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.

Primary Care 360

Primary Care HIPAA Telehealth Health Policy 360

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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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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Telehealth Interoperability Telemedicine Public Health 205

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.

Connected Health 316

Connected Health Digital Health Primary Care Medical Technology 316

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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Interoperability Life Science EHR Health Data 436

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.

Public Health 180

Public Health Health Policy Primary Care 180

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 Health Policy 274

Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2021

adults across political parties favor allowing the Federal government authority to negotiate for drug prices — even after hearing the arguments against the health policy. driving Republican voter responses to the affordability argument more than toward the innovation context in the KFF study.

Medicare 178

Medicare Health Policy Patient Experience Telehealth 178

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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Medicare Health Policy 93

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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Public Health Health IT Health Policy Telemedicine 318

Health Populi

MARCH 28, 2019

User names were identified by one in five apps studied. The prevalence of Google in this ecosystem is a key finding from the study. The authors call out that Alphabet, the parent company of Google, owns the third parties Crashlytics, Google Analytics, and AdMob By Google which were all in the ecosystem studied.

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Mobile Health Health Data Digital Health Nursing 282

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.

Public Health 228

Public Health Digital Health Patient Experience Health Policy 228

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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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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Interoperability Digital Health Patient Experience Health Data 229

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.

Health Policy 178

Health Policy Nursing Telehealth Medical Billing 178

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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Telehealth General practice Health Policy Remote care 212

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."

Health Policy 94

Health Policy 94

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.

Public Health 358

Public Health Health Policy 358

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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Telehealth Medicare Life Science Mental health 241

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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Telehealth Primary Care Mental health Patient Experience 293

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.

Medical Billing 312

Medical Billing Pharmaceuticals Health Policy 312

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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Telehealth Telemedicine Medicare Connected Care 214

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

The Center for Connected Health Policy has published a 21-page guide intended to help providers with telehealth-based Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements. Asynchronous virtual visits are helping reduce the burdens on primary care providers at Prisma Health, while also enabling easier access, convenience and speed to care for patients.

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Telehealth Medicare Primary Care Health Policy 200

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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Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Public Health Telehealth 215

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.

Pharmaceuticals 206

Pharmaceuticals Public Health Mental health Health Policy 206

Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Power’s 2022 Telehealth Satisfaction Study. Power found in their Study which was conducted among 4,306 health care consumers who had used a telehealth service in the 12 months preceding June and July 2022 when the survey was fielded. Power — which studies customer satisfaction for living — asserts.

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Telehealth Mental health Nursing Primary Care 219

Health Populi

AUGUST 12, 2024

retiring in 2024 will need to bank $165,000 to pay for health care costs in retirement — a sum that does not include long-term care, Fidelity Investments advises us in the 23rd annual look at this always-impactful (and sobering) forecast. The average person in the U.S.

Medicare 178

Medicare Mental health Medical Billing Health Policy 178

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 2, 2021

Harvard Medical School Associate Professor of Health Policy and Medicine Dr. Ateev Mehrota proposed a more measured approach. Although the need for telehealth is unmistakable, said Mehrota, policies should encourage "higher-value" applications for care and discourage "lower-value" ones.

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Telehealth Telemedicine Primary Care Health Policy 218

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. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Why care about “relevance” as described in this study? FYI, I did not have a hand in this study. .

Life Science 178

Life Science Public Health Primary Care Patient Experience 178

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 14, 2024

A study conducted at GRH Health reveals the profound impact of this integration. The study documented an impressive increase in the viewing of external records, with nearly 22,920 additional views per week. The study at GRH Health is a beacon, highlighting the substantial benefits of removing barriers to information access.

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EHR Interoperability Health Policy Nursing 125

Health Populi

MAY 29, 2019

As physician leaders in the AMA, technology advocates from AMIA, and numerous health plans focus efforts on strengthening social determinants, what do people – consumers, patients, caregivers — think about these factors that help make their health beyond their personal physicians, hospitals, and prescription drugs?

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Mental health Public Health Connected Health Health Policy 331

Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2020

Across the various types of personal health care spending, more Hispanic people and people earning less than $50,000 a year are concerned about medical costs.

Medical Billing 282

Medical Billing Medicare Health Policy 282

Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2018

The Sage team explains that, by layering knowledge about peoples’ behaviors, beliefs, and attitudes on top of the traditional SDOH factors, health care providers can mash-up SBDoH – “socio-behavioral determinants of health” — your new acronym to add to your growing list of healthcare ABCs.

Public Health 206

Public Health Medicare Health Technology Patient Experience 206

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

are growing their health IT muscles and literacy, accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier.

Health Data 178

Health Data Digital Health Health Information Public Health 178

Connected Health Initiative

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Studies show that remote monitoring services and wearable health technology can reduce care costs for patients and the healthcare system while improving patient outcomes and engagement.

Health Technology 52

Health Technology Connected Health Medicare Health Policy 52

Health Populi

APRIL 9, 2019

” These findings came from a study from the Winterberry Group on “the evolving role of audience insight,” conducted in partnership with the IAB Data Center of Excellence and issued on March 5, 2019.

Digital Health 272

Digital Health Primary Care Mental health Connected Health 272

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Several new studies reveal that more patients are feeling and living out their role as health care payors as medical spending vies with other household line items. Health Populi’s Hot Points: In addition to these two consumer studies, we can add to this context the latest read on the U.S.

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