Health Populi

MAY 5, 2022

When it comes to peoples’ relationship to consumer packaged goods (CPG), the public health crisis has indeed impacted consumers’ purchasing behaviors and definition of “value,” based on IRI’s latest analysis of CPG shifts in 2022 and 2023. and better-for-you ingredients and functional benefits.

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2023

The fast-growing adoption of telemedicine and remote patient monitoring from the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic led to hospitals and health systems launching new or expanding existing virtual care programs to accommodate a new reality for work-flow and patient care. hospital and health system leaders in March 2023.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2020

For decades, Chinatown Service Center of Los Angeles, a federally qualified health center community clinic, relied on the ubiquitous faxing of patients’ medical records from local hospitals and physician offices, as well as patients bringing their most recent doctor visits’ paperwork outside of CSC to their appointments.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Public health in particular can leverage telehealth to great advantage. These technologies also open avenues to digital equity and health equity among underserved communities in towns, cities, and counties. In July, the White House recruited 1,000 barbershops and hair salons to be COVID vaccination centers.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 26, 2022

Empowering Users on Their Personal Health Journeys. Since the release of the Health app in 2014 and Apple Watch in 2015, Apple has introduced a wide array of innovative health and fitness features, with the goal to provide users with easy-to-understand, meaningful insights so they can be empowered to live a healthier life.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 12, 2021

As connected devices proliferate within health care enterprises and across the health care ecosystem, cybersecurity risks abound. “During the chaos and confusion, threat actors launched cyberattacks,” Ordr observed in the wake of the public health crisis.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2021

The company published the Health Trends Report 2021 today, calling out ten forces shaping health care this year. The Mental Health Shadow of COVID-19. according to the annual Gallup Poll that assesses trust in specific job categories. Health care is omni-channel. Cancer Needs a Better Roadmap.

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Health Populi

JUNE 2, 2020

The drop in deaths from cancer in America was indeed positive during the current public health COVID-19 pandemic, a public health data story easily lost in an overwhelmingly tough week in the U.S.: In 2020, there’s a new third-place cause for mortality in America: COVID-19.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 2, 2022

The Stony Brook Medicine health system, which, before COVID-19, had already grown from a two-hospital system to a four-hospital system with the inclusion of Eastern Long Island Hospital and Southampton Hospital, reflects a diverse and geographically widespread patient population of more than 1.4

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 25, 2022

What You Should Know: – Competition in the provider IT space shows no signs of abating: Early-stage capital, big tech, and scale EMR players continue crowding into more segments. – A new report by KLAS Research and Bain & Company looks at post-pandemic investment priorities by healthcare providers. .

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Health Populi

APRIL 25, 2023

in 2021, per person health care spending increased by nearly 15%, reversing 2020’s spending decline of 3.5% in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. middle-class households finding that health care has returned to the #1 household fiscal concern ahead of inflation in 2023. In the U.S.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 31, 2022

Nursing homes face possible citations, civil monetary penalties, denial of payments and—as a final measure—termination of participation from the Medicare and Medicaid programs by the CMS as they embark on complying with the new CMS COVID-19 vaccine requirements for their staff. COVID-19 Staff Vaccination Matrix.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has, in fact, had a positive impact on spending per se given the volume-based nature of U.S. health care and that volumes turned downward in 2020. Shifting spending toward well-being and social determinants of health earlier in health citizens’ life cycles.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 5, 2022

This means testing must be far more widespread, done in the pursuit of a more complete picture of health and to provide insight into the individual ailments and public health crises that may be coming down the track. The future of diagnostics will be pre-emptive. Embracing new digital diagnostics. About Michael Simpson.

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Provider Trust

APRIL 26, 2023

An increasing trend of nurse strikes and hospital staffing shortages across the country in early 2023 has led many healthcare organizations to turn to travel nurses and staffing agencies to fulfill their workforce needs. Vincent Hospital in Massachusetts faced days- and even months-long protests from their workers.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

A newer category of personal health information, social determinants of health, garners well over one-half of Americans’ interest in access that data. ” The Pew asserts that this survey, “can inform federal policies to expand use of electronic health records, protect patient privacy.”

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s failed responses to COVID-19, ranging from “testing to data to communications,” have prompted a call to reorganize the agency. Yet restructuring the CDC will have little effect on pandemic preparedness if the decentralized American approach to health finance remains in place.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic drove U.S. But the coronavirus era also saw broadband households spending more on connecting health devices, with 42% of U.S. consumers owning digital health tech compared with 33% in 2015, according to research discussed in Supporting Today’s Connected Consumer from Parks Associates.

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Provider Trust

JUNE 1, 2022

Many of these trends evolved in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, but show no signs of slowing despite a wavering rate of hospitalizations. The ongoing nurse staffing crisis is creating a multitude of complexities for hospitals and health systems, especially verifying credentials in a timely manner.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2023

Technology can help support these modifiable behaviors that can help us re-shape our life-long health… some with the support of technologies we can find at #CES2023 in and beyond the digital health exhibition space. In 2023, OMRON celebrates 50 years of working on consumer-facing technologies for heart health. In the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 14, 2021

I expect the other trend will be focusing on mental health, especially in the context of the post-Covid era. Providers need more supportive resources to be successful in more meaningful and broadly distributed risk models. Patty Hayward, Director of Healthcare Strategy for Provider and Payer Markets at Talkdesk.

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Hall Render

JULY 14, 2023

The PPS Rule usually only impacts the home health industry, but this year CMS has included proposals related to not only home health, but also hospice, DMEPOS and provider enrollment. That number will disappoint providers. There have been reports that some agencies decline to provide home health aide services.

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Hall Render

APRIL 18, 2022

The Public Health Emergency was extended, CMS proposed a small increase in skilled nursing facility (“SNF”) reimbursement rates and South Carolina is pushing to repeal its certificate of need (“CON”) law. Furthermore, COVID-19 is having a major impact on return to work. in fiscal year 2023.

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AIHC

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The GCPG is a reference guide for the health care compliance community and other health care stakeholders and provides information about relevant Federal laws, compliance program infrastructure, OIG resources, and other information useful to understanding health care compliance. a day for orphans, but $2.75

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AIHC

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The GCPG is a reference guide for the health care compliance community and other health care stakeholders and provides information about relevant Federal laws, compliance program infrastructure, OIG resources, and other information useful to understanding health care compliance. a day for orphans, but $2.75

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

But for those of us working with and innovating solutions for health and health care, #CES2021 was baked with health goodness , in and beyond “digital health” categories. In my consumer-facing health care work, I’ve adopted the mantra that our homes are our health hubs. The home gym.

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Hall Render

MARCH 25, 2022

Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act becomes law. Here are the top health systems by patient reviews. Hospital stays for nursing home residents down nearly 9%, federal data shows. OSHA accepting new comments on healthcare worker COVID-19 protection rule. FDA to revive facility visits.

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SQA

APRIL 30, 2021

Commission Extends Transparency and Authorization Mechanism for Exports of COVID-19 Vaccines, 11 March 2021. The EC has extended until the end of June 2021 the transparency and authorization mechanism for COVID-19 vaccine exports. The EU continues to be the leading provider of vaccines around the world.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 19, 2020

As the COVID-19 virus wreaks havoc with the healthcare system, telemedicine is stepping up into the spotlight and helping healthcare provider organizations and caregivers better respond to the needs of Americans who have contracted the virus and Americans who need to touch base with their providers on the status of their health.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 28, 2022

Act III of COVID: Navigating the Crosscurrents of Post-Inflation. Act I: Pre-COVID (Pre-2020) Act II: Post-COVID (2020 – 2021) Act III: Post-Inflation (2022 – ?). The amount of investment going into Health IT is nearly half the Post-COVID peak, but still 27% higher than Pre-COVID levels.

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Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 22, 2022

health citizens face physical, financial, and mental health challenges of a syndemic, inflation, and stress – all of which will shape peoples’ demand side for health care and digital technology, and a supply side of providers challenged by tech-enabled organizations with design and data chops. Entering 2023, U.S.

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Hall Render

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

CMS’s data showed them that “the cost of providing home health care remains, on average, below the base payment rate and that HHAs, in general, continue to experience high profit margins.” This could be what is driving the absolute numbers in each category down.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 6, 2021

More granularly, prevention encompasses screening, counseling, and rates of avoidable hospital admissions for diabetes, asthma, and congestive heart failure. Otherwise, America ranked dead last in the four other categories, placing it in overall last place for health system performance among other wealthy countries.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 14, 2023

News In a temporary rule, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) extended telemedicine flexibilities for prescribing controlled medications for six months following the end of the public health emergency, through November 11.

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Health Populi

MAY 17, 2021

In health care, right here, right now at the May 2021 #NH4H session, our problems were categorized in four challenge areas; Vaccine education and delivery. Health equity, and. Care settings (think: outside or away from the hospital bed or doctor’s office). Medical Deserts.

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AIHC

MARCH 28, 2022

Written by: AIHC Blogger This article provides educational information related to fighting unreasonable denials by working through a complex payer appeals process. trillion COVID-19 response legislation, and making recommendations about how to improve its effectiveness in dealing with public health issues and the economy.

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Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This feels especially apt right “now” as we enter 2022, Year 3 of the COVID-19 pandemic, with people mentally stressed, anxious, and shrugging off the Omicron variant – while taking on more DIY life-flows, self-care and desire for (more) control. That well-used and timely observation is known as Amara’s Law.

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