Health Populi

JANUARY 19, 2025

Interviews were fielded from late October to mid-November 2024. 2024 saw many nations the world over engaged in elections — in addition to the U.S. Edelman surveyed 1,150 residents (plus or minus) in each of 28 countries around the world, yielding over 33,000 citizens’ voices sharing perspectives on trust and institutions.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 12, 2024

retiring in 2024 will need to bank $165,000 to pay for health care costs in retirement — a sum that does not include long-term care, Fidelity Investments advises us in the 23rd annual look at this always-impactful (and sobering) forecast. The post The Health Care Costs for Someone Retiring in 2024 in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2024

Health care access is a challenge in rural and urban areas, cities and suburbs, and across more demographic groups than you might realize, as we see wait times grow for appointments, primary care shortages, and delays in screening plaguing health systems around the world. The study was fielded between December 2023 and February 2024.

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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

APRIL 1, 2025

In revisiting the report “six months later” in the current environment of public health and health care in the U.S. and more global political-economic currents, that Deloitte’s attention to trust, writ large, and 2030’s commitment to ESG are deeply woven into the future retail health narrative.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

health care environment, the 3 “threats” being, Affordability, Access, and, Prior experience — that is the health disparity among women who have seen personal mis-diagnosis, bias, or treatment that hasn’t been consistent with current protocols and practices. consumer survey in February and March, 2024.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

HealthPolicyValentines pic.twitter.com/nZx2DcTCGI — MA Health Policy Commission (@Mass_HPC) February 13, 2024 Medicare could never negotiate your cost because you are priceless. HealthPolicyValentines — Eric Michael Garcia (@EricMGarcia) February 13, 2024 Roses are red; A color intense. What does that mean for patients?

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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 12, 2024

were sensible, weight management would be treated as a public health issue,” David Cutler writes in the JAMA Health Forum dated August 15, 2024. health care” citing the example of weight loss medications — in short, the uptake of GLP-1 drugs to address Type 2 diabetes first, and subsequently obesity.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Erin holds a Master of Science in Health Policy and Management from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a Bachelor of Science in Policy Analysis and Management from Cornell University. Her leadership has made her a key voice in healthcare standards and policy.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 4, 2024

As such, they are uniquely positioned to both influence policymakers and help the healthcare industry adapt to policy changes. Healthcare IT Today jumped at the opportunity for an exclusive sit-down interview with Musser at the 2024 NCQA Health Innovation Summit that was held in Nashville, TN.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

While the digital health stakeholder community is convening this week at VIVE in Los Angeles to share innovations in health tech, NABIP has assembled health insurance leaders in Washington, DC, for the 2024 Capital Conference to focus on major health reform issues that are top-of-mind for health care payors — which in today’s U.S.

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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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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

MAY 9, 2024

Health Populi’s Hot Points: While we are on pins and needles awaiting Congress’s continued attention to getting telehealth legislation passed, the health care landscape continues its inevitable march to where the money and market opportunities lie — and in 2024, we observe the mash-up of GLP-1 antagonists with telehealth services.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2024

In health care, scenario planning is a must-have tool in your tool-box if you have any role in foresight in your job – whether providing a service in your community, planning the launch of a new molecular entity, or innovating a novel food product going direct-to-consumer for well-being and self-care.

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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. Policy and reimbursement consultancy Applied Policy hired Steven Johnson as Health Policy Director.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

in the current post-Dobbs health policy environment. An important one to watch seems simple on its face, but could expand access to specific patient populations who need products and services at home or close-to-home — like needing a condom at 3 am. Enter the humble vending machine. ” That is, emergency birth control.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 9, 2023

The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 extended many other telehealth flexibilities through December 31, 2024, including the following: Rather than only in rural areas, Medicare beneficiaries can receive telehealth services in any geographic location in the United States. Medicare Advantage plans may offer additional telehealth benefits.

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Health Populi

APRIL 25, 2023

All health ecosystem players are organizing for 2024’s national elections. approaching the 2024 November elections for Congressional platforms along with what the next President elected talks of doing to re-build a more resilient U.S. This is, to be sure, going to be a discussion/debate point in the U.S.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

In Ontario, the Virtuoso platform underpins the provinces digital-first health policy by supporting Ontario Health 811, a scalable portal that provides 24/7 health advice to 15 million users, reducing emergency care pressures while connecting patients to digital care. Originally announced December 16th, 2024

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

AUGUST 21, 2024

Jones , published in the Cardiovascular Digital Health Journal (June 2024), researchers demonstrated how cellular-enabled RPM devices, supported by a 24/7 nurse call center, can effectively monitor pregnant women with hypertension, leading to reduced stress levels, high patient satisfaction, and fewer hospitalizations.

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Henry Kotula

JANUARY 30, 2019

On the nursing side, the Bureau of Labor Statistics projects a need for 649,100 replacement nurses by 2024. The most recent numbers from the Association of American Medical Colleges predict a shortage of up to 120,000 physicians by 2030.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In fact, POLITICO is already helping inform us for our forecast for 2024, anticipating that Roe will help define the 2024 Presidential race. The opportunity and concerned embrace of technology-enabled health care and a consolidating industry.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

DECEMBER 22, 2022

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. The Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) has also published its annual State. New Jersey (through December 31, 2023). Vermont (through January 1, 2026).

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Henry Kotula

JULY 28, 2023

The series covered broad issues related to the healthcare workforce, economy, and health policy, and highlighted internal industry changes and trends in service delivery, quality, and equity. Some telehealth flexibilities that were allowed under the PHE are also staying in effect, at least until the end of 2024.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2024

patients consumers, caregivers, health citizens all is a tough nut to crack. While I have mature chops in forecasting, futures work, and scenario planning, the uncertainties as of late December 2024 can feel like they overwhelm and outnumber the certainties, and wild cards abound. voters minds in the 2024 elections.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

“It’s the economy stupid,” Jennifer Tescher, CEO of the Financial Health Network, titles her latest column in Forbes. Published two weeks after the 2024 U.S. As employees were feeling “stuck” in their jobs and careers in 2024, they have also been struggling with prioritizing mental health.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Here is the sticker I am using in my journal today, November 1 2024, from Mental Health America. “Vote as if your mental health depends on it.” health citizens in said turmoil are Women in America. With a handful of days before #Election2024 delivers final voters to polls in the U.S. political spectrum.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

“Peace and health are inextricably connected,” the Editors of the AMA Journal of Ethics introduce an issue of the journal devoted to Peace in Health Care published November 2024. dumping and hazardous materials storage) in lower-income neighborhoods Redlining, which has resulted in certain neighborhoods (e.g.,

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Health Populi

MARCH 18, 2025

Health Populi’s Hot Points: This When Calls the Heart episode had to be written, produced and put in the can for broadcast last year, well before President Trump would win the 2024 Presidential election and Robert F. Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Kennedy, Jr.,

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Health Populi

MAY 7, 2024

The first chart from the study arrays the top 10 concerns for the 50+ health citizen, with over 50% concerned about costs and financial scams/fraud — with just under one-half worried about the cost of dental care. adults between 50 and 101 years of age. The study was conducted online and by phone.

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FierceHealthIT

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

5, 2024 is here. Voters will head to the polls to cast their ballots in the presidential election, shaping the course of health policy for the next four years. Although health care has not always been the most prominent discussion surrounding the 2024 election, both candidates have different visions on policy.

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Health Populi

JULY 15, 2024

The Gallup Poll was fielded between June 3 and 23, 2024, among 1,005 U.S. At the bottom of the confidence-roster in America are Congress garnering on 9% confidence (and 57% “very little”), TV news (11% confident, 51% very little), and the Presidency, with only 46% of Americans having very little confidence.

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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

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

with about 60 days leading up to the 2024 Elections, we might assume there are no “purple” areas of agreement between the Red (Republicans) and the Blue (Democrats) thinking in PANTONE color politics. YouGov fielded the health policies poll in five waves online, each among roughly 1,100 U.S. adults in May 2004.

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