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“The virus is the boss” — U.S. lives and livelihoods at the beginning of 2021

Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2021

consumers say the “important things in life today” are health and financial security, according to the latest study from the Retirement Security Survey conducted by Principal in Q4 2020. Health Populi’s Hot Points: While the 2007-8 Great Recession was considered more of a “He-Cession,” this round of U.S.

Nursing

Nursing Public Health Health Policy

Consumers’ Trust In Pharmacists As Providers Grows Along with Omnichannel Health Care

Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The pharmacy is all these things, and increasingly digital-first, we learn in The Rx Report: A new day in retail pharmacy , a consumer survey from CVS Health. CVS Health, one of the two largest pharmacies operating in the U.S. in 2021 along with Walgreens, worked with Morning Consult to poll 2,210 U.S.

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Telehealth Reimbursement: End-of-Pandemic Emergency Update

Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 9, 2023

Medicaid, CHIP, and Telehealth For Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), telehealth flexibilities are not tied to the end of the PHE. They help identifies the policy topics that should be addressed to facilitate the widespread adoption of telehealth for states.

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Universal Health Care and Financial Inclusion – Not Mutually Exclusive

Health Populi

MAY 6, 2018

Millions of Americans who are “insured” are now considered “under-insured,” defined by the Commonwealth Fund as people who pay an insurance premium who also spend over 10% of household income on covering health care co-payments and coinsurance percentages, and meeting deductible limits.

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Medicare Patient Experience Health Policy

Primary Care in the U.S. – Still a Weak Backbone for the Health of Health Citizens

Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2022

Compares, assesses four aspects of primary care for health citizens living in eleven wealthy nations: Accessibility. The high-income nations surveyed include Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Continuity. Comprehensiveness.

Primary Care

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The True Costs of Diabetes Go Well Beyond the Wallet

Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2018

Upwell Health surveyed 5,255 people with diabetes online in 2017. Health Populi’s Hot Points: America is the United States of Diabetes when it comes to healthcare spending. Care for people with diagnosed diabetes accounts for 1 in 4 health care dollars in the U.S.

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It Could Take Five Generations for a Low-Income US Family to Reach Average Income in America

Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2018

Early intervention is a critical success factor: public sector programs help even before birth, during a mother’s pregnancy, for pre-natal and then post-natal care that deliver health and social services direct-to-citizens at home to address transportation, stigma, and other barriers.

Public Health

Public Health Health Policy

Why People Are Still Avoiding the Doctor (It’s Not the Virus)

Henry Kotula

JUNE 21, 2020

While she still has health insurance, she worries about whether she will have coverage beyond July, when her unemployment is expected to run out. “It I definitely am avoiding appointments.”. While the survey didn’t ask people why they were putting off care, there is ample evidence that medical bills can be a powerful deterrent.

Medical Billing

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Healthcare AI investment will shift to these 5 areas in the next 2 years: survey

Henry Kotula

MARCH 10, 2021

The majority of healthcare and life sciences executives (82%) want to see their organizations more aggressively adopt AI technology, according to a new survey from KPMG, an audit, tax and advisory services firm. As the U.S. Healthcare and pharma companies seem to be more bullish on AI than other industries are. Future AI investment.

Life Science

Life Science Pharmaceuticals Drug Development EHR

While Costs Are A Top Concern Among Most U.S. Patients, So Are Challenges of Poverty, Food, and Housing

Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Rising health care costs continue to concern most Americans, with one in two people believing they’re one sickness away from getting into financial trouble, according to the 2019 Survey of America’s Patients conducted for The Physicians Foundation. health care system model. The post While Costs Are A Top Concern Among Most U.S.

Medical Billing

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Health Equity: Searching for a New Angle

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

In fact, a survey conducted by Pearl found that 71% of patients are more likely to trust their dentist’s diagnosis when their dentist is aided by AI software. For health plans, one critical area that can have a significant impact on health outcomes is member communication.

Primary Care

Primary Care Mental health Telehealth Patient Experience

A Matter of Trust, Perception, Risk, and Uncertainty – The Big Issues Raised by the Acquisition of PatientsLikeMe and Other Patient Data Transactions

Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

A 2018 national survey found that 39% of U.S. teens and young adults say they have gone online to try to find people with health conditions similar to their own and 61% say they have read, listened to, or watched other people share about their health experiences online. That is not so obvious to us.

Pharmaceuticals

Pharmaceuticals HIPAA BioTech Patient Experience

Health Citizens Link Their Views on Democracy, the Economy and the Pandemic

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

The pandemic has put health care top-of-mind for health citizens the world over. For this analysis, the Pew research team assessed the views of some 2,600 health citizens living in 17 developed countries in February 2021. Overall, 45% of health citizens polled are interested in major health system changes.

Public Health

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Prescription Drugs in the Pandemic, Year 2: Pricing Rx and Going Direct-to-Consumer

Health Populi

AUGUST 16, 2021

The survey was fielded in June 2021 among 1,071 U.S. Putting numbers on the components of the cost of prescription drugs in America is a complicated undertaking, and I have worked on drug pricing projects in my “real job” as a management consultant/health economist. Health Populi’s Hot Points: While U.S.

Pharmaceuticals

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“Hope Springs Eternal” With the COVID Vaccine for Both Joe Biden and Most People in the U.S.

Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2021

The survey saw a dramatic decline in the percent of Americans expecting to wait over 6 months of self-isolation and social distancing — from 52% in mid-January to 31% in the first week of March 2021. have reduced hours/pay, or are unemployed without pay.

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“The virus is the boss” — U.S. lives and livelihoods at the beginning of 2021

Consumers’ Trust In Pharmacists As Providers Grows Along with Omnichannel Health Care

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Telehealth Reimbursement: End-of-Pandemic Emergency Update

Universal Health Care and Financial Inclusion – Not Mutually Exclusive

Primary Care in the U.S. – Still a Weak Backbone for the Health of Health Citizens

The True Costs of Diabetes Go Well Beyond the Wallet

It Could Take Five Generations for a Low-Income US Family to Reach Average Income in America

Why People Are Still Avoiding the Doctor (It’s Not the Virus)

Healthcare AI investment will shift to these 5 areas in the next 2 years: survey

While Costs Are A Top Concern Among Most U.S. Patients, So Are Challenges of Poverty, Food, and Housing

Health Equity: Searching for a New Angle

A Matter of Trust, Perception, Risk, and Uncertainty – The Big Issues Raised by the Acquisition of PatientsLikeMe and Other Patient Data Transactions

Health Citizens Link Their Views on Democracy, the Economy and the Pandemic

Prescription Drugs in the Pandemic, Year 2: Pricing Rx and Going Direct-to-Consumer

“Hope Springs Eternal” With the COVID Vaccine for Both Joe Biden and Most People in the U.S.

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