Digital Health Global

JANUARY 29, 2024

The FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) has announced the elevation of the Office of Strategic Partnerships and Technology Innovation (OST) to a Super Office within the Center. Internally, OST drives the Center’s data, technology, and IT transformation services for optimal regulatory processes. and abroad.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

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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Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2021

COVID-19 has cut lives short relative to their life expectancy, calculated in an analysis by the Pew Research Center based on CDC data from 2019 and 2020, coupled with additional statistics on life expectancy by age and gender. million years exceeds those years forsaken by people who died due to accidents in 2019. ” The post 5.5

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Advanced Medical Reviews

APRIL 17, 2019

The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services has posted new data on projected national health expenditures for 2018-2027. percent growth in 2019. Protect the nation from the health effects of emerging and pandemic infectious diseases and chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) threats.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 17, 2019

Our homes have the potential to be our health-hubs, supporting self-care and remote health care to our clinicians and health coaches, with our neighbors and communities bolstering overall public health. “Ultimately, a healthy business needs to be part of a healthy community.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MARCH 11, 2019

This is me walking into the 2019 National Consortium of Telehealth Resource Centers Spring Meeting at Heifer International’s Heifer Village in Little Rock, AR. The post My Introduction to Telehealth at the 2019 TRC Spring Meeting appeared first on LearnTelehealth.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Nearly 8 million workers losing jobs also losing their employer-sponsored health insurance, discussed in this research from The Commonwealth Fund. The threat of a repeal of the Affordable Care Act during the public health crisis. A few weeks ago, we published Health Citizenship: How a virus opened hearts and minds.

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Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2022

deaths per 100,000 population between 2019 and 2020. Finally, invest “broadly” in social services to address factors that are determinants of health and well-being, like housing and economic security. Because these public health emergencies will continue to live with us, in every ZIP code.

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Health Populi

JULY 16, 2020

adults are anxious about their financial future as of May 2020, an increase from 38% in late 2019. There was a bounce in “Confident” group in 2019, which fell by 10% just months later to nearly the 2017 level. Patients in America are envisioning a more resilient health and social fabric in a next-normal for the U.S.,

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2021

Using data from Blue Health Intelligence data repository – an independent data and analytics company that is a licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association – researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health compared claims data from March through June 2019 with March through June 2020.

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eVisit

JULY 8, 2019

Public Health Matters Blog. The CDC's Public Health Matters Blog aims to educate the general public about public health issues, and provides updates about the CDC. Reporting on Health Blogs. Reporting on Health is the blog of USC’s Annenberg Center for Health Journalism.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

MAY 14, 2019

For the ranking , the publication assessed states based on three benchmarks: access, public health and healthcare quality metrics. The post Ranking The Best States for Healthcare 2019 appeared first on BHM Healthcare Solutions. News evaluated all 50 states using 71 metrics across eight categories, including healthcare.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

“The pandemic has shown that effective health spending is an investment, not a cost to be contained: stronger, more resilient health systems protect both populations and economies,” the OECD states in the first paragraph of the organization’s perennially-updated report, Health at a Glance 2021. In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2021

Scale matters to survive a public health crisis. Dowling pointed to the benefits of being a large integrated health care system with multiple hospitals, ambulatory care services and a broad portfolio of capabilities that enabled Northwell Health to be responsive to the needs of the pandemic and deal with the crisis.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 22, 2020

Note that peoples’ faith in healthcare remained steady from 2019 to this year (just a 1 point decline in the index). Health Populi’s Hot Points: Since CVS/pharmacy morphed into CVS/health when it quit tobacco five years ago in 2014 , I began to intuit a shift in the U.S.

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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 22, 2021

” Executive Order on Protecting Worker Health and Safety : The start of the Order calls out the fact that lower-income people and those of color have been essential workers during the pandemic. “Ensuring the health and safety of workers is a national priority and a moral imperative. .

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2023

The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center said in its latest analysis that the Clop ransomware gang has shifted tactics, directly impacting the healthcare and public health sector.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2021

That study, Who Is (and Isn't) Receiving Telemedicine Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic , adds to an already substantial body of evidence that the public health emergency is exacerbating disparities in access and use of technology-enabled healthcare. Enterprise Taxonomy: Population and Public Health Global Health Equity Care.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

The Health Care Cost Institute’s January 2019 study found that some people with diabetes have made a decision to cut the amount of the drug they use or abandon it due to increasing costs for the life-sustaining therapy.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2021

and the issue of pandemic preparedness for the next “Disease X” became part of global public health planning. But the biggest health threat to human life is climate change, according to a new report from the World Health Organization titled The Health Argument for Climate Action.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee will stop covering the prescription opioid OxyContin beginning January 1, 2019. BCBS leaders developed these changes with advice from a statewide panel of independent medical experts, ranging from public health officials to clinicians.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 18, 2020

Note how the top line of the 2020 forecast “networks” into the 2019 trends. We know that people (consumers, patients, caregivers all) have learned more about their health values during the pandemic, for themselves as individuals, their families, their neighborhoods and communities, and nations’ public health.

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Health Populi

JUNE 23, 2023

If you live in Massachusetts, Hawaii, and New Hampshire, you win a kind of state lottery for public health and well-being, based on this year’s read of the 2023 Scorecard on State Health System Performance from The Commonwealth Fund. states ranked by a mash-up of health system indicators.

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Redox

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Is 2019 the year we see telemedicine take the leap? Remote patient monitoring (RPM) : the use of connected electronic tools to record personal health and medical data in one location for review by a provider in another location, usually at a different time. Original Source.

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Health Populi

JUNE 1, 2022

For my previous write-ups of the MMI, here are some links to check out… MMI 2021 The Cost of Health Care for a Family of 4 in America Will Reach $28,256 in 2021. MMI 2019 Milliman Finds PPO for Family of 4 in 2019 Will Cost $28,386. MMI 2018 Health Care for Typical Working Family of Four in America Will Cost $28,166.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 1, 2021

What's less certain, however, is what that utilization will look like in the future, particularly as the end of the public health emergency looms. We launched our first fully integrated telehealth solution in the 2018-2019 timeframe. First of all, we should think about the public health emergency.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2020

That mindset from “my” to “our” wellness is part of my observation of a growing ethos for collective well-being called out in my book, Health Citizenship: How a virus opened up hearts and minds , published in September. ” The COVID-19 crisis exacerbated consumers’ financial stress: in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

JUNE 2, 2020

The drop in deaths from cancer in America was indeed positive during the current public health COVID-19 pandemic, a public health data story easily lost in an overwhelmingly tough week in the U.S.:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Friday found a 154% increase in telehealth visits during the last week of March 2020, compared with the same time period in 2019. Using de-identified patient data from Amwell, Teladoc Health, MDLive and Doctor On Demand, the CDC found that about 1.6 " WHY IT MATTERS.

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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

WHY IT MATTERS The DEA says it is expanding patient access to critical therapies beyond the scheduled end of the COVID-19 public health emergency – except for the remote prescription of controlled substances. But, it didn't happen. Mark Warner, D-Va.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 29, 2019

The telemedicine programme is a joint effort of the Public Health Ministry and the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC). plan to increase access to healthcare with digital technologies, as stated in the eHealth Strategy by the Ministry of Public Health (2017-2026).

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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. Medscape surveyed 15,181 physicians across 28 specialists in June through September 2019 to gauge clinicians’ perspectives on burnout and depression for this study.

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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

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

” In 2015, the Physician Lifestyle Report was titled, Health-Wealth-Weed Burnout. Then in 2019, Medscape added the word “suicide” to the title of the annual assessment. By 2018, Medscape conducted a separate study from the Lifestyle report, titled the National Physician Burnout & Depression Report.

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