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.

Digital Health 156

Digital Health Primary Care Mental health Public Health 156

Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2022

House Appropriations Committee unveiled an omnibus spending package that included telehealth service extensions to cover Medicare enrollees for 151 days after the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency. This is essentially a five-month extension for telehealth in the U.S.

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Telehealth Medicare Life Science Mental health 227

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Staff well-being is paramount to a sustainable health care system, and resources must be allocated to ensuring mental and behavioral health services are available to staff who may need them — but not be comfortable being vocal about their demand for them.

Public Health 245

Public Health Leadership Interoperability Life Science 245

Health Populi

JANUARY 26, 2023

When asked to rank what characteristics patients want in their physicians, more Black patients identified the doctor’s respect for an sensitivity toward my gender, race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status along with providing easy access to technologies such as online scheduling and telemedicine.

Life Science 156

Life Science Telemedicine Health Data Primary Care 156

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.

Mental health 41

Mental health Medicare Public Health Telemedicine 41

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.

Digital Health 374

Digital Health EHR Telehealth Primary Care 374

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?”

Health Technology 156

Health Technology Mental health Digital Health Primary Care 156

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.

Public Health 170

Public Health Health Policy Leadership Mental health 170

Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Workers receiving health insurance through their jobs have seen their portfolio of benefits changing over the years. In 2020, KFF found that 89% of large companies offered a telemedicine benefit, compared with 82% in 2019 and 74% in 2018. This will inevitably change the results of what we will see one year from now in 2022.

Public Health 432

Public Health Telemedicine Telehealth Mental health 432

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.

Telehealth 41

Telehealth Primary Care Medicare HIPAA 41

Telebehavioral Health Institute

DECEMBER 22, 2022

First, the Public Health Emergency (PHE) is likely to be extended for three months in January, bringing today’s best predictions for the end of the PHE to April 2023. 2617 , includes the omnibus’ Mental Health Access Improvement Act (S. Nebraska (certain mental health and substance use disorder services only).

Telehealth 75

Telehealth Medicare Mental health Telemedicine 75

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. Stress management.

Health Policy 263

Health Policy Mental health Telehealth Telemedicine 263

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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