Health Populi
MARCH 30, 2021
As the coronavirus crisis stretched from weeks into months, now over one year since being defined as a pandemic, U.S. consumers have made significant investments into their homes for working, educating students, cooking, and working out. Welcome to the “rebalancing of the homebody economy,” in the words of McKinsey, out with new data on consumer sentiment during the coronavirus crisis.
Center for Health Progress
APRIL 1, 2021
I live in southern Colorado, a full two hours south of Denver, if traffic is light. As housing prices have climbed and folks are squeezed out of the housing market in the Denver metro area, I’ve noticed more folks moving south to enjoy our milder winters (less snow!), our beautiful Chicanx/Latinx/Mexican culture (green chile!), and substantially more affordable housing.
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ACHE
MARCH 30, 2021
By Lily J. Henson, MD, FACHE. Today is National Doctors’ Day, and I want to note the pride I have in being a physician. Over the past year, as we learned how to treat this novel coronavirus, I have watched my physician colleagues lead the fight by fearlessly taking care of patients despite the risk to themselves and, potentially, their loved ones. They spent the last 12 months hungrily reading and assimilating new knowledge about managing the disease as information became available so they could
Health Care Leader News
APRIL 1, 2021
The pandemic has cost us dearly, but we can use the learning to build a more efficient and accessible health service, writes Dr Omobolaji Iji, GP and co-founder of Tekihealth Solutions. There have always been strong arguments for using digital solutions to enhance patient care, but it has taken a pandemic to break through some of the biggest barriers to change.
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Health Populi
MARCH 31, 2021
COVID-19 ushered in the era of our homes as safe havens for work, shopping, education, fitness-awaking, bread-baking, and health-making. In my latest essay written for Medecision, I weave together new and important data and evidence supporting the basic social determinant of health — shelter, housing, home — and some innovations supporting housing-as-medicine from CVS Health, UnitedHealth Group, AHIP, Brookings Institution, the Urban Land Institute, and other stakeholders learning ho
Icanotes
MARCH 30, 2021
A mental status exam is an assessment of a patient's cognitive and behavioral functioning. It’s based on the clinician’s observations and the client's subjective descriptions. You might think of a mental status exam as a psychiatrist’s version of a physical exam. Behavioral health professionals use mental status exams to create a picture of how a person looks in the present moment — not all of the time.
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Healthcare Leadership Council
MARCH 31, 2021
This month, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee held a hearing on the health inequities witnessed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The topics discussed in that hearing warrant our sustained attention. I’m particularly focused on the testimony of Eugene Woods , the president and CEO of Atrium Health (a Healthcare Leadership Council member), a North Carolina-based health system.
Geek Doctor
MARCH 30, 2021
John Halamka, M.D., president, Mayo Clinic Platform, and Paul Cerrato, senior research analyst and communications specialist, Mayo Clinic Platform, wrote this article. Inspiration comes in all sizes and shapes. Neil deGrasse Tyson, a world-renowned astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City, continues to inspire us with words like, “The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.
Healthcare Highways
MARCH 30, 2021
Difficult times require more than short-term unit cost discounts.
Health Populi
MARCH 28, 2021
Springtime is finally emerging on the east coast of the U.S. and my local CSA farm is on my mind. It’s timely, then, to re-visit a research paper on subsidizing fruits and vegetables from a March 2019 issue of PLOS as an introduction to a new initiative growing out of The Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School (CHLPI) on produce prescriptions.
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Health Populi
APRIL 2, 2021
One in five people in the U.S. cannot afford to pay for quality health care — an especially acute challenge for Black and Hispanic Americans, according to a West Health-Gallup poll conducted in March 2021, a year into the COVID-19 pandemic. “The cost of healthcare and its potential ramifications continues to serve as a burdensome part of day-to-day life for millions of Americans,” the study summary observed.
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