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The 2022 Midterms: Implications for 2023-2024 and Health Policy

Electronic Health Reporter

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The article The 2022 Midterms: Implications for 2023-2024 and Health Policy appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. Although it took eight days for most of the dust to settle after the 2022 midterm elections, it is now clear that […].

Health Policy

Biden signs $1.7T omnibus, paving way for multiple health policy priorities

FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 2, 2023

omnibus, paving way for multiple health policy priorities. Mon, 01/02/2023 - 22:24. Biden signs $1.7T

Health Policy

A key House panel approved a slew of health policies. Here's a look at 4 of them

FierceHealthIT

MAY 18, 2023

A key House panel approved a slew of health policies. Here's a look at 4 of them pminemyer Thu, 05/18/2023 - 14:55

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My Health, My Data – Thinking Consumers, Privacy and Self-Care at HIMSS 2023

Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

The My Health, My Data Act defines “consumer health data” as “personal information that is linked or reasonably linkable to a consumer and that identifies a consumer’s past, present, or future physical or mental health.” Remember that digital health literacy is a “super determinant of health.”

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What If We Built a Consumer-Enchanting Health System in the Context of HLTH 2023? Building Blocks for the Scenario

Health Populi

OCTOBER 9, 2023

What if… you were given the opportunity to build a health system from scratch in this new era of platforms, cloud computing, AI and machine learning, curious-digital-empowered consumers, and collaborators in retail and community settings operating close to peoples’ homes and workplaces?

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Our Mental and Emotional Health Are Interwoven With What We Eat and Drink – Chewing On the IFIC 2023 Food and Health Survey

Health Populi

MAY 24, 2023

As most Americans confess to feeling stressed over the past six months, peoples’ food and beverage choices have been intimately connected with their mental and emotional well-being, we learn from the 2023 Food & Health Survey from the International Food Information Council (IFIC).

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

Health Populi

MAY 4, 2023

Reviewing the annual 2023 report from the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science discussing The Use of Medicines in the U.S. It’s a volume speaking volumes on the current picture of prescribed meds, spending and revenues, health care utilization trends, and a forecast looking out to 2027.

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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

People have expanded their definitions of health in 2023, with mental health supplanting physical health for the top-ranked factor in feeling healthy. In 2023, it’s much harder to take care of my health, consumers say. In the U.S., that delta is 11 points worse, the second chart graphs, with the 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 begin 2023 with the opening of CES 2023, the world’s largest annual meet-up of consumer electronics innovators, companies, and retailers. How can digital health and other consumer-facing technologies help our health? Inf act, heart health is table-stakes for much of wearable technology in 2023.

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#HealthPolicyValentines – Happy Valentine’s Day

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Health policy wonks logging onto Twitter to check #HealthPolicyValentines this morning pic.twitter.com/X0gsFT1wau — Dania Palanker (@DaniaPal) February 14, 2023 Unlike Medicaid, I don’t need to redetermine my love for you. HealthPolicyValentines — Zach Levin (@ZachLevinTweets) February 14, 2023 Thanks everyone for reading.

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Patients, Nurses and Doctors Blame Health Insurers for Increasing Costs and Barriers to Care

Health Populi

JULY 17, 2023

Most patients’ greatest trust-health equity sits with their providers (nurses and doctors) who should be the agent that makes treatment decisions — not the patient’s health insurer, consumers believe. Note the methodologies deployed for the three polls: For the consumer survey, Morning Consult surveyed 1,502 U.S.

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The State of Healthcare in America, State-By-State

Health Populi

JUNE 23, 2023

If you live in Massachusetts, Hawaii, and New Hampshire, you win a kind of state lottery for public health and well-being, based on this year’s read of the 2023 Scorecard on State Health System Performance from The Commonwealth Fund. states ranked by a mash-up of health system indicators.

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Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

Due to the collective ethos in the community, gun safety has been addressed as a public health issue, and the health care system and employers are committed to assuring cybersecurity and the protection of individuals’ health data. Federal investment in climate and environmental health are part of holistic health policy.

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What to Expect For Health/Care at CES 2024

Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2024

Indeed — health/care is everywhere at CES 2024, including on the main stage, where Boudreaux will discuss holistic health which Elevance Health, rebranded from Anthem Inc., is working to address for its 118 health plan members. And one of Elevance Health pillar’s for this is… food as medicine.

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WSJ Asserts Women Own This Summer and That The Economy Proves It. But Health Care? Not So Much.

Health Populi

AUGUST 14, 2023

This weekend’s Wall Street Journal Saturday/Sunday edition featured a big story on the economic force of women in the summer of 2023, termed “the women’s multiplier effect” — that women’s spending is a powerful force in the U.S. But for health care, Baby, we’ve got a long way to go.

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A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The aspirational document sets out the mission that “every individual deserves the right to obtain health care that is comprehensive, equitable and compassionate.”

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The Patient Is Still the Payor – And May Skip Paying for Prevention (Eyes on the ACA & Texas)

Health Populi

MARCH 8, 2023

It’s a lot — and has made a huge difference in public health access for those enrolled in ACA plans. First comes emergency services, followed by prescription drugs, hospital inpatient care, and then preventive services and chronic disease management followed by mental health and substance use disorder services.

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Medicare Advantage’s Favorable Selection Problem

Digital Health Wire

JUNE 25, 2023

Medicare Advantage plans could be on track to reach over $75B in overpayments this year – nearly 3x prior estimates – causing researchers at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics to issue a pressing call for policy reform. As a result, risk-adjusted expenditures for the 16.9M

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

Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Entering 2023, U.S. health citizens face physical, financial, and mental health challenges of a syndemic, inflation, and stress – all of which will shape peoples’ demand side for health care and digital technology, and a supply side of providers challenged by tech-enabled organizations with design and data chops.

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Telehealth Reimbursement: End-of-Pandemic Emergency Update

Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 9, 2023

Based on current COVID-19 recovery trends, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that the US federal Public Health Emergency (PHE) waivers will end on May 11, 2023. Private payers, Medicaid, and Medicare initiated widespread telehealth reimbursement approvals.

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Real-Time Versus Store-and-Forward Telehealth Technology

AMD Telemedicine

JANUARY 31, 2023

This article was originally published in July 2015 but was updated in January 2023. Another important distinction is that the reimbursement policies from private insurers vary between real-time and store-and-forward technologies.

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A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

This digital transformation speaks to the importance of paying for health care regardless of whether services happen between patient and provider face-to-face in real-time, via video calls on-screens, or during an audio-only telehealth visit (a clinical phone call).

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Health Care Financing: How Inflation and Health Care Prices Could Hit the U.S. Consumer

Health Populi

APRIL 25, 2023

In light of inflation and increasing health care costs among the OECD nations, of which the U.S. is one, “policy options remain limited” the Organization calls out, warning that the health care cost “spending spree” must now be tempered with greater efficiencies and wringing out wasteful spending.

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There’s a New “O” in Medicine-Town – Welcome OPill to the Front of the Counter

Health Populi

JULY 14, 2023

I wrote about Perrigo’s Opill here in Health Populi in May 2023 as a “signpost on the road to retail health.” You may not be able to get that ear-worm jingle that goes “O O O Ozempic” out of your musical mind, but I’m happy to tell you there’s a new “O” in town: the Opill.

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The New Deaths of Despair in America – Among U.S. Children

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

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The study was conducted among 6,000 people living in Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States, fielding 1,500 interviews in each of the four countries in March 2023. survey sample included 375 people identifying as Black, White, Hispanic, or Asian/Indigenous (summing to the N of 1,500).

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New Model Telehealth Laws for Practicing Over State Lines: Uniform Telehealth Act

Telebehavioral Health Institute

AUGUST 4, 2022

Combined with the recently proposed CMS 2023 reimbursement for LMFTs, LPCs, Addiction Counselors, Psychologists, Social Workers & Others , the ramifications of these shifts in US legislative policy promise continued growth in telebehavioral health into the future.

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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

My recommendations hold true in 2023, and especially tied to the Everyday Health-Castle Connolly study on what patients want in doctors. Empathy and emotional support is also what patients want from the health system, writ large. As the French phrase goes, “ plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.”

Life Science

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Virtual Health Care Can Reduce Carbon Emissions: the Environmental ROI on Telehealth

Health Populi

MAY 7, 2023

healthcare system’s environmental threat to human health, I highly recommend your reading Lisa Suennen’s essay written for the Aspen Institute published in April 2023. The post Virtual Health Care Can Reduce Carbon Emissions: the Environmental ROI on Telehealth appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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AHRQ program seeks provider organizations to help improve hybrid telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 2, 2023

DeBakey Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and chief of health policy, quality and informatics program at the Houston VA Center for Innovation in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety. The deadline to apply is May 25, 2023. Hardeep Singh is principal investigator.

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Why Implementing Telehealth Is Worth the Cost

AMD Telemedicine

JANUARY 6, 2022

Individual states also follow the suite of expanded reimbursement, but each state still has their own unique guidelines, as outlined on the Center for Connected Health Policy resource site. Many expanded reimbursement opportunities will be in place until the end of 2023 , so the time to elevate your healthcare program is now.

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A Mid-Year Update on 2023 Healthcare Trends

Henry Kotula

JULY 28, 2023

[link] In January 2023, the Rockefeller Institute published a three-part blog series on trends to watch in healthcare in 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.

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Frost & Sullivan's Top 10 predictions for healthcare in 2021

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

Behavioral health will drive 3X increased growth in the digital therapeutics market from 2021 to 2023. The impact of COVID-19 will have a profound influence on the behavioral health of citizens around the world. The response to this trend will drive increased growth in the Digital Therapeutics market in developed regions.

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So Many Records, So Little Time: How to Manage Burgeoning Health Plan Requests

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

With a master’s degree in Health Policy and Management from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Mo formerly served in leadership roles for Cotiviti, FinThrive, and McKinsey & Company.

Life Science

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Consumers’ Dilemma: Health and Wealth, Smartwatches and Transparency

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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The Financial Toxicity of Health Care Costs: From Cancer to FICO Scores

Health Populi

MARCH 22, 2022

The agencies will also extend the time period before unpaid medical collection debt appears on credit reports from six months to one year, allowing consumers in medical debt to work with health care providers and plans to deal with debt before it is reported.

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Do Mental Health Apps Sell Your Client’s Sensitive Data to Data Brokers?

Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 16, 2023

A February 2023 report published by researcher Joanne Kim outlines the results of a two-month study of how data brokers sell sensitive data mental health data collected from mHealth mental health apps.

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TCMHCC and Trayt Health Addressing Youth Mental Health at Scale

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 17, 2023

One of the things that’s been fantastic about what we’re doing in Texas is we’re actually working together,” explained Dr. Williams. Together our team is charged with developing programs that will help all children in our state, regardless of where they are.

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Survey Findings: Medicaid Telehealth For Behavioral Health Care

Telebehavioral Health Institute

JANUARY 26, 2023

Healthcare professionals and policymakers may wish to consider these findings when expanding or limiting telehealth access for Medicaid enrollees.

Telehealth

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Loneliness, Public Policy and AI – Lessons From the UK For the US

Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2018

Here is a snippet from the UK government’s press release last week on the extent of the nation’s social isolation challenge: “Loneliness is one of the greatest public health challenges of our time, Theresa May said today as she launched the first cross-Government strategy to tackle it.

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Cloud technology in healthcare benefits highlighted in new report

DigitalHealth

JUNE 9, 2023

A new report has been published looking at the benefits of more widespread adoption of cloud technology within the healthcare sector.

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

Health Populi

JULY 5, 2023

In today’s Health Populi blog, I will discuss a current data-based snapshot of the NHS in 2023, adding context comparing the U.S. and other countries’ health system performance to appreciate the NHS in full based on its universal coverage ambition and health equity intentions. health care system?”

Nursing

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Food Is Medicine, Especially When You Are Hungry – The American Heart Association‘s FIM Initiative

Health Populi

APRIL 20, 2023

And for millions of people around the world, and innumerable health citizens in the U.S., food security is part of daily life in 2023. Food is a basic need, fundamental to our lives and well-being. Furthermore, as the U.S.

Health Policy

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

All signs point to the PHE extending for another 90-day period until January 2023 because the 60 day advance notice wasn’t given in August , but the president’s latest statement indicates this could be the final renewal, and the PHE may finally expire in the new year. What this means for telehealth and connected health policy.

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The 2022 Midterms: Implications for 2023-2024 and Health Policy

Biden signs $1.7T omnibus, paving way for multiple health policy priorities

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A key House panel approved a slew of health policies. Here's a look at 4 of them

My Health, My Data – Thinking Consumers, Privacy and Self-Care at HIMSS 2023

What If We Built a Consumer-Enchanting Health System in the Context of HLTH 2023? Building Blocks for the Scenario

Our Mental and Emotional Health Are Interwoven With What We Eat and Drink – Chewing On the IFIC 2023 Food and Health Survey

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

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

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

#HealthPolicyValentines – Happy Valentine’s Day

Patients, Nurses and Doctors Blame Health Insurers for Increasing Costs and Barriers to Care

The State of Healthcare in America, State-By-State

Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

What to Expect For Health/Care at CES 2024

WSJ Asserts Women Own This Summer and That The Economy Proves It. But Health Care? Not So Much.

A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity

The Patient Is Still the Payor – And May Skip Paying for Prevention (Eyes on the ACA & Texas)

Medicare Advantage’s Favorable Selection Problem

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

Telehealth Reimbursement: End-of-Pandemic Emergency Update

Real-Time Versus Store-and-Forward Telehealth Technology

A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

Health Care Financing: How Inflation and Health Care Prices Could Hit the U.S. Consumer

There’s a New “O” in Medicine-Town – Welcome OPill to the Front of the Counter

The New Deaths of Despair in America – Among U.S. Children

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

New Model Telehealth Laws for Practicing Over State Lines: Uniform Telehealth Act

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

Virtual Health Care Can Reduce Carbon Emissions: the Environmental ROI on Telehealth

AHRQ program seeks provider organizations to help improve hybrid telehealth

Why Implementing Telehealth Is Worth the Cost

A Mid-Year Update on 2023 Healthcare Trends

Frost & Sullivan's Top 10 predictions for healthcare in 2021

So Many Records, So Little Time: How to Manage Burgeoning Health Plan Requests

Consumers’ Dilemma: Health and Wealth, Smartwatches and Transparency

The Financial Toxicity of Health Care Costs: From Cancer to FICO Scores

Do Mental Health Apps Sell Your Client’s Sensitive Data to Data Brokers?

TCMHCC and Trayt Health Addressing Youth Mental Health at Scale

Survey Findings: Medicaid Telehealth For Behavioral Health Care

Loneliness, Public Policy and AI – Lessons From the UK For the US

Cloud technology in healthcare benefits highlighted in new report

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

Food Is Medicine, Especially When You Are Hungry – The American Heart Association‘s FIM Initiative

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

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