Health Populi

JUNE 23, 2023

If you live in Massachusetts, Hawaii, and New Hampshire, you win a kind of state lottery for public health and well-being, based on this year’s read of the 2023 Scorecard on State Health System Performance from The Commonwealth Fund. states ranked by a mash-up of health system indicators.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 6, 2021

This chart comes out of my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen , where pre-pandemic, I made the argument for Americans to evolve beyond consumers to full-on health citizens with the rights of health care, digital privacy and security, and a new social contract of love and respect for fellow health citizens.

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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. In addition to the food supply impact for the Planet Earth’s patients, climate change impacts public health in many other ways.

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2021

The third chart details some of these points: On the macroeconomic side of the forecast, we see increasing private consumption, higher inflation, less public sector support (e.g., PPP in the US), and in emerging markets, currency weakness.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

This analysis quantifies the working American’s fiscal reality that wages have stalled and the cost-of-living increased. As we enter the wild-card era of corona virus in the midst of an eroded public health system and response, these studies are particularly timely…but so sobering. That is, government spending.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Deloitte’s analysis is something of a contrarian view given the never-ending upward cost-curve that has been stubborn to bend for decades. health care and that volumes turned downward in 2020. Deloitte’s actuaries actually developed this analysis using data from before the coronavirus pandemic.

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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. We must reach across our individual siloes, bubbles, and objectives to remember that we are all, really, part of a public health mission.

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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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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. As a public health person, I’m especially drawn to bolstering my “Quaranteam.”

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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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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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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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Health Populi

JULY 5, 2023

In part, these health outcomes can be significantly influenced by factors both within the health care system as well as the environment, social care, and other drivers of health (those social determinants of health we cover here in Health Populi as core to our wheelhouse and advisory work). health care system?”

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Health Populi

AUGUST 14, 2023

Beyonce’s Renaissance World Tour, too, has generated similar kinds of spending where Queen Bey has staged her phenomenal concerts, coined The Beyonce Bump by Yelp ‘s own economic analysis. A new March of Dimes report found that 5.6 million women in the U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2019

That’s a sad fiscal fact, especially as more Americans gained access to health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, according to a study published this month in the American Journal of Public Health (AJPA). In the 2007 analysis, a roughly similar proportion of U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 7, 2018

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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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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Sherri Onyiego, Medical Director for the Texas Market at Equality Health. They also obtain public health data by ZIP code and data from a Health Information Exchange (HIE). Spatially Health applies geospatial analysis to expand a provider’s understanding of SDoH data.

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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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Health Populi

APRIL 25, 2023

That sandbox includes health care providers and hospitals, physicians and ambulatory care sites, pharma and medical device companies, and indeed — patients, as well, who can improve in healthier lifestyles, self-care, and addressing risk factors under personal control when possible.

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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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Health Populi

JULY 4, 2022

Many patients-as-consumers turned to health online and apps to manage their health during the pandemic, first in lock-down phase and subsequently in medical-distancing mode to avoid physical contact with health care providers in brick-and-mortar settings.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 1, 2018

So what’s getting in peoples’ way in saying “yes” to a proven preventive health action? The report discusses cognitive biases that may prevent people from adopting prevention, such as facing too many choices (resulting in a sort of analysis paralysis) or not dealing well with uncertainty.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Position Summary: This dynamic team is seeking a Data Scientist for the Analytics team within NYeC to use directly contribute to moving the needle on New York’s pressing healthcare needs you will leverage HIE and savvy data analytics to serve public health needs, address health inequities, and mature NYeC’s analytics capacity.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

MAY 29, 2018

CLICK HERE and let us discuss how BHM’s clients benefit from our in-depth data-based reporting, analysis, and consultations. New research released by WellCare Health Plans, Inc. About USF College of Public Health. SOURCE WellCare Health Plans, Inc. ” Study Details. News & World Report.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JUNE 30, 2023

Informatics is revolutionizing healthcare through the power of information technology and data analysis to improve patient care, enhance operational efficiency, and drive innovation. Health informatics research contributes to advancements in healthcare practices, treatment modalities, and public health policies.

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The Digital Health Corner

JANUARY 30, 2017

Public health policy might very well change as a result of such outcome studies. I would submit that the potential for digital tech to prolong independence and/or improve lives of caregivers in the home or at a distance must be the subject of clinical studies.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JANUARY 26, 2023

This legislation aims to help states respond to public health emergencies and provide vital services to their communities during challenging times Despite the progress made in recent years, there are still challenges to be addressed to realize the potential of telehealth for Medicaid fully.

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Henry Kotula

MARCH 16, 2020

Of 81 hospitals that reported data for all of 2019, excluding psychiatric hospitals, the median hospital operated at 50 percent of its licensed capacity, according to a Seattle Times analysis. The state’s greatest strength, according to the index, is in its ability to detect public-health threats and contain them — scoring 8.5

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Health Populi

AUGUST 18, 2024

having the lowest life expectancy of 80 years versus women in other high-income countries; Health status, with women in the U.S. having the lowest life expectancy of 80 years versus women in other high-income countries; Health status, with women in the U.S. also draw the short end of the mortality stick.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

CES 2021 featured some obvious quick-pivoting products that had the pandemic written all over them, with sessions invariably speaking to the way the public health crisis impacted companies and strategic plans. During the pandemic, inpatient hospital beds have been in short supply in various communities across the U.S.,

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2020

The Peterson-KFF analysis raises the issue of surprise billing, which has been a common experience for millions of U.S. Remember that this fiscal model focuses on employer-based coverage for workers who have commercial health insurance and work with large companies. Remember that on average in the U.S., Some estimates gauge U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 22, 2021

” Executive Order on Protecting Worker Health and Safety : The start of the Order calls out the fact that lower-income people and those of color have been essential workers during the pandemic. This is but one current example of how health disparities are part of a larger constellation of systemic inequities in the U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 31, 2022

On the promising front, recent studies reviewed through a meta-analysis published in JAMA found that hospital-to-home programs can be clinically and cost-effective for inpatients discharged from hospital. This quote comes from the McKinsey analysis.

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Health Populi

JULY 2, 2019

There’s been a “clear lack of progress on health equity during the past 25 years in the United States,” asserts a data-rich analysis of trends conducted by two professors/researchers from UCLA’s School of Public Health. The study was published this week in JAMA Network Open.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

isn’t as comprehensive as in other developed countries, which is one of the major differences between American health care delivery and organization versus other countries that spend less on medical care and achieve much better outcomes, which I’ve discussed here in Health Populi]. .

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Henry Kotula

MAY 9, 2020

Keeping these practices open is not about protecting the doctors’ livelihoods, said Michael Chernew, a health policy professor at Harvard Medical School. “I I worry about how well these practices will be able to shoulder the financial burden to be able to meet the health care needs people have,” he said. “If

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