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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.

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Physicians’ Confidence In and Use of AI is Rising, AMA Finds – Coupling Demand With Many Enabling Factors

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

This is the simple, crucial, voice of user-centered design — that the actual people using a technology or service should be part of the design input, the process, and testing, and in this case, the leadership for advocating the AI program. As we say in patient engagement and advocacy mantras, “Nnthing about me, without me.”

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The Top Patient Safety Risks in 2025 Are Mostly About the “Human OS” – Reading ECRI’s Annual Report

Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2025

.” In their methodology for curating this list, ECRI takes what they call a total systems safety (TSS) approach incorporating four pillars which together drive patient safety: Patient & family engagement Learning system Workforce safety & wellness, and, Culture, leadership, & governance.

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Bridging Innovation & Patient Care: The Growing Role of AI

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Beyond Directories: The Real Impact of Accurate Provider Data in Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Erin holds a Master of Science in Health Policy and Management from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a Bachelor of Science in Policy Analysis and Management from Cornell University. Her leadership has made her a key voice in healthcare standards and policy.

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Beyond Care and Outcomes, Hospitals Must Deliver on Civics, Inclusivity, Equity, and Value – Lown Institute’s Best Hospitals

Health Populi

JULY 8, 2020

Then there’s more, Lown Institute notes: Civic leadership. Beyond patient outcomes, smaller hospitals tended to score higher on civic leadership and value of care in this analysis. The Institute was surprised by the similarity of nonprofit and for-profit hospitals for civic leadership. Inclusivity. Pay equity, and.

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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. Kavita Patel to assert in the first panel of the day that, “2713 is my favorite number.”

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Our Home Is Our Health Hub: CTA and CHI Align to Address Digital and Health Equity

Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2020

.” The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and the Connected Health Initiative (CHI) are the two organizations coming together to address an inequity that’s been made so obvious during the COVID-19 pandemic: connectivity, software, and hardware access for people to work, live, educate, and access health care from home.

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One Way to Improve U.S. Healthcare, Lower Costs and Drive Outcomes? “Unvendor,” Asserts Dr. Harm Scherpbier in His New Book

Health Populi

MARCH 20, 2025

But you need to open the door yourself, Harm encourages health IT buyers. Get FHIR, hire people who know interoperability, and make the investment on the health IT leadership side. health care providers operating on slim margins.

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Trust and Grievance in 2025: The Edelman Trust Barometer on MLK Jr. Day Converging with the World Economic Forum Kick-Off and the Next U.S. President’s Inauguration

Health Populi

JANUARY 19, 2025

President to assume the leadership of the Executive Branch of the American government, we must keep eyes wide open, and hearts too, to address the Grievance Crisis as identified by the Edelman Trust Barometer — especially for health and well-being across all dimensions of our lives , around the world.

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HLTH 2024: What are the key talking points likely to be?

Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The challenges and opportunities of integrating social determinants of health into care delivery. Health Policy: The impact of healthcare policy on patient outcomes and access to care. Healthcare Technology Thought Leadership from Nelson Advisors – Market Insights, Analysis & Predictions.

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American Hospital Association, Johns Hopkins and others launch pro-telehealth campaign

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2021

This most recent effort has brought together a wide range of healthcare representatives, including: Adventist Health Policy Association. Executives for Health Innovation. Health Innovation Alliance. Healthcare Leadership Council. Included Health. Alliance for Connected Care. American Heart Association.

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Think Quintuple Aim This Week at #HIMSS25

Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2025

Enhance the health care experience. Shortly thereafter, I did an analysis for HIMSS’ leadership on the emergence of the patient voice and how it could play into HIMSS’s mission which, until then, was quite institutional and provider-focused.

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A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

That Love translates, operationally and in health care law and workflows, as respect, health literacy and user-centered design principles (privacy-by-design, equity-by-design, and so on), and enabling health consumer autonomy and accessibility — that is, the right to quality, affordable care.

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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? A2 from AMJ: The ATA was working with leadership/telehealth champions in Congress the prior week and the week leading up to the vote. Congressional leadership on February 28 2020.

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Rebuilding Resilience, Trust, and Health – Deloitte’s Latest on Health Care and Sustainability

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Deloitte has been talking about resilience in leadership across all industries, globally, throughout the pandemic. Deloitte’s Global CEO, addressed four key stakeholder groups for resilience and sustainability: our people/workforce, organizations, society, and leadership’s ability to lead. In July 2020, Punit Renjen.

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Charlotte Refsum and Markus Bolton announced for Rewired 2025

DigitalHealth

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Charlotte Refsum, director of health policy at the Tony Blair Institute and Markus Bolton, CEO at Graphnet will speak at Rewired 2025.

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Charlotte Refsum to sit on data and tech group for 10 year plan

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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.

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What to Expect For Health/Care at CES 2024

Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2024

This innovator positions itself as “dataware for food managers” and offers several solutions — including helping clients manage diet and promote health eating, leveraging food raw data. Sleep as medicine — Sleep issues are an underlying factor for many chronic conditions, and good sleep bolsters well-being.

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Abridge Names Chief Clinical Officer: Dr. Tina Shah, Former Senior Advisor, Office of the U.S. Surgeon General and Practicing Pulmonary and Critical Care Physician

Digital Health Global

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Shah will lead Abridge strategy and clinical insights PITTSBURGH–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Abridge , the leader in generative AI for clinical documentation, announced today that healthcare workforce expert Dr. Tina Shah will join its leadership team as Chief Clinical Officer. federal health policy.

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Addressing Patient Health Information In-Security at HIMSS 2018

Health Populi

MARCH 8, 2018

Privacy and cybersecurity ranked the second highest priority to hospitals and healthcare providers polled in HIMSS 2018 Healthcare Leadership Survey. Providers put patient safety as #1.

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TEFCA’s Moment and Policy Changes on the Horizon: A Conversation with Eric Musser at NCQA

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Through its advocacy and collaborative programs, NCQA provides a platform for stakeholders to influence the policies and standards that will shape the future of healthcare. Learn more about NCQA at [link] Listen and subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today Interviews Podcast to hear all the latest insights from experts in healthcare IT.

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

Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

It feels like the vision industry is at an inflection point at this moment, I intuited during yesterday’s convening of Decoding the Consumer: The new science of customer behavior, the theme of the 13th annual global leadership summit hosted by Vision Monday, a program of Jobson Medical Information which is part of the WebMD family.

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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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This Mission is Possible: Achieving Better Data in Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2023

Sarah collaborates with several teams at ReMedi , including leadership, data migration, chronic care management, and health policy. Sarah’s leadership and direction as a nurse play an integral role in improving the adoption of the EHR for clinicians.

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Social Determinants of Health – My Early Childhood Education and Recent Learnings, Shared at the HealthXL Global Gathering

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

We cannot expect even the most well-intentioned health care stakeholder organizations alone to provide the sole prescription to the epidemic of health disparities and inequities.

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Policy Changes: Their Role in Advancing Health Equity, How to Advocate for Them, and What Other Policies Need to be Implemented

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Ryan Bengtson, CEO at Panda Health Policy change is critical to advancing health equity because it determines access and reimbursement. Weve already seen the impact policy change can have when telehealth waivers were issued to address the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Rwanda : The Digital Health Pioneer

Lloyd Price

JUNE 27, 2018

In order to achieve strong and sustainable digital health systems, the African Alliance advocates for in-country leadership, technical capacity and digital innovation to be fostered across the continent. African government leaders play a vital role in developing national digital health systems.

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Black Opal Ventures: Women-led VC Fund Investing in Technology to Revolutionize Industries

Digital Health Global

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Bishop combines her medical expertise with extensive experience in healthcare leadership, digital health, clinical practice, and start-ups. Tanghal is a venture capitalist with 20 years of experience investing in more than forty early-to-late-stage companies globally.

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The who, what, when, where, and why of Cochrane

Society for Participatory Medicine

OCTOBER 13, 2018

Archie Cochrane influenced the thinking, and practice, of many other clinicians with his thought leadership on practice variation, practice standardization, and the use of RCTs to fine tune medical science. One of the people he influenced was Iain Chalmers, who, in 1993, founded the Cochrane Collaboration in Archie Cochrane’s memory.

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Payments, Price Transparency, GIS + EMS Response Times & Vendor Management at ViVE2023

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 6, 2023

I had the chance to catch up with her at #ViVE2023 just after she presented with Dr. Benjamin Weston, Chief Health Policy Advisor and Director of Medical Services for Milwaukee County. Her passion for improving healthcare through the use of GIS technology is infectious.

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CEO Roundtable Policy Summit 2016

Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health

MAY 4, 2016

While many companies offer workplace health programs, program quality and outcomes data vary, so there are unanswered questions about the most cost-effective strategies to improve employee health and well-being. The policy summit focused on issues critical to improving the health of our Nation’s workforce.

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Biofourmis Raises Additional Funding from Intel Capital in Series D Extension and Names Top Healthcare Leaders to its Board

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2022

Dr. Jain, a board-certified internal medicine physician, has 20 years of experience in clinical medicine, health policy, managed care and healthcare delivery leadership. Jain contributes healthcare delivery reform insight.

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Reed Franklin - a Colleague and a Friend

LinkousThink

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

His professionalism and quality of leadership raised the visibility of this organization within the nation's capitol. He was well known among Washington health-policy insiders and used his connections, his knowledge of the political process and expertise in government affairs to move our agenda forward.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: An Introduction

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Complementing this penalty, the Office of Health Policy within HHS released a report measuring the benefits of addressing SDoH in healthcare. The nonprofit Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) funded a roundtable on sharing SDoH data, organized and led by the Center for Open Data Enterprise (CODE).

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Bonus Features – July 31, 2022 – House passes bill to extend telehealth flexibility to 2024, only 60% of practices hit their 2021 revenue goal, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

Value-based payment platform provider Clarify Health launched Clarify Access , an analytics tool designed to help pharma companies develop market access strategies. Policy and reimbursement consultancy Applied Policy hired Steven Johnson as Health Policy Director.

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By-Latinos, For-Latinos Healthcare Startup Zócalo Health Closes $5 Million in Funding to Launch Primary Care Services

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Zócalo Health is available to individuals living in California. Erik is a healthcare tech strategist with more than 20 years of leadership experience. In August 2021, he founded Zócalo Health to deliver a first-class family medicine experience for the Latino community. About Erik Cardenas.

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Precision Medicine and Digital Health : Could Rwanda become Africa’s Healthcare leader?

Lloyd Price

AUGUST 27, 2018

Developing a precision-medicine-ready system using cancer as a starting point can inform health policies, data systems, laboratory networks, and diagnostic capacity growth while stemming rising mortality rates. Furthermore, these developments will also support diagnosing and treating other diseases.

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Health Recovery Solutions Closes a $10 Million Growth Investment Led by Edison Partners

Health Recovery Solutions

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Edison Partners brings a wealth of expertise in healthcare technology and we look forward to their leadership as we accelerate the development of new products and services. Our platform is a fundamental tool for reducing the cost of care and readmissions," said Jarrett Bauer, co-founder and CEO, HRS.

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Health Equity: Searching for a New Angle

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

By enabling patients to receive care in rural areas or non-traditional settings, or to access technology that is customized for their specific language and health literacy levels, RPM can reduce or eliminate many social determinants of health barriers and improve access to care for individuals.

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Good Ideas Must Be Evaluated

CMS.gov

MARCH 14, 2019

Leadership. I’ve heard the derisive comments from those in the health policy stratosphere that prefer centralized government command and control of health care in America. Good Ideas Must Be Evaluated. Jeremy.Booth@c…. Thu, 03/14/2019 - 17:33. Seema Verma. Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

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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.

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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. ” The plotline goes….

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#TweetRegret?

Docnotes

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

A provocative tweet can have broad impact, can demonstrate thought leadership, and can generate conversations that make the world a better place. people have even lost their jobs due to things they have posted online. But there’s a positive side too. Message: be a careful but provocative tweeter. If you choose to use this medium.

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

Henry Kotula

APRIL 21, 2020

‘We will absolutely have more of these.’ ’ The billionaire philanthropist predicts a timeline for going back to normal. Business Insider spoke with Melinda Gates about COVID-19, the prospect and timeline of making an effective vaccine, and how the world will be permanently changed by the coronavirus.

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

Physicians’ Confidence In and Use of AI is Rising, AMA Finds – Coupling Demand With Many Enabling Factors

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The Top Patient Safety Risks in 2025 Are Mostly About the “Human OS” – Reading ECRI’s Annual Report

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Beyond Directories: The Real Impact of Accurate Provider Data in Healthcare

Beyond Care and Outcomes, Hospitals Must Deliver on Civics, Inclusivity, Equity, and Value – Lown Institute’s Best Hospitals

Value-Based Health Care Needs All Stakeholders at the Table – Especially the Patient

Our Home Is Our Health Hub: CTA and CHI Align to Address Digital and Health Equity

One Way to Improve U.S. Healthcare, Lower Costs and Drive Outcomes? “Unvendor,” Asserts Dr. Harm Scherpbier in His New Book

Trust and Grievance in 2025: The Edelman Trust Barometer on MLK Jr. Day Converging with the World Economic Forum Kick-Off and the Next U.S. President’s Inauguration

HLTH 2024: What are the key talking points likely to be?

American Hospital Association, Johns Hopkins and others launch pro-telehealth campaign

Think Quintuple Aim This Week at #HIMSS25

A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity

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

Rebuilding Resilience, Trust, and Health – Deloitte’s Latest on Health Care and Sustainability

Charlotte Refsum and Markus Bolton announced for Rewired 2025

Charlotte Refsum to sit on data and tech group for 10 year plan

What to Expect For Health/Care at CES 2024

Abridge Names Chief Clinical Officer: Dr. Tina Shah, Former Senior Advisor, Office of the U.S. Surgeon General and Practicing Pulmonary and Critical Care Physician

Addressing Patient Health Information In-Security at HIMSS 2018

TEFCA’s Moment and Policy Changes on the Horizon: A Conversation with Eric Musser at NCQA

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

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

This Mission is Possible: Achieving Better Data in Healthcare

Social Determinants of Health – My Early Childhood Education and Recent Learnings, Shared at the HealthXL Global Gathering

Policy Changes: Their Role in Advancing Health Equity, How to Advocate for Them, and What Other Policies Need to be Implemented

Rwanda : The Digital Health Pioneer

Black Opal Ventures: Women-led VC Fund Investing in Technology to Revolutionize Industries

The who, what, when, where, and why of Cochrane

Payments, Price Transparency, GIS + EMS Response Times & Vendor Management at ViVE2023

CEO Roundtable Policy Summit 2016

Biofourmis Raises Additional Funding from Intel Capital in Series D Extension and Names Top Healthcare Leaders to its Board

Reed Franklin - a Colleague and a Friend

Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: An Introduction

Bonus Features – July 31, 2022 – House passes bill to extend telehealth flexibility to 2024, only 60% of practices hit their 2021 revenue goal, and more

By-Latinos, For-Latinos Healthcare Startup Zócalo Health Closes $5 Million in Funding to Launch Primary Care Services

Precision Medicine and Digital Health : Could Rwanda become Africa’s Healthcare leader?

Health Recovery Solutions Closes a $10 Million Growth Investment Led by Edison Partners

Health Equity: Searching for a New Angle

Good Ideas Must Be Evaluated

Let’s Talk About a National Patient Identifier

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

#TweetRegret?

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

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