Health Populi

MARCH 26, 2020

As a public health person, I’m especially drawn to bolstering my “Quaranteam.” ” And, as an Artist-in-Residence, I’m creating an ABCovid Journal which, someday, I’ll feature here in the Health Populi blog.

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2018

Move care to the home via telehealth, enabled through net-neutral broadband, can help if we treat connectivity as a social determinant/public utility the way public health looks at clean air and clean water. Consumers who use more primary care can lower healthcare costs, as this blog in Health Affairs pointed out this week.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2024

In advance of a session I’m shepherding at the upcoming AHIP 2024 conference in Las Vegas, I developed scenarios about health care in 2030 asking who “we” will be then as patient-plan members?

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Little did I know, way back in the 1992 days of our collegial work relationship and budding friendship, that Ben would one day play with me in my sandbox of public health and social determinants. We met up last week to discuss his work with the LBHF and the Borough’s Health and Wellbeing Council (HWC).

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2022

I welcome and dig into the Edelman Trust Barometer every year, and put on my health/care lens when reviewing its findings. In this Health Populi blog, I’ll cover the global results and some of the granular health-related nuggets I can divine from this overall world-view.

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Health Populi

JULY 6, 2018

Three reports published in the past few weeks give us some useful perspective on that question, woven together in today’s Health Populi blog. Let’s start with the Philips Future Health Index , which assesses value to 16 national health systems through three lenses: access, satisfaction, and efficiency.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Health consumers absolutely want to engage across all industry segments for health, we learned from the Edelman Health Engagement Barometer back in 2010 (shown in the bar chart here taken from my book HealthConsuming ). The post While Costs Are A Top Concern Among Most U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 1, 2018

(Eagle-eye readers will note the British spelling of “preventative” and “behavioural” in the report’s title; I will use the Americanized language in this blog [eg., “preventive”], citing the report title in its original form).

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Advanced Medical Reviews

MAY 2, 2019

As the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) notes, different telehealth modalities include: Live video: referred to as “synchronous” format and uses live interaction between two parties over video. Remote patient monitoring (RPM): involves the remote monitoring of patients’ health and medical data over secure electronic means.

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E-CareManagement

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Health; Instructor, Center for Primary Care, Harvard Medical School; Adjunct Lecturer, Harvard. School of Public Health Boston, Mass. Executive Vice President, Clinical Health Policy, Chief Medical Officer, WellPoint, Indianapolis, IN. Principal, Sidorov Health Solutions; Chair, Board of. Nussbaum, M.D.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JUNE 30, 2023

In this blog post, we will explore the role of healthcare informatics in revolutionizing the healthcare industry, highlighting its benefits and applications. Health data analytics also facilitates population health management, identifying trends, and patterns to optimize preventive care and public health interventions.

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Docnotes

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Blogs are better. This post is about why I should have blogged instead of tweeted. With Blogger, one could craft blog posts and plop them on the Internet for everyone to see. A blog post (like this) gives us time to think, offer insight and provide background. This was a new idea. I took a risk.

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Connected Health Initiative

JUNE 24, 2020

In just a few short months, we made more progress in opening up Medicare and Medicaid to telehealth visits, remote patient monitoring (RPM) tools, and other connected health solutions than in the previous decade. CHI tracked the many policy changes affecting connected health technology since the start of the pandemic.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 27, 2021

President Biden’s first few days on the job gave us a very clear view on how he sees conquering COVID: through a whole-of-government approach to public policies that bolster directly addressing the virus, along with the many forces shaping how we got here and how to come out of the pandemic era stronger.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

The high-deductible health plan design in fact prevents many people from seeking preventive care or testing: uninsured patients could pay at least $500 for a test, and a 10-day hospital stay can tally $75,000 according to Gerard Anderson , professor of public health at Johns Hopkins.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 26, 2023

Here is a snippet of how I explained the Accenture research here in Health Populi when it was published: “Making healthcare more human begins with a step in the patient’s shoes,” Rich Birhanzel wrote in Accenture’s Humanizing Healthcare blog in July 2021.

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JUNE 19, 2020

First, what we in public health circles have been coining the social determinants of health have revealed themselves to be the “moral determinants of health.” It wouldn’t be this Health Populi blog and me if I didn’t gift you with a data point and insight from it.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 28, 2023

[link] In January 2023, the Rockefeller Institute published a three-part blog series on trends to watch in healthcare in 2023. The series covered broad issues related to the healthcare workforce, economy, and health policy, and highlighted internal industry changes and trends in service delivery, quality, and equity.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

For health care in the U.S. Bart covered many other ideas, but in the interest of attention spans for blog-reading, let me round out my takeaways with Bart’s policy recommendations summarized in these seven principles. Open Source as a True North underpins the recommendations overall.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2018

This blog, Health Populi, covers the intersection of health, people, technology, and economics. Broadband and its fair access rules for all health consumers through net neutrality are a bundled social determinant of health. Without them, the U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 20, 2020

This huge drop was “swift,” in the words of Morning Consult, due to what we’ve seen in previous recessionary times; this time, they say is particularly acute, “in light of how much worse things are likely to get from both a health and economic perspective.”

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Health Populi

MARCH 18, 2025

Art reflects life — or in this case, bumps into life and health care — once again when the pop culture facet of my own media consumption converges with a news announcement where the timing of these events is just too uncanny. It never occurred to me I’d ever write about the Hallmark Channel in the Health Populi blog.

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2020

Over 61,000 health care jobs were lost in March 2020; 459,000 jobs in leisure and hospitality were lost, followed by 52,000 workers in professional and business services and 46,00+ in retail trade, among other categories.

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Health Populi

APRIL 23, 2020

Finally, it wouldn’t be the Health Populi blog without some politics thrown into the discussion: here, note that more Republicans are concerned about the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak than the public health impact, a growing sentiment through April.

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DECEMBER 2, 2024

In particular, the continuing commitment to PEPFAR — the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief — was expanded in a five-year strategy with the explicit goal of ending global HIV/AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. Shilts presents one alarming story after another.”

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2019

” Chuck Todd ushered in the second hour of the debate with the public health issue of guns, describing that this meet-up was being held less than 50 miles from the Parkland shooting. It’s a public health emergency, as she called it, and as such we should, “bring data to bear whether politically popular or not.”

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Health Populi

AUGUST 4, 2022

Nate Silver discussed the concept here in his 2010 FiveThirtyEight blog, noting that it’s more about turnout than “enthusiasm.” The “enthusiasm gap” has long been a factor driving some folks to vote, and others to stay home and avoid the polling booth.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In my 11 years of writing every one of over 2,000 Health Populi posts on this blog, I have never, ever mentioned the “f-word” here. It’s been a concept that, largely, only health policy wonks (like me) talked much about. What a difference a year makes. In their poll of 487 likely U.S.

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