Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2019

Direct primary care models, while gaining attention in certain major metropolitan markets, will remain a strategy adopted by a minority of employers: 9% in 2020, and an addition 17% considering in 2021-22. Primary care are the services provided by clinicians as gatekeepers and front-line providers for patients.

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Jane Sarashon

MARCH 14, 2023

ages 12 to 17 presented to the emergency department for suspected suicide attempts in the winter of 2021 — 39% greater than in the same period in 2019. Our cultures of care, caring, and social health have as much to do with patient safety as technology glitches and cleaning and disinfection.

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Nurses Health Care Access Hospitals Doctors 60

Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

In the 19th and 20th centuries, segregated black hospitals were emblematic of separate but unequal health care,” begins the editorial introducing an entire issue of JAMA dedicated to racial and ethnic disparities and inequities in medicine and health care, published August 17, 2021.

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COVID-19 Health Care Inequity COVID-19 Vaccine Medicare 133

Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

As digital health industry stakeholders will be convening at the 2021 annual HIMSS conference in Las Vegas and digitally, this report is well-timed to give us a level-set on just “where” U.S. health citizens are with respect to their medical information. .”

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The pandemic’s sharp reveal of health inequities and income inequality accelerated this trend. While most employers were already addressing health care access, financial equity, and racism in 2021, more will be looking at finance — pay equity, minimum wage, and other household income issues — in 2022.

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Healthcare Law Blog

MAY 16, 2022

More than 13 million people were enrolled in Medi-Cal in California in September 2021, making it the largest Medicaid program in the nation.

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Health Populi

JULY 13, 2021

As the COVID-19 pandemic shifts to a more endemic phase — becoming part of peoples’ everyday life for months to come — impacts on peoples’ mental health will persist, according to new research from CVS Health in the company’s annual Health Care Insights Study. adults in March 2021.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 25, 2022

The five-year strategic vision aims to remove barriers to health care access for members by implementing same-day treatment authorizations and real-time claims payments for providers, and annually assessing members’ social determinants of health.

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Health Care Access HIPAA Compliance 52

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

They are “provisional” because the NHCS may receive revised and additional death certificates up to 6 months after the end of 2020 (say, until June 2021). That’s certainly true for health and health care access — COVID-19 has shown us.

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Health Populi

JULY 5, 2023

Figure 6 from the King’s Fund report arrays health spending per capita data points from the OECD’s 2021 national survey, finding the UK (the red dot on the graph) to the left of the red average line on the x-axis for per capita spending and just north of the average line of spending as a share of GDP on the y-axis.

Nurses 62

Nurses Doctors Single Payer Health Care Public Health 62

Hall Render

MARCH 25, 2022

Sensitive health data of 50 million Americans hacked or breached last year: analysis. Private equity’s pandemic-era health care push. Health data breaches swell in 2021 amid hacking surge, POLITICO analysis finds. Study: Indiana, Kentucky among worst states in providing public health services.

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Health Populi

JULY 7, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: I’ve been tracking the growing retail health ecosystem for over a decade, writing in 2009 about Costco’s envisioning “health care in every pot.” Nearly one-half of the 3,600 new stores that will open in 2021 will be dollar stores, according to Coresight Research.

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Hall Render

APRIL 14, 2023

NATIONAL 94% of Organizations Experienced a Cyberattack in 2022 AHA blog: Strengthening crisis management in rural health care Biden signs bill ending Covid-19 national emergency Cancer drug shortages are creating dire circumstances for some patients CMS Releases FY24 IPPS Proposed Rule, Seeks to Boost Rates by 2.8%

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Nursing Homes US Department of Health and Human Services Nurses COVID-19 40

Hall Render

OCTOBER 14, 2022

UConn Health to hire formerly incarcerated people. s Rose Health acquired by West Coast behavioral health company. New Ward 8 urgent care opens in effort to expand health care access. DC Health to Merge Monkeypox and COVID Centers. GW urgent care unit opens in Southeast.

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US Department of Health and Human Services COVID-19 Nursing Homes Nurses 40

Hall Render

APRIL 28, 2023

Rich Falcone chief of staff Cincinnati hospital CEOs talk mental health, labor shortages and more Cleveland Clinic Mercy Hospital donates building to Beacon Charitable Pharmacy Farmer Family Foundation gives $5M to accelerate Cincinnati Children’s stem cell studies McLaren St.

Nurses 40

Nurses Nursing Homes COVID-19 Hospitals 40

Hall Render

MARCH 17, 2023

in unpaid care in 2021, AARP finds SOUTH CAROLINA Grand Strand Medical Center celebrates five year anniversary of behavioral health program Roper St. family caregivers provided $2.1B Medical Center ranked No. Moderna to hire up to 220 workers for new Seattle tech office Providence reports $1.7B

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US Department of Health and Human Services Nursing Homes COVID-19 Nurses 40

Hall Render

APRIL 21, 2023

into cutting opioids in hospitals ISU and University of Utah partnership aims to combat Idaho’s mental health crisis Presbyterian-UnityPoint merger moves forward St.

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US Department of Health and Human Services COVID-19 Nurses Nursing Homes 40

Hall Render

JANUARY 21, 2022

Nursing home industry reacts to health care worker vaccine mandate. Ransomware: 2,300+ local governments, schools, healthcare providers impacted in 2021. Kentucky National Guard returns to Baptist Health La Grange. Louisville company rounded out 2021 with 15 acquisitions, coast-to-coast. Louisiana reports first C.

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Hall Render

APRIL 7, 2023

Judge denies challenge to measure that would cap LA hospital exec pay COLORADO Builders show little interest in city, hospital employee housing project Capitol Pain Institute acquires 3 Colorado practices, ASC Colorado lawmakers seek financial information from hospitals in larger debate over health care costs Colorado to advance $1.4

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US Department of Health and Human Services Nursing Homes COVID-19 Nurses 40

Health Populi

AUGUST 28, 2023

.” A big part of learning about public health and its local value was peoples’ growing understanding of the social determinants, or drivers, of health that shape medical outcomes and residents’ well-being in their communities.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Parents also expect significant stress in the months ahead as the pandemic extends into the new year, 2021. I finalized the title of my recently published book, Health Citizenship , with the tagline: “How a virus opened hearts and minds.”

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