Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2024

Health Populi’s Hot Points: From the start of the coronavirus pandemic in early 2020, one thing became clear: that people living in households without connectivity were unable to work from home if they had a job that supported virtual work, attend school from home, or connect to loved ones, friends, and communities from home.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Three factors will drive healthcare costs to 2026: prices for medical goods and services, changes in income growth, and shifting enrollment from private health insurance to Medicare — driven by the aging of Boomers. per year, 2017-26, expected to hit $5.7 What are those “fundamentals” pushing up healthcare spending?

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2018

Upwell Health surveyed 5,255 people with diabetes online in 2017. Health Populi’s Hot Points: America is the United States of Diabetes when it comes to healthcare spending. Care for people with diagnosed diabetes accounts for 1 in 4 health care dollars in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 30, 2020

APA published the report, Stress and Health Disparities, in 2017, and the learnings resonate even louder today than when the Association launched the paper. that we must now reallocate resources, and shift our hearts and minds, toward equity on many planes — for health, for social justice, and for fair wages.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Rock Health analysts expect that wearable tech use will continue to grow with more use cases for remote health monitoring coupled with consumers and patients being incentivized to continue their use. Telehealth adoption also grew from 2017 to 2018. Live video use roughly doubled, from 19% in 2017 to 34% in 2018.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Marc Harrison, most recently CEO of Intermountain Health, to take on the CEO role for the launch of a new health services company: HATco, the Health Assurance Transformation Corporation. Nothing in health care happens overnight, and this concept has been hatching since 2017, GC’s press release explains.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Here are the past four years’ links for historical context and your reading pleasure… 2019 – “It’s the Deductible, Stupid” – Health Premiums Reach $20,576 for a Family. 2017 – Employees Continue to Pick Up More Health Insurance Costs, Even As Their Growth Slows.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

deaths due to accidents, accidental overdoses, and suicide in 2017. to expand access to integrated primary and behavioral health care to younger people in America, and telehealth can be a practical and even desirable platform for doing so particular for the nation’s younger patient population. It is a critical time for the U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 7, 2019

Last week, The Lancet published its comprehensive study on the Health effects of dietary risks in 195 countries, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study. The study looked into the food intake among people in 195 countries and their health outcomes (mortality and morbibidity).

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Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health

OCTOBER 23, 2018

With more than 44 million Americans having a diagnosable mental health condition—56 percent of which do not receive treatment—taskforces unite from various sectors in strengthening the nation’s mental health workforce. counties have no psychiatrists at all.

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Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2019

This is familiar territory here in Health Populi where we cover every nook and cranny of dismal U.S. health economics, and hopeful green shoots for making health care more cost-effective, high quality, engaging and even enchanting-by-design. ” The U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2020

The same percentage of people over 50 own a voice assistant, a market penetration rate which more than doubled between 2017 and 2019, AARP noted in the 2020 Tech and the 50+ Survey published in December 2019. One-half of 50+ Americans use a tablet, and 17% own wearable tech.

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Health Populi

JUNE 21, 2019

HRIs research found an inflection growth point among employers offering health benefit programs addressing mental health and depression between 2016 and 2017 — growing from 44% of companies offering in 2016 to 66% in 2017 — that’s 50% growth year-on-year between 2016-17.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

In the spring of 2018, the Center for Connected Health Policy published its update of the State Telehealth Laws and Reimbursement Policies Report. One of the most comprehensive reports available on the issues involved with U.S. telehealth reimbursement of all types, the … Read more.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Experian surveyed 1,000 consumers in September 2017 for this study. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Among all consumer pain points explored in the Experian study, the top-ranked tasks related to money in healthcare.

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Health Populi

MARCH 8, 2018

The second bar chart shows records breached by month from August 2017 through January 2018. Appropriately, privacy and security were hot topics at HIMSS Annual Conference this year, in respond to providers’ demands for more education and concerns around the challenges. Let’s put these concerns in context.

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Health Populi

JULY 21, 2019

Four in ten insured workers contributed to a health savings account (HSA( associated with their HDHP. The HSA line chart shows that the share of employees contributing to their HSA has fallen from a high of 50% in 2017 to 38% in 2019.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 30, 2020

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Over the past twenty years in the U.S., In Trends in Unmet Need for Physician and Preventive Services in the United States, 1998-2017 , researchers analyzed twenty years’ worth of data from the CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: VisitPay included this third line chart in the report, more closely looking at household income cohorts. In quintiles, 2017 median income ranged from the bottom fifth of homes with $13K, fourth group $35K, middle quintile $61K (close to the median overall), second group at $99K, and top at $221K.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

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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Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2018

“Health agencies will have to become at least as sophisticated as other consumer/retail industries in analyzing a variety of data that helps uncover root causes of human behavior,” Gartner recommended in 2017. That’s because “health” is not all pre-determined by our parent-given genetics.

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Health Populi

MAY 17, 2018

Health Populi’s Hot Points: How to deal with this think-the-unthinkable public and personal health reality? The Trust detailed a National Resilience Strategy in 2017 with elements of: Improving pain management and treatment.

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ACA Times

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Senate from nearly 100 health economists and policy analysts supports keeping the tax in place. For decades, economists and health policy experts of all political persuasions have agreed that the unlimited exclusion of employer-financed health insurance from income and payroll taxes is inflationary, inefficient, and regressive.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2022

Fetter also launched adjacent businesses—Conifer Health Solutions and United Surgical Partners International—which are now multi-billion-dollar enterprises and leaders in their respective fields. Fetter retired as chairman and CEO of Tenet in late 2017. Dr. Jain contributes healthcare delivery reform insight.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

followed by immigration (at 13%, falling 3 points in the month since September), race relations (at 6%), health care and insurance (at 5%), unifying the country (5%), and climate change (4%). “Average mentions of government have been on the rise since 2017,” Gallup noted in a growing polarized political climate in the U.S.

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care innovations

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Pai himself has come under fire for the tone of the agency’s 2017’s campaign to eliminate Obama-era net neutrality safeguards , in which he played a central, and very public, role.

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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. . Since 2010, 86 rural hospitals have closed , and 44% of those remaining are operating at a loss — up from 40% in 2017.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Census Bureau found that the level of health insurance enrollment fell by 1 million people in 2019 , with about 30 million Americans not covered by health insurance. million people in 2017. The coronavirus pandemic has only exacerbated the erosion of the health insured population. lacked health insurance.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

If you are interested in learning more about policy and reimbursement, bookmark these resources: Center for Connected Health Policy – state and national policy information. Get ready for exponential growth in telemedicine in 2017. The growth of telehealth: 20 things to know. appeared first on LearnTelehealth.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 16, 2023

The Mental Health Policy Gap Excavated by Data Brokers The COVID-related surge in mental health disorders and the limitations on accessing in-person therapy Ignited a rapid shift towards telehealth and mHealth apps, where downloads increased by 200% between 2019 and 2020. PrivacyInternational.org, October 23, 2017.

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Health Populi

MARCH 5, 2019

” The OECD broadly defined the phrase in their 2017 paper on the topic as follows: Mobility, cloud computing, the Internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI) and big data analytics are among the most important technologies in the digital economy today.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

The following is a list of legislative activities compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (AR, MS, and TN). Carry Over from 2017. in s/c Health Subcommittee. LEGISLATION. Pending Legislation. Mississippi. 4/5/17: Taken off notice of cal.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MARCH 6, 2018

In 2018, updates and changes impacted telehealth policy across the nation. In 2017, Tennessee approved legislation to participate in the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact, which allows physicians to practice across state lines. The course takes approximately 30 minutes to complete. Interstate Medical Licensure Compact.

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Digital Health Global

OCTOBER 27, 2023

We can find academic research recommending that major health policies should emphasize reducing unhealthy lifestyles, dating three decades ago 3. Digital therapeutics have been the fastest growing area within the healthtech space in recent years, with global VC funding increasing 4x between 2017 and 2022 4.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2019

In the words of the report, “our analysis reveals a mix of strides and stagnation in state-based policy despite decades of evidence-based research highlighting positive clinical outcomes and increasing telehealth utilization.”

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 5, 2020

county using 2017 Medicare Provider Utilization and Payment Data. They also used aggregated data from the CDC and local public health agencies to plot the rate of confirmed COVID-19 cases in each county as of May 12. Researchers determined the density of infectious disease physicians in every U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 1, 2018

The authors cite a study published in The Lancet in 2017 that found that 20% of the users of statins (to lower the risk of heart disease) cited negative side effects such as muscle pain compared with those who were taking a placebo, unsure they were ingesting a statin. ” How to deal with these challenges?

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