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. But that’s the simple math on U.S. For the U.S.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

"This requirement does not account for unique needs of specialized providers such as psychiatrists and pain management specialists, both of whom routinely prescribe Schedule II substances within the course of their practice.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 5, 2022

Year-over-year, compared to the three months ending June 30, 2021, the technology-enabled primary care provider posted the following numbers: Net revenue was $255.8 One Medical announced is 2nd quarter financial results this week, showing growth in both net revenue and membership. million YOY, compared to $120.4

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David Chou

JANUARY 10, 2023

CVS Health, one of the largest pharmacy and healthcare companies in the United States, recently announced its plans to acquire Oak Street Health, a rapidly growing primary care provider for $10B. Oak Street Health is a network of primary care clinics that serve older adults on Medicare.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

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. Donald Berwick re-named these factors that underpin our health as “The Moral Determinants of Health.”.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Prescription drugs (and costs) are on the minds of policymakers and legislators as well as prescribers, pharma companies, and payers — employers, government plans, health insurers and, of course, patients who co-pay or c0-share the costs of medicines. In 2024, the average patient share amounts are shown in Figure 9.6

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FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 29, 2024

Humana's primary care business, CenterWell, has unveiled its latest expansion plans. | The company will open centers in three new metro areas and will add further locations across eight municipalities, Humana announced on Tuesday.

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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 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 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 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 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 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 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

JUNE 22, 2018

Financial health relates to the previous five goals as money-stress can lead to poor eating habits, lack of energy to exercise, interrupted sleep, and of course, anxiety. An additional survey of 400 physicians was conducted, split between 200 primary care providers and 200 specialty physicians.

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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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FierceHealthIT

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Humana's senior-focused primary care division is charting a course for further expansion throughout 2025, the company announced Wednesday. Humana's senior-focused primary care division is charting a course for further expansion throughout 2025, the company announced Wednesday.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

I connect the dots of this phenomenon in my book, Health Citizenship: How a virus opened hearts and minds.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 11, 2021

And of course, the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the world’s mental health. Chronic under-investments in mental health can be addressed by, Embedding mental and behavioral health questions into the primary care visit.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 21, 2020

For instance, the coronavirus response has made clear the value of online and video-consultations in primary care, and we have seen a remarkable expansion of digital platforms. In the space of weeks, primary care services in the UK have switched from 1.2 It's not all plain sailing, of course.

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Digital Health Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2024

The release highlighted an expanded partnership with MedStar Health that’ll make Suki Assistant available to thousands of clinicians across specialties including primary care, cardiology, and gastroenterology. The post Maven Clinic, Suki, Glooko Start Q4 in Style appeared first on Digital Health Wire.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Furthermore, let’s get real about health care costs, which of course, is a Health Populi /THINK-Health modus vivendi. The average cost of an ambulatory care visit is now nearly $500 , and an inpatient stay, about $22,000. Self-care is the new black, as I have written and proselytized.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The hope, of course, is that the galvanizing technology innovations that have emerged from the stress and disruption of the past year will be foundational to a better, brighter world in 2021 and beyond. The effect of the COVID-19 epidemic on health and care – is this a portent of the 'new normal'?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

Led by researchers from the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, the study found that 2,656 unique providers conducted 144,940 video visits with 115,789 unique patients over the course of six weeks. Over time, more patients pursued nonurgent care such as hypertension or diabetes treatment.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

"All stakeholders have a critical role to play in making accessible and equitable treatment that addresses peoples’ behavioral and physical health needs a more standard practice within primary care," read the report.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 28, 2020

” The other challenge United Methodist faced was facilitating specialty and primary care physician visits for residents. The lockdown and quarantine restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic put a significant burden on residents who required routine specialty and primary care. ” MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 26, 2022

But the only way to deliver more targeted care is to have a better understanding of the patient prior to treatment through proper screening, and to assess patient progress throughout the entire course of treatment to adjust treatment as needed. How will the conversation about telehealth in behavioral health evolve this year?

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2018

Underlying this clinical and economic phenomenon is obesity, which primary care doctors are challenged to deal with as a chronic condition along with typically co-occurring comorbidities of hypertension, diabetes, and hyperlipidemia. In the U.S., Because they are public goods, and the U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2022

health care treatments), and environment (such as climate and clean air and water, digitization, among other external factors). To square or improve the portion of life spent in good health, and. To extend life expectancy, globally.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Over the course of three weeks in March 2020, the virtual healthcare team trained more than 400 primary care, specialty care and therapy services providers, as well as 800 support staff, on how to use Zipnosis for virtual health encounters. " Sean J. Britton, United Health Services Hospitals.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 18, 2019

“The result is nationally high rates for utilization of high-expense ‘place of service’ for acute, low-intermediate acuity care,” he said. Texas continues to be ranked near the bottom nationwide in ratio of primary care physicians to population.

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Health Populi

JULY 25, 2022

This was well before the pandemic, of course. At that time, six years ago — one in two people said that experience should feel like Amazon, and another 1 in 5 said the best retail store experience (THINK: Nordstrom, REI, name your fave retailer).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 22, 2022

In a discussion with Healthcare IT News , Fobare spells out the role telemedicine has grown to play during the pandemic, where healthcare goes with telehealth, how change may affect physicians and what virtual care might look like 10 years from now. What role has telemedicine grown to play during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic?

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 10, 2023

Company Adds Two Board Members and a Senior Executive to Lead its Medicare Advantage Business Aledade , the largest network of independent primary care practices in the country, today announced the closing of a $260 million Series F funding round to enhance and acquire services and technology to support its practices.

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Health Populi

JUNE 12, 2024

consumer’s current ethos on trusted companies helping people risk-manage daily living — and of course, find joy and satisfaction as well. In the top 15, we find self-care for health and well-being in many brands and products: we can call out Band-Aid, Dove, Colgate, Kleenex, and Tylenol.

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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 direct medical expenses generated through treating diseases borne by obesity accounted for over 14% of U.S. healthcare spending in 2014.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

How are hospitals and primary care physicians expanding access to mental health and addressing the burden they're experiencing from the mental health crisis through telepsychiatry? visit either in an emergency room or their primary care provider, rather than a psychiatrist.

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