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). These are in fact infrastructure and social/health care factors that are nationally scalable with public policy and funding.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2024

For health care in 2030, I’ve thought about each driving force and then gotten more granular in the second column focusing a bit deeper on the factor and how it might play out in 2030.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 2, 2021

For example, she said, "I have found a thorough medication review can be more easily and accurately done at home," with pill bottles close at hand. "Telehealth is a tool in our toolkit that is largely substitutive, not additive, to in-person care," she said.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

The coronavirus spawned another kind of gift to China and the nation’s health citizens: telemedicine, the essay explains. For example, only health care providers that have an existing relationship with a Medicare patient would be eligible per the requirements in the legislation.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

For more on women and health policy in the 2024 election cycle, you can explore the Open Letter on the site of Women Healthcare Leaders for Progress , of which I am one of several hundred signing the Letter.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 20, 2025

Tell us a little bit about yourself and Bamboo Health. My name is Vatsala Kapur, and I’m the Vice President of External Affairs at Bamboo Health. At Bamboo Health, were committed to transforming physical and behavioral health through innovative technology solutions.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

were sensible, weight management would be treated as a public health issue,” David Cutler writes in the JAMA Health Forum dated August 15, 2024. health care” citing the example of weight loss medications — in short, the uptake of GLP-1 drugs to address Type 2 diabetes first, and subsequently obesity.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 9, 2019

In the “best of times” part of the food+health equation, we recognize the growing role of grocery stores, food-tech and food manufacturers in the health/care landscape. Food and access to utility services are key social determinants of health, the American Academy of Family Practice has asserted.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

In order to achieve health equity, we must build a solid foundation of patient trust and communication. In dentistry, for example, chairside AI software has been instrumental in strengthening trust. These practitioners ensure that all patients, regardless of socioeconomic status, receive the care they need.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2022

There is a growing list of examples in this community, where the companies have begun to detail their ESG efforts in annual reports s uch as the most recent one from CVS Health. Walmart increasing wage packages to as high as $110K a year for truck drivers, essentially doubling salaries for their company’s fleet development.

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2021

Those issues were COVID-19, the 2020 Election, health care policy, racial divides, and equity and access. W2O notes that these five issues became more-inter-related than ever, compared with previous years’ top consumer health issues.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2022

For example, Boomers would be less likely than younger patients to take a telehealth appointment if it was available sooner than an in-person visit — signaling, JLL says, that older people may have stronger ties to medical providers than younger patients.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Patients-as-consumers increasingly expect retail-enchanting service levels from health care – especially as patients pay medical bills increasingly out-of-pocket. Convenience can take the form of time: for example, time to drive to an appointment and/or time required to be away from work to attend to that appointment.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Remote monitoring, the Internet of Things (both medical and via a smart home), wearables, and telehealth/virtual care channels will enable that care, anywhere, in this AHA/EY vision. This week, Health 2.0 2019 will feature examples of all of these technologies and services.

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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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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

HRSA’s 8 bureaus and offices (Ryan White, Maternal and child health, rural health policy, healthcare systems, etc.) In 2019, Health Centers across the nation served 30 million patients. Bill England began by discussing the wide range of resources available at HRSA with his presentation, “Telehealth and Research at HRSA.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 9, 2023

Using the example above, if a client moves from state “A” to state “B,” and the provider continues to bill the insurer from state “A” without approval from that insurer, the provider may technically be committing insurance fraud. Medicare Advantage plans may offer additional telehealth benefits.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

On the supply side are the brands you find in front of the pharmacy and in health-and-beauty aisles, from companies like Burt’s Bees and Bayer Consumer Health, Colgate-Palmolive and Unilever, as well as smaller firms such as Tweezerman, KT Health and Boiron (which has made homeopathic medicines understandable and accessible to Everyday People).

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 17, 2023

The TCMHCC initiatives include: The Child Psychiatry Access Network (CPAN) which provides telehealth-based consultation and training to primary care providers The Texas Child Health Access Through Telemedicine (TCHATT) program which provides in-school behavioral telehealth care to at-risk children and adolescents.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

For example, telehealth is being used in the management of chronic diseases and follow up/triage programs, which can reduce hospital readmissions and emergency department visits. For example, your community may have a large number of citizens who need diabetes or nutritional counseling. Targets quality of care and quality of life.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Furthermore, some people in racial minority groups distrust the government and health care systems responsible for inequities in treatment, a sad legacy of the systemic racism in U.S. health care represented by, for example, the “ Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the African American Male ” and the treatment of Henrietta Lacks.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

AUGUST 8, 2018

On a daily basis, health care professionals are finding new ways to use telehealth technology to achieve positive outcomes for consumers. For example, telehealth is being used in the management of chronic diseases and follow up/triage programs, which can reduce hospital readmissions and emergency department visits.

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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. Years ago, I was on the faculty at Albany Medical College.

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Enzyme Health

JUNE 19, 2019

CCHP: CCHP stands for the Center for Connected Health Policy and is a non-profit that has been designated the national telehealth policy resource center. The organization researches telehealth policy issues and keeps updated information on state telehealth laws and reimbursement.

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American Well

MARCH 5, 2018

Think convenient health care is only for the wealthy? Medicaid recipients often have significant barriers to care. Throughout my residency, I worked in a primary care clinic that was in one of the poorest areas of Boston. Think again. How to start using telemedicine for Medicaid recipients.

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American Well

MARCH 5, 2018

Think convenient health care is only for the wealthy? Medicaid recipients often have significant barriers to care. Throughout my residency, I worked in a primary care clinic that was in one of the poorest areas of Boston. Think again. How to start using telemedicine for Medicaid recipients.

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2025

Telehealth and remote health monitoring, virtually “seeing” and treatment patients in lower cost settings (such as the home) is one key strategy for value-based care. diabetes, obesity, blood pressure). Lumber is key to home-building, and a 25% tax on lumber imported into the U.S.

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Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

With recent reimbursement changes, CMS is helping to set the tone of where care is delivered. Hospitals are beginning to rationalize services, including who and where care is delivered. These realities will increase the role of primary care as the needed coordinator of health services for patients. David Rahija.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2022

Thus, millions of Americans continue to lack access to primary care compared with peers in other nations, according to a report from The Commonwealth Fund. The 2022 Fund report, P rimary Care in High-Income Countries: How the U.S. have a PCP relationship, compared with 71% of health citizens in Germany and the Netherlands.

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Henry Kotula

JANUARY 2, 2019

However, some early small-scale randomized controlled studies have suggested potential health benefits (for example, improved glycemic and blood pressure control) of mobile health applications and wearable biosensors. Evidence may grow as startup products are brought closer to market.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

At last year’s 2020 CES, I wrote here in Health Populi that evidence and innovation was beginning to bridge health consumers keen to take on self-care for their hearts, and their physicians. Water weight retention connects to heart health, for example, and can also be an indicator for other acute conditions.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Key to the plan’s success (crossing fingers) is that the participants must submit an equity plan that requires collecting data as well as developing measures to track success in meeting the goals for addressing social determinants of health. Getting to health equity is a team sport and requires collaboration. As health consumers, U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 28, 2022

For example, say you opt into the insulin resistance protocol. Most notably, Foogal is promoting the importance of home-cooked meals for families — coining itself as an “easy-to-use family planner” too — enabling healthy recipes served up in the app based on user preferences and medical needs.

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Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

Public perception has not caught up to the reality that the lines between health care companies are so blurred at this point that it is becoming nearly impossible to tell the insurers from the providers from the pharma/medtech manufacturers from the retailers from the tech and data analytics companies.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 14, 2020

Of those using telehealth, the majority (68 percent) used it to provide mental health services; fewer used it for primary care (30 percent) or management of chronic conditions (21 percent), suggesting that most CHCs with telehealth capabilities prior to COVID-19 were not using it for the most frequent types of services provided at CHCs.

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Digital Health Global

OCTOBER 27, 2023

We can find academic research recommending that major health policies should emphasize reducing unhealthy lifestyles, dating three decades ago 3. One example is Click Therapeutics’ Clickotine , a smartphone app aimed at helping users to quit smoking. Let’s take the European Union as an example.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

For example, less than two-thirds of adults consume fruit every day (fewer men than women). also has the lowest level of universal coverage for a core set of health care services compared with the 35 other OECD countries. Americans have relatively less access to a doctor when care is needed, the OECD report revealed.

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