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Digital Health As A Basic Human Need – the Dentsu Digital Society Index 2019

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We need a “new needs model” for the digital age, asserts a new report, Human Needs in a Digital World , the 2019 Digital Society Index report from the Dentsu Aegis network. The post Digital Health As A Basic Human Need – the Dentsu Digital Society Index 2019 appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Learning from Dr. Eric Topol, Live from Medecision Liberation 2019

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Bold doing is better,” Dr. Eric Topol introduced his talk yesterday at Medecision’s Liberation 2019 conference. More people going into health care jobs, he continued, with the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics illustrating that we’re adding more human capital to a broken health care system.

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World Health Day 2019: Let’s Celebrate Food, Climate, Insurance Coverage and Connectivity

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With that in mind, I devote this post to three key social determinants of health (SDOH) that are top-of-mind for me these days: food for health, climate change, and universal health coverage. UHC happens to be WHO’s focus for World Health Day 2019. [As Why a World Health Day? you may be asking.

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What the 2019 Nobel Prize Winners in Economics Teach Us About Health

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The three winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize for Economics — Banerjee and Duflo (both of MIT) and Kremer (working at Harvard) — were recognized for their work on alleviating global poverty.” The post What the 2019 Nobel Prize Winners in Economics Teach Us About Health appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Health/Care Everywhere – Re-Imagining Healthcare at ATA 2019

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The post Health/Care Everywhere – Re-Imagining Healthcare at ATA 2019 appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. If anyone can help us close the gap between what’s possible for telehealth versus where we are “now,” it’s this CEO of ATA.

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In the Past Ten Years, Workers’ Health Insurance Premiums Have Grown Much Faster Than Wages

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Roughly the same proportion of companies offered health benefits to at least some workers between 2019 and 2020, about 56% of firms. 31% of workers enrolled in a high-deductible health plan with a savings option, 13% in an HMO, and 8% in a point-of-service plan (POS, a hybrid of an HMO and PPO). and inflation, 2.1%.

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Prelude to Health 2.0 2019: Thinking Consumers At the Center of Digital Health Transformation

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This week, Health 2.0 2019 will feature examples of all of these technologies and services. My focus will be on how these can be best designed and delivered to bolster self-care in this participatory health mode, to deliver on the Quadruple Aim. This is my lens as I enter this year’s annual Health 2.0