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. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The patient in the U.S.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

And, as detailed in my book, Aging with a Plan: How a Little Thought Today Can Vastly Improve Your Tomorrow , the American population is aging. Employers want to safeguard their profitability and avoid workers who could develop absenteeism and productivity problems and raise health insurance costs.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

My new book, Health Citizenship: How a virus opened hearts and minds , launched this week. consumers, our homes, the healthcare system, and what we’ve learned in the first six months of the pandemic about all aspects of our health: physical, mental and emotional, financial, and societal.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

One in four people would consider online options as their first-line to evaluating personal health issues — a kind of “digital step therapy,” if you will. This graphic comes out of my book, Health Citizenship: How a virus opened up hearts and minds.

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Compliancy Group

APRIL 26, 2024

In a press release accompanying the Final Rule, HHS reports that “The Final Rule strengthens th e Health Insurance Portability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule by prohibiting the disclosure of protected health inform ation (PHI) related to lawful reproductive healthcare in certain circumstances.” What Does the Final Rule Do?

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Note how health insurance, in particular, swelled as a component of family budgets more than housing, transportation, and college education. The table (Appendix: The Cost-of-Thriving Data) organizes the growing costs by household line item including housing, health insurance, transportation and college.

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Health Populi

MAY 15, 2018

The social determinants of health — income and good jobs, using tobacco, and having health insurance — bolster good health. Light blue to blue is a good thing; the grey area is negative for level of uninsured population and greater self-rationing health care services due to costs.

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Health Populi

MAY 14, 2019

million members and the 68 million people in the communities Kaiser Permanente serves… within a robust network of nonprofit, public, and private resources… This is one of our bold moves,” CEO Bernard Tyson is quoted. “Within three years, it will be available to all of Kaiser Permanente’s 12.3

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 1, 2023

To improve the member experience and Star Ratings, health plans should consider implementing a coordinated, one-stop experience for members. This can be achieved through a digital advocacy approach that eases or eliminates major obstacles for members such as appointment booking, finding a provider, and verifying healthcare coverage.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

.” This study can (should) also inform tech developers’ and health care providers’ approaches to collaborating with patients and caregivers with respect to their personal health information and the digital tools the industry stakeholders want to put into health consumers’ hands. Patients in the U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2020

Everyday factors can make a big difference in a person’s current and future health risks and needs, we’re learning in the COVID-19 pandemic, detailed in a new Welltok research report, Social Determinants of Health Matter: Voice of the Consumer.

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Health Populi

MARCH 26, 2020

.” These factors come out of the 2019 Medicare Trustees Report and include but aren’t limited to tax policy, the state of insurance marketplaces, and employer-sponsored health insurance assumptions. As a public health person, I’m especially drawn to bolstering my “Quaranteam.”

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Italy scores above-the-OECD-average for life expectancy, fewer deaths from heart disease, healthy weight (measured by obesity rate), and universal health insurance coverage via a national health service. Book I of the eight volumes Celsus wrote covered diet, hygiene, and the benefits of exercise.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2019

That’s a sad fiscal fact, especially as more Americans gained access to health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, according to a study published this month in the American Journal of Public Health (AJPA). Medical costs in America are still the top contributor to personal bankruptcy in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2018

rated the lowest satisfaction with their health system, where only 19% said the health system orks well. Health Populi’s Hot Points: One of the first books I read as a young economics student, before diving into the microeconomics of healthcare, was Victor Fuchs’ book, Who Shall Live?

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2024

In health care, scenario planning is a must-have tool in your tool-box if you have any role in foresight in your job – whether providing a service in your community, planning the launch of a new molecular entity, or innovating a novel food product going direct-to-consumer for well-being and self-care.

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Jane Sarashon

MARCH 17, 2022

These issues are not mutually exclusive: if we take a value-based, ecosystem view on them, we can leverage technology to help scale social and public policy goals to ensure that health is baked across all policies. I pointed this out in my book, HealthConsuming: from health consumer to health citizen , noting that the U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

Our group-of-seven crowdsourced the importance of trust, transparency, and data stewardship to ensure that the patient-as-health-consumer and, ultimately citizen (in my own view) benefit from sharing data. Now consider a vision/optical insurance plan entering the retailing side of the business.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

In that introductory editorial, Ending Structural Racism in the US Health Care System to Eliminate Health Care Inequities, Ortega and Roby write that, “3 studies in this issue of JAMA show that access to and utilization of services is not merely predicated on health insurance or the availability of health care.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

My cousin Arlene got married in Detroit at the classic Book Cadillac Hotel on July 23, 1967, a Sunday afternoon wedding. A growing number of organizations serving each of these health care industry segment stakeholders has taken on an SDoH to help bridge patients’-peoples’ needs, whether for food security or a warm place to sleep.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Cost concerns are playing into peoples’ perspectives on health care reform proposals, with a majority of survey respondents saying they’d be more likely to vote for a candidate that would support expanding private health insurance reforms versus scrapping commercial insurance for a Medicare for All proposal.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

People employed in large companies that provide health insurance versus people in the gig economy or smaller firms. The last chapter of my book, HealthConsuming, addresses the question of whether Americans can morph from health consumers to “health citizens.” Millennials compared to Boomers, and so on.

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In place of “government,” you might use the words “hospital” or “health insurance” or “drug company.” If you were involved with writing a business plan from the earliest days of digital health (in the so-called “Health 1.0 or Health 2.0”

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Health Populi

JANUARY 7, 2019

With my public health hat on, I assert that smoking cessation is good for everyone (except perhaps for tobacco companies’ bottom lines). As I will be discussing during an hour-long session on retail health during the Digital Health Summit on Wednesday 9th January, the patient has morphed into a consumer, now payor, in America.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

Focus on preventive care: Employers and health insurers will focus on preventive care, as a way to reduce costs and improve health outcomes. Ankit Gupta, Founder and CEO at Bicycle Health The opioid epidemic is the most acute and urgent public health crisis in America.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 28, 2020

The most-trusted parties people trust with their personal health information are doctors’ offices (86%), health insurers (75%), and medical researchers (72%), seen as the top health data stewards in the U.S. Three-quarters of people in the U.S.

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Hall Render

MARCH 18, 2022

Socially Determined unveils metric measuring impact of social connectedness on health outcomes, business performance. The status of Public Health Emergency declarations. Jeff Zients stepping down as White House covid coordinator; Biden names public health expert Ashish Jha as replacement. What’s in the $1.5

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Health Populi

JANUARY 16, 2023

In a few years’ time, I was reading Martin Luther King’s book, Why We Can’t Wait ; The Autobiography of Malcolm X , and Native Son by Richard Wright — still, one of my favorite books. These interrelationships are fundamental to public health thinking. A healthy populace is more productive across so many dimensions.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2024

In a few years’ time, I was reading Martin Luther King’s book, Why We Can’t Wait ; The Autobiography of Malcolm X , and Native Son by Richard Wright — still, one of my favorite books. These interrelationships are fundamental to public health thinking. A healthy populace is more productive across so many dimensions.

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2020

The heavy cost burden, the time-wasting and -waiting life-flows of getting and accessing appointments, and the administrative paperwork that is an outlier experience for people living digitized lives… calling people “health consumers” doesn’t mean their consumer experience is particularly enchanting.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

In a few years’ time, I was reading Martin Luther King’s book, Why We Can’t Wait ; The Autobiography of Malcolm X , and Native Son by Richard Wright — still, one of my favorite books. These interrelationships are fundamental to public health thinking. A healthy populace is more productive across so many dimensions.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2020

In a few years’ time, I was reading Martin Luther King’s book, Why We Can’t Wait ; The Autobiography of Malcolm X , and Native Son by Richard Wright — still, one of my favorite books. These interrelationships are fundamental to public health thinking. A healthy populace is more productive across so many dimensions.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2019

In a few years’ time, I was reading Martin Luther King’s book, Why We Can’t Wait ; The Autobiography of Malcolm X , and Native Son by Richard Wright — still, one of my favorite books. These interrelationships are fundamental to public health thinking. A healthy populace is more productive across so many dimensions.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

UPMC launching a social impact program focusing on SDoH, among other projects investing in social factors that bolster public health. As I pointed out in my 2020 Health Populi trendcast , the private sector is taking on more public health initiatives as policy progress at the Federal level feels frozen.

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Hall Render

JUNE 7, 2024

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Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 13, 2021

We’ve seen more financial and money-focused media bringing health care cost stories under their mastheads. So have investment banks, ratings agencies, and large financial services companies, as the pandemic has cast every industry’s eyes to public health and health spending.

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Health Populi

MAY 8, 2019

This Health Populi post summarizes key themes of the CBO report, followed by a few Hot Points below the digital fold for my lens on the prospect for Americans to achieve health citizenship that I describe in my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen. . The support for U.S.

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