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Waking Up a Health Consumer in the COVID-19 Era

Health Populi

His remarks focused largely on an immigration and travel policy versus science, triaging, testing and treatment of the virus itself. Here is a link to the President’s full remarks from the White House website, presented at about 9 pm on 11 March 2020.

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Telehealth resource centers nationwide aid providers at no cost

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Health Resources and Services Administration-funded regional TRCs around the country, saw 439 inquiries in March and April alone – an 800% increase from the same time period the previous year. Both presenters urged attendees at all familiarity levels with telehealth to take advantage of the centers' no-cost resources.

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The Economics of the Pandemic Put Costs at the Top of Americans’ Health Reform Priorities

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That may be largely due to the fact that more younger people than older workers lost jobs in the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as losing health insurance. A recent TraunsUnion study found that more younger than older Americans’ health care behaviors shifted in the public health crisis. population).

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The Healthcare and Macro-Economic Impacts of Living with Endemic COVID – Listening to Fitch

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In the larger public and population health context, on the patient side, we can expect the burden of disease beyond COVID to increase due to postponed care and treatment backlogs. This has been found to be the case in the U.S., for example, for heart disease and cardiovascular complications as well as for cancers.

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What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

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He also tweets his own comments on Twitter @EricTopol , which have become must-click insights into the COVID-19 pandemic from the inception of the public health crisis. In summing up the patient-centered interoperability goal, Ardy summarized: “We’ve created the Mint.com of health data.”

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The Economics of the Pandemic Put Costs at the Top of Americans’ Health Reform Priorities

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That may be largely due to the fact that more younger people than older workers lost jobs in the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as losing health insurance. A recent TransUnion study found that younger than older Americans’ health care behaviors shifted in the public health crisis. population).

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SEARCH 2020 – Day Two

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

Dr. Bill England began by discussing the wide range of resources available at HRSA with his presentation, “Telehealth and Research at HRSA. HRSA’s 8 bureaus and offices (Ryan White, Maternal and child health, rural health policy, healthcare systems, etc.) The opening plenary focused on funding. Dr. Lori Uscher-Pines.