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What If Costco Designed the Prescription Drugs Sales Model?

Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2022

Consumers Overpay for Generic Drugs , a new paper from the Leonard Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics asserts, with recommendations to address the intermediaries who benefit from the way Americans currently pay for medicines. health citizens access to high-value and lifesaving meds. .

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People in the U.S. Without the Internet Were More Likely To Die in the Pandemic

Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2022

” The researchers used spatial analysis to explore disproportionate mortality outcomes for COVID-19 experienced by different racial and ethnic groups: comparing overall death rates with those of Hispanic or Latinx, Non-Hispanic Black or African-American, and Non-Hispanic White populations.

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Necessity is the Mother(board) – How COVID-19 Inspires Local Communities to Build Broadband

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The second map titled “Community Networks” comes from ILSR’s analysis of the many communities throughout the U.S. who have indeed built up local connections for residents — health citizens, all.

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McKinsey’s Six Shifts To Add Life to Years — and One More to Consider

Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2022

The bar chart illustrates the result of the meta-analysis which considered 148 studies on mortality and risk factors. Here, we see that the risks of smoking 15 cigarettes a day on mortality (the fourth bar down from the top) ranked close to loneliness as a damaging factor on health and life.

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“We’ve normalized a very high death toll in the U.S.” – How A Trust Deficit Has Infected America’s COVID Outcomes

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

. “Collectively,” the article notes, “trust among people and in their government can change behaviour such that if people respond to directives and take protective health measures, they might e4xpect other members of the community to do the same.” The graph illustrates where the U.S.

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The State of Healthcare in America, State-By-State

Health Populi

JUNE 23, 2023

health citizens faring better for health and well-being than others, check out this map which indicates the states where many women did not receive early prenatal care relative to women residing in states where prenatal care was more accessible and/or available. This domain encompasses health outcomes and access.

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ATA to assess telemedicine's role in addressing U.S. healthcare disparities

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The CEO’s Advisory Group on Using Telehealth to Eliminate Disparities and Inequities, comprising more than 30 executives from a range of payer, provider and tech organizations, issued a framework alongside the announcement that will serve as the foundation of ongoing strategic analysis and future policy recommendations.

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Tufts’ Peter Neumann and cost-effectiveness analysis – Better health through better measurement – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Peter is the Director of the Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health ( @TuftsCEVR ) at the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies at Tufts Medical Center ( @TuftsMedicalCtr ), and is a professor of medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine. Those are very, very difficult.

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Tufts’ Peter Neumann and cost-effectiveness analysis – Better health through better measurement – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Peter is the Director of the Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health ( @TuftsCEVR ) at the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies at Tufts Medical Center ( @TuftsMedicalCtr ), and is a professor of medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine. Health Care Law and Consulting.

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Tufts’ Peter Neumann and cost-effectiveness analysis – Better health through better measurement – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Peter is the Director of the Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health ( @TuftsCEVR ) at the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies at Tufts Medical Center ( @TuftsMedicalCtr ), and is a professor of medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine. Health Care Law and Consulting.

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Tufts’ Peter Neumann and cost-effectiveness analysis – Better health through better measurement – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Peter is the Director of the Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health ( @TuftsCEVR ) at the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies at Tufts Medical Center ( @TuftsMedicalCtr ), and is a professor of medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine. Those are very, very difficult.

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Tufts’ Peter Neumann and cost-effectiveness analysis – Better health through better measurement – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Peter is the Director of the Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health ( @TuftsCEVR ) at the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies at Tufts Medical Center ( @TuftsMedicalCtr ), and is a professor of medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine. Those are very, very difficult.

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Tufts’ Peter Neumann and cost-effectiveness analysis – Better health through better measurement – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Peter is the Director of the Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health ( @TuftsCEVR ) at the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies at Tufts Medical Center ( @TuftsMedicalCtr ), and is a professor of medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine. Health Care Law and Consulting.

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Our Home Is Our Health Hub: CTA and CHI Align to Address Digital and Health Equity

Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2020

In my ongoing analysis of American life beginning anew in new ways in March 2020, I have found that folks have undergone personal digital transformation at home — when people have had access to the Internet in the pandemic era.

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Only in America: Medical Debt Hits High Income and Insured People, KHN and NPR Report

Health Populi

JUNE 20, 2022

This research is part of a collaboration program called Diagnosis: Debt from Kaiser Health News (part of the Kaiser Family Foundation) and NPR. Noam Levey wrote the detailed analysis in KHN. This round of research also includes data from The Urban Institute and the JPMorgan Chase Institute.

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Watchdog agency: Combined Beth Israel-Lahey Health could raise prices postmerger

FierceHealthIT

JULY 18, 2018

The Massachusetts Health Policy Commission has released the draft of its analysis of the planned merger between Lahey Health and Beth Israel Deaconess Care Organization. The commission projects that the merger could lead to higher costs for patients.

Health Policy

Telehealth Awareness, Access and Adoption: Updates from J.D. Power, the ATA and FAIR Health

Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2019

ATA’s 2019 report profiles each state’s approach to telehealth policies by patient setting, payor type, and delivery models, along with providing specific legislation and policies that can dramatically vary state-by-state. In 2019, 28 states have payment parity policies for Medicaid.

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Australian Health Dep't failed to manage risks in expanding telehealth: state auditor

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 30, 2023

"Health has not coherently evaluated the effectiveness of telehealth as a pandemic response, although some analysis of billing data and independent research has been undertaken," the report said. It will be done by the MBS Review Advisory Committee, which shall report back to the government later this year.

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The Healthcare and Macro-Economic Impacts of Living with Endemic COVID – Listening to Fitch

Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2021

Translation: watch out for winter and flu season, especially if people don’t re-mask and take care to protect themselves and others — particularly important in geographies where more folks have opted out of getting vaccinated.

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How Digital Health Can Stimulate Economic Development

Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

A sobering analysis from Morgan Stanley found the most recent rash of hospital closures was impacting mostly rural institutions, serving large proportions of low-income people. Growing telehealth throughout the rural regions of the U.S. could help to alleviate the epidemic of hospital closures in these areas. hospitals.

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West Virginia Was the Last State to ID a COVID-19 Positive Patient; The States’ Residents Are At Highest Risk for Severe Reaction to C19

Health Populi

MARCH 27, 2020

Here’s the focus on West Virginia: “A special analysis at the state level has also been carried out to assess the risk of severe reaction to a novel coronavirus infection. But the study also looks at chronic disease variables including heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and the risk factor of smoking.

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Beyond Care and Outcomes, Hospitals Must Deliver on Civics, Inclusivity, Equity, and Value – Lown Institute’s Best Hospitals

Health Populi

JULY 8, 2020

Beyond patient outcomes, smaller hospitals tended to score higher on civic leadership and value of care in this analysis. But that’s a tendency, not necessarily universal: if you look at the top 10 list of Best Hospitals, you’ll find institutions of varying sizes, missions, and geography.

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Redefining PPE As Primary Care, Public Health, and Health Equity – The Community PPE Index

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The x-axis simply explains the “why” the U.S. hasn’t crushed the virus compared with other countries that have done a better job containing the spread of COVID-19: the care continuum is indeed a “continuum” connecting the individual to the population.

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The Single Market for Healthcare in Europe: Learnings for the U.S.

Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Health Populi’s Hot Points: The EU Digital Single Market report on healthcare transformation gives us a snapshot of the consumer (EU health citizen) demand side for digital health access. A new analysis from McKinsey identifies opportunities for investing in European healthcare.

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The Health Care Cost Curve is Bending Down – A New View from Deloitte

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

trillion based on future health trends — not historic workflows and delivery mechanisms which would consume an additional $3.5 trillion spend represents about the same proportion of today’s health care spending, roughly $1 in $5 of national spending. health care and that volumes turned downward in 2020.

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Technology, Aging and Obesity Drive Healthcare Spending, BEA Finds

Health Populi

JUNE 7, 2018

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Beyond Directories: The Real Impact of Accurate Provider Data in Healthcare

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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New Study Shows InsideTracker Members Make Sustained, Long-Term Improvements in Health

Digital Health Global

AUGUST 27, 2024

An analysis of 20k people shows that the platform can reverse signs of type 2 diabetes, improve measures of heart health, and lead to other long-term health benefits. The results show that long-term DHP use can improve overall health across several critical biomarkers. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS

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Addressing Patient Health Information In-Security at HIMSS 2018

Health Populi

MARCH 8, 2018

patients, as consumers, know the name “Equifax” and what hearing that brand means: the opposite of “trust,” as this market brand analysis pointed out. Trust is a precursor, truly essential, to the provider-patient relationship. The vast majority of U.S.

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World Health Day 2019: Let’s Celebrate Food, Climate, Insurance Coverage and Connectivity

Health Populi

APRIL 7, 2019

Last week, The Lancet published its comprehensive study on the Health effects of dietary risks in 195 countries, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study. First, a basic human need on Maslow’s hierarchy and WHO’s list: nutritious food.

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SEARCH 2020 – Day Two

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

HRSA’s 8 bureaus and offices (Ryan White, Maternal and child health, rural health policy, healthcare systems, etc.) In 2019, Health Centers across the nation served 30 million patients. She closed her presentation with some tips… conduct a meta-analysis, conduct surveys/questionnaires, conduct a task analysis.

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The Biden Administration’s Whole-of-Government Approach to Equity – in Health and Beyond

Health Populi

JANUARY 22, 2021

But I expect “equity,” broadly writ, will be embedded into all policies in and beyond health care over the next two years leading up to the mid-term elections in 2022 — from food to housing to workplace safety and, indeed, vaccination and treatment. economy and social fabric.

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Happy 75th Birthday, NHS – Through A U.S. Health Care Lens

Health Populi

JULY 5, 2023

health care system?” side of the health policy pond, noting public dissatisfaction among U.S. health citizens is also high based on, say, a recent AP-NORC poll conducted in September 2022. Like our health citizen cousins in the UK, more U.S. ” We cast our eyes back across the Atlantic to the U.S.

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The $4 Trillion Health Economy of 2020

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

growth rates, reflected in today’s CMS forecast, we face personal health care price inflation that will exceed general price inflation in the U.S. Over one-quarter of American workers were enrolled in HDHPs in 2017, Kaiser Family Foundation found in their annual employer health benefit survey. faces the next few years of 5.5%

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The High Cost-of-Thriving and the Evolving Social Contract for Health Care

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

This analysis quantifies the working American’s fiscal reality that wages have stalled and the cost-of-living increased. First, let’s dig into Oren Cass ’s fascinating study into the cost-of-thriving, subtitled “Re-evaluating the Prosperity of the American Family.” could barely be covered by median household income.

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HLTH 2024: What are the key talking points likely to be?

Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The challenges and opportunities of integrating social determinants of health into care delivery. Health Policy: The impact of healthcare policy on patient outcomes and access to care. Healthcare Technology Thought Leadership from Nelson Advisors – Market Insights, Analysis & Predictions. Subscribe Today!

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Obesity is a Public Health Epidemic in the U.S. — The Case for GLP-1 Coverage, Affordability and Equity

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The patient population to be considered most appropriate for the GLP-1s would be people with a BMI of 3- kg/m2 or more, or with a BMI of at least 27 km/m2 up to 30 with at least 1 weight-related comorbidity.

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The Digital Consumer, Increasingly Connected to Health Devices; Parks Associates Kicking Off #CES2021

Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

As more connected home devices populate the growing Internet of Healthy Things at home, these privacy and security questions will become more transparent and obvious to patients adapting their homes as their hubs for health/care.

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Wistful Thinking: The National Health Spending Forecast In a Land Without COVID-19

Health Populi

MARCH 26, 2020

.” These factors come out of the 2019 Medicare Trustees Report and include but aren’t limited to tax policy, the state of insurance marketplaces, and employer-sponsored health insurance assumptions.

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Medical Issues Are Still The #1 Contributor to Bankruptcy in the U.S.

Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2019

In the 2007 analysis, a roughly similar proportion of U.S. The report, Medical Bankruptcy: Still Common Despite the Affordable Care Act , updates research from 2007 which was conducted by two of this new study’s authors, Dr. David Himmelstein and Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, along with other colleagues.

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Economic Anxieties Rise, Medical and Vacation Plans Delayed: the COVID-19 Consumer in June 2020

Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2020

In fact, health care is tightly integrated into our household economies and so in the pandemic, the economy, uncertainty about the duration of COVID-19, and public are Americans’ top three concerns for their nation. The recession of 2020 (which may last into 2021) was quickly ushered in due to the lockdown of the U.S.

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AHRQ program seeks provider organizations to help improve hybrid telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 2, 2023

DeBakey Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and chief of health policy, quality and informatics program at the Houston VA Center for Innovation in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety. Support will be provided for building capacity and infrastructure for data collection, reporting, analysis and feedback.

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A BA Degree as Prescription for a Longer Life – Update on Deaths of Despair from Deaton and Case

Health Populi

MARCH 16, 2021

Case and Deaton wrote the book on Deaths of Despair ( detailed here in Health Populi) , . Case and Deaton begin this analysis recognizing nearly 100 years of declining mortality from the early 20th century up until the late 1990s.

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Be Mindful About What Makes Health at HLTH

Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

As the HLTH conference convenes over 6,000 digital health innovators live, in person, in Boston in the wake of the delta variant, what should attendees keep in mind to help HLTH make health?

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What If Costco Designed the Prescription Drugs Sales Model?

People in the U.S. Without the Internet Were More Likely To Die in the Pandemic

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Necessity is the Mother(board) – How COVID-19 Inspires Local Communities to Build Broadband

McKinsey’s Six Shifts To Add Life to Years — and One More to Consider

“We’ve normalized a very high death toll in the U.S.” – How A Trust Deficit Has Infected America’s COVID Outcomes

The State of Healthcare in America, State-By-State

ATA to assess telemedicine's role in addressing U.S. healthcare disparities

Tufts’ Peter Neumann and cost-effectiveness analysis – Better health through better measurement – Harlow On Healthcare

Tufts’ Peter Neumann and cost-effectiveness analysis – Better health through better measurement – Harlow On Healthcare

Tufts’ Peter Neumann and cost-effectiveness analysis – Better health through better measurement – Harlow On Healthcare

Tufts’ Peter Neumann and cost-effectiveness analysis – Better health through better measurement – Harlow On Healthcare

Tufts’ Peter Neumann and cost-effectiveness analysis – Better health through better measurement – Harlow On Healthcare

Tufts’ Peter Neumann and cost-effectiveness analysis – Better health through better measurement – Harlow On Healthcare

Our Home Is Our Health Hub: CTA and CHI Align to Address Digital and Health Equity

Only in America: Medical Debt Hits High Income and Insured People, KHN and NPR Report

Watchdog agency: Combined Beth Israel-Lahey Health could raise prices postmerger

Telehealth Awareness, Access and Adoption: Updates from J.D. Power, the ATA and FAIR Health

Australian Health Dep't failed to manage risks in expanding telehealth: state auditor

The Healthcare and Macro-Economic Impacts of Living with Endemic COVID – Listening to Fitch

How Digital Health Can Stimulate Economic Development

West Virginia Was the Last State to ID a COVID-19 Positive Patient; The States’ Residents Are At Highest Risk for Severe Reaction to C19

Beyond Care and Outcomes, Hospitals Must Deliver on Civics, Inclusivity, Equity, and Value – Lown Institute’s Best Hospitals

Redefining PPE As Primary Care, Public Health, and Health Equity – The Community PPE Index

The Single Market for Healthcare in Europe: Learnings for the U.S.

The Health Care Cost Curve is Bending Down – A New View from Deloitte

Technology, Aging and Obesity Drive Healthcare Spending, BEA Finds

Beyond Directories: The Real Impact of Accurate Provider Data in Healthcare

New Study Shows InsideTracker Members Make Sustained, Long-Term Improvements in Health

Addressing Patient Health Information In-Security at HIMSS 2018

World Health Day 2019: Let’s Celebrate Food, Climate, Insurance Coverage and Connectivity

SEARCH 2020 – Day Two

The Biden Administration’s Whole-of-Government Approach to Equity – in Health and Beyond

Happy 75th Birthday, NHS – Through A U.S. Health Care Lens

The $4 Trillion Health Economy of 2020

The High Cost-of-Thriving and the Evolving Social Contract for Health Care

HLTH 2024: What are the key talking points likely to be?

Obesity is a Public Health Epidemic in the U.S. — The Case for GLP-1 Coverage, Affordability and Equity

The Digital Consumer, Increasingly Connected to Health Devices; Parks Associates Kicking Off #CES2021

Wistful Thinking: The National Health Spending Forecast In a Land Without COVID-19

Medical Issues Are Still The #1 Contributor to Bankruptcy in the U.S.

Economic Anxieties Rise, Medical and Vacation Plans Delayed: the COVID-19 Consumer in June 2020

AHRQ program seeks provider organizations to help improve hybrid telehealth

A BA Degree as Prescription for a Longer Life – Update on Deaths of Despair from Deaton and Case

Be Mindful About What Makes Health at HLTH

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