HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

With more than 114,000 people living in poverty in 2019, including 37,700 children and nearly 12,000 adults, these individuals face daily challenges related to violence, lack of digital connections, housing, food, access to medical care and behavioral health providers, unemployment, and so much more.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 22, 2023

In spring 2021, emergency department visits for suspected suicide attempts were nearly 51% higher for adolescent girls compared with the same time period in 2019. THE PROBLEM At the same time, there is a critical shortage of behavioral health specialists. 570 counties in the U.S. right now have no mental healthcare providers at all.

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MedTrainer

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

For healthcare compliance programs in Indiana to be successful, organizations must have methods in place for tracking and applying regulatory standards, while ensuring all staff are up to date with changes by governing bodies. This article provides an overview of the important aspects to healthcare compliance specific to Indiana State.

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Health Populi

JUNE 30, 2020

feel this way, up from 56% in 2018 and 2019. said the government’s response to COVID was a significant source of stress: in first place, the Federal government response (felt a significant stressor among 84% of U.S. adults), followed by States (72% of consumers), and local governments (64% of people feeling the stress).

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 5, 2018

The Airband Initiative is working from Northwest Georgia to South Africa to bolster partnerships to connect agriculture, education, health, and other sectors in areas under-served by broadband. states; the program will expand to 25 states in 2019. In 2017, Airband was working with 16 U.S. ” Smith writes.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 26, 2019

What’s underlying employers’ commitment to address mental/behavioral health is that most companies believe that when these programs integrate with physical health services, employers achieve better health outcomes. 84% of employers are also concerned with substance use disorder, both for alcohol and opioids.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

The ability to seek treatment from a doctor specializing in your specific medical need is beneficial and improves health outcomes. Yet, an intrinsic outcome of this personalization is data fragmentation — data points from different doctors, platforms and tools stored in multiple systems, completely disconnected from each other.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In 2019, for instance, Tom stated that voters “should realize what they’re legalizing is ‘psilocybin-assisted therapy,’ rather than wholesale access to the drug,” and that the effort is “ specifically focused on treating mental illness in a safe, controlled setting.” The Oregon Health Authority, or the therapists governing association?

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MedTrainer

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

New Jersey Healthcare Compliance Resources Let’s start with the important state government agencies you’ll need to work with: The New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH) oversees various departments and initiatives aimed at ensuring public health, such as disease control, environmental health, emergency preparedness, and health equity.

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MedTrainer

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Georgia Healthcare Compliance Resources Let’s start with the important state government agencies you’ll need to work with: The Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) plays a crucial role in safeguarding the health and well-being of Georgians. This means increased accessibility for patients.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

PwC published a well-researched global-reaching report this week appropriately titled, Action required: The urgency of addressing social determinants of health. The collaborators include governments, health care providers, payors, life science and pharma, tech and telecomms, policy and research, community-based organizations, and employers.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 15, 2022

– Government support and benefit flexibility (e.g., Prior to co-founding Altruista Health, Ashish served as the National Director for United Health Groups Business Risk Management (BRM) division. Due to rapid growth of the 65-and-older portion of the population, Medicare expenditures are forecast to reach $1,559.4

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The previous record was set in 2020 and, before that, in 2019. While the National Institute on Drug Abuse Director characterizes America’s drug overdose mortality as “truly staggering” and the White House calls “the accelerating pace of overdose deaths ‘unacceptable,’” our government refuses to make meaningful changes to reverse course.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The consumer-as-medical-bill-payor is now looking at foods with health benefits, first and foremost for heart health. Food stores gained in trust between 2017 and 2018, illustrating the opportunity that a consumer’s favorite grocery store can leverage in a trusted relationship with a person keen on health.

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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. And that will enhance patient/consumer health experience and loyalty. for Americans. What causes eye pain?

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CMS.gov

MARCH 14, 2019

Thu, 03/14/2019 - 17:33. I’ve heard the derisive comments from those in the health policy stratosphere that prefer centralized government command and control of health care in America. This level of guidance also cascades across other issues related to health outcomes and socio-economic status. Seema Verma.

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AIHC

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

At the federal level, government agencies are at various stages of adopting ML-based diagnostic tests. For example, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), through its Veterans Health Administration (VHA), operates the largest integrated health care system in the U.S. According to the American Hospital Association (AHA), yes.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

In healthcare, that means understanding the unique challenges for each patient based on their social determinants of health and using technology to fill gaps that traditional healthcare models might have overlooked. For health plans, one critical area that can have a significant impact on health outcomes is member communication.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In 2019, Dallas had passed an ordinance offering residents paid sick leave, which gives workers paid time off to care for themselves or their loved ones. These factors may be just as significant to worker health outcomes and the reduction of health disparities. Having, but not Using, the Tools.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The rationale for SDOH interventions is that the identification of resource gaps coupled with closing those resource gaps will yield better health outcomes. billion dollars of health system funds were invested into SDOH efforts from 2017 to 2019. million in 2019 to $75.7 million in 2021. Learning Bias.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2021

After her death in 2013, the Southwark Coroner’s Court found that air pollution “made a material contribution” to her death, “a landmark decision” according to a government advisor on air pollution. Existing vulnerabilities enable those climate-related risks to more negatively impact health outcomes.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 2, 2023

“The City of Chicago is reimagining the role government can play in our lives by exploring a public option for grocery stores via a municipally owned grocery store and market,” a city economic security advisor noted. . “All Chicagoans deserve to live near convenient, affordable, healthy grocery options.

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Healthcare Law Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

However, the pending expiration of the public health emergency later this month means many new mothers could be left without coverage and care. Vital Signs: Pregnancy-Related Deaths, United States, 2011–2015, and Strategies for Prevention, 13 States, 2013–2017 , 68 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 423–29 (2019). [3] Peterson, et.

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Hall Render

AUGUST 19, 2022

Anchorage’s Mobile Crisis Team hopes funding to operate 24/7 will expand ability to address mental health crises. Health Affairs report shows Alaskans spent more out-of-pocket dollars on health care than residents in any other state in 2019. Two Georgia health systems to receive $300M in federal funds.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

the health/care ecosystem warmly embraced social determinants of health as a concept in 2019. A few of the mainstreaming-of-SDoH signposts in 2019 were: Cigna studying and focusing in on loneliness as a health and wellness risk factor. Across the U.S.,

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

“Patients as Consumers” is the theme of the Health Affairs issue for March 2019. patients in 2019 — patients, consumers, people, health citizens? This concept can be potentially harmful, they believe, assuming that health care is a traditional market.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 29, 2019

" A potential Bennet Administration would make expansion of health coverage one of its top priorities, he said, boosting care through a combination of the "Medicare-X" public option the Colorado Senator introduced with his Democratic colleague, Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, in 2017. " As Bennet explains, the U.S. ON THE RECORD.

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Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Financial stressors were a kind of toxic side effect of the pandemic, observed by the spring of 2020 just weeks into the public health crisis. A new article in Nature details the mental health concerns exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic, which included economic problems faced by many families.

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Hall Render

APRIL 28, 2023

Be prepared to drive to deliver Mount Sinai launches regenerative medicine outpost to translate research into medicines Northwell marketing chief joins Ad Council board Ribbon cut at Watertown’s new mental health urgent care Surgical communication platform raises $4.2

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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. Senator Harris, too, mentioned government benefits like free college and Medicare for All as her health plan preference.

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