Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Patients as health consumers face challenges paying for care, managing mental health, finding health services and taking time off work to access them, caregiving, and in transportation for care along with personal mobility issues. A few key data points illustrate the magnitude of the frustration: 50% of U.S.

Mental health 157

Mental health Medical Billing Medical Technology Pharmaceuticals 157

Telebehavioral Health Institute

JANUARY 26, 2023

A recent survey conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), which surveyed state Medicaid officials across 44 states in the US, including the District of Columbia, revealed an increased interest in permanently adopting pandemic-era telehealth policy expansions.

Telehealth 52

Telehealth Mental health Medicare Health Policy 52

Health Populi

MARCH 16, 2021

Case and Deaton wrote the book on Deaths of Despair ( detailed here in Health Populi) , . Case and Deaton begin this analysis recognizing nearly 100 years of declining mortality from the early 20th century up until the late 1990s.

Public Health 170

Public Health Mental health Health Policy 170

Health Populi

MAY 31, 2022

On the promising front, recent studies reviewed through a meta-analysis published in JAMA found that hospital-to-home programs can be clinically and cost-effective for inpatients discharged from hospital. This quote comes from the McKinsey analysis. “Caring for a loved one is an honor – it’s also incredibly hard.

Mental health 220

Mental health Telehealth EHR Digital Health 220

Health Populi

JUNE 7, 2018

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Pharmaceuticals 206

Pharmaceuticals Public Health Mental health Health Policy 206

Health Populi

AUGUST 6, 2021

This chart comes out of my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen , where pre-pandemic, I made the argument for Americans to evolve beyond consumers to full-on health citizens with the rights of health care, digital privacy and security, and a new social contract of love and respect for fellow health citizens.

Digital Health 401

Digital Health Primary Care Mental health Public Health 401

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

isn’t as comprehensive as in other developed countries, which is one of the major differences between American health care delivery and organization versus other countries that spend less on medical care and achieve much better outcomes, which I’ve discussed here in Health Populi]. .

Primary Care 241

Primary Care Public Health Mental health Health Policy 241

Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2019

This holds true for health care access, burdens of chronic disease, health literacy, and by definition access to the social determinants of health the bolster well-being. ” I’ve copied just a few of the tweets that just resulted, in a matter of minutes, following Professor Glaude’s analysis.

Public Health 252

Public Health Leadership Mental health Health Policy 252

Health Populi

APRIL 23, 2020

This first chart comes from Kaiser Family Foundation’s ongoing health tracking poll with the top-line on Americans’ views of the coronavirus — negatively disrupting life, income, and mental health for a plurality of U.S.

Medical Billing 267

Medical Billing Mental health Public Health Health Policy 267

Health Populi

AUGUST 18, 2021

The survey analysis is aptly titled, Most Americans Agree That Nurses and Aides Are Underpaid, While Few Support Using Federal Dollars to Increase Pay for Doctors, Insurance executives are also overpaid, according to 73% of Americans — an even higher percent of people than the 68% saying hospital execs make too much money.

Nursing 170

Nursing Health Policy Public Health Mental health 170

Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2019

We’ll need a closer actuarial analysis about hospitals’ real costs (not the “chargemaster,” but actual costs for delivering units of care) to calculate what a viable payment rate could be for these plans. Finally…Where was the mass call-out for mental health as part of America’s public health?

Medicare 175

Medicare Mental health Public Health Primary Care 175