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Redefining PPE As Primary Care, Public Health, and Health Equity – The Community PPE Index

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

” As OED evolves the definition of PPE, the wordsmiths could borrow from OSHA’s website , noting that PPE, “is equipment worn to minimize exposure to hazards that cause serious workplace injuries and illnesses. In May 2020, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) re-visited the acronym, “PPE.” In the U.S.,

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Designing Digital Health for Public Health Preparedness and Equity: the Consumer Tech Association Doubles Down

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

At the same time, CTA has published a paper on Advancing Health Equity Through Technology which complements and reinforces the PHTI announcement and objective. Tribal health departments. Over 160,000 public and private labs. Hospitals and health care providers. Health plans. value-based).

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Consumers Expand Their Definition of Well-Being to Include Food-As-Medicine

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

This is the theme of a new report from the FMI Foundation called The Power of Health and Well-Being in Food Retail. The consumer-as-medical-bill-payor is now looking at foods with health benefits, first and foremost for heart health. Health care delivery in the U.S.

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White House Ends COVID National & Public Health Emergencies: What Is the Telehealth Future?

Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

After years of federal controversy and conjecture, the White House announced Monday that the COVID-19 national and public health emergencies (PHE) will end on May 11. The letter opens the door for states to reimburse interprofessional consultations and allows them to develop their own methodology definitions.

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Rebel Health: The Personal and Professional Passion of Susannah Fox

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

” An additional definition of the verb is, “ to feel or exhibit anger or revulsion.” The post Rebel Health: The Personal and Professional Passion of Susannah Fox appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Physicians Don’t Talk Enough with Patients About Non-Medical Needs

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The study also found that nine in ten consumers felt they had a lot or a great deal of control over their health, and that health is “so much more than just not being sick.” On the financial wellness front, note that 34% of people said “being able to pay my bills” also fed into one’s definition of health.

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Wearable Tech for Health Tracking, Online Dating and Banking: Exploring the “Fluidity” of Peoples’ Data Privacy Views

Health Populi

OCTOBER 27, 2022

“The security of online data is the top consideration for consumers across many forms of online activities including email, search, social media, banking, shopping and dating”… and using health apps. A new poll from Morning Consult, explained on their website, explains that For Consumers, Data Privacy Has a Fluid Definition.

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Our Pandemic Lessons: Listening to Michael Dowling – a #HIMSS21 Wrap-Up

Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2021

Scale matters to survive a public health crisis. Dowling pointed to the benefits of being a large integrated health care system with multiple hospitals, ambulatory care services and a broad portfolio of capabilities that enabled Northwell Health to be responsive to the needs of the pandemic and deal with the crisis.

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Montana Senate committee unanimously moves forward with telehealth expansion bill

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Extend the coverage requirement to public employee benefit plans and student health plans. The bill also revises the definition of telehealth to expand beyond licensed physician-provided care and encompass treatment such as behavioral health. Nearly two dozen people offered testimony in favor of the bill at the hearing.

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The Demand for Self-Care At-Home Will Grow Post-Pandemic – Insights from IRI

Health Populi

MAY 5, 2022

When it comes to peoples’ relationship to consumer packaged goods (CPG), the public health crisis has indeed impacted consumers’ purchasing behaviors and definition of “value,” based on IRI’s latest analysis of CPG shifts in 2022 and 2023. and better-for-you ingredients and functional benefits.

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Wellness in 2023 Is About Connections, Mental Health and Science – Global Wellness Summit’s 2023 Trends

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Were GWI to re-calibrate this landscape today, post-pandemic, I would guestimate that the mental wellness bubble would be much larger, with personal care and beauty definitely bolstered in and in the wake of the pandemic.

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Americans’ Views on Food Have Been Re-Shaped by the Pandemic: Think Security, Immunity, and Sustainability

Health Populi

MAY 19, 2021

Americans are also keener on looking at food-as-medicine and health-making, as their definition of what “healthy food” is grew more positive in 2021. consumers’ changing attitudes toward food during the public health crisis. These check-ins go back to June 2020 and demonstrate U.S.

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Consumers Expect Every Company to Play a Meaningful Role in “My Health” – New Insights from the 2023 Edelman Trust Barometer

Health Populi

APRIL 19, 2023

People have expanded their definitions of health in 2023, with mental health supplanting physical health for the top-ranked factor in feeling healthy. As such, every company is a health/care company, regardless of industry.

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Why Health Literacy Matters and How Telehealth Can Help

Health Recovery Solutions

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

For public health professionals health literacy is one of the first things we learn about. Because it cascades into and influences all areas of health.

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Transforming Chronic Care Management: A Comprehensive, Technology-Driven Approach

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

This synergy allows for effective management of both community health and individual patient needs, a concept detailed by Definitive Healthcare. Mental Health Integration : With approximately 1 in 5 adults in the U.S. affecting about 6 in 10 adults.

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The FDA launches #openFDA to give access to public health data

Medicine and Technology

JUNE 3, 2014

Yesterday, the FDA announced a new initiative called openFDA to give developers, health care researchers, clinicians, and the public access to important public health data. openFDA is currently in beta, but it's definitely looking quite promising.

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ATA takes a national stance on how states treat consumer health data

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 31, 2023

" Key components of the ATA's Health Data Privacy Principles include: Consistency Definition of Consumer Health data Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Consumer Rights Consumer Consent, Sale of Data & Opt-Out Enforcement THE LARGER TREND For 30 years the ATA has advocated on behalf of telehealth providers.

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Kaiser, Mayo, Medically Home found coalition to promote advanced hospital-at-home services

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Founded by the Mayo Clinic, Kaiser Permanente and hospital-at-home vendor Medically Home, the coalition says it hopes to work with Congress to ensure continuity of care beyond the COVID-19 public health emergency. "We're going to need to have a few different ways of measuring this." "There's no vanity here.

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The Commercial Determinants of Health – How the Private Sector Shapes Public and Peoples’ Health

Health Populi

APRIL 7, 2023

The Lancet ‘s collection of research published online on March 23, 2022 explores CDoH’s role in shaping public and individual health, along with potential calls-to-action for addressing these challengres.

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Digital Health Tools Are Finding Business Models – IQVIA’s 2021 Read on the Health of Digital Health

Health Populi

JULY 22, 2021

Today, one-half of the categories speak to more “medical”/clinical areas that are disease specific, addressing women’s health, medication adherence, and healthcare administration workflows.

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Telehealth Reimbursement: End-of-Pandemic Emergency Update

Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 9, 2023

Based on current COVID-19 recovery trends, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that the US federal Public Health Emergency (PHE) waivers will end on May 11, 2023. For a comprehensive overview, visit the Public Health Emergency Roadmap fact sheet.

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Out-of-Pocket and Prescription Drug Costs – Connecting Digital Health Dots at CES 2020

Health Populi

JANUARY 9, 2020

While not every device has compelling clinical evidence, digital health at CES is definitely moving in the right direction in terms of clinical quality and efficacy in areas of heart monitoring, digital therapeutics, and pain, among other conditions. That’s the supply side.

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Necessity is the Mother(board) – How COVID-19 Inspires Local Communities to Build Broadband

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

map of median broadband speeds and affordability, where the red areas shown locales where speeds routinely fall below the FCC’s base definition of broadband. The result is shown in the U.S.

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Dozens of U.S. legislators push for telehealth coverage expansion

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 31, 2022

"Telehealth has been a critical tool during the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure that patients continue to receive the health care they need while keeping health care providers and patients safe," read the letter. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Bonus Features – November 12, 2023 – 93% of clinicians use RPM in cardiac care rehab, telehealth flexibilities remain in place until the end of 2024, plus 25 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

News The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule continues many telehealth flexibilities first adopted during the public health emergency, such as an expanded scope of originating sites an expanded definition of qualified practitioners. As a result, these flexibilities will be in place until at least Dec. 1, 2024.

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CONNECT for Health Act reintroduced, would expand telehealth access

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2021

"The telehealth cliff is looming, casting much uncertainty and concern for the health and safety of Medicare beneficiaries, and the sustainability of our already overburdened healthcare system," said Ann Mond Johnson, CEO of the American Telemedicine Association.

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Digital Inclusion As Upstream Health Investment

Health Populi

JULY 5, 2021

Enter the digital era, forcing a re-definition of what we mean by “infrastructure.” Health care costs consume nearly one in every five dollars of the American economy. This concept informs the current discussion about how we define “infrastructure” moving forward.

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Chewing on Raley’s Social Impact Report: Re-Imagining the Future of Food, Health and Community

Health Populi

APRIL 9, 2021

As of the publication date, 43% of Raley’s team was defined as “diverse:” the definition including people who identify with at least one of the EEOC’s ethnic, racial, and/or cultural groups. The company is working with a third-party firm to help develop programs for training, policies and procedures.

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Healthcare Chatbot Explosion on The Way?

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Also, public health leaders have begun to use chatbot technology to address COVID-19 management activities such as vaccine scheduling, surveillance, information dissemination, and risk assessment, especially during the pandemic. Providers have also begun testing chatbot applications to improve patient communication.

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“Everyday Life” Factors Into Our Health Risks for COVID-19, Welltok Explains

Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2020

Everyday factors can make a big difference in a person’s current and future health risks and needs, we’re learning in the COVID-19 pandemic, detailed in a new Welltok research report, Social Determinants of Health Matter: Voice of the Consumer.

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The Healthiest Communities in the U.S. After the Pandemic – U.S. News & Aetna Foundation’s Post-COVID Lists

Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2021

Beyond the internet of everything, utilizing data for good, I think we should add a companion definition: a Smart City attends to the many factors that bolster citizens’ overall health, investing in the underlying social, financial, mental, and economic well-being of the community’s residents.

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How Do You See Health Data Utilities Evolving? Where are We Today and Where is it Heading?

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

How are health data utilities evolving? Lindsey Ferris, DrPH, Senior Interoperability and Public Health Director at PointClickCare – I think we’re at the very early stages. You’re seeing some HIEs further along, but it’s definitely a concept we’re talking a lot about.

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HealthBI’s Scott McFarland says Step Away From the Fax Machine — Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

The practices get information to help address social determinants of health via the platform as well. Four years in, the company is seeing positive results in terms of gaps in care closed, across the domains of both behavioral health and physical medicine.

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As Food-As-Medicine Gains Momentum, Watch for Dietitians and Pharmacists to Sit at The FaM Table – And A Lesson from George Washington Carver

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Check out this summary slide of food industry initiatives across various health and wellness challenges; in particular, see that 38% of organizations are involved with programs for produce and food prescriptions. This is a key workflow in Food-as-Medicine programs.

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Big ONC News: QHINs, TEFCA, and HTI-1

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 14, 2023

USCDI v3 includes updates to prior USCDI versions focused on advancing more accurate and complete patient characteristics data that could help promote equity, reduce disparities, and support public health data interoperability.

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Why #CES2022 Will Be Keynoted By A Health Care Innovator for the First Time

Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Abbott’s CEO Ford joins two other industry executives keynoting #CES2022: Mary Barra of General Motors and Mike Sievert of T-Mobile. Or an expanded definition of a “digital therapeutic” with the car as a delivery channel or vessel for care and information source.

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

Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: While the 2007-8 Great Recession was considered more of a “He-Cession,” this round of U.S. economic downturn is definitely hitting women harder — thus, we consider it a “She-Cession,” hitting women particularly harder as workers, parents, and caregivers.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Collecting Data

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

According to vice president Ted Hill, it can modernize how public health agencies serve today’s needs. Casetivity can ingest, standardize, and share health data. Strategic Solution Group, LLC (SSG) has a low-code software platform called Casetivity. do so in different ways and often have incomplete data.

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Telehealth reimbursement may be changing. How should providers prepare?

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced earlier this month , for example, that it would add 11 virtual services to its reimbursement list during the COVID-19 public health emergency – following in the footsteps of its earlier flexibilities for virtual care. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Equity must be embedded in the overall health ecosystem

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Recognizing that, yes, this is a major enabler for telehealth, which also promotes health equity. The direction that our policymakers are going, at both the federal and state level, is definitely a positive one. How do you see digital health tools playing a role there? So it's definitely top of mind for our policymakers.

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Patients-As-Health Care Payers Define What a Digital Front Door Looks Like

Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2023

You may not know that the company has a significant footprint in health care and financial technology. Start with the definition of patient access. This results of the consumer and provider surveys combines those corporate interests, discussed in this report.

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Bonus Features – July 23, 2023 – Number of people impacted by data breaches up 56% compared to last year, CMS keeps temporary telehealth expansion in 2024 Medicare fee schedule, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 23, 2023

News and Studies The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule from CMS would continue many of the public health emergency telehealth flexibilities, such as an expanded definition of telehealth practitioners, continued payments to rural health centers and FQHCs, and the expansion of originating sites.

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2024 SPM Update from Board Chair Mary Hennings

Society for Participatory Medicine

JANUARY 17, 2024

While developing these CLEs, we secured sponsorships from multiple organizations, including NRC Health, Evidation, Massachusetts Blue Cross Blue Shield, Phreesia Life Sciences, ZS, BEME, Oregon Health and Science University, and the Boston Public Health Commission.

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South Central Legislative/Regulatory Update – February 2018

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

1/11/18: Introduced and referred to Public Health and Human Services Committee. 1/22/18: Referred to Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare. For telehealth, states that the definitions, licensing and processes for the purpose of these rules shall be the same as adopted by the Tennessee Department of Health.

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Redefining PPE As Primary Care, Public Health, and Health Equity – The Community PPE Index

Designing Digital Health for Public Health Preparedness and Equity: the Consumer Tech Association Doubles Down

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Consumers Expand Their Definition of Well-Being to Include Food-As-Medicine

White House Ends COVID National & Public Health Emergencies: What Is the Telehealth Future?

Rebel Health: The Personal and Professional Passion of Susannah Fox

Physicians Don’t Talk Enough with Patients About Non-Medical Needs

Wearable Tech for Health Tracking, Online Dating and Banking: Exploring the “Fluidity” of Peoples’ Data Privacy Views

Our Pandemic Lessons: Listening to Michael Dowling – a #HIMSS21 Wrap-Up

Montana Senate committee unanimously moves forward with telehealth expansion bill

The Demand for Self-Care At-Home Will Grow Post-Pandemic – Insights from IRI

Wellness in 2023 Is About Connections, Mental Health and Science – Global Wellness Summit’s 2023 Trends

Americans’ Views on Food Have Been Re-Shaped by the Pandemic: Think Security, Immunity, and Sustainability

Consumers Expect Every Company to Play a Meaningful Role in “My Health” – New Insights from the 2023 Edelman Trust Barometer

Why Health Literacy Matters and How Telehealth Can Help

Transforming Chronic Care Management: A Comprehensive, Technology-Driven Approach

The FDA launches #openFDA to give access to public health data

ATA takes a national stance on how states treat consumer health data

Kaiser, Mayo, Medically Home found coalition to promote advanced hospital-at-home services

The Commercial Determinants of Health – How the Private Sector Shapes Public and Peoples’ Health

Digital Health Tools Are Finding Business Models – IQVIA’s 2021 Read on the Health of Digital Health

Telehealth Reimbursement: End-of-Pandemic Emergency Update

Out-of-Pocket and Prescription Drug Costs – Connecting Digital Health Dots at CES 2020

Necessity is the Mother(board) – How COVID-19 Inspires Local Communities to Build Broadband

Dozens of U.S. legislators push for telehealth coverage expansion

Bonus Features – November 12, 2023 – 93% of clinicians use RPM in cardiac care rehab, telehealth flexibilities remain in place until the end of 2024, plus 25 more stories

CONNECT for Health Act reintroduced, would expand telehealth access

Digital Inclusion As Upstream Health Investment

Chewing on Raley’s Social Impact Report: Re-Imagining the Future of Food, Health and Community

Healthcare Chatbot Explosion on The Way?

“Everyday Life” Factors Into Our Health Risks for COVID-19, Welltok Explains

The Healthiest Communities in the U.S. After the Pandemic – U.S. News & Aetna Foundation’s Post-COVID Lists

How Do You See Health Data Utilities Evolving? Where are We Today and Where is it Heading?

HealthBI’s Scott McFarland says Step Away From the Fax Machine — Harlow on Healthcare

As Food-As-Medicine Gains Momentum, Watch for Dietitians and Pharmacists to Sit at The FaM Table – And A Lesson from George Washington Carver

Big ONC News: QHINs, TEFCA, and HTI-1

Why #CES2022 Will Be Keynoted By A Health Care Innovator for the First Time

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

Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Collecting Data

Telehealth reimbursement may be changing. How should providers prepare?

Equity must be embedded in the overall health ecosystem

Patients-As-Health Care Payers Define What a Digital Front Door Looks Like

Bonus Features – July 23, 2023 – Number of people impacted by data breaches up 56% compared to last year, CMS keeps temporary telehealth expansion in 2024 Medicare fee schedule, and more

2024 SPM Update from Board Chair Mary Hennings

South Central Legislative/Regulatory Update – February 2018

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