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It’s National Health IT Week in the US, so I’m kicking off the week with this post focused on how digitalhealth can bolster economic development. As the only health economist in the family of the 2018 HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors, this is a voice through which I can uniquely speak. Fast forward nine years later.
Their ten must-do’s for bending the cost curve while driving constructive change for a better health care system are to: Ensure access. Achieve health equity. Stability the safety net and rebuild publichealth. Address social determinants of health. Accelerate digitalhealth.
As HIMSS 2025, the largest annual conference on health information and innovation meets up in Las Vegas this week, we can peek into what’s on the organization’s CEO’s mind leading up to the meeting in this conversation between Hal Wolf, CEO of HIMSS, and Gil Bashe, Managing Director of FINN Partners.
In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. TripleTree is an investment bank that has advised health care transactions since 1997.
healthpolicy and regulatory leaders. An uncertain world is our workplace in the health/care ecosystem, globally, in this moment. Scale matters to survive a publichealth crisis. We must address the poor state of the publichealth infrastructure. health care, Dowling colorfully noted.
NABIP, whose members represent professionals in the health insurance benefits industry, drafted and adopted a new American Healthcare Consumer Bill of Rights launched at the meeting.
The NHS “supply shortage” is a result of financial cuts to both social care and publichealth. This article in the BMJ published earlier this year called for increasing these investments to ensure further erosion of population and publichealth outcomes, and to prevent further health disparities in the UK.
Folks who couldn’t connect couldn’t work from home, go to school from home, connect with fitness and faith communities from home — essentially live in the year 2020 and beyond in a digitally-enabled home, community, society.
Health Populi’s Hot Points: Earlier this year, Accenture found that U.S. consumers’ adoption of digitalhealth technology stalled. One of the driving forces was found to be privacy concerns about health data protections. That brings us to another of the four health citizenship pillars: trust.
revealed many weakness in the American health care system, one of which has been health inequities faced by millions of people — especially black Americans, who have sustained higher rates morbidity and mortality for COVID-19. But the emergence of the coronavirus in the U.S. Lack of inclusive design. the authors call out.
He also tweets his own comments on Twitter @EricTopol , which have become must-click insights into the COVID-19 pandemic from the inception of the publichealth crisis. In summing up the patient-centered interoperability goal, Ardy summarized: “We’ve created the Mint.com of health data.”
How would you improve what’s in the bill to optimize the use of telehealth in this challenging publichealth moment? What can we expect to hear relevant to the publichealth challenge? Because, ultimately, we must work to bake digitalhealth services into our emergency preparedness and response infrastructure.
Each year, ECRI (the ECRI Institute) publishes an annual report on the Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for the year. The 2025 list was published today. My read of it is that most of these risks have to do with what I’ve been referring to as the Human OS, the Human Operating System, in my talks and teachings.
Thanks to AARP for conducting multiple studies on health and well-being that are informing our work into the future of health care, reducing health disparities, and bolstering publichealth for all.
A cautionary report that should sober-up the most bullish of digitalhealth enthusiasts came from IDC’s recent research published June 7 noting that, globally, wearable technology purchases fell for the first time since the firm has watched the space.
The NielsenIQ construct here smartly observes, in the #7 driving force that will change how consumes care for their health, Policy, Legislation, & Governance. ESG is necessary, but not sufficient, to improve publichealth.
concerned about state citizens’ publichealth in the era of COVID-19. He was the first person to speak to me about “health citizenship.”. My friend and colleague Denise Silber, with whom I’ve been on the digitalhealth journey from the beginning, lives in France and works globally.
The study convened many advisors from a range of fields in publichealth, health equity, disability/ability community, academia, clinical practice, and community leaders in the LGBTQIA+ community, among others. Leverage digitalhealth to scale best practices in healthcare and delivery — leaving no one behind.
“I’m in Berlin, and we don’t like walls,” Bart De Witte responded in a concluding Q&A session yesterday at the 2 nd Symposium on the Future of Health Systems, convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Porto on 5 th September.
.” To that end, Ashish Atreja, MD, CIO and Chief DigitalHealth Officer with UC Davis Health, shepherded a panel at VIVE titled “Catalyzing Health Equity through Data Collaborations.” “Machines need diverse data to create the most generalizable information they can,” Pierre noted.
But the coronavirus era also saw broadband households spending more on connecting health devices, with 42% of U.S. consumers owning digitalhealth tech compared with 33% in 2015, according to research discussed in Supporting Today’s Connected Consumer from Parks Associates. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic drove U.S.
But even with the explosion of funding for digitalhealth innovations such as wearable trackers, remote health monitors, and thousands of apps downloadable to our smartphones, the burden of chronic care continues to grow.
House Appropriations Committee unveiled an omnibus spending package that included telehealth service extensions to cover Medicare enrollees for 151 days after the end of the COVID-19 publichealth emergency. This is essentially a five-month extension for telehealth in the U.S.
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“While digitalhealth won’t necessarily replace in-person therapy or treatment for many people, it will help make healthcare more readily available to those who need it most,” GWI noted.
I’m glad to be getting back to health economic issues after spending the last couple of weeks firmly focused on consumers, digitalhealth technologies and CES 2019. There’s a lot for me to address concerning health care costs based on news and research published over the past couple of weeks.
In the past few years, what event or innovation has had the metaphorical impact of hitting you upside the head and disrupted your best-laid plans in health care? A few such forces for me have been the COVID-19 pandemic, the emergence of Chat-GPT, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
HRSA’s 8 bureaus and offices (Ryan White, Maternal and child health, rural healthpolicy, healthcare systems, etc.) In 2019, Health Centers across the nation served 30 million patients. Rapid Implementation of an Interprofessional 1-800-COVID19 Hotline Call Center to Support a PublicHealth Crisis , Dr. Kevin Sexton.
The Foundation previously invested $3 million in 2020 to help older adults access digitalhealth tools and maintain social connections online. and is focused on health equity, working to eliminate unjust, avoidable and unnecessary barriers in health and healthcare.
As the pandemic exacerbated many risks of social determinants of health like food security and the ability to earn a wage in hospitality or caregiving jobs, so, too, did the publichealth crisis shine a light on a newer determinant of health: connectivity as a basic human need.
House of Representatives passed by a 416-12 vote the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID–19 Act of 2021 , which would extend the telehealth flexibilities put in place during the publichealth emergency until the end of 2024. Policy and reimbursement consultancy Applied Policy hired Steven Johnson as HealthPolicy Director.
In kicking off #CES2024, CTA’s researchers noted the acceleration of global connectivity, with gaps in peoples’ ability to connect depending where they live: by region, the percent of people connected to the internet today are, according to CTA’s data, 92% in the U.S. 87% in the E.U. 76% in Latin America 73% in China 55% in Nigeria 46% in India.
In this blog post, we will explore the three key challenges that previously limited the impact of connected health technologies, the myriad of temporary policy changes recently made to address the COVID-19 publichealth emergency, and the opportunities and challenges that still remain. billion in 2018.
Two “C’s” underpin this important digital transformation: the “Consumer” and “Connected.”. This week, two organizations mission-driven by these “C” words aligned to bolster digitalhealth care transformation for all people — not just those of us advantaged by a bountiful local, accessible portfolio of social determinants of health (SDoH).
Biden’s statement, which divided the publichealth community and the public, has wide-reaching implications for the fate of connected health and vital telehealth services. Department of Health and Human Services Alex Azar signed the first PublicHealth Emergency declaration , declaring COVID-19 a national emergency.
In seeking solutions to support our mental health and resilience, I want to highlight an innovation launching today from HopeLab and Grit DigitalHealth who collaborated on Nod. Laughter is some of the best medicine these days, right?!
But for those of us working with and innovating solutions for health and health care, #CES2021 was baked with health goodness , in and beyond “digitalhealth” categories. In my consumer-facing health care work, I’ve adopted the mantra that our homes are our health hubs.
Biden’s statement, which divided the publichealth community and the public, has wide-reaching implications for the fate of connected health and vital telehealth services. Department of Health and Human Services Alex Azar signed the first PublicHealth Emergency declaration , declaring COVID-19 a national emergency.
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 publichealth at Johns Hopkins.
In revisiting the report “six months later” in the current environment of publichealth and health care in the U.S. and more global political-economic currents, that Deloitte’s attention to trust, writ large, and 2030’s commitment to ESG are deeply woven into the future retail health narrative.
As the HLTH conference convenes over 6,000 digitalhealth innovators live, in person, in Boston in the wake of the delta variant, what should attendees keep in mind to help HLTH make health? The top-line in the report, and the bottom-line for health citizens, was that 38% of U.S. One-half of U.S.
health care system that existed before the publichealth crisis. What lessons can be learned from the COVID-19 stress-test to build American health care back better? health system, including 637 health systems, two-thirds of which are not-for-profit and most operating in one state.
Note: I may be biased as a University of Michigan graduate of both the School of PublicHealth and Rackham School of Graduate Studies in Economics]. health care, patient assistance programs, Medicare Advantage plans, and the bundling of proven high-value preventive services into the Affordable Care Act.
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