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.

Health Policy 156

Health Policy Leadership Life Science Nursing 156

Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 16, 2023

A February 2023 report published by researcher Joanne Kim outlines the results of a two-month study of how data brokers sell sensitive data mental health data collected from mHealth mental health apps. These companies include BetterHelp , Cerebral, GoodRX, Monument, and Workit Health.

Mental health 99

Mental health mHealth HIPAA Health Data 99

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Health insurers in the state are now allowed to offer plans with limited benefits, escaping the rules for plans in the Affordable Care Act that provided for a list of covered benefits. I welcome Health Populi readers to comment on the 290-mile health policy chasm I’ve identified here. healthcare.

Health Policy 202

Health Policy Mental health Public Health 202

Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2025

The 2025 Medscape Physician Mental Health & Well-Being Report found that nearly one-half of U.S. Ironically, the adoption and implementation of electronic health records technology accelerate some aspects of burnout due to the systems lacking interoperability and user-centered design workflows.

Digital Health 177

Digital Health Medical Billing Primary Care Interoperability 177

Digital Health Global

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

million grant to Big Brothers Big Sisters of America (BBBS) to initiate and elevate mental health programs at chapters in the four geographies, including mental health first aid training for mentors and related coursework for youth. Today, there’s a critical need to provide young people with mental health supports.

Mental health 88

Mental health Health Policy Digital Health Public Health 88

Health Populi

MARCH 27, 2025

In my interpretation of this, through my lens Ill use when addressing a keynote audience today in Nashville, Im discussing some new-fangled drivers of health relevant to this image, connectivity and WiFi which emerged as a crucial determinant of health during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mental health 156

Mental health Telehealth Primary Care Patient Experience 156

Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Financial stress is a factor ranking high for people dealing with both mental health challenges and chronic health conditions. Our relationship with our self — “self-worth and purpose” — ranks high, too, for people dealing with a mental health condition. Looking under the 52% of U.S.

Mental health 196

Mental health Public Health Medicare Health Policy 196

Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

Those “waves of demand” TripleTree described will impact every segment of care delivery and sponsor, including small to mid-sized physician practices, employers, behavioral/mental health, public/government-sponsored health care programs, and the pharma and life science industry.

Telehealth 390

Telehealth Public Health Life Science Primary Care 390

Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2020

.” For everyone, social distancing could have devastating impacts on people dealing with depression, with the coronavirus sparking mental health concerns in the clinical psychology community. The World Health Organization organized resources for dealing with mental health crises during this pandemic.

Mental health 307

Mental health Medical Billing Public Health Connected Health 307

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Given what we-know-we-know now, what’s really protective at the root of the coronavirus public health crisis are prevention and resilience-bolstering factors like building and nurturing a strong primary care backbone, re-constructing a public health infrastructure and ethos, and addressing health equity. In the U.S.,

Primary Care 283

Primary Care Public Health Mental health Health Data 283

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.

Public Health 199

Public Health Health Policy Mental health Patient Experience 199

Health Populi

AUGUST 4, 2020

Along with the life-threatening impact of the coronavirus on physical health, and the accompanying mental health distress activated by self-distancing comes a third unintended consequence with the pandemic: a hard hit on women’s personal economies.

Mental health 424

Mental health Nursing Public Health Health Policy 424

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 17, 2023

State and local governments, along with non-profit organizations, educational institutions, and healthcare organizations are teaming up in Texas to tackle youth mental health. Youth Mental Health Crisis Mental health has long been a neglected area of healthcare, particularly when it comes to children and teenagers.

Mental health 60

Mental health Psychiatry Primary Care Healthcare IT 60

Health Populi

JANUARY 21, 2022

The altruistic need is inspiring several microcultures which NielsenIQ describes as: Aging with dignity, with independence and good health. Mental health advocacy, looking to end the stigma around mental health especially in workplace culture and health care.

Mental health 156

Mental health Health Policy Public Health Primary Care 156

Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Telehealth has increased access to mental health services, I’ve highlighted this Mental Illness Awareness Week here in Health Populi. But telehealth has also emerged as a preferred channel for routine health care services, we learn from J.D. Power’s 2022 Telehealth Satisfaction Study.

Telehealth 218

Telehealth Mental health Nursing Primary Care 218

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

When it comes to clinical specialties, the study found that before March 17, 2020, fewer than 2% of clinicians in each specialty delivered any outpatient care via telemedicine, with the exception of mental health clinicians. THE LARGER TREND.

Telehealth 218

Telehealth Telemedicine Health Policy Mental health 218

Health Populi

JUNE 29, 2022

Health Populi’s Hot Points: One of the most valuable insights the TCRS study considers is its looking into “Happiness and Health,” assessing peoples’ retirement dreams as well as retirement fears. This last chart organizes the Retirement Dreams data overall and by the 3 worker segments in the study.

Mental health 296

Mental health Medical Billing Health Policy 296

Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2020

In Part 2 of this story in tomorrow’s Health Populi blog, I’ll mine the Kaiser Family Foundation health tracking poll to explore how Americans are feeling about the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on our mental health…and circle back to how our personal economics impact our health economies and overall health and mental wellbeing.

Mental health 246

Mental health Public Health Health Policy 246

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. Climate Change and Health: Examining the health implications of climate change and strategies for sustainable healthcare practices.

Leadership 57

Leadership healthcare technology Digital Health Mental health 57

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Health is translating across all definitions for U.S. voters in November 2020: for health care and physical health, financial health, mental health, and societal health. And the energy to cast votes is a signal sparking Americans recognizing the importance of health citizenship.

eHealth 45

eHealth Mental health Nursing Public Health 45

Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2024

Whether dealing with migraines and mental health, heart conditions or diabetes, orthopedic and sports injury rehab or sleep disorders, #CES2024 will be a major stage for health/care.

Mental health 218

Mental health Digital Health Telehealth Health Policy 218

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In addition to highlighting the Patient’s Bill of Rights, NABIP’s keynotes and general sessions will speak to similar topics being brainstormed at VIVE this week — including mental health, maternal health, pharmacy and prescription drugs (pricing, PBMs), population health, and Medicare and Medicaid innovations.

HIPAA 354

HIPAA Public Health Telehealth Leadership 354

Health Populi

JULY 10, 2020

The most bullish clinicians about providing telehealth visits as an on-going alternative to in-office visits are behavioral/mental health providers and primary care physicians, 93% and 62% of whom expect to provide more telehealth to patients.

Telehealth 292

Telehealth Primary Care Mental health Patient Experience 292

Health Populi

AUGUST 12, 2024

Neither are caregiving costs for people aging at home with disability, whether physical or memory, mobility challenges, vision or hearing impairments, or mental health concerns. Among people 50 and over caregiving for loved ones, the chart lays out the incidence of health issues among folks being cared for.

Medicare 177

Medicare Mental health Medical Billing Health Policy 177

Health Populi

JULY 4, 2022

Lower income earners face an “uphill battle” when it comes to their mental health, GWI found. times more likely to say they have depression, also facing an under-supply of mental health providers. Furthermore, rural Americans were 1.5

Mental health 177

Mental health Digital Health Nursing Public Health 177

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 20, 2025

We all know about the behavioral health crisis in the world today. Plus, most of us face our own mental health challenges or know someone who does. The real questions are what can be done about it, is there access to behavioral health crisis support services that exist, and do the right people know about it?

Mental health 67

Mental health Primary Care Health Policy Telehealth 67

InTouch Health

APRIL 22, 2019

Increase Access to Mental Health Services with Telehealth Technology and Services Mental illness continues to be a major concern in the United States and across the globe. Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the U.S. The Global Mental Health Crisis Nearly one in five U.S. In the U.S.,

Mental health 44

Mental health Telehealth Health Policy Telemedicine 44

Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2022

I’ll point to one that’s become a key learning in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, which is mental health care. have a mental health provider in their practice, compared with 9 in 10 Dutch and Swedish primary care practices. communities, worsening health disparities that grew in the COVID pandemic.

Primary Care 156

Primary Care Mental health Telehealth Public Health 156

Health Populi

JANUARY 22, 2020

In the same year, Walmart expanded its community-based approach to health and wellness, relaunching Walmart Health primary care clinics and expanding mental health services. In 2019, Walmart took a stand when it re-imagined its sporting equipment and hunting aisles to stop stocking certain firearms.

BioTech 272

BioTech Primary Care Public Health Mental health 272

Health Populi

JUNE 21, 2019

HRIs research found an inflection growth point among employers offering health benefit programs addressing mental health and depression between 2016 and 2017 — growing from 44% of companies offering in 2016 to 66% in 2017 — that’s 50% growth year-on-year between 2016-17.

Mental health 153

Mental health Health Policy 153

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.

Digital Health 194

Digital Health Pharmaceuticals Health Policy Mental health 194

Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2019

After the most common patient diagnosis, acute upper respiratory infections (historically the most common complaint presenting in retail clinics), the second and third most frequent reasons for telehealth diagnoses were for mood/affective disorders and anxiety and other nonpsychotic mental disorder. That is, mental health issues.

Telehealth 206

Telehealth Telemedicine Mental health Primary Care 206

Lloyd Price

MAY 23, 2020

The aim of this study is to document initial observations from multiple digital services providers during the COVID-19 crisis, especially those related to mental health and wellbeing. Digital services providers reported a diverse range of mental health concerns.

Mental health 57

Mental health Digital Health Telehealth Health Policy 57

Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health

OCTOBER 23, 2018

With more than 44 million Americans having a diagnosable mental health condition—56 percent of which do not receive treatment—taskforces unite from various sectors in strengthening the nation’s mental health workforce. About the Center for Total Health . counties have no psychiatrists at all. Read the full story

Mental health 36

Mental health Health Policy 36

Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2022

In addition, the bill would expand eligible practitioners to provide telehealth such as occupational therapists, physical therapists, speech language pathologists and audiologists; FQHC’s and rural health clinics to provide virtual care; delaying the 6-month in-person requirement for mental health services delivered via telehealth until 152 days (..)

Telehealth 240

Telehealth Medicare Life Science Mental health 240

Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2018

The daily life of a person managing diabetes feels many costs: at work, on relationships, at play, during sleep, on time, on mental health, and to be sure, on personal finances. Finally, there’s mental health: over one-half of PwD are worried about the future, and 39% report depression.

Mental health 136

Mental health Primary Care Health Policy Public Health 136

Henry Kotula

OCTOBER 24, 2021

In the graphic above, we highlight how COVID has impacted the state of mental health across generations. . Mental health-related emergency department (ED) visits increased in 2020 across all age groups, with the steepest rise among adolescents. Younger Americans are faring much worse.

Mental health 41

Mental health Telemedicine Health Policy 41