Health Populi
APRIL 27, 2021
For people who are Black and Hispanic, lack of high school degrees, and greater density of people living in homes can contribute to poor outcomes from the coronavirus due to spread or access to resources like broadband or health care insurance (which some working people lost due to job loss, furlough, or cut hours in the pandemic).
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
That personal information can get mashed up and analyzed along with data from our electronic health records and health insurance claims to create a fuller picture of us… helpful in personalizing medical treatments and health regimens that are unique to us. Now, consider Humana’s involvement.
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Health Populi
JUNE 10, 2021
” Health Populi’s Hot Points: HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, was signed into law in 1996 by President Bill Clinton. Eleven years later, Steve Jobs launched the first iPhone. At the same time, that information is at once highly valuable and higher personal.
Health Populi
AUGUST 24, 2021
In that introductory editorial, Ending Structural Racism in the US Health Care System to Eliminate Health Care Inequities, Ortega and Roby write that, “3 studies in this issue of JAMA show that access to and utilization of services is not merely predicated on health insurance or the availability of health care.
Health Populi
MARCH 13, 2019
The paper that asserts “no” to the question comes from Michael Gusmano, Karen Maschke, and Mildred Solomon, all associated with the Hastings Center which does research into bioethics. Taken together, these four papers from Health Affairs lead to the following themes: By 2019, patients in the U.S.
Health Populi
JANUARY 20, 2019
By now, most clued-in Americans know the score on the nation’s collective health status compared to other developed countries: suffice it to say, We’re Still Not #1 for health outcomes, albeit we’re the biggest spender on healthcare, per health citizen, in the world.
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