Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

were sensible, weight management would be treated as a public health issue,” David Cutler writes in the JAMA Health Forum dated August 15, 2024. health care” citing the example of weight loss medications — in short, the uptake of GLP-1 drugs to address Type 2 diabetes first, and subsequently obesity.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

In the Fear of Going Out Era spawned by the COVID-19 pandemic, many patients were loath to go to the doctor’s office for medical care, and even less keen on entering a hospital clinic’s doors. Virtual care will be a lifeline for many older people who cannot leave home or do not want to do so.

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GlobalMed

JUNE 16, 2021

Primary care physicians are the frontline of healthcare. The Association of American Medical Colleges predicts a primary care provider shortfall , with numbers landing between 21,000 to 55,000 by 2023. But other factors drive primary care barriers as well, such as affordability issues and rural shortages.

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KevinMD

JULY 11, 2020

In so far as our current public health emergency is concerned, telehealth has obvious, indisputable benefits.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. TripleTree is an investment bank that has advised health care transactions since 1997.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

At the same time, CTA has published a paper on Advancing Health Equity Through Technology which complements and reinforces the PHTI announcement and objective. Tribal health departments. Over 160,000 public and private labs. Hospitals and health care providers. Health plans. value-based).

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Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2022

learned over many years of curating this Scorecard study: “ States that have historically performed well on our State Scorecard also performance well as the pandemic unfolded, based on our usual set of health system measures and the new COVID-19-specific measures.” The Fund’s bottom line.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Over one-half of Americans would likely use virtual care for their healthcare services, and one in four people would actually prefer a virtual relationship with a primary care physician, according to the fifth annual 2020 Consumer Sentiment Survey from UnitedHealthcare.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Their ten must-do’s for bending the cost curve while driving constructive change for a better health care system are to: Ensure access. Achieve health equity. Stability the safety net and rebuild public health. Address social determinants of health. Innovate long-term care.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2021

We can weave these market forces together into several mega-trends… Community-based care grows in 2021. The most obvious trend from which CVS Health benefits, as well as is defining, is the growing opportunity for primary care to be delivered in the community and in peoples’ homes.

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Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2021

For some people such as American Indian and Native Alaskan folks, geography, remoteness, and lack of public health infrastructure are challenges. Analyzing county-level data for 3,142 U.S. suggested social determinants were at play in the disparate outcomes for people of color.

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Health Populi

MAY 2, 2024

May is Mental Health Awareness Month each year, so time to be even more vigilant in calling out the Gallup findings and continued stigma and barriers to accessing needed services. In the meantime, more older people feel the mental/physical health service gap even more acutely than younger health citizens.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Health Populi’s Hot Points : Since well before the COVID-19 public health crisis, there has been a shortage of mental health providers in the U.S. Watch this space for more evidence-based tools to help all of us deal with the toxic side effects of the public health crisis, ongoing.

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Health Populi

MAY 4, 2020

There remains a plethora of “testing deserts” throughout the U.S., “stemming from an overwhelmed supply chain and a disjointed public health system,” NPR observed. public health patchwork quilt. The private sector in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 20, 2021

Health authorities in Rome have repurposed a COVID-19 telemonitoring tool to monitor people at risk from heat-related illness. In the Lazio region, GPs, health care workers and primary care services are supervising and caring for patients during heatwaves using the LazioAdvice teleconsultation system and Lazio Doctor per COVID app.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 22, 2020

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Since CVS/pharmacy morphed into CVS/health when it quit tobacco five years ago in 2014 , I began to intuit a shift in the U.S. where private sector organizations began to more visibly take on public health objectives and missions.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2021

Those percentages were polled as of September 2020, about six months into the now-year+ long pandemic, Peoples’ homes became their safe havens, literally, in the public health crisis, or our “Year of COVID” as Dr. Michael Osterholm of CIDRAP has nicknamed 2020.

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2018

The report hints at the different (read: lesser) emphasis on primary care in the U.S. compared with most other OECD countries which have stronger and more accessible primary care backbones than America’s. This phenomenon has been known for many years through the seminal work of Dr. Barbara Starfield.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Telehealth will help many people meet up with health care access — but not necessarily universally or equitably. Mental health will continue to be the epidemic beyond the pandemic. Healthcare delivery will be omnichannel, featuring digital front doors and new primary care on-ramps.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Patients and health plan members continue evolving into medical bill payers, with their homes and budgets baked into the concept. Geisinger plans to open more clinics for primary care, senior care, and convenient/retail care. Re-building a community health system from an innovative blueprint.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Health Populi’s Hot Points: What Senator Paul Wellstone advocated for and knew way back in 2000 was that mental health is just part of health, and needed to be embedded into primary care and the U.S. health care system in terms of workflow and payment parity.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 8, 2021

Walmart Health's moves in this direction echo that of Amazon Care, which quietly filed to do business in dozens of states before publicly announcing its intention to provide app-based services in all 50 by this summer. As Livingston notes, it also plans to expand into Florida this year.

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Health Populi

MARCH 26, 2018

News’ Chairman, believes that this project will give, “citizens, community leaders and policy-makers the tools to assess health in their communities and develop a blueprint for positive change” with learnings that can translate to less-healthy communities. In addition, lower stress in the workplace also improves health status.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

For Black patients, lower utilization of ambulatory care and higher use of inpatient, emergency department, and nursing suggest greater spender downstream that might be prevented by more spending upstream on primary care, prevention, and early detection of disease. colonoscopy).

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Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2020

Least likely to feel burned out are public health and preventive medicine doctors, ophthalmologists, orthopedists, psychiatrists, ENTs, and general surgeons. What contributes most to burnout, doctors told Medscape, was by far onerous bureaucratic tasks — paperwork, charting, and lack of time for hands-on patient care.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The top-line theme of the report is that, “The $260 billion primary care market is dominated by traditional providers in a fee-for-service arrangement, but that is changing rapidly,” the report begins. “By 2030, nontraditional players could own as much as 30% of the primary care market.”

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

health care and that volumes turned downward in 2020. health care as it is currently organized, financed, and delivered. The value of care delivered at home and closer-to-home is part of this awareness, which is represented by the re-envisioned care delivery modes in Deloitte’s vision here.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 11, 2021

COVID-19 exacted a toll on health citizens’ mental health, worsening a public health challenge that was already acute before the pandemic. It’s World Mental Health Day , an event marked by global and local stakeholders across the mental health ecosystem.

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2020

The second table from the PwC report details patients delaying care by consumer segment, health, and insurance status. In the first months of the pandemic, patients postponed many forms of care, including prevention, primary care, and even cancer care. This bar chart from the PwC study shows that U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

.” The Urban Institute recommends from the start of this paper that these deaths underscore the importance of assuring people with chronic physical and behavioral conditions be able to access necessary care during and beyond the public health crisis. adults ages 18-64 as of September 11 through 28, 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2021

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers and clinicians have pointed to behavioral health as a particularly effective use case for telehealth and virtual care. But what about after the public health emergency? The program focused on supporting primary care doctors in managing older adults with mental illness.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 5, 2022

To analyze which physicians made the transition sooner, the researchers used Epic electronic health record data to analyze visits between Oct. Younger generations had larger proportions of innovators and early adopters, as did behavioral health and primary care physicians. 1, 2019, and Dec. Of the 3,473 physicians, 13.8%

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

Among people 50 and over, the doctor’s visit for routine care is the top reason for using virtual care, among 2 in 3 older people. That’s an important behavior change to take into future planning for primary care services targeted to older peoples’ chronic care management and remote health monitoring.

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Health Populi

MAY 5, 2022

When it comes to peoples’ relationship to consumer packaged goods (CPG), the public health crisis has indeed impacted consumers’ purchasing behaviors and definition of “value,” based on IRI’s latest analysis of CPG shifts in 2022 and 2023.

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Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2021

It was the COVID-19 pandemic that accelerated some early-adopting health consumers viewing their home as their ultimate site for self-care and health care. New data from NCSolutions (NCS) polled 2,017 U.S. consumers in March 2021 on perspectives one year into COVID.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2023

A new health project in Adelaide seeks to provide virtually-delivered primary care services to patients with chronic conditions. million (around $700,000) in funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council. Enterprise Taxonomy: Telehealth Population and Public Health Patient Access Care

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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