Health Populi

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Before the pandemic, 19% of physicians said they were somewhat or very unhappy in their work-life; after COVID-19, this rose to 34%. And 8 in 10 doctors felt burnout before the start of COVID-19. Last year, urologists, neurologists, and nephrologists were the top 3 most burned-out specialists. Four in ten U.S.

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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. The second graphic, titled Exhibit 1 from the report, illustrates the patient journey during COVID-19 and the digital tools supporting people at different points in that journey.

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Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Here in Health Populi since launching in 2007, we’ve tracked the growth of patients-as-consumers’ financial wellness as part of overall health. That’s due to one-third of people expecting to have significantly less money due to feeling the pinch of higher costs-of-living.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 3, 2022

As we enter COVID-19’s “junior year,” one unifying experience shared by most humans are feelings of pandemic fatigue: anxiety, grief, burnout, which together diminish our mental health. Mindfulness and meditation apps, food and nutrition, are also well known by over 50% of U.S.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 18, 2021

The world has been in urgent need of COVID-19 vaccines, treatments, and diagnostic tools. Here’s a look at what we’ve learned from COVID-19 era regulatory practices in clinical development. This first came for COVID-19 test kits and treatments aimed at minimizing symptoms and shortening disease duration.

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HIPAA Journal

AUGUST 24, 2023

For instance, Chinese hackers targeted pharmaceutical firms during the pandemic seeking COVID-19 vaccine research data. The group has been active since at least 2007 and is known to target U.S.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 12, 2022

While Covid-19 initially exacerbated difficulties in access, the swift public emergency declarations that led to the easing of regulations proved a catalyzer for remote models that had previously struggled to gain adoption. With increased competition, companies in the space are eyeing FDA approval as a key point of differentiation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Although the digital divide existed long before 2020, the shift to virtual work, school and healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic deepened the issue even further and exposed just how vulnerable millions of Americans are when it comes to connectivity and digital access. This stark inequity is known as the digital divide.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

In December 2021, as the COVID-19 pandemic led to hospital department closures around the U.S., Docline, the National Library of Medicine’s interlibrary loan request routing system, showed a decrease from 3,166 medical libraries in 2007 to 2,140 in 2017.

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

household budgets in February 2022, highlighted in a poll from Morning Consult : inflationary spikes for housing, food, and energy, and the COVID-19 Omicron variant forcing health care costs up for some consumers driving medical debt up. There’s a trifecta cost challenge hitting U.S. across the U.S.; more granularly, $4.83

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 6, 2023

When UMH-West moved to its current location in 2007, downtown Grand Rapids was already home to the “Medical Mile,” a cluster of large providers and medical schools. Embracing Remote Care Exalta did not utilize telehealth services prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020, furloughs gutted the clinic’s on-site staff.

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 29, 2022

Despite pediatric COVID-19 vaccine availability, many youth remain unvaccinated , and are thus at higher risk of life-altering outcomes as a result of contracting COVID-19. [1]. Youth in the foster care system and those who are justice-involved face additional challenges during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

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New Jersey Healthcare Blog

JANUARY 12, 2022

103, which declared a Public Health Emergency for the state in response to COVID-19. 10:191, Children’s Partial Care Programs, by the Department in 2007; and N.J.A.C. Effective October 19, 2021. 19; repealed N.J.A.C. 1657(a), the Commissioner released a notice regarding Executive Order No. Definitions and 4.1,

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

. “Provisional life expectancy at birth in the first half of 2020 was the lowest level since 2006 for both the total population and for males, and was the lowest level since 2007 for females,” the report observes. That’s certainly true for health and health care access — COVID-19 has shown us.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 28, 2022

Act III of COVID: Navigating the Crosscurrents of Post-Inflation. Act I: Pre-COVID (Pre-2020) Act II: Post-COVID (2020 – 2021) Act III: Post-Inflation (2022 – ?). The amount of investment going into Health IT is nearly half the Post-COVID peak, but still 27% higher than Pre-COVID levels.

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Health Populi

JULY 16, 2021

” speaks directly to the maternal and child mortality disparity in America in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic’s shock to women’s healthcare and home economics. The impact of COVID-19 on the U.S. The care economy cannot be easily or rationally separated from the fiscal economy.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 17, 2022

When the COVID-19 pandemic closed medical offices, consumers turned to digital options en masse—some for the first time —and saw the benefits of virtual visits. In the decade between 2007 and 2017, enrollment in high-deductible health plans increased from 17 percent to 43 percent among adults aged 18- 64 with employment-based coverage.

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SQA

AUGUST 8, 2023

Experience with large-scale events such as Hurricane Maria and the COVID-19 pandemic, and more recent geopolitical events, have cast a wider lens on global supply chain and distribution vulnerabilities. TR 43 was originally published in 2007 and revised in 2013 to address industry feedback.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 23, 2022

APT29 is known to be behind the attack on the Pentagon in 2015, the SolarWinds Orion attack in 2020, and targeted COVID-19 vaccine developers during the pandemic. Sandworm, aka Voodoo Bear, ELECTRUM, IRIDIUM, Telebots, and Iron Viking, operates under the direction of the GRU and has been active since at least 2007.

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Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Dr. Robert Pearl has recently written about this, and the phenomenon has been a major recurring theme in this Health Populi blog since its inception in 2007 – when I launched this site in the midst of The Great Recession. There’s a sort of health care “shrinkflation” that has been shaping patients-as-payors of medical bills.

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Med League

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In 2007, the US Food and Drug Administration issued a post market Alert “Carbamazepine significantly increases the risk of dangerous or even fatal skin reactions [SJS and TEN] in certain patient populations…the allele is almost exclusively found in patients with ancestry across broad areas of Asia, including South Asian Indians.”

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Med League

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In 2007, the US Food and Drug Administration issued a post market Alert “Carbamazepine significantly increases the risk of dangerous or even fatal skin reactions [SJS and TEN] in certain patient populations…the allele is almost exclusively found in patients with ancestry across broad areas of Asia, including South Asian Indians.”.

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