BHM Healthcare Solutions

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Editor’s Note: Healthcare organizations are increasingly looking to adopt telehealth programs, but they face a number of policy barriers that hinder their plans, according to the Center for Connected Health Policy. Study authors said this corresponded to 67.2 Click HERE to discuss how BHM helps payers. .

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Health Populi

JUNE 29, 2022

Retirement System from the Tramsamerica Center for Retirement Studies (TCRS), we learn about the changing views of U.S. The study was fielded between October and December 2021, thus before the onset of significant inflation on household budgets in 2022. As more than 1 in 3 U.S.

Mental health 296

Mental health Medical Billing Health Policy 296

Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2022

Access to the Internet has been a key determinant of health — or more aptly, death — during the COVID-19 pandemic. Americans lacked Internet access were more likely to die due to complications from the coronavirus, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open this month. COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 were preventable.

Telehealth 425

Telehealth Mobile Health Public Health Connected Health 425

FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 8, 2019

A group of health policy researchers has reconvened to study healthcare spending and reached the same conclusion as a decade ago: "It's the prices, stupid."

Health Policy 93

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

The study polled U.S. “It appears that telehealth is likely to continue to remain an important tool in the health care delivery tool kit — at least for those with computers and high-speed internet access,” the AARP report concludes with a caveat about connectivity/broadband access.

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Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2022

The 24th Annual Technology Ownership & Market Potential Study from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) tells us that Americans in 2022 will have to manage challenging economic headwinds, shopping for technology is preparing people for their new normal — with household budgets and value in mind. 24% of U.S.

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Connected Health Digital Health Primary Care Medical Technology 308

Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2018

The line chart come from a new study into Multimorbidity Trends in United States Adults, 1988-2014 , published in the July-August 2018 issue of the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. In the United States, however, there’s been under-investment in these social determinants that closely tie to health.

Public Health 180

Public Health Health Policy Primary Care 180

Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

Since the second quarter of 2020, I’ve noticed that JAMA has devoted increasing column inches to the issues of health equity, social determinants of health, and structural racism in U.S. health care. Black, Latino/Hispanic, and American Indian people have worse self-reported health.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 26, 2023

While the same proportion of Black and White patients say they are looking for a doctor with empathy and compassion, there are relatively large differences between patients based on their race, found in the Everyday Health-Castle Connolly Physician-Consumer study. consumers and 277 Castle Connolly health care professionals.

Life Science 156

Life Science Telemedicine Health Data Primary Care 156

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

That is the through-line found in a very deep dive into 177 countries’ health data published in The Lancet in a research article on pandemic preparedness and COVID-19. The Lancet study, published on 1 February 2022, was funded by the Gates Foundation in partnership with The Bloomberg Philanthropies et al.

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Public Health Health Data Health Policy 310

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 8, 2020

Among the other recommendations was a call to make electronic medical records must be made interoperable, more accessible, and searchable by public health personnel to aid in state and federal situational awareness and emergency management.

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Digital Health Wire

JUNE 25, 2023

Medicare Advantage plans could be on track to reach over $75B in overpayments this year – nearly 3x prior estimates – causing researchers at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics to issue a pressing call for policy reform.

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Medicare Health Policy Digital Health 52

Health Populi

MAY 24, 2023

As most Americans confess to feeling stressed over the past six months, peoples’ food and beverage choices have been intimately connected with their mental and emotional well-being, we learn from the 2023 Food & Health Survey from the International Food Information Council (IFIC).

Mental health 156

Mental health Primary Care Public Health Health Policy 156

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

A Cleveland Clinic study from earlier this summer, for instance, found that more than half of survey respondents said their telehealth visit was better than an in-person one. Kane, AMA's director of economic and health policy research. Across all specialties, 10.6% of weekly visits were done on video, while 8.1%

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Telehealth General practice Health Policy Remote care 204

Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2022

” I was particularly keen to dig into this study based on its sponsoring organization: JLL is a real estate services company serving over a dozen vertical markets — including health care, life sciences, senior housing, and retail, among other industry sectors. adults in the first half of January 2022 for this study.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2021

consumers say the “important things in life today” are health and financial security, according to the latest study from the Retirement Security Survey conducted by Principal in Q4 2020. Job losses at the start of the coronavirus pandemic hit the health care industry hard.

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Nursing Public Health Health Policy 323

Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Power’s 2022 Telehealth Satisfaction Study. Power found in their Study which was conducted among 4,306 health care consumers who had used a telehealth service in the 12 months preceding June and July 2022 when the survey was fielded. Power — which studies customer satisfaction for living — asserts.

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Telehealth Mental health Nursing Primary Care 203

Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

His remarks focused largely on an immigration and travel policy versus science, triaging, testing and treatment of the virus itself. Over the past week, I’ve culled several studies and resources to divine a profile of the U.S. consumer in the COVID-19 moment…a moment that may last most of the rest of the months of 2020.

Telemedicine 344

Telemedicine Health Policy Public Health Digital Health 344

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Even with the prospect of enrolling in Medicare sooner in a year or two or three, Americans approaching retirement are growing concerned about health care costs, according to a study in JAMA Network Open. Nearly 1 in 5 consumers in the study avoided medical care or filling a prescription in the past year due to cost concerns.

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Medicare Health Policy 261

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2021

This most recent effort has brought together a wide range of healthcare representatives, including: Adventist Health Policy Association. Teladoc Health. The campaign website includes information about the flexibilities that have enabled telehealth utilization and cites studies about the modality's benefits.

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Telehealth Telemedicine Medicare Connected Care 206

Health Populi

AUGUST 28, 2020

However, only 44% would be willing to share their personal data with a national database, a MITRE study learned. The Harris Poll conducted the study among 2,065 U.S. adults 18 and over in mid-June 2020 to gauge peoples’ perspectives on health data and privacy. billion, the MITRE study is well-timed.

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Health Information Health Data HIPAA Public Health 323

Health Populi

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Twenty-seven days before the 2020 elections, 7 in 10 Americans say their financial health will influence their votes this year, according to the doxoINSIGHTS survey which shows personal financial health as a key voter consideration in the Presidential election. The study has a 2% margin of error.

Public Health 353

Public Health Mental health Health Policy 353

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Americans who have commercial health insurance (say, through an employer or union) are rarely thought to face barriers to receiving health care — in particular, primary care, that front line provider and on-ramp to the health care system.

Primary Care 359

Primary Care HIPAA Telehealth Health Policy 359

Health Populi

JULY 17, 2023

And those policy burdens are increasing, both nurses and doctors agree — “driving nurses away from the profession altogether,” AHA asserted, and compelling physicians to revisit their ability to operate a practice.

Nursing 156

Nursing Health Policy 156

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Three new studies (two published this week) converge prompting me to weave together this post on the high-cost-of-thriving and the evolving social contract for health care in America. First, let’s dig into Oren Cass ’s fascinating study into the cost-of-thriving, subtitled “Re-evaluating the Prosperity of the American Family.”

Public Health 232

Public Health Health Policy 232

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).

Public Health 310

Public Health Health IT Health Policy Telemedicine 310

Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The study found that the two biggest concerns facing Americans were finances and COVID-19 — but the impacts of these two stresses varied by race/ethnicity: a greater percent of Blacks (36%) and Hispanics (29% rated financial concerns marginally higher than COVID-19, 34% and 26% respectively. adults which included 777 Black Americans.

Mental health 208

Mental health Public Health Health Policy 208

Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2022

This capability is attracting pharmaceutical and life science companies, health care providers and research organizations to take a closer look at Seqster’s offering. In summing up the patient-centered interoperability goal, Ardy summarized: “We’ve created the Mint.com of health data.”

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Health Populi

JANUARY 30, 2020

But most Americans, rich or not, believe that it’s unfair for wealthier people to get better health care, according to a January 2020 poll from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Harvard Chan School of Public Health, Life Experiences and Income Equality in the United States. adults 18 or older.

Public Health 191

Public Health Medicare Pharmaceuticals Health Policy 191

Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2021

” That year the firm began to study the relevance of, well, relevance for organizations especially operating in the health/care ecosystem. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Why care about “relevance” as described in this study? FYI, I did not have a hand in this study. .

Life Science 170

Life Science Public Health Primary Care Patient Experience 170

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Being Philips, what underpins that quality and experience is technology; Philips explored telehealth, AI, digital health records (DHRs), and other digital health tools that can engage patients. 84% of consumers with access to personal electronic health data want their health care professionals to have access, as well.

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Interoperability Digital Health Patient Experience Health Data 218

Health Populi

JUNE 20, 2022

That makes illness a stronger predictor of medical debt than either poverty or insurance,” we learn from a detailed study asserting that 100 Million People in America Are Saddled With Health Care Debt , published in Kaiser Health News. . “U.S.

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Medical Billing Pharmaceuticals Health Policy 304

Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2022

If you live in Mississippi, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Texas, Missouri, Alabama, Georgia, or Arkansas, your health care and outcomes are less likely to be top-notch, the Fund’s research concluded. states set the bar higher for their health citizens’ well-being. The Fund’s bottom line.

Primary Care 280

Primary Care Public Health Mental health Health Policy 280

AMD Telemedicine

JANUARY 31, 2023

Once the practitioners receive the data, they can then study and analyze it as though they were in the clinic when it was collected. Another important distinction is that the reimbursement policies from private insurers vary between real-time and store-and-forward technologies.

Telehealth 147

Telehealth Telemedicine Health Policy Patient Experience 147

Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2022

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Considering the double-whammy phenomena of the Deaths of Despair combined with the impact of deaths due to the coronavirus pandemic: the U.S. This research found that our social relationships are linked both to mental health as well as morbidity and mortality — that is, death.

Life Science 310

Life Science Mental health Pharmaceuticals Medical Technology 310

Health Populi

MARCH 28, 2019

User names were identified by one in five apps studied. The prevalence of Google in this ecosystem is a key finding from the study. The authors call out that Alphabet, the parent company of Google, owns the third parties Crashlytics, Google Analytics, and AdMob By Google which were all in the ecosystem studied.

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Mobile Health Health Data Digital Health Nursing 282

Health Populi

MAY 7, 2023

This study, led by researchers at the University of Oxford, UK, and the University of Oslo, Norway, identified over 1,600 scientific papers, narrowing the most rigorous and relevant to 23 papers focusing on virtual consulting and carbon emissions.

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Telehealth Health IT Connected Health Health Policy 156