Health Populi

MARCH 5, 2020

But most Americans also get the politicized nature of the coronavirus and say they’re less likely to vote for President Trump in November based on his handling of the public health threat, according to a just-released survey from Protect Our Care fielded by Public Policy Polling. voters on March 2nd and 3rd, 2020.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

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. The meeting will be a strategically important, as the title of the conference asks: “What Now? Follow the meeting on Twitter at #ATA2022.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 16, 2021

The survey was fielded in June 2021 among 1,071 U.S. Putting numbers on the components of the cost of prescription drugs in America is a complicated undertaking, and I have worked on drug pricing projects in my “real job” as a management consultant/health economist. The overall policy implication is that the U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2020

Morning Consult surveyed 2,200 U.S. The first chart from the survey shows various consumer activities by peoples’ likelihood of choosing to do them. And a change.org petition has been mounted by over 20,000 SXSW attendees calling for the huge meet-up to be cancelled in Austin.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2019

Patients-as-health-consumers are highly influenced by health care costs when assessing their ability or interest in seeking health care, the second chart from the VisitPay survey report illustrates. is compared with peer nations on a broad range of social indicators: financial, health, social, behavioral, and digital.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2023

A 2019 survey by the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation’s Office of Health Policy found that the highest rates of telehealth visits happened among people with Medicaid (29.3%) and Medicare (27.4%), Black individuals (26.8%), and those earning less than $25,000 (26.7%).

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2018

In summary, three over-arching issues come out of the paper: ensuring health citizens’ secure access to their health data within nations and across EU borders; enabling personalized medicine through the shared European data infrastructure; and, assuring citizen empowerment with digital tools for feedback and person-centered care.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Financial health will continue to blur into physical and emotional well-being in 2023. More families face difficulty paying all of their, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wrote in their December 2022 look into Making Ends Meet in 2022. Looking for love, empathy and lower costs for health care. BDO found that 3 in 5 U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The APA’s August/COVID Resilience Survey was conducted online by The Harris Poll in August 2021 among 3,035 U.S. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Those pandemic-era headaches and sleep habit changes have been impacting more younger people than older people in America, shown in the last chart. As a result, three in four U.S.

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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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Health Populi

MAY 6, 2018

Millions of Americans who are “insured” are now considered “under-insured,” defined by the Commonwealth Fund as people who pay an insurance premium who also spend over 10% of household income on covering health care co-payments and coinsurance percentages, and meeting deductible limits.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2022

Compares, assesses four aspects of primary care for health citizens living in eleven wealthy nations: Accessibility. The high-income nations surveyed include Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Continuity. Comprehensiveness.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2019

If the therapy continues to work, the patient would be responsible for an additional 20% of the total for each year they meet positive clinical end-points. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The top employee benefit workers value is health insurance, shown in the latest EBRI survey into health and workplace benefits published last week.

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Health Populi

JULY 22, 2020

While 9 in 10 people wearing a mask at least once in the past week is a positive tick up from where we were in April 2020, only one-half of Americans say they “always” wear a mask outside; another one-fourth does “very often,” the survey found.

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Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Prioritizing patient needs topped the agenda at last month’s Value in Healthcare Initiative meeting, hosted by the Center for Total Health. Launched earlier this year, the Initiative is a collaboration between the American Heart Association (AHA) and the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Here’s The Hill ‘s coverage on the survey, which was conducted with the Peter G. The second poll we’ll consider is the survey from The Harvard Chan School of Public Health published in October 2019 (conducted in July-August 2019) teamed with the Commonwealth Fund and the New York Times. Peterson Foundation.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2020

On the medical spending front, Bankrate’s survey noted that 1 in 3 Americans did not seek healthcare in the past year due to costs. My friends in the addiction community have launched virtual meetings along with further developing mobile apps for support and helpful social networking.

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Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2022

physicians are worried about big social issues, according to a Medscape survey report, Physicians’ Views on Today’s Divisive Social Issues 2022. Dr. Murthy concludes with an ask and a hope: “Will we step up, and meet our moral obligation to care for those who have cared for. It won’t be easy.

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Health Populi

MAY 23, 2022

This week, the meeting convenes live in Davos , for the first time since before the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic. “No pass is given for pharma or food,” Richard Edelman made clear from the survey data.

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care innovations

APRIL 25, 2018

million in telehealth claims per year “did not meet Medicare requirements,” the Office of Inspector General (OIG) at the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) has thrust new light upon America’s byzantine telemedicine reimbursement policies and the limitations they place on the expansion of value-based care. “The

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2018

Three quarters of GPs surveyed have said they are seeing between one and five people a day suffering with loneliness, which is linked to a range of damaging health impacts, like heart disease, strokes and Alzheimer’s disease. .” I spent time with Maneesh while in London this week.

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ACA Times

AUGUST 20, 2018

Of those responding to the survey, the top issue identified for the mid-terms was healthcare. Arizona health policy expert Dr, Daniel Derksen provided insights on how removal of the ACA’s remaining provisions would affect the health insurance landscape. That appears to be an advantage for Democrats.

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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. She closed her presentation with some tips… conduct a meta-analysis, conduct surveys/questionnaires, conduct a task analysis.

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Henry Kotula

MAY 23, 2020

Worksite health, telemedicine, and direct primary care arrangements are all on the table. One system surveyed local brokers and employers and found that 20 percent of mid-market employers are open to narrow-network partnerships. The number seems low,” they reported, “but it’s up from five percent last year, a huge jump.”

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

In fact, a survey conducted by Pearl found that 71% of patients are more likely to trust their dentist’s diagnosis when their dentist is aided by AI software. The point is we have to be intentional about meeting people where they are. Having lower health literacy and/or language barriers can play a role in healthcare outcomes.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 21, 2020

Nearly half of all Americans say they or someone they live with has delayed care since the onslaught of coronavirus , according to a survey last month from the Kaiser Family Foundation. While the survey didn’t ask people why they were putting off care, there is ample evidence that medical bills can be a powerful deterrent.

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Henry Kotula

MAY 9, 2020

Keeping these practices open is not about protecting the doctors’ livelihoods, said Michael Chernew, a health policy professor at Harvard Medical School. “I I worry about how well these practices will be able to shoulder the financial burden to be able to meet the health care needs people have,” he said. “If

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Henry Kotula

JULY 7, 2021

Those in complete isolation actually came to look forward to Zoom meetings and telemedicine appointments. An estimated 10% to 20% of Americans who needed mental-health services during the pandemic received no treatment. No one was spared, but the hit came hardest for less-educated, essential and lower-paid workers.

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