Health Populi

APRIL 7, 2019

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 Why a World Health Day? you may be asking.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2021

Using data from Blue Health Intelligence data repository – an independent data and analytics company that is a licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association – researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health compared claims data from March through June 2019 with March through June 2020.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 15, 2022

Postal Service and an online account this summer to connect with Medicaid enrollees about the expected end of the covid public health emergency, which will put many recipients at risk of losing their coverage. State Medicaid agencies for months have been preparing for the end of the public health emergency.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2021

That study, Who Is (and Isn't) Receiving Telemedicine Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic , adds to an already substantial body of evidence that the public health emergency is exacerbating disparities in access and use of technology-enabled healthcare. Enterprise Taxonomy: Population and Public Health Global Health Equity Care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Friday found a 154% increase in telehealth visits during the last week of March 2020, compared with the same time period in 2019. Using de-identified patient data from Amwell, Teladoc Health, MDLive and Doctor On Demand, the CDC found that about 1.6 " WHY IT MATTERS.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 14, 2019

The three winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize for Economics — Banerjee and Duflo (both of MIT) and Kremer (working at Harvard) — were recognized for their work on alleviating global poverty.” The post What the 2019 Nobel Prize Winners in Economics Teach Us About Health appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 13, 2023

The ransomware-as-a-service operation has used multiple tactics to take control of its victims' data and operations since its appearance in 2019. In January, The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center said Clop shifted tactics, directly impacting the healthcare and public health sector.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 18, 2022

BRIMI will work to develop novel AI approaches both to establish health information inequities empirically and create triage guidelines for public health officials and practitioners to reduce them.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2023

The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center said in its latest analysis that the Clop ransomware gang has shifted tactics, directly impacting the healthcare and public health sector.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 18, 2022

As well as climate change, healthcare is facing the threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which has been dubbed ‘the silent pandemic’ Nancy Jennings, health advisor and AMR lead for the UK Mission to the EU, said that the issues of AMR and climate change were linked and needed to be treated with a similar approach.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 19, 2022

When several individuals from a common population, like a cruise ship or restaurant , become ill at the same time, it is more likely that a claim will be filed, as the “ cluster of cases may represent a failure to implement basic food safety and public health guidelines ” like requiring employees to wash hands after using the bathroom.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

This drove health consumers to virtual care platforms in the first months of the public health crisis — including lots of older people who had never used telemedicine or even a mobile health app. AARP sponsored the poll. This engaging video features commentary with researchers from U-M.

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 4, 2022

In response to a 2016 USPTO request for public comments , in 2017 several organizations asked Congress to amend the patent laws to overrule Myriad and other recent Supreme Court precedents relating to patent eligibility. The Senate Judiciary Committee held three sets of hearings on the bill in 2019, after which the draft legislation stalled.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 26, 2020

The specialists GlobalData surveyed cited the possibility of future unsupportive policies as a reason for discontinuing telehealth use after the public health crisis. The patient companion app for InTouch Health, for instance, had about 2,300 downloads in 2019, but more than 22,300 in the second quarter of 2020 alone.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 29, 2019

The telemedicine programme is a joint effort of the Public Health Ministry and the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC). plan to increase access to healthcare with digital technologies, as stated in the eHealth Strategy by the Ministry of Public Health (2017-2026).

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Bill of Health

APRIL 7, 2023

Together, these articles underscore the injustice of the present moment and emphasize the need to reform intellectual property protections for government-funded inventions of public health significance. Recent Research on Public Funding of mRNA Technology The first of the two new articles is an in-depth empirical study of U.S.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The Office of Healthcare Transformation decided to support the three home hospitalisation programmes after feasibility studies done by NUHS and Yishun Health Medical Home found the MIC @ Home "effective and safe" for selected patients, particularly those with low to moderate clinical acuity.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 1, 2021

What's less certain, however, is what that utilization will look like in the future, particularly as the end of the public health emergency looms. We launched our first fully integrated telehealth solution in the 2018-2019 timeframe. First of all, we should think about the public health emergency.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

The Tasmanian government has recently released a four-year strategy to transform outpatient services across its public health system. The state government has also made a A$150 million ($100 million) investment over four years to upgrade its digital health infrastructure.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 13, 2021

In 2019, Google showed that artificial intelligence can detect lung cancer more accurately than radiologists with eight years of experience. "COVID-19 showed the world what's wrong: Not enough focus on public health, prevention and equity. "That same year, FDA approved smart pills.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

THE LARGER CONTEXT The family doctor system was introduced as part of health reforms establishing primary health centres in China in 2019. A study proposed increasing health insurance reimbursements, reducing out-of-pocket expenses of patients, and providing patient discounts as ways to address people's reluctance.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Roughly the same proportion of companies offered health benefits to at least some workers between 2019 and 2020, about 56% of firms. 31% of workers enrolled in a high-deductible health plan with a savings option, 13% in an HMO, and 8% in a point-of-service plan (POS, a hybrid of an HMO and PPO). and inflation, 2.1%.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 5, 2022

To analyze which physicians made the transition sooner, the researchers used Epic electronic health record data to analyze visits between Oct. 1, 2019, and Dec. The researchers organized physicians into four categories: Innovators (those with virtual visits before March 15, 2020).

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Health Populi

MAY 4, 2023

It’s a volume speaking volumes on the current picture of prescribed meds, spending and revenues, health care utilization trends, and a forecast looking out to 2027. health care: “Wake up, public health!” In my read of this year’s review, I see a flashing light for U.S.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 19, 2022

Lipitz Center for Integrated Health Care at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have launched the Coalition for Care Partners to strengthen healthcare's capacity to systematically identify, engage and support care partners effectively through existing patient portals. OpenNotes and The Roger C.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

A JAMIA Open study published in 2019 showed it successfully reaching veterans in rural areas and helping patients with mental health conditions; another, published by Psychiatric Services , found the tablets helped lead to improved clinical efficiency. " Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN. Email the writer: mike.miliard@himssmedia.com.

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Bill of Health

JULY 20, 2022

Section 340B of the Public Health Service Act requires that pharmaceutical manufacturers give discounts on specified outpatient drugs to certain covered entities who typically serve low-income or otherwise underserved patients, including hospitals and clinics. By Amy Cook, JD, Jonathan Larsen, JD, MPP, and Sabrina Ruchelli, JD.

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Bill of Health

JUNE 26, 2023

The CalRx Initiative, which was originally announced in January 2019 and later signed into law as the California Affordable Drug Manufacturing Act of 2020 , empowers the State of California to develop, produce, and distribute generic drugs and sell them at low cost. State interventions can increase competition and reduce prices.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 22, 2021

At first the biggest impact will be for patients in Delaware, where ChristianaCare is based and where Highmark operates a health plan affiliate. Those organizations began working together 2019, focused on a value-based payment agreement to improve care and wellness for Medicaid patients in the state. " Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 16, 2022

By Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research. Hilary Wething, PhD, is an assistant professor of public policy and a Jackman-McCourtney Early Career Professor at Penn State University. Your research looks specifically at laws from 2011-2019 with an analysis of how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted these laws.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. TripleTree is an investment bank that has advised health care transactions since 1997. In 2019, J.D.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 28, 2022

A few years ago, a Bill of Health post titled Jelly Beans, Booze, and B-Vitamins proposed fortifying cheap wines, hard liquors, and malt liquors with thiamine (vitamin B1). The post suggested this as a public health measure to prevent Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome (WKS) in the homeless alcoholic population. Vizzy Hard Seltzer.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

My employer, like many universities, has followed a pandemic trajectory from remote work, to in-person work with masking and vaccine requirements, to in-person work that closely mirrors 2019, except for a small number of people at the institution “electing” to still mask.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 17, 2020

In 2019, the National Consortium of Telehealth Resource Centers received 4,039 requests, total, from providers looking for technical assistance or for more information about telehealth. Experience the education, innovation and collaboration of the HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition… virtually. HIMSS20 Digital.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Nearly 8 million workers losing jobs also losing their employer-sponsored health insurance, discussed in this research from The Commonwealth Fund. The threat of a repeal of the Affordable Care Act during the public health crisis. A few weeks ago, we published Health Citizenship: How a virus opened hearts and minds.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 19, 2020

A bipartisan group of senators on Thursday introduced legislation to inventory telehealth programs nationwide and evaluate ways to plan for public health emergencies using virtual care. Tina Smith, D-Minn., " Because of that, Smith said, any work to expand telehealth must consider access for everyone.

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