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A Biden Health Policy Retrospective: Implications for Healthcare Innovation
Mobi Health News
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Authors from Flare Capital discuss why policy matters for health innovation
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Addressing Lives and Livelihoods with a Whole-of-Government Approach – The First Wave of Biden Health Policy
Health Populi
JANUARY 27, 2021
I cover this first wave of Biden health policy in my latest post for the Medecision Liberation blog titled, “ Top Priorities for President Biden: COVID-19, Then Everything Else.” Health equity and equal opportunity are baked into President Biden’s plans.
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Come Together – A Health Policy Prescription from the Bipartisan Policy Center
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
Among all Americans, the most popular approach for improving the health care in the U.S. It would be to improve the current health care system, according to the Bipartisan Policy Center’s research reported in a Bipartisan Rx for America’s Health Care.
3 key health policies in the Senate's $1T infrastructure package
FierceHealthIT
AUGUST 2, 2021
3 key health policies in the Senate's $1T infrastructure package. rking. Mon, 08/02/2021 - 13:58
AHIP's Eyles: Health policy priorities for insurers to watch in 2021
FierceHealthIT
JANUARY 26, 2021
AHIP's Eyles: Health policy priorities for insurers to watch in 2021. pminemyer. Tue, 01/26/2021 - 13:43
Lyft wants to solidify its place in healthcare. Meet its new health policy guru
FierceHealthIT
AUGUST 21, 2020
Meet its new health policy guru. Lyft wants to solidify its place in healthcare. pminemyer. Fri, 08/21/2020 - 14:12
Necessity is the Mother(board) – How COVID-19 Inspires Local Communities to Build Broadband
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
who have indeed built up local connections for residents — health citizens, all. However, that’s hardly a recipe for a nation’s health equity and inclusion, which underpin risks for more acute care, later diagnoses, and poor prognoses for health outcomes.
Women’s Health Policy Advice for the Next Occupant of the White House: Deal With Mental Health, the Pandemic, and Health Care Costs
Health Populi
OCTOBER 19, 2020
A new study from Tia, the women’s health services platform, looks deeply into COVID-19’s negative impacts on working-age women and how they would advise the next occupant of the White House on health policy in Dear Future President — What Women Want for Healthcare in America.
Can the U.S. Improve Health System Performance with Digital Health Tools? Pondering A Big Question for #HIMSS21
Health Populi
AUGUST 6, 2021
health care spending and what comes from it, according to Mirror, Mirror 2021: Reflecting Poorly , a perennial report from The Commonwealth Fund that compares health system performance across eleven developed countries. health care system, “was designed to work this way.”
Health Disparities in America: JAMA Talks Structural Racism in U.S. Health Care
Health Populi
AUGUST 24, 2021
“Racial and ethnic inequities in the US health care system have been unremitting since the beginning of the country. The coronavirus pandemic has changed so many aspects of American health care for so many people, including doctors. health care.
Digital Inclusion As Upstream Health Investment
Health Populi
JULY 5, 2021
Without access to connectivity during the pandemic, too many people could not work for their living, attend school and learn, connect with loved ones, or get health care. Health care costs consume nearly one in every five dollars of the American economy.
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Prescription Drugs in the Pandemic, Year 2: Pricing Rx and Going Direct-to-Consumer
Health Populi
AUGUST 16, 2021
There is one health care public policy issue that unites U.S. The latest poll from the University of Chicago/Harris Public Policy and the Associate Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research quantifies the issue cross-party, finding that 74% of U.S.
One Health Policy Researcher on the Current State of Blockchain in Healthcare, and its Potential Future
Healthcare Informatics
NOVEMBER 19, 2018
Tim Mackey, an associate professor of global public health at UC San Diego School of Medicine and an academic researcher on blockchain, discusses the complexities of blockchain adoption in healthcare
Our Pandemic Lessons: Listening to Michael Dowling – a #HIMSS21 Wrap-Up
Health Populi
AUGUST 13, 2021
health policy and regulatory leaders. An uncertain world is our workplace in the health/care ecosystem, globally, in this moment. Dowling leads one of the largest health systems in the U.S., Scale matters to survive a public health crisis.
How Fruits and Veg Can Make Health and Lower Costs – Calling Chef José Andrés to the White House
Health Populi
MARCH 28, 2021
It’s timely, then, to re-visit a research paper on subsidizing fruits and vegetables from a March 2019 issue of PLOS as an introduction to a new initiative growing out of The Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School (CHLPI) on produce prescriptions.
Executive Spotlight—Don Berwick on how federal health policy is 'backpedaling'
FierceHealthIT
JANUARY 11, 2019
Don Berwick, former CMS administrator and co-founder of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, sat down with FierceHealthcare to discuss the current health policy landscape
Health Disparities and the Risks of Social Determinants for COVID-19 – 14 Months of Evidence
Health Populi
APRIL 27, 2021
Within just a couple of months of COVID-19 emerging in America, it became clear that health disparities were evident in outcomes due to complications from the coronavirus. There are several factors underlying these statistics of health and healthcare inequities. In April 2020, the U.S.
Virtual Health Tech Enables the Continuum of Health from Hospital to Home
Health Populi
APRIL 21, 2021
In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. Indeed, the home is the new health hub.
And the Oscar Goes To….Power to the Patients!
Health Populi
APRIL 28, 2021
Health care has increased its role in popular culture over the years. When I say “Oscar” here on the Health Populi blog, you’re conjuring up an image of the health plan insurance innovator founded in 2012.
In the Past Ten Years, Workers’ Health Insurance Premiums Have Grown Much Faster Than Wages
Health Populi
OCTOBER 8, 2020
who benefits from health insurance at the workplace, the annual family premium will average $21,342 this year, according to the 2020 Employer Health Benefits Survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Most workers faced a deductible in their health plan. For a worker in the U.S.
The Healthcare and Macro-Economic Impacts of Living with Endemic COVID – Listening to Fitch
Health Populi
JUNE 24, 2021
I welcomed the opportunity to learn from this team’s approach in weaving together the dynamic issues that help us to plan for the long-tail of COVID-19 and its impact on the economy and prospects for the health care industry and health citizens.
The Economics of the Pandemic Put Costs at the Top of Americans’ Health Reform Priorities
Health Populi
MARCH 4, 2021
In 2021, patients-as-health-consumers seek lower health care and prescription drug costs coupled with higher quality care, discovered by the patient advocacy coalition, Consumers for Quality Care. 90% conducted research into health care costs.
The She-Cession – a Financially Toxic Side-Effect of the Coronavirus Pandemic
Health Populi
AUGUST 4, 2020
Along with the life-threatening impact of the coronavirus on physical health, and the accompanying mental health distress activated by self-distancing comes a third unintended consequence with the pandemic: a hard hit on women’s personal economies.
Masks Work. A Picture From Kansas That Tells A Story in Two Words.
Health Populi
OCTOBER 28, 2020
The rationale: That was two days before Independence Day, the holiday weekend when she and state public health officials anticipated health citizens would abandon their personal efforts to physically distance and cover faces to avoid contracting or spreading the coronavirus.
Financial Health Is On Americans’ Minds Just Weeks Before the 2020 Elections
Health Populi
OCTOBER 7, 2020
Financial health is part of peoples’ overall health. Nearly 8 million workers losing jobs also losing their employer-sponsored health insurance, discussed in this research from The Commonwealth Fund. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The patient in the U.S.
Ten In Ten: Manatt’s Healthcare Priorities to 2031
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
health care system, especially laying bare inequities and inertia in American health care, explained in The Progress We Need: Ten Health Care Imperatives for the Decade Ahead from Manatt Health. Achieve health equity. Address social determinants of health.
A Nutrition Label for Health IT
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Artificial intelligence and health equity were two key themes discussed during #HIMSS21, and Dr. Halamka’s concerns echoed through the week-long event. Health care providers and payors are indeed adopting AI, with a sort of concerned embrace.
Health Citizenship in the America. If Not Now, When?
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
On March 11 th , the World Health Organization called the growing prevalence of the coronavirus a “pandemic.”. My new book, Health Citizenship: How a virus opened hearts and minds , launched this week. This is the call for Health Citizenship for people in America.
Nurses and Aides Are Beloved and Deserve Higher Pay; and a Spotlight on the Filipinx Frontline
Health Populi
AUGUST 18, 2021
In addition to nurses being underpaid, 6 in 10 Americans believe that health care aides are underpaid. “The bipartisan consensus around health care workers’ pay provides insights into the types of policies that could gain broad public support,” the survey report opines.
“The virus is the boss” — U.S. lives and livelihoods at the beginning of 2021
Health Populi
JANUARY 8, 2021
As Uwe Reinhardt, health economist guru , is whispering in my ear from his heavenly perch, “It’s the virus, stupid.” There are some important differences between men and women regarding health and wealth in 2021.
Americans’ Sense of Well-Being Falls to Great Recession Levels, Gallup Finds
Health Populi
APRIL 14, 2020
” Health Populi’s Hot Points: To further inform insights from the Gallup poll, I looked at a study From GfK on Navigating COVID-19, exploring changing consumers. The Great Recession was a direct hit on national and personal economics; health was an indirect impact.
Value-Based Health Care Needs All Stakeholders at the Table – Especially the Patient
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]. The coolest thing in health policy in the 21st century!!
How to Restore Americans’ Confidence in U.S. Health Care: Deal With Access and Cost
Health Populi
MARCH 15, 2021
and more health citizens getting their first jabs, there’s growing optimism in America looking to the next-normal by, perhaps, July 4th holiday weekend as President Biden reads the pandemic tea leaves. Health Care: Deal With Access and Cost appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.
Two in Three Americans Cite the U.S. Presidential Election is a Significant Source of Stress, Even More than the 2016 Race
Health Populi
OCTOBER 13, 2020
adults told APA that the presidential election this year is a significant source of stress, compared with 52% of people citing political stress during the 2016 election which I covered here in Health Populi.
Americans Lost Future Life-Years in 2020: How Much Life Was Lost Depends on the Color of One’s Skin
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
years, according to data shared by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). For insights into that trend of growing male mortality, search for my posts on the Deaths of Despair here on Health Populi).
From Medicaid to price transparency, here are the 5 biggest health policy controversies in 2019
FierceHealthIT
DECEMBER 18, 2019
Washington provided a lot of drama for the payer and provider industries in 2019 with unexpected transparency requirements, payment cuts and major uncertainty over the Affordable Care Act
Behavioral Health Side-Effects in the COVID Era
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 8, 2020
“This surge of people experiencing acute behavioral health problems…has the potential to further impact the healthcare system for years to come,” a report from McKinsey expects looking at the hidden costs of COVID-19’s impact on U.S. health care.
Our Home Is Our Health Hub: CTA and CHI Align to Address Digital and Health Equity
Health Populi
OCTOBER 1, 2020
This week, two organizations mission-driven by these “C” words aligned to bolster digital health care transformation for all people — not just those of us advantaged by a bountiful local, accessible portfolio of social determinants of health (SDoH).
Food Trends and Hunger in the Pandemic – the Importance of Food Security in Health and Economic Security
Health Populi
JANUARY 29, 2021
RAND’s top-line was that, “COVID-19 has magnified preexisting racial/ethnic disparities in food security in a very short time, a circumstance linked to a wide variety of health outcomes… now at the highest levels observed over the past decade.”
The Pace of Tech-Adoption Grows Among Older Americans, AARP Finds – But Privacy Concerns May Limit Adoption
Health Populi
JANUARY 28, 2020
About four in 10 people 50+ are interested in “purchasing” (the word used in the AARP survey) several digital health innovations: Communicating with a health care provider that you’ve taken a medication as prescribed.
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