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World Health Day 2019: Let’s Celebrate Food, Climate, Insurance Coverage and Connectivity

Health Populi

APRIL 7, 2019

Today, 7 April, is World Health Day. With that in mind, I devote this post to three key social determinants of health (SDOH) that are top-of-mind for me these days: food for health, climate change, and universal health coverage. UHC happens to be WHO’s focus for World Health Day 2019. [As

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Amwell Expands to South Africa with Digital Mental Health Benefit

HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 11, 2023

What You Should Know: – Amwell forms a strategic partnership with Discovery Health, a health insurance administrator, which will introduce the first-ever digital therapeutic benefits funded by a health insurer in South Africa.

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Calling for Holistic Maternal Care to Address Racial Disparities: The Role of Midwives and Doulas

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AUGUST 2, 2023

.; they are performed at more than double the rate of 15% or less recommended by the World Health Organization. These high rates are largely due to scheduling-related convenience and financial incentives from health insurance reimbursement.

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We Are All Health Consumers Now – Toluna’s Latest Look at Consumers’ Health & Well-Being

Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2023

consumers expect to spend more on health care as well as personal care and hygiene, 24% of folks more on vitamins and minerals to support health as well as 24% on medications and health insurance coverage. consumers will spend about the same on personal care and hygiene, VMS, meds, and health plans. In the U.S.,

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The Retail Health Battle Royale in the U.S. – A Week-Long Brainstorm, Day 1 of 5

Health Populi

JULY 25, 2022

Now, check out the second chart from The New Retail Health chapter of HealthConsuming : I often refer to this graphic as my Rodney Dangerfield-Aretha Franklin touchpoint, noting Rodney’s “I Don’t Get No Respect” and Aretha’s demand for “Respect.”

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Health Citizenship in the America. If Not Now, When?

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

On March 11 th , the World Health Organization called the growing prevalence of the coronavirus a “pandemic.”. On February 4 th , 2020, in a hospital in northern California, the first known inpatient diagnosed with COVID-19 died. On May 25 th , George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, died at the hands of police in Minneapolis.

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Real-World Data in Times of Change

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 26, 2020

The eye-opening projected cost of healthcare due to the novel coronavirus in the United States is historic, with totals somewhere between $56B and $556B by the end of 2021, according to a Wakely study by American’s Health Insurance Plans. Our […].

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Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

Retail Health for All, starring The Consumer Social ethos – community-driven HC financing – private-sector/commercial U.S. Health care is delivered through an omnichannel platform accessible to all consumers, tailored for personalization. Health citizens value this national approach, with health baked in all public policies.

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Convenient Scapegoat: Why Hesitancy is Not the Cause of Low Vaccination Rates in Africa

HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Health resources are unevenly distributed and often of poor quality. The World Health Organization estimates that in the majority of African countries, there is one hospital per one million people, one doctor per 10,000 people and one hospital bed per 10,000 people.

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Lockdown Economics for U.S. Health Consumers

Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2020

Standard & Poors analysts developed a pandemic-economic model to gauge the potential medical costs in the insured U.S. Some key estimates are that: The range of health insurance costs due to COVID-19 would run from $30 billion in the moderate scenario to $50 billion in the “serious coronavirus” pandemic.

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Waking Up a Health Consumer in the COVID-19 Era

Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

Compounding Americans personal finances is the COVID-19 era is the fact that the nation lacks universal health insurance coverage. Consumers around the world are actively stockpiling emergency supplies as concerns grow that…COVID-19 could become a worldwide pandemic.”. Between the two weeks when this poll was fielded, Feb.

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Is Zero Trust the Remedy to Healthcare’s Ransomware Epidemic?

HIT Consultant

AUGUST 31, 2021

In fact, the first-ever such attack targeted the industry in 1989 when 20,000 floppy disks infected with ransomware were given to those who attended the World Health Organization’s AIDS Conference. And it’s not a new problem for this sector. So, the problem isn’t new, but it is getting worse.

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Five Digital Health Imperatives for Patient Safety

The Digital Health Corner

JULY 17, 2017

Perhaps the best definition of patient safety is that of the World Health Organization. Simply put, it is “…the prevention of errors and adverse effects to patients associated with health care.” Patient safety initiatives have taken many forms. The use of blockchain in healthcare has been discussed for a number of years.

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News from the Consumer Technology Association and Withings Further Demonstrates Private Sector’s Role in the Pandemic and Public Health

Health Populi

JULY 28, 2020

In 2020, CES featured several hundred digital health exhibitors and a growing array of Internet of Things-connected devices adjacent to health and wellness, with representation from beyond “pure” wearable health tech ranging from FDA-cleared blood pressure watches from Omron to health insurer Humana in the exhibit hall.

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Ten In Ten: Manatt’s Healthcare Priorities to 2031

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

In the description of #7, Realizing the Promise of Virtual Health (in shorthand above, “Accelerating Digital Health”) Manatt includes this snippet/paragraph from the World Health Organization , spelling out digital health in a way that uncannily encompasses the team’s ten goals.

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Consider Mental Health Equity on World Mental Health Day

Health Populi

OCTOBER 11, 2021

COVID-19 exacted a toll on health citizens’ mental health, worsening a public health challenge that was already acute before the pandemic. It’s World Mental Health Day , an event marked by global and local stakeholders across the mental health ecosystem.

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How to Improve Risk Adjustment with NLP

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The technology has expanded its use for the processing of health data over the last four or five years, and companies around the health technology and health plan provider ecosystems […]. The following is a guest article by Carey Ketelsen and Andy Kumar from Ciox.

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The Pandemic’s Death Rate in the U.S.: High Per Capita Income, High Mortality

Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2021

The United States has among the highest per capita incomes in the world. also has sustained among the highest death rates per 100,000 people due to COVID-19, based on epidemiological data from the World Health Organization’s March 28, 2021 , update. Millions of people in the U.S. Of the warts-and-all weaknesses of the U.S.

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Health Provider News – September 23, 2022

Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Amazon PillPack Founders to Leave in Latest Health-Care Shakeup. Congress presses Meta about health data privacy after hospitals remove Facebook tracker. Healthcare Compliance Will Be a Challenge in Post-PHE World. Health systems grow apprenticeships to tackle shortages. UW Health, nurses come to agreement on union.

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The 2022 Health Populi TrendCast for Consumers and Health Citizens

Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Galen Growth identified in its latest report on digital health ecosystem trends at least 500 active private digital health ventures globally, nearly all mobile applications. Employers covering health insurance have renewed interest in their workers’ mental health, a focus for re-imagining 2022 workplace benefit plans.

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The 2020 Social Determinants of Health: Connectivity, Art, Air and Love

Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The World Health Organization called for “prescribing” clean air for the world’s children, 90% of whom were breathing toxic air in 2018. This study , published in November 2019 by a team from Harvard, looked at admissions to hospital among Medicare enrollees exposed to higher levels of air particulates.

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World Health Day 2019: Let’s Celebrate Food, Climate, Insurance Coverage and Connectivity

Amwell Expands to South Africa with Digital Mental Health Benefit

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Calling for Holistic Maternal Care to Address Racial Disparities: The Role of Midwives and Doulas

We Are All Health Consumers Now – Toluna’s Latest Look at Consumers’ Health & Well-Being

The Retail Health Battle Royale in the U.S. – A Week-Long Brainstorm, Day 1 of 5

Health Citizenship in the America. If Not Now, When?

Real-World Data in Times of Change

Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Convenient Scapegoat: Why Hesitancy is Not the Cause of Low Vaccination Rates in Africa

Lockdown Economics for U.S. Health Consumers

Waking Up a Health Consumer in the COVID-19 Era

Is Zero Trust the Remedy to Healthcare’s Ransomware Epidemic?

Five Digital Health Imperatives for Patient Safety

News from the Consumer Technology Association and Withings Further Demonstrates Private Sector’s Role in the Pandemic and Public Health

Ten In Ten: Manatt’s Healthcare Priorities to 2031

Consider Mental Health Equity on World Mental Health Day

How to Improve Risk Adjustment with NLP

The Pandemic’s Death Rate in the U.S.: High Per Capita Income, High Mortality

Health Provider News – September 23, 2022

The 2022 Health Populi TrendCast for Consumers and Health Citizens

The 2020 Social Determinants of Health: Connectivity, Art, Air and Love

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