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Why Telehealth is a Lifeline for Primary Care Physicians

GlobalMed

Primary care physicians are the frontline of healthcare. The Association of American Medical Colleges predicts a primary care provider shortfall , with numbers landing between 21,000 to 55,000 by 2023. But other factors drive primary care barriers as well, such as affordability issues and rural shortages.

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The Demand for Self-Care At-Home Will Grow Post-Pandemic – Insights from IRI

Health Populi

When it comes to peoples’ relationship to consumer packaged goods (CPG), the public health crisis has indeed impacted consumers’ purchasing behaviors and definition of “value,” based on IRI’s latest analysis of CPG shifts in 2022 and 2023.

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

Health Populi

This, to assure the physician that he would not be tracked by the sort of FBI state licensing compact concerns described in the linked article above. Mental health can be scaled with telehealth. map and citizens’ access has been marked with mental health supply shortages.

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Multimorbidity In the US – Obesity As A Key Driver of Health Spending

Health Populi

Underlying this clinical and economic phenomenon is obesity, which primary care doctors are challenged to deal with as a chronic condition along with typically co-occurring comorbidities of hypertension, diabetes, and hyperlipidemia. Because they are public goods, and the U.S. In the U.S., Why has this been the case?

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Behavioral Health Side-Effects in the COVID Era

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: What Senator Paul Wellstone advocated for and knew way back in 2000 was that mental health is just part of health, and needed to be embedded into primary care and the U.S. health care system in terms of workflow and payment parity. Politics is not about money.

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Health Disparities in America: JAMA Talks Structural Racism in U.S. Health Care

Health Populi

For Black patients, lower utilization of ambulatory care and higher use of inpatient, emergency department, and nursing suggest greater spender downstream that might be prevented by more spending upstream on primary care, prevention, and early detection of disease. colonoscopy).

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Collecting Data

Healthcare IT Today

Previous articles in this series showed why social determinants of health (SDoH) are the hottest recent addition to data used by the medical industry. This article shows how organizations are collecting it. According to vice president Ted Hill, it can modernize how public health agencies serve today’s needs.