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

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

.” 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. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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The Growth of DIY Digital Health – What’s Behind the Zeitgeist of Self-Reliance?

Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2025

The needle on nudging health consumers to pay subscription fees for data analysis has moved somewhat, noting, for example, the Oura ring successfully inspiring people to pay out-of-pocket for ongoing access to health insights and sometimes coaching hints to stay on-track and alter behaviors.

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Improving Data Collection and Analysis to Better Identify and Address Health Inequities Across Different Demographic Groups

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 24, 2025

As for health inequities, the answer lies within data collection and analysis. We have been using these tools (data collection and analysis) for a while now, yet health inequity still remains a large problem. The following are their answers. Sensitivity is paramount during the data collection process.

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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

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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“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

. “These results support previous research that has found an association between trust and compliance with public health guidance,” the authors assert. “When a virus emerges with high potential for spread, governments must be able to convince citizens to adopt essential public health measures.”

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AI and cloud to empower the European telehealth market, says Frost & Sullivan analysis

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2021

A recent Frost & Sullivan analysis entitled, Innovative Business Models Powering the Telehealth Market in Europe, has found that the impact of COVID-19 on the healthcare sector across Europe has significantly expanded the use of telehealth. ” Enterprise Taxonomy: Telehealth Patient Access Population and Public Health Care.

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Understanding the Top Cybersecurity Threats to Healthcare Organizations

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 15, 2025

Clarotys analysis of 20 million medical devices underscores the severity of the issue, revealing that 72% of imaging systems are internet-connected with at least one KEV, and 32% operate on outdated systems. The urgency to translate this guidance into actionable strategies has never been higher.

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State Medicaid programs want to keep telehealth expansions, KFF analysis finds

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 11, 2023

"In particular," they said, "states frequently noted that all or most expansions of behavioral health providers and/or services allowed for telehealth would be maintained after the public health emergency." Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication. Email: afox@himss.org. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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The Latest Health Technology Vision and Consumer Behavior Insights From Accenture

Health Populi

AUGUST 18, 2020

Two new reports from Accenture update our understanding of the changed health consumer in the context of both “home: and the health care ecosystem. The 2020 tech vision for health is summarized here, tying to Accenture’s previous two years of forecasts.

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HC3 warns of Clop ransomware targeting medical images

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2023

The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center said in its latest analysis that the Clop ransomware gang has shifted tactics, directly impacting the healthcare and public health sector. "These attacks have a higher chance of working due to conditions from COVID-19 expansion in the telehealth environment."

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DEA role must be clearly defined in controlled substance Rx via telemedicine, expert cautions

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 10, 2025

Cohen contended that Congress make permanent COVID Public Health Emergency concessions, rather than renewing the concessions biannually. Several advantages to permanent concessions "Making the COVID-19 PHE concessions permanent, rather than renewing them biannually, could provide several advantages," he explained.

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For Tempe AZ, Public Health Means Being a 20-Minute City

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 28, 2023

Healthcare IT Today sat down with Dr. Stephanie Deitrick, Chief Data and Analytics Officer for the City of Tempe, to learn more about their public health initiatives and how it relates to being a 20-minute city. The City of Tempe relies on GIS technology from Esri to visualize the data.

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How Genomics Can Battle Killer Bacterial Infections in the Hospital – Talking With Philips at HIMSS19

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Healthcare-acquired infections (HAIs) are a worldwide challenge of epidemic, public health proportions. The World Health Organization recognizes that HAIs are a problem in both wealthy and developing countries. cost nearly $10 billion annually, according to an economic analysis published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

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Taking Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) From Data to Analysis and Action

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 24, 2023

As healthcare organizations continue to invest in SDoH, moving from analysis to impact requires operationalizing this data for coordinated efforts and long-term returns on investment. There’s a strong emphasis and substantial funds are being spent in this area of healthcare – and it’s not slowing down.

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Public Health Transparency Leads to Better Outcomes at San Bernardino County

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 25, 2023

Healthcare IT Today sat down with Diana Ibrahim, Public Health Program Manager and Umang Sharma, Statistical Analyst at the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health ( SBCDPH ), to learn more. That information is used to raise awareness and to marshal resources to limit the spread.

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DEA plans to create a special telehealth registration for prescribers

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 16, 2025

"While we are still digesting the DEA’s Special Registration framework, and will have a comprehensive analysis shortly, it is clear that these updates carry significant implications for the telehealth community," Zebley said in a written reaction to the NPRM Wednesday.

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Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

This drove health consumers to virtual care platforms in the first months of the public health crisis — including lots of older people who had never used telemedicine or even a mobile health app. Once adjusted for volumes, the higher expenses are more evident as hospitals struggle to hold down per-patient costs.”

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How Grocery and Retail Companies Are Delivering Health and Healthcare

Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2021

It was the COVID-19 pandemic that accelerated some early-adopting health consumers viewing their home as their ultimate site for self-care and health care. New data from NCSolutions (NCS) polled 2,017 U.S. consumers in March 2021 on perspectives one year into COVID. Diving further into U.S.

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Bonus Features – October 13, 2024 – 85% of clinicians waste at least an hour a day on admin tasks, 82% of healthcare organizations hit with a cyberattack experience a disruption to patient care, plus 20 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Partnerships Patient outreach vendor Phreesia and the Ad Council launched three public health campaigns about mental health and have delivered 430,000 messages to patients and caregivers so far. GE HealthCare is integrating Blackford Analysis AI-enabled decision support into its into True PACS and Centricity PACS products.

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Food, Housing, Energy and Medical Care – the Material Hardships of COVID-19 in America

Health Populi

MAY 1, 2020

There’s a point of view (with which I concur) that social determinants of health are really part of public health and a larger concept of health citizenship I called out in USA Today on February 7, 2020. “How can we keep families fed?

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5.5 Million Years of Life Will Be Lost Due to COVID-19 in the U.S. in 2020

Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2021

COVID-19 has cut lives short relative to their life expectancy, calculated in an analysis by the Pew Research Center based on CDC data from 2019 and 2020, coupled with additional statistics on life expectancy by age and gender. ” The post 5.5 Million Years of Life Will Be Lost Due to COVID-19 in the U.S.

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NUS Medicine introducing holographic GI care training and more briefs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Fujitsu, Toppan tie up for big data analysis Japanese companies Fujitsu and Toppan have entered into a business alliance to offer advanced big data analysis services for hospital organisations and pharmaceutical companies.

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Advancing Behavioral Health Care Through AI Integration

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

When properly integrated with operational workflows, this technology offers several key advantages in improving care delivery and patient outcomes: Enhanced Risk Detection and Analysis AI processes comprehensive data sets from medical records, claims, and prescription histories to identify subtle risk patterns that complement clinical assessment.

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

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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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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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. 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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Roundup: Non-OTC drugs prescription via telemedicine prohibited in India and more briefs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 25, 2023

Hong Kong's Health Department to hasten public health digitalisation The Hong Kong Department of Health has recently tied up with technology incubator Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation to pursue public health digitalisation.

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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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COVID-19 Immunization Summary Document - use-case analysis

Healthcare Exchange Standards

MARCH 2, 2021

The are to support Public Health ( PUBHLTH ), or a new purposeOfUse value that is not today in the vocabulary. So, when the purposeOfUse is public health, then it is inappropriate to expose anything other than what is minimally necessary for that public health use. These are not Treatment purposeOfUse.

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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. She is passionate about fostering collaboration among stakeholders and driving change through innovation.

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

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 Insurance Affordability in the Time of the Coronavirus Pandemic

Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2020

healthcare system, first and foremost the nation’s patchwork public health infrastructure and health inequities in mortality rates due to COVID-19. healthcare: the cost of health insurance relative to working Americans’ relatively flat incomes. The coronavirus pandemic has revealed many flaws in the U.S.

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5 ways that health IT can improve health equity

KevinMD

MARCH 23, 2022

On March 10, I had the distinct privilege of presenting to the ONC Health IT Advisory Committee at their meeting titled “Health Equity by Design.” 5 ways that health IT can improve health equity originally appeared in KevinMD.com. Read more….

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Cancer in the Age of COVID: Delayed Care May Reverse Survival Gains Particular Among Black People

Health Populi

JUNE 2, 2020

The drop in deaths from cancer in America was indeed positive during the current public health COVID-19 pandemic, a public health data story easily lost in an overwhelmingly tough week in the U.S.: This varied by tumor type and cancer progression.

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How Footwear Became Our Favorite Apparel Item in the Pandemic

Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic era of retail and consumers, it’s useful to consider Brand Finance’s findings in terms of where people found value in the face of the public health crisis. In terms of apparel, that value grew faster for footwear than for any other apparel category.

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Vast majority of specialists increased use of telehealth tech during COVID-19 pandemic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 26, 2020

"Telemedicine has been critical during the COVID-19 pandemic to limit the risk of person-to-person transmission of the virus and to reduce the burden on overwhelmed healthcare systems," said Kathryn Whitney, director of thematic analysis at GlobalData. WHY IT MATTERS. But uncertainty about those regulations also dogs the industry.

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Weekly Roundup – November 2, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Read more… The Role of Analytics in Identifying and Addressing Population Health Challenges. Use cases described by the Healthcare IT Today community included incorporating public health data, improving behavioral health, peering into patient registries, and focusing on n=1 health.

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Bonus Features – December 8, 2024 – AI risk top ECRI tech hazards list for 2025, Siemens and NVIDIA join forces to bring AI to imaging, plus 25 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Sales Volunteers of America chose Dimagi as the digital partner for its Public Health AmeriCorps Community Health Worker program. ADHD digital health vendor Qbtech awarded its first QbAccess grant to Covenant Behavioral Health , which provides integrated care to military personnel, veterans, and their families.

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Use of Preventive Health Services Declined Among Commercially Insured People – With Big Differences in Telehealth for Non-White People, Castlight Finds

Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2022

Employers covering workers with health insurance are now dealing with employees and families who are “sicker than they were pre-pandemic,” Castlight asserts in its report. Based on their analysis of medical claims, insured workers’ clinical risk scores increased by 9.3%, from 1.18

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The Epidemic After the Pandemic is Stress and Anxiety in America – Learning From Ginger

Health Populi

APRIL 13, 2020

workers were stressed before COVID-19; now, stress levels are through the roof,” based on data analyzed by Ginger , the digital behavioral health innovator, asserting this major mental health headline in its latest press release. Key data points from their analysis of U.S. “U.S.

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

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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The Demand for Self-Care At-Home Will Grow Post-Pandemic – Insights from IRI

Health Populi

MAY 5, 2022

When it comes to peoples’ relationship to consumer packaged goods (CPG), the public health crisis has indeed impacted consumers’ purchasing behaviors and definition of “value,” based on IRI’s latest analysis of CPG shifts in 2022 and 2023.

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Health IoT creates huge opportunities for public health and software companies

The Healthcare Guys

JANUARY 28, 2016

We believe that these are tremendous opportunities for public health and software companies like ours. It is why we are investing so much of our own resources to promote the open design, secure exchange, and value-added analysis of health data systems.

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

The Growth of DIY Digital Health – What’s Behind the Zeitgeist of Self-Reliance?

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Improving Data Collection and Analysis to Better Identify and Address Health Inequities Across Different Demographic Groups

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

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

AI and cloud to empower the European telehealth market, says Frost & Sullivan analysis

Understanding the Top Cybersecurity Threats to Healthcare Organizations

State Medicaid programs want to keep telehealth expansions, KFF analysis finds

The Latest Health Technology Vision and Consumer Behavior Insights From Accenture

HC3 warns of Clop ransomware targeting medical images

DEA role must be clearly defined in controlled substance Rx via telemedicine, expert cautions

For Tempe AZ, Public Health Means Being a 20-Minute City

How Genomics Can Battle Killer Bacterial Infections in the Hospital – Talking With Philips at HIMSS19

Taking Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) From Data to Analysis and Action

Public Health Transparency Leads to Better Outcomes at San Bernardino County

DEA plans to create a special telehealth registration for prescribers

Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

How Grocery and Retail Companies Are Delivering Health and Healthcare

Bonus Features – October 13, 2024 – 85% of clinicians waste at least an hour a day on admin tasks, 82% of healthcare organizations hit with a cyberattack experience a disruption to patient care, plus 20 more stories

Food, Housing, Energy and Medical Care – the Material Hardships of COVID-19 in America

5.5 Million Years of Life Will Be Lost Due to COVID-19 in the U.S. in 2020

NUS Medicine introducing holographic GI care training and more briefs

Advancing Behavioral Health Care Through AI Integration

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

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

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

Roundup: Non-OTC drugs prescription via telemedicine prohibited in India and more briefs

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

COVID-19 Immunization Summary Document - use-case analysis

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

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

Health Insurance Affordability in the Time of the Coronavirus Pandemic

5 ways that health IT can improve health equity

Cancer in the Age of COVID: Delayed Care May Reverse Survival Gains Particular Among Black People

How Footwear Became Our Favorite Apparel Item in the Pandemic

Vast majority of specialists increased use of telehealth tech during COVID-19 pandemic

Weekly Roundup – November 2, 2024

Bonus Features – December 8, 2024 – AI risk top ECRI tech hazards list for 2025, Siemens and NVIDIA join forces to bring AI to imaging, plus 25 more stories

Use of Preventive Health Services Declined Among Commercially Insured People – With Big Differences in Telehealth for Non-White People, Castlight Finds

The Epidemic After the Pandemic is Stress and Anxiety in America – Learning From Ginger

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

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

The Demand for Self-Care At-Home Will Grow Post-Pandemic – Insights from IRI

Health IoT creates huge opportunities for public health and software companies

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