Health Populi

MAY 4, 2023

It’s a volume speaking volumes on the current picture of prescribed meds, spending and revenues, health care utilization trends, and a forecast looking out to 2027. health care: “Wake up, public health!” In my read of this year’s review, I see a flashing light for U.S.

Public Health 62

Public Health COVID-19 COVID-19 Vaccine Health Insurance 62

Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

To design systems and policies that promote the right to health, a holistic and proactive approach is needed, one in which people, institutions, and corporations have a shared responsibility in promoting physical, mental, and social well-being. health care system. impede the right to health and contribute to disparities.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 22, 2020

But in developed, wealthier parts of the world, like the U.S., “a record number of countries are experiencing an all-time high ‘mass-class’ trust divide,” according to the 2020 Edelman Trust Barometer. where private sector organizations began to more visibly take on public health objectives and missions.

Public Health 104

Public Health Health Insurance Nurses Governance 104

Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 20, 2021

” The DiGA initiative, created under the 2019 Digital Healthcare Act (DVG), means doctors can prescribe apps to the 73 million German citizens covered by public health, with costs reimbursed through health insurance.

Public Health 312

Public Health Health Insurance Doctors Governance 312

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

At the same time, CTA has published a paper on Advancing Health Equity Through Technology which complements and reinforces the PHTI announcement and objective. Over 160,000 public and private labs. Hospitals and health care providers. Health plans. From the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. value-based).

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Public Health COVID-19 Hospitals FDA 62

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

In 2020, national health expenditures (NHE) in the United States will exceed $4 trillion to cover 334.5 of health spending per person. The three largest line items of NHE in 2020 will be: Hospitals = $1,326 trillion = 38% of NHE. Together, these three categories will comprise just over 80% of health spending in 2020.

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Health Insurance Medicare Medicare Medicaid 79

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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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. Enterprise Taxonomy: Population and Public Health Global Health Equity Care.

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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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COVID-19 Public Health Medicare Medicare 204

Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2021

In April 2020, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control issued a report featuring evidence that in the month of March 2020, the coronavirus pandemic was not an equal-opportunity killer. For some people such as American Indian and Native Alaskan folks, geography, remoteness, and lack of public health infrastructure are challenges.

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2022

Declines in preventive care services like cancer screenings and blood glucose testing concern employers, whose continued to cover health insurance for employees during the pandemic. As a result, commercial healthcare spending fell in 2020, rebounding in 2021. compared with 916,7 visits per 1000 members in 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 24, 2021

The Commonwealth Fund released an issue brief this week reviewing state actions to expand individual and group health insurance coverage of telemedicine between March 2020 and March 2021. It found that 22 states changed laws or policies during that time period to require more robust insurance coverage of telemedicine.

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Telemedicine Public Health COVID-19 Medicare 149

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

By the autumn of 2020, U.S. physicians grew concerned that patients who were avoiding visits to doctor’s offices were missing care for chronic conditions, discussed in in Delayed and Forgone Health Care for N onelderly Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic from the Urban Institute.

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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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COVID-19 Health Insurance Patient Advocacy Public Health 71

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

.” Civic Engagement is a Social Determinant of Health , Eileen titled this piece in which she discusses philanthropy’s role in both strengthening democracy and bolstering public health. I wrote my book, Health Citizenship , in 2020, six months into the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 3, 2022

Perhaps the most egregious aspect of Veltman’s case is that her son’s Medi-Cal termination violated a rule that prevents people from being disenrolled from Medicaid during the federal public health emergency that was declared at the start of the covid-19 pandemic. “This shouldn’t be happening.

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Public Health Health Insurance Professionals ACA Medicaid 249

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. during the public health crisis. increased by a relatively low 6.0%

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Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2022

Here for 2022, the second chart tracks the “stark toll” of the COVID-19 pandemic and the excess deaths experienced for each state since the pandemic emerged in February 2020. deaths per 100,000 population between 2019 and 2020. Pre-pandemic, that rate was even for eight years, then this jump spiked in 2020.

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Health Populi

MAY 1, 2020

economy would decline in 2020 by 5.9%, shown in the bar chart. There’s a point of view (with which I concur) that social determinants of health are really part of public health and a larger concept of health citizenship I called out in USA Today on February 7, 2020. tie to health insurance coverage.

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COVID-19 Health Insurance Public Health 108

Bill of Health

AUGUST 2, 2023

In 2020, 20,000 babies died within their first year of life, and the fifth leading cause of death in these cases was pregnancy complications. These high rates are largely due to scheduling-related convenience and financial incentives from health insurance reimbursement. Further, the U.S.

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Health Insurance Patient Satisfaction Governance World Health 246

Bill of Health

MARCH 15, 2022

Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics , in 2020, only 18% of disabled people were employed, compared to 62% of nondisabled. Similarly, our health care system is a significant barrier to employment because most private health insurance companies do not cover critical supports for disabled people, such as personal assistant services.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 4, 2020

These jobs are also less likely to come with health insurance. If they were and jobs were lost, the lower-income laid-off worker would be unlikely to be able to pay for COBRA benefits for the right of retaining a health plan. poverty rate. Men are still the primary breadwinners.

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COVID-19 Health Insurance Nurses Public Health 169

Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

This structure was already stripped bare by decades of state and local austerity even before the first cases of COVID-19 were identified, and has been further worn down since 2020. This precludes rebuilding the decimated public health workforce. Consider that between 2008 and 2020, U.S.

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Public Health COVID-19 Public Health Professionals Governance 362

Health Populi

JULY 16, 2020

say their financial health has been negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, through job loss, income disruption, or reduced work hours. The 2020 Financial Wellness Census , from Prudential found that one-half of U.S. adults are anxious about their financial future as of May 2020, an increase from 38% in late 2019.

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COVID-19 Governance Public Health Health Insurance 68

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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COVID-19 Public Health Health Insurance Telemedicine 151

Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

With President Trump’s somber speech from the Oval Office last night, we wake up on 12th March 2020 to a ban on most travel from Europe to the U.S., Here is a link to the President’s full remarks from the White House website, presented at about 9 pm on 11 March 2020. recommendations for hygiene, and call to come together in America.

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Health Populi

MAY 26, 2021

The emergence of the COVID-19 vaccine “infodemic” has slowed the ability for nations around the world to emerge out of the public health crisis. Growing cynicism among some health citizens facing the politicization of public health tactics like vaccines and facial masks is what we’re talking about.

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COVID-19 Vaccine COVID-19 Public Health Nurses 81

Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In 2020, most Black people, men and women alike, feel it is a bad time to be Black in America. More than twice as many Black men believe that in 2020 compared with 2006. The public health pandemic has converged in 2020 with the negative impacts of financial stress and mental health tolls.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 28, 2020

adults 18 and over in mid-June 2020 to gauge peoples’ perspectives on health data and privacy. The most-trusted parties people trust with their personal health information are doctors’ offices (86%), health insurers (75%), and medical researchers (72%), seen as the top health data stewards in the U.S.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In statistics provided by the UICC as part of its the official #WorldCancerDay campaign marked on 4 February, an estimated 10 million individuals died of cancer in 2020. Due to demographic development, newly diagnosed cancer cases could double from 410,000 to 720,000 cases per year from 2020 to 2040. Total health expenditure: 6.4%

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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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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2021

in the first quarter of 2020. Nearly eighteen months later, a 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer update finds that consumers’ trust in the health care industry is under stress, too — in the U.S. health citizens’ memories will last into 2022 with respect to cross-party desire for the U.S. and around the world.

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COVID-19 COVID-19 Vaccine Health Insurance Medicare 124

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.

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Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2021

Note: I may be biased as a University of Michigan graduate of both the School of Public Health and Rackham School of Graduate Studies in Economics]. health care, patient assistance programs, Medicare Advantage plans, and the bundling of proven high-value preventive services into the Affordable Care Act.

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Health Insurance ACA Medicare Medicare 98

HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Director of Healthcare Strategy, LexisNexis Risk Solutions During the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, over 10 million Americans enrolled in Medicaid – nearly a 14% increase from the beginning of 2020. A month before the public health emergency ended on May 11, 2023, 87 million individuals were enrolled in Medicaid.

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Medicaid Medicaid Health Insurance Health Outcomes 64

Compliancy Group

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Any application or service used by dentists or other healthcare providers must meet the standards enumerated in the Health Insurance Portability and Accessibility Act (HIPAA). One of the primary reasons that Congress passed the HIPAA law was to ensure patients’ protected health information (PHI) privacy and security.

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HIPAA Compliance Public Health COVID-19 52

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Their ten must-do’s for bending the cost curve while driving constructive change for a better health care system are to: Ensure access. Achieve health equity. Stability the safety net and rebuild public health. Address social determinants of health. Accelerate digital health. Innovate long-term care.

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