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Inflation, Health, and the American Consumer – “The Devil Wears Kirkland”

Health Populi

last month, the highest increase in 13 years. Hospitals are not alone in price cliffs, with health insurance premiums spiking last year at the fastest rate in a decade, the Labor Statistics data showed. The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that surging hospital prices are helping to keep inflation high. Hospital costs rose 7.7%

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Consider ever-changing tech hurdles for older adults

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Did the last iPhone upgrade, which added “ contact posters, NameDrop, StandBy, Live Voicemail, FaceTime video voicemail, a whole new Siri voice recognition model, huge improvements to autocorrect and dictation ” improve their user experience? Ah, but are they trained (especially the oldest), comfortable and proficient with using it?

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WSJ Asserts Women Own This Summer and That The Economy Proves It. But Health Care? Not So Much.

Health Populi

Sarah Krouse and Anne Steele, the WSJ journalists, tag-team doing a great job quantifying the women’s fiscal force, quoting Blair Kohan, an agent with UTA who represents Greta Gerwig, the Barbie movie’s director, saying, “Women have always been a deeply underestimated economic force.” Wade last year.

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How Twitter Revealed Consumer Health Care Trends in the Pandemic

Health Populi

And, many tags related to mental health became well-used, such as #MentalHealthMatters, #MentalHealthAwareness, #WellBeing, and #BellLetsTalk from the campaign addressing stigma. The last chart comes out of the GWI paper, detailing consumers’ developing their own “health toolkits” for both mental and physical health.

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“The virus is the boss” — U.S. lives and livelihoods at the beginning of 2021

Health Populi

Goolsbee and Jason Furman, former Chair of Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, tag-teamed the U.S. I contrast the mortality data on the left of this last chart with the most-respected profession data from Gallup on the lower right of the chart. economic outlook following today’s news that the U.S.

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HL7 FHIR Security & Privacy tutorial - Vegas

Healthcare Exchange Standards

Notes and references that I posted after last years presentation Note this is NOT a SMART-on-FHIR tutorial - See that one on Monday Afternoon See Security Topics , Consent/Privacy , and FHIR for index to these articles.

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US Census: some older adults still lack computers and Internet access

Aging in Place Technology Watch

That was posted in November of 2021, with surveying ending in 2020 (just before Covid-19) and was made available within the last month. category tags: computers, broadband, and social networking. But what if tech adoption came from a sample size of 2.9 One might assume that post-Covid census data will show even higher penetration.

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