Health Populi

MAY 1, 2019

Today, the Brookings Institution convened a meeting on the funding for social determinants of health to address disparities, costs, and quality of healthcare in America. public health — uniquely American versus the rest of the developed world.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 22, 2020

In health care, these would be our honest-and-ethical front-line workers — nurses, physicians, and pharmacists, the latest Gallup Poll on the question learned (described here in Health Populi). where private sector organizations began to more visibly take on public health objectives and missions.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 4, 2020

The jobs least likely to be able to work from home, these Bureau of Labor Statistics demonstrate , including childcare workers, retail employees, cleaning staff, cooks and food servers, and nursing aides. ” .

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Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2022

Following the Uvalde, Texas, school shootings, many healthcare advocacy organizations, professional societies, and health system executives came out loud, clear, and assertive about the role of guns in public health and impact on the health system. As physicians, our mission is to heal and to maintain health.

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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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Health Populi

JULY 5, 2023

The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) turns 75 today. As The Lancet stated on July 1, 2023, “Strengthening of primary and community care, public health, and broader preventive measures beyond the health sector” will be an important remedy to assure NHS survival and effectiveness. health care system?”

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

The authors suggest that investing more in prevention and health promotion for these groups could improve health outcomes and get to more equitable spending levels. ” Next, let’s visit the article looking at Trends in Differences in Health Status and Health Care Access and Affordability by Race and Ethnicity in the U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This time around for the 2021 research into health equity, Genentech polled 2,200 U.S. Furthermore, Genentech added health care providers into the study subject mix: they polled 403 HCPs covering physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and physician assistants.

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Health Populi

MAY 9, 2024

While telehealth can be a solution for addressing health equity and access gaps, some of the retail/consumer-driven programs may exacerbate disparities in access to medicines that can help address public health epidemics.

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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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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2019

in fact devotes fewer hospital beds, physicians and nurses to health care delivery compared with other countries. Increasingly, as patients bear more first-dollar costs through high-deductible health plans, co-payments and co-insurance sharing, the patient-as-payor has become more sensitive to these prices.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Health consumers absolutely want to engage across all industry segments for health, we learned from the Edelman Health Engagement Barometer back in 2010 (shown in the bar chart here taken from my book HealthConsuming ).

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Health Populi

JULY 4, 2022

healthcare professional or visit a doctor/nurse when they’re feeling unwell,” GWI observed in the report. Health Populi’s Hot Points: U.S. consumers are currently facing inflation at a 40-year high, discussed here in Health Populi.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

House of Representatives passed by a 416-12 vote the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID–19 Act of 2021 , which would extend the telehealth flexibilities put in place during the public health emergency until the end of 2024. Policy and reimbursement consultancy Applied Policy hired Steven Johnson as Health Policy Director.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

The following is a list of legislative activities compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (AR, MS, and TN). 1/11/18: Introduced and referred to Public Health and Human Services Committee. LEGISLATION. Pending Legislation. Mississippi.

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Henry Kotula

MARCH 16, 2020

While Washington state has a robust system for detecting and monitoring infectious diseases, it has struggled to build the capacity to respond to emergencies like the coronavirus outbreak, according to a review of public data and interviews. The nurse did not want to be named for fear of reprisal by Swedish.

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Enzyme Health

JUNE 19, 2019

CCHP: CCHP stands for the Center for Connected Health Policy and is a non-profit that has been designated the national telehealth policy resource center. The organization researches telehealth policy issues and keeps updated information on state telehealth laws and reimbursement.

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JUNE 27, 2018

Digital health improves service delivery and clinical outcomes, and we know that cannot happen if we don’t look at the data." 1) Jembi - Rwanda Health Information Exchange (RHIE) The RHIE project comprises of an international project team and is funded by the IDRC, Rockefeller Foundation, PEPFAR and the HIPPP initiative.

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Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 2, 2018

The University of Ottawa Heart Institute’s Telehome Monitoring Program also has patients sending in their data with a home monitor, and a cardiac nurse reviews the data daily and follows up as needed. Patients then get automated self-care instructions based on their data and their healthcare providers get alerted if necessary.

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Henry Kotula

MARCH 19, 2020

Instead, a neurologist would assess the patient on a mobile screen from far away, with local nursing staff and doctors aiding him or her. Physical exams are the bedrock of how doctors and nurses assess patients. I had been skeptical of telemedicine going in. Despite her physical remoteness, she connected with him, and he opened up.

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Connected Health Initiative

JUNE 24, 2020

In this blog post, we will explore the three key challenges that previously limited the impact of connected health technologies, the myriad of temporary policy changes recently made to address the COVID-19 public health emergency, and the opportunities and challenges that still remain.

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2025

While each goal on its own is a critical driver of high performing health systems, working the five as a strategic quintet can benefit individual patients, families, communities, and the nations that fund (or share in funding) health care services to the country’s residents.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Department of Health and Human Services announced this week that it was making almost $48 million available in American Rescue Plan funding for public health capacity in rural and tribal communities, through the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Federal Office of Rural Health Policy.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

The high-deductible health plan design in fact prevents many people from seeking preventive care or testing: uninsured patients could pay at least $500 for a test, and a 10-day hospital stay can tally $75,000 according to Gerard Anderson , professor of public health at Johns Hopkins.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Translated into English, the two sentences say: Health is the same for everyone, and a right to be spread through Italy. Would that we in America could embrace such a public health message for all. The post Slow Food, Slow Medicine: What Italy Can Teach America About Health appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

We can’t expect the health care system — hospitals, physicians and nurses, pharmacists and life science companies — to solve this problem for patients and caregivers. The bottom line: those who are more connected to their community report 16% greater well-being and are more likely to feel a sense of purpose.

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Henry Kotula

MAY 9, 2020

The group’s four doctors and two nurse practitioners quickly adapted to the coronavirus pandemic, sharply cutting back clinic hours and switching to virtual visits to keep patients and staff safe. Nearly 30 percent of the visits were virtual as doctors rushed to offer telemedicine as the safest alternative for their staff and patients.

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Health Populi

MARCH 8, 2022

In his work at Howard University and in Baltimore in the public health department, he learned to connect families with services they needed beyond medical care, for housing, community development, education, transportation — all, in his words, “pieces of the puzzle that go into what makes people healthy.”

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Henry Kotula

JULY 28, 2023

The series covered broad issues related to the healthcare workforce, economy, and health policy, and highlighted internal industry changes and trends in service delivery, quality, and equity. The most notable impact of the non-renewal of the PHE was the end of continuous Medicaid public health insurance coverage.

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Henry Kotula

MAY 1, 2020

Dive Insight: The new rules come out of the recent public health emergency declaration, building on others announced in late March and early April. In the past, only doctors, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and certain others could do so. economy, according to CMS, along with delivering expanded care to seniors.

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Henry Kotula

MARCH 17, 2020

And they could exacerbate a public health crisis that is already threatening to spiral out of control. Test samples will be sent to whichever private laboratories have capacity, patients will be transferred from overloaded hospitals to less-crowded locations and physicians and nurses will make greater use of telemedicine.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 5, 2021

health care system. Among the ten awards, I’ve selected three to highlight to synthesize one systemic issue that has plagued America’s response to the public health crisis. 7 – Nurse claims North Texas Hospital fired her because she wanted to wear a medical mask (discussed above). #6

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

concerned about state citizens’ public health in the era of COVID-19. voting in 2020 has everything to do with our health baked into every aspect of our lives. The post Voting for Health in 2020 appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. Early voting via absentee and mail-in ballots has increased dramatically in many U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 13, 2022

Three health care professions rank in the top four of the most honest and ethical rankings in Gallup’s annual poll on honesty and ethics in professions. And nurses are at the top of the list for the 20th year in a row. million nursing professionals. and other countries’) health care systems.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 18, 2021

A majority of Democrats, Independents, and Republicans agree that nurses are underpaid. Most Americans across political parties also believe that hospital executives are overpaid , according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. 17% of people said pharmacists are underpaid.

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Health Populi

MARCH 24, 2020

.” This is the issue of “act now:” #StayHome, mandate social distancing nationwide across all fifty states and all U.S. The second chart illustrates the dynamics of the fiscal story of the COVID-19 pandemic: household economics, consumer demand for goods, supply chains, employers and business impacts.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 31, 2025

” Data point two: patient access to health care services can be fragmented and inconsistent depending on several factors — especially having health insurance, having a usual source for primary care, and living in a community with retail pharmacies (versus a neighborhood considered a pharmacy desert).

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