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Telehealth used less in disadvantaged areas, Health Affairs study finds

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

A Health Affairs study found that telemedicine use during the COVID-19 pandemic was lower in communities with higher rates of poverty – suggesting that the industry must address the digital divide in order to ensure widespread access to virtual care. During the COVID-19 period of the study, researchers found that 30.1%

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USA Today Finds Hidden Common Ground Among Americans For Health Care

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Thus far, the series has covered climate change, and this month health care. In their study conducted in December 2020, U SA Today polled 1,020 adults age 18 and over in the USA TODAY/Public Agenda Hidden Common Ground Survey. This poll is published today in a four-page special section devoted to health care policy.

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In the Past Ten Years, Workers’ Health Insurance Premiums Have Grown Much Faster Than Wages

Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Even with that moderate increase, this post’s title reports the study headline that workers’ health insurance premiums continue to grow faster than wages: cumulatively since 2010, family premiums grew by 55% and deductibles, 11%. Workers’ earnings increased 27% in the period and inflation, 19%.

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People in the U.S. Without the Internet Were More Likely To Die in the Pandemic

Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2022

Access to the Internet has been a key determinant of health — or more aptly, death — during the COVID-19 pandemic. Americans lacked Internet access were more likely to die due to complications from the coronavirus, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open this month. COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 were preventable.

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The Patient as Consumer and Payer – A Focus on Financial Stress and Wellbeing

Health Populi

MAY 30, 2022

I wrote early on in the pandemic that mental health impacts would be the epidemic inside and beyond the coronavirus itself. And financial stress directly and negatively impacts mental, behavioral, and physical health. Cost, while important, ranked below these service factors in CarePayment’s study. Those of us in the U.S.

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

Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2021

Note: I may be biased as a University of Michigan graduate of both the School of Public Health and Rackham School of Graduate Studies in Economics]. health care, patient assistance programs, Medicare Advantage plans, and the bundling of proven high-value preventive services into the Affordable Care Act.

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Changing Views of Retirement and Health Post-COVID: Transamerica’s Look At Workers’ Disrupted Futures

Health Populi

JUNE 29, 2022

Retirement System from the Tramsamerica Center for Retirement Studies (TCRS), we learn about the changing views of U.S. The study was fielded between October and December 2021, thus before the onset of significant inflation on household budgets in 2022. As more than 1 in 3 U.S.

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Health Disparities in America: JAMA Talks Structural Racism in U.S. Health Care

Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

Since the second quarter of 2020, I’ve noticed that JAMA has devoted increasing column inches to the issues of health equity, social determinants of health, and structural racism in U.S. health care. Black, Latino/Hispanic, and American Indian people have worse self-reported health.

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Waking Up a Health Consumer in the COVID-19 Era

Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

His remarks focused largely on an immigration and travel policy versus science, triaging, testing and treatment of the virus itself. Over the past week, I’ve culled several studies and resources to divine a profile of the U.S. consumer in the COVID-19 moment…a moment that may last most of the rest of the months of 2020.

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What’s Causing Fewer Primary Care Visits in the US?

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Americans who have commercial health insurance (say, through an employer or union) are rarely thought to face barriers to receiving health care — in particular, primary care, that front line provider and on-ramp to the health care system.

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Three in Five People 50+ in the US Will Likely Use Telehealth In the Future – An Update from AARP

Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

The study polled U.S. “It appears that telehealth is likely to continue to remain an important tool in the health care delivery tool kit — at least for those with computers and high-speed internet access,” the AARP report concludes with a caveat about connectivity/broadband access.

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Financial Health Is On Americans’ Minds Just Weeks Before the 2020 Elections

Health Populi

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Twenty-seven days before the 2020 elections, 7 in 10 Americans say their financial health will influence their votes this year, according to the doxoINSIGHTS survey which shows personal financial health as a key voter consideration in the Presidential election. The study has a 2% margin of error.

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“The virus is the boss” — U.S. lives and livelihoods at the beginning of 2021

Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2021

consumers say the “important things in life today” are health and financial security, according to the latest study from the Retirement Security Survey conducted by Principal in Q4 2020. Job losses at the start of the coronavirus pandemic hit the health care industry hard.

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Consumers Intend to Invest in Technology — With Budget and Value in Mind

Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2022

The 24th Annual Technology Ownership & Market Potential Study from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) tells us that Americans in 2022 will have to manage challenging economic headwinds, shopping for technology is preparing people for their new normal — with household budgets and value in mind. 24% of U.S.

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New Study Shows InsideTracker Members Make Sustained, Long-Term Improvements in Health

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AUGUST 27, 2024

An analysis of 20k people shows that the platform can reverse signs of type 2 diabetes, improve measures of heart health, and lead to other long-term health benefits. The results show that long-term DHP use can improve overall health across several critical biomarkers. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS

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“We’ve normalized a very high death toll in the U.S.” – How A Trust Deficit Has Infected America’s COVID Outcomes

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

That is the through-line found in a very deep dive into 177 countries’ health data published in The Lancet in a research article on pandemic preparedness and COVID-19. The Lancet study, published on 1 February 2022, was funded by the Gates Foundation in partnership with The Bloomberg Philanthropies et al.

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What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2022

This capability is attracting pharmaceutical and life science companies, health care providers and research organizations to take a closer look at Seqster’s offering. In summing up the patient-centered interoperability goal, Ardy summarized: “We’ve created the Mint.com of health data.”

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Multimorbidity In the US – Obesity As A Key Driver of Health Spending

Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2018

The line chart come from a new study into Multimorbidity Trends in United States Adults, 1988-2014 , published in the July-August 2018 issue of the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. In the United States, however, there’s been under-investment in these social determinants that closely tie to health.

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Health Care Costs Concern Americans Approaching Retirement – Especially Women and Sicker People

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Even with the prospect of enrolling in Medicare sooner in a year or two or three, Americans approaching retirement are growing concerned about health care costs, according to a study in JAMA Network Open. Nearly 1 in 5 consumers in the study avoided medical care or filling a prescription in the past year due to cost concerns.

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Medicare, Medicaid better than private insurers at containing costs, study finds

FierceHealthIT

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Medicare and Medicaid are better than private insurers at keeping spending per beneficiary low, a finding that has crucial implications for the current health policy debate, according to a new report.

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The Economics of the Pandemic Put Costs at the Top of Americans’ Health Reform Priorities

Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2021

That may be largely due to the fact that more younger people than older workers lost jobs in the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as losing health insurance. A recent TraunsUnion study found that more younger than older Americans’ health care behaviors shifted in the public health crisis. population).

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“Healthcare Isn’t Healthy:” the Global Challenge of Health Equity, and Calls-to-Action

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Discrimination in health care is reported by more people in the U.S. we learn in the research reported in The Intersection of Health Equity in Communities & Business Strategy: A Call-to-Action , from Omnicomm PR Group (OPRG) and Atlantic Insights. nations in the study. health citizens. as in the non-U.S.

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Telehealth, supply chain monitoring key areas of investment during pandemic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 8, 2020

Among the other recommendations was a call to make electronic medical records must be made interoperable, more accessible, and searchable by public health personnel to aid in state and federal situational awareness and emergency management.

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The Pace of Tech-Adoption Grows Among Older Americans, AARP Finds – But Privacy Concerns May Limit Adoption

Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2020

Across all of the tech categories AARP studies, younger-elders between 50 and 59 tend to demonstrate higher levels of device adoption than people 70 and older. For this research, AARP worked with Ipsos to survey (online) 2,607 people ages 50 and over in June and July 2019.

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Medical Costs Are Consuming Americans’ Financial Health

Health Populi

APRIL 2, 2019

Pay more than the residents of any other country on Earth for health care, and get less in terms of outcomes and service levels for many key medical metrics: infant and maternal mortality, access to primary care, and those growing deaths of despair from suicide, accident and overdose.

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Health Consumers Expect Healthcare to be Digital (and Secure), Philips Future Health Index Finds

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Being Philips, what underpins that quality and experience is technology; Philips explored telehealth, AI, digital health records (DHRs), and other digital health tools that can engage patients. 84% of consumers with access to personal electronic health data want their health care professionals to have access, as well.

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The High Cost-of-Thriving and the Evolving Social Contract for Health Care

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Three new studies (two published this week) converge prompting me to weave together this post on the high-cost-of-thriving and the evolving social contract for health care in America. First, let’s dig into Oren Cass ’s fascinating study into the cost-of-thriving, subtitled “Re-evaluating the Prosperity of the American Family.”

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1 in 2 U.S. Women (“The Bedrock of Society”) Self-Ration Care – the Latest Deloitte Findings

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Here are the many reasons a woman living in America has for skipping or delaying health care, Deloitte illustrated in Figure 3 from the report. is costs — in this study, that out-of-pocket costs were seen as too high for the 21% of women skipping care, compared with 16% of men who did so.

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Telehealth has grown by leaps at doc practices, with wide variance in usage patterns

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

A Cleveland Clinic study from earlier this summer, for instance, found that more than half of survey respondents said their telehealth visit was better than an in-person one. Kane, AMA's director of economic and health policy research. Across all specialties, 10.6% of weekly visits were done on video, while 8.1%

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U.S. spends far more on healthcare than other developed countries—and researchers say prices are still to blame

FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 8, 2019

A group of health policy researchers has reconvened to study healthcare spending and reached the same conclusion as a decade ago: "It's the prices, stupid."

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Masks Work. A Picture From Kansas That Tells A Story in Two Words.

Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The health outcome: A team of researchers from the Institute for Policy & Social Research (IPSR) at the University of Kansas conducted a study into the effect of mask mandates in the state, comparing counties that adopted the Governor’s masking order and those areas that rescinded the order, opting out.

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Thinking About Telehealth Through the Lens of Real Estate – Listening to JLL

Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2022

” I was particularly keen to dig into this study based on its sponsoring organization: JLL is a real estate services company serving over a dozen vertical markets — including health care, life sciences, senior housing, and retail, among other industry sectors. adults in the first half of January 2022 for this study.

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Most Virtual Care Consumers, Satisfied With Visits in the COVID Era, Expect It for Future Care

Health Populi

JULY 10, 2020

Regarding technology, it’s interesting to look at Figure 8 from the report, showing that only 34% of consumers in the study accessed healthcare specific apps for their virtual care visit such as Amwell and Teladoc, both of which fast-scaled by early March. What about physicians?

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Only in America: Medical Debt Hits High Income and Insured People, KHN and NPR Report

Health Populi

JUNE 20, 2022

That makes illness a stronger predictor of medical debt than either poverty or insurance,” we learn from a detailed study asserting that 100 Million People in America Are Saddled With Health Care Debt , published in Kaiser Health News. . “U.S.

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McKinsey’s Six Shifts To Add Life to Years — and One More to Consider

Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2022

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Considering the double-whammy phenomena of the Deaths of Despair combined with the impact of deaths due to the coronavirus pandemic: the U.S. This research found that our social relationships are linked both to mental health as well as morbidity and mortality — that is, death.

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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. Teladoc Health. The campaign website includes information about the flexibilities that have enabled telehealth utilization and cites studies about the modality's benefits.

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Your State as a Determinant of Health: Sharecare’s 2021 Community Well-Being Index

Health Populi

JULY 14, 2022

People whose sense of well-being shifted positively in the past two years are finding greater personal purpose and financial health, we see in Sharecare’s Community Well-Being Index – 2021 State Rankings Report. When the study launched, Well-Being Index evaluated five domains: physical, social, community, purpose, and financial.

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Black Health Should Matter More in America: The Undefeated Survey on Race and Health

Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The study found that the two biggest concerns facing Americans were finances and COVID-19 — but the impacts of these two stresses varied by race/ethnicity: a greater percent of Blacks (36%) and Hispanics (29% rated financial concerns marginally higher than COVID-19, 34% and 26% respectively. adults which included 777 Black Americans.

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How We Spend Versus What We Get: America’s Healthcare Spending Makes for Poor Health

Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2018

These sobering statistics were published in Health Care Spending in the Untied States and Other High-Income Countries this week in JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association. The study points to salaries of generalist and specialty physicians in the U.S. as in the U.K. and Germany.

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Most Americans Regardless of Income Say It’s Unfair for Wealthier People to Get Better Health Care

Health Populi

JANUARY 30, 2020

But most Americans, rich or not, believe that it’s unfair for wealthier people to get better health care, according to a January 2020 poll from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Harvard Chan School of Public Health, Life Experiences and Income Equality in the United States. adults 18 or older.

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The 2022 US Health System Report Card: Pretty Terrific If You Live in Hawaii or Massachusetts

Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2022

If you live in Mississippi, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Texas, Missouri, Alabama, Georgia, or Arkansas, your health care and outcomes are less likely to be top-notch, the Fund’s research concluded. states set the bar higher for their health citizens’ well-being. The Fund’s bottom line.

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Technology, Aging and Obesity Drive Healthcare Spending, BEA Finds

Health Populi

JUNE 7, 2018

Some key findings from this study were that: The fastest-growing spending conditions between 2013 and 2014 were infectious disease, mental illness, and diabetes. The study found “rapid growth” (the authors’ words) for the treated prevalence for these three conditions. health citizen. healthcare spending.

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Americans’ Sense of Well-Being Falls to Great Recession Levels, Gallup Finds

Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2020

” Health Populi’s Hot Points: To further inform insights from the Gallup poll, I looked at a study From GfK on Navigating COVID-19, exploring changing consumers. “This time is different,” GfK observes, arraying impacts of security, resources, the economy, health, and other items yet to be seen.

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World Health Day 2019: Let’s Celebrate Food, Climate, Insurance Coverage and Connectivity

Health Populi

APRIL 7, 2019

Last week, The Lancet published its comprehensive study on the Health effects of dietary risks in 195 countries, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study. Murray is a “metrics” guru, because this report generated very impactful insights into the role of diet in health across the world.

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Telehealth used less in disadvantaged areas, Health Affairs study finds

USA Today Finds Hidden Common Ground Among Americans For Health Care

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In the Past Ten Years, Workers’ Health Insurance Premiums Have Grown Much Faster Than Wages

People in the U.S. Without the Internet Were More Likely To Die in the Pandemic

The Patient as Consumer and Payer – A Focus on Financial Stress and Wellbeing

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

Changing Views of Retirement and Health Post-COVID: Transamerica’s Look At Workers’ Disrupted Futures

Health Disparities in America: JAMA Talks Structural Racism in U.S. Health Care

Waking Up a Health Consumer in the COVID-19 Era

What’s Causing Fewer Primary Care Visits in the US?

Three in Five People 50+ in the US Will Likely Use Telehealth In the Future – An Update from AARP

Financial Health Is On Americans’ Minds Just Weeks Before the 2020 Elections

“The virus is the boss” — U.S. lives and livelihoods at the beginning of 2021

Consumers Intend to Invest in Technology — With Budget and Value in Mind

New Study Shows InsideTracker Members Make Sustained, Long-Term Improvements in Health

“We’ve normalized a very high death toll in the U.S.” – How A Trust Deficit Has Infected America’s COVID Outcomes

What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

Multimorbidity In the US – Obesity As A Key Driver of Health Spending

Health Care Costs Concern Americans Approaching Retirement – Especially Women and Sicker People

Medicare, Medicaid better than private insurers at containing costs, study finds

The Economics of the Pandemic Put Costs at the Top of Americans’ Health Reform Priorities

“Healthcare Isn’t Healthy:” the Global Challenge of Health Equity, and Calls-to-Action

Telehealth, supply chain monitoring key areas of investment during pandemic

The Pace of Tech-Adoption Grows Among Older Americans, AARP Finds – But Privacy Concerns May Limit Adoption

Medical Costs Are Consuming Americans’ Financial Health

Health Consumers Expect Healthcare to be Digital (and Secure), Philips Future Health Index Finds

The High Cost-of-Thriving and the Evolving Social Contract for Health Care

1 in 2 U.S. Women (“The Bedrock of Society”) Self-Ration Care – the Latest Deloitte Findings

Telehealth has grown by leaps at doc practices, with wide variance in usage patterns

U.S. spends far more on healthcare than other developed countries—and researchers say prices are still to blame

Masks Work. A Picture From Kansas That Tells A Story in Two Words.

Thinking About Telehealth Through the Lens of Real Estate – Listening to JLL

Most Virtual Care Consumers, Satisfied With Visits in the COVID Era, Expect It for Future Care

Only in America: Medical Debt Hits High Income and Insured People, KHN and NPR Report

McKinsey’s Six Shifts To Add Life to Years — and One More to Consider

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

Your State as a Determinant of Health: Sharecare’s 2021 Community Well-Being Index

Black Health Should Matter More in America: The Undefeated Survey on Race and Health

How We Spend Versus What We Get: America’s Healthcare Spending Makes for Poor Health

Most Americans Regardless of Income Say It’s Unfair for Wealthier People to Get Better Health Care

The 2022 US Health System Report Card: Pretty Terrific If You Live in Hawaii or Massachusetts

Technology, Aging and Obesity Drive Healthcare Spending, BEA Finds

Americans’ Sense of Well-Being Falls to Great Recession Levels, Gallup Finds

World Health Day 2019: Let’s Celebrate Food, Climate, Insurance Coverage and Connectivity

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