BHM Healthcare Solutions

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Editor’s Note: Healthcare organizations are increasingly looking to adopt telehealth programs, but they face a number of policy barriers that hinder their plans, according to the Center for Connected Health Policy. Study authors said this corresponded to 67.2 Click HERE to discuss how BHM helps payers. .

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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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Public Health Digital Health Patient Experience Health Policy 227

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.

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Medicare Mental health Medical Billing Health Policy 177

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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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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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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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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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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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The study assesses a range of dimensions for current well-being, such as financial health (income and wealth), work and job quality, housing, health status, environmental quality, social connections, and civic engagement among other factors. First, see the OECD Well-being Framework illustrated here.

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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

A relevant study on the socioeconomic aspects of incretin-based therapy (in particular, GLP-1 drugs) was published in July 2023 in Diabetologia written by researchers in Greece and the UK.

Public Health 177

Public Health Pharmaceuticals Primary Care Patient Experience 177

Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2022

Note that the Medscape study was fielded between late January and early March, 2022. At that point, 96% of doctors in the study agreed with the policy of requiring background checks to own firearms, 90% that only someone 18 or older should own a firearm, and 70% requiring a psych evaluation to own a firearm.

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Public Health Nursing Mental health Interoperability 177

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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Digital Health Wire

JUNE 25, 2023

Medicare Advantage plans could be on track to reach over $75B in overpayments this year – nearly 3x prior estimates – causing researchers at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics to issue a pressing call for policy reform.

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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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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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Health Populi

MAY 24, 2023

As most Americans confess to feeling stressed over the past six months, peoples’ food and beverage choices have been intimately connected with their mental and emotional well-being, we learn from the 2023 Food & Health Survey from the International Food Information Council (IFIC).

Mental health 156

Mental health Primary Care Public Health Health Policy 156

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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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2024

The study was fielded between December 2023 and February 2024. in terms of countries covered in the study. Globally, two-thirds of health care leaders see deteriorating staff well-being, physical and mental. First, the staff shortage which is a worldwide phenomenon, from Australia to the U.S.

Nursing 177

Nursing Primary Care Patient Experience Telehealth 177

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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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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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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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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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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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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Public Health Medicare Pharmaceuticals Health Policy 199

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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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. .

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Life Science Public Health Primary Care Patient Experience 177

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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Health Populi

JULY 17, 2023

And those policy burdens are increasing, both nurses and doctors agree — “driving nurses away from the profession altogether,” AHA asserted, and compelling physicians to revisit their ability to operate a practice.

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