Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2025

What does this mean for our health, well-being, and sense of community and connectivity? I’m preparing a new talk to give later this week to a global group of business people involved in high-cost health care. The convener has asked me to speak about health equity and social determinants of health.

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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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Health Populi

OCTOBER 16, 2022

On Tuesday November 8, 2022, health and medical issues will be on many U.S. Health policy experts from Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, AARP, and the United States of Care recently shared perspectives on the health care issues on voters’ and policy makers’ minds for the 2022 midterm elections.

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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

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

If you’re reading Health Populi , then you’re keen on health policy, health economics, most of all, patients: now playing starring roles as consumers, caregivers, and payors in their own care.

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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

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.

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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).

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Health Populi

JANUARY 30, 2020

Lowering Rx prices is the top health policy issue for Republicans tied with addressing the drug epidemic. Independents rank the cost of medicines top of all health care priorities. For Democrats, ensuring ACA protections for pre-existing conditions holds.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2019

How that demand side will reconcile with the supply side of pharmaceutical and life science companies, health insurers, retail pharmacy, hospitals and physicians — all strong and assertive lobbies inside the Beltway — will become clearer over the next thirteen months.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The most compelling factor driving those would initially opt out of a vaccine would be cost — that a free vaccine could persuade people to get the shot, for 21% of this group. The STAT-Harris Poll raised a key issue about trust varying by demographic group, beyond political party.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

That was, in fact, the name of a research paper I wrote on behalf of the California Health Care Foundation in 2008.

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Health Populi

JULY 12, 2022

adults, but more likely for Moms (65%), Hispanic people (66%), service workers (62%), parents (59%), and health care workers (55%), and by generation, more likely younger people in Gen Z and Millennial groups. Losing income caused anxiety for 51% of all U.S. Gun violence was a concern for 35% of all U.S. adults in June.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

This number is not statistically representative of a national sample across all age groups and other demo’s, but we can still point to its direction and veracity in the context of a stressed-out workforce — mentally, financially, and socio-politically.

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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

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The most important factor that underpins peoples’ engaging with their health and health care organizations is trust…and distrust in America is up, the Pew Research Group told us earlier this year in their report on Trust and Distrust in America. Health Politics, Policy and the President.

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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.

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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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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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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2021

feel the stress compared with other age groups — with Gen Z and Gen Xers following. This group of highly-stressed people were also more likely to say they struggled to make basic daily decisions. While most people in the U.S. More Millennials, who generationally are sandwiched between older and younger people.

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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

MARCH 13, 2019

“Patients as Consumers” is the theme of the Health Affairs issue for March 2019. racial and ethnic minority consumers were better informed that whites over time, and people with more education also saw more of the quality information).

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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

JULY 11, 2024

” There is much more detail underneath these paragraphs on health for women, for the LGBTQ+ community, among other population groups, but I’ll focus here on Social Security and Medicare.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Countries with the fewest proportion of residents looking for major health reforms are Australia, Taiwan, Belgium, Singapore, where at most 1 in 3 people are keen on big health policy changes. Overall, 45% of health citizens polled are interested in major health system changes.

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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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