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. Accelerate digital health. Innovate long-term care.

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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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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. TripleTree is an investment bank that has advised health care transactions since 1997.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Is there an American Civil Right for health care?

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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. In addition, policies that address underlying social determinant risk factors like housing, jobs, food security, and access to social services would be critical, ASPE believes.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JANUARY 26, 2023

Medicaid Telehealth has emerged as a crucial component in extending and facilitating access for individuals with behavioral health needs. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of telehealth to deliver healthcare services safely and effectively.

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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. health care system in terms of workflow and payment parity.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

We cannot expect Technology itself to be a panacea to this national tragedy that public policies must help solve in terms of underlying drivers of health and well-being. Specifically, there is a two-year extension of Medicare telehealth services that began in the early coronavirus era in 2020.

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The pandemic certainly gave us the gift of knowledge in having to face the ubiquity of mental health in Americans’ overall health and well-being… or lack thereof. billion and $793mm for substance use disorder for the first three quarters of 2021 based on Rock Health’s numbers. Most people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

As the HLTH conference convenes over 6,000 digital health innovators live, in person, in Boston in the wake of the delta variant, what should attendees keep in mind to help HLTH make health? That’s the supply side of HLTH.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Financial stress is a factor ranking high for people dealing with both mental health challenges and chronic health conditions. Our relationship with our self — “self-worth and purpose” — ranks high, too, for people dealing with a mental health condition. Looking under the 52% of U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Consider: chatbots, AI, triage-via-telehealth, and other digital investments that can address higher-cost sites and redundant services. Community, with collaboration around data, mission, and inclusion key to bolstering public health and trust that then inspires health engagement and mutualism.

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Health Populi

JULY 5, 2021

Health care, through telehealth, health education, and wearable sensors that make up the Internet of Things for medical and healthcare. Economic sustainability, through online banking, employment, and ecommerce shopping options. Community and social context, enabling engagement and decreasing isolation’s impacts.

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Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2022

is mired in an epidemic of chronic health conditions, from obesity to diabetes to heart disease to mental health or mood disorders,” the Index’s report explains. We have a chronic disease problem, and it’s getting worse: “the U.S. 10% now have diabetes and another 30% are pre-diabetic.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

These new work-and-life flows have changed our relationship with our personal doctors and local health care systems, pivoting us to virtual care and telehealth platforms.

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Telehealth Primary Care Public Health Mental health 380

Henry Kotula

JUNE 14, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the landscape of ambulatory care with rapid shifts to telehealth. Many states have directed insurers to temporarily cover COVID-19-related services via telehealth while mandating parity of reimbursement for telehealth visits with in-person visits for their Medicaid program.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

I’d called WiFi a social determinant of health in a Huffington Post column I wrote back in 2016 , recognizing the emerging virtual health opportunity and potential for furthering the digital divide without bolstering broadband “everywhere.” Nothing like a public health crisis to bring new awareness to old knowledge.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2024

In kicking off #CES2024, CTA’s researchers noted the acceleration of global connectivity, with gaps in peoples’ ability to connect depending where they live: by region, the percent of people connected to the internet today are, according to CTA’s data, 92% in the U.S. 87% in the E.U. 76% in Latin America 73% in China 55% in Nigeria 46% in India.

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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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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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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. “Caring for a loved one is an honor – it’s also incredibly hard.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 6, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: This analysis must be placed in the context of the coronavirus pandemic, which is impacting both the fiscal health of the U.S. as well as the physical and mental health of the nation’s health citizens. bn for on-demand care by July 1st, 2021.

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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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Telebehavioral Health Institute

DECEMBER 22, 2022

After continuing COVID-related telemental health laws and behavioral telehealth regulations in 2022, many key issues for 2023 are already decided. Both federal and state legislative groups have focused heavily on passing behavioral telehealth regulations to be enacted in 2023 and are poised to extend in subsequent years.

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Telehealth Medicare Mental health Telemedicine 75

Health Populi

JANUARY 21, 2022

The altruistic need is inspiring several microcultures which NielsenIQ describes as: Aging with dignity, with independence and good health. Mental health advocacy, looking to end the stigma around mental health especially in workplace culture and health care.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

UPMC launching a social impact program focusing on SDoH, among other projects investing in social factors that bolster public health. As I pointed out in my 2020 Health Populi trendcast , the private sector is taking on more public health initiatives as policy progress at the Federal level feels frozen.

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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. coverage for telehealth, and.

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2021

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

OCTOBER 16, 2022

On Tuesday November 8, 2022, health and medical issues will be on many U.S. Health policy experts from Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, AARP, and the United States of Care recently shared perspectives on the health care issues on voters’ and policy makers’ minds for the 2022 midterm elections.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 31, 2019

Instead of getting rid of private insurance, Biden said he would build on the ACA through the Biden Plan to create a public health insurance option. It would allow the Secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate for lower prescription drug prices. ” He has indicated that NYC Care could become a model nationwide.

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