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Bonus Features – December 22, 2024 – 83% of providers want virtual care to be a permanent part of their practice, Medicare home visits have dropped 17% since 2017, plus 24 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

Access to home health for Medicare beneficiaries is decreasing , according to a recent report from Trella Health, with the number of home health visits per day down more than 17% between 2017 and 2023. Healthcare supply chain vendor Advantus Health Partners appointed Rick Roycroft as Chief Commercial Officer.

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HelloHero Lands Growth Funding Package From Decathlon Capital Partners

Healthcare IT Today

Growth Debt Solution will Support Expansion of the Rapidly Growing Family Behavioral Health Company HelloHero , a leading provider of technology-powered mental health and behavioral care, has secured a multi-million dollar investment package from Decathlon Capital Partners.

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The Promise of Digital Health and the Privacy Perils – HealthConsuming Explains, Part 4

Health Populi

For CHCF that year, I wrote Here’s Looking at You: How Personal Health Information is Being Tracked and Used , I took cues from a 60 Minutes ‘ profile of third-party data brokers and Latanya Sweeney’s groundbreaking research at the Harvard Privacy Lab. mobile consumers.

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Do Mental Health Apps Sell Your Client’s Sensitive Data to Data Brokers?

Telebehavioral Health Institute

A February 2023 report published by researcher Joanne Kim outlines the results of a two-month study of how data brokers sell sensitive data mental health data collected from mHealth mental health apps. These companies include BetterHelp , Cerebral, GoodRX, Monument, and Workit Health.

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The Hair Economy in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Control, Wellness, and Self-Care

Health Populi

In my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen , I feature the black barbershop to introduce a chapter on “The New Retail Health.” But this first-wave impact of the pandemic and #StayHome mandates have exacted a price on financial and mental health. Can you see yourself?

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Patients have ambitious health goals, and look to doctors for help

Health Populi

Sleep, too, or lack thereof, is top-of-mind for so many consumers: there was a growing category of sleep-assisting digital health tools featured at the 2018 CES, which I covered here in the Huffington Post. One-third of people cite mental health as a goal, closely followed by improving finances.

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The 2022 Health Populi TrendCast for Consumers and Health Citizens

Health Populi

Between 2017 to 2021, there was also significant movement in a few other areas: identity and self-esteem (up 11 points from 2017), as well as control and reality (up 7 points between 2017 to 2021). affected by behavioral health conditions: mental health and substance use disorders,” GAO highlighted.