Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2021

As more consumers view their homes as personal and safe health havens, there is no shortage of suppliers in the food, retail, and mobility sectors working fast to meet that demand for convenient and accessible services. New data from NCSolutions (NCS) polled 2,017 U.S. consumers in March 2021 on perspectives one year into COVID.

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Health Populi

MAY 5, 2021

The pandemic accelerated many Very Big Deals in digital health venture capital investment, mergers and acquisitions, and the re-emergence of SPACs in health care. In the COVID-19 era, clinicians and health systems stood up virtual care across the board as-required.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2020

Connected Health Mobility Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth How contact tracing, contactless experiences and remote monitoring will redefine healthcare and public health. Digital health in a post-pandemic era. This trend will only grow in the coming years. Contact tracing.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 24, 2025

THE LARGER TREND Congress and telehealth industry groups have urged the DEA and HHS to jointly extend prescribing flexibilities allowed under the original COVID-19 public health emergency since it was initially set to expire.

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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

MARCH 9, 2021

Expanding omni-channel, data-driven, cost-effective health care in the community, tailoring that care, and attending to mental health paint the picture of health through the lens of CVS Health. The company published the Health Trends Report 2021 today, calling out ten forces shaping health care this year.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

But at the same time, the pandemic public health emergency is scheduled to end in May, which means action is needed by lawmakers to keep reimbursement going in 2023. We interviewed Gorton to get his expert perspective on what may be the big trends in telehealth this year. There's lots going on, to say the least.

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Health Populi

MAY 4, 2023

It’s a volume speaking volumes on the current picture of prescribed meds, spending and revenues, health care utilization trends, and a forecast looking out to 2027. health care: “Wake up, public health!” In my read of this year’s review, I see a flashing light for U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Another study also noted regional disparities in the number of ICU beds and length of stay from 2011 to 2019: two regions, Seoul and Gyeonggi-do, accounted for almost half of the country's total ICU beds and length of stay, which suggested centralisation of the health system, according to researchers.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Consider telemedicine, the use of technology advancements for modern care protocols, and technologies that help people save money as areas where people believe in that “power” of tech for health care. Last week, the indefatigable Sanjula Jain, Ph.D.,

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 9, 2024

This strategic acquisition underscores Health Commons Project’s commitment to expanding its impact by improving data interoperability, enhancing care coordination, and promoting public health across Washington. “Our shared mission of using health data to improve patient outcomes will be more achievable than ever.”

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Health Populi

AUGUST 18, 2020

Note how the top line of the 2020 forecast “networks” into the 2019 trends. We know that people (consumers, patients, caregivers all) have learned more about their health values during the pandemic, for themselves as individuals, their families, their neighborhoods and communities, and nations’ public health.

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Health Populi

JULY 12, 2021

Acosta, the retail market research pro’s, updated our understanding consumers evolving as COVID-19 Has Elevated the Health and Wellness Trends of the Recent Years , results of a survey conducted among in May 2021. Health Populi’s Hot Points: A central pillar of user-centered design is to meet people where they “are.”

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

One in four people would consider online options as their first-line to evaluating personal health issues — a kind of “digital step therapy,” if you will. The home has emerged as our health hub in the pandemic, and that won’t be just a trend: that will persist.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

THE LARGER TREND Like a lot of health systems, MedStar rapidly launched new telemedicine technology in response to COVID-19, which resulted in 100,000 video visits in the first two months of use.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 22, 2024

THE LARGER TREND While Amazon One Medical works with more than 10,000 employers throughout the U.S. who sponsor membership fees as a benefit for their employees and their dependents, its Amazon parent company has experience partnering with health systems to transform care delivery and enhance its speed.

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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.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The pandemic has accelerated consumer trends already in motion early this year when the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) convened the annual CES 2020 in Las Vegas. What a difference a public health crisis makes, accelerating digital health beyond fitness geeks, Quantified Self adherents, and smartwatch adopters.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Medication adherence is a challenge that fiscally costs the health system (taxpayers and insured people largely paying the tab) and physically imperils both public health and people’s individual health.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

” The paper runs over 100 pages, and I highly recommend it as required reading if you are interested in understanding trends in both global and your personal favored nation’s health status across these many dimensions covered by the research. In this year’s How’s Life?

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Through working on population health and finding what does and doesn’t work, public health initiatives have evolved. Mary Sirois, Managing Director, Performance Improvement Advisory Practice at Nordic Data and evidence help us uncover larger population health issues and understand trends of potential future issues.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The inability to prescribe buprenorphine via telehealth for substance abuse disorder has been a concern since before the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency. Email: afox@himss.org Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2020

Whether healthcare spending in 2021 increases by double-digits or falls by one-third directly depends on how the coronavirus pandemic will play out over the rest of 2020, based on PwC’s annual report on medical cost trends for 2021. ” A high scenario of medical trend calculates a 10.0% The headline might be, “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. ” Unless this trajectory reverses, multimorbidity trends will continue to drive up healthcare costs in the U.S. .

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 16, 2025

THE LARGER TREND Without a third extension before the end of 2024 , the expiration of telehealth prescribing flexibilities would have required patients to have an in-person visit with a provider within 30 days or lose access to medications. Email: afox@himss.org Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Health Populi

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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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2020

Six in 10 patients said their trust/believe in health care providers increased as a result of COVID-19, followed by 50% of patients finding increased trust in urgent care clinics, 49% in public health institutions, 48% in independent pharmacies. 45% in pharmaceutical companies, and 44% in large retail pharmacy chains.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

While I will miss meeting with technology developers and colleagues in person, I have meetings set-up via phone, Zoom, and Teams to brainstorm updates and trends with my key trusted touchpoints in health IT. To build healthcare back better in the U.S.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The Connected Health Initiative on Monday published an open letter to Sen. expressing support for the Telehealth Modernization Act and stressing the urgency of safeguarding access to virtual care before the public health emergency is set to expire. THE LARGER TREND. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., Enable the U.S. ON THE RECORD.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

But the record heat waves in so much of the world is impacting both peoples’ fiscal and financial well-being along with physical health impacts, ranging from exacerbating chronic respiratory conditions to, literally, risks to lives. ” This report supported a call-to-action termed “One Health.”

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KevinMD

MAY 23, 2018

And you asked me: Would health care delivery be more complicated in the future? Pointing you to technology trends, I would’ve told you that health care transactions will indeed become more automated, much simpler. Say we met ten years ago. I would've said, "No, it would be simpler!"

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

"Health plans are offering more telemedicine and digital health coverage as part of a broader acceptance of virtual care; changes we believe will largely remain even after the Public Health Emergency ends," said Nathaniel Lacktman, partner and chair of the firm’s national telemedicine and digital health industry team, in a statement.

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Health Populi

MAY 29, 2020

In the coronavirus quarantine era, millions of Americans have been staying home to flatten the curve, and it’s been working from the evidence-based, public health standpoint. But this first-wave impact of the pandemic and #StayHome mandates have exacted a price on financial and mental health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 18, 2020

" Covered entities seeking to use audio or video communication tech to reach patients where they live "can use any non-public facing remote communication product that is available to communicate with patients," said the agency. THE LARGER TREND. and Google G Suite Hangouts Meet. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Furthermore, it also recommended a greater push to increase public trust of the digital health ecosystem. Opportunities offered by digital technologies and data also needed to be harnessed in support of public health and Universal Health Coverage. THE LARGER TREND.

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Health Populi

JUNE 2, 2021

Other uncertainties address changing health care workflows, asking the question of how much virtual care will persist in 2021 and beyond, along with growing demand for mail order pharmacy use. Looking at Figure 3, the table on average person cost trends to 2021, we see that costs grow for every service category in 2021.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 6, 2021

THE LARGER TREND. This week, a group of volunteer healthcare professionals in Thailand formed Comprehensive COVID-19 Response teams to help with the Ministry of Public Health's COVID-19 screening drive across the country. Enterprise Taxonomy: Telehealth COVID-19 Patient Access Population and Public Health.

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