Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2021

” The first chart shows the one-year trend on trust across industries through U.S. Ironically, the more people share data in a public health crisis, the more that information can be used for good to, in the case of the coronavirus, test, track, and snuff the virus. consumers’ eyes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 22, 2020

The Linux Foundation has launched a new project to harness open source software to help global public health agencies fight back against COVID-19 and prepare for future public health challenges. THE LARGER TREND. WHY IT MATTERS. COVID Green was created by a team at NearForm in cooperation with the Irish government.

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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

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

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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Digital Health Global

AUGUST 21, 2023

In the first part of the study, researchers conducted a systematic review of studies related to TikTok and its association with public health or mental health from 2016 to 2021. Most of these studies were from the USA and used content analysis as their research method. million likes, 13,775 comments, and 21,254 shares.

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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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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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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

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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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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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

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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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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Health Populi

JULY 22, 2021

In the Age of COVID, over 90,000 new health apps were released, as the supply of digital therapeutics and wearables grew in 2020. Evidence supporting the use of digital health tools if growing, tracked in Digital Health Trends 2021: Innovation, Evidence, Regulation, and Adoption from IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

A key conclusion in this report is that, while most consumers want to improve the health of their homes, many people do not know “where” to start. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated consumers’ embrace of their homes as their health hubs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 1, 2021

"OIG is conducting significant oversight work assessing telehealth services during the public health emergency. She pointed to recent rulemaking in which the OIG recognized the promise that digital health technologies, including telemedicine, have for improving care coordination and health outcomes. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2021

Using data from Blue Health Intelligence data repository – an independent data and analytics company that is a licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association – researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health compared claims data from March through June 2019 with March through June 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The American Telemedicine Association, the Connected Health Initiative and other industry groups issued a letter to Congress on Friday urging legislators to extend temporary telehealth flexibilities until the end of 2021. THE LARGER TREND. Taking Stock of Progress and Looking Ahead.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2021

.” Calm is but one of a growing portfolio of tools that health citizens can use to manage anxiety and stress, get to sleep (and stay sleeping), and bolster mental well-being. This is one of nine key trends identified the annual go-to primer on the wellness market from the Global Wellness Institute. The future of immune health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The Telehealth Benefit Expansion for Workers Act would amend the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income and Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow employers to treat benefits for telehealth services like excepted benefits. In an announcement about the bipartisan bill, Rep.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2021

That study, Who Is (and Isn't) Receiving Telemedicine Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic , adds to an already substantial body of evidence that the public health emergency is exacerbating disparities in access and use of technology-enabled healthcare. " THE LARGER TREND. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

to keep licensure and telehealth flexibilities in place throughout the duration of the federal public health emergency. to work with health experts to implement solutions to address the ongoing impact of the pandemic on patient care. THE LARGER TREND. The organizations asked state governors and legislatures.

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