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McKinsey’s Six Shifts To Add Life to Years — and One More to Consider

Health Populi

The bar chart illustrates the result of the meta-analysis which considered 148 studies on mortality and risk factors. Here, we see that the risks of smoking 15 cigarettes a day on mortality (the fourth bar down from the top) ranked close to loneliness as a damaging factor on health and life.

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Telehealth Awareness, Access and Adoption: Updates from J.D. Power, the ATA and FAIR Health

Health Populi

ATA’s 2019 report profiles each state’s approach to telehealth policies by patient setting, payor type, and delivery models, along with providing specific legislation and policies that can dramatically vary state-by-state. In 2019, 28 states have payment parity policies for Medicaid.

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Digital Transformation Is The New Mantra But Can’t Happen Without Access To Connectivity

Health Populi

Here’s a legend for understanding the “wheel of well-being” diagram: this shows relative performance in terms of key opportunities and risks in the context of digital transformation based on OECD’s analysis. The middle of the wheel is the lowest outcome observed across all OECD nations. The digital divide in the U.S.

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Be Mindful About What Makes Health at HLTH

Health Populi

As the HLTH conference convenes over 6,000 digital health innovators live, in person, in Boston in the wake of the delta variant, what should attendees keep in mind to help HLTH make health?

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Featured Health IT Job: Data Scientist

Healthcare IT Today

Here’s a description of the position: New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State. Other duties as assigned.

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The Digital Consumer, Increasingly Connected to Health Devices; Parks Associates Kicking Off #CES2021

Health Populi

As more connected home devices populate the growing Internet of Healthy Things at home, these privacy and security questions will become more transparent and obvious to patients adapting their homes as their hubs for health/care.

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Great Expectations for Health Care: Patients Look for Consumer Experience and Trust in Salesforce’s Latest Research

Health Populi

” But patients here, too, want pharma to build direct relationships with them, according to Salesforce’s analysis. Only 33% of consumers said communications from pharma companies were relevant “to me.”