Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Address social determinants of health. Accelerate digital health. Secure health data (updating privacy/HIPAA). There’s an 11th imperative I add to the ten called out here, and it’s attending to mental health with grace, public policies, and resource allocation. Innovate long-term care.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

“This surge of people experiencing acute behavioral health problems…has the potential to further impact the healthcare system for years to come,” a report from McKinsey expects looking at the hidden costs of COVID-19’s impact on U.S. health care. could have a behavioral health need in 2021.

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Lloyd Price

MAY 23, 2020

Introduction: The immediate impact of COVID-19 on morbidity and mortality has raised the need for accurate and real time data monitoring and communication. The aim of this study is to document initial observations from multiple digital services providers during the COVID-19 crisis, especially those related to mental health and wellbeing.

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Health Populi

MAY 4, 2023

Reviewing the annual 2023 report from the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science discussing The Use of Medicines in the U.S. It’s a volume speaking volumes on the current picture of prescribed meds, spending and revenues, health care utilization trends, and a forecast looking out to 2027.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2024

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.

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Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2021

ASPE analyzed data from 62,451,150 people who had 1 or more vaccine doses administered by 3-10-21. Analyzing county-level data for 3,142 U.S. Providers serving Highmark members can use the referral tool for people who need access to social/health services such as food, housing, transportation, and mental health support.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Beyond the COVID-19 virus’s toll on physical health, the pandemic has taken a toll on Americans’ mental health with 22% of all people noting a major negative mental health impact. The public health pandemic has converged in 2020 with the negative impacts of financial stress and mental health tolls.

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Health Populi

JUNE 2, 2022

Physical, mental and behavioral health took hits, depending on one’s living situation, social determinants of health risks, and even health plan, I write in the Medecision Liberate Health blog. RAND and CMS research into seniors health disparities among Medicare Advantage enrollees.

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Health Populi

MAY 11, 2020

The model incorporated cause of death data from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) classification system. Integrate mental health with health care. must, “move aggressively toward solutions that bring mental health into the center of all our discussions on COVID-19 response and recovery.”

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

How can digital health and other consumer-facing technologies help our health? First, consider the stark data point(s), and then we can better respond to the question’s answer in the Hot Points , below.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 9, 2023

.” Samsung Health users who opt into this program could track their health data, receive reminders for tests and prompts from physicians, and perform other self-care tasks. Samsung Health already works with Walgreens, ThedaCare, Lee health, and Rise Health whose data could be accessed by patients using their services.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

we’ve learned a lot about the weaknesses in American health care: peoples’ lack of access to health care, a weak and patchwork quilted primary care infrastructure, fragmented and siloed health data, and a body politic often dis- or mis-engaged in evidence-based medical facts. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In addition to highlighting the Patient’s Bill of Rights, NABIP’s keynotes and general sessions will speak to similar topics being brainstormed at VIVE this week — including mental health, maternal health, pharmacy and prescription drugs (pricing, PBMs), population health, and Medicare and Medicaid innovations.

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Health Populi

JULY 4, 2022

Lower income earners face an “uphill battle” when it comes to their mental health, GWI found. times more likely to say they have depression, also facing an under-supply of mental health providers. Furthermore, rural Americans were 1.5

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2022

I’ll point to one that’s become a key learning in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, which is mental health care. have a mental health provider in their practice, compared with 9 in 10 Dutch and Swedish primary care practices. communities, worsening health disparities that grew in the COVID pandemic.

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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. This research found that our social relationships are linked both to mental health as well as morbidity and mortality — that is, death.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Financial stress is a factor ranking high for people dealing with both mental health challenges and chronic health conditions. Our relationship with our self — “self-worth and purpose” — ranks high, too, for people dealing with a mental health condition. Looking under the 52% of U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Telehealth has been hailed as a panacea for unequal access to care, but the data has repeatedly suggested otherwise. When it comes to clinical specialties, the study found that before March 17, 2020, fewer than 2% of clinicians in each specialty delivered any outpatient care via telemedicine, with the exception of mental health clinicians.

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Health Populi

JUNE 29, 2022

Health Populi’s Hot Points: One of the most valuable insights the TCRS study considers is its looking into “Happiness and Health,” assessing peoples’ retirement dreams as well as retirement fears. This last chart organizes the Retirement Dreams data overall and by the 3 worker segments in the study.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Increasingly, technology is playing a role in patients’ relationships with pharmacies, whether for e-prescribed refills, apps enabling telehealth visits (including mental health therapy sessions), or live chats with licensed pharmacists for real-time advice. state houses), members of Congress, and lobbyists.

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Health Populi

APRIL 9, 2019

Misuse of personal data is the top driver of distrust in the tech industry around the world, among 64% of global citizens. Younger people score lower on psychological needs, the outcome of being a digital native and negative impacts on mental health and well-being among younger citizens.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 22, 2020

In health care, these would be our honest-and-ethical front-line workers — nurses, physicians, and pharmacists, the latest Gallup Poll on the question learned (described here in Health Populi). In 2019, Walmart took a stand when it re-imagined its sporting equipment and hunting aisles to stop stocking certain firearms.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JANUARY 26, 2023

A recent survey conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), which surveyed state Medicaid officials across 44 states in the US, including the District of Columbia, revealed an increased interest in permanently adopting pandemic-era telehealth policy expansions.

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2020

The report found three big shifts in global health citizens’ views on their personal health and health care delivery in the wake of the pandemic: Across all age groups, COVID-19 exacerbated peoples’ concerns about their physical and mental health in a very short time. That’s a big if: in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

JUNE 21, 2019

HRIs research found an inflection growth point among employers offering health benefit programs addressing mental health and depression between 2016 and 2017 — growing from 44% of companies offering in 2016 to 66% in 2017 — that’s 50% growth year-on-year between 2016-17.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2024

In kicking off #CES2024, CTA’s researchers noted the acceleration of global connectivity, with gaps in peoples’ ability to connect depending where they live: by region, the percent of people connected to the internet today are, according to CTA’s data, 92% in the U.S. 87% in the E.U. The pandemic made it all the more obvious to most people.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2018

On the morning we met in the café in Covent Garden, the data from his personal air pollution sensor showed very high levels of indoor pollution]. How can we scale health and well-being in a scarce resource world? ” Building mental models and sharing perspectives with Maneesh was a moment of both learning and of kindness.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Stalled gains in longevity, with greater burdens of chronic disease and ill mental health, are growing risk factors throughout so many of the wealthiest nations on Earth. Some trends are consistent across the wealthiest countries of the world, many sobering, such as: Life expectancy rates fell in 19 of the OECD countries.

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Health Populi

MAY 1, 2019

” That’s the first sentence of Chapter 7 in my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen. This data point comes from research published in JAMA in April 2016 on the association between income and life expectancy in the U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2022

“This kind of patient self-reported data makes the leap to over-utilization way too simplistic,” Drobac told Modern Healthcare. “It’s also important to compare these visits to regular, in-person evaluation and management visits.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2019

One finding worthy of call-out from the second chart on telehealth costs is the data point of consumers who rate the telehealth visit as “very good” or “excellent” who also perceive the visit as higher cost. That is, mental health issues. health care system. One-half of U.S.

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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

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

That’s the latest data on Mortality in the United States, 2017 , soberly brought to you by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This decline especially impacted baby boys: their life expectancy fell to 76.1 Federal program of “Social Security”).

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Patients as health consumers face challenges paying for care, managing mental health, finding health services and taking time off work to access them, caregiving, and in transportation for care along with personal mobility issues. A few key data points illustrate the magnitude of the frustration: 50% of U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

But there are opportunities to learn from patients and advocacy groups at the meeting to inform the demand side of the health/care equation, and that’s crucial to understanding consumer experience, values and sense of value that enables people to get the care they need. That’s the supply side of HLTH.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 12, 2020

Adams was for health citizens to “socially distance:” that is, stay the heck away from each other to avoid exposure to the coronavirus. This would lead to an epidemic inside the pandemic: the erosion of our mental health. What this ultimately meant was to stay away from other people, to self-isolate.

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Henry Kotula

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Ugly An overall decrease in longevity, along with higher maternal mortality and a worsening mental-health crisis, comprise the greatest failures of U.S. Mental Health Finally, the mental health of our country is in decline with rates of anxiety, depression and suicide on the rise.

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