Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2021

Note: I may be biased as a University of Michigan graduate of both the School of Public Health and Rackham School of Graduate Studies in Economics]. health care, patient assistance programs, Medicare Advantage plans, and the bundling of proven high-value preventive services into the Affordable Care Act.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2018

” The authors recommend that public health leaders and policy makers address the obesity trend when designing “policies and interventions to improve the public’s health.” Because they are public goods, and the U.S. Why has this been the case?

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The rationale: That was two days before Independence Day, the holiday weekend when she and state public health officials anticipated health citizens would abandon their personal efforts to physically distance and cover faces to avoid contracting or spreading the coronavirus. This was the message directly communicated to U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

NABIP’s ten-article “Bill” incorporates a broad range of rights the speak to today’s health care environment — with States’ rights eroding health care access for certain populations, cybersecurity threats reducing patient trust in health systems and technology ubiquity, and health disparities compromising health (..)

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

. “These results support previous research that has found an association between trust and compliance with public health guidance,” the authors assert. “When a virus emerges with high potential for spread, governments must be able to convince citizens to adopt essential public health measures.”

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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

The high-deductible health plan design in fact prevents many people from seeking preventive care or testing: uninsured patients could pay at least $500 for a test, and a 10-day hospital stay can tally $75,000 according to Gerard Anderson , professor of public health at Johns Hopkins.

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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. Analyzing county-level data for 3,142 U.S. suggested social determinants were at play in the disparate outcomes for people of color.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JANUARY 25, 2024

His distinguished career in medicine, public health, and as a healthcare leader will provide invaluable insights and guidance as DrKumo continues to expand its impact in the healthcare industry. “Dr. Carmona brings a wealth of experience and expertise to DrKumo, having served as the Surgeon General from 2002 to 2006.

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Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2022

Finally, invest “broadly” in social services to address factors that are determinants of health and well-being, like housing and economic security. The final call-to-action: states should strengthen insurance coverage and care delivery systems to better withstand future health emergencies.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Shelley, a professor in the Department of Policy and Public Health Management at the New York University School of Global Public Health. "It made sense that all eyes were on the hospitals, because they were overwhelmed with sick patients," said Dr. Donna R.

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FierceHealthIT

OCTOBER 30, 2019

now a visiting professor of health policy and management at George Washington University School of Public Health. In one area of the city, the average life expectancy is 85. Across town, a person might expect to live to only 65, said Leana Wen, M.D.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 8, 2020

These were among the results of a report from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, which offers answers and recommendations related to coordinated response to future pandemics, protection of front-line healthcare workers and improved EHR interoperability.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Telehealth was held up as a "panacea," said Adaeze Enekwechi, a board member at the Public Health Institute and the Alliance for Health Policy, at the final installment of the American Telemedicine Association's EDGE policy conference on Tuesday.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 22, 2021

” Executive Order on Protecting Worker Health and Safety : The start of the Order calls out the fact that lower-income people and those of color have been essential workers during the pandemic. The post The Biden Administration’s Whole-of-Government Approach to Equity – in Health and Beyond appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Mental health via virtual platforms has sustained significant use since the waning of the public health crisis. But pent-up demand remains for mental health services which could be made further accessible. Younger people are more likely to demand and be comfortable with virtual care platforms.

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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

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Nearly 8 million workers losing jobs also losing their employer-sponsored health insurance, discussed in this research from The Commonwealth Fund. The threat of a repeal of the Affordable Care Act during the public health crisis. health consumers would claim their health citizenship.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 11, 2020

This week, I’m sharing all the letters of the alphabet with you which reminded me keywords and themes emerging as we were learning about this dastardly public health threat beginning early in 2020. Welcome back to my ABCovid-19 Journal, which I created/curated in the early weeks of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 9, 2023

Based on current COVID-19 recovery trends, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that the US federal Public Health Emergency (PHE) waivers will end on May 11, 2023. For a comprehensive overview, visit the Public Health Emergency Roadmap fact sheet.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 11, 2021

COVID-19 exacted a toll on health citizens’ mental health, worsening a public health challenge that was already acute before the pandemic. It’s World Mental Health Day , an event marked by global and local stakeholders across the mental health ecosystem.

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Health Populi

MAY 17, 2022

That net shift was 93% of folks thinking about healthfulness of food (a lot + a little) down to 86% across all consumers. Over 1 in 2 consumers said they felt stressed in the past 6 months (roughly October 2021 through March 2022), with 22% reporting being “very” stressed.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 14, 2023

Just one example of this public health challenge is the state of Texas which has 15 million women who have , March of Dimes asserts, the “highest reproductive health vulnerability of all U.S. A new March of Dimes report found that 5.6 million women in the U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2021

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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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2022

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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 17, 2020

In addition to the regional TRCs, the National Telehealth Technology Assessment Resource Center and the Center for Connected Health Policy evaluate different types of telehealth technology and track telehealth-related policy, respectively. HIMSS20 Digital.

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Health Populi

APRIL 7, 2019

In addition to the food supply impact for the Planet Earth’s patients, climate change impacts public health in many other ways. The American Public Health Association founded the Center for Climate.

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Arizona Telemedicine Program

JUNE 25, 2018

According to the Center for Connected Health Policy, “Telehealth is a collection of means or methods for enhancing health care, public health, and health education delivery and support using telecommunications technologies.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

Bolstering the impact of digital health technologies — and particularly remote health monitoring and clinically-prescribed wearable tech — was the late December 2922 health policy news that telehealth provisions would be included in the FY2023 Omnibus Appropriations Bill.

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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.

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2021

In a recent report on ESG in the health care sector, S&P called out “social exposure” as the most important ESG risk for health care. ” On the downside, health care companies are in the public’s bulls’ eye regarding pricing, and this gets to lack of transparency and access challenges.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

Thanks to AARP for conducting multiple studies on health and well-being that are informing our work into the future of health care, reducing health disparities, and bolstering public health for all.

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Health Populi

JULY 14, 2022

In 2020, Sharecare began a collaboration with the Boston University School of Public Health to expand the Index, including drivers of health such as, Healthcare access (like physician supply per 1,000 residents). Food access (looking at grocery store concentrations vs. food deserts).

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Health Populi

JUNE 23, 2023

If you live in Massachusetts, Hawaii, and New Hampshire, you win a kind of state lottery for public health and well-being, based on this year’s read of the 2023 Scorecard on State Health System Performance from The Commonwealth Fund. states ranked by a mash-up of health system indicators.

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Health Recovery Solutions

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In times of uncertainty it is essential that individuals, especially those in the healthcare and health policy space, recognize the disparities that exist and focus on what can be done to address them.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

health consumers the importance of personal health data as an asset — that’s both a personal one and, in aggregate mashed up with fellow health citizens’ data — a public health asset. .” The coronavirus pandemic has shown U.S. Trust is in short supply in the U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

So only in America in the coronavirus pandemic have millions of people lost their health security just when folks would be most needful of access to health care services: during a public health crisis. Race matters for health insurance in America. Just weeks into the COVID-19 pandemic, cracks in the U.S.

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