Health Populi

JULY 18, 2019

There was three-times faster-paced growth in unintentional deaths in the later years of this study (2014-2017) than in the first seven years studied (1999-2006)–1.9% Health Populi’s Hot Points: Here’s the bar chart illustrating the rates of mortality due to unintentional drug overdoses between 2014 and 2017, by geography.

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Health Populi

APRIL 9, 2021

” Note, too, that Raley’s is a tobacco-free zone, making the choice that CVS/pharmacy made back in 2014 to drop tobacco from its stores and re-brand as CVS/health. In 2015, Raley’s eliminated tobacco products from its stores.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

When the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) developed the concept of the Triple Aim in 2007, it was founded on three pillars: enhancing patient experience, improving population health, and lowering per capita health care costs. As we consider re-investing in the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

In March 2014, Danny Wegman, patriarch of the family-held Wegman’s grocery chain, came out in support of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s proposal for a statewide health information network in New York, where Wegman’s headquarters sits in Rochester. Beyond the local economic effects, think about the larger region or State.

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: That consumers increasingly look to the private sector to be responsible for public health has not gone unnoticed by commercial companies.

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Health Populi

APRIL 2, 2018

It’s important to note that equal numbers of Democrats and Republicans were worried about healthcare between 2014 and 2016 as the Affordable Care Act was being implemented. More Democrats worry about healthcare than Republicans, this year at a huge gap of 72% for Dems vs. 39% for Republicans. Gallup interviewed 1,041 U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

in 2014 and 45.5% "Physician shortages, already projected to be severe before COVID, have almost become a public health emergency," he added. The study, published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, found that the prevalence of burnout among U.S. physicians was 62.8% in 2021, compared with 38.2% in 2020, 43.9% in 2017, 54.4%

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ActiGraph

AUGUST 23, 2023

Effective August 23, 2023, ActiGraph is discontinuing the sale of one of our wearable digital health technology (DHT) devices, the GT9X Link. Originally launched in 2014, the GT9X Link is a multi-sensor wearable device that has been used to collect actigraphy data in clinical research studies across public health and academia.

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Health Populi

JUNE 7, 2018

Some key findings from this study were that: The fastest-growing spending conditions between 2013 and 2014 were infectious disease, mental illness, and diabetes. The second chart indicates healthcare spending by category in billions of dollars and annual rate of growth.

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Health Populi

JUNE 25, 2018

In the Weighing Down America study, the Milken Institute gauged that health conditions related to obesity and overweight totaled $428 billion. healthcare spending in 2014. The direct medical expenses generated through treating diseases borne by obesity accounted for over 14% of U.S. of America’s gross domestic product.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 20, 2022

For example, they have been working in Malawi in south-eastern Africa since the 1950s and helped to launch the Malawi Trachoma Elimination Programme in 2014. On September 21 st , 2022 the WHO officially announced that the country had eliminated the disease as a public health problem. Sightsavers Kenya Project.

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Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Mustafa Suleyman is a co-founder of DeepMind, which became a leading artificial intelligence research lab after Google bought it in 2014. Public Health Initiatives: Data plays a crucial role in public health initiatives. In March 2024, Microsoft hired DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman as CEO of new AI unit.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2020

Anne Case and Angus Deaton were working in a cabin in Montana the summer of 2014. Upon analyzing mortality data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, they noticed that death rates were rising among middle-aged white people.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2022

These are shown in the first diagram from the report, breaking out factors that have exacerbated challenges on both the demand and supply side of the American health economy. Many of these were already in motion before the COVID-19 pandemic emerged; the public health crisis exacerbated several of them. In the U.S.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 3, 2021

Among her recent work, Wise is in the process of implementing an industry leading population health tool, has conducted a rapid rollout of an acute and ambulatory telehealth to meet the needs of the COVID-19 public health emergency.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 21, 2023

This financing brings the total investment in Scene to over $25 million since its founding in 2014. This funding is a critical milestone to defining a new, modern standard for supporting medication adherence using evidence-based public health strategies.” Medication nonadherence is a $500 billion challenge in the U.S.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

JANUARY 27, 2022

Now that these innovations are here to stay (or so we hope), are we circling back to ensure adequate understanding of what is needed to achieve their full potential for public health improvement?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

BMC Public Health. Telehealth for global emergencies: Implications for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare. Monagesh et al. The role of telehealth during COVID-19 outbreak: a systematic review based on current evidence. AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. Telehealth Implementation Playbook. 111, Heft 4.

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Insulin Nation

MAY 5, 2014

A massive new study released in May 2014 has documented that the rate of Type 1 diabetes in U.S. For once, Type 1 diabetes should be on the tip of everyone’s tongue. children has increased by 21% over 8 years. That means we’re seeing a 2.8% rate increase in new T1 diagnoses annually.

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Insulin Nation

APRIL 1, 2016

We recently came across a sobering fact from a 2012 Yale School of Public Health study : children with diabetes have a six percent higher risk of dropping out than the average population, according to two economic researchers. The study was originally published in the journal Health Affairs. It can create a vicious cycle.

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Insulin Nation

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which with state law enforcement and public health agencies maintains the Amber Alert system, issued an online alert, as did regional public safety agencies, and private sites maintained by volunteers.

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E-CareManagement

OCTOBER 29, 2014

As a member of the Editorial Board of Population Health News , I was asked to provide some personal perspectives for the October 2014 issue. Health; Instructor, Center for Primary Care, Harvard Medical School; Adjunct Lecturer, Harvard. School of Public Health Boston, Mass. Jeremy Nobel, M.D., Nussbaum, M.D.

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The Digital Health Corner

JANUARY 19, 2017

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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Telebehavioral Health Institute

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Despite being described as a public health epidemic by the CDC in 2014, insufficient sleep has a catastrophic impact on people’s health, the workplace, and the healthcare system – much of which can be attributed to limited access to care. .

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JUNE 19, 2018

All states have prescription drug monitoring programs, with the exception of Missouri, but some programs are more comprehensive than others, lead study author Rebecca Haffajee, PhD, assistant professor of health management policy at University of Michigan’s School of Public Health told Futurity.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 9, 2020

Tolbert Nyenswah, who ran the Liberian ministry of health's response to Ebola in 2014, gives Rwanda high marks for how it has been handling COVID-19, even if at times it's heavy-handed. "Rwanda, Digital health improves service delivery and clinical outcomes, and we know that cannot happen if we don’t look at the data."

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Insulin Nation

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

The FDA is seeking comment on the proposed rules until April 7th, 2014. Dr. Lias says regulators are hoping for a vigorous discussion that will help create a new document to improve public health. “We hope that will help a little bit in terms of transparency,” Dr. Lias says. You can comment at www.regulations.gov.

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Connected Health Initiative

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Asynchronous remote monitoring tools—already proven to improve patient outcomes, reduce costs, augment population health management, and support the healthcare workforce—are now critical in confronting healthcare access and quality disparities that too many Americans find themselves on the wrong side of.

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ACA Times

JANUARY 11, 2018

For both measures, levels in 2014, 2015, and 2016 are statistically identical to our projections based on patterns existing before 2014, the year the major provisions of the ACA went into effect. Through 2016, the ACA had little to no adverse effect on employment and usual hours worked per week.

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Lloyd Price

JANUARY 23, 2024

Opportunities for Collaboration: LLMs and public health researchers: Collaborations can leverage LLMs to analyze large datasets and identify patterns in SDoH factors that contribute to health disparities. This information can inform public health campaigns and social policy changes to address systemic issues impacting health.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

According to the World Health Organization ( 2015 ), phone addiction is a public health concern. The 2014-2020 analyses included 24 countries, 83 samples, and 33,831 participants. This article outlines some of the more salient studies that clinicians may want to understand.

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Insulin Nation

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Also, many Canadian schools only employ part-time public health nurses who come in for services like immunizations, meaning they aren’t nearby for daily testing or in case of emergencies. In 2014, I joined with a few other parents to form Support Ontario Students with Type 1 Diabetes. Even some of those policies fall short.

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Redox

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Lisa is an excellent health tech policy follow, by the way). But unfortunately for us, ubiquity is only part of the story, as this particular function (like many public health apparatus) has withered away in recent years. Since there is no consensus transport standard that states and public health agencies use for the reporting.

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Medical Mime - EHR

AUGUST 28, 2018

As we wrote in a previous post on the Drug Overdose Death Epidemic , here are the growth rates for the last few years: 2014: 47,055. This death toll is staggering – the equivalent of a passenger jet crashing every day for an entire year. 2015: 52,404 (+11.4%). 2016: 63,632 (+21.4%). 2017: 72,287 (+11.3%) – estimate.

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American Well

APRIL 1, 2016

Start Date: December, 2014. Before that, I worked at the Harvard School of Public Health for seven years, which helped me to better understand the challenges we face in providing healthcare to all. Name: Sierra Sohl-Dickstein. Title: Senior Product Manager. Department: Product Management. What attracted you to American Well?

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American Well

APRIL 1, 2016

Start Date: December, 2014. Before that, I worked at the Harvard School of Public Health for seven years, which helped me to better understand the challenges we face in providing healthcare to all. Name: Sierra Sohl-Dickstein. Title: Senior Product Manager. Department: Product Management. What attracted you to American Well?

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 6, 2018

Analysis of the Department of Health’s published accounts by the King’s Fund shows that the share of spending by NHS commissioners on the private sector was 7.7 per cent in 2014/15, although changes in data definitions mean this is not strictly a like-for-like comparison, the health think-tank says. per cent, up from 10.7

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