LinkousThink

JUNE 14, 2013

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Telemedicine Telehealth Health Policy EHR 52

ACA Times

APRIL 1, 2015

The study, conducted by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy at the University New Mexico, found that only 17% of Latinos now lack health insurance, compared to 28% those surveyed in 2013. born Latinos said they have health coverage, compared to only 78% foreign-born Latinos. About 87% U.S.-born

Health Policy 40

Health Policy 40

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In the US, the change in the 5-year compound annual growth rate of wages fell 2% comparing 1995-2000 and 2013-18; the poverty rate grew 2 percent between 2000-16. The vertical bar chart documents average real wages and the growth of poverty as published in the McKinsey report.

Public Health 240

Public Health Health Policy 240

Insulin Nation

APRIL 24, 2015

Reegan Karice Oxendine was a toddler when she died in September 2013 from undiagnosed Type 1 diabetes. State legislators and insurance commissioners have the power to determine what must be covered under a policy issued by a health insurance carrier in the state. Reegan was given the diagnosis of acid reflux disease.

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Health Policy Public Health Medicare 105

ACA Times

MAY 1, 2019

Department of Health and Human Services’ Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has extended the period of non-enforcement for certain non-compliant health policies under the Affordable Care Act through the end of 2020. 2 minute read: The U.S.

Medicare 40

Medicare Health Policy 40

Insulin Nation

MAY 21, 2014

In August 2013, the Ontario provincial government changed their health policy to restrict test strip reimbursement for people with diabetes. The change that occurred on August 1 2013 to the quantity of test strips that Trillium will cover for people living with Type 1 diabetes is disheartening and alarming.

Health Policy 80

Health Policy 80

Health Populi

JUNE 21, 2019

Average annual spending for a healthy worker ran $1,320 between 2013 and 2015. Employers’ healthcare spending on individuals with chronic diseases is nearly four-times that for healthy workers, shown in the second graphic from the report. A person with a chronic condition cost 3.5 times that, nearly $5,000.

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Mental health Health Policy 153

Henry Kotula

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Between 2013 and 2017, 64 rural hospitals closed due to financial distress and changing healthcare dynamics, more than twice the number in the previous five years, a new Government Accountability Office analysis shows. . Dive Brief: Hospitals across the U.S.

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Medicare Primary Care Telemedicine Health Policy 32

E-CareManagement

OCTOBER 1, 2014

This is a dramatic increase since 2013 when the figure was just 11 percent. Suzanne Delbanco, Executive Director of CPR, in the Health Affairs blog. I’ve written before about what economists call “The Penguin Problem” — No one moves unless everyone moves, so no one moves.

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Health Policy 45

ACA Times

MARCH 10, 2017

In 2013, Arrow joined other economists in signing a letter to Congress, written by a small group of health policy experts. Indeed, today, with the future of the ACA in limbo, perhaps more than ever, it is critical that we do not forget the lessons of this humble polymath.

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Health Policy Nursing 40

Henry Kotula

MARCH 16, 2020

On a per-person basis, the state lags most others in nurses and hospital rooms designed to isolate patients with infectious, airborne diseases, according to a nationwide index of health-security measures. The state’s greatest strength, according to the index, is in its ability to detect public-health threats and contain them — scoring 8.5

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Nursing Public Health Psychiatry Telemedicine 41

Health Populi

MARCH 28, 2023

The mortality rates for people ages 1 to 19 continued to fall from 1999 until about 2013, when deaths due to injury took a turn up and to the right — especially among young males. “Firearms play a central role in this crisis,” one of the concluding paragraphs asserts.

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Public Health Health Policy 293

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

What he didn’t realize at the time was that “we were a company trying to solve health disparities.”. But in 2013, health equity wasn’t on anyone’s agenda. He envisioned ConsejoSano as a telemedicine company that could address this challenge and he raised angel funding, creating a minimum viable product.

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Telemedicine Connected Health Health Data Public Health 284

ACA Times

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Geoffrey Joyce , director of the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics at the University of Southern California. According to AARP, the retail price for 98 specialty drugs widely used to treat chronic conditions rose dramatically between 2005 and 2013.

Pharmaceuticals 40

Pharmaceuticals Health Policy Medicare 40

Health Populi

MAY 24, 2018

Spending levels tell a financially compelling, if sobering, story, as global spending for both therapeutic purposes to treat cancer and supportive aftercare for patients rose to $133 bn in 2017 up from $96 bn in 2013, globally. In the US, spending on oncology doubled from 2012 to 2017, to $50 bn.

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Pharmaceuticals Health Policy 204

Digital Health Global

MARCH 16, 2023

from the University of Michigan Medical School, an MPH in Health Policy and Management from the Harvard School of Public Health, and a Bachelor of Science from Carnegie Mellon University. She joined Carolina Urology Partners in 2013 and founded SHIC in 2019 in the Charlotte, North Carolina area. She received her M.D.

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Private practice Primary Care Public Health Telemedicine 68

ACA Times

DECEMBER 19, 2017

In 2013, Arrow joined other economists in signing a letter to Congress, written by a small group of health policy experts. Indeed, today, with the future of the ACA in limbo, perhaps more than ever, it is critical that we do not forget the lessons of this humble polymath.

Health Policy 40

Health Policy Nursing 40

Insulin Nation

APRIL 1, 2014

The World Health Organization reported that 36% of Syria’s public hospitals are out of service because of the country’s ongoing civil war. In March 2013, the New York Times reported that more than 100 physicians have been killed and hundreds more have disappeared into Syrian jails.

Health Policy 85

Health Policy 85

Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2018

In contrast, in 2013 the Affordable Care Act was in implementation and consumer-adoption mode, accompanied by aggressive anti-“Obamacare” campaigns in mass media. This sentiment has been relatively stable since 2000 except for two big outlying years: a spike of 69% in 2006, and a low-point in 2003 of 42%.

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Medical Billing Medicare Federal healthcare Public Health 184

ACA Times

DECEMBER 28, 2015

The split is “a reflection of the larger fight in the Republican Party between more pragmatic Republicans, including governors, and the ideological wing of the party that wants to stop Obamacare at all costs,” healthcare policy researcher Joan C. Alker told the newspaper. One GOP member of Congress facing that conflict is Arizona Sen.

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Health Policy 40

Insulin Nation

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

In addition, it was announced that Mr. Trump has chosen Seema Verma, a private health policy consultant who worked closely with the state of Indiana, to be the head administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Representative Price is an orthopedic surgeon who has long been a critic of the Affordable Care Act.

Medicare 50

Medicare Health Policy 50

Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2018

This is the sixth survey conducted by the Fund to track Americans’ views of the Affordable Care Act; the first survey was fielded in mid-to-fall 2013. 9 in 10 working-age adults say “yes” indeed, my fellow Americans and I all have the right to affordable health care, as the chart illustrates.

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Medicare Patient Experience Health Policy 209