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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

President Biden’s first few days on the job gave us a very clear view on how he sees conquering COVID: through a whole-of-government approach to public policies that bolster directly addressing the virus, along with the many forces shaping how we got here and how to come out of the pandemic era stronger.

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A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Congress can’t agree on much before the 2024 summer recess, there’s one bipartisan stroke of political pens in Washington, DC, that could provide some satisfaction for both patients and doctors: bring telehealth back to patients and providers permanently. S 2016) and second, re-introduce and sign the Telehealth Modernization Act.

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Telehealth and COVID-19 in the U.S.: A Conversation with Ann Mond Johnson, ATA CEO

Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

Will the coronavirus inspire greater adoption of telehealth in the U.S.? I asked myself, then went to my Oracle of Telehealth: Ann Mond Johnson, CEO of ATA (once named the American Telemedicine Association). It is clear that there’s no better use case for digital/tele/virtual health than what is unfolding right now.

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Telehealth Update from the AMA – Setting the Context for ATA 2022

Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

physicians were using telehealth to care for patients at the end of 2021. Among those doctors who were not providing telehealth by late 2021, just over one half never did so during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the 2021 Telehealth Survey Report from the AMA. Mental and behavioral health. Four in five U.S.

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People in the U.S. Without the Internet Were More Likely To Die in the Pandemic

Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2022

.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: The American Medical Association polled physicians in late 2021 to gauge doctors’ perspectives on telehealth. The report lays out physicians’ majority support for telehealth and key issues preventing further adoption and proliferation of use across the U.S.

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The Coronavirus Impact on American Life, Part 2 – Our Mental Health

Health Populi

APRIL 7, 2020

A few articles that have informed me include… In The Atlantic , the piece The Kids Aren’t Alright explained how the youngest health citizens in the country may experience the greatest long-time mental health trauma, learning from Wuhan’s experience with C19 back to Katrina and the impacts of adverse childhood events.

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The Health Care Cost Curve is Bending Down – A New View from Deloitte

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

health care and that volumes turned downward in 2020. health care as it is currently organized, financed, and delivered. The COVID-19 pandemic has, in fact, had a positive impact on spending per se given the volume-based nature of U.S. The COVID-19 pandemic revealed many weaknesses in U.S.

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Addressing Health Equity Must Include Digital Equity Beyond Access To Medical Services and Insurance

Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2020

How to deal? There’s a mix of public sector tactics, from Federal to State to local; technology vendor tasks; health care provider jobs to do in terms of workflows and database development; and, patient-focused work.

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Primary Care in the U.S. – Still a Weak Backbone for the Health of Health Citizens

Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2022

.” 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> ” In the U.S.,

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How Health Gets Built – The Building H Index Thinking Health-By-Design

Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2022

The Building H Index is, in their words, flipping the script to reimagine how to bake health-by-design into companies’ product and service offerings. With that in mind, I hope the Building H team will add in grocery chains and retail pharmacies to their mix of consumer-facing company sectors considered in the Index.

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Genentech’s Look Into the Mirror of Health Inequities

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The companies are all part of EHIR, the Employer Health Innovation Roundtable coalition. The framework shown here comes out of a New England Journal of Medicine essay on how to advance health equity across four phases. The post Genentech’s Look Into the Mirror of Health Inequities appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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The Digital Consumer, Increasingly Connected to Health Devices; Parks Associates Kicking Off #CES2021

Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

Data literacy, the ability to comprehensive one’s “numbers” displayed in lab test results and other patient-facing clinical communications.

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Emerging with A Stronger Healthcare System Post-COVID: NAM’s Lessons Learned

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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In the Past Ten Years, Workers’ Health Insurance Premiums Have Grown Much Faster Than Wages

Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: In the report’s discussion, KFF recognizes that this year’s study, the 22nd annual, was fielded in the unprecedented time of the coronavirus pandemic. Job losses in the public health crisis have resulted in millions of American workers and families losing health benefits.

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Social Determinants of Health Risks Challenge the Promise of Hospital-to-Home

Health Populi

MAY 31, 2022

. “Today, anyone can access care by walking into an emergency room,” they observed, “but when it comes to telehealth, patients have to use a number of proprietary portals and platforms that are health system specific.

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What's next for telehealth under the Biden administration?

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JANUARY 12, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a flurry of changes to regulations around telehealth and virtual care – the vast majority of which expire once the public health emergency ends. But neither took decisive, sweeping action that would permanently enshrine some of the major changes to telehealth policy.

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How to Restore Americans’ Confidence in U.S. Health Care: Deal With Access and Cost

Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2021

One-in-three people were also dealing with a mental health conditions, split roughly between anxiety disorders and depression of some type. ” The post How to Restore Americans’ Confidence in U.S. Health Care: Deal With Access and Cost appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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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.

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The Next-Normal Health Care Consumer After the Pandemic

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

In fact, the other seven areas beyond health and well-being are adjacent to health, especially shopping and consumption (e.g.,

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Addressing Lives and Livelihoods with a Whole-of-Government Approach – The First Wave of Biden Health Policy

A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

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Telehealth and COVID-19 in the U.S.: A Conversation with Ann Mond Johnson, ATA CEO

Telehealth Update from the AMA – Setting the Context for ATA 2022

People in the U.S. Without the Internet Were More Likely To Die in the Pandemic

The Coronavirus Impact on American Life, Part 2 – Our Mental Health

The Health Care Cost Curve is Bending Down – A New View from Deloitte

Addressing Health Equity Must Include Digital Equity Beyond Access To Medical Services and Insurance

Primary Care in the U.S. – Still a Weak Backbone for the Health of Health Citizens

How Health Gets Built – The Building H Index Thinking Health-By-Design

Genentech’s Look Into the Mirror of Health Inequities

The Digital Consumer, Increasingly Connected to Health Devices; Parks Associates Kicking Off #CES2021

Emerging with A Stronger Healthcare System Post-COVID: NAM’s Lessons Learned

In the Past Ten Years, Workers’ Health Insurance Premiums Have Grown Much Faster Than Wages

Social Determinants of Health Risks Challenge the Promise of Hospital-to-Home

What's next for telehealth under the Biden administration?

How to Restore Americans’ Confidence in U.S. Health Care: Deal With Access and Cost

Women’s Health Policy Advice for the Next Occupant of the White House: Deal With Mental Health, the Pandemic, and Health Care Costs

The Next-Normal Health Care Consumer After the Pandemic

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