Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

The Humana-Kindred deal, the existing United Health Care conglomerate with insurer and provider services, and other providers under the payor umbrella, are further exemplars of this approach — becoming “ payviders ,” to cite the neologism favored by one of my recent podcast guests.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2022

JLL points out that surgery centers are performing more complex procedures today, and complexity will continue to grow surgicenters’ procedure lists over the next decade — moving more complex care closer to peoples’ homes.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Today, the health and wellness consumer can DIY all of these things at home through a huge array of products available in pharmacies, supermarkets, Big Box stores, cosmetic superstores, convenience and dollar stores, and other retail channels – increasingly, online (THINK, of course, of Amazon — more on the A-word in the Hot Points below).

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Lloyd Price

JANUARY 17, 2020

" The Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) shares several asynchronous telemedicine benefits, including the following: "Patients can get timely specialty care without needing to travel beyond the location of their primary care providers.""Wait

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Docnotes

JANUARY 3, 2022

We had a course called Health, Care & Society wherein students were challenged to learn and think about ethical issues, health policy principles and engaged in conversations on the role of medical providers in our communities. They didn’t take the course as seriously as biochemistry, pharmacology, or anatomy.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Targets quality of care and quality of life. In addition to connecting patients with a primary care physician or APRN, telehealth can facilitate access to specialists and subspecialists. If you are interested in learning how to build your telehealth team, take this free course module: Building Your Telehealth Team.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

AUGUST 8, 2018

Targets quality of care and quality of life. In addition to connecting patients with a primary care physician or APRN, telehealth can facilitate access to specialists and subspecialists. If you are interested in learning how to build your telehealth team, take this free course module: Building Your Telehealth Team.

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Henry Kotula

JANUARY 30, 2019

Many organizations are already exploring delivery reform with initiatives that focus on: Remote health monitoring and telemedicine; Population health management; Patient engagement; Social determinants of health; and. Primary care. An added bonus? A whopping 95% said they regret the decision to change systems.

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Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2022

The Commonwealth Fund has conducted this study since 2006 , assessing a range of health system indicators and patient outcomes to track trends over time identifying which U.S. states set the bar higher for their health citizens’ well-being. The Fund’s bottom line.

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Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

The four stories we generate are: Retail Health For All, starring “The Consumer” DIY Healthcare, starring “The CEO” Fragmentation Meets Bureaucracy, starring “The Castaway,” and, “One World, One Health,” starring “The Health Citizen.” Health equity is prioritized in Quincy’s community as a community investment.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Donald Berwick re-named these factors that underpin our health as “The Moral Determinants of Health.”. We must connect the dots between public policy for food security, safety, and accessible nutrition; a clean environment and climate health; education; fair wages; and, of course, health security.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 11, 2021

And of course, the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the world’s mental health. On the promising front, There are available therapies, medications, and digital therapeutic combinations that successfully address the most common mental health conditions — notably, anxiety and depression.

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Health Populi

JUNE 25, 2018

Of course, money isn’t everything: costs are very personal to people in terms of quality of life, disability, mobility, self-efficacy, and personal productivity and goal-achievement. The post Obese, Access-Challenged and Self-Rationing: America’s Health Vs Rest-of-World appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2022

The first graphic from the report illustrates four dimensions of health and the factors underneath each of them that can bolster or diminish our well-being: personal behaviors (such as sleep and diet), personal attributes (like financial situation and genetics), interventions (e.g., To extend life expectancy, globally.

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Life Science Mental health Pharmaceuticals Medical Technology 317

Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Of course, not all patients have a safe or stable home environment where they could receive care, so hospitals aren’t going away anytime soon. I’m not suggesting that most current patients could be cared for remotely in a decade — but I do think we’re moving in that direction. David Rahija.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 6, 2021

Of course not. health care spending and what comes from it, according to Mirror, Mirror 2021: Reflecting Poorly , a perennial report from The Commonwealth Fund that compares health system performance across eleven developed countries. bn for on-demand care by July 1st, 2021. For the U.S.,

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Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

Of course, few have more of your data already than those very same organizations and, thank goodness, they are there to also help us get access to care and get it paid for. So, it’s not that surprising that some people might look at the UHG/PLM transaction through their already negative-colored glasses. “Oh How could you?”.

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Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: In the pandemic, millions of people who felt symptoms of COVID-19 avoided seeking care due to cost and/or access challenges (of which cost is a key factor). Pharmacists continue to enjoy high levels of trust among U.S.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 28, 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. Other notable consolidations include the finalization of tech-giant Amazon’s purchase of One Medical , a primary care network.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Of course, Amazon continues its march into healthcare, as the company grows into private-label medical devices, private label products (in and outside of healthcare), leverage the PillPack acquisition, and consider its role in primary care services with the hires of staff and thought leaders in the space.

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2019

Lester Holt, Savannah Guthrie, and Jose Diaz-Balart asked the ten candidates questions covering guns, butter (the economy), immigration, climate change, and of course, health care — what I’m focusing on in this post, the first of two-debate-days-in-a-row. health care.

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