Health Populi

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

.” The paper runs over 100 pages, and I highly recommend it as required reading if you are interested in understanding trends in both global and your personal favored nation’s health status across these many dimensions covered by the research. First, see the OECD Well-being Framework illustrated here.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

Generative AI can either deepen and restore trust or exacerbate mistrust and introduce new skepticism among consumers and health care stakeholders alike,” Deloitte explained in a report on the emergence of GenAI in health care. Layered on top of this is health citizens’ eroding trust in other aspects of U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Congress can’t agree on much before the 2024 summer recess, there’s one bipartisan stroke of political pens in Washington, DC, that could provide some satisfaction for both patients and doctors: bring telehealth back to patients and providers permanently. Too many patients have not returned to the health care system.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

. ” The article quotes industry analyst Seth Basham of Wedbush who noted, “With more people staying at home, Best Buy Health’s tech-based elderly-care offerings likely have seen a boost from the pandemic.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 26, 2022

The American Telemedicine Association and its ATA Action affiliate on Monday expressed support for a bipartisan bill that would extend the virtual care flexibilities of the public health emergency another two years. They also called for the legislation to safeguard two other provisions they said were key to health equity.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Furthermore, health plan members now see themselves as medical bill payers, seeking value and consumer-level services for their health insurance premium investment. Patients and health plan members continue evolving into medical bill payers, with their homes and budgets baked into the concept.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 19, 2025

By Maja Dragovic | January 29, 2025 Video Hal Wolf announces Paris to host HIMSS25 Europe Learning from each other and the exchange of ideas happening in Rome during HIMSS24 Europe is.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 9, 2023

Based on current COVID-19 recovery trends, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that the US federal Public Health Emergency (PHE) waivers will end on May 11, 2023. They can receive care from their homes rather than traveling to a health care facility.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 19, 2024

To implement this program and get connectivity into consumers’ hands and homes, Elevance Health is collaborating with several telecomms companies including Verizon, AT&T, Samsung, and T-Mobile. Funding is supported by the FCC’s Affordable Connectivity Program.

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Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

This post follows up Part 1 of a two-part series I’ve prepared in advance of the AHIP 2024 conference where I’ll be brainstorming these scenarios with a panel of folks who know their stuff in technology, health care and hospital systems, retail health, and pharmacy, among other key issues.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Lululemon has published the 2024 Global Well-Being Report , a study into peoples’ perspectives on their personal health from the company best known for athleisure wear and self-care. This year’s report is titled, The Pressure to Be Well. That pressure is coming from peoples’ experiencing “well-being burnout.”

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

Bolstering the impact of digital health technologies — and particularly remote health monitoring and clinically-prescribed wearable tech — was the late December 2922 health policy news that telehealth provisions would be included in the FY2023 Omnibus Appropriations Bill.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Telehealth Growth Beyond Permanent Telebehavioral Health Reimbursement. Telehealth policies were first introduced during the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) to allow practitioners reimbursement, interjurisdictional and other regulatory discretion got offering telehealth services.

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Health Populi

JUNE 25, 2024

health care organizations have experienced a data breach, one-third in the last 3 years, according to Software Advice’s 2024 Healthcare Data Security Survey released in May 2024. At least one-half of U.S.

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Connected Health Initiative

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The Connected Health Initiative is continually looking for ways to ensure that patients and providers can use the right digital tools for the job. Congress extended the waiver to the end of 2024. The post CHI POV: Medicare Coverage and Digital Health first appeared on Connected Health Initiative.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 23, 2024

are dealing with Presidential Election Stress — a significant contributor to Americans’ overall stress we learn from the American Psychological Association’s study into Stress in America 2024. In 2024, “stress” is a mainstream factor in daily life whether you identify with Main Street or Wall Street.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

More than 330 healthcare and industry organizations asked Congress this week to facilitate a pathway to comprehensive, permanent telehealth reform after the COVID-19 public health emergency ends. Department of Health and Human Services the authority and flexibility to continue relaxing certain restrictions. healthcare system.

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Health Populi

APRIL 3, 2024

Meet “The Guy Who Didn’t Know His Cholesterol” conceived by Roz Chast, the great cartoonist regularly featured in The New Yorker, this one in the magazine’s March 11th, 2024 issue. health consumers’ Spring 2024 Wellness Trends published March 27th.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Dr. Wallensky and other public health officials acknowledged “vaccine fatigue” and the relatively low uptake of vaccinations for fending off the coronavirus and the flu as well as other infectious diseases. Consumers are excited about connected health care , the Trusted Future study bullishly reports. healthcare system.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

DECEMBER 22, 2022

First, the Public Health Emergency (PHE) is likely to be extended for three months in January, bringing today’s best predictions for the end of the PHE to April 2023. CMS also hinted that consideration is being given by CMS to pay for new codes that describe caregiver behavioral management training in CY 2024 rulemaking.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 2, 2024

December 1 2024 was World AIDS Day , which was observed by the Biden White House with the display of the entire AIDS Memorial Quilt on the South Lawn — all 54 tons of it. Health Populi’s Hot Points: For a lesson in how NOT to do public health, your required reading is Randy Shilts’ landmark book, And the Band Played On.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2024

At the University of Michigan School of Public Health, I then learned to connect the dots between our environment, our socioeconomic status — especially the role of education — and health. These interrelationships are fundamental to public health thinking. That’s what MLK would have wanted.

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Health Populi

MARCH 6, 2025

In tracking this last health factor for U.S. The top-line of the studies is that the percent of people in America feeling financially wobbly has increased since the fourth quarter of 2024. consumers feeling less comfortable about their economic status now compared with mid-November 2024. That’s about 30 million U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 27, 2025

By Friday the 24th, after four days of dealing with many digital shut doors to Federal government health information and other sources, I saw that the Wall Street Journal referred to President Trump’s list of executive orders as, “shock therapy.” The content feels quite prescient today.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

On the topic of weight loss and consumer engagement in self-care and health at home, we applaud the launch of Tufts’ Food Is Medicine Institute’s National Network of Excellence in collaboration with Kaiser Permanente and other partners (shown in the graphic here). Any fast food: burgers, fried chicken, pizza … “).

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

. “Health is becoming more holistic, as most of us globally feel that we need to do more for our physical as well as our mental wellness… The interconnectedness of health with other systems, such as nutrition and technology, is also being examined,” Team Ipsos explains in their report on the consumer survey data.

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