Health Populi

JULY 28, 2020

This week, announcements from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and Withings further bolster the case for the private sector bolstering public health in this pandemic…and future ones to come beyond the Age of the Coronavirus. Since the pandemic emerged, CTA has been reaching out to members and stakeholders to be a useful resource for the consumer electronics industry and its customers.

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Michele Late

JULY 29, 2020

The U.S. recently reached 4 million COVID-19 cases. Some states are now requiring the public to wear masks. Masks are useful in slowing the spread of the coronavirus. Cloth masks can block as much as 50% of tiny droplets that come from your mouth or nose during breathing or talking. Without a mask, those droplets can reach others and make them sick.

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Health Care Law Blog

JULY 28, 2020

On July 23, 2020, Governor Whitmer issued Executive Order 2020-156 , which extends the current restrictions limiting the visitors allowed at health care facilities, residential care facilities, congregate care facilities, and juvenile justice facilities. Executive Order 2020-136 and its predecessors initially imposed these restrictions on visitors permitted to such facilities.

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Healthy Debate

JULY 27, 2020

As a nation, we have been horrified by the images of long-term care (LTC) residents suffering and dying from COVID-19 with inadequate care. As a palliative care physician, I have mourned for these residents and their families, knowing they suffered needlessly because our healthcare system failed them.

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2020

The phrase, “burden of health care,” has two usual meanings: one, to do with the massive chronic care burden, and the other, involving costs. There’s a third area of burden in U.S. health care — the onerous patient experience in finding and accessing care, assessed in the 2020 Change Healthcare – Harris Poll Consumer Experience Index.

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Osf Healthcare

JULY 30, 2020

Access to startup companies was a boon for OSF HealthCare as it worked to find ways to better care for patients with COVID-19.

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has been a wake-up call for patients-as-consumers, seeking lower-touch health care services at home or closer-to-home in community health hubs. The need for a holistic platform the serves up a continuum-of-care tools across the patient journey became evident in a matter of months, Capgemini Research Institute calls out in The Health Fix , a research report assessing peoples’ perspectives on health care in the Age of COVIOD-19.

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Healthy Debate

JULY 30, 2020

Many of us struggle to live with the consequences of bad decisions. A toxic romantic relationship we don’t leave. A career we find depressing or unfulfilling. Sometimes those decisions blow up in our faces – through divorce, firing, the worst kinds of mid-life crises.

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Health Populi

JULY 30, 2020

Pass me the Clorox…tip the UPS driver…love thy grocer. These are our daily life-flows in the Age of COVID-19. Our basic needs are reflected in the new 2020 Axios-Harris Poll , released today. For the past several years, I’ve covered the Harris Poll of companies’ reputation rankings here in Health Populi. Last year, Wegmans, the grocer, ranked #1; Amazon, #2.

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