Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

"This legislation continues to advance our shared goal of transforming mental health care access and delivery in Massachusetts," said Sen. "This legislation will do so much good, but particularly it will expand mental health care access for rural residents, people of color, working families, and young people."

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

And we know that our prisons, jails, and detention centers employ doctors with suspended and limited licenses as the exclusive source for health care for incarcerated people. Carceral health care occurs within a regulatory vacuum.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 26, 2022

Currently, overburdened county and local jails provide inadequate care for incarcerated individuals with high rates of comorbidities, mental health issues, and COVID-19. Repealing the MIEP can significantly improve health care access for incarcerated individuals.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 30, 2021

Pritzker signed a bill into law this past month requiring insurance reimbursement parity for virtual mental health and substance use disorder services. ON THE RECORD.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Though crisis standards of care are meant to provide an ethics-based approach to the complex process of allocating scarce health care resources, in reality, they fall short. Even the best laid plans cannot guarantee an equitable division of health care resources.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 17, 2022

Factor in a near 20% increase in adults reporting symptoms of anxiety and/or depression due to the pandemic, the stress of everyone schooling and working from home, and therapy deserts, and the need for affordable mental health care access seemed more urgent than ever.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Congress must act to expand patient choice in every American community, meet patients where they are, and bring health care into the 21st century.

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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

JULY 14, 2023

House of Representatives vote of 221 to 213 to overturn a Pentagon policy that guaranteed abortion access to service members regardless of where they are stationed (including states where the procedure remains legally provided). The launch of the Opill will be very welcome news for women and family health and well-being.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Among all of the challenges health care providers will face in 2023, digital health tools could have the greatest potential to improve patient access, according to the issues most Top of Mind for Top Health Systems 2023 from UPMC. the Center for Connected Medicine, Nokia and KLAS Research.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 29, 2022

Another key lens to keep front-and-center is employers’ embrace of determinants of health to bolster equity, inclusion, and population health outcomes.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

For today’s Health Populi blog, I choose to focus in on a key theme in my work right now — the convergence of retail health, primary care, consumers’ home economics, health care access, and the future of U.S. health care financing.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The doxo study bolsters the fact that in 2020, most Americans faced with growing health care costs in a public health crisis understand what they could gain by voting and claiming their status as full health citizens with rights to health care access…in and beyond the pandemic.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 26, 2022

New federal bills are needed to address the privacy gaps left by HIPAA and the challenges in reproductive health care access, even under EMTALA. While the three HHS guidances discussed provide important clarification for existing federal laws, they also illuminate those laws’ shortcomings in the post- Dobbs context.

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Health Populi

MARCH 8, 2023

Post-Dobbs era of women’s health access challenges). “A woman’s health is her capital and her body hears everything her mind says.” Health care access and equity cannot be separated from women’s overall well-being – mind, body, spirit, financial.

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Health Populi

MAY 7, 2023

Supporting telehealth where the evidence points to virtual care’s positive impact on patients and the planet is another way we can constructively use our energy to expand both health care access and do right by the environment. For more insights into the U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2021

to paint the movement on outdoor walls to promote health citizenship and the importance of health care access and affordability for all people in America. Shepard Fairey is well-known as a muralist painting popular and politically-inspired images. Power to the Patients is motivating muralists around the U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 13, 2021

Women have been more likely to lose jobs in the economic downturn, lose hours of work resulting in lower pay, and as a result of some workers obtaining health insurance through a job, and/or have lost health insurance and thus access to health care services.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Patients’ postponing health care will continue for some, resulting in worse prognoses for them along with the need for providers to engage people where they are to bolster trust in their return to care sites. along with health disparities and inequities. Mortality will be up in the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 21, 2022

The collaboration is part of Health Zones, CVS Health’s new initiative that provides concentrated local investments designed to reduce health disparities and advance health equity in high-risk communities across the country.

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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.”

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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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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2022

Furthermore, the field is getting more and more digital with wellness sites, telehealth, and fitness devices—so making them accessible is crucial to making health care accessible. Our field deals disproportionately with the elderly and with people who suffer a range of disabilities, physical and mental.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

That’s certainly true for health and health care access — COVID-19 has shown us. Not true, Heather argues (and I agree): there’s a Solidarity Dividend that’s created as gains that come when people come together across race benefit every one.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Once I actually became a health citizen in the EU, I’ve made the personal professional, incorporating the concept as part of my work on ESG principles in health care with my clients and collaborators.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2019

The fourth chart details five core SDoH factors covered in the survey: financial and economic, housing, education, food quality and access (nutrition), and health care access and health literacy. The overwhelming majority of employers are already attending to financial wellness and health care access and literacy.

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2020

The pandemic has accelerated many trends in and beyond health care. One is Americans’ growing understanding of health care as a civil right. The post The Unbearable Heaviness of Healthcare in America – the Change Healthcare/Harris Poll appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Health Populi

MARCH 14, 2023

I support ECRI’s call-out of this challenge as a patient as well as provider safety issue, given the politicization of women’s health care access which has emerged a national as well as State-level crisis for women and the people who love us.

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2022

It’s more of an “and” than an “or,” we know now in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, as financial health connects with mental health, physical health, and social/civic health. Yes, to health care access (especially primary care). Yes, to healthy food.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 14, 2023

Pop culture meets health and health politics this summer of 2023, noting that beyond Barbie , the movie, Taylor and Beyonce Swift have been contributing to local good works to bolster food access and education , sharing their wealth for well-being. It may be a summer of love for women and consumer spending in 2023.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

.” “This,” being the scenarios illustrated by people – health consumers, patients, caregivers, all hungry for health citizenship, illustrated here by their signs of SDoHs curated in this second slide from my PowerPoint deck.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 7, 2022

— will vote on health care issues beyond Dobbs/Roe v. Health care access also means being able to afford medical care, and these studies woven in today’s Health Populi blog tell that very current story.

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YouCompli

AUGUST 9, 2023

Health care – Access to quality health care, and the ability to obtain health insurance  Compliance professionals can survey patients on these five areas to help their organizations reframe patient care expectations and understand what’s important to them related to care.  

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 7, 2023

Leonard’s research in health equity, disparities, and global health care access has been recognized by the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control, the Food and Drug Administration, and the European Medicines Agency.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

.” Growing out-of-pocket payments for copays and coinsurance for services and prescription drugs have also reshaped patients into consumers, increasingly facing a retail health environment that inspires many people to shop around for care and products when they are shoppable.

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Health Populi

MAY 11, 2023

We continue to track to evolving, expanding landscape of retail health — which we see as the expanding ecosystem of health/care accessible to people-as-health consumers.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

When it comes to health care, ensuring universal coverage and increasing access, and addressing health care costs rank the top two concerns for voting up-and=down ballot in the 2020 election, shown in the second chart.

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