Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

The high-deductible health plan design in fact prevents many people from seeking preventive care or testing: uninsured patients could pay at least $500 for a test, and a 10-day hospital stay can tally $75,000 according to Gerard Anderson , professor of public health at Johns Hopkins.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Earlier this year, Accenture found that U.S. consumers’ adoption of digital health technology stalled. One of the driving forces was found to be privacy concerns about health data protections. That brings us to another of the four health citizenship pillars: trust.

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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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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? The top-line in the report, and the bottom-line for health citizens, was that 38% of U.S. One-half of 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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The Digital Health Corner

JANUARY 30, 2017

In a previous post I discussed the merits of music as an ideal digital health tool. I would submit that the potential for digital tech to prolong independence and/or improve lives of caregivers in the home or at a distance must be the subject of clinical studies.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Mental health via virtual platforms has sustained significant use since the waning of the public health crisis. But pent-up demand remains for mental health services which could be made further accessible. Younger people are more likely to demand and be comfortable with virtual care platforms.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2020

revealed many weakness in the American health care system, one of which has been health inequities faced by millions of people — especially black Americans, who have sustained higher rates morbidity and mortality for COVID-19. But the emergence of the coronavirus in the U.S. Lack of inclusive design. the authors call out.

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Health Populi

APRIL 7, 2019

In addition to the food supply impact for the Planet Earth’s patients, climate change impacts public health in many other ways. The American Public Health Association founded the Center for Climate. Rural and urban dwellers, alike, often cannot afford data plans charged by Internet Service Providers.

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Health Populi

APRIL 7, 2020

In seeking solutions to support our mental health and resilience, I want to highlight an innovation launching today from HopeLab and Grit Digital Health who collaborated on Nod. Laughter is some of the best medicine these days, right?!

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The study convened many advisors from a range of fields in public health, health equity, disability/ability community, academia, clinical practice, and community leaders in the LGBTQIA+ community, among others. Leverage digital health to scale best practices in healthcare and delivery — leaving no one behind.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2018

The NHS “supply shortage” is a result of financial cuts to both social care and public health. This article in the BMJ published earlier this year called for increasing these investments to ensure further erosion of population and public health outcomes, and to prevent further health disparities in the UK.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 28, 2020

I wrote about this challenge in 2014 in my report for California Health Care Foundation, Here’s Looking at You: How Personal Information Is Being Tracked and Used. Years ago, the Harvard Privacy Project led by Latanya Sweeney at the time had addressed privacy as, “the sword and the shield of public health.”

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Digital Health Global

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The Foundation previously invested $3 million in 2020 to help older adults access digital health tools and maintain social connections online. and is focused on health equity, working to eliminate unjust, avoidable and unnecessary barriers in health and healthcare.

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Health Populi

MAY 1, 2019

public health — uniquely American versus the rest of the developed world. This concept is recommended in the last chapter of HealthConsuming as the plot moves to the question of whether health consumers will emerge as health citizens in America.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Folks who couldn’t connect couldn’t work from home, go to school from home, connect with fitness and faith communities from home — essentially live in the year 2020 and beyond in a digitally-enabled home, community, society.

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2022

He also tweets his own comments on Twitter @EricTopol , which have become must-click insights into the COVID-19 pandemic from the inception of the public health crisis. In summing up the patient-centered interoperability goal, Ardy summarized: “We’ve created the Mint.com of health data.”

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

How would you improve what’s in the bill to optimize the use of telehealth in this challenging public health moment? What can we expect to hear relevant to the public health challenge? Because, ultimately, we must work to bake digital health services into our emergency preparedness and response infrastructure.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

Thanks to AARP for conducting multiple studies on health and well-being that are informing our work into the future of health care, reducing health disparities, and bolstering public health for all.

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Health Populi

JULY 5, 2021

Health care, through telehealth, health education, and wearable sensors that make up the Internet of Things for medical and healthcare.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Staff well-being is paramount to a sustainable health care system, and resources must be allocated to ensuring mental and behavioral health services are available to staff who may need them — but not be comfortable being vocal about their demand for them.

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Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2022

A cautionary report that should sober-up the most bullish of digital health enthusiasts came from IDC’s recent research published June 7 noting that, globally, wearable technology purchases fell for the first time since the firm has watched the space.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The growing supply of teletherapy serving more people at scale who need and want to access services has been encouraging to see, with investments in digital mental health hitting $3.1 billion and $793mm for substance use disorder for the first three quarters of 2021 based on Rock Health’s numbers.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

But the coronavirus era also saw broadband households spending more on connecting health devices, with 42% of U.S. consumers owning digital health tech compared with 33% in 2015, according to research discussed in Supporting Today’s Connected Consumer from Parks Associates. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic drove U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Healthcare is currently undergoing an unprecedented transformation through a digital health revolution do you want to be at the epicenter of it? NYeC is propelling healthcare forward by facilitating the use of new and innovative technologies that will improve patient care.

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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

JULY 4, 2022

“While digital health won’t necessarily replace in-person therapy or treatment for many people, it will help make healthcare more readily available to those who need it most,” GWI noted.

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Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2022

But even with the explosion of funding for digital health innovations such as wearable trackers, remote health monitors, and thousands of apps downloadable to our smartphones, the burden of chronic care continues to grow.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

HRSA’s 8 bureaus and offices (Ryan White, Maternal and child health, rural health policy, healthcare systems, etc.) In 2019, Health Centers across the nation served 30 million patients. Rapid Implementation of an Interprofessional 1-800-COVID19 Hotline Call Center to Support a Public Health Crisis , Dr. Kevin Sexton.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 6, 2021

It’s interesting that Rock Health’s digital health funding line graph echoes the left side of the Economist graph. The pandemic has accelerated funding in digital health tools across many forms, shown in Rock Health’s second chart here on top funded value and clinical propositions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Biden’s statement, which divided the public health community and the public, has wide-reaching implications for the fate of connected health and vital telehealth services. Department of Health and Human Services Alex Azar signed the first Public Health Emergency declaration , declaring COVID-19 a national emergency.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2022

House Appropriations Committee unveiled an omnibus spending package that included telehealth service extensions to cover Medicare enrollees for 151 days after the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency. This is essentially a five-month extension for telehealth in the U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2022

Access to the Internet has been a key determinant of health — or more aptly, death — during the COVID-19 pandemic. Americans lacked Internet access were more likely to die due to complications from the coronavirus, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open this month. COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 were preventable.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

As the pandemic exacerbated many risks of social determinants of health like food security and the ability to earn a wage in hospitality or caregiving jobs, so, too, did the public health crisis shine a light on a newer determinant of health: connectivity as a basic human need.

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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. 76% in Latin America 73% in China 55% in Nigeria 46% in India.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Biden’s statement, which divided the public health community and the public, has wide-reaching implications for the fate of connected health and vital telehealth services. Department of Health and Human Services Alex Azar signed the first Public Health Emergency declaration , declaring COVID-19 a national emergency.

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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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