Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

are growing their health IT muscles and literacy, accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Given the Capital Conference focus on the 118th Congress, NABIP has assembled key talking points to raise at the Federal level to strengthen health insurance for all, including supporting site-neutral payment policies, increasing price transparency, and supporting the permanent expansion of telehealth flexibilities allowed during the pandemic (specifically, (..)

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JANUARY 26, 2023

Medicaid Telehealth has emerged as a crucial component in extending and facilitating access for individuals with behavioral health needs. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of telehealth to deliver healthcare services safely and effectively.

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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. Analyzing county-level data for 3,142 U.S. For some people such as American Indian and Native Alaskan folks, geography, remoteness, and lack of public health infrastructure are challenges.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Their ten must-do’s for bending the cost curve while driving constructive change for a better health care system are to: Ensure access. Achieve health equity. Stability the safety net and rebuild public health. Address social determinants of health. Accelerate digital health. Innovate long-term care.

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Advanced Medical Reviews

MAY 2, 2019

The future of telehealth continues to build interest due to its convenience and cost-effectiveness. Not only does it increase access to care and reduce travel time—especially for people living in rural areas—but telehealth also decreases the number of hospital stays and can improve communication between clinicians. utilize telehealth.

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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. These will now be in place until the end of 2024.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JANUARY 25, 2024

Surgeon General, Dr. Richard Carmona, Brings Wealth of Healthcare Expertise to DrKumo’s Advisory Board DrKumo, a leader in Remote Patient Monitoring – Home Telehealth (RPM-HT) solutions, is proud to announce the appointment of Dr. Richard Carmona, the 17th Surgeon General of the United States, to its Advisory Board. Former U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2021

Note: I may be biased as a University of Michigan graduate of both the School of Public Health and Rackham School of Graduate Studies in Economics]. health care, patient assistance programs, Medicare Advantage plans, and the bundling of proven high-value preventive services into the Affordable Care Act.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Consider: chatbots, AI, triage-via-telehealth, and other digital investments that can address higher-cost sites and redundant services. It’s also useful to see data and interoperability ranking a growing priority among two-thirds of CFOs here. This will also require increased attention to data security.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

House of Representatives passed by a 416-12 vote the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID–19 Act of 2021 , which would extend the telehealth flexibilities put in place during the public health emergency until the end of 2024. Policy and reimbursement consultancy Applied Policy hired Steven Johnson as Health Policy Director.

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2021

In the larger public and population health context, on the patient side, we can expect the burden of disease beyond COVID to increase due to postponed care and treatment backlogs. This has been found to be the case in the U.S., for example, for heart disease and cardiovascular complications as well as for cancers.

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2021

That may be largely due to the fact that more younger people than older workers lost jobs in the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as losing health insurance. A recent TraunsUnion study found that more younger than older Americans’ health care behaviors shifted in the public health crisis. population).

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The natural place to capture and display this type of information is in the Electronic Health Record (EHR). Greenway Health , a leading ambulatory EHR provider, has added new features to accommodate this non-medical information and make recommendations based on that data. Public health policies. Occupation.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 11, 2021

COVID-19 exacted a toll on health citizens’ mental health, worsening a public health challenge that was already acute before the pandemic. It’s World Mental Health Day , an event marked by global and local stakeholders across the mental health ecosystem.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Hari Eswaran thanking those involved and HRSA’s Deputy Associate Administrator, Heather Dimeris, speaking about the current telehealth landscape. Dr. Bill England began by discussing the wide range of resources available at HRSA with his presentation, “Telehealth and Research at HRSA. The opening plenary focused on funding.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

health care and that volumes turned downward in 2020. Deloitte’s actuaries actually developed this analysis using data from before the coronavirus pandemic. A new health economy bringing about the “end of the general hospital as we know it,” a dramatic change in health care financing in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

These new work-and-life flows have changed our relationship with our personal doctors and local health care systems, pivoting us to virtual care and telehealth platforms. The post Health Citizenship in the America. You can access my book on Amazon Kindle here.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2020

But while the new ONC rules may make it easier for health consumers to access personal health information, the Field of Dreams phenomenon subverts the noble goal: we may “build” a system for people to access health data (like Blue Button), but patients may not “come.”

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

As the HLTH conference convenes over 6,000 digital health innovators live, in person, in Boston in the wake of the delta variant, what should attendees keep in mind to help HLTH make health?

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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

I noted this Morning Consult survey , data shown here, finding that people of color who were lower-income as of June 2020 had a more difficult time paying for Internet and phone bills than white people with lower incomes. Social determinants of health: broadband as a “Super Determinant.”

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 14, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the landscape of ambulatory care with rapid shifts to telehealth. Many states have directed insurers to temporarily cover COVID-19-related services via telehealth while mandating parity of reimbursement for telehealth visits with in-person visits for their Medicaid program.

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2021

That may be largely due to the fact that more younger people than older workers lost jobs in the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as losing health insurance. A recent TransUnion study found that younger than older Americans’ health care behaviors shifted in the public health crisis. population).

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

We must treat people like who they are matters,” using all kinds of data – public data, health data, claims data, and so on. There are differences that are meaningful across the Latino population and, indeed, across all populations. “We Nobody wants to be treated like who they are doesn’t matter.

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Enzyme Health

JUNE 19, 2019

Here’s the essential telehealth terminology that will put you ahead of the curve. This quick telehealth glossary covers the basic terminology telemedicine clinicians should know. Get to know these, and you should be able to follow along with most telehealth industry conversations or lectures no problem.

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2018

The first chart shows the data on “inputs:” spending on healthcare overall, and split into categories of inpatient care, outpatient care, long-term care, and other categories. data are shown in yellow. Note the last line of that matrix, population with health care coverage: the U.S. ranks lowest on that, at 90%.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2022

.” The Commonwealth Fund offers several policy prescriptions for the U.S. to consider in bolstering a strong primary care backbone for the nation’s health citizens: To narrow the wage gap between primary care/generalist doctors and specialists, noting that the U.S> ” In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

In one section of the report, McKinsey focuses on the behavioral health impacts of the pandemic, noting the costs of these are additive to the physical an acute care effects of COVID-19. Data indicate greater rates of binge drinking and insomnia, for example. could have a behavioral health need in 2021.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Among the clearest economic development rationales for digital health is for expanding telehealth in rural America. The quantifiable benefits of rural telehealth are transportation cost savings, lost wages savings, hospital cost savings, and increased revenues to local labs and pharmacies, NTCA calculated.

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Health Populi

APRIL 7, 2020

Back to the data from the KFF health tracking poll, which found that the percent of people feeling a major impact of stress or worry related to COVID-19 was 14% between March 11-5, rising to 19% between March 25-30 and those feeling a minor impact of stress or worry rising from 18% to 26%.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Mitchell is quoted in the story, New data says more communities built their own broadband because of COVID published in Motherboard on 10th September 2021, an important report written by Karl Bode. FYI, Mitchell’s Twitter handle is @communitynets].

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Connected Health Initiative

JUNE 24, 2020

In just a few short months, we made more progress in opening up Medicare and Medicaid to telehealth visits, remote patient monitoring (RPM) tools, and other connected health solutions than in the previous decade. billion in 2018.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Presidential Election by the American Psychological Association in their Stress In America study, which I discussed here in Health Populi. As I look across the Atlantic Ocean from where I’m working at this moment in Dublin, Ireland, my perspective on this data is global. While many of us in the U.S. ” I return to the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Department of Health and Human Services announced this week that it was making almost $48 million available in American Rescue Plan funding for public health capacity in rural and tribal communities, through the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Federal Office of Rural Health Policy.

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Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2022

Increasingly, consumers intending to buy a smartphone or fitness tracker will seek one that is cellular-equipped with a data plans (say, 4G LTE or 5G mobile broadband). Over one-half of these buyers would be repeat purchasers in 2022.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

Parks points to at least three barriers to consumer health privacy. including questions such as, What bits of my personal data will my device share? Data literacy, the ability to comprehensive one’s “numbers” displayed in lab test results and other patient-facing clinical communications. Is my device listening?

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