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Trust is a Superpower for Public Health – The 2024 Edelman Trust Barometer Through the Health Lens

Health Populi

In addition, the politicization of health, dispersion of authority (with friends and family at least as trusted as scientists to “tell the truth on health”), and self-guided health (not necessarily in partnership with a licensed clinicians) can all be risks for health outcomes.

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U.S. lawmakers reintroduce House bill safeguarding access to telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Authorize the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service to continue reimbursement for telehealth for 90 days beyond the end of the public health emergency. Make permanent the disaster waiver authority, enabling Health and Human Service to expand telehealth in Medicare during all future emergencies and disasters.

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Telehealth Startup OpenLoop Raises $15 Million to Streamline Virtual Care Delivery

Healthcare IT Today

A Surge in Virtual Health Overnight, the pandemic exposed shortcomings in the healthcare system, leading to widespread adoption of virtual care services by patients and clinicians. of the total market share due to increased adoption to manage chronic conditions and monitor health outcomes.

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When the Promises of a Policy Do Not Meet the Reality of Its Practice: Ethical Issues Within Oregon’s Measure 109

Bill of Health

Here’s what one of the first patients experienced ,” “ Oregon Issues First Psilocybin Therapy Treatment Center License.” While the campaign for 109 cultivated a sense among the public that its goals were primarily therapeutic, once the measure passed, the letter of the law was crafted to bar therapy professionals from engaging in this work.

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Understanding Climate and Disability Justice: Mitigating Structural Barriers to the Right to Health

Bill of Health

The left side boxes provide examples of social determinants of health associated with each of the elements of vulnerability. Increased exposure, increased sensitivity and reduced adaptive capacity all affect vulnerability at different points in the causal chain from climate drivers to health outcomes (middle boxes).

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Loneliness, Public Policy and AI – Lessons From the UK For the US

Health Populi

The NHS “supply shortage” is a result of financial cuts to both social care and public health. This article in the BMJ published earlier this year called for increasing these investments to ensure further erosion of population and public health outcomes, and to prevent further health disparities in the UK.

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How Will New FDA Hearing Aid Regulations Impact Health Plans?

HIT Consultant

. – Prescription hearing aids will require a consumer to have a prescription for a hearing aid from a physician, audiologist or a licensed hearing instrument specialist. MarkeTrak 10:Hearing Aids in an Era of Disruption and DTC/OTC Devices, [link] Goman, Adele M, Am J Public Health 2016 Oct;106(10):1820-2. 2016.303299.

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