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From Evolution to Innovation, from Health Care to Health: How Health Plans With Collaborators Are Re-Defining the Industry

Health Populi

Patients and health plan members continue evolving into medical bill payers, with their homes and budgets baked into the concept. Connectivity as a social determinant of health. The examples of collaborations and alliances described here have been just a toe in much deeper water that’s the evolving health/care ecosystem.

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Add Behavioral Data to Social Determinants For Better Patient Understanding

Health Populi

The Sage team explains that, by layering knowledge about peoples’ behaviors, beliefs, and attitudes on top of the traditional SDOH factors, health care providers can mash-up SBDoH – “socio-behavioral determinants of health” — your new acronym to add to your growing list of healthcare ABCs.

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Telehealth Update from the AMA – Setting the Context for ATA 2022

Health Populi

As the pandemic exacerbated many risks of social determinants of health like food security and the ability to earn a wage in hospitality or caregiving jobs, so, too, did the public health crisis shine a light on a newer determinant of health: connectivity as a basic human need.

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Atrium Health sees community health innovation coming from COVID-19 disruption

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Even as it pursues big pre-COVID-19 strategic goals – not least its major electronic health record transition from Cerner to Epic , which was announced in February – Atrium's attention has of course more recently been focused on an array of initiatives meant to combat the coronavirus crisis. Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN.

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Can the U.S. Improve Health System Performance with Digital Health Tools? Pondering A Big Question for #HIMSS21

Health Populi

That’s what government regulation and intervention are for, to make more fair and effective the lack of a real health care market. In the immediate term, looking from “now” to one and three years from now, we can expect the private sector to take on more public health roles.

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Techquity: How Technology Can Help to Scale Health and Digital Equity, Live from VIVE 2022

Health Populi

In his work at Howard University and in Baltimore in the public health department, he learned to connect families with services they needed beyond medical care, for housing, community development, education, transportation — all, in his words, “pieces of the puzzle that go into what makes people healthy.”