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JUNE 12, 2019

Telehealth in 2019. With telemedicine, patients are able to seek services from providers in larger communities without having to coordinate travel plans or using the distance as a valid excuse to not seek treatment or care. The benefits of telehealth continues to grow, according to the WHO.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2020

Least likely to feel burned out are public health and preventive medicine doctors, ophthalmologists, orthopedists, psychiatrists, ENTs, and general surgeons. What contributes most to burnout, doctors told Medscape, was by far onerous bureaucratic tasks — paperwork, charting, and lack of time for hands-on patient care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 5, 2022

To analyze which physicians made the transition sooner, the researchers used Epic electronic health record data to analyze visits between Oct. 1, 2019, and Dec. Younger generations had larger proportions of innovators and early adopters, as did behavioral health and primary care physicians. were innovators, 45.0%

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Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2021

counties revealed that most of observed racial disparities for COVID-19 deaths persisted after controlling for overall 2019 mortality rates and COVID-19 cases per 100,000. For some people such as American Indian and Native Alaskan folks, geography, remoteness, and lack of public health infrastructure are challenges.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 17, 2019

Lyn and Frances tested three assumptions that they believed linked housing and health: that housing contributes to health; that housing is not routinely included in health or social planning;’ and that the potential contribution of primary care is wasted.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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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. from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019 to 1.29

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

The Tasmanian government has recently released a four-year strategy to transform outpatient services across its public health system. The state government has also made a A$150 million ($100 million) investment over four years to upgrade its digital health infrastructure.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

adults’ levels of trust in health care services and suppliers, finding the greatest trust lies with a consumer’s local pharmacy (for 77% of consumers), followed by hospitals (for 73% of people) and in third rank, health technology (63%). Layered on top of this is health citizens’ eroding trust in other aspects of U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 23, 2020

Statistically, this was an inverse-shift: In the previous year, the second quarter of 2019, 15% of telehealth encounters happened through a local physician’s practice, versus 46% in Q2 2020; and, In the second quarter of 2020, 41% of telehealth occurred through a telehealth company with a nationwide network of doctors, versus 13% in Q2 2020.

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Health Populi

JULY 30, 2020

Those majority-statistics are shown in the bar chart, whose top-line was that cost was an important factor in health consumers’ decisions whether or not to seek coronavirus-related medical care. The pandemic has revealed many cracks in the U.S. In the longer term, assuring all U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2021

Those issues were COVID-19, the 2020 Election, health care policy, racial divides, and equity and access. W2O notes that these five issues became more-inter-related than ever, compared with previous years’ top consumer health issues. Keep an eye on the “S” in ESG for health care, along with E and G.

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Health Populi

MAY 19, 2021

consumers’ changing attitudes toward food during the public health crisis. Health Populi’s Hot Points: If you paid attention to mass media since the start of the pandemic in the first quarter of 2020, then you would be aware of a toxic side-effect of the coronavirus crisis — that of food insecurity.

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Health Populi

MAY 29, 2020

” than, “when can I return to my primary care doctor or cardiologist?” In the coronavirus quarantine era, millions of Americans have been staying home to flatten the curve, and it’s been working from the evidence-based, public health standpoint.

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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. Race matters for health insurance in America. health system in terms of access to medical care and differences in mortality rates emerged.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 18, 2022

"In addition, in 2012, UVA Health launched a remote patient monitoring program to improve patient compliance and clinical outcomes, and to reduce hospital readmissions, hospital length of stay and emergency department visits. "In 2019, UVA Health created a multi-stakeholder strategic plan for telemedicine."

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

This second graphic diagrams a patient journey map for the coronavirus, across the continuum of care settings from the community and home to primary care, emergency, hospital, and post-acute. Philips was involved early on in responding to health system demands in the ASEAN region, discussed here in Healthcare IT News.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The consumer-as-medical-bill-payor is now looking at foods with health benefits, first and foremost for heart health. That’s because these countries have strong primary care backbones, spend more on social care relative to health care spending, and have other policies that bake in health well beyond medical care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2020

” Further, the healthcare organization adapted its hospital space and added the technology and processes to safely replace in-person care with home-based care, both for patients and by providers, she added. That’s roughly equal to the number of telehealth visits that had been completed for all of 2019."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Caravan Health President and CEO Tim Gronniger previously was chief of staff and director of delivery system reform at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Caravan Health is a privately held company formed to create sustainable methodologies for health systems to excel in value-based care.

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MeMD

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The company’s talk therapy visits shot up 224% in 2020, but that was just the beginning: MeMD saw more visits in the first quarter of 2021 than in all of 2019 combined. As a result, more companies are turning to telebehavioral health to remove obstacles and give their staff access to the services they need most. McKinsey & Co.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

These three scenarios, and Philips’ usual work-flow, involves a lot of design research, which I’ve discussed previously here on Health Populi. In particular , I learned so much from a conversation during CES 2019 with Sean Carney , Philips’ Chief Design Officer.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 7, 2019

For more hard-core athletes, CES 2019 features an eSports area with all flavors of digital sports from golf to hockey and tennis. This is one of many products on the #CES2019 show floor that is backed by artificial intelligence and machine learning (one of the CTA 5 Tech Trends for 2019 that I wrote about in yesterday’s Health Populi).

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 24, 2022

OCR has resolved 38 investigations since launching the Right of Access Initiative in 2019. As described in the latest ONC Standards Bulletin , v3 expands the USCDI from 52 data elements in 16 classes to 94 elements in 19 classes, with additions focusing on equity, public health, and documenting health insurance coverage.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

House of Representatives passed by a 416-12 vote the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID–19 Act of 2021 , which would extend the telehealth flexibilities put in place during the public health emergency until the end of 2024. Primary care in particular seems to be suffering, as visit volumes have yet to return to their 2019 levels.

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Health Populi

MARCH 31, 2020

.” Health Populi’s Hot Points : As people increasingly adopt digital life-styles across their daily life-flows, their personal Maslow Hierarchies morph into digital needs from basic through self-fulfillment needs. Here’s how Dentsu Aegis characterized this updated hierarchy in their study on the 2019 Digital Society Index.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

HRSA’s 8 bureaus and offices (Ryan White, Maternal and child health, rural health policy, healthcare systems, etc.) In 2019, Health Centers across the nation served 30 million patients. Rapid Implementation of an Interprofessional 1-800-COVID19 Hotline Call Center to Support a Public Health Crisis , Dr. Kevin Sexton.

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American Well

JULY 13, 2020

With more than 1,000 providers utilizing its Express Care Online platform in 2019 alone, Cleveland Clinic’s commitment to integrating telehealth into the way it delivers care has served as an example for health systems across the country. Indiana University Health. Indiana University Health.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

That’s what came to my mind when reading the latest global health report from the OECD, Health at a Glance 2019 , which compares the United States to other nations’ health care outcomes, risk factors, access metrics, and spending. Our OECD peers generally invest more in primary care access than America does.

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Henry Kotula

AUGUST 5, 2020

Arguably, the nation’s public health defenses should anticipate global pandemics and apply resources. Instead, COVID-19 hit the public healthcare infrastructure suddenly and hard. A record 18 rural hospitals closed in 2019. Overall, hospitals saw a 21% decline in operating margins in 2018-2019. It has excess.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2020

This funding record (“already” before year-end, tallied by the third quarter as Rock Health notes) was driven by “mega”-deals accelerated during the public health crisis of COVID-19. based digital health start-ups adding up $9.4 billion, up 22% from 2019. billion in 2020… so far.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 6, 2021

allocates more national spending to health care than any other country (among these OECD nations as well as countries not included in this research). In 2019, that reached nearly 17% of the national economy. Less adequate primary care “backbone” with large gaps in PCP coverage throughout the United States.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Consumers using more health and wellness services also spent more money at the drug store, a further motivation for retail pharmacies to take this study’s findings to heart (and strategic import). Pharmacy Study is tracking retail pharmacy’s growth in primary care. Power’s U.S. Power envisions.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

CES 2021 featured some obvious quick-pivoting products that had the pandemic written all over them, with sessions invariably speaking to the way the public health crisis impacted companies and strategic plans. motivating the move of patients from acute care settings to their homes where patients were found to be improving.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Over the past couple of weeks, Walmart is demonstrating its growing commitment to and leadership in healthcare and public health. Most Americans, across political party, support the banning of assault weapons in America, a Morning Consult poll found in August 2019 — especially strong among Republican women.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

the health/care ecosystem warmly embraced social determinants of health as a concept in 2019. A few of the mainstreaming-of-SDoH signposts in 2019 were: Cigna studying and focusing in on loneliness as a health and wellness risk factor. Across the U.S.,

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 13, 2021

We’ve seen more financial and money-focused media bringing health care cost stories under their mastheads. So have investment banks, ratings agencies, and large financial services companies, as the pandemic has cast every industry’s eyes to public health and health spending.

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