Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2021

came to trust digitally-enabled companies for managing health as large retailers and health care providers. When I shared these data points with hospitals and clinicians they were first stunned at the finding. Trust underpins health engagement, especially critical in a public health crisis.

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In place of “government,” you might use the words “hospital” or “health insurance” or “drug company.” The post Rebel Health: The Personal and Professional Passion of Susannah Fox appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 31, 2022

But allocation among patients under scarcity is a public health and public policy decision, not a clinical one: we should not place clinicians facing patient care pressures in the position of spending a “ weekend poring over the charts of Covid patients to figure out who should get scarce treatments.”

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Health Populi

AUGUST 12, 2021

During the pandemic, health care providers needed to deal with the security of devices rapidly procured and deployed within institutions and also outside the walls of providers, such as in field hospitals meeting the surge of coronavirus patients. 32% of medical imaging devices were running on unsupported operating systems, and.

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 1, 2022

Recently, an account on social media alleged that a patient with an ectopic pregnancy in a state with trigger laws experienced a nine hour delay in treatment as she bled internally because the hospital Ethics and Legal Counsel had to be consulted about whether or not the pregnancy tissue could be removed.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2022

Members of his congregation kept going to the hospital with diet-related issues, Reverend Dr. Heber Brown, III , realized. And then… “God gave us an idea and vision to be proactive on the issue of health in our congregation,” Rev. In the future, he envisions the mesh of the food system with the health system.

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Jane Sarashon

JULY 27, 2022

The second graphic from the report breaks out the health consumer/health citizen from the health/care industry and ecosystem: Being that intelligent guardian for our health and fitness, including partnering with third parties for digital health tools and apps, and. It will be about health.”

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Bill of Health

JUNE 29, 2022

However, although a large percentage of hospitalized patients lack capacity , physicians often do not feel confident in their ability to assess capacity, fail to recognize that most patients who do not have capacity lack it, and often disagree on which patients have capacity.

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Jane Sarashon

JANUARY 24, 2024

Moving to deployment and implementation, we can consider health ministries and departments, pharma and life science companies, health systems and hospitals, individual providers, and the developers and providers integrated into health systems.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2021

health citizens’ memories will last into 2022 with respect to cross-party desire for the U.S. Hospitals’ fall from 70% to 63% between 2018 and 2019. Consumer health’s fall from 63% in 2019 to 51% in 2020. to approve Medicare’s negotiation of drug prices with pharmaceutical companies].

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 16, 2022

During her “hospital-incarceration,” she lost access to any prenatal care, and state officials did not monitor the fetus’s health. When Lowe tried to seek treatment for her SUD in 2005, instead of getting medical care, she was forcibly taken away from her husband and son and put on an involuntary psychiatric hold.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

“Racial and ethnic inequities in the US health care system have been unremitting since the beginning of the country.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2021

and the issue of pandemic preparedness for the next “Disease X” became part of global public health planning. But the biggest health threat to human life is climate change, according to a new report from the World Health Organization titled The Health Argument for Climate Action.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Recent research provides further support: when Yale New Haven Hospital tested clinicians on staff who were seventy and older, it found that almost 13% had significant cognitive deficits. Hahn Professor of Law, Professor of Bioethics, and Co-Director of Law-Medicine Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Law.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

CES 2021 featured some obvious quick-pivoting products that had the pandemic written all over them, with sessions invariably speaking to the way the public health crisis impacted companies and strategic plans. Home as hospital. The home gym. Fitness tech and wearables for activity tracking have long been a big category at CES.

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Bill of Health

JULY 5, 2023

Some have also served as public health officials and/or professors. The pandemic response in the United States, and its attendant hospitalization and death rates, represents a failure of public health. They also present good ideas on the “how” side of public health. 209), and the like.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2019

Rates of hospital admissions for uncontrolled diabetes are higher for Black women than for women in other racial/ethnic groups. The rate of hospital admissions for lower extremity amputations due to uncontrolled diabetes is higher for Black women than White women. These interrelationships are fundamental to public health thinking.

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Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2020

” The phrase, “your ZIP code is more important than your genetic code” has become the common mantra for public health people communicating the concept of the social determinants of health : those factors outside of medical services that shape peoples’ overall health and well-being.

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Health Populi

MARCH 24, 2020

are concerned about their potential out-of-pocket costs which could run $1,300 or more, based on a Peterson Center/Kaiser Family Foundation study I discussed here in Health Populi. Bottom-line for that health consumer: two in three Americans could not afford to pay their deductible if hospitalized for treatment of coronavirus.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 5, 2021

health care system. Among the ten awards, I’ve selected three to highlight to synthesize one systemic issue that has plagued America’s response to the public health crisis. 7: Hospitals punish professionals for wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) in institutions.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 10, 2022

While vaccination still provides powerful protection against hospitalization and death due to infection from Omicron, protection against symptomatic illness is weaker than before, particularly among those who have not received boosters. The benefits of public health policies to slow the spread and flatten the curve have rarely been so clear.

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