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

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

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

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

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

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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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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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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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 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

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

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

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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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

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

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

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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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Congress, they should take a page out of health care providers’ and payors’ growing understanding and embrace of the social determinants of health, taking the opportunity to bake health into public policies: food systems and agriculture, the environment, labor policy, housing, education and — to be sure — health care access.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 12, 2023

This year, MedWand launched the Urban-Rural Healthcare Alliance , having known where the virtual care puck has been going since the company’s inception. That’s cross-industry collaboration, the kind required to solve thorny big challenges like health equity and access to care for all health citizens.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Today’s patients want seamless, holistic, and reliable health care access, self-service, and communication. They want to manage their own health affairs online—with a click or a swipe—much like they buy goods on Amazon, order transportation on Uber, or book a hotel room on Expedia.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

DOJ’s preference for case-by-case determination will create uncertainty for health care systems engaging in diligence and discussions with potential collaborators on ventures intended to improve health care access, reduce overhead and costs, and improve outcomes.

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The Health Law Firm

APRIL 28, 2015

With all the new technologies, mobile medical applications, expansion of health care access under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and the emphasis on quality of care, telemedicine is at the forefront of the health care industry.

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Healthcare Law Blog

MAY 10, 2023

The Distressed Hospital Loan Program will be administered by the Department of Health Care Access and Information (“DHCAI”). DHCAI is required to develop a methodology to evaluate the potential eligibility of at-risk hospitals for Distressed Hospital Loan Program loans.

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Health Care Law Brief

APRIL 12, 2023

The Final Rule adopts a host of reforms aimed at improving health care access, quality, and equity for Medicare beneficiaries that receive coverage through Part C (“Medicare Advantage” or “MA”) and prescription drug benefits through Part D. Parts 417, 422, 423, 455, and 460.

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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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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

They conclude, “the US is consistently the wealthiest country in the world with subpar levels of coverage for a core set of health services; these findings provide additional evidence of the need to reduce disparities.”

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 10, 2023

Chelsea King Arthur, Vice President of Population and Digital Health at Get Well. Better Coverage Options Will Broaden Mental Health Access For All: We can expect mental health care access and options to continue expanding with more apps like Headspace and Better Help.

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