Health Populi

MAY 29, 2019

Enlightened health/care industry and public policy stakeholders have begun to embrace and address social determinants of health. These are the inputs that bolster health beyond health care services: they include economic stability like job security and income level (and equity), education, and access to healthy food, food security, safe neighborhoods, social support, clean environments (water and air), and in my own update on SDoH factors, access to broadband connectivity.

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Healthy Debate

MAY 9, 2019

Public health in Ontario: In light of the province's new budget, we took a close look at what public health does in Ontario and what changes may be coming

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Health Blawg

MAY 21, 2019

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Osf Healthcare

MAY 6, 2019

No matter the type of change, health care systems must have the necessary tools in place to enact transformation quickly and efficiently.

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The Beryl Institute

MAY 7, 2019

On our journey to grow the experience movement and The Beryl Institute community, we have built a vibrant and dynamic network of committed professionals and practitioners, innovators and researchers, patients and family members, caregivers and partners from around the world. This network, through its commitment to “share wildly and ‘steal’ willingly”, first shared in acknowledging the experience era in which we now find ourselves, helped shape an Experience Framework introduced by the Institute

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Health Populi

MAY 1, 2019

“There’s a 15-year difference in the life expectancy between the richest and poorest Americans.” That’s the first sentence of Chapter 7 in my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen. This data point comes from research published in JAMA in April 2016 on the association between income and life expectancy in the U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 16, 2019

At least one in three people who have tried out virtual health care have done so because they use technology in all aspects of life and want to do the same with their healthcare. This data point has informed my vision for self-care and the home as our health hub, bolstered in part through the research of Accenture from which this first graphic comes.

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Health Populi

MAY 15, 2019

With lower expectations of and satisfaction with health care, Millennials in America seek three things: available, accessible, and affordable services, research from the Transamerica Center for Health Studies has found. Far and away the top reason for not obtaining health insurance in 2018 was that it was simply too expensive, cited by 60% of Millennials.

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Health Populi

MAY 23, 2019

Samsung introduced BotCare , a caring robot, at CES 2019. BotCare is part of the company’s Bixby, an AI platform that supports Samsung’s robotic offerings for environmental health (air), retail, and healthcare. Think: medication reminders and around-the-house services that a human homecare aid might perform, among other medical support tasks.

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Health Populi

MAY 14, 2019

People who are in poor health or use more health care services are more likely to report multiple unmet social needs, such as food insecurity, unsafe neighborhoods, lack of good housing, social isolation, and poor transportation access, found through a survey conducted by McKinsey. The results are summarized in Addressing the Social Determinants of Health.

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Health Populi

MAY 5, 2019

This is what rationing health care looks like in America: one in two people in families dealing with a chronic health condition have difficulty affording paying medial bills before meeting a deductible, unexpected medical bills, co-payments for prescription drugs, co-payments for physician visits, and/or their monthly health insurance premium. And that financial toxicity is felt among people who were insured through the workplace in late 2018, based on the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF)/LA Times

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Health Populi

MAY 7, 2019

There’s no denying the growth of telehealth, virtual visits, remote health monitoring and mHealth apps in the healthcare landscape. But these growing technologies don’t replace the role of real estate in health, wellness and medical care. Health care is a growing force in retail real estate, according to the ICSC, the acronym for the International Council of Shopping Centers , which has been spending time analyzing, in their words, “what landlords should know in eyeing tenants

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Health Populi

MAY 30, 2019

Health care costs rank ahead of Americans’ money-worries about low wages and availability of cash, paying for college, house payments, taxes, and debt, according to the latest Gallup poll on peoples’ most important family financial problems in 2019. Medical costs have, in fact, ranked at the top of this list for three years in a row, with a five percentage point rise between 2018 and 2019.

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Health Populi

MAY 31, 2019

Over the ten years between 2007 and 2017, U.S. consumer spending for education, food and health care substantially grew, crowding out spending for other categories like transportation and housing. Furthermore, income disparity between wealthy Americans and people earning lower-incomes dramatically widened: between 2007-2017, income for high-income earners grew 1,305 percent more than lower-incomes.

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Healthy Debate

MAY 15, 2019

Lung cancer treatment is improving and lung cancer is no longer a death sentence. We must invest more in research and screening in order to save more lives.

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Healthy Debate

MAY 8, 2019

Hallway medicine: Treating patients in corridors without any semblance of privacy has become the norm. As a doctor, this makes me feel defeated and angry.

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Health Blawg

MAY 21, 2019

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Healthy Debate

MAY 1, 2019

If they truly want to promote patient-centred care, health authorities should take on the task of better coordinating medical appointments.

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Healthy Debate

MAY 22, 2019

The post Ontario’s poverty reduction strategy is built on the idea that people deserve to be poor appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Healthy Debate

MAY 29, 2019

Uncertainty in medicine: What it's like when doctors can't provide the diagnoses and treatments patients desperately need.

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Healthy Debate

MAY 16, 2019

The post Twenty years of patient surveys: What’s not working and how to improve the process appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Health Populi

MAY 21, 2019

People want to make health with their health care providers, and they want more than care from them: most patients are looking for support with healthy eating, exercise, emotional support, sleep, stress management, social relationships, and financial health. And in case physicians, nurses and pharmacists aren’t sufficiently business with that punch-list for health, two in three U.S. patients would also like to receive help in finding a higher purpose.

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Speaker: Dr. Ugo Uwaoma, MD, MBA

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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MAY 8, 2019

Americans consumed 17.6 prescriptions per person in 2018, two in three of which treated chronic conditions. Welcome to Medicine Use and Spending in the U.S. , the annual review of prescription drug supply, demand and Rx pricing dynamics from the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science. In a call with analysts this week in which I participated, Murray Aitken discussed the report which looks back at 2018 and forward to 2023 with scenarios about what the U.S. prescription drug market might look like

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Health Populi

MAY 8, 2019

Calls for universal health care, some under the banner of Medicare for All,” are growing among some policy makers and presidential candidates looking to run in 2020. As a response, the Chairman of the House Budget Committee in the U.S. Congress, Rep. John Yarmuth (D-Ky.), asked the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to develop a report outlining definitions and concepts for a single-payer health care system in the U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 3, 2019

The last chapter (8) of HealthConsuming considers whether Americans can become “health citizens.” “Citizens” in this sense goes back to the Ancient Greeks: I return to Hippocrates, whose name is, of course, the root of The Hippocratic Oath that physicians take. Greece was the birthplace of Democracy with a capital “D.” Hippocrates’ book The Corpus is thought to be one of the first medical textbooks.

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Health Populi

MAY 19, 2019

Health care is the top issue facing the U.S. today, one in three Americans says, with another one-fourth pointing to the economy. Together, health care + the economy rank the top issues for 62% of Americans. Health care and the economy are, in fact, intimately tied in every American’s personal household economy I assert in my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen.

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Speaker: Matt McBride, CEO and Co-Founder of Mend

Patient engagement happens before, during, and after interactions. Consumer research has found that in 2021, 64% of US households reported using Telehealth services. In addition 34% of patients would prefer Telehealth visits to in-office visits. Accessible patient engagement technology can help you improve your relationships with your patients while also improving your KPIs.