Health Populi

OCTOBER 9, 2023

What if… you were given the opportunity to build a health system from scratch in this new era of platforms, cloud computing, AI and machine learning, curious-digital-empowered consumers, and collaborators in retail and community settings operating close to peoples’ homes and workplaces?

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2022

I’ll point to one that’s become a key learning in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, which is mental health care. have a mental health provider in their practice, compared with 9 in 10 Dutch and Swedish primary care practices. ” The Commonwealth Fund offers several policy prescriptions for the U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 1, 2019

Today, the Brookings Institution convened a meeting on the funding for social determinants of health to address disparities, costs, and quality of healthcare in America. Chapter 7 of my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen , is titled, “ZIP Codes, Genetic Codes, Food and Health.”

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

But there are opportunities to learn from patients and advocacy groups at the meeting to inform the demand side of the health/care equation, and that’s crucial to understanding consumer experience, values and sense of value that enables people to get the care they need. That’s the supply side of HLTH.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2020

.” For everyone, social distancing could have devastating impacts on people dealing with depression, with the coronavirus sparking mental health concerns in the clinical psychology community. The World Health Organization organized resources for dealing with mental health crises during this pandemic.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Stalled gains in longevity, with greater burdens of chronic disease and ill mental health, are growing risk factors throughout so many of the wealthiest nations on Earth. The last chapter of my book, HealthConsuming, addresses the question of whether Americans can morph from health consumers to “health citizens.”

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Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2024

Couple this with the sustainability companies working on accessibility, energy, food-tech, smart cities, and clean water, and we find CES convening a meeting that is working hard to walk the talk about “inclusion.” Some of the exhibitors collaborating in the HS4A showcase include Abbott, AARP, Bosch, Nasdaq, and Siemens.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

This is my first of several posts discussing the self-care retail health phenomenon among consumers, and the business opportunity, as I’m spending the weekend with suppliers and retailers attending this meeting. In my role as health economist-advisor-trend weaver and data junkie, I’ve been collegial with GMDC for a few years.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 7, 2021

Released on Friday, the wonks at the Congressional Research Service (CRS) urged officials going into the long holiday weekend to remember amid the celebrations that we still don’t know the final toll of the pandemic, especially when it comes to long-term consequences for behavioral and mental health. Not Medicare.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 7, 2019

We’d been trying to schedule meeting up to do a live podcast since February, and we finally got our mutual acts together on 6th August 2019. Marc Iskowitz, Executive Editor of MM&M, warmly welcomed me to the Haymarket Media soundproof studio in New York City yesterday.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2018

.” This topic set the context for my conversation with Maneesh Juneja, digital health futurist and global speaker on health, technology and people. On his way walking to meet me, he shared the above image from his Apple iPhone sent to him through the Hugging Faces chatbot, texted via our WhatsApp connection.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

In addition, America’s overweight and obesity epidemic results in lost worker productivity, mental health and sleep challenges, and lower quality of life for millions of Americans. Food — healthy, accessible, fairly-priced — is a key social determinant of individual health, wellness, and a public’s ability to pursue happiness.

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Enzyme Health

MARCH 27, 2019

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

healthcare system lacks products and resources to meet this population’s unique cultural needs. We founded Zócalo Health to embrace the values and traditions from our culture and Latino identity and make them the heart of the primary care experience. By 2050, they’ll make up more than 30% of the population with 132.8

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

If we begin to see a rapid rise in the number of COVID-19 cases, this restriction would limit many telehealth providers that do not currently serve Medicare populations from supporting and relieving pressure on local providers that would need help to meet increased demand from patients seeking care. Clearly, the U.S.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MAY 24, 2018

Also, all telehealth services must meet the Medicare established set of criteria for reimbursement. The Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) is a great resource to stay current on state and national policy. These providers must be licensed under state law. Click here to download the Telehealth Services booklet.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

health citizens face physical, financial, and mental health challenges of a syndemic, inflation, and stress – all of which will shape peoples’ demand side for health care and digital technology, and a supply side of providers challenged by tech-enabled organizations with design and data chops. Which virus is it?”

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InTouch Health

APRIL 22, 2019

Increase Access to Mental Health Services with Telehealth Technology and Services Mental illness continues to be a major concern in the United States and across the globe. Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the U.S. The Global Mental Health Crisis Nearly one in five U.S. In the U.S.,

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GlobalMed

JULY 8, 2019

Fortunately, there’s a solution that can benefit both provider revenue and population health: telemedicine. While virtual health can’t solve every Medicaid issue, it can dismantle many typical roadblocks: Providers and patients can meet as scheduled even if the patient has missed their bus or had a childcare cancellation.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

Even in large metropolitan areas, many individuals still lack adequate access to basic healthcare services, especially for mental health. The point is we have to be intentional about meeting people where they are. This highlights the dire need to address patient access to care.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 14, 2020

Of those using telehealth, the majority (68 percent) used it to provide mental health services; fewer used it for primary care (30 percent) or management of chronic conditions (21 percent), suggesting that most CHCs with telehealth capabilities prior to COVID-19 were not using it for the most frequent types of services provided at CHCs.

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Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2022

The Medscape studies (both the latest report discussed here on social issue concerns, and the previous study into physicians’ states of mind and burnout) illustrate the mental health and collective mood of doctors. Philips reminds us to put this priority on our front-burners, top-of-mind. It won’t be easy.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

DECEMBER 22, 2022

2617 , includes the omnibus’ Mental Health Access Improvement Act (S. 828/HR432), which would allow licensed marriage and family therapists and licensed professional counselors to be reimbursed for in-person Medicare, thereby giving greater access to mental health services for millions of Americans.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 9, 2018

These decisions have included how to deal with the multi-billion contract for the VA’s health IT system, how to embed private healthcare providers into the delivery system for veterans, and mental health challenges facing veterans of war, among other VA issues. In that light, he’s been compared to Martin Luther King, Jr.,

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2021

Even 1 in five people with incomes above $90,000 annually had trouble meeting basic expenses. The blue-and-gold bar chart graphs the relationship between people’s health conditions and their propensity to delay or forgo health care as of September 2020 — about six months into the pandemic.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 13, 2022

. “The COVID-19 pandemic has placed a spotlight on nurses, reinforcing the critical contributions they make to our health care system, while also highlighting the devastating impact it has had on their mental health and well-being,” ANA noted. Prioritize workplace culture (e.g.,

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2019

In 1953, Kelly wrote, “Resolve then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tinny blasts on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us. .” Kelly’s take was in the context of McCarthyism.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 16, 2021

First, meet the stakeholders: they are patients, physicians (prescribers, which today can go beyond doctors per se to include nurses, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and others depending on state licensure), payers, and manufacturers of the drugs. . The overall policy implication is that the U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 4, 2022

adults, followed by vision care for 25%, a doctor’s office visit among 24%, mental health services among 18%, and 14% of people avoiding hospital services. The issue of health care costs, and in particular out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs, continues to be a priority for most U.S. One-half of people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2019

He believes in “getting to guaranteed universal health care, featuring primary care, the ability to see a mental health provider,” noting that in Texas, the single largest provider of mental health care is the county jail system.” “What do you do about all the guns out there?

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