Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

Mental and behavioral health. Specialty care. Care coordination and continuity. Preventive and primary care. Acute, urgent, and same day care, and. Reasons for doing so, among over 50% of doctors, include: Medical and chronic disease management. Hospital or emergency room follow-up.

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Health Populi

JULY 10, 2020

The most bullish clinicians about providing telehealth visits as an on-going alternative to in-office visits are behavioral/mental health providers and primary care physicians, 93% and 62% of whom expect to provide more telehealth to patients.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

Among people 50 and over, the doctor’s visit for routine care is the top reason for using virtual care, among 2 in 3 older people. That’s an important behavior change to take into future planning for primary care services targeted to older peoples’ chronic care management and remote health monitoring.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

AUGUST 8, 2018

Targets quality of care and quality of life. In addition to connecting patients with a primary care physician or APRN, telehealth can facilitate access to specialists and subspecialists. Telehealth can save time and money by reducing travel for both providers and patients.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Addressing mental health is, truly, embodied in every one of the ten pillars in Manatt’s imperatives: Ensuring access to both physical/medical care as well as mental health — ideally bundled into primary care.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Whether you’re a patient or a physician in the U.S., you’re burned out, tapped out, stressed out, timed out. While the 118 th U.S.

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Telehealth Mental health Public Health Medical Billing 193

Enzyme Health

MARCH 27, 2019

Whether you’re interested in learning more about state-by-state policies, the latest on healthcare cybersecurity, or how to attain financial independence working in this alternate career path, these telemedicine newsletters can keep you wired in. For Understanding Telemedicine Technology 5.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

That’s the supply side of HLTH.

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Lloyd Price

JANUARY 17, 2020

" The Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) shares several asynchronous telemedicine benefits, including the following: "Patients can get timely specialty care without needing to travel beyond the location of their primary care providers.""Wait

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Health Populi

JULY 5, 2021

Without access to connectivity during the pandemic, too many people could not work for their living, attend school and learn, connect with loved ones, or get health care.

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Digital Health EHR Telehealth Primary Care 374

Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2022

People spend one-half of their lives in “less-than-good health,” we learn early in the paper, Adding years to life and life to years from the McKinsey Health Institute.

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Life Science Mental health Pharmaceuticals Medical Technology 310

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

HRSA’s 8 bureaus and offices (Ryan White, Maternal and child health, rural health policy, healthcare systems, etc.) In 2019, Health Centers across the nation served 30 million patients. Bill England began by discussing the wide range of resources available at HRSA with his presentation, “Telehealth and Research at HRSA.

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Health Populi

MARCH 28, 2022

Foogal, a recipe app designed to support patients’ healthy cooking and eating, launched on 24th March. In its initial version, Foogal addresses several specific diet paradigms: for patients demanding a wellness protocol, an autoimmune protocol, or wanting to address insulin resistance.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

On March 11 th , the World Health Organization called the growing prevalence of the coronavirus a “pandemic.”. On February 4 th , 2020, in a hospital in northern California, the first known inpatient diagnosed with COVID-19 died. On May 25 th , George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, died at the hands of police in Minneapolis.

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Health Populi

APRIL 9, 2019

This is why I so often repeat that broadband connectivity is a social determinant of health. If we can get the last N of 1 person connected to health/care access points, we can deliver primary care, self-care education, and other resources to people regardless of geographic limitations.

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American Well

MARCH 5, 2018

Think convenient health care is only for the wealthy? Medicaid recipients often have significant barriers to care. Throughout my residency, I worked in a primary care clinic that was in one of the poorest areas of Boston. Think again. I recently heard someone say, “Patients have a workflow too.

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American Well

MARCH 5, 2018

Think convenient health care is only for the wealthy? Medicaid recipients often have significant barriers to care. Throughout my residency, I worked in a primary care clinic that was in one of the poorest areas of Boston. Think again. I recently heard someone say, “Patients have a workflow too.

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Telemedicine Connected Health Health Policy Primary Care 48

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Targets quality of care and quality of life. In addition to connecting patients with a primary care physician or APRN, telehealth can facilitate access to specialists and subspecialists. Telehealth can save time and money by reducing travel for both providers and patients.

Telehealth 57

Telehealth Medicare Telemedicine Primary Care 57

Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Telehealth has increased access to mental health services, I’ve highlighted this Mental Illness Awareness Week here in Health Populi. But telehealth has also emerged as a preferred channel for routine health care services, we learn from J.D. Power’s 2022 Telehealth Satisfaction Study.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2022

If you made your living in commercial real estate — and especially, working with hospitals’ and health systems’ office space — would the concept of telehealth be freaking you out right now? If you heed the words of JLL’s 2022 Patient Consumer Survey , you’d chill (at least a bit).

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

Will the coronavirus inspire greater adoption of telehealth in the U.S.? Let’s travel to Shanghai, China where, “the covid-19 epidemic has brought millions of new patients online. They are likely to stay there,” asserts “ The smartphone will see you now ,” an article in the March 7th 2020 issue of The Economist.

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GlobalMed

JULY 8, 2019

Remote monitoring can increase medication and care plan adherence or alert providers of a spike in blood pressure or other need for intervention. Instead of delaying preventive care visits and relying on more expensive emergency room visits, patients can maintain a more consistent treatment plan with their primary care provider.

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Enzyme Health

JUNE 19, 2019

CCHP: CCHP stands for the Center for Connected Health Policy and is a non-profit that has been designated the national telehealth policy resource center. The organization researches telehealth policy issues and keeps updated information on state telehealth laws and reimbursement.

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Health Populi

APRIL 7, 2019

Today, 7 April, is World Health Day. With that in mind, I devote this post to three key social determinants of health (SDOH) that are top-of-mind for me these days: food for health, climate change, and universal health coverage. UHC happens to be WHO’s focus for World Health Day 2019. [As

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

“Digital transformation” is the corporate strategy flavor of the moment across industries, and the health are sector isn’t immune from the trend. As this 13th year of the annual Health 2.0

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Digital Health HIPAA EHR Nursing 184

Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

This only accelerated during the coronavirus pandemic, and this time around, bolstered by digital health tools and access to broadband unavailable 14 years ago. Consumers are excited about connected health care , the Trusted Future study bullishly reports. As health consumers, U.S.

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Health Technology Mental health Digital Health Primary Care 156

Health Populi

AUGUST 6, 2021

key detractors from good performance on these measures include: Lack of universal access to care for all Americans (the Fund points out that 30 mm people in the U.S. Less adequate primary care “backbone” with large gaps in PCP coverage throughout the United States. bn for on-demand care by July 1st, 2021.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: As he moves into the White House on Wednesday 20th January, Joe Biden won’t be able to bring his Peloton connected cycle to use in workouts.

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Digital Health Public Health Life Science Patient Experience 182

Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

Public perception has not caught up to the reality that the lines between health care companies are so blurred at this point that it is becoming nearly impossible to tell the insurers from the providers from the pharma/medtech manufacturers from the retailers from the tech and data analytics companies.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2018

This is so important for health given that most of us in the field agree that our “ZIP code is more important than our genetic code.”. That is, where we live directly shapes our socio-economic status, access to healthy food, education, transportation lines, jobs, and health care access — especially primary care.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

the health/care ecosystem warmly embraced social determinants of health as a concept in 2019. A few of the mainstreaming-of-SDoH signposts in 2019 were: Cigna studying and focusing in on loneliness as a health and wellness risk factor. Across the U.S., Humana’s Bold Goal initiative targeting Medicare Advantage enrollees.

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Public Health Mental health Medicare Primary Care 314

Health Populi

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The new year will see a “looming tsunami” of high prices in healthcare, regulation trumping health reform, more business deals reshaping the health/care industry landscape, and patients growing do-it-yourself care muscles, according to Top health industry issues of 2020: Will digital start to show an ROI from the PwC Health Research Institute. (..)

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Life Science Medical Billing Health Data Primary Care 194

Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2018

CVS Health’s acquisition of Aetna was approved this week by U.S. This post updates my initial thoughts on the deal, given the morphing US healthcare market on both the traditional health services front and fast-evolving retail health environment.

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