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Being Transparent About Healthcare Transparency – My Post on the Medecision Blog

Health Populi

Health politics shapes what choices, if any, people have as health consumers — and we’re now just under twelve months until the 2020 Presidential election, which will certainly play out as a health care election in real time as the 2018 Midterms were and 2019 states polls, as well.

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The Emergence of Health Citizens – Part of Liberating Health, on the Medecision Blog

Health Populi

” at an early Health 2.0 Medecision published my blog about health citizenship this week on the company’s Liberate.Health site. The emergence of health citizens in the U.S. — people re-claiming their health, health care, and control of data — is part of liberating health in America.

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Seeing Health/Care Everywhere at CES 2025: My Preview for #CES2025

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: I leave time in my frenetic schedule at CES for serendipity to kick in. Thus I connected dots for the most important driver of health — education — and Whirlpool’s product, the humble washing machine.

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Health Consumers Expect Healthcare to be Digital (and Secure), Philips Future Health Index Finds

Health Populi

As my friends Deven McGraw, Chief Regulatory Officer at Ciitizen (whom I profiled here in Health Populi ), and Vince Kuraitis, longtime health strategy guru and author of the blog e-CareManagement.com , characterized this challenge, “The Goldilocks Dilemma” in The Health Care Blog.

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In the Past Ten Years, Workers’ Health Insurance Premiums Have Grown Much Faster Than Wages

Health Populi

Here are the past four years’ links for historical context and your reading pleasure… 2019 – “It’s the Deductible, Stupid” – Health Premiums Reach $20,576 for a Family. 2017 – Employees Continue to Pick Up More Health Insurance Costs, Even As Their Growth Slows.

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Telehealth used less in disadvantaged areas, Health Affairs study finds

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In a separate Health Affairs blog, health policy experts noted that Medicaid users have had "less consistent" access to telemedicine. THE LARGER TREND.

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Americans’ Sense of Well-Being Falls to Great Recession Levels, Gallup Finds

Health Populi

In her blog on this first day of the World Bank/IMF conference, Gita Gopinath wrote about The Great Lockdown: Worst Economic Downturn Since the Great Depression. Earlier today, the IMF published its outlook on the global economy. Read carefully. That’s “Depression,” not “Recession.”