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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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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Telehealth Mental health Medicare Health Policy 52

Health Populi

JULY 10, 2020

health care providers set up virtual care arrangements to convene with patients. Three months into the COVID-19 crisis, how have patients felt about these telehealth visits? The top reasons health consumers sought virtual care were for wellness check-ins and routine check-ups, among 41% of virtual care consumers.

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Telehealth Primary Care Mental health Patient Experience 278

Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2021

“Americans remain in limbo between lives once lived and whatever the post-pandemic future holds,” the American Psychological Association observes in their latest read into S tress in America 2021, with this phase of the perennial study focused on Stress and Decision-Making During the Pandemic. out of 10.0. Most people in the U.S.

Mental health 310

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Lloyd Price

MAY 23, 2020

The aim of this study is to document initial observations from multiple digital services providers during the COVID-19 crisis, especially those related to mental health and wellbeing. Digital services providers reported a diverse range of mental health concerns.

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Mental health Digital Health Telehealth Health Policy 56

Health Populi

MAY 4, 2023

First, we look at the macro picture on health services utilization comparing the end of 2022 with pre-COVID-19 levels. we see an over-indexing of office, institutional and telehealth visits (at 108) and a 104 gauge on new prescriptions.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2022

” Next, check out the second bar chart here showing American PCPs’ huge gap in providing home visits compared with doctors in the ten other countries studied. I’ll point to one that’s become a key learning in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, which is mental health care. Only one in three U.S.

Primary Care 156

Primary Care Mental health Telehealth Public Health 156

Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Increasingly, technology is playing a role in patients’ relationships with pharmacies, whether for e-prescribed refills, apps enabling telehealth visits (including mental health therapy sessions), or live chats with licensed pharmacists for real-time advice.

Mental health 170

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic’s impact on health consumers’ spending varies depending on whether the household is generally a healthy family unit, healthy “enthusiasts,” dealing with a simple or more complex chronic conditions, or managing mental health issues. adults polled in early April 2020.

Telehealth 182

Telehealth Telemedicine Mental health Medicare 182

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.

Mental health 186

Mental health Public Health Medicare Health Policy 186

Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

And as the RWJF/NPR/Harvard Chan study shows, these social determinants risks travel in groups and double-down on those health risks for people who rent, people of color, those without access to healthy food, and folks who earn lower incomes. That’s the supply side of HLTH.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Population Health Precision Medicine Telehealth Workforce From vaccines to virtual care, enterprise imaging to precision medicine, these are the growth areas that will shape the direction of healthcare, this year and beyond. Hospitals will also lobby hard to receive revenues from telehealth services.

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Telehealth Interoperability Medicare Pharmaceuticals 216

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Note that potential for a second wave/outbreak was the close 4th ranking concern among CFOs, for this study which was published in 2020. Consider: chatbots, AI, triage-via-telehealth, and other digital investments that can address higher-cost sites and redundant services.

Public Health 245

Public Health Leadership Interoperability Life Science 245

Health Populi

DECEMBER 9, 2019

This trend is occurring from coast-to-coast and is a rational re-use of brick-and-mortar space which can also bolster local economic development for job-and-health creation. This will be offered direct-to-consumer or as nutrition programs prescribed by health care providers, according to Teladoc’s press release.

Primary Care 156

Primary Care Mental health Telehealth Health IT 156

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.

Telehealth 41

Telehealth Primary Care Medicare HIPAA 41

Health Populi

APRIL 9, 2019

Younger people score lower on psychological needs, the outcome of being a digital native and negative impacts on mental health and well-being among younger citizens. Women score lower than men across all four pillars except for basic needs. Skills are not keeping pace with needs in the larger economy.

Digital Health 267

Digital Health Primary Care Mental health Connected Health 267

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.

Mental health 44

Mental health Telehealth Health Policy Telemedicine 44

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

The data tell this story: two-thirds of patients who self-report their health as excellent have low to no SDoH risk. Conversely, nearly one-half of patients who self-report poor-health are at high SDoH risk. Access to health care services is a core social determinant for health, and there are many reasons people can miss appointments.

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Medicare HIPAA EHR Nursing 227

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 Technology Mental health Digital Health Primary Care 156

Health Populi

MAY 31, 2022

On the promising front, recent studies reviewed through a meta-analysis published in JAMA found that hospital-to-home programs can be clinically and cost-effective for inpatients discharged from hospital. The Key Points chart here from the study summarizes the study learnings.

Mental health 220

Mental health Telehealth EHR Digital Health 220

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. Along with other health policy, system infrastructure changes, and digital health solutions, RPM can and should be part of a multi-prong approach to advance strides in achieving health equity.

Primary Care 104

Primary Care Mental health Telehealth Patient Experience 104

Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Even with that moderate increase, this post’s title reports the study headline that workers’ health insurance premiums continue to grow faster than wages: cumulatively since 2010, family premiums grew by 55% and deductibles, 11%. 2016 – Employer Health Insurance Costs Reach $18,142.

Public Health 432

Public Health Telemedicine Telehealth Mental health 432

Health Populi

AUGUST 6, 2021

Compared with the ten other countries studied, the Commonwealth Fund placed the U.S. Otherwise, America ranked dead last in the four other categories, placing it in overall last place for health system performance among other wealthy countries. as well as the physical and mental health of the nation’s health citizens.

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Digital Health Primary Care Mental health Public Health 401

Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

the health/care ecosystem warmly embraced social determinants of health as a concept in 2019. A few of the mainstreaming-of-SDoH signposts in 2019 were: Cigna studying and focusing in on loneliness as a health and wellness risk factor. I covered this in depth in this Health Populi post earlier this year.

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Public Health Mental health Medicare Primary Care 314

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

Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2021

No surprise, then, that more families (55%) earning lower incomes (in this study, that would fall under $40,000 a year) had trouble paying for basic living expenses between December 2020 and mid-February 2021. As some people had trouble covering at least one of these expense line items, a total of 37% of U.S.

Mental health 280

Mental health Public Health Medical Billing Telehealth 280

Health Populi

AUGUST 16, 2021

In this study, the researchers identified the following costs by stakeholder: For patients, out-of-pocket expenses, including payments for deductibles, copayments, and coinsurance amounts. Health Populi’s Hot Points: While U.S. Integrating with the telehealth service Care on the Optum Store.

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