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

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

With an innovative care model and technology platform designed to deliver consistently superior outcomes and patient experiences, Oak Street Health has demonstrated that its model is scalable. in 2025, with upside in 2025 based on the successful resolution of its Medicare Stars Ratings mitigation efforts.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 23, 2023

For example, as outpatient services such as infusions outpace projections , and as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services open the door to more outpatient procedures by moving 11 procedures off its “inpatient only” list, ambulatory providers must have the financial strength to make the investments needed to support growth.

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Health Populi

JULY 29, 2022

So even older work-age patients are seeking the convenient communication channel of text in 2022. Power 2022 U.S. If the company were to price the bundled mini meal based on 2022 CPI-food inflation, the combo would cost Costco shoppers $4.13. Heath Populi’s Hot Points: The J.D. government would have saved $2.6

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2022

What happens to a health care ecosystem when the volume of patients and revenues they generate decline? A report from Trilliant on the 2022 Trends Shaping the Health Economy helps to inform our response to that question. Add to that scenario a growing consensus for a likely recession in 2023.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2023

Inflation will push Payers back into the Public Marketplace whether Statewide and Federal Health Exchanges, Medicaid and Medicare Before the pandemic, many payers left statewide health exchanges as they found more ways to become profitable outside of the public market. million in 2022 and 16.3 million this year.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Both employees accessing employer-sponsored health care via the private sector and commercial insurance, as well as health citizens covered by public sector plans Medicare and Medicaid had concerns about medical bills. ” This is the current state of play for health citizens and health care payments in America, circa 2022.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 26, 2022

Is 2022 the tipping point for technology and older adults? Consider these six blog posts from April and May 2022. Telehealth vs. in-person: the Covid-19 public health emergency declaration to reimburse doctors for providing telehealth services for Medicare recipients has been repeatedly renewed.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

That’s a huge win for nurses and patients alike, and I think more organizations will be investigating and deploying solutions like this in the coming year. Staffing issues, record losses, and burnout continued to plague the healthcare industry in 2022. Almost 75% say that this impacts patient care moderately to severely.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2023

Many facets of healthcare remained in a state of flux at the close of 2022, as care practices that started during the pandemic found their way into the mainstream, and enthusiasm for new data sources and interoperability outpaced the realities of implementation. Be sure to check out last year’s New Healthcare Truths of 2022 ) 1.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 9, 2023

As an enabling technology, RTM has been proven effective for improving patient engagement, satisfaction, care quality and outcomes, as well as reducing costs for both patients and providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2022

According to a recent Rock Health report , the first half of 2022 saw 329 digital health funding deals totaling $10.3 Biofourmis continues to buck health tech funding trends with this Series D extension, which comes during a downturn in digital health investment. billion—down from $14.7

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

Healthcare providers maintain different systems than payers, as do government entities like Medicare and Medicaid. He was recently named to Business Insiders 30 Under 40 Changing the Healthcare Industry in 2022. Data, especially in an increasingly personalized healthcare system, is inevitably siloed. billion in 2014.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The total national cost of care for dementia patients, including those with Alzheimer’s disease, is projected to be $321 billion in 2022, which does not include the financial and emotional toll on family caregivers. These patients cost Medicare 2.5 times more than seniors without a cognitive impairment.

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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. consumers’ financial wellbeing in November 2022. Which virus is it?” Entering 2023, U.S.

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Iris Telehealth

JUNE 5, 2023

Every day, we see first-hand how telehealth improves access, bridges care gaps, and enhances patient experiences and outcomes. With the great demand for timely, high-quality care for many Americans, telehealth has changed how patients receive care and how health systems, community clinics, and providers facilitate care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Another study published in 2021 analyzed the geographic distribution of neurologists actively billing in Medicare and compared this to the geographic distribution of Medicare beneficiaries with neurologic disease. As a result, this program directly addresses access issues that these patients experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Like many SDoH tools, the analysis identifies vulnerable patients and does risk stratification. The Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) program, used by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to rate hospitals, now contain two measures of SDoH. Another report from CODE calls for better tagging of data with SDoH.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2023

From the initial pilot of 50 patients in 2015 to today, Mercy Virtual's vEngagement remote patient monitoring program has grown and scaled exponentially. As of October 2022, it has 4,474 active lives under management and 207 patients waiting to onboard. " RESULTS. Of this population, 60.5%

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Sherry discusses top examples of health equity in action in 2022 and what more needs to be done to break down barriers to care. Q: What are some top examples of health equity in action in 2022? Brillman discusses the technology trends that will drive healthcare innovation in the new year.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

Then they can encourage those members to come in for required screenings that are part of the Medicaid and Medicare Advantage programs.”. “They need to understand all this information about individual members so that they can help direct and navigate that member to the right care at the right time,” continued Mason.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

2) Over 60% of pediatricians said that they were burnt out and unhappy in their current practice in 2022. Scott Pross, Vice President of Technology at Monalytic , a SolarWinds Company 2024 is going to be a transformational year for healthcare, as IT modernization efforts will improve the practitioner and patient experience.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Which sectors enhanced consumers’ favorable views between 2021 and 2022? In the Gallup poll, the most favorable industries in 2022 are restaurants (with 60% of Americans holding positive views) and farming/agriculture (at 57% favorability). These would be retail (growing by 5 points) and healthcare, up by 4 points in the year.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2023

Price Transparency: In 2022, we saw CMS’s Transparency in Coverage rule go into effect, requiring health plans and providers to publish their rates for care to the public. Health consumers demand better care experiences. 2023 will bring rising consumer expectations for all parts of the healthcare system to improve the patient journey.

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Henry Kotula

MARCH 29, 2023

Examples abound, and Paul Keckley, considered a dean among long-time observers of the medical field, recently highlighted some striking year-end observations for 2022. [2] One measure of healthcare system’s financial strength is operating margin , the amount of profit or loss from caring for patients.

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GlobalMed

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Why Millennial and Generation Z patients are disrupting existing care delivery models and demanding virtual care. How Medicare telehealth policies, the 21st Century Cures Act, CHRONIC Care Act, and Mental Health Telemedicine Expansion Act are changing healthcare. A forecast for telemedicine through 2022.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

health care, the graphic part of the December 2022 Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll. We capped the cost of insulin at $35 a month for seniors on Medicare. But there are millions of other Americans who are not on Medicare, including 200,000 young people with Type I diabetes who need insulin to save their lives.

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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. Forty-three percent of Americans were worried about their rent or mortgage spending in the March 2022 Poll. Underpinning that household budget concern are gas and health care costs.

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