Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 12, 2019

While the numbers are widely variable, a 2018 analysis showed that costs attributed to “all causes” non-adherence ranged from $5200-$52,000 per person, said Dr. Caroline Carney, chief medical officer at Magellan Health Rx management. There are other vendors with similar technologies on the health IT market today.

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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2021

In addition to the rankings for overall healthiest communities, the study also identified the top areas for health outcomes (San Juan Co., Washington, topping that list), top communities for access to health care (led by Olmstead County, Minnesota), and the top 5 areas for mental health, topped by Honolulu, Hawaii. .

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Health Populi

JUNE 30, 2020

feel this way, up from 56% in 2018 and 2019. This was the highest proportion APA polled since 2018 when 46% of black adults reported discrimination was a significant stressor. Health Populi’s Hot Points: In June 2020, 4 in 5 Americans felt that the coronavirus pandemic was a significant source of stress.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 2, 2022

Improve health outcomes by ensuring adequate follow-up and better patient adherence and patient satisfaction. Secure the institution as an academic health center using innovative biomedical technology. Increase the reach of the organization's specialists and providers. Accelerating adoption of the technology.

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Hospitals COVID-19 Electronic Medical Records Patient Satisfaction 121

Health Populi

MAY 15, 2018

Disparities in Americans’ health vary among people living in each of the 50 states. These differences in health status generally fall into two regions: north and south, found in the Commonwealth Fund’s 2018 Scorecard on State Health System Performance.

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Health Populi

MARCH 26, 2018

Key health service factors among the town leaders are lower rates of chronic disease and hospitalizations, and greater access to primary care. The Healthiest Communities for 2018 are: • Falls Church, VA. So what is it about Virginia and Colorado when it comes to the social determinants of health (SDOHs)? Douglas County, CO.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 3, 2021

With a PhD background in AI and machine learning, he has helped grow its electronic health record into an integrated platform. He earned a HIMSS Davies Award of Excellence in 2018. CIO and CMIO, Monument Health. As both CIO and CMIO at Monument Health, Lahr is working to change the way rural healthcare is delivered.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

I’d called WiFi a social determinant of health in a Huffington Post column I wrote back in 2016 , recognizing the emerging virtual health opportunity and potential for furthering the digital divide without bolstering broadband “everywhere.” Nothing like a public health crisis to bring new awareness to old knowledge.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2018

The NHS “supply shortage” is a result of financial cuts to both social care and public health. This article in the BMJ published earlier this year called for increasing these investments to ensure further erosion of population and public health outcomes, and to prevent further health disparities in the UK.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

It’s National Health IT Week in the US, so I’m kicking off the week with this post focused on how digital health can bolster economic development. As the only health economist in the family of the 2018 HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors, this is a voice through which I can uniquely speak. GDP, in 2018.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Consumers point to some organizations that they perceive may be working against their better health: these include fast food manufacturers, the entertainment industry, food processors (“Big Food”), the media, government agencies, and health insurance companies. Health care delivery in the U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 11, 2018

the chronic disease burden takes a massive toll on both public health and mortality, accounting for 7 in 10 deaths in America each year. That personal health toll comes at a high price and proportion of national health expenditures. Chronic diseases are what kill most people in the world. In the U.S.,

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Patient Satisfaction Health Outcomes Public Health Health Insurance 52

Health Populi

JUNE 7, 2018

High Spending Growth Rates For Key Diseases In 2000-14 Were Driven By Technology And Demographic Factors , a June 2018 Health Affairs article, analyzed this data. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The third chart shows consumers’ top-line for healthcare spending: that healthcare makes up 20.6% health citizen.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

He shared this image from Cracked Labs which illustrates the many data sources beyond the legacy health care claim that stakeholders can access and, if used for good, can benefit patient care and health outcomes. Walmart, in particular, had a huge uptick in this during the 2018 holiday shopping season. for Americans.

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CMS.gov

JULY 18, 2018

CMS Doubling Down on Health IT; Patients. Thu, 07/19/2018 - 00:03. The CHIO will drive health IT and data sharing to enhance healthcare delivery, improve health outcomes, drive down costs, and empower patients. Mohanraj.Balas…. Seema Verma. Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Acquisition of BCBSLA Paused a Second Time It was the biggest health care deal in Louisiana history. biotech pins hopes on 3 drug approvals as battles with FDA continue Luxury senior living facility coming to D.C. New CEO at Children’s National lays out her vision D.C.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 5, 2018

In healthcare, being smart and mission-driven at the same time requires addressing the Quadruple Aim: those four pillars are to enhance the healthcare experience, to bolster health outcomes, to support clinicians (doctors, nurses, allied professionals) in their daily work and prevent burnout, and to lower per-patient costs.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 10, 2022

However, for those that haven’t, CMS believes these changes would better equip SNPs to meet their members’ needs, by providing SNPs “a more complete picture of the risk factors that may inhibit enrollees from accessing care and achieving optimal health outcomes and independence.”

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Health Populi

MARCH 23, 2021

ECRI has published their annual Top 10 list since 2018, when the list featured diagnostic errors, o behavioral health needs in acute care settings, and patient engagement and health literacy — all of which play into this year’s #1 issue, racial and ethnic disparities in health care.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 29, 2021

RAND’s top-line was that, “COVID-19 has magnified preexisting racial/ethnic disparities in food security in a very short time, a circumstance linked to a wide variety of health outcomes… now at the highest levels observed over the past decade.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

The platform is being leveraged around the globe by public health departments, academic researchers, health systems and managed care organizations. Within less than 24 hours, InTouch Health can deploy cloud-based software to enable secure end-to-end patient care, whether scheduled or on-demand.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2024

By now, most clued-in Americans know the score on the nation’s collective health status compared to other developed countries — especially striking differences between black people and whites in death rates and complications due to COVID-19. under 50 have poorer health outcomes than our cohorts in other developed countries.

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Public Health Health Insurance Health Outcomes Doctors 93

Health Populi

JANUARY 16, 2023

By now, most clued-in Americans know the score on the nation’s collective health status compared to other developed countries — especially striking differences between black people and whites in death rates and complications due to COVID-19. under 50 have poorer health outcomes than our cohorts in other developed countries.

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Public Health Health Insurance Health Outcomes Doctors 118

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

The quickly evolving COVID-19 public health emergency has warranted the growing use of telehealth and non-invasive remote monitoring devices to facilitate patient monitoring while reducing patient and healthcare provider contact and possible exposure to the virus.

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Hall Render

JUNE 9, 2023

Here’s why ARKANSAS Arkansas Children’s Hospital raises $5.9

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Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2020

By now, most clued-in Americans know the score on the nation’s collective health status compared to other developed countries: suffice it to say, We’re Still Not #1 for health outcomes, albeit we’re the biggest spender on healthcare, per health citizen, in the world.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

By now, most clued-in Americans know the score on the nation’s collective health status compared to other developed countries — especially striking differences between black people and whites in death rates and complications due to COVID-19. under 50 have poorer health outcomes than our cohorts in other developed countries.

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Public Health COVID-19 Health Insurance Health Outcomes 120

Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2019

In health care, this is an underlying tectonic trend with implications for research, translation to therapies, individual treatment plans, population and public health. in 2016 was foreign-born, this JAMA article published in December 2018 attested. 2015 – Musings with Mary Meeker on the Digital/Health Nexus.

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Prescription Drug Pricing Public Health Health Outcomes HIPAA 105

Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

UPMC launching a social impact program focusing on SDoH, among other projects investing in social factors that bolster public health. As I pointed out in my 2020 Health Populi trendcast , the private sector is taking on more public health initiatives as policy progress at the Federal level feels frozen.

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US Department of Health and Human Services Prescription Drug Pricing Public Health Medicare 125

Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2019

By now, most clued-in Americans know the score on the nation’s collective health status compared to other developed countries: suffice it to say, We’re Still Not #1 for health outcomes, albeit we’re the biggest spender on healthcare, per health citizen, in the world.

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Public Health Health Outcomes Doctors Hospitals 103

Hall Render

APRIL 28, 2023

million to benefit South Side and south suburban communities in fiscal 2022 INDIANA Beacon Health announces hiring freeze, pay cuts for employees Carmel-based NICO Corp.

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Health Populi

JULY 11, 2018

on several dimensions: diet and health outcomes, farming as an industry and economic engine, and social determinants, along with seven other categories. The primary utility of a food system is to nourish a citizenry: access to, and consumption of, nutritious food is a key determinant of a nation’s health and well-being.

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Health Outcomes Public Health Health Care Access Health Insurance 85

Health Populi

APRIL 2, 2018

Healthcare — availability and affordability — is a more intense worry for Americans in March 2018 than crime and violence, Federal spending, guns, drug use, and hunger and homelessness. were worried about the economy, and 23% about unemployment, in March 2018. adults 18 and over between 1st-8th March 2018.

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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2019

Harris and VP Biden on race, busing, and segregation — which in the larger public health context continue to have a direct impact on health equity, health disparities, and socio-economic status. Finally…Where was the mass call-out for mental health as part of America’s public health?

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