Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2021

Those issues were COVID-19, the 2020 Election, health care policy, racial divides, and equity and access. W2O notes that these five issues became more-inter-related than ever, compared with previous years’ top consumer health issues. Keep an eye on the “S” in ESG for health care, along with E and G.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 17, 2020

In addition to the regional TRCs, the National Telehealth Technology Assessment Resource Center and the Center for Connected Health Policy evaluate different types of telehealth technology and track telehealth-related policy, respectively. Each regional TRC has information specifically tailored to the needs of the region.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 14, 2023

Just one example of this public health challenge is the state of Texas which has 15 million women who have , March of Dimes asserts, the “highest reproductive health vulnerability of all U.S. A new March of Dimes report found that 5.6 million women in the U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

The coronavirus spawned another kind of gift to China and the nation’s health citizens: telemedicine, the essay explains. 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?

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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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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

We cannot expect Technology itself to be a panacea to this national tragedy that public policies must help solve in terms of underlying drivers of health and well-being. But there are technology innovations that can help people deal with addiction through, for example, digital therapeutic solutions.

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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. for example, for heart disease and cardiovascular complications as well as for cancers. This has been found to be the case in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Risks of social determinants of health like paying for housing, utilities, and food, have been a greater burden during the public health crisis for Black people (32%) and Hispanic folks (28%) than for White people in America (17%), with an average of 22% at-risk for SDoH factors. population by a factor of 2 to 1.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

New and niche, these applications decrease administrative burdens and reduce operational costs in departments such as health information, business office, and denial management. Here is one example of how payer exchange is being automated today. Connections are built with health plans to receive requests electronically.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

So only in America in the coronavirus pandemic have millions of people lost their health security just when folks would be most needful of access to health care services: during a public health crisis. Race matters for health insurance in America. Just weeks into the COVID-19 pandemic, cracks in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Addressing health equity starts with meeting patients where they are. This means, for example, offering treatment and medication options that are suited to the patient’s current situation (socioeconomic status, transportation availability, location, etc.). Public health policies. Access to the health system.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

live under a broadband monopoly, explicitly pointing to Comcast as a prime example of an obstructive force in building out broadband to the last mile and citizen’s home. Among many reasons broadband continues to lag in certain parts of the U.S. is the monopoly power of ISPs: ILSR gauges that 83 million people in the U.S.

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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

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

We are already witnessing this re-shaping public health in the U.S., with the examples of CVS Health quitting tobacco, Dick’s Sporting Goods and Walmart addressing firearms safety, and grocery and discount stores providing more retail health services in consumers’ local communities.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

I’d called WiFi a social determinant of health in a Huffington Post column I wrote back in 2016 , recognizing the emerging virtual health opportunity and potential for furthering the digital divide without bolstering broadband “everywhere.” Nothing like a public health crisis to bring new awareness to old knowledge.

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Health Populi

MAY 17, 2018

wars since 1950, according to Pain in the Nation Update from the Well Being Trust and Trust for America’s Health. For context, carfentanil is used as a large animal tranquilizer for example in elephants. Health Populi’s Hot Points: How to deal with this think-the-unthinkable public and personal health reality?

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2022

For example, Boomers would be less likely than younger patients to take a telehealth appointment if it was available sooner than an in-person visit — signaling, JLL says, that older people may have stronger ties to medical providers than younger patients. This is essentially a five-month extension for telehealth in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2022

The pandemic has stretched the food system to its fragile limits, dependent on corporate food conglomerates whose supply chains were broken in the public health crisis. ” For example: “What if the Baltimore food system connected with the Philly area food system, the Brooklyn system, and up and down the interstate?

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Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health

MAY 31, 2018

Kaiser Permanente, the nation’s largest integrated health system, has joined forces with the de Beaumont Foundation, a leader in public health philanthropy, to help U.S. CityHealth promotes nine evidence-based policies addressing issues that have a major effect on health, such as affordable housing, education and clean air.

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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. Mohr called engagement the “hallmark” of PCORI research and discussed examples of what they’re looking for.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 30, 2020

But most Americans, rich or not, believe that it’s unfair for wealthier people to get better health care, according to a January 2020 poll from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Harvard Chan School of Public Health, Life Experiences and Income Equality in the United States. adults 18 or older. of the insured.

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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

APRIL 12, 2022

There is a growing list of examples in this community, where the companies have begun to detail their ESG efforts in annual reports s uch as the most recent one from CVS Health. Walmart increasing wage packages to as high as $110K a year for truck drivers, essentially doubling salaries for their company’s fleet development.

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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

AUGUST 24, 2021

In that introductory editorial, Ending Structural Racism in the US Health Care System to Eliminate Health Care Inequities, Ortega and Roby write that, “3 studies in this issue of JAMA show that access to and utilization of services is not merely predicated on health insurance or the availability of health care.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

“There is a recognition by stakeholders across all of health care that the status quo is not sufficient….but More people are talking about policy change — systemic, sustainable changes. For example, Abner now sees that every Medicaid RFP has health equity embedded in it. Still, Abner is cautiously optimistic.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2022

For example, comparatively less U.S. ” 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>

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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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Health Populi

OCTOBER 14, 2019

An example is a key input of health, such as providing free vaccinations and mobile clinic visits. The team addressed this challenge called “bounded rationality,” which has led to some people reluctant to adopt modern technology.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JANUARY 26, 2023

This legislation aims to help states respond to public health emergencies and provide vital services to their communities during challenging times Despite the progress made in recent years, there are still challenges to be addressed to realize the potential of telehealth for Medicaid fully.

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Insulin Nation

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

For example, liver transplants to people with autoimmune hepatitis result in the new liver becoming diseased. . For example, the complete BCG dosing plan for bladder cancer costs $156 per dose. False positives are inconvenient, and public health policy changed overtime to stop recommending BCG vaccine in Europe.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has long advocated that healthcare and a healthy citizenry tie to a nation’s economic health. We must reach across our individual siloes, bubbles, and objectives to remember that we are all, really, part of a public health mission.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 1, 2018

” With the advent of new-new vaccines that help older people to prevent shingles, for example, this life-cycle approach is worth sharing with our loved ones, neighbors, colleagues, and clinicians. .

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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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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2021

and the issue of pandemic preparedness for the next “Disease X” became part of global public health planning. But the biggest health threat to human life is climate change, according to a new report from the World Health Organization titled The Health Argument for Climate Action.

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Health Populi

APRIL 8, 2021

health care system that existed before the public health crisis. What lessons can be learned from the COVID-19 stress-test to build American health care back better? health system, including 637 health systems, two-thirds of which are not-for-profit and most operating in one state.

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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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