Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2021

The Wall Street Journal featured the grocery chain Kroger in an article yesterday titled, COVID-19 Vaccinations, Tests Give Boost to Kroger’s Health Ambitions. It was the COVID-19 pandemic that accelerated some early-adopting health consumers viewing their home as their ultimate site for self-care and health care.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 4, 2023

While Q4 2022 signaled the tail end of the digital health funding cycle, January and February funding numbers began to suggest that sector investment was slowly but surely inching back upwards. digital health funding closed with $3.4B Inflation was easing ever so slightly. While this quarter exceeded both Q4 2022’s $2.7B

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

dropped nearly three years between 2019 and 2021, from close to 79 years down to 76. How can digital health and other consumer-facing technologies help our health? How can digital health and other consumer-facing technologies help our health? Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 20021-2021.

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Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2022

Consumers continued to invest in and use several technologies that supported self-care at home in 2021, with plans to purchase connected health devices, sports and fitness equipment in the next year. The percent of first-time tech purchases will increase “considerably” from 2021, on average 8 percentage points.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

to reveal trends on health care providers’ ability to collect patient service revenue. The first chart quantifies that bad debt attributable to patients’ self-pay payments after insurance kicks in: that category of bad debt grew by five times between 2018 and 2021, from 11% to nearly 58%.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 16, 2022

developer of an intelligent AED and connected response platform for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) emergencies, today announced that it closed a $22 million Series A round of financing co-led by Questa Capital, Catalyst Health Ventures and repeat investor Laerdal Million Lives Fund. Avive Raises $22M for Connected AED Platform.

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NASHP

AUGUST 26, 2021

State Approaches to Contact Tracing during the COVID-19 Pandemic Updated August 26, 2021. UC San Diego Health provides call center management and other operations support. Partnering , the state and local health departments lead the workforce. In-house , DC Health leads. Partnering. Partnering. Partnering.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 2, 2022

When I talk about patient support programs (PSPs), I’m most often focused on supporting peoples’ access to medicines due to costs, bolstering health literacy, and addressing health citizens’ risks of drivers of health that can be obstacles to optimal health outcomes (those challenging social determinants of health).

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Health Populi

MARCH 16, 2021

Case and Deaton wrote the book on Deaths of Despair ( detailed here in Health Populi) , . Six years since that first study, Case and Deaton focus in on education in this 2021 article: specifically, the relationship between a person in the U.S. The trend lines for Black people without BA degrees in the U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 23, 2021

Financial Experience (let’s call it FX) is the next big thing in the world of patient experience and health care. Patients, as health consumers, have taken on more of the financial risk for health care payments. But that just isn’t happening.

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Clearwave Inc

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Reading Time: 3 minutes For Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), the ability to do more with the same or less has become an artform. Establishing a true digital front door is one of the top business priorities among the FQHC community. Access Anytime, Anywhere. Reporting Made Simple. Maximizing Throughput.

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Bill Of Health

JULY 26, 2022

billion acquisition of One Medical (NASDAQ: ONEM) by Amazon triggered significant hyperventilating about the transformative and immediate impact of this transaction on the health care industry. Important Disclosure: Flare Capital was a significant investor in Iora Health and had a board seat. Last week’s $3.9

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

With health systems straining under the pressures caused both directly by COVID patient care and those stemming from patients who have delayed the care of non-COVID conditions and general health maintenance, strategic interventions are needed now to minimize the current acuity of the situation and achieve long term stability.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

In this Voices interview, Home Health Care News sits down with Dexter Braff, President, The Braff Group, to learn about today’s market for mergers and acquisitions in the home-based care environment. Home Health Care News: Dexter, what career experiences do you most draw from in your role today? And such has been the case.

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Etactics

APRIL 12, 2022

Dental offices and practices need to stay compliant with the health insurance portability and accountability act (HIPAA). A covered entity is a health plan, a healthcare clearinghouse, or a provider of healthcare services that transmits health information in electronic form. The good news is that we're here to help.

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Etactics

JULY 1, 2021

Here’s an example, coders work with protected health information (PHI) in order to accurately communicate with insurance companies. Here’s an example, coders work with protected health information (PHI) in order to accurately communicate with insurance companies. There won’t be a wave of unemployment. Ng’s statement.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 19, 2022

On Thursday Amwell announced the launch of its new evidence-based and scalable behavioral health technology. The program enables healthcare organizations to offer virtual therapy and psychiatry, coaching, and digital mental health programs. THE LARGER TREND. WHY IT MATTERS. Some 60% of U.S. ON THE RECORD. ON THE RECORD.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 28, 2022

The story began to change in late 2021 as steep inflation took center stage thanks to a near-perfect confluence of excess liquidity, demand acceleration, and supply constraints. Act I: Pre-COVID (Pre-2020) Act II: Post-COVID (2020 – 2021) Act III: Post-Inflation (2022 – ?). The private debt market is tightening.

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Healthcare Success

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

They’re researching key trends that will attract new high-intent audiences, increase engagement, drive revenue, and reinforce patient loyalty in 2023. November is the perfect time to take note of popular trends and plan your paid search advertisements. Best-in-class healthcare marketers are already planning for next year.

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Vie Healthcare

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

He also explains why it takes an eco-system to keep people healthy and how tapping into the power of technology can improve slim hospital margins. And to give everyone those numbers, to give a number, my team, on a daily basis, is managing 15 to 20,000 case-dependent, unique supplies. You’re never going to cure anyone 100%.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

At the start of CES 2021, I had the opportunity to catch up with Karsten Russell-Wood, Portfolio Marketing Leader, Post Acute & Home, Connected Care at Philips. We brainstormed just as CES 2021 was going to “open,” virtually, for the consumer electronics conference’s first all-virtual meeting.

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Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 14, 2022

And since the conference was virtual, what better topic to start us off today than a consideration of the new Virtual-First trend that surfaced in 2021. We’ll follow that with a dive onto the couch to consider the conference’s mental health offerings and where the behavioral health sector is heading.

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NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

This is one section of Modernizing Behavioral Health Systems: A Resource for States. States are at the forefront of moving the needle toward increasing access to high-quality evidence-based behavioral health services and supports. See the full resource guide.

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Health Advances

MAY 4, 2022

Japan and Korea hold significant market potential for digital health products post-COVID. A large and aging population advanced IT infrastructure, and a single national healthcare system are among the features that will make Japan and South Korea ideal candidates to adopt digital health technologies at scale.

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Health Populi

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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NASHP

OCTOBER 20, 2021

State-Based Marketplaces Report Savings and Growth for Older Adult and Moderate-Income Populations October 20, 2021 / by Christina Cousart. The National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) recently analyzed how ARPA has impacted enrollees in state-based health insurance marketplaces (SBMs) across different age and income groups.

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