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 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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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

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

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

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

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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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

APRIL 25, 2023

All health ecosystem players are organizing for 2024’s national elections. The OECD report also hinted at the possibility of increasing taxation on the private sector (which could be either or both taxpaying consumers or companies/business) to supplement funding for the public sector.

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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

DECEMBER 6, 2023

A close second in line is affordability of health care, as consumers’ household budgets must make room for paying medical bills — with prescription drug costs also very important as a discussion topic for 2024 Presidential candidates, we learn from the latest KFF Health Tracking Poll published 1 December.

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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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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. The opportunity and concerned embrace of technology-enabled health care and a consolidating industry. 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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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. The most notable impact of the non-renewal of the PHE was the end of continuous Medicaid public health insurance coverage.

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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

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. But the health system itself cannot promote peace and well-being on its own without public sector (that is, government) support.

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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

DECEMBER 12, 2024

health/care — first and foremost across all health citizens, it’s our personal physicians who garner trust among 9 in 10 of people in America. Personal doctors are then followed by the Centers for Disease Control, the CDC, which is the organization responsible for most public health policy in the U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic re-shaped European Union leaders to reimagine healthcare, public health, and health citizenship in the EU. Nonetheless, VP Schinas enthused, “Never before in the history of the EU are we able to do so much in the area of public health,” he explained.

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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

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

JULY 11, 2024

The poll was conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago for IHPI and administered online and via phone in February and March 2024 among 3,379 adults age 50 to 101. under a Republican (which for the 2024 GOP side of ledger would mean a Donald Trump) Administration starting in 2025.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 26, 2024

.” That’s the headline in a WBUR story last week detailing the efforts of health care professionals in “amplifying” their patients’ voices inside and outside of the hospital walls by advocating for their health citizenship — through voter registration and public health policy advocacy.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Beyond women’s health and abortion politics, most Americans are looking for more health care baked into the 2024 Elections, based on a new poll from Gallup in collaboration with West Health. adults thought health care was not receiving enough attention during the 2024 Presidential campaign as of September 2024.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 15, 2025

As Eisenhardt well understands, in the words of the Bloomberg coverage , “Trumps tariffs could put the company at a disadvantage” versus other companies operating in their consumer health and home care categories. asking people about their perceptions of tariffs (the survey fielded in late November-early December 2024).

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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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