Health Populi

JULY 4, 2022

healthcare professional or visit a doctor/nurse when they’re feeling unwell,” GWI observed in the report. Health Populi’s Hot Points: U.S. consumers are currently facing inflation at a 40-year high, discussed here in Health Populi.

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Henry Kotula

MARCH 16, 2020

Harborview Medical Center in downtown Seattle operated at 95 percent of its capacity in 2019, based on its licensed 413 beds and the days of patient care it reported to the Department of Health. The state’s greatest strength, according to the index, is in its ability to detect public-health threats and contain them — scoring 8.5

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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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Lloyd Price

JUNE 27, 2018

Digital health improves service delivery and clinical outcomes, and we know that cannot happen if we don’t look at the data." 1) Jembi - Rwanda Health Information Exchange (RHIE) The RHIE project comprises of an international project team and is funded by the IDRC, Rockefeller Foundation, PEPFAR and the HIPPP initiative.

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Connected Health Initiative

JUNE 24, 2020

In this blog post, we will explore the three key challenges that previously limited the impact of connected health technologies, the myriad of temporary policy changes recently made to address the COVID-19 public health emergency, and the opportunities and challenges that still remain. billion in 2018.

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Henry Kotula

MAY 9, 2020

The group’s four doctors and two nurse practitioners quickly adapted to the coronavirus pandemic, sharply cutting back clinic hours and switching to virtual visits to keep patients and staff safe. The researchers used visit data from clients of a technology firm, Phreesia.

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Health Populi

JULY 5, 2023

The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) turns 75 today. In today’s Health Populi blog, I will discuss a current data-based snapshot of the NHS in 2023, adding context comparing the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Given that the field is increasingly digitized and data-driven, health IT is responsible for collecting and analyzing social determinants of health (SDoH). Data can both call out SDoH and help to address its effects. They also obtain public health data by ZIP code and data from a Health Information Exchange (HIE).

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Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2022

Following the Uvalde, Texas, school shootings, many healthcare advocacy organizations, professional societies, and health system executives came out loud, clear, and assertive about the role of guns in public health and impact on the health system. As physicians, our mission is to heal and to maintain health.

Public Health 170

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Henry Kotula

JULY 28, 2023

The series covered broad issues related to the healthcare workforce, economy, and health policy, and highlighted internal industry changes and trends in service delivery, quality, and equity. The most notable impact of the non-renewal of the PHE was the end of continuous Medicaid public health insurance coverage.

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Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Toronto’s University Health Network has a smartphone-based telemonitoring program called Medly that uses an app for patients to send their data such as weight, blood pressure and symptoms from home. Patients then get automated self-care instructions based on their data and their healthcare providers get alerted if necessary.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

There’s a trend in 2019 which will continue through 2020 where private sector health care providers, Foundations and other non-public sector entities have begun to address social determinants of health. Microsoft is working with Humana on how to leverage data to help people age in place safely and health-fully.

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Health Populi

MARCH 8, 2022

” To that end, Ashish Atreja, MD, CIO and Chief Digital Health Officer with UC Davis Health, shepherded a panel at VIVE titled “Catalyzing Health Equity through Data Collaborations.” “Machines need diverse data to create the most generalizable information they can,” Pierre noted.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 13, 2022

Three health care professions rank in the top four of the most honest and ethical rankings in Gallup’s annual poll on honesty and ethics in professions. And nurses are at the top of the list for the 20th year in a row. In the second chart, I pulled out data by job category filtered by consumer party affiliation.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

concerned about state citizens’ public health in the era of COVID-19. Professor James Thomas of the University College London noted the Cochrane Crowd-sourced AI research enabled, “a virtuous circle whereby the AI makes the crowd more efficient, and then the crowd, by supplying more data, makes the AI more accurate.”.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 18, 2021

A majority of Democrats, Independents, and Republicans agree that nurses are underpaid. Most Americans across political parties also believe that hospital executives are overpaid , according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. 17% of people said pharmacists are underpaid.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The second poll we’ll consider is the survey from The Harvard Chan School of Public Health published in October 2019 (conducted in July-August 2019) teamed with the Commonwealth Fund and the New York Times. Nurses held majority trust across all three political positions for health care reform.

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