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It’s Mental Illness Awareness Week: “What I Wish I Had Known” About Mental Health

Health Populi

For 2022’s campaign, here are some key data about mental illness in the U.S. adults experience mental illness each year. adults experience serious mental illness each year. youth aged 6-17 experience a mental health disorder each year… a growing concern. health system for patients across demographics.

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

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health care, bring people back into the system, bolster physician well-being, and deliver on the promise of high-quality care that the U.S. has known how to deliver. Mental health can be scaled with telehealth. map and citizens’ access has been marked with mental health supply shortages.

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A Breakthrough, Sobering Report on Teens and Young Adults, Digital Health and Social Media Use: Implications for Mental Health

Health Populi

There are also hundreds of stories written in both mass media outlets and professional journals on the topic of TYAs and mental health: especially relative to depression and suicidality. The report was co-written by Victoria Rideout and Susannah Fox, two names Health Populi readers should know.

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Outpatient is the New Inpatient – The Future of Hospitals in America

Health Populi

Health systems should prepare for the future today and start thinking not only about how to manage their traditional business model but also how to invest in and create new competing business models at the same time… Decision-makers could do better to turn their focus away from inpatient settings.”

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Health Consumers After COVID-19 – A View from the Consumer Technology Association

Health Populi

In January 2020, before we knew how to spell “coronavirus,” millions of consumers were already “Amazon-Primed” for everyday life-flows and consumer behaviors. Use of health and fitness apps ranked third, with telehealth for mental health services ranking fourth in growing use in the pandemic.

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What to Expect For Health/Care at CES 2024

Health Populi

Whether dealing with migraines and mental health, heart conditions or diabetes, orthopedic and sports injury rehab or sleep disorders, #CES2024 will be a major stage for health/care. Note that one of CES 2024 keynote speakers is Elevance Health’s President and CEO Gail Boudreaux.

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Nurses Hacking for Health, Addressing Burnout, Workplace Violence, and AI

Health Populi

When I first participated in NH4H several years ago, an over-arching theme was how to attract and retain nurses with concerns about ongoing shortages of nurses in the U.S. health system. Participants came from over 30 countries and from across the U.S.,

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