Charlotte Refsum to sit on data and tech group for 10 year plan
DigitalHealth
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
Charlotte Refsum, director of health policy at the Tony Blair Institute will sit on the data and tech group for the 10 year health plan.
Steward Health Care's physician group sale to Optum is off, regulator says
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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The Most Relevant Companies in Health Care – Learning From the W2O Group
Health Populi
MARCH 3, 2021
Five years ago, in 2016, the W2O Group said that, “Relevance is reputation.” ” That year the firm began to study the relevance of, well, relevance for organizations especially operating in the health/care ecosystem. Keep an eye on the “S” in ESG for health care, along with E and G.
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Value-Based Health Care Needs All Stakeholders at the Table – Especially the Patient
Health Populi
MARCH 11, 2021
The coolest thing in health policy in the 21st century!! ” Amitabh Chandra gave the opening context-setting talk about the effects of health care cost-sharing on patients-as-consumers. Speaking of design, this Summit was indeed well-designed by spotlighting pragmatic representatives from these various stakeholder groups.
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ATA to assess telemedicine's role in addressing U.S. healthcare disparities
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
OCTOBER 27, 2021
The American Telemedicine Association announced this week that it was launching a new initiative aimed at evaluating telehealth's potential as a tool to address and eliminate health disparities in the United States. " said Ann Mond Johnson, CEO of the ATA, in a statement. " WHY IT MATTERS.
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Watchdog group asks Massachusetts AG to review Beth Israel-Lahey merger
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.
Changing Views of Retirement and Health Post-COVID: Transamerica’s Look At Workers’ Disrupted Futures
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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U.S. spends far more on healthcare than other developed countries—and researchers say prices are still to blame
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."
Patient Advocacy Groups Take In Millions From Drugmakers. Is There A Payback?
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
American Hospital Association, Johns Hopkins and others launch pro-telehealth campaign
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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Hims & Hers, ATA, and 10 others launch Telehealth Equity Coalition
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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Deprogramming Health Bias in AI Platforms to Achieve Equity
Healthcare IT Today
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
Similarly, AI-driven treatment recommendations might prioritize interventions that have been primarily tested on Caucasian populations, potentially overlooking effective treatments for other ethnic groups. Additionally, we are incorporating race/ethnicity data census data to ensure equitable representation within the AI platform.
Global Initiative on Digital Health (GIDH) Launched at G20 Summit to Revolutionize Healthcare
Digital Health Global
AUGUST 21, 2023
Mansukh Mandaviya , the Union Health Minister of India, echoed these sentiments and called the announcement of the Global Initiative on Digital Health an important turning point in the history of the G20 Health Working Group. This initiative is one of the key deliverables of India’s G20 Presidency.
Only in America: Medical Debt Hits High Income and Insured People, KHN and NPR Report
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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New Study Shows InsideTracker Members Make Sustained, Long-Term Improvements in Health
Digital Health Global
AUGUST 27, 2024
Notably, it can improve heart health, reduce inflammation, and help reverse the trend toward type 2 diabetes. That makes it one of the largest, longest running studies for this group. This could potentially reduce the worldwide burden of chronic diseases and influence future health policies.
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The Pace of Tech-Adoption Grows Among Older Americans, AARP Finds – But Privacy Concerns May Limit Adoption
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 Disparities in America: JAMA Talks Structural Racism in U.S. Health Care
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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8 must-know lessons from telehealth's new normal
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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How’s Life? Around the World – In the U.S., It’s the Sadness That Stands Out
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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A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity
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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People in the U.S. Without the Internet Were More Likely To Die in the Pandemic
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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Be Mindful About What Makes Health at HLTH
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.
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A Call to Embrace Civic Engagement (Including Voting Access) as a Driver of Health
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.”
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Happy 75th Birthday, NHS – Through A U.S. Health Care Lens
Health Populi
JULY 5, 2023
In comparison and health care context, UnitedHealth Group employs roughly 325,000 workers, CVS Health 290,000, and Walgreens Boots Alliance, about 287,000. The King’s Fund published a report last month, asking the question, How does the NHS compare to the health care systems of other countries? health care system?”
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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 2
Health Populi
APRIL 16, 2024
Quincy has great trust in this health care system, appreciating that customization also takes into account peoples’ values, ethnicities, and clinical needs. Clinicians partner with patients, often in teams and group-based care. Federal investment in climate and environmental health are part of holistic health policy.
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The Home and Low-Touch Health Care – a Health Consumer Update from Capgemini
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 Consumers Expect Healthcare to be Digital (and Secure), Philips Future Health Index Finds
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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In telehealth hearing, House committee weighs access against cost
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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Peace and Health: A Causal Relationship Explored in the AMA Journal of Ethics
Health Populi
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
.” Causing harm to public health then forces an “ethical obligation” on the part of public sector agencies to avoid harmful health effects as well as embedding design elements that would enhance peoples’ well-being and senses of peace.
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How to Get Better Care to More People? Address Burnout, Bridge Insights, Embed Sustainability – the Philips Future Health Index 2024
Health Populi
JUNE 18, 2024
Health care access is a challenge in rural and urban areas, cities and suburbs, and across more demographic groups than you might realize, as we see wait times grow for appointments, primary care shortages, and delays in screening plaguing health systems around the world.
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Statin Reccommended for People With Diabetes
Insulin Nation
OCTOBER 12, 2017
In what has been described as a potentially-seismic shift in health policy, the American Heart Association and several other medical groups have changed the guidelines for the use of statins, a group of popular cholesterol-lowering drugs. If you have diabetes, don’t be surprised if your doctor prescribes statins in 2014.
The ROI on Virtual Care – Thinking About Value and Future Prospects With the AMA
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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“Healthcare Isn’t Healthy:” the Global Challenge of Health Equity, and Calls-to-Action
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.,
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Billing Medicare and Private Payers for Telehealth Visits: What to Expect Post-Public Health Emergency
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.
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Rebuilding Resilience, Trust, and Health – Deloitte’s Latest on Health Care and Sustainability
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.
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The Federal Reserve Chairman Speaks Out on Health Care Costs: “Spending But Getting Nothing”
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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In the U.S., Patients Consider Costs and Insurance Essential to Their Overall Health Experience
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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Economic Anxieties Rise, Medical and Vacation Plans Delayed: the COVID-19 Consumer in June 2020
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.
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Only in America: The Loss of Health Insurance as a Toxic Financial Side Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
adults in February, June, and September 2020 to gauge peoples’ perspectives on health insurance, knowledge about purchasing health plans, and intent to purchase health insurance if lost during the pandemic. Civis Analytics polled 13,000 U.S. Our Zoom-based conversation is being held today at noon Eastern time.
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Let’s Talk About a National Patient Identifier
Healthcare IT Today
APRIL 16, 2020
What happens when you bring an amazing group of experts to talk about an important topic? That’s how I’d describe this National Patient ID virtual meetup we put together with our friends at NextGate.
Taming the beast of multistate provider licensure for telemedicine
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.
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“We’ve normalized a very high death toll in the U.S.” – How A Trust Deficit Has Infected America’s COVID Outcomes
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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Virtual Health Tech Enables the Continuum of Health from Hospital to Home
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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Behavioral Health Side-Effects in the COVID Era
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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