Health Populi

MARCH 20, 2025

I followed up my question about what behavior changes Harm would like to see when his health IT buyer colleagues might lean into Unvendor. He responded, If I am a CIO or CMIO and I have annual meeting with my big EMR vendor, they will use the word roadmap that is, were thinking about this, but we cant yet offer this to you.

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MARCH 10, 2025

” I am taking this last sentiment quite seriously today as I craft a new speech-talk for an upcoming meeting where I have been asked to discuss health equity in the context of high-cost health care.

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2025

As HIMSS 2025, the largest annual conference on health information and innovation meets up in Las Vegas this week, we can peek into what’s on the organization’s CEO’s mind leading up to the meeting in this conversation between Hal Wolf, CEO of HIMSS, and Gil Bashe, Managing Director of FINN Partners.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

“The simple fact is that the federal and state governments are doing almost nothing to help people who have a broadband service available that partially meets their needs but abuses them with regular price hikes, spotty reliability, and poor customer service.

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Health Populi

MARCH 27, 2025

Such was the case yesterday during a walking meeting through the Frist Art Museum in Nashville when I passed by this quilt, a multimedia work titled Still Life in Need by Lee Colvin, a local artist.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

For more on women and health policy in the 2024 election cycle, you can explore the Open Letter on the site of Women Healthcare Leaders for Progress , of which I am one of several hundred signing the Letter.

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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. Congress must act to expand patient choice in every American community, meet patients where they are, and bring health care into the 21st century. Alliance for Connected Care.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

This is my first of several posts discussing the self-care retail health phenomenon among consumers, and the business opportunity, as I’m spending the weekend with suppliers and retailers attending this meeting. In my role as health economist-advisor-trend weaver and data junkie, I’ve been collegial with GMDC for a few years.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2019

I have the opportunity, for which I’m so grateful, of not only attending this meeting but playing a role as a speaker, a sometimes stage “emcee,” and a keynote speaker. That, too, was a prime Dr. Topol moment, wearing his health policy hat: his belief that the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 2, 2021

"Modernizing telehealth policy to meet the moment" is one of lawmakers' most important responsibilities, said Rep. Harvard Medical School Associate Professor of Health Policy and Medicine Dr. Ateev Mehrota proposed a more measured approach. Doris Matsui, D-Calif.

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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

The ethos of the name and the intent of this law is a perfect vision for considering what we hear and learn this week coming out of the 2023 HIMSS Annual Conference as the meeting kicks off today. The meeting’s tagline this year is “Health That Connects + Tech That Cares.” First, the law.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

NABIP, whose members represent professionals in the health insurance benefits industry, drafted and adopted a new American Healthcare Consumer Bill of Rights launched at the meeting.

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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.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

If we begin to see a rapid rise in the number of COVID-19 cases, this restriction would limit many telehealth providers that do not currently serve Medicare populations from supporting and relieving pressure on local providers that would need help to meet increased demand from patients seeking care. Clearly, the U.S.

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ACA Times

JUNE 3, 2015

Officials from at least 16 states met in early May for a confidential, unannounced meeting to discuss options available to their states if the Supreme Court rules against the Obama administration in the King v. The Wall Street Journal disclosed the meeting. Burwell case. For questions about the ACA contact us here.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

in the current post-Dobbs health policy environment. One rationale for these vending machines, ASEC notes, is that, “Some college towns can be contraceptive deserts , lacking health centers offering the full range of methods to meet the needs of the number of women eligible for publicly funded contraception, as well.”

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 9, 2023

What if… you were given the opportunity to build a health system from scratch in this new era of platforms, cloud computing, AI and machine learning, curious-digital-empowered consumers, and collaborators in retail and community settings operating close to peoples’ homes and workplaces?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2023

A 2019 survey by the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation’s Office of Health Policy found that the highest rates of telehealth visits happened among people with Medicaid (29.3%) and Medicare (27.4%), Black individuals (26.8%), and those earning less than $25,000 (26.7%).

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 20, 2025

Tell us a little bit about yourself and Bamboo Health. My name is Vatsala Kapur, and I’m the Vice President of External Affairs at Bamboo Health. At Bamboo Health, were committed to transforming physical and behavioral health through innovative technology solutions.

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Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2018

To more effectively help patients manage diabetes , CentraForce Health used geospatial mapping of SBDoH data to develop deeper insights into peoples’ health needs and behaviors — such as eating fast food in the past 30 days, sufficient time to eat healthy food, and tendency to follow a doctor’s recommendations.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

“I’m in Berlin, and we don’t like walls,” Bart De Witte responded in a concluding Q&A session yesterday at the 2 nd Symposium on the Future of Health Systems, convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Porto on 5 th September. That design ethos speaks to equity and trust.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

There are green shoots in healthcare communities demonstrating that adopting a variety of digital health tools can boost economies. Among the clearest economic development rationales for digital health is for expanding telehealth in rural America.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2019

48% of Americans list ‘struggling to meet daily expenses despite working’ as a top-three risk in the next couple of years. In the U.S. summary of this study asking, How does the United States compare? the OECD notes in a section of “risks that matter, “Americans today feel financially insecure.

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Health Populi

JULY 9, 2019

” Financial toxicity can be a side effect when a health plan enrollee can’t or won’t spend money on care due to not meeting their deductible. As The Economist notes, transparency is an important factor for shedding some light on pricing.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2020

From WHO to the local-local level, my local news outlet Main Line Today offered a practical list of self-care items to attend to related to social distance impacts for managing our everyday stress, wellness, and emotional health.

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MARCH 21, 2019

I was grateful to have an opportunity to share my views with attendees on the vision patient as health consumer through the health economic lens. Marc Ferrara, CEO Information Services with Jobson, introduced the meeting with some context. The elephant in the room all day, I felt and said, was privacy — or lack thereof.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Addressing health equity starts with meeting patients where they are. The natural place to capture and display this type of information is in the Electronic Health Record (EHR). According to the WHO , health equity is achieved when everyone can attain their full potential for health and well-being. Occupation.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

The meeting will be a strategically important, as the title of the conference asks: “What Now? Follow the meeting on Twitter at #ATA2022. Among those doctors who were not providing telehealth by late 2021, just over one half never did so during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the 2021 Telehealth Survey Report from the AMA.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 7, 2019

We’d been trying to schedule meeting up to do a live podcast since February, and we finally got our mutual acts together on 6th August 2019. Marc Iskowitz, Executive Editor of MM&M, warmly welcomed me to the Haymarket Media soundproof studio in New York City yesterday.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Health Populi’s Hot Points: The EU Digital Single Market report on healthcare transformation gives us a snapshot of the consumer (EU health citizen) demand side for digital health access. What of the supply side and innovation to meet those needs?

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2019

“ATA” is the new three-letter acronym for the American Telemedicine Association, meeting today through Tuesday at the Convention Center in New Orleans. Ann Mond Johnson assumed the helm of CEO of ATA in 2018, and she’s issued a call-to-action across the health/care ecosystem for a delivery system upgrade.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 28, 2023

Those local skills included everything from kissing babies at county fairs, shaking hands door-to-door, attending local business meetings with the Kiwanis and other community organizations, and getting dollars earmarked for local projects (which Tip was legendary at securing).

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Health Populi

MAY 6, 2018

Millions of Americans who are “insured” are now considered “under-insured,” defined by the Commonwealth Fund as people who pay an insurance premium who also spend over 10% of household income on covering health care co-payments and coinsurance percentages, and meeting deductible limits.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2024

Connected heart health is a big segment for digital health at CES, including blood pressure, The CES 2024 Innovation Awards have anointed several heart-health innovators before the conference, seven of which are shown here in the diagram titled “Heart Health” curated from company press releases in advance of the meeting.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2024

Pick Two and Meet Me in the Futures The two that make me most nervous because they’re so bloody important, and for which I’m also quite uncertain, are these two: America’s social ethos on one end individualistic and at the other, community-driven; coupled with, Health care financing, thinking mostly public-sector driven versus private/commercial.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 2, 2023

DeBakey Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and chief of health policy, quality and informatics program at the Houston VA Center for Innovation in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety. Hardeep Singh is principal investigator. He is professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, staff physician at Michael E.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

AUGUST 4, 2022

The Uniform Telehealth Act was approved at July’s 131st Annual Meeting of the Uniform Law Commission (ULC). The ULC consists of lawyers in the US states and territories who meet to propose laws to address common issues. Reading Time: 3 minutes.

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