important story to tell here.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 16, 2021

The survey was fielded in June 2021 among 1,071 U.S. Putting numbers on the components of the cost of prescription drugs in America is a complicated undertaking, and I have worked on drug pricing projects in my “real job” as a management consultant/health economist. Health Populi’s Hot Points: While U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 4, 2022

Wade decision ( aka the Dobbs case), the latest Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll found. KFF conducted this survey among 1,847 U.S. adults 18 and over between July 7 and 17, 2022. voters for the November 2022 midterms. While inflation tops voters’ priorities, abortion access resonates for key voting blocs.

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