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. Innovate long-term care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 6, 2024

billion in annual operating revenue, Memorial Healthcare System is one of the largest public health systems in the U.S. With the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Memorial launched telehealth for all its primary care and specialty centers, and today conducts about 100,000 virtual visits per year.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 5, 2022

To analyze which physicians made the transition sooner, the researchers used Epic electronic health record data to analyze visits between Oct. Younger generations had larger proportions of innovators and early adopters, as did behavioral health and primary care physicians. 1, 2019, and Dec. Of the 3,473 physicians, 13.8%

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 20, 2023

The COVID-19 public health emergency may be coming to an end in May. But what's next for virtual care? And what about the blossoming trend of virtual-first hybrid care? Healthcare IT News sat down with Sean Mehra, CEO and cofounder of HealthTap, a virtual-first urgent care and primary care clinic.

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Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2021

For some people such as American Indian and Native Alaskan folks, geography, remoteness, and lack of public health infrastructure are challenges. These are in fact infrastructure and social/health care factors that are nationally scalable with public policy and funding. Analyzing county-level data for 3,142 U.S.

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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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 16, 2022

The most common telehealth solution involves primary care consultations that take place online (e.g., For example, Babylon Health offers a symptom checker and AI/ML driven diagnosis recommendations to patients. chat, video conferencing, etc.) via a portal or a mobile app. 5G) and differentiated connectivity services.

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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

MARCH 13, 2024

adults’ levels of trust in health care services and suppliers, finding the greatest trust lies with a consumer’s local pharmacy (for 77% of consumers), followed by hospitals (for 73% of people) and in third rank, health technology (63%). Layered on top of this is health citizens’ eroding trust in other aspects of U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 4, 2020

There remains a plethora of “testing deserts” throughout the U.S., “stemming from an overwhelmed supply chain and a disjointed public health system,” NPR observed. public health patchwork quilt. The private sector 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

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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

Charlie Baker signed into law a wide-ranging bill that includes expanding access to telehealth after the COVID-19 public health emergency abates. At the beginning of the COVID-19 public health emergency, Baker enacted an emergency order requiring insurers to cover telehealth in order to help ensure provider and patient safety.

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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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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

APRIL 2, 2023

Understanding Chronic Diseases Chronic diseases are health conditions that typically develop slowly and last for a long time, often for the rest of a person’s life. Examples of chronic diseases include arthritis, high blood pressure, kidney disease, and many others. This is where referral and primary care come into play.

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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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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2022

These are shown in the first diagram from the report, breaking out factors that have exacerbated challenges on both the demand and supply side of the American health economy. Many of these were already in motion before the COVID-19 pandemic emerged; the public health crisis exacerbated several of them. In the U.S.,

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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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 18, 2020

This assurance has given clear support to the use of technologies such as mobile messaging and video-enabled services, for example. One example is the creation of an expanded team with capabilities in technology roll-out, change management and health improvement, which has led to the expansion of video-enabled consultation.

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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

MARCH 25, 2021

It was the COVID-19 pandemic that accelerated some early-adopting health consumers viewing their home as their ultimate site for self-care and health care. Beyond overall wellness, though, consumers are also turning more to food and beverage (F&B) purchases for chronic illness support: for example, U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

We interviewed Lois Ritter, a teaching associate professor for the masters of public health program at the University of Nevada, Reno. Also, people who use consumer-facing telehealth may not have a medical home and hence, a primary care provider. For example, my finger that I broke two years ago is starting to ache.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 24, 2020

NHS Digital increased the capacity and range of NHS 111 (the 24/7 telephone and online service for people who need advice and information about urgent medical problems), and NHSX (which focuses on the digital transformation of health and social care) launched a competition for remote monitoring technology.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The proposed CMS rules would make permanent additions to the telehealth services list nine codes that were temporarily covered during the COVID-19 public health emergency. Telehealth reimbursement after the public health emergency has been a continued cause for debate, with groups offering a variety of potential solutions.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 7, 2022

It’s important to note that central to the CHPA Educational Foundation’s mission is serving people with lower health literacy as well as reaching consumers living in underserved communities or “health deserts,” geographies lacking health care services – in particular, primary care.

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2022

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Castlight examined the commercial medical claims even more granularly, looking into differences between higher-income workers compared with lower-income communities.

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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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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 News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

"If we are able to reach the patient by phone, we can, in real time, convert a scheduled in-person visit to a telemedicine visit to avoid prolonged gaps in care." " These purchases will allow sufficient technology to remain in place even after the public health emergency is lifted, and COVID protocols and limitations diminish.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

The chart labeled Figure 9 shows consumers’ different levels of “willingness” to seek care in each of four locations based on their employer-based health care coverage. For example, over 70% of patients are willingness to use a video virtual care visit based on the claim cost of $78.

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Continue Education Journal

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Key considerations for embracing telemedicine post-pandemic: Improved access: Rural communities often have limited access to specialists, making it difficult for these individuals to get the care they need. There is still uncertainty of the fate of other services as the public health emergency ends.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

These technology enhancements should allow for the provision of mental health services and substance use disorder treatment to more than 75,000 Massachusetts health center patients through the use of remote patient monitoring, video visits and other connected services. Health equity is a burning issue in healthcare today.

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MeMD

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Virtual care, for example, has become an essential part of healthcare delivery. Early in the pandemic, telehealth utilization skyrocketed, as virtual care was a safe way to access necessary care. Virtual Primary Care Can Combat Widespread Provider Shortages as Businesses Step up the Offering.

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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. Estimated Costs of Intervening in Health-Related Social Needs Detected in Primary Care. JAMA Intern Med. 2023;183(8):762–774.

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Health Populi

APRIL 25, 2023

″ square, packs a huge amount of self-care knowledge about burn prevention and treatment for home and workplace — the two sites where most burns happen, WHO attests. The Family Oops is a wonderful example of how a health literacy project can be packaged and messaged to be enlightening, engaging, fun, and very effective.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Here’s a recent example of health and wellness embedded in a connected car from Hyundai, one of many auto manufacturers re-imagining health as a benefit of driving in a car.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Mohr called engagement the “hallmark” of PCORI research and discussed examples of what they’re looking for. She closed by discussing a current ongoing study that is looking at 110 primary care practices and the effectiveness of telehealth among their 205k patients. Track A: Emergency Care and Management. Camille McBride.

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