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. Pre-pandemic, that rate was even for eight years, then this jump spiked in 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 16, 2025

Health and Human Services announced they extended the pandemic-era virtual prescribing of controlled substances a third time. Email: afox@himss.org Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. The most recent extension of COVID-19 flexibilities for prescribing runs through 2025.

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Health Populi

MAY 1, 2020

These impacts, of course, have more severely hurt people whose families lost jobs, had work hours cutback, or lost work-related income. Among the hardships, food security was the most-felt, by one in three working adults. “How can we keep families fed?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Ongoing interoperability challenges as testing sites, labs, providers, payers and public health agencies tried to manage fast-moving waves of new patient data. But of course, Epic makes headlines more times than not, as it did numerous times in 2020 – starting with its debut of ambient voice technology.

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Health Populi

JULY 22, 2021

Today, one-half of the categories speak to more “medical”/clinical areas that are disease specific, addressing women’s health, medication adherence, and healthcare administration workflows.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2021

Those percentages were polled as of September 2020, about six months into the now-year+ long pandemic, Peoples’ homes became their safe havens, literally, in the public health crisis, or our “Year of COVID” as Dr. Michael Osterholm of CIDRAP has nicknamed 2020.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2018

” The authors recommend that public health leaders and policy makers address the obesity trend when designing “policies and interventions to improve the public’s health.” In the United States, however, there’s been under-investment in these social determinants that closely tie to health.

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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. Simply put, is the equation, “Spend more, get less” a sustainable business model?

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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

JUNE 12, 2024

From bandages to home hygiene, OTC pain meds and DIY home projects, Morning Consult’s look into the most-trusted brands of 2024 give us insights into health consumers. I’ve been tracking this study since before the public health crisis of the coronavirus, and it always offers us a practical snapshot of the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 11, 2021

COVID-19 exacted a toll on health citizens’ mental health, worsening a public health challenge that was already acute before the pandemic. It’s World Mental Health Day , an event marked by global and local stakeholders across the mental health ecosystem.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Telehealth was held up as a "panacea," said Adaeze Enekwechi, a board member at the Public Health Institute and the Alliance for Health Policy, at the final installment of the American Telemedicine Association's EDGE policy conference on Tuesday.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 28, 2020

Lots of industry groups want to see the temporary government waivers enacted early on during the COVID-19 public health emergency – the ones enabling the vast expansion of telehealth and remote patient monitoring over the past four months – to be made permanent once the storm has subsided. And some legislators do too.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2022

” This market is an experience mashing up the market goods, a DJ, music and dancing, food demonstrations, and of course, fellowship/. In the future, he envisions the mesh of the food system with the health system. The Arc Initiative. Brown conjured up Noah for this third pillar, as in “building an ark.”

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2021

So, of course, healthcare and healthcare costs are important to me. A patient’s right to access information regarding their healthcare is crucial and with this movement I hope we can engage and shed a light around this conversation,” Erivo asserted.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2021

In the report, Adam Pellegrini who leads Enterprise Virtual Care & Consumer Health Innovation at CVS Health asserts that, “We need to offer care in the ways that people are looking to receive it — through phones, through connected devices, through asynchronous conversations and, of course, through the telehealth visit.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 1, 2021

What's less certain, however, is what that utilization will look like in the future, particularly as the end of the public health emergency looms. What is driving all this, of course, is the regulatory changes during this public health emergency. First of all, we should think about the public health emergency.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The experts also warned about contact-tracing apps as a "double-edged sword": useful for helping to minimize the spread of COVID-19, but giving bad actors broad opportunities to impersonate public health officials and install malware on individuals' devices.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

With the over-arching theme of “leading through change,” this year’s RSNA sessions are, of course, featuring innovations in radiology. But there’s also =growing attention to health equity, environmental sustainability , and no surprise, generative AI (Gen AI).

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2018

have pointed to the need for greater attention to social determinants of health, which requires greater spending on social care versus technology-based healthcare and sick care in the U.S., tomorrow having spent nearly three weeks getting smarter about health and healthcare in various parts of Europe. While many of us in the U.S.

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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. The goal, of course, is to help us achieve our best-possible health.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2020

Everyday factors can make a big difference in a person’s current and future health risks and needs, we’re learning in the COVID-19 pandemic, detailed in a new Welltok research report, Social Determinants of Health Matter: Voice of the Consumer.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 2, 2020

Other agencies have also made new allowances, such as HHS Office for Civil Rights relaxing its enforcement around non-HIPAA-compliant technologies during the public health emergency. Kelly noted that because of the pandemic's disproportionate impact on people of color, telemedicine can act as an "equalizer" in health.

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Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2022

Following the Uvalde, Texas, school shootings, many healthcare advocacy organizations, professional societies, and health system executives came out loud, clear, and assertive about the role of guns in public health and impact on the health system. As physicians, our mission is to heal and to maintain health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 7, 2020

The 128-page update to AMA's Digital Health Implementation Playbook Series comes as telehealth adoption is increasing by leaps amid the coronavirus pandemic. Healthcare IT News is a publication of HIMSS Media. Ehrenfeld, in a statement. Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN. Email the writer: mike.miliard@himssmedia.com.

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Health Populi

JUNE 1, 2022

Health consumers have tended to demonize pharma more than they have hospitals, but the pandemic raised trust in (some) pharma companies as well as for local health systems supporting communities’ health in the public health crisis.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The first chart illustrates the importance of CARES Act funding to keep hospitals financially afloat during the public health crisis through most of last year.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2020

.” Mental health impacts from the coronavirus pandemic, subsequent economic recession, social and civil unrest, and disrupted everyday life-flows contribute to our collective mental un-wellness. Of course, stress doesn’t impact all people in the U.S. Eight in ten Gen Z adults said the future of the U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Children receive vocal and orchestral training for free, and present concerts in their communities that boost social inclusion, connection, and of course, music skills.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 29, 2022

A lot of public health depends on measuring proxies for health, such as checking the level of COVID-19 in waste water as a cheap, accurate and (importantly) privacy-preserving way to determine how widespread the disease is in a municipality. Poppy Health measures at the floor level, the area actually occupied by people.

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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.” looking far enough in the future from now to 2030, recognizing that we will have had two U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 30, 2020

"Of course, all that changed in March," said Cesar Egurrola, lead clinical coordinator at Petersen. By renewing their prescription, he said, "You're promoting their own health, but also public health."

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 13, 2021

We’ve seen more financial and money-focused media bringing health care cost stories under their mastheads. So have investment banks, ratings agencies, and large financial services companies, as the pandemic has cast every industry’s eyes to public health and health spending.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 19, 2020

As this public health crisis continues to escalate, however, telemedicine is quickly gaining recognition as a critical tool to slow the spread of COVID-19, he added. ” With respect to COVID19, the data suggests that most people will have a mild infection and the clinical course will be unremarkable.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JANUARY 22, 2019

Physician burnout is a public health issue that “urgently demands action” from the rest of the healthcare industry, according to a report from Harvard University and Massachusetts trade groups. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, Harvard Global Health Institute in Cambridge, Mass.,

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Lloyd Price

JANUARY 18, 2019

Coursera, an online learning company has announced the launch of their health vertical—a broad portfolio of health content from the world’s top universities curated specifically to help address the acute shortage of skilled workers in the health industry and meet the demands of a digital health economy.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 29, 2022

Although that is helpful for determining utilization among the Medicare population, of course, some behavioral economists have also emphasized the importance of looking to commercially insured groups for a more complete picture. THE LARGER TREND. Many previous large studies of telehealth use have relied on Medicare data.

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