Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Athletes are a particularly-engaged group of consumers in this category, with some product areas working their way into health/care, physical therapy, and more broad health consumer and enterprise markets. Health Populi’s Hot Points: I leave time in my frenetic schedule at CES for serendipity to kick in.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 19, 2025

Note that 40% of respondents in the Edelman Trust Barometer approve of hostile activism to drive change, varying across age groups as shown on the right side of the graphic. Then 41% of people 35-65 approve of hostile activism, and finally 26% of folks 55 and older approving of hostile activism.

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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.

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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.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

elections, I quote from the How’s Life 2024 report about the nature of “social capital” and how this plays out in the lives of people living in America: “Social capital is about a society’s networks, norms and shared values that foster co-operation among different groups. in 2023.

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Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2022

” The researchers used spatial analysis to explore disproportionate mortality outcomes for COVID-19 experienced by different racial and ethnic groups: comparing overall death rates with those of Hispanic or Latinx, Non-Hispanic Black or African-American, and Non-Hispanic White populations. Underneath the overall statistic of 2.4

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

The table arrays data the researchers analyzed from 2002 to 2016, identifying patterns of six types of medical services used by race and age group. We can see that health care spending varied by race and ethnicity after adjusting for age and medical conditions. Black and AI/AN people also have lower life expectancies.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2025

saying their trust in these two groups fell during the COVID era), Before we assume that “business” is the most trusted organizational type for addressing COVID-19 pandemic challenges, the most-trusted business in in fact “my employer” and not “all” businesses.

Public Health 177

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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."

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Medicaid Expansion and Reimbursement Parity: Expanding Medicaid and ensuring reimbursement parity are essential to provide marginalized groups access to comprehensive care. Brian Jones, Chief Growth Officer at Avsis Policy can be a very powerful tool for advancing health equity.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The first chart illustrates data on the impact of COVID-19 on behavioral health across different population groups. could have a behavioral health need in 2021. Data indicate greater rates of binge drinking and insomnia, for example. Overall, 1 in 3 people in the U.S.

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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.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2020

In the context of that Holy Grail of a vision, I note that over the past decade of innovating digital health applications, we’ve experienced growing income inequality and at the same time, inequities in access to broadband. The social determinants of health tend to travel in groups.

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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.

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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.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Deloitte’s Global CEO, addressed four key stakeholder groups for resilience and sustainability: our people/workforce, organizations, society, and leadership’s ability to lead. This last group, shareholders, has historically been Job #1 of the corporation in terms of most important stakeholders to serve.

Public Health 254

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

The study was researched and written up by a team of COVID-19 National Preparedness Collaborators, led by Dr. Joseph Dieleman of the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, a group that has been long-tracking the coronavirus since its emergence.

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2021

The economic and healthcare system impacts of this were explored in the Post-Covid Healthcare Landscape , delivered by Fitch Solutions’ Jamie Davies and Beau Noafshar, leaders in the Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare, and Medical Devices groups.

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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.

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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

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

But there are opportunities to learn from patients and advocacy groups at the meeting to inform the demand side of the health/care equation, and that’s crucial to understanding consumer experience, values and sense of value that enables people to get the care they need. That’s the supply side of HLTH.

Digital Health 156

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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.

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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.

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