Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Thanks to smartphones, tablets, laptops, hotspots and home Wi-Fi, today most people’s access to healthcare – including everything from health insurance to prescription refills to online therapy – is at our fingertips. Since the launch of the internet in 1993, western society has advanced at an exponential rate.

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Health Populi

JUNE 30, 2023

As the first line chart illustrates, the peak of medical trend in the last 18 years was in 2007 when the U.S. Here’s a link to PwC’s 2007 study looking behind the numbers, noting that the 11.9% We’ve reached a new phase in health care in the U.S., We’ve reached a new phase in health care in the U.S.,

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Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Here in Health Populi since launching in 2007, we’ve tracked the growth of patients-as-consumers’ financial wellness as part of overall health. Furthermore, over one-half of people are also considering a mental health resolution. Entering 2024, not only are most U.S.

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

household budgets in February 2022, highlighted in a poll from Morning Consult : inflationary spikes for housing, food, and energy, and the COVID-19 Omicron variant forcing health care costs up for some consumers driving medical debt up. There’s a trifecta cost challenge hitting U.S. across the U.S.; in Arkansas. .;

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

“This surge of people experiencing acute behavioral health problems…has the potential to further impact the healthcare system for years to come,” a report from McKinsey expects looking at the hidden costs of COVID-19’s impact on U.S. health care. could have a behavioral health need in 2021.

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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 20, 2023

There’s a sort of health care “shrinkflation” that has been shaping patients-as-payors of medical bills. Dr. Robert Pearl has recently written about this, and the phenomenon has been a major recurring theme in this Health Populi blog since its inception in 2007 – when I launched this site in the midst of The Great Recession.

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