Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

Quincy, family and friends take on good health behaviors that create a flywheel virtuous cycle of others’ behaving well, with low levels of smoking, binge drinking, and other negative lifestyles. Health equity is prioritized in Quincy’s community as a community investment.

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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

JUNE 18, 2024

Health care access is a challenge in rural and urban areas, cities and suburbs, and across more demographic groups than you might realize, as we see wait times grow for appointments, primary care shortages, and delays in screening plaguing health systems around the world.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Identified in this second box from the study, these tactics include, Prioritizing treatment with GLP-1s focused on specific patient subpopulations Minimizing harms by providing the safest treatments in vulnerable populations Increasing accessibility assuring easy access to health care — especially by expanding university health insurance coverage (..)

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

Sean Lynch, Vice President of Clinical Operations at Curebase A major reason why health disparities exist in clinical trials today can be attributed to the burden traditional trial models place on participating patients. These practitioners ensure that all patients, regardless of socioeconomic status, receive the care they need.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2019

I addressed this as an emerging opportunity in 2012 in The Online Couch , a report I wrote for the California Healthcare Foundation documenting the need and growing supply side for telemental health services. health care system.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2022

People spend one-half of their lives in “less-than-good health,” we learn early in the paper, Adding years to life and life to years from the McKinsey Health Institute.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

Let’s travel to Shanghai, China where, “the covid-19 epidemic has brought millions of new patients online. Will the coronavirus inspire greater adoption of telehealth in the U.S.? They are likely to stay there,” asserts “ The smartphone will see you now ,” an article in the March 7th 2020 issue of The Economist.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

That’s the supply side of HLTH.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

Mental and behavioral health. Specialty care. Care coordination and continuity. Preventive and primary care. Acute, urgent, and same day care, and. Reasons for doing so, among over 50% of doctors, include: Medical and chronic disease management. Hospital or emergency room follow-up.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

Primary care in particular seems to be suffering, as visit volumes have yet to return to their 2019 levels. While 95% of organizations said digital engagement tools improve the patient experience, 42% said there are “significant gaps” between what patients expect and what they can provide.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Whether you’re a patient or a physician in the U.S., Congress can’t agree on much before the 2024 summer recess, there’s one bipartisan stroke of political pens in Washington, DC, that could provide some satisfaction for both patients and doctors: bring telehealth back to patients and providers permanently.

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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.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Patients are the new healthcare payors, and as such, taking on the role of health consumers. In fact, health and wellness consumers have existed since a person purchased the first toothpaste, aspirin, heating pad, and moisturizing cream at retail.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

“Digital transformation” is the corporate strategy flavor of the moment across industries, and the health are sector isn’t immune from the trend. As this 13th year of the annual Health 2.0

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2022

What is a “pharmacy” these days? You might have recently walked into a brick-and-mortar retail pharmacy. Or, you might have refilled a prescription to help you manage a chronic condition, online.

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2021

” That year the firm began to study the relevance of, well, relevance for organizations especially operating in the health/care ecosystem. Five years ago, in 2016, the W2O Group said that, “Relevance is reputation.” Relevance is built on recognizing, meeting and exceeding stakeholder expectations of organizations.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2022

The specialty care programs are delivered remotely by Biofourmis’ trained health navigators, who are frontline care coordinators, as well as a multidisciplinary team of licensed clinicians, including physicians, nurses and advanced practice providers. Dr. Jain contributes healthcare delivery reform insight.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 30, 2023

Ongoing collaboration and innovation are necessary to overcome the challenges in the health industry and ensure that patients have access to the care they need. Patient Experience In the US healthcare system, providing high-quality patient care is a top priority for healthcare leaders.

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Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Senior Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer of Northwell Health (New Hyde Park, N.Y.): Operationally, hospitals and health systems will be more designed around the patient experience rather than the patient accommodating to the hospital design and operations. David Rahija. Ronda Lehman, PharmD.

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2025

Telehealth and remote health monitoring, virtually “seeing” and treatment patients in lower cost settings (such as the home) is one key strategy for value-based care. diabetes, obesity, blood pressure).

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2022

Thus, millions of Americans continue to lack access to primary care compared with peers in other nations, according to a report from The Commonwealth Fund. The 2022 Fund report, P rimary Care in High-Income Countries: How the U.S. have a PCP relationship, compared with 71% of health citizens in Germany and the Netherlands.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

Remember the bulky Holter monitors worn at the waist to gather data about The AT-Patch from ATsens won an honoree award at CES 2021 , transforming the form factor and streamlining the patient experience of collecting electrocardiogram data over time.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Most patients have experienced frustrations – in the designer’s parlance, “friction” – when seeking routine care as well as during a routine medical appointment. Clearly, patients’ experiences as consumers of healthcare lack the service levels they expect as payors based on this MITRE-Harris Poll.

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Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

Public perception has not caught up to the reality that the lines between health care companies are so blurred at this point that it is becoming nearly impossible to tell the insurers from the providers from the pharma/medtech manufacturers from the retailers from the tech and data analytics companies.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 26, 2023

While the same proportion of Black and White patients say they are looking for a doctor with empathy and compassion, there are relatively large differences between patients based on their race, found in the Everyday Health-Castle Connolly Physician-Consumer study. consumers and 277 Castle Connolly health care professionals.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 21, 2022

The NielsenIQ construct here smartly observes, in the #7 driving force that will change how consumes care for their health, Policy, Legislation, & Governance.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2024

While not every aspect of medical care is shoppable, many factors are research-able and in doing so, bolsters a persons health literacy and empowerment. On the retail health DTC front, Hims & Hers launched a GLP-1 strategy going directly-to-consumers for compounded medicines during the drug shortage for GLP-1s.At

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The second plan ranked in customer sat was Kaiser Permanente, down one point from 78 to 77, followed by Aetna (merged with CVS Health in the past year) gaining one point to 76, and UnitedHealthcare, Cigna and the Blues in fourth through sixth places at or below the median customer sat index of 75, shown in the second chart.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The new year will see a “looming tsunami” of high prices in healthcare, regulation trumping health reform, more business deals reshaping the health/care industry landscape, and patients growing do-it-yourself care muscles, according to Top health industry issues of 2020: Will digital start to show an ROI from the PwC Health Research Institute. (..)

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2018

CVS Health’s acquisition of Aetna was approved this week by U.S. This post updates my initial thoughts on the deal, given the morphing US healthcare market on both the traditional health services front and fast-evolving retail health environment.

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Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Timoni, JD, an attorney and partner at the law firm Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook & Cooper, in Westfield, New Jersey, who represents healthcare providers in areas of reimbursement and managed care contracting. Some ways to do this are to offer better patient portals, expanded hours, improved access, and clear procedure pricing.

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Health Populi

MARCH 6, 2025

People define health across many life-flows: physical health, mental health, social health, appearance (“how I look impacts how I feel”) and, to be sure, financial well-being. In tracking this last health factor for 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.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

As humans have undergone personal digital transformations, living omni-channel and appreciating the conveniences that being switched-on can bring, there’s a growing demand for “analog wellness.”

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

In that vein, and converging with many news and policy events, I’m trend-weaving the latest insights into that most consumer-facing of the social determinants of health: food, and in particular, health consumers viewing and adopting food as part of their health and well-being moves.

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