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

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.” Perhaps Definition 3 in the OED could be updated by a blog published online in the September 25, 2020, issue of Health Affairs, A New “PPE” For A Thriving Community: Public Health, Primary Care, Health Equity. For more on this issue, see Health Populi here ]. Primary care in the U.S.

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

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

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

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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. health care system.

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

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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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AHRQ program seeks provider organizations to help improve hybrid telehealth

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The program aims to improve the cancer diagnostic process in telemedicine-enabled primary care settings by strengthening safety culture and helping practices to close the loop on care transitions and other vulnerable processes along the cancer diagnostic pathway. Dr. Hardeep Singh is principal investigator.

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Be Mindful About What Makes Health at HLTH

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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? That’s the supply side of HLTH.