Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2019

Deepthi from Humana offered three considerations concerning how care will transform. First, connected care: one in five U.S. In 2018, after Amazon acquired PillPack, the company filed a patent for Alexa that would observe a consumer’s cough or sneeze and predict the onset of depression or disease. healthcare system.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

There’s no mistaking that more Supercenters are located in areas with greater levels of people without insurance based on data from 2019 (Walmart store location count) and 2018 (uninsured rates). Indeed, outpatient and ambulatory care is the New Black for hospitals and health care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2021

Apple is reportedly reducing a key health division project that employees could use to track fitness goals, manage blood pressure and communicate with primary care clinicians. The strategy was similar to that of Amazon Care, which spun up a primary care app for employees before expanding nationwide this year.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

Most of these live video calls were also done through a service offered by consumers’ health care providers (doctors/clinicians), followed by services offered by insurance companies. In 2018, consumers’ tracking of at least one health metric crossed over from an analog method to digital tracking, illustrated in the line chart.

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Health Populi

APRIL 9, 2018

consumers rank supermarkets, fast food chains, retailers, and banks as their top performing industries for experience according to the 2018 Temkin Experience Ratings. The post What Would Healthcare Feel Like If It Acted Like Supermarkets – the 2018 Temkin Experience Ratings appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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KevinMD

OCTOBER 1, 2018

The California Department of Justice mandate to consult CURES (Controlled Substance Utilization Review and Evaluation) prior to prescribing, ordering, administering, or furnishing a Schedule II, II or IV controlled substance becomes effective on October 2, 2018. CURES must be consulted every four months thereafter if the.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

“Consumers are not disciplined about saving in general,” with saving for healthcare lagging behind other types of savings, Alegeus observes in the 2018 Alegeus Consumer Health & Financial Fluency Report. This has inched up above 6% in recent months of 2018, but still below 7%. Alegeus surveyed 1,400 U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 17, 2018

One-third of Americans are following a specific eating pattern, including intermittent fasting, paleo gluten-free, low-carb, Mediterranean diet, and Whole 30, among dozens of other food-styles in vogue in 2018. IFIC surveyed 1,009 American online adults ages 18 to 80 in March 2018.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 20, 2021

In the Lazio region, GPs, health care workers and primary care services are supervising and caring for patients during heatwaves using the LazioAdvice teleconsultation system and Lazio Doctor per COVID app. THE LARGER CONTEXT. Extreme heat has a significant impact on public health.

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 23, 2018

As healthcare costs, including premiums and deductibles, continue to increase, new research shows patients could be deciding to avoid primary care altogether. The 2018 shift to bronze plans in the exchanges could be a preview of what's to come next year.

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FierceHealthIT

JUNE 4, 2019

Physicians saw an increase in median compensation from 2017 to 2018, with the largest increase for specialty physicians who had a 4.4% The speciality with the largest salary jump was diagnostic radiology, up 7.71%.

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Health Populi

APRIL 2, 2019

Spending on medical care costs crowded out other household spending for millions of Americans in 2018, based on The U.S. One in three Americans overall are concerned they won’t be able to pay for health care services or prescription drugs: that includes 35% of people who are insured, and 63% of those who do not have insurance.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Beyond the sheer scale of patient volumes reached during the pandemic, virtual care was adopted by physicians across specialties well beyond primary care. physicians worked in a practice that used telehealth versus 25% who did so in 2018, based on a new survey from the AMA. In 2020, 79% of U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 10, 2021

Virtual pharmacies have become an increasingly large sector of the digital health marketplace in recent years, with Amazon launching Amazon Pharmacy this past year after acquiring PillPack in 2018. Care Medical, which provides services for Amazon Care, has filed paperwork to start doing business in at least 17 other states.

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Health Populi

JULY 26, 2022

With PillPack, I wrote here in June 2018 that Amazon got 50 U.S. As we all grapple with what this means at this preliminary stage and then what could evolve over time, I focus on the dual aspect of the opportunity: is this about primary care or is this about data? bn and MGM Studios for $8.5 To be sure, it’s both.

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2018

Only 17% of Americans over 50 years of age shopped for groceries online by mid-2018. Lower income Americans over 50 face even more challenges when shopping for food in general, a previous AARP/IFIC survey learned in April 2018. adults 50 years of age and older in June 2018. But older people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 15, 2022

Consumer Technology One-Year Industry Forecast, 2018-2023. However, there will be some bright spots of growth for consumer tech spending, for 5G smartphones, smart home applications, gaming, and health technologies, noted in the Consumer Technology Association’s CTA U.S. Underneath the overall industry spend of $503 billion, a 0.2%

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2022

The second bar chart illustrates the per member/per month (PMPM) spend for commercially insured workers, showing growth of over 7% from 2018 to 2019, and nearly 7% drop from 2019 to 2020 in the first year of the pandemic. But flat growth is expected for 2022, Castlight forecasts.

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Health Populi

MAY 5, 2022

Wearing our health and wellness lens, IRI’s data has shown broad-based category growth for wellness supplements since 2018, with a 10% growth rate per annum. The third chart serves up examples of the manufacturers by category which IRI has divined exemplify winners in the post-COVID CPG marketplace.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Our homes are evolving into our health hubs — truly our “medical homes,” which have been formally defined as a primary care gatekeeper’s office. Why should that be, in a physical sense?

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Health Populi

MARCH 26, 2018

Key health service factors among the town leaders are lower rates of chronic disease and hospitalizations, and greater access to primary care. The Healthiest Communities for 2018 are: • Falls Church, VA. Douglas County, CO. Broomfield County, CO. • Los Alamos County, NM. Dukes County, MA. Fairfax, VA. Hamilton County, IN.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2021

From 2010 to 2018, emissions from the U.S. They calculated the average distance between patients' home addresses and their assigned primary care clinics, and used Oregon Department of Transportation data about how individuals run errands to estimate what percentage of in-person trips were taken by car. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2020

One-half of doctors plan to increase their use of telemedicine in the next 12 months, the survey learned, across both primary care and specialty practices. Four in five large employers believe virtual health will play a significant role in how care is delivered int he future, up from 64% in 2019 and 52% in 2018.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 7, 2022

Citing a 2021 study, they noted that the use of telehealth in harm reduction primary care programs providing buprenorphine helped to increase access to care and overcome health inequities. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2020

The technology could also help primary care practices avoid closure as business slows. Nearly half of physicians are now using telehealth technology , up from just 18% in 2018, according to a nationwide survey of 842 physicians conducted by physician search firm Merritt Hawkins. The FCC recently doled out $3.7

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Health Populi

JANUARY 16, 2020

“All healthcare is social,” Dr. Sachin Jain, CEO and President of CareMore Health, wrote about the latter in Forbes in April 2018 — and his essay is worth reading if you missed it the first time around. And so the modern house call enables more social care, the CareMore model shows us.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Geisinger plans to open more clinics for primary care, senior care, and convenient/retail care. Virtual first and direct primary care for faster on-ramps to care. patients still delaying care is lack of easy access to primary care , especially risky for patients dealing with chronic conditions.

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Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2018

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. An additional survey of 400 physicians was conducted, split between 200 primary care providers and 200 specialty physicians.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

The Humana-Kindred deal, the existing United Health Care conglomerate with insurer and provider services, and other providers under the payor umbrella, are further exemplars of this approach — becoming “ payviders ,” to cite the neologism favored by one of my recent podcast guests. by Spring Is Here!

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Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

The Humana-Kindred deal, the existing United Health Care conglomerate with insurer and provider services, and other providers under the payor umbrella, are further exemplars of this approach — becoming “ payviders ,” to cite the neologism favored by one of my recent podcast guests. by Spring Is Here!

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Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

The Humana-Kindred deal, the existing United Health Care conglomerate with insurer and provider services, and other providers under the payor umbrella, are further exemplars of this approach — becoming “ payviders ,” to cite the neologism favored by one of my recent podcast guests. Health Care Law and Consulting.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 4, 2021

Business Insider has also reported that Care Medical contracts exclusively with Amazon Care. According to documents filed with the Washington Secretary of State's office in April 2018, Care Medical began as Oasis Medical Group, with Dr. Martin Levine as its founding medical director. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 4, 2019

Access to specialty care is tough for these patients for several reasons, including transportation, child care, challenges with missing work and prolonged waiting lists for appointments. Providers then receive a task via NextGen to review the specialist response and correspond with any follow-up questions before completing."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 19, 2020

Uniper Care's system allows users to adapt their televisions into an interactive platform using an HDMI cable; its cross-platform service is also available on desktop or mobile devices. A 2018 study found that loneliness is closely associated with depression and suicidal ideation among veterans in primary care.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2018

Underlying this clinical and economic phenomenon is obesity, which primary care doctors are challenged to deal with as a chronic condition along with typically co-occurring comorbidities of hypertension, diabetes, and hyperlipidemia. Because they are public goods, and the U.S.

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FierceHealthIT

AUGUST 27, 2019

Physician salaries for primary care and specialties increased last year, according to a new survey. median of 2.92% in 2018, according to a survey conducted by the AMGA’s subsidiary, AMGA Consulting. Physician pay increased by a.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 19, 2022

"Access to specialty care for many of our communities is scarce; these communities already are faced with primary care shortages, and for those who need to seek specialists and sub-specialists, long travels often are a costly and time-consuming reality," said Tejal A. THE PROBLEM. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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