Health Populi

JUNE 29, 2022

Since 1988, TCRS has assessed workers’ perspectives on their futures, this year segmented the 10,003 adults 18 and over in 3 groups: employed workers, self-employed workers, and people who were unemployed but looking for work. workers on their future work, income, savings, dreams and fears. 100,000 for the unemployed.

Mental health 296

Mental health Medical Billing Health Policy 296

Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2020

The vast majority of older people, across the age groups, use their smartphones every day: most commonly, to send or receive emails, to get directions or traffic information, or to surf the web for news, information, or social networking. Half of older people with a home assistant use them every day, across all age groups.

HIPAA 422

HIPAA Health Data Digital Health Health Information 422

Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2019

asserted that by 2011, human health was marked less by infectious disease and more by non-communicable conditions that could be highly influenced, reversed and prevented through self-care by the individual and public health policy that promotes social and financial wellness.

Public Health 199

Public Health Health Policy Mental health Patient Experience 199

Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2025

We’ll see dozens of vendors with AI-baked into offerings that speak to population health, especially as value-based care continues to be demanded by certain payers and health plan benefit designs. With any design, if you build it and people don’t come, it’s a fail (the Field-of-Dreams effect).

Digital Health 177

Digital Health Medical Billing Primary Care Interoperability 177

FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 8, 2019

A group of health policy researchers has reconvened to study healthcare spending and reached the same conclusion as a decade ago: "It's the prices, stupid."

Health Policy 94

Health Policy 94

Health Populi

JUNE 20, 2022

.” The KFF Survey wondered, “Who has health care debt?” ” Medical debt crosses age groups and race/ethnicity: while two-thirds of people who are Black and Hispanic in American had medical debt in the past five years, over one-half of White patients did, too.

Medical Billing 312

Medical Billing Pharmaceuticals Health Policy 312

FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

The Massachusetts Health Policy Commission has voted unanimously to have state’s attorney general review the planned merger between Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Lahey Health.

Health Policy 69

Health Policy 69

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2021

A group of 16 provider and industry organizations this past week launched a campaign geared toward protecting and expanding access to telehealth. This most recent effort has brought together a wide range of healthcare representatives, including: Adventist Health Policy Association. Alliance for Connected Care. Athenahealth.

Telehealth 214

Telehealth Telemedicine Medicare Connected Care 214

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.

Telehealth 197

Telehealth Public Health Health Policy Telemedicine 197

FierceHealthIT

JUNE 28, 2024

UnitedHealth Group’s Optum is walking away from its tentative deal to purchase the bankrupt Steward Health Care’s physician group, according to a Massachusetts healthcare regulatory body.

Health Policy 49

Health Policy 49

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Stacy Lindau, MD, founder of NowPow, discuss how connected care is boosting health equity efforts , and how patients and community organizations can be engaged to capitalize on its promise. How to optimize RPM for physicians. How CIOs can help shape strategy.

Telehealth 218

Telehealth eHealth Connected Health Health Policy 218

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Privacy and data security remain a major issue, which is a particularly challenging problem when it comes to consumer-facing health and wellness apps as discussed in this New York Times article, “When Apps Get Your Medical Data, Your Privacy May Go With It.” Enhanced data privacy and data protection.

Interoperability 228

Interoperability Digital Health Patient Experience Health Data 228

Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: VisitPay included this third line chart in the report, more closely looking at household income cohorts. In quintiles, 2017 median income ranged from the bottom fifth of homes with $13K, fourth group $35K, middle quintile $61K (close to the median overall), second group at $99K, and top at $221K.

Medical Billing 283

Medical Billing Patient Experience Health Policy 283

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 2, 2021

Harvard Medical School Associate Professor of Health Policy and Medicine Dr. Ateev Mehrota proposed a more measured approach. Although the need for telehealth is unmistakable, said Mehrota, policies should encourage "higher-value" applications for care and discourage "lower-value" ones.

Telehealth 218

Telehealth Telemedicine Primary Care Health Policy 218

Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

The report dives into the stakeholder groups, offering market maps with examples of companies and innovators in each innovation space, from digital front doors like Dexcare, Phreesia and Doctor.com, scheduling access via Symplr, ZocDoc and DocASAP, and digital diagnosis and triage from Gyant and K Health, et.

Telehealth 390

Telehealth Public Health Life Science Primary Care 390

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

While the digital health stakeholder community is convening this week at VIVE in Los Angeles to share innovations in health tech, NABIP has assembled health insurance leaders in Washington, DC, for the 2024 Capital Conference to focus on major health reform issues that are top-of-mind for health care payors — which in today’s U.S.

HIPAA 354

HIPAA Public Health Telehealth Leadership 354

Health Populi

JULY 27, 2020

The report found three big shifts in global health citizens’ views on their personal health and health care delivery in the wake of the pandemic: Across all age groups, COVID-19 exacerbated peoples’ concerns about their physical and mental health in a very short time. in mid-June 2020.

Digital Health 194

Digital Health Pharmaceuticals Health Policy Mental health 194

Health Populi

APRIL 9, 2019

” These findings came from a study from the Winterberry Group on “the evolving role of audience insight,” conducted in partnership with the IAB Data Center of Excellence and issued on March 5, 2019.

Digital Health 271

Digital Health Primary Care Mental health Connected Health 271

Insulin Nation

APRIL 9, 2018

This piece, written by Emily Kopp, Sydney Lupkin, and Elizabeth Lucas, originally appeared on Kaiser Health News , which authorized the republication. Even as these patient groups grow in number and political influence, their funding and their relationships to drugmakers are little understood. In 2015, it spent more than $20.5

Pharmaceuticals 48

Pharmaceuticals Health Policy Public Health 48

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The conclusion: that “groups commonly targeted by voting restriction laws — those with low incomes, who are racial minorities, and who are young — are also less likely to be insured in states with more voting restrictions.”

Public Health 207

Public Health Health Information Health Policy 207

Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

Payment arrangements and rates, from fee-for-service to pay-for-performance, shared-savings models, and other new-fangled reimbursement regimes, and, Social determinants of health of patient populations, dealing with health equity and barriers to care.

Telehealth 207

Telehealth Digital Health EHR Medical Technology 207

Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2018

The practice known as ‘social prescribing’ will allow GPs to direct patients to community workers offering tailored support to help people improve their health and wellbeing, instead of defaulting to medicine. ” Building mental models and sharing perspectives with Maneesh was a moment of both learning and of kindness.

Public Health 258

Public Health Mental health Digital Health Health IT 258

Health Populi

MARCH 28, 2019

In the company’s privacy policy Google reports data sharing partnerships with Nielsen, comScore, Kanta and RN SSI Group. The authors call out that Alphabet, the parent company of Google, owns the third parties Crashlytics, Google Analytics, and AdMob By Google which were all in the ecosystem studied.

Mobile Health 282

Mobile Health Health Data Digital Health Nursing 282

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Employment gains have been broad based across all racial and ethnic groups and levels of education. However, it remains lower than in most other advanced economies, and there are troubling labor market disparities across racial and ethnic groups and across regions of the country. The nation faces important longer-run challenges.

Medical Billing 194

Medical Billing Health Policy 194

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

As a best practice, to understand state-specific policies, providers can check the Center for Connected Health Policy State Telehealth Laws and Reimbursement Policies Report. [ii]. It is also recommended to review individual payer websites for any changes in telehealth policies for 2021.

Public Health 161

Public Health Medicare Telehealth Health Policy 161

Health Populi

MARCH 29, 2019

Chan School of Public Health. The first chart illustrates the common ground shared by Americans by party affiliation, with vast majorities across parties playing the blame game on healthcare industry groups.

Medicare 264

Medicare Leadership Public Health Pharmaceuticals 264

Health Populi

APRIL 4, 2022

As the chart illustrates, people with Non-Prime scores felt greater strain pre- and post-pandemic than consumers with Prime credit ratings.

Medical Billing 194

Medical Billing Mental health Medicare Patient Experience 194

Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2020

One friend’s church last Sunday, closed for group communion, had a service organized and led by their pastor by call-in: parishioners dialed in, put phones on mute during responsive readings but still did their prayers aloud and in unison with brothers and sisters in faith.

Mental health 307

Mental health Medical Billing Public Health Connected Health 307

Health Populi

JULY 6, 2018

Another global view on value is offered in the report, Delivering quality health services: A global imperative for universal health coverage , from the World Health Organization, the World Bank Group, and the OECD.

Patient Experience 208

Patient Experience Public Health Health Policy Health IT 208

Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

Our group-of-seven crowdsourced the importance of trust, transparency, and data stewardship to ensure that the patient-as-health-consumer and, ultimately citizen (in my own view) benefit from sharing data. .” The tag line of the book is how AI can help humanize health care.

HIPAA 256

HIPAA Medical Billing Leadership Public Health 256

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The inclusion of these codes in the proposed fee schedule – in addition to digital health reimbursement codes introduced over the past few years – is evidence that payment policies are beginning to catch up with consumer demand and advancements in technology.

Telehealth 218

Telehealth Digital Health Medicare Health Policy 218

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

This graphic comes out of the report: this illustrates a “Community of Solution” which recognizes that different factors that impact peoples’ health come out of three perspectives: territory or space, group membership, or a set of social structures and organization.

Primary Care 283

Primary Care Public Health Mental health Health Data 283

Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2020

Those most negatively affected by the pandemic tend to be younger, Gen Z age group and African-American, 63% of whom felt financial pressure directly due from the virus and the national economic lockdown. The analog here for the health consumer is that millions of U.S. Some 6 in 10 people in the U.S.

Telehealth 177

Telehealth Telemedicine Connected Health Health Policy 177

Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2022

The Building H Index is, in their words, flipping the script to reimagine how to bake health-by-design into companies’ product and service offerings. Physical activity. Engaging socially.

Mental health 272

Mental health Digital Health Telehealth Patient Experience 272

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 9, 2023

The HHS Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation's Office of Health Policy found telehealth use during the initial COVID-19 peak increased from less than 1% of visits to 80%. Licensing, credentialing and enrollment all require much of the same information.

Telemedicine 188

Telemedicine Telehealth Health Policy Remote care 188

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Discrimination in health care is reported by more people in the U.S. we learn in the research reported in The Intersection of Health Equity in Communities & Business Strategy: A Call-to-Action , from Omnicomm PR Group (OPRG) and Atlantic Insights. than in Germany, Spain, or the U.K.,

Public Health 227

Public Health Digital Health Patient Experience Health Policy 227

Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2018

Today I benefited from listening to Timothy Jost, professor emeritus of healthcare law at Washington and Lee University, and Stephanie Armour, health policy reporter at The Wall Street Journal. The session was sponsored by the Center for Health Journalism at the Annenberg School.

Mental health 136

Mental health Primary Care Health Policy Public Health 136