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Health Care Nation – How to Inspire a Rosa Parks Moment for Healthcare in America?

Health Populi

MARCH 26, 2025

When his publisher asked him to write a third book on AI in health care still a hot topic in publishing Tom said hed rather turn to a subject long on his mind: the state of health care in America and how to change the conversation on health policy to involve all citizens. appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Trust in Health Care 5 Years After COVID Began – an Edelman Trust Barometer Update

Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2025

.” Five years later, Edelman has fielded a survey to determine what some 4,000 health citizens living in 4 countries (Brazil, India, the UK, and the U.S.) are thinking and feeling about life after COVID-19 — and especially where their trust lies in institutions, fellow citizens, and future public health emergencies.

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What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2022

He also tweets his own comments on Twitter @EricTopol , which have become must-click insights into the COVID-19 pandemic from the inception of the public health crisis.

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In the Past Ten Years, Workers’ Health Insurance Premiums Have Grown Much Faster Than Wages

Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: In the report’s discussion, KFF recognizes that this year’s study, the 22nd annual, was fielded in the unprecedented time of the coronavirus pandemic. Job losses in the public health crisis have resulted in millions of American workers and families losing health benefits.

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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

” Together, the JAMA Network Open research paper and AMA physician survey inform us with useful insights to close that health care digital divide which could make a major difference between some patients’ lives versus their demise.

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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

How would you improve what’s in the bill to optimize the use of telehealth in this challenging public health moment? Q4 – How has the ATA been responding to the coronavirus phenomenon? What can we expect to hear relevant to the public health challenge? The President signed the $8.3 No, it’s not from the U.S.

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The Coronavirus Impact on American Life, Part 2 – Our Mental Health

Health Populi

APRIL 7, 2020

A few articles that have informed me include… In The Atlantic , the piece The Kids Aren’t Alright explained how the youngest health citizens in the country may experience the greatest long-time mental health trauma, learning from Wuhan’s experience with C19 back to Katrina and the impacts of adverse childhood events.

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1 in 2 U.S. Women (“The Bedrock of Society”) Self-Ration Care – the Latest Deloitte Findings

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

By dismantling the barriers women have identified, together we can create a future where women don’t have to make the difficult choice between maintaining their health or maintaining their financial wellbeing.”

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The U.S. is a Nation in Pain – America’s Life Expectancy Fell Again in 2016

Health Populi

MAY 17, 2018

wars since 1950, according to Pain in the Nation Update from the Well Being Trust and Trust for America’s Health. The Trust for America’s Health is a non-profit, non-partisan organization focused on public health and healthy communities.

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So Many Records, So Little Time: How to Manage Burgeoning Health Plan Requests

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

With a master’s degree in Health Policy and Management from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Mo formerly served in leadership roles for Cotiviti, FinThrive, and McKinsey & Company.

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My ABCovid-19 Journal – Day 4 of 5, Letters “P” through “T”

Health Populi

AUGUST 12, 2020

The general theme here is that the pandemic is a global phenomenon, and that we humans are very small actors in a very big public health crisis. How to manage risk without complete information on the coronavirus? They are alone, together, with a symbol of the coronavirus at the right. Q is for quarantine.

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

Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

health care, bring people back into the system, bolster physician well-being, and deliver on the promise of high-quality care that the U.S. has known how to deliver. Mental health via virtual platforms has sustained significant use since the waning of the public health crisis.

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The Health Care Cost Curve is Bending Down – A New View from Deloitte

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

health care and that volumes turned downward in 2020. health care as it is currently organized, financed, and delivered. The COVID-19 pandemic has, in fact, had a positive impact on spending per se given the volume-based nature of U.S. The COVID-19 pandemic revealed many weaknesses in U.S.

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“Healthcare Isn’t Healthy:” the Global Challenge of Health Equity, and Calls-to-Action

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The study convened many advisors from a range of fields in public health, health equity, disability/ability community, academia, clinical practice, and community leaders in the LGBTQIA+ community, among others. The biggest differences in discrimination feelings between U.S. residents and those outside of the U.S.

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Addressing Health Equity Must Include Digital Equity Beyond Access To Medical Services and Insurance

Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2020

How to deal? There’s a mix of public sector tactics, from Federal to State to local; technology vendor tasks; health care provider jobs to do in terms of workflows and database development; and, patient-focused work.

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Genentech’s Look Into the Mirror of Health Inequities

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The companies are all part of EHIR, the Employer Health Innovation Roundtable coalition. The framework shown here comes out of a New England Journal of Medicine essay on how to advance health equity across four phases. The post Genentech’s Look Into the Mirror of Health Inequities appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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How Health Gets Built – The Building H Index Thinking Health-By-Design

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.

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Isn’t It Eyeconic? Vision Care in the Evolving Health Care Ecosystem

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.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: An Introduction

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Sherri Onyiego, Medical Director for the Texas Market at Equality Health. They also obtain public health data by ZIP code and data from a Health Information Exchange (HIE). Complementing this penalty, the Office of Health Policy within HHS released a report measuring the benefits of addressing SDoH in healthcare.

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Telehealth Update from the AMA – Setting the Context for ATA 2022

Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

While doctors noted to the AMA their top virtual care platform of choice was Zoom, some patients could not meet-up due to barriers of lacking a smartphone, tablet, or computer device; the ability to pay for connectivity to the Internet; or the know-how to be able to access that well-intentioned “digital front door” to a virtual visit.

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The Digital Consumer, Increasingly Connected to Health Devices; Parks Associates Kicking Off #CES2021

Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

Data literacy, the ability to comprehensive one’s “numbers” displayed in lab test results and other patient-facing clinical communications.

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While Costs Are A Top Concern Among Most U.S. Patients, So Are Challenges of Poverty, Food, and Housing

Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Microsoft is working with Humana on how to leverage data to help people age in place safely and health-fully. Humana connects with consumers on issues of loneliness and mental health through its campaign with spokespeople Nick Jonas, Queen Latifah and Ted Danson.

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Well-Being Burnout – Lululemon’s 4th Annual Study Into Our Pressured Lives

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

How to combat well-being burnout? The data highlights the top pressure points fueling the wellbeing cycle: 61% of those surveyed say they experience overwhelming societal expectations to appear well. 53% say there is a lot of conflicting information about the best ways to improve wellbeing.

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It Could Take Five Generations for a Low-Income US Family to Reach Average Income in America

Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2018

Social mobility in America has a lot of friction: children of wealthier people tend to grow into affluence, and children of low-income parents tend to struggle to move up the income and education ladder, according to A Broken Social Elevator: How to Promote Social Mobility , a new report from the OECD.

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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

communities, worsening health disparities that grew in the COVID pandemic. Health Populi’s Hot Points : Two obvious places for our Hot Points to focus her are the issues of front-loading mental health and social care into primary care, and how to re-imagine primary care placing people/patients at home in the center of that dynamic.

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How Emotions and “Nocebos” Get in the Way of Preventive Healthcare

Health Populi

AUGUST 1, 2018

” How to deal with these challenges? The authors cite a study published in The Lancet in 2017 that found that 20% of the users of statins (to lower the risk of heart disease) cited negative side effects such as muscle pain compared with those who were taking a placebo, unsure they were ingesting a statin.

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Featured Health IT Job: Data Scientist

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Position Summary: This dynamic team is seeking a Data Scientist for the Analytics team within NYeC to use directly contribute to moving the needle on New York’s pressing healthcare needs you will leverage HIE and savvy data analytics to serve public health needs, address health inequities, and mature NYeC’s analytics capacity.

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Seattle Coronavirus Care: Short in Staff, Supplies and Space

Henry Kotula

MARCH 16, 2020

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched this initiative — called the National Health Security Preparedness Index — in 2013 to comprehensively evaluate the nation’s readiness for public health emergencies. points out of a possible 10, above the national average.

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Employers seeking a ?source of truth? for coronavirus guidance

Henry Kotula

MAY 23, 2020

As states begin to reopen, employers need guidance to ensure safe, COVID-free operations, and are beginning to call local health systems for advice on how to manage this daunting task.

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Patient Advocacy Groups Take In Millions From Drugmakers. Is There A Payback?

Insulin Nation

APRIL 9, 2018

When so many patient organizations are being influenced in this way, it can shift our whole approach to health policy, taking away from the interests of patients and towards the interests of industry,” McCoy said. To learn how Kaiser Health News created the Pre$cription for Power database, read the full methodology, here.

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Addressing Lives and Livelihoods with a Whole-of-Government Approach – The First Wave of Biden Health Policy

Health Populi

JANUARY 27, 2021

President Biden’s first few days on the job gave us a very clear view on how he sees conquering COVID: through a whole-of-government approach to public policies that bolster directly addressing the virus, along with the many forces shaping how we got here and how to come out of the pandemic era stronger.

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Melinda Gates: This is not a once-in-a-century pandemic.

Henry Kotula

APRIL 21, 2020

That’s why it’s so important to remind people the only tools we have today are physical distancing, handwashing, and wearing masks in public. How to distribute a coronavirus vaccine to the masses: 1. That’s been in existence since 1990, so we know how to do that piece. We know how to deal with measles.

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There’s a Health Gap for Women Around the World – and the World Economic Forum Has a Blueprint to Fix It

Health Populi

JANUARY 21, 2025

Even though women comprise one-half of the world’s population, their health outcomes and inputs do not match up to men’s: there’s a women’s health gap on Planet Earth. healthy days per woman per year.

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Emerging with A Stronger Healthcare System Post-COVID: NAM’s Lessons Learned

Health Populi

APRIL 8, 2021

health care system that existed before the public health crisis. What lessons can be learned from the COVID-19 stress-test to build American health care back better? health system, including 637 health systems, two-thirds of which are not-for-profit and most operating in one state.

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Data Well-Being: A Pillar of Health Citizenship for US Consumers

Health Populi

AUGUST 28, 2020

Last year, MITRE developed An Ethical Framework for the Use of Consumer-Generated Data in Health Care, to guide organizations holding peoples’ personal health information on how to be good data stewards and citizens.

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Longevity Stalls Around the World And Wealth, More Concentrated

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The Economist special report, Poverty in America , included essays addressing poverty, how to measure it, and American poverty’s impact on children and people of color. But in the latter five-year period, 2012-2017, life expectancy gains in the U.S.

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Social Determinants of Health Risks Challenge the Promise of Hospital-to-Home

Health Populi

MAY 31, 2022

You can read and glean more insights about unpaid caregivers’ mental health and financial stress in this McKinsey interview with Alex , and watch the videos as Alex explains how to spot the “red light” of intensity and lift up caregivers so people can heal at home…and their loving caregivers be supported along their care journeys… (..)

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The Healthiest Communities Are Built on Education, Good Food, Mindfulness, and the Power of Love

Health Populi

MAY 21, 2018

Each of us four participants came to the conversation with a point-of-view: Lauren is a zero-waste advocate, sharing knowledge and hacks about how to simplify life to reduce personal, physical, and financial friction, and simply ask, “what makes you happy?” Ellwood , journalist.

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The Healthiest Communities Are Built on Education, Good Food, Mindfulness, and the Power of Love

Health Populi

MAY 24, 2018

Each of us four participants came to the conversation with a point-of-view: Lauren is a zero-waste advocate, sharing knowledge and hacks about how to simplify life to reduce personal, physical, and financial friction, and simply ask, “what makes you happy?” Ellwood , journalist.

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The Healthiest Communities Are Built on Education, Good Food, Mindfulness, and the Power of Love

Health Populi

MAY 22, 2018

Each of us four participants came to the conversation with a point-of-view: Lauren is a zero-waste advocate, sharing knowledge and hacks about how to simplify life to reduce personal, physical, and financial friction, and simply ask, “what makes you happy?” Ellwood , journalist.

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The Healthiest Communities Are Built on Education, Good Food, Mindfulness, and the Power of Love

Health Populi

MAY 21, 2018

Each of us four participants came to the conversation with a point-of-view: Lauren is a zero-waste advocate, sharing knowledge and hacks about how to simplify life to reduce personal, physical, and financial friction, and simply ask, “what makes you happy?” Ellwood , journalist.

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Hims & Hers Welcomes Five New Experts to Its Medical Advisory Board

Digital Health Global

MARCH 16, 2023

Dr. Broussard volunteers her time to teach medical students and residents how to treat obesity. Dr. Chacko has been recognized as an Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine by the National Academy of Medicine and as a member of the Delta Omega Honorary Society of Public Health. She received her M.D.

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Juneteenth 2020: Inequality and Injustice in Health Care in America

Health Populi

JUNE 19, 2020

First, what we in public health circles have been coining the social determinants of health have revealed themselves to be the “moral determinants of health.” Nothing you can say, but you can learn how to play the game. Nothing you can do, but you can learn how to be you in time. It’s easy.

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Food Trends and Hunger in the Pandemic – the Importance of Food Security in Health and Economic Security

Health Populi

JANUARY 29, 2021

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic changed all kinds of aspects of our daily lives, not the least of which were our food habits — how we shopped for food, how we bought food, how we cooked and baked from scratch, and how our tastes and nutritional choices changed with our #StayHome and #WorkFromHome lifestyles.

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Health Care Nation – How to Inspire a Rosa Parks Moment for Healthcare in America?

Trust in Health Care 5 Years After COVID Began – an Edelman Trust Barometer Update

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What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

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In the Past Ten Years, Workers’ Health Insurance Premiums Have Grown Much Faster Than Wages

People in the U.S. Without the Internet Were More Likely To Die in the Pandemic

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

The Coronavirus Impact on American Life, Part 2 – Our Mental Health

1 in 2 U.S. Women (“The Bedrock of Society”) Self-Ration Care – the Latest Deloitte Findings

The U.S. is a Nation in Pain – America’s Life Expectancy Fell Again in 2016

So Many Records, So Little Time: How to Manage Burgeoning Health Plan Requests

My ABCovid-19 Journal – Day 4 of 5, Letters “P” through “T”

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

The Health Care Cost Curve is Bending Down – A New View from Deloitte

“Healthcare Isn’t Healthy:” the Global Challenge of Health Equity, and Calls-to-Action

Addressing Health Equity Must Include Digital Equity Beyond Access To Medical Services and Insurance

Genentech’s Look Into the Mirror of Health Inequities

How Health Gets Built – The Building H Index Thinking Health-By-Design

Isn’t It Eyeconic? Vision Care in the Evolving Health Care Ecosystem

Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: An Introduction

Telehealth Update from the AMA – Setting the Context for ATA 2022

The Digital Consumer, Increasingly Connected to Health Devices; Parks Associates Kicking Off #CES2021

While Costs Are A Top Concern Among Most U.S. Patients, So Are Challenges of Poverty, Food, and Housing

Well-Being Burnout – Lululemon’s 4th Annual Study Into Our Pressured Lives

It Could Take Five Generations for a Low-Income US Family to Reach Average Income in America

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

How Emotions and “Nocebos” Get in the Way of Preventive Healthcare

Featured Health IT Job: Data Scientist

Seattle Coronavirus Care: Short in Staff, Supplies and Space

Employers seeking a ?source of truth? for coronavirus guidance

Patient Advocacy Groups Take In Millions From Drugmakers. Is There A Payback?

Addressing Lives and Livelihoods with a Whole-of-Government Approach – The First Wave of Biden Health Policy

Melinda Gates: This is not a once-in-a-century pandemic.

There’s a Health Gap for Women Around the World – and the World Economic Forum Has a Blueprint to Fix It

Emerging with A Stronger Healthcare System Post-COVID: NAM’s Lessons Learned

Data Well-Being: A Pillar of Health Citizenship for US Consumers

Longevity Stalls Around the World And Wealth, More Concentrated

Social Determinants of Health Risks Challenge the Promise of Hospital-to-Home

The Healthiest Communities Are Built on Education, Good Food, Mindfulness, and the Power of Love

The Healthiest Communities Are Built on Education, Good Food, Mindfulness, and the Power of Love

The Healthiest Communities Are Built on Education, Good Food, Mindfulness, and the Power of Love

The Healthiest Communities Are Built on Education, Good Food, Mindfulness, and the Power of Love

Hims & Hers Welcomes Five New Experts to Its Medical Advisory Board

Juneteenth 2020: Inequality and Injustice in Health Care in America

Food Trends and Hunger in the Pandemic – the Importance of Food Security in Health and Economic Security

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