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Primary care practices identify needed improvements for telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 31, 2023

The participating primary care practices, all part of Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute’s clinical research network, were either general, family, ambulatory internal medicine, preventive medicine or geriatric medicine practices. They self-identified their point of maturation.

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Pope Francis is a Public Health Advocate

Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2018

He is, I realized while watching this film and hearing this man of words, a public health advocate. ” [FYI, Climate change has many health effects; one that isn’t discussed enough is the phenomenon’s negative impact on mental health, which I covered here on Health Populi.].

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What is a Consumer Health Company? Riffing Off of Deloitte’s Report on CHCs/A 2Q2025 Look at Self-Care Futures

Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2025

Segment focuses that are informed by individuals’ data along with local contexts and regulatory compliance — Deloitte points to AgeTech and FemTech as examples of specific market penetration opportunities. Virtual assistants embedded with GenAI that will support consumers’ journeys, and, 5. ” and so on.

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Obesity is a Public Health Epidemic in the U.S. — The Case for GLP-1 Coverage, Affordability and Equity

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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Primary Care in the U.S. – Still a Weak Backbone for the Health of Health Citizens

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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Think Quintuple Aim This Week at #HIMSS25

Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2025

While each goal on its own is a critical driver of high performing health systems, working the five as a strategic quintet can benefit individual patients, families, communities, and the nations that fund (or share in funding) health care services to the country’s residents. diabetes, obesity, blood pressure).

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Virtual Health Tech Enables the Continuum of Health from Hospital to Home

Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

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.

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Ten In Ten: Manatt’s Healthcare Priorities to 2031

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

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 public health. Address social determinants of health. Innovate long-term care.

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What to expect in Asia-Pacific health IT in 2025?

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 8, 2025

For example, we are considering using AI to support physicians in ophthalmology , such as the prediction of retinal diseases, as well as neurology and radiology. It is likely we will also see an increase in dynamic and interactive population health dashboards for general practices subscribed to NQPHN’s data program.

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Designing Digital Health for Public Health Preparedness and Equity: the Consumer Tech Association Doubles Down

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

At the same time, CTA has published a paper on Advancing Health Equity Through Technology which complements and reinforces the PHTI announcement and objective. Tribal health departments. Over 160,000 public and private labs. Hospitals and health care providers. Health plans. value-based).

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Health Disparities and the Risks of Social Determinants for COVID-19 – 14 Months of Evidence

Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2021

For some people such as American Indian and Native Alaskan folks, geography, remoteness, and lack of public health infrastructure are challenges. These are in fact infrastructure and social/health care factors that are nationally scalable with public policy and funding. Analyzing county-level data for 3,142 U.S.

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Drive-Thru Health, In and After the Pandemic

Health Populi

MAY 4, 2020

There remains a plethora of “testing deserts” throughout the U.S., “stemming from an overwhelmed supply chain and a disjointed public health system,” NPR observed. public health patchwork quilt. The private sector in the U.S.

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Behavioral Health Side-Effects in the COVID Era

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

In one section of the report, McKinsey focuses on the behavioral health impacts of the pandemic, noting the costs of these are additive to the physical an acute care effects of COVID-19. Data indicate greater rates of binge drinking and insomnia, for example. could have a behavioral health need in 2021.

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Health Disparities in America: JAMA Talks Structural Racism in U.S. Health Care

Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

In that introductory editorial, Ending Structural Racism in the US Health Care System to Eliminate Health Care Inequities, Ortega and Roby write that, “3 studies in this issue of JAMA show that access to and utilization of services is not merely predicated on health insurance or the availability of health care.

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Female physicians more likely to adopt telehealth early

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 5, 2022

To analyze which physicians made the transition sooner, the researchers used Epic electronic health record data to analyze visits between Oct. Younger generations had larger proportions of innovators and early adopters, as did behavioral health and primary care physicians. 1, 2019, and Dec. Of the 3,473 physicians, 13.8%

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How Grocery and Retail Companies Are Delivering Health and Healthcare

Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2021

It was the COVID-19 pandemic that accelerated some early-adopting health consumers viewing their home as their ultimate site for self-care and health care. Beyond overall wellness, though, consumers are also turning more to food and beverage (F&B) purchases for chronic illness support: for example, U.S.

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The Demand for Self-Care At-Home Will Grow Post-Pandemic – Insights from IRI

Health Populi

MAY 5, 2022

When it comes to peoples’ relationship to consumer packaged goods (CPG), the public health crisis has indeed impacted consumers’ purchasing behaviors and definition of “value,” based on IRI’s latest analysis of CPG shifts in 2022 and 2023.

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Telehealth and COVID-19 in the U.S.: A Conversation with Ann Mond Johnson, ATA CEO

Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

The coronavirus spawned another kind of gift to China and the nation’s health citizens: telemedicine, the essay explains. How would you improve what’s in the bill to optimize the use of telehealth in this challenging public health moment? What can we expect to hear relevant to the public health challenge?

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The rapid proliferation and advancement of telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 16, 2022

The most common telehealth solution involves primary care consultations that take place online (e.g., For example, Babylon Health offers a symptom checker and AI/ML driven diagnosis recommendations to patients. chat, video conferencing, etc.) via a portal or a mobile app. 5G) and differentiated connectivity services.

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Still Life in Need: Art, Food Justice, and Health

Health Populi

MARCH 27, 2025

There is an important distinction between a desert vis-a-vis a swamp when it comes to food and health: a food desert is an area with a high poverty rate where at least one-third of residents live over one mile from the closest grocery store in an urban area or over ten miles from a grocer in a rural area.

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Senators push back on DEA proposed telehealth rules, say they'd affect patient care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

"Nationwide averages also obscure the variation among states and territories; for example, Arizona has only 8.5% of its psychiatric health care needs met and would need 227 psychiatrists to meet 100% of these needs.

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Telemedicine will become default, with more virtual treatments, expert says

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 20, 2023

The COVID-19 public health emergency may be coming to an end in May. But what's next for virtual care? And what about the blossoming trend of virtual-first hybrid care? Healthcare IT News sat down with Sean Mehra, CEO and cofounder of HealthTap, a virtual-first urgent care and primary care clinic.

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From Evolution to Innovation, from Health Care to Health: How Health Plans With Collaborators Are Re-Defining the Industry

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Patients and health plan members continue evolving into medical bill payers, with their homes and budgets baked into the concept. Geisinger plans to open more clinics for primary care, senior care, and convenient/retail care. Re-building a community health system from an innovative blueprint.

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Massachusetts governor signs law safeguarding telehealth coverage

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

Charlie Baker signed into law a wide-ranging bill that includes expanding access to telehealth after the COVID-19 public health emergency abates. At the beginning of the COVID-19 public health emergency, Baker enacted an emergency order requiring insurers to cover telehealth in order to help ensure provider and patient safety.

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Americans’ Views on Food Have Been Re-Shaped by the Pandemic: Think Security, Immunity, and Sustainability

Health Populi

MAY 19, 2021

Americans are also keener on looking at food-as-medicine and health-making, as their definition of what “healthy food” is grew more positive in 2021. consumers’ changing attitudes toward food during the public health crisis. These check-ins go back to June 2020 and demonstrate U.S.

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COVID-19 and the future of care delivery

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 18, 2020

This assurance has given clear support to the use of technologies such as mobile messaging and video-enabled services, for example. One example is the creation of an expanded team with capabilities in technology roll-out, change management and health improvement, which has led to the expansion of video-enabled consultation.

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Neighbourhood Health: new priority for the NHS, one to watch for the UK HealthTech community

Lloyd Price

MARCH 7, 2025

The concept of Neighbourhood Health, as outlined in recent NHS England guidelines and government rhetoric, focuses on integrating primary care, community health, mental health, and social care services into cohesive "neighbourhood teams." smartwatches) to monitor conditions like diabetes at home.

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Riding the digital wave through COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 24, 2020

NHS Digital increased the capacity and range of NHS 111 (the 24/7 telephone and online service for people who need advice and information about urgent medical problems), and NHSX (which focuses on the digital transformation of health and social care) launched a competition for remote monitoring technology.

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Memorial Healthcare finds success with switch to Epic-based telehealth vendor

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 6, 2024

billion in annual operating revenue, Memorial Healthcare System is one of the largest public health systems in the U.S. With the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Memorial launched telehealth for all its primary care and specialty centers, and today conducts about 100,000 virtual visits per year.

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Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 1

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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Telehealth reimbursement may be changing. How should providers prepare?

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced earlier this month , for example, that it would add 11 virtual services to its reimbursement list during the COVID-19 public health emergency – following in the footsteps of its earlier flexibilities for virtual care.

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Why #CES2022 Will Be Keynoted By A Health Care Innovator for the First Time

Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Here’s a recent example of health and wellness embedded in a connected car from Hyundai, one of many auto manufacturers re-imagining health as a benefit of driving in a car.

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The Digital Transformation of Home for Health – Brainstorming with Karsten Russell-Wood of Philips

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

My personal tour, thanks to Karsten and the Philips team, bolsters my own forecast that our homes, neighborhoods and local communities will be where our health and health care will be made and delivered in and beyond the public health crisis.

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Use of Preventive Health Services Declined Among Commercially Insured People – With Big Differences in Telehealth for Non-White People, Castlight Finds

Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2022

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Castlight examined the commercial medical claims even more granularly, looking into differences between higher-income workers compared with lower-income communities.

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The Most Trusted Brands of 2024 Tell Us A Lot About Health Consumers

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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The Most Relevant Companies in Health Care – Learning From the W2O Group

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. Keep an eye on the “S” in ESG for health care, along with E and G.

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Post-Pandemic, U.S. Healthcare is Entering a “Provide More Care For Less” Era – Pondering PwC’s 2022 Forecast

Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

The chart labeled Figure 9 shows consumers’ different levels of “willingness” to seek care in each of four locations based on their employer-based health care coverage. For example, over 70% of patients are willingness to use a video virtual care visit based on the claim cost of $78.

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Telehealth Is Just Healthcare Now – One Post-COVID Certainty, Three Reports

Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2020

Health Populi’s Hot Points: COVID-19 was, among other phenomena, a wake-up call to the weaknesses and deficiencies of the U.S. health care system.

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ATA weighs in on proposed CMS Physician Fee Schedule rule

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The proposed CMS rules would make permanent additions to the telehealth services list nine codes that were temporarily covered during the COVID-19 public health emergency. Telehealth reimbursement after the public health emergency has been a continued cause for debate, with groups offering a variety of potential solutions.

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AI: Patients Included

Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

adults’ levels of trust in health care services and suppliers, finding the greatest trust lies with a consumer’s local pharmacy (for 77% of consumers), followed by hospitals (for 73% of people) and in third rank, health technology (63%). Layered on top of this is health citizens’ eroding trust in other aspects of U.S.

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Improving Access to Behavioral Health Crisis Support Services

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 20, 2025

My name is Vatsala Kapur, and I’m the Vice President of External Affairs at Bamboo Health. My career spans over three decades in health information technology, health policy and public health, including roles at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation and in state government.

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A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Mental health via virtual platforms has sustained significant use since the waning of the public health crisis. But pent-up demand remains for mental health services which could be made further accessible. Younger people are more likely to demand and be comfortable with virtual care platforms.

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How the Coronavirus and Technology Are Reshaping Home-Work, -Life and -Health

Health Populi

MARCH 31, 2020

Gaming is up: Twitch and YouTube Gaming, for example, are benefiting from rising demand for online gaming, and Xbox Live and PlayStation Plus are gaining new adopters. Here’s the rationale from our most-trusted public health leaders: Dr. Fauci, Dr. Birx, and Dr. Adams. Sling TV, YouTube TV). Stay well and stay home!

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Mayo Clinic uses $1M in FCC funds for connected devices to expand telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2020

Today, more than one million people from all 50 states and 140 countries come to Mayo Clinic to receive care at sites in Minnesota, Arizona, Florida, Iowa and Wisconsin. This really allows us to do the right thing for our patients and their care.” The particular telemedicine solution depends on the need presented.

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Health Disparities in America: JAMA Talks Structural Racism in U.S. Health Care

Female physicians more likely to adopt telehealth early

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The rapid proliferation and advancement of telehealth

Still Life in Need: Art, Food Justice, and Health

Senators push back on DEA proposed telehealth rules, say they'd affect patient care

Telemedicine will become default, with more virtual treatments, expert says

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Massachusetts governor signs law safeguarding telehealth coverage

Americans’ Views on Food Have Been Re-Shaped by the Pandemic: Think Security, Immunity, and Sustainability

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Neighbourhood Health: new priority for the NHS, one to watch for the UK HealthTech community

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