Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

The Washington State legislature passed House Bill 1155, aka the My Health, My Data Act , last week. The bill expands privacy protections for Washington State’s health citizens beyond HIPAA’s provisions. Note that 3 in 4 Washingtonians supported the law when polled in March 2023, with only 17% of people opposing it.

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Kaiser Health News

MAY 27, 2022

A 2019 study found patients with inflammatory bowel diseases, including Crohn’s disease, incur about $23,000 in health care costs a year. Private equity, known for making a profit on quick-turnaround investments in struggling businesses across many industries, has taken an increasingly active interest in health care in the past decade.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Stress is a way of American life, based on the findings in The United States of Stress , a survey from Everyday Health. Everyday Health polled 6,700 U.S. adults between 18 and 64 years of age about their perspectives on stress, anxiety, panic, and mental and behavioral health. Looking under the 52% of U.S.

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Kaiser Health News

JUNE 2, 2022

“Federal preemption for abortion medication is a highly innovative legal strategy with considerable uncertainty,” said Lawrence Gostin , a professor of global health law at Georgetown University. Instead, the health care provider must be present when the medication is administered.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Furthermore, voice technologies are “making noise,” according to Deloitte in A New Era in Mobile Continues, the 2018 Global Mobile Consumer Survey : US Edition. I’ve mined the US data of this global survey to divine insights for health/care. which 1 in 2 U.S. adults over 55 manage. [I In 2018, one in five U.S.

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Kaiser Health News

AUGUST 3, 2023

A new Montana law will provide sweeping legal protections to health care practitioners who refuse to prescribe marijuana or participate in procedures and treatments such as abortion, medically assisted death, gender-affirming care, or others that run afoul of their ethical, moral, or religious beliefs or principles.

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Health Populi

APRIL 24, 2019

I analyzed those general results with health/care implications here in Health Populi. In this study, the healthcare industry is comprised of five segments: hospitals and clinics; pharma; biotech (separate from pharma); consumer health (e.g., over-the-counter medicines); and, health insurance. health consumers.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Census Bureau found that the level of health insurance enrollment fell by 1 million people in 2019 , with about 30 million Americans not covered by health insurance. The coronavirus pandemic has only exacerbated the erosion of the health insured population. lacked health insurance. Civis Analytics polled 13,000 U.S.

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Kaiser Health News

MAY 6, 2022

The outcome could determine the limits of federal public health officials’ power not only during the covid-19 crisis but also when the next pandemic hits. The government has not yet filed its detailed arguments, so KHN spoke with several health law experts about what to expect. Sound complicated? ” But why?

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Kaiser Health News

MARCH 3, 2022

But there’s an exception that allows newly issued regulations to kick in much faster even if the agency allows for public comment — a move that Biden officials have exercised recently when issuing a covid vaccine mandate for health workers and implementing a ban on surprise medical bills that took effect this year.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

CALIFORNIA 8 ASCs opening in Florida, California and New York A bankrupt California hospital left a health care desert. CALIFORNIA 8 ASCs opening in Florida, California and New York A bankrupt California hospital left a health care desert.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 26, 2024

Opens in North Little Rock Megan Bonney Named President of CHI St.

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Hall Render

MAY 12, 2023

NATIONAL 4 Healthcare Design And Construction Trends To Watch AHA urges court to preserve ACA preventive services requirement pending appeal AI may pose ‘existential threat,’ physicians warn in BMJ Biden’s nursing home staff mandates expected soon CareFirst, Noom program aims to ‘retrain’ the brain of members with obesity, (..)

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Hall Render

JANUARY 20, 2023

Ahmed Abuabdou Named Chief Clinical Officer CALIFORNIA Amid insurance fight, some California hospital staff lose health coverage at their own facilities Calif.

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Hall Render

JUNE 16, 2023

Vincent’s to begin ER construction, gains CON approval Birmingham CRE firm acquires South Carolina medical office property Encompass Health prepares to open rehab hospital, fill gap in care Nearby ED means more avoidable visits from AL residents, study finds Nurse salaries rose last year, dipped in 2023.

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 20, 2023

behavioral health initiative CHI St.

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KFF

MARCH 25, 2022

role in distributing COVID-19 vaccines globally, as well as other response efforts including the distribution of masks and COVID-19 rapid tests. This Vaccine Monitor survey shows the public is largely supportive of the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Black people have had a more difficult time paying for phone and Internet connections during the COVID-19 crisis, we learned in a Morning Consult poll fielded in June 2020. The effort is called the Health Equity and Access Leadership (HEAL) Coalition. Disparities in health have long been an issue in the U.S.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2021

Telehealth An occupational medicine physician offered his patients a poll with a single question. But since the start of the COVID-19 public health emergency, our organization has expanded its telehealth capabilities. Region Tag: Global Edition. Here's what he's learned so far about their feelings on virtual care.

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KFF

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

This report finds the public is generally supportive of U.S. distribution of vaccines internationally, though more likely to prefer the U.S. playing a major role versus a leading one, and there are partisan differences. The analysis also examines how different information affects the public's views.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 27, 2023

Bard The White House is preparing to shut down their COVID Task Force this May, in conjunction with ending the public health emergency — the latest in a series of astounding and shortsighted decisions that put individual Americans at as great a risk from serious harm as a result of catching COVID-19 as at any stage in the pandemic.

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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. “Which virus is it?”

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Health Populi

JULY 5, 2023

The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) turns 75 today. In today’s Health Populi blog, I will discuss a current data-based snapshot of the NHS in 2023, adding context comparing the U.S. million employees (globally), Amazon employing 1.6 The NHS has over 1.3 Compare this to Walmart, with 2.3 million workers.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Rising health care costs continue to concern most Americans, with one in two people believing they’re one sickness away from getting into financial trouble, according to the 2019 Survey of America’s Patients conducted for The Physicians Foundation. health care system every other year.

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Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 13, 2021

I cannot recall a season when so many health consumer studies have been launched into my email inbox. This year-end/New Year 2022 post on my Health Populi blog will weave together many of the key findings from these consumer health/care reports that are most resonating with me and the work I’m doing….

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

The pandemic has put health care top-of-mind for health citizens the world over. For this analysis, the Pew research team assessed the views of some 2,600 health citizens living in 17 developed countries in February 2021. This is the case for most health citizens living in the U.S. (76% France, and Belgium. In the U.S.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 7, 2022

Over the summer of 2021, concern grew that the vaccines were not providing the near-perfect protection against symptomatic disease and transmission that had first emboldened the administration to jettison other public health measures. Another kind of criticism emerged that booster doses would slow the rate of vaccination of the Global South.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 26, 2024

Jackson Women’s Health Organization on June 24, 2022, multiple state supreme courts have done their own “about face” on reproductive rights. million women of childbearing age and over 13,000 abortions in Arizona reported in 2020 (pre- Dobbs ), thousands of health providers will be at risk of criminal prosecution for performing abortions.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 3, 2018

A new poll jointly conducted by Politico and the Harvard Chan School of Public Health bolsters my read on the latter issue – prescription drug pricing, which has become a mass popular culture union. In this instance, cash can be king for the consumer enrolled in a high-deductible health plan with a prescription drug benefit.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

At Americans’ low end of the priority list for the President and Congress are dealing with global trade, improving transportation, and dealing with drug addiction. Dealing with global climate change (14% vs. 59%), a 45% delta. The Pew Research Center surveyed 5,360 U.S. 68% Hispanic v. 83% Black).

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Health Populi

JANUARY 30, 2020

Health care continues to be the top-ranked voting issue in the U.S. The Kaiser Family Foundation conducts the monthly poll which gauges U.S. The Kaiser Family Foundation conducts the monthly poll which gauges U.S. Lowering Rx prices is the top health policy issue for Republicans tied with addressing the drug epidemic.

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Health Populi

MARCH 5, 2020

But most Americans also get the politicized nature of the coronavirus and say they’re less likely to vote for President Trump in November based on his handling of the public health threat, according to a just-released survey from Protect Our Care fielded by Public Policy Polling. voters on March 2nd and 3rd, 2020.

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