Health Populi

JUNE 21, 2019

a year, PwC notes in their annual report, Medical cost trend: Behind the numbers 2020 from the firm’s Health Research Institute. Medical cost trend is the projected percent growth in healthcare costs over a year based on an equivalent benefit package from one year to the next. This is an increase of 0.3

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JANUARY 26, 2023

A recent survey conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), which surveyed state Medicaid officials across 44 states in the US, including the District of Columbia, revealed an increased interest in permanently adopting pandemic-era telehealth policy expansions.

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2020

The report found three big shifts in global health citizens’ views on their personal health and health care delivery in the wake of the pandemic: Across all age groups, COVID-19 exacerbated peoples’ concerns about their physical and mental health in a very short time.

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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

MAY 17, 2018

While the country has done a great job at addressing and preventing deaths due to heart disease and cancer, this trend of alcohol, drug and suicide mortality has reversed the positive gains made in the nation…indeed, a Nation in Pain. Expanding and modernizing mental health services and treatment in U.S. healthcare.

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Health Populi

MARCH 16, 2021

The first chart illustrates the trends of a person’s expected years of life from 25 to 74 from 1990 to 2020 by whether the individual had a BA degree. The trend lines show declining life expectancy for both men and women, White and Black, without a BA degree. The trend lines for Black people without BA degrees in the U.S.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 9, 2019

A current example comes from Kroger, partnering with Ascension’s health system in Tennessee, enhancing the organization’s community-based health services in communities where people live…and shop. This is a trend under the growing “farm-to-table” movement.

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Health Populi

MAY 17, 2022

In addition, anxiety and stress are mainstream across demographics and have impacted the way people select and consume food, based on findings in the 2022 Food and Health Survey from the International Food Information Council (IFIC).

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2019

There’s a growing trend in direct-to-consumer telemedicine companies recently noted in JAMA in a viewpoint titled, “Prescriptions on Demand.” That is, mental health issues. This finding is a wake-up call, thanks to FAIR Health, illustrating the power of telehealth for mental health.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

That’s what came to my mind when reading the latest global health report from the OECD, Health at a Glance 2019 , which compares the United States to other nations’ health care outcomes, risk factors, access metrics, and spending.

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Health Populi

JULY 14, 2022

The second map illustrates the State-by-State trends, up and down, in each region’s Community Well-Being Index score. The bottom ten in 2021 were Indiana, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Louisiana, New Mexico, Alabama, Kentucky, West Virginia, Arkansas, and Mississippi.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

In 2021, as a continued trend from 2020, we expect hospitals to dedicate large portions of capital budgets towards digital transformation efforts – for virtual care, remote patient monitoring, analytics, and other health IT capabilities. billion in the US alone. This development will also drive growth in virtual care.

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Enzyme Health

MARCH 27, 2019

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Henry Kotula

JULY 1, 2019

Beyond market forces, HRI identified three “inflators” that will, influence the medical cost trend. For employers, per capita health spending on someone with a complex chronic illness is eight times that of a healthy person. Nearly 75 percent of employers offer mental health disease management programs, the report found.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

This trend couples with one in another research question in the study finding that the pandemic increased interest in work automation this year compared with last year. Cost reduction ranks high, with the inference that investing more in digital “should” have the impact of saving cash in operations.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

In my role as health economist-advisor-trend weaver and data junkie, I’ve been collegial with GMDC for a few years. They were generous to invite me to hang out this weekend and observe the various streams of activity, as well as meet with attendees on both the “sell” and “buy” side of the HBW industry.

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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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American Well

OCTOBER 3, 2016

From success stories, to legislative updates, research findings and product updates, we’ll share the latest hypes, trends and news you can’t miss. Texas A&M uses Telehealth to Treat Mental Health in Rural Communities. Now, telemedicine is expanding to offer mental health care. KATV ABC 7. KBTX CBS 3.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

companies to benefit communities beyond stockholders is a trend in this direction which I laud. The recent update among Business Roundtable members for “an economy that serves all Americans” re-commits the largest U.S.

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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. 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.

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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. as well as the reduction in mitigation measures.”

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

So whose job is it anyway to bolster social, economic and environmental health for a nation’s health citizens? There’s a trend in 2019 which will continue through 2020 where private sector health care providers, Foundations and other non-public sector entities have begun to address social determinants of health.

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Health Populi

MAY 8, 2019

The report is organized into four sections: medical use trends; costs and spending on meds and growth dynamics underlying the top line numbers; patient out-of-pocket costs; and that five-year forecast to 2023. prescription drug market might look like five years from now.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 8, 2021

In this episode, host Jonah Comstock, Healthcare IT News Executive Editor Mike Miliard, Healthcare Finance News Managing Editor Susan Morse, and MobiHealthNews Managing Editor Laura Lovett engage in a roundtable discussion of trends and predictions for each of their respective coverage areas. The importance of mental health in 2021.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2020

This reversal of life span in America ran counter to a decades-long trend of lower mortality in the U.S., reported feeling lonely in 2019 with folks saying they don’t have enough social support, with too few meaningful interactions, poor physical and mental health, and insufficient balance in one’s life, Cigna learned.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2019

I’ve tracked that social trend here in Health Populi each year since covering the Edelman Trust Barometer , which has traced the downward sloping curve on trust globally and certainly in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 7, 2022

The chart illustrates trends in peoples’ faith in institutions from 2021 to 2022, seeing the largest declines in trust for the U.S. rank front-line health care professionals as the most honest and ethical professions in America, year after year, in Gallup’s annual poll on the topic.

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2019

” He observed that this is not new-news: the trend has been going on for 40 years in Ohio, where the “bottom 60% haven’t seen a raise since 1980.” ” Moving from the macro economy, Lester Holt segued the debate into health care, recognizing that “many at home have coverage with employers.”

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