Health Populi

JANUARY 9, 2020

Apropos to my title of this post, the survey was sponsored by the Bipartisan Policy Center , whose mission is to promote, cross-party affiliations, “health, security and opportunity for all Americans.”. Health care is the top issue driving voters’ choices in the 2020 elections for most Americans.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

In 2020, national health expenditures (NHE) in the United States will exceed $4 trillion to cover 334.5 of health spending per person. The three largest line items of NHE in 2020 will be: Hospitals = $1,326 trillion = 38% of NHE. Together, these three categories will comprise just over 80% of health spending in 2020.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Their ten must-do’s for bending the cost curve while driving constructive change for a better health care system are to: Ensure access. Achieve health equity. Stability the safety net and rebuild public health. Address social determinants of health. Innovate long-term care.

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Health Populi

JULY 23, 2020

With this alignment of virtual care supply-and-demand, it is like telehealth will see “permanent usage increases,” according to Parks Associates’ survey report, COVID-19 – Impact on Telehealth Use and Perspectives. One-half of patients accessed a local physician’s practice service in the second quarter of 2020.

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2020

Whether healthcare spending in 2021 increases by double-digits or falls by one-third directly depends on how the coronavirus pandemic will play out over the rest of 2020, based on PwC’s annual report on medical cost trends for 2021. The table indicates that people managing complex chronic conditions delayed significant portions of care.

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2025

While each goal on its own is a critical driver of high performing health systems, working the five as a strategic quintet can benefit individual patients, families, communities, and the nations that fund (or share in funding) health care services to the country’s residents. diabetes, obesity, blood pressure).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 5, 2022

A study published this past week in JAMA Network Open found that while the vast majority of physicians in a large regional healthcare system had transitioned to include virtual care in their practice by December 2020, some were more likely to be early adopters than others. Majority (those adopting March 22, 2020, or later).

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

I was scheduled to meet with Roy Jakobs, Chief Business Leader of Connected Care at Philips, at HIMSS in Orlando on 9th March 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.

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Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2020

As we wrestle with just “what” health care will look like “after COVID,” there’s one certainty that we can embrace in our health planning and forecasting efforts: that’s the persistence of telehealth and virtual care into health care work- and life-flows, for clinicians and consumers alike and aligned.

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American Well

JULY 13, 2020

Congratulations to the winners of the 2020 Amwell Client Awards! To meet this surge in demand, Cleveland Clinic leveraged both its providers who were already active on the platform, and also trained more than 350 primary care providers — many of whom were temporarily redeployed due to the virus — on telehealth. ?During

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

They are likely to stay there,” asserts “ The smartphone will see you now ,” an article in the March 7th 2020 issue of The Economist. I’d seen ATA’s initial statement on the coronavirus published on March 3 2020, so I knew Ann was on this issue. Congressional leadership on February 28 2020. No, it’s not from the U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

health care and that volumes turned downward in 2020. health care as it is currently organized, financed, and delivered. The value of care delivered at home and closer-to-home is part of this awareness, which is represented by the re-envisioned care delivery modes in Deloitte’s vision here.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 18, 2020

Discussion on the definitions for telehealth, telecare, telemedicine and other terms under the digital health and care umbrella is always required, and will be discussed in greater detail during the HIMSS & Health 2.0 European Digital Event taking place on 7-11 September 2020.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

During COVID, Philips quickly pivoted both in terms of re-deploying its design and manufacturing capabilities for building ventilators and advising hospital clients in reallocating inpatient resources toward the pandemic needs in 2020. Our homes, too, underwent digital transformation as long as we had access to a broadband connection.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

adults had problems paying medical bills, largely delaying care due to cost for a visit or for prescription drugs. Fast-forward to 2020, a few months into the pandemic in the U.S.: adults delayed or avoided care based on a CDC report. adults delayed or avoided care based on a CDC report.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

She closed by discussing a current ongoing study that is looking at 110 primary care practices and the effectiveness of telehealth among their 205k patients. Rapid Implementation of an Interprofessional 1-800-COVID19 Hotline Call Center to Support a Public Health Crisis , Dr. Kevin Sexton. Dr. Lori Uscher-Pines.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 23, 2020

As patients returned to in-person, brick-and-mortar health care settings after the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic, they re-enter the health care system with heightened consumer expectations, according to the Beryl Institute – Ipsos Px Pulse report, Consumer Perspectives on Patient Experience in the U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2021

” That year the firm began to study the relevance of, well, relevance for organizations especially operating in the health/care ecosystem. 2020 changed everything, the W2O team asserts, now issuing its latest look into the issue through the Relevance Quotient. This includes health care.

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Health Populi

MAY 29, 2020

” than, “when can I return to my primary care doctor or cardiologist?” Now hair clippers and hair dye are flying off shelves,” CNN reported from an interview with Walmart CEO , Doug McMillon, titled, “We’re in the hair color phase of panic buying,” dated 22 April 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 6, 2024

billion in annual operating revenue, Memorial Healthcare System is one of the largest public health systems in the U.S. THE PROBLEM Memorial began offering on-demand virtual urgent care to its employees and patients via a third-party vendor in 2016. With 15,000 team members, 3,000 providers and $3.1

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 4, 2022

As I discussed in yesterday’s Health Populi blog on peoples’ growing use of connected health tools and apps, more Americans have adopted digital on-ramps for mental health — for therapy, for mindfulness and meditation, for anxiety and depression management, and for peer-to-peer support.

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2022

With peoples’ anxiety about COVID-19 at its lowest point since 2020, folks are most anxious in spring 2022 about current global events and the safety of their families, based on the latest Healthy Minds study from the American Psychiatric Association (APA). “The pandemic and its mental health effects are very much still with us.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 10, 2021

Convened by HIMSS VP of Government Relations Tom Leary, the panelists – who played a critical role in developing the Riyadh Declaration – reviewed the recommendations, compared them to progress so far and outlined digital health goals for the future. "Federal leadership in the U.S,

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Digital health as a category has been a growing feature at CES for over a decade, starting with the early wearable tech era of Fitbit, Nike, OMRON and UnderArmour, early exhibitors at CES representing the category.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2024

For health care in 2030, I’ve thought about each driving force and then gotten more granular in the second column focusing a bit deeper on the factor and how it might play out in 2030. Just sayin’. Here’s the 2×2 matrix of what my two driving force choices create for us to consider.

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Health Populi

MARCH 31, 2020

households’ changing behaviors for consuming content, stocking the pantry, engaging with social media, and using online health and fitness tools. adults 18 and over in March 2020 — early in the U.S. These become the tech-platforms for people working, living, socializing, and accessing health care virtually at home.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

"Many patients, particularly those with chronic conditions, were at a loss to balance public health recommendations to isolate at home with routine medical appointments." There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. licenses to medical and behavioral health providers.

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Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: One of the fastest-growing areas of digital health that grew in the COVID-19 pandemic was use of smartphones for health and fitness. consumers’ smartphone use for managing health grew by 50% during the public health crisis. Deloitte found that U.S.

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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. This demographic change is seen to impact future health service demand, particularly demand from people with long-term conditions. Meanwhile, since 2019, the Tasmanian Department of Health and ??Primary

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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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Health Populi

OCTOBER 27, 2022

That’s the lowest offer-rate for small firms since the start of this study, and for the large companies, matches the historic low of 69% found in the pandemic’s emerging year in 2020 (the offer rate marginally increased for bigger companies last year to 74%). While family premiums are expected to reach an average of $22.5

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Since 2020, the organization has expanded its mission beyond OTC meds to be a “self-care association,” Anita explained. health consumers’ healthcare choices in 2022 and will be so well into 2023. Dollar General has a unique footprint across the U.S.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2020

Primary care physicians in CRCs and intensive care specialists in SNUBH take turns conducting telemonitoring of integrated information from RRS, PHR, and electronic survey and they detect deteriorating signs of CRC patients in advance or consult primary care physicians who work in CRCs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The provider organization made the switch-over from in-person care to telemedicine at the onset of COVID nearly instantaneously, literally between a Friday and Monday in March 2020. "Providers also had to do significant technology troubleshooting with their patients."

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 24, 2022

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. Fold Health has emerged from stealth mode with $6 million in funding.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 23, 2021

And he described how health systems should be prioritizing their investments: patient-facing tools and technologies, command centers, delivery services, administrative support, IT infrastructure and more. Q: Telehealth obviously made some remarkable strides in 2020 and has vast potential for growth. So there's a time limit on it.

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MeMD

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Teletherapy and telepsychiatry have already begun filling the gaps in care. 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. Primary care is another area threatened by provider shortages.

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