Health Populi
OCTOBER 8, 2018
It’s National Health IT Week in the US, so I’m kicking off the week with this post focused on how digital health can bolster economic development. As the only health economist in the family of the 2018 HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors, this is a voice through which I can uniquely speak. out of the Great Recession. GDP, in 2018.
Health Populi
APRIL 6, 2022
Our desire for data liquidity has eluded us across the health/care ecosystem for too long, notwithstanding American taxpayers’ $35 bn investment in EHRs dating to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 that embedded the HITECH Act funding EHR adoption for hospitals and physician practices.
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Health Populi
APRIL 14, 2020
In the depths of the Great Recession in 2009, the globally economy declined by 0.1%, staying relatively flat. .” Gita included the last bar chart in her essay, clearly showing that in the Great Lockdown era of 2020 (now), real GDP globally will shrink 3.0%.
Health Populi
JANUARY 28, 2020
practicing physicians to carry the health data privacy and security burden? “HIPAA, as passed in 1996 and amended in 2009 through the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, defines privacy through a sectoral lens. But are we asking too much of U.S.
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 5, 2020
And, that primary care is a social determinant of health, bolstering public and individual health. That link will take you to my blog written on primary care ROI in November 2009 – and the math holds ten+ years later. But America’s per capita primary care physician supply fell between 2005 and 2015.
Digital Health Global
AUGUST 27, 2024
The results of this study suggest a paradigm shift in preventive health management, where DHPs can effectively monitor and manage conditions before they progress. This could potentially reduce the worldwide burden of chronic diseases and influence future health policies.
Health Populi
MARCH 17, 2022
The Commonwealth Fund has tracked primary care access for many years, and over time has found the United States to lack the kind of primary care “backbone” that many wealthy nations have — whose health citizens also enjoy much better health outcomes that relate to easier access to health care.
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