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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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NOVEMBER 18, 2020

For this study, APA polled 1,787 licensed psychologists (both members and non-members in the Association) in the U.S. This year, APA has published four reports on consumers’ mental health in the pandemic. Stress in America series here in Health Populi earlier this year. between late August and early October 2020.

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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. colonoscopy).

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MAY 2, 2024

Quite the opposite, 3 in 4 Americans say mental health is treated worse. And one-half of people in this study said they had experienced depression, anxiety, or another mental or emotional condition in the past 12 months. Gallup and West Health conducted the study in early February 2024 among 2,266 U.S.

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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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MAY 10, 2022

The study polled U.S. adults 50 and over in February and March 2022, to gauge older peoples’ views on virtual care now and in the future. 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.

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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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JANUARY 22, 2020

Together, these three factors erode workers’ confidence in jobs and their personal household economies and financial health. The second chart comes from the study, quantifying global citizens’ trust levels by industry sector since 2012.

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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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MAY 19, 2021

Interestingly, fewer consumers are worried about virus exposure coming from the farmers and food manufacturers who produce the food people buy, shown in the bottom bar of this chart from the study. consumers’ changing attitudes toward food during the public health crisis.

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JANUARY 5, 2022

A study published this past week in JAMA Network Open found that while the vast majority of physicians in a large regional healthcare system had transitioned to include virtual care in their practice by December 2020, some were more likely to be early adopters than others. Of the 3,473 physicians, 13.8% were innovators, 45.0%

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JULY 23, 2020

With this alignment of virtual care supply-and-demand, it is like telehealth will see “permanent usage increases,” according to Parks Associates’ survey report, COVID-19 – Impact on Telehealth Use and Perspectives.

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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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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has taken a toll on Americans’ mental health, with anxiety and depression growing as a side-effect to worries about the virus itself, the long Great Lockdown in much of the country, and the economic recession that has particularly impacted women and people of color. Paul died in a plane crash in 2002.

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AUGUST 24, 2018

Underlying this clinical and economic phenomenon is obesity, which primary care doctors are challenged to deal with as a chronic condition along with typically co-occurring comorbidities of hypertension, diabetes, and hyperlipidemia. Because they are public goods, and the U.S. In the U.S., Why has this been the case?

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FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Patients and health plan members continue evolving into medical bill payers, with their homes and budgets baked into the concept. At the same time, health system leaders in the study cite three key strategies topping their list, including the need to grow revenue, recruit and retain staff ( think: burnout ), and reduce costs.

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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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NOVEMBER 18, 2024

healthcare system is broken and there is a strong sense of distrust,” Lavidge asserts right at the top of the study’s press release. For the latter, people most-trust primary care providers, nurses, pharmacists, and friends and family, then followed by medical scientists. The erosion in trust among U.S.

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JUNE 27, 2022

[You can access state-by-state specifics on the Castlight Health supplemental dataset portal ]. Take preventive services across the entire national commercial population in the study. fewer commercially insured employees were tested for HbA1C (hemoglobin blood glucose test), and wellness exams dropped by nearly 11%.

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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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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. " Nathan Eddy is a healthcare and technology freelancer based in Berlin.

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MARCH 13, 2024

adults’ levels of trust in health care services and suppliers, finding the greatest trust lies with a consumer’s local pharmacy (for 77% of consumers), followed by hospitals (for 73% of people) and in third rank, health technology (63%). Layered on top of this is health citizens’ eroding trust in other aspects of U.S.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2021

In October 2020, The American Cancer Society explained that patients were postponing care, which also drove up peoples’ anxiety in dealing with their health and daily lives. adults delayed or avoided care based on a CDC report. The Cleveland Clinic study did uncover some good news: some U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 4, 2019

Digital health could save public health services in England £7.5 Telehealth technology continues to prove its bona fides on a near daily basis, as providers in countries worldwide continue to innovate its use cases and delivery mechanisms , all toward its long-promised aim of better care for more people at lower costs.

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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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MAY 25, 2022

With peoples’ anxiety about COVID-19 at its lowest point since 2020, folks are most anxious in spring 2022 about current global events and the safety of their families, based on the latest Healthy Minds study from the American Psychiatric Association (APA). “The pandemic and its mental health effects are very much still with us.”

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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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JUNE 12, 2024

From bandages to home hygiene, OTC pain meds and DIY home projects, Morning Consult’s look into the most-trusted brands of 2024 give us insights into health consumers. I’ve been tracking this study since before the public health crisis of the coronavirus, and it always offers us a practical snapshot of the U.S.

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JANUARY 18, 2022

Over the year, every business’s trust level rose or stayed flat, further demonstrating consumers trust equity with business versus the 3 other institutional segments studied. adults were included in the study, now in its 22nd year. The last chart shown here, from the study, notes that “circles of trust become more local.”

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MARCH 31, 2020

The Consumer Technology Association has conducted the COVID-19 Impact Study assessing the use of technology at home , exploring U.S. households’ changing behaviors for consuming content, stocking the pantry, engaging with social media, and using online health and fitness tools. .” Stay well and stay home!

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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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MARCH 7, 2022

"Our experience during the pandemic was that telehealth meant our member psychiatrists were able to treat more patients, which was critical as we faced a mental health crisis,” said APA CEO and Medical Director Dr. Saul Levin in a statement. WHY IT MATTERS.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2021

But there’s another angle on 2021 for which health care providers and health citizens alike should prepare: that is the excess deaths that will happen due to patients postponing needed health care, diagnostic tests, and preventive services that stem from people avoiding care in doctor’s offices and hospitals.

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APRIL 30, 2021

"The telehealth cliff is looming, casting much uncertainty and concern for the health and safety of Medicare beneficiaries, and the sustainability of our already overburdened healthcare system," said Ann Mond Johnson, CEO of the American Telemedicine Association. HIMSS is the parent company for Healthcare IT News.).

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Some of those things have to do with self-care for health. My personal tour, thanks to Karsten and the Philips team, bolsters my own forecast that our homes, neighborhoods and local communities will be where our health and health care will be made and delivered in and beyond the public health crisis.

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JUNE 8, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, health care spending in the U.S. This year, medical cost trend will rise by 7.0%, expected to decline a bit in 2022 according to the annual study from PwC Health Research Institute , Medical Cost Trend: Behind the Numbers 2022. during the public health crisis.

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OCTOBER 23, 2020

My focus in this Health Populi post is on the health consumer’s mindset in the age of COVID-19 and the re-shaped “enlightened” expectations of patients as the public health crisis persists longer than many people had anticipated. Regarding the most important health care issues U.S.

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