Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Over one-half of Americans would likely use virtual care for their healthcare services, and one in four people would actually prefer a virtual relationship with a primary care physician, according to the fifth annual 2020 Consumer Sentiment Survey from UnitedHealthcare.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

and post-pandemic job growth in 2021, the cost of health insurance premiums rose faster than either the price of goods or wages. That family health plan premium reached $22,221, an increase of 22% since 2016, we learn in the annual report from Kaiser Family Foundation, 2021 Employer Health Benefits Survey.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

Let’s travel to Shanghai, China where, “the covid-19 epidemic has brought millions of new patients online. They are likely to stay there,” asserts “ The smartphone will see you now ,” an article in the March 7th 2020 issue of The Economist. Congressional leadership on February 28 2020. The President signed the $8.3

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2021

A new report from the RAND Corporation suggests that the biggest upticks in virtual care availability occurred in more affluent and metropolitan communities, and that telemedicine services were mostly enjoyed by patients with private insurance. The COVID-19 public health emergency has put larger questions of health equity in focus.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2020

are self-rationing care in the era of COVID-19 by cutting spending on health care visits and prescription drugs. PwC explored how COVID-19 is influencing consumers’ health care behaviors in survey research conducted in early April by the Health Research Institute. Patients in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 13, 2020

“The COVID-19 pandemic…has highlighted like never before the pitfalls of paying for healthcare based on the number of patients seen and services rendered,” a Modern Healthcare article asserted in mid-June 2020. billion a day in March 2020 based on declining patient volumes. In other words, the U.S. ” This $1.4

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 19, 2022

" Rural residents are in poorer physical condition, have more health risks and are more likely to lack health insurance, she added. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. The wage gap between urban and rural Pennsylvanians is getting wider. MARKETPLACE.

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Compliancy Group

MARCH 15, 2023

Telemedicine is one such advancement that has revolutionized the way we receive medical care. Telemedicine allows patients to receive care from the comfort of their own homes, without having to visit a doctor’s office or hospital. HIPAA and Telemedicine: Why Should You Be Compliant?

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Health Populi

APRIL 22, 2020

Stress is up, smoking increasing, drinking more alcohol… Americans are tapping into a variety of coping mechanisms in the coronavirus outbreak, with health on their collective minds. Toluna and Harris Interactive are collaborating on the COVID-19 Barometer , publishing biweekly data on consumers’ views on the coronavirus pandemic.

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Health Populi

JULY 13, 2020

Advertising Age announced their list of the top 20 brands in 2020 this week. Arguably, other brands among the 20 foster health and wellness at home: Animal Crossing, the video game, has helped people pass the time and be entertained inside at home during our shelter-in-place orders. .” In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

MAY 19, 2020

Imagine this: you find yourself with $6,553 in your pocket and you can pick one of the following: A new 2020 Breitling Navitimer watch; A year’s in-state tuition at Valdosta State University; or, A PPO for an average individual. In 2020, that $12K+ represents over 18% of the median household income in the U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2021

A major side-effect of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 was its impact on the national U.S. In 2021, patients-as-health-consumers seek lower health care and prescription drug costs coupled with higher quality care, discovered by the patient advocacy coalition, Consumers for Quality Care. for personal history with COVID-19.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

There’s more evidence that doctors and patients, both, want to use telehealth after the COVID-19 pandemic fades. Doximity’s second report on telemedicine explores both physicians’ and patients’ views on virtual care, finding most doctors and health consumers on the same page of virtual care adoption.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic forced consumers to define what were basic or essential needs to them; for most people, those items have been hygiene products, food, and connectivity to the Internet. A new report from CoverMyMeds details the current state of medication access weaving together key health care industry and consumer data.

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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. population health burden. increased by a relatively low 6.0%

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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. In 2021, spending would return to pre-COVID projections. Patients Forgo Care Until 2021.”

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2021

A major side-effect of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 was its impact on the national U.S. In 2021, patients-as-health-consumers seek lower health care and prescription drug costs coupled with higher quality care, discovered by the patient advocacy coalition, Consumers for Quality Care. population). population).

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Compliance Now

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Beginning January 1, 2023, dependents can start qualifying for government subsidized health insurance if they are not offered affordable coverage through an employer-sponsored plan, even if the coverage offered to their parent or spouse (who is the employee) is affordable for that employee.

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Compliance Now

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Beginning January 1, 2023, dependents can start qualifying for government subsidized health insurance if they are not offered affordable coverage through an employer-sponsored plan, even if the coverage offered to their parent or spouse (who is the employee) is affordable for that employee.

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Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2020

Today kicks off the first all-virtual conference of the ATA, the American Telemedicine Association. I’ll be midwifing a panel this afternoon at 440 pm Eastern time, initially focused on how health care can garner patient loyalty. This is one of the bright spots of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 28, 2020

In a press release on the program, CTA President and CEO Gary Shapiro noted that, “The response to COVID-19 in the U.S. has highlighted the huge demand for health technology solutions. The company’s Core ScanWatch was a CES 2020 Honoree in the category of Fitness/Sports and Wearable Technologies.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 5, 2020

In the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth was a “bright spot in the ‘new normal,’” according to a report from J.D. Power has studied including health insurance, insurance and financial services. The study was fielded in June-July 2020 among 4,302 U.S. This is the second year that J.D.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2021

One in two people said the COVID-19 pandemic has made their planning for the future feel impossible. For parents, the strain has grown from 2020 into 2021: family responsibilities are a significant source of stress, and relationships are a source of stress. Their stress index topped at 5.6 Why would Hispanic adults in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2021

The economic and healthcare system impacts of this were explored in the Post-Covid Healthcare Landscape , delivered by Fitch Solutions’ Jamie Davies and Beau Noafshar, leaders in the Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare, and Medical Devices groups. The forecast is that these backlogs could persist “for years” in the NHS.

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AIHC

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Compliance Considerations for Best Outcomes Written in collaboration with the AIHC Volunteer Education Committee Delivering mental health services via telehealth has increased since the COVID-19 pandemic. Telemedicine is considered to be under the umbrella of telehealth and refers specifically to clinical services.

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MedTrainer

AUGUST 15, 2022

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) exists to provide regulations and best practices for sharing sensitive healthcare data. If a patient’s protected health information (PHI) is leaked, then it can land their care provider in hot legal water. However, this all changed in 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 11, 2023

One big question in healthcare when it comes to the digital divide: How can people in these households get access to telemedicine ? Please talk about the mission of your nonprofit organization when it comes to telemedicine and the digital divide. That's just the beginning of a deep digital divide in this country. Approximately 11.7

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2021

Two studies published in May 2021 illustrate the value and importance of telehealth to patients in 2020, and a disconnect among many C-level executives working in hospitals, academic medical centers, and other care provider organizations. Commercial Member Health Plan Study. Together, the two reports from J.D. Power 2021 U.S.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 17, 2023

And an analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation found Medicaid/CHIP enrollment increased 29% from February 2020 to November 2022. After the expiration of the COVID-19 PHE, analysts predict a potential loss of health insurance coverage for as many as 15 million Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program enrollees, ages 12 -64.

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2020

The phrase, “burden of health care,” has two usual meanings: one, to do with the massive chronic care burden, and the other, involving costs. health care — the onerous patient experience in finding and accessing care, assessed in the 2020 Change Healthcare – Harris Poll Consumer Experience Index.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Note that WHO’s approach to digital health adoption includes equity, access, palliative care, privacy, and security. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Everyone of Manatt Health’s ten imperatives are spot-on in this moment as we segue from Our Covid Year of 2020 to the Covid Year of 2021.

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Health Populi

JULY 10, 2020

Three months into the COVID-19 crisis, how have patients felt about these telehealth visits? In Patient Perspectives on Virtual Care , Kyruus answers this question based on an online survey of 1,000 patients 18 years of age and older, conducted in May 2020. health citizens and their providers. What about physicians?

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

As the HLTH conference convenes over 6,000 digital health innovators live, in person, in Boston in the wake of the delta variant, what should attendees keep in mind to help HLTH make health? The top-line in the report, and the bottom-line for health citizens, was that 38% of U.S. One-half of U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

” For this report, PwC’s Health Research Institute surveyed 2,511 American consumers, 128 health plan executives, 153 healthcare provider organization executives, and 124 pharmaceutical and life sciences executives in August and September 2020. Healthcare right-sizes after the telemedicine explosion.

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Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2021

Fendrick was part of a team that wrote one of the first research articles on the effects of increasing patient cost sharing on health disparities — published in 2008 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. have struggled to pay for living expenses since December 2020, a year into the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Provider Trust

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Another 100,000 nurses left the industry between 2020 and 2021, according to an industry trade-journal estimate , either to retire early, leave the field, or switch jobs. A September 2022 report by the OIG found that Telehealth visits increased drastically after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

who benefits from health insurance at the workplace, the annual family premium will average $21,342 this year, according to the 2020 Employer Health Benefits Survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Over ten years, the premium dollars grew from $13,770 in 2010 to $21K in 2020. For a worker in the U.S.

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