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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. As such, every company is a health/care company, regardless of industry.

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

Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Mental health via virtual platforms has sustained significant use since the waning of the public health crisis. But pent-up demand remains for mental health services which could be made further accessible. As of now, after December 31, only mental health services would be covered for audio-only.

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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. For a comprehensive overview, visit the Public Health Emergency Roadmap fact sheet.

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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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“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). residents and those outside of the U.S.

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

Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2018

The NHS “supply shortage” is a result of financial cuts to both social care and public health. This article in the BMJ published earlier this year called for increasing these investments to ensure further erosion of population and public health outcomes, and to prevent further health disparities in the UK.

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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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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.”

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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.

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Biden’s statement, which divided the public health community and the public, has wide-reaching implications for the fate of connected health and vital telehealth services. Department of Health and Human Services Alex Azar signed the first Public Health Emergency declaration , declaring COVID-19 a national emergency.

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Biden’s statement, which divided the public health community and the public, has wide-reaching implications for the fate of connected health and vital telehealth services. Department of Health and Human Services Alex Azar signed the first Public Health Emergency declaration , declaring COVID-19 a national emergency.

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Survey Findings: Medicaid Telehealth For Behavioral Health Care

Telebehavioral Health Institute

JANUARY 26, 2023

This legislation aims to help states respond to public health emergencies and provide vital services to their communities during challenging times Despite the progress made in recent years, there are still challenges to be addressed to realize the potential of telehealth for Medicaid fully.

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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?”

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Food-As-Medicine Grows Its Cred Across the Health/Care and Retail Ecosystem

Health Populi

OCTOBER 2, 2023

It’s been one year since the White House convened the Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health , kicking off the Biden Administration’s national strategy to improve health citizens’ access to healthy food as a matter of public health and economic security. health care system. [For

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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.

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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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The Elevator, Trust and the Data Commons: Bart de Witte Makes the Case for Open AI for Health at WHO/Europe

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

“I’m in Berlin, and we don’t like walls,” Bart De Witte responded in a concluding Q&A session yesterday at the 2 nd Symposium on the Future of Health Systems, convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Porto on 5 th September.

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The Polarization of Trust in 2023 – What It Means for Health, via Edelman at Davos WEF 23

Health Populi

JANUARY 17, 2023

For the third year in a row, citizens in most of the world see business as the most-trusted institution, above government, media, and NGOs, found in the 2023 Edelman Trust Barometer , unveiled this week at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. insights along with those touching on health. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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In 2023, the U.S. Will Still Be the #1 Prescription Drug Spender in the World, IQVIA Forecasts

Health Populi

JANUARY 29, 2019

Today, as Congress kicks off hearings about the cost of prescription drugs in the United States, IQVIA published its 2019 report on The Global Use of Medicine in 2019 and Outlook to 2023. will be followed by China, Japan, Germany, and Brazil in 2023. The post In 2023, the U.S. For context and comparison, note that the U.S.

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Inflation and the cost of health care top U.S. voters’ issues for 2024 elections

Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2023

voters’ minds among many issues Americans are feeling and following in late 2023. voters’ top issues and perspectives on the health system and care approaching the new year of 2024. adults between October 31 and November 7, 2023, via online and phone. The cost of living ranks top in U.S.

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Don’t Mess with Medicare and Medicaid, Washington: They Remain Popular with Americans Across Party ID

Health Populi

APRIL 3, 2023

public does not want politicians to “up-end” government-funded health programs, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation’s March 2023 Health Tracking Poll. adults between March 14-23, 2023. We are all health citizens at the end of the day. A majority of the U.S. voters ages 18 and over.

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Thinking Pharma on a Friday: Europe’s Big Reforms for a Health Union & the U.S. 50-State Fragments

Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic re-shaped European Union leaders to reimagine healthcare, public health, and health citizenship in the EU. On 26th April 2023, the EC unveiled the most significant reforms for the region’s pharmaceutical industry in twenty years.

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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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Telehealth Reimbursement: End-of-Pandemic Emergency Update

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Mid-Year Update on 2023 Healthcare Trends

Consumers’ Dilemma: Health and Wealth, Smartwatches and Transparency

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

Survey Findings: Medicaid Telehealth For Behavioral Health Care

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

Food-As-Medicine Grows Its Cred Across the Health/Care and Retail Ecosystem

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

2023 Preview of Telemental Health Laws & Behavioral Telehealth Regulations

The Elevator, Trust and the Data Commons: Bart de Witte Makes the Case for Open AI for Health at WHO/Europe

The Polarization of Trust in 2023 – What It Means for Health, via Edelman at Davos WEF 23

In 2023, the U.S. Will Still Be the #1 Prescription Drug Spender in the World, IQVIA Forecasts

Inflation and the cost of health care top U.S. voters’ issues for 2024 elections

Don’t Mess with Medicare and Medicaid, Washington: They Remain Popular with Americans Across Party ID

Thinking Pharma on a Friday: Europe’s Big Reforms for a Health Union & the U.S. 50-State Fragments

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