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The High Cost-of-Thriving and the Evolving Social Contract for Health Care

Health Populi

23% of households had zero or negative net worth in 2017, up from 16% in 2001. The research calls out that consumers’ retirement concerns are declining physical health and running out of money. A further datapoint in the McKinsey social contract report is that over half of individuals in wealthy countries, including the U.S.,

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Spare a Rose, Save a Child Campaign Kicks Off

Insulin Nation

Contributions from donors go to established public health and pediatric diabetes health agencies to support the ongoing clinical care and education that children with diabetes need to stay alive. Our goal this year is $50,000,” Dunlap says.

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Tools, Technology Already Exist for HIEs to Succeed

Healthcare IT Today

Consolidating and coordinating information between providers, payers and public health departments is particularly tough, not only because there are so many providers, but because of the variability between data platforms and systems. In 2001, Sonia was appointed to the West Virginia Health Care Authority (WVHCA).

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Opioid Drug Addiction: How Digital Health Technologies Can Help

The Digital Health Corner

In a previous post I discussed important public health issues that digital technology can address. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) from 2001 to 2014, deaths due to overdoses in the USA were noted as: 8 fold increase due to prescription drugs. Among them is drug addiction. 6 fold increase due to heroin.

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150 top places to work in healthcare

Henry Kotula

Eskenazi Health (Indianapolis). The Indiana Public Health Association recognized Eskenazi Health for its workplace culture in the Public Health is Good Business category, which complements the American Heart Association’s platinum-level fit-friendly worksite honor also bestowed on the health system.

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Americans’ Perspectives on Pharma and Healthcare Industries Are Low and Low-Ish Compared with Most Other Sectors

Health Populi

In this last chart, we can see the boomerang shift of Americans’ views of the grocery industry in the past few years, from its apex in 2020 in the stay-at-home phase of COVID-19’s public health crisis.

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In Wednesday’s second Democratic debate, 7 of 10 candidates support Medicare for All

Henry Kotula

Instead of getting rid of private insurance, Biden said he would build on the ACA through the Biden Plan to create a public health insurance option. In 2011 she helped pass the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, which provides treatment to the first responders of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.