Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2025

Here is ECRI’s list of patient safety concerns a decade ago in 2015. Compare these with the top 10 safety concerns for 2025. Many more of these have to do with “technology” and devices (e.g., alarm hazards, med errors related to pounds vs. kilograms, mix-up of IV lines), noting several issues still plaguing the U.S.

Leadership 194

Leadership EHR Health IT Medical Technology 194

Health Populi

MAY 17, 2018

wars since 1950, according to Pain in the Nation Update from the Well Being Trust and Trust for America’s Health. states had the biggest increases in alcohol, drug and suicide deaths between 2015 and 2016, and in six states and Washington DC the death rates grew by over 20% — particularly in the Mid-Atlantic region.

Mental health 159

Mental health Public Health Pain management Pharmaceuticals 159

Health Populi

MARCH 16, 2021

At that point, the research shows that Americans without a college degree had rising death rates due to drugs, suicide, and alcoholic liver disease — considered together as the “deaths of despair,” they coined in 2015.

Public Health 177

Public Health Mental health Health Policy 177

Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2022

Gray died while in police custody in April 2015, suffering a neck injury and dying in a hospital a week later. In the future, he envisions the mesh of the food system with the health system. As the Washington Post reported, “Baltimore was added to a growing list of cities — Ferguson, Mo.,

Public Health 317

Public Health Health Policy 317

Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

But the coronavirus era also saw broadband households spending more on connecting health devices, with 42% of U.S. consumers owning digital health tech compared with 33% in 2015, according to research discussed in Supporting Today’s Connected Consumer from Parks Associates. broadband households in 2020 from 17% in 2015.

Connected Health 194

Connected Health Digital Health HIPAA Telemedicine 194

Insulin Nation

APRIL 24, 2015

North Carolina legislators introduced identical bills in the state’s House (HB 20, January 28, 2015) and Senate (SB 27, February 3, 2015) to require medical practitioners who provide well-child care to ensure that diabetes screening is performed upon each child at birth, and then at ages one and two. She died two months later.

Health Policy 105

Health Policy Public Health Medicare 105

BHM Healthcare Solutions

MAY 29, 2018

New research released by WellCare Health Plans, Inc. The Community Assistance Line is part of WellCare’s broader Center for CommUnity Impact program and works to match both members and non-members with unmet social service needs to resources through a nationwide network of nearly 200,000 community-based public assistance programs.

Public Health 40

Public Health Medicare Health Policy 40