Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2019

In America, one in three people over 50 years of age feels a lack of companionship, and one-fourth feel isolated from other people, according to a new poll on loneliness and aging from the University of Michigan, sponsored by AARP. The University of Michigan National Poll on Healthy Aging surveyed some 2,000 U.S. adults age 50–80 in October 2018, assessing older peoples’ health, health behaviors, experiences and feelings related to companionship and social isolation.

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Beterra

MARCH 25, 2019

With a crunch on the number of resources available for healthcare improvement and a growing list of performance goals, every healthcare organization’s senior leadership team is asking more questions about how their improvement dollars are being used and which are bearing fruitful returns for the organization. Successful safety and quality executives in this time of heightened awareness on patient safety , quality, and patient experience will be those who can answer their senior leaders’ qu

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MARCH 20, 2019

OSF HealthCare clinicians now have an easier way to identify heart failure patients in need of certain medications and clinical interventions. The OSF HealthCare Heart Failure Council worked with the Advanced Analytics team, a part of OSF Innovation, to develop a Natural Language Processing (NLP) model that intuitively reads and pulls all ejection fracture numbers for heart failure patients into the electronic medical record system which clinicians use daily.

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The Beryl Institute

MARCH 7, 2019

In 2011 when the Institute was still learning to crawl as a community committed to improving patient experience, I had the opportunity to meet Dr. David Feinberg. He attended our first Patient Experience Conference at the Institute with his team from UCLA, where he was CEO at the time, and offered a powerful keynote on the power of leadership, culture and presence.

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Healthy Debate

MARCH 14, 2019

Hospital innovation hubs are becoming ubiquitous in Canada, but their scale and purpose vary widely. Why they're here, and what difference they're making.

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Health Dialog

MARCH 11, 2019

This is the fourth installation of our “Overcoming Barriers to Medication Adherence” blog series. Read our introductory blog post to learn the common characteristics of medication non-adherence and how to identify the patient-level barriers to adherence. Simply put, a lack of provider trust, limited communication with a provider, delivery of care by multiple providers, and the overall complexity of navigating through the healthcare system can all be barriers to medication adherence.

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Beterra

MARCH 18, 2019

Healthcare improvement accountability is often lacking, making your team’s accomplishments, frustrations, and suggestions feel unnoticed or less valuable. Whether the shortcoming is due to disorganization, plan execution, lack of data and insights, or something else, it is possible to turn that around by introducing an improvement accountability system.

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Health Populi

MARCH 28, 2019

As more mobile app users — consumers, patients, and caregivers — use these handy digital health tools, much of the data we share can be re-identified and monetized by third parties well beyond those we believe we’re sharing with. This compromised health data privacy scenario comes out of research published this month in the BMJ , Data sharing practices of medicines related apps and the mobile ecosystem: traffic, content, and network analysis.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

The vision/optical industry is one piece of the health/care ecosystem, but the segment has not been as directly impacted by patients’ new consumer muscles until just about now. It feels like the vision industry is at an inflection point at this moment, I intuited during yesterday’s convening of Decoding the Consumer: The new science of customer behavior, the theme of the 13th annual global leadership summit hosted by Vision Monday, a program of Jobson Medical Information which is part of the We

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Health Populi

MARCH 7, 2019

“Is it possible to take personalization too far for consumers?” asks a paper on Privacy and Personalization from SmarterHQ. The answer is, “it depends.” Consumers are sending mixed messages to marketers about their preferences for being forgotten versus being engaged and recognized. This tension has extreme relevance for personal health and healthcare, as AI and data analytics become quickly adopted by payors, insurance companies, providers, pharma, and consumer tech comp

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2019

Medical costs in America are still the top contributor to personal bankruptcy in the U.S., a risk factor in two-thirds of bankruptcies filed between 2013 and 2016. 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).

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Health Populi

MARCH 5, 2019

As more of our “things” get digitally connected, there’s an unanswered question about how our connected lives impact human life and health. A new report from the OECD asks and answers: How’s Life in the Digital Age? Opportunities and Risks of the Digital Transformation for People’s Well-being. This research is part of OECD’s ongoing series asking the Big Question, “How’s Life?

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Health Populi

MARCH 19, 2019

Self-care in health goes back thousands of years. Reading from Hippocrates’ Corpus about food and clean air’s role in health sounds contemporary today. And even in our most cynical moments, we can all hearken back to our grandmothers’ kitchen table wisdom for dealing with skin issues, the flu, and broken hearts. The annual conference of the Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA) convened this week, and I was grateful to attend and speak on the evolving retail health landscape yesterday.

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Healthy Debate

MARCH 21, 2019

Mental illness and acute care: Patients with mental illness have higher rates of ED use, re-admission and death. Are they receiving sub-standard care?

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Healthy Debate

MARCH 28, 2019

ABA autism: Applied behavioural analysis is the most common treatment for children with autism. How does it work? What does the research say?

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Healthy Debate

MARCH 8, 2019

Freddy Frost, research fellow in cystic fibrosis in Liverpool, and Alex Pickard, trainee in acute and emergency medicine in South London, return to The Rounds Table this week. Together they cover apixaban therapy to prevent venous thromboembolism (VTE) in patients with cancer, and omadacycline for treatment of community-acquired bacterial pneumonia (the OPTIC trial).

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Healthy Debate

MARCH 12, 2019

Doctors emailing patients: Barriers to this practice include privacy, but a new project aims to overcome these

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Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2019

“The Fourth Industrial Age,” Dr. Abraham Verghese writes, “has great potential to help, but also to harm, to exaggerate the profound gap that already exists between those who have much and those who have less each passing year.” Dr. Verghese asserts this in his forward to Deep Medicine , Dr. Eric Topol’s latest work which explores the promise of artificial intelligence (AI), Big Data, and robotics — three legs of the Fourth Industrial Age stool.

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MARCH 11, 2019

Despite being arguably the most important industry for the wellbeing of humanity, changes and improvements in healthcare seem to take the longest. If you work in healthcare, you probably know this better than anyone. Healthcare improvement advocates have ideas to make processes better, but often encounter barriers to putting their plans into action.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

“Patients as Consumers” is the theme of the Health Affairs issue for March 2019. Research published in this trustworthy health policy publication covers a wide range of perspectives, including the promise of patients’ engagement with data to drive health outcomes, citizen science and participatory research where patients crowdsource cures, the results of financial incentives in value-based plans to drive health care “shopping” and decision making, and ultimately, w

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Health Populi

MARCH 7, 2019

Americans love grocery stores, responsible retailers, technology and Amazon, Axios and Harris Poll found in this year’s top 100 visible company poll. The bottom five of the 100 include a big bank that ripped off consumers, a bankrupt retailer, a Big Tobacco company, and two organizations led by President Trump: The Trump Organization (#98) and the U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 27, 2019

Health insurance was on the collective minds of American voters in the 2018 midterm elections. Health care, broadly defined, drove many people to the polls voting with feet and ballots to protect their access to a health plan covering a pre-existing condition or to protest the cost of expensive prescription drugs. These were the two top health care issues among voters in late 2018, a Kaiser Family Foundation poll at the time assessed.

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Due to the impact of COVID-19, integrating telehealth software into practices and organizations has become the new normal. In turn, this has increased the effectiveness of collaborative healthcare by strengthening communication amongst healthcare workers and helping combat the woes of burnout. Communication between patients and healthcare providers has also improved, allowing patients to reach their providers easily and decreasing turnaround time.

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Health Populi

MARCH 6, 2019

There’s little Americans, by political party, agree upon in 2019. One of the only issues bringing people together in the U.S. is prescription drug prices — that they’re too high, that the Federal government should negotiate to lower costs for Medicare enrollees, and that out-of-pocket costs for drugs should be limited. The Kaiser Family Foundation has been tracking this topic for a few years, and this month, their March 2019 Health Tracking Poll shows vast majorities of Democr

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Health Populi

MARCH 29, 2019

There’s little agreement between Democrats and Republicans on a plethora of issues in American public life. But one issue that brings U.S. citizens together is agreement that the cost of health care is too high in the country, and that pharma, health plans, and providers are to blame. Welcome to health politics in America as of March 2019, according to The Public and High U.S.

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