Health Populi

MAY 14, 2020

COVID-19 is re-shaping health care in America across many dimensions. In Shifts in Healthcare Demand, Delivery and Care During the COVID-19 Era , IQVIA presents a multi-faceted profile of the early impacts of the pandemic on U.S. health care. In the report, published in April 2020, IQVIA mined the company’s many data bases that track real-time data, including medical claims, flu data, sales data, oncology medical and pharmacy claims, formularies, among other sources.

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CiscoHealth

MAY 12, 2020

The Customer Story blog series highlights how Cisco’s collaboration technology has helped customers solve their business challenges. Learn how Cisco is meeting customers where they are helping them achieve their business goals. NUI Galway, Cisco, and IBM Team up to Connect Family Members with Patients and Staff in the ICU. When the visiting restrictions were introduced in early March, the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) team in University Hospital Galway (UHG) in Ireland realized that it was goi

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Healthy Debate

MAY 14, 2020

The opioid crisis has claimed the lives of over 13,000 Canadians since 2016 and has caused the average life expectancy of Canadians to decrease for the first time in recent memory. Alcohol use is related to an average of seven in-hospital deaths daily, and rates of alcohol-related hospitalizations are increasing. Nicotine is responsible for killing 37,000 Canadians yearly, and is the most important cause of premature death in Canada.

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The Beryl Institute

MAY 11, 2020

It is hard to believe that it has been just over eight weeks since the COVID-19 crisis truly hit global proportion. On March 13, with soaring cases in Europe, Asia in lockdown and Africa, Australia and the Americas bracing for the wave, I offered in announcing the reformatting of Patient Experience Conference 2020 , “We stand together to tackle this health crisis in a way that ensures the best outcomes, the greatest of dignity and respect, and the human experience it deserves.

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Health Populi

MAY 11, 2020

In the current state of the COVID-19 pandemic, we all feel like we are living in desperate times. If you are a person at-risk of dying a Death of Despair, you’re even more at-risk of doing so in the wake of the Coronavirus in America. Demonstrating this sad fact of U.S. life, the Well Being Trust and Robert Graham Center published Projected Deaths of Despair from COVID-19.

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Healthcare Highways

MAY 12, 2020

As quarantines and shut-down orders bring budgets to their breaking point, inappropriate care is more dangerous to company (and employee) health than ever before. Paying for inappropriate care makes it difficult to determine if you are paying the right price for your health plan. Companies may have a health plan paying reasonable unit costs for procedures, but the presence of inappropriate care raises the total cost of care over time while diminishing performance.

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Osf Healthcare

MAY 15, 2020

Running out of space, staff and supplies has not been an issue for OSF HealthCare during the COVID-19 pandemic thanks to predictive modeling.

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Health Populi

MAY 12, 2020

“We’re not getting back to business as usual any time soon,” Sage Growth Partners and Blackbook Research introduce their latest report on the COVID-19 pandemic, As the Country Reopens Safety Concerns Rise. One of the areas that won’t be getting “back to business” soon will be patients’ visits to doctors’ offices, hospitals, and urgent care centers, the report notes, based on a survey conducted among 591 U.S. consumers on April 28 and 29, 2020.

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Health Dialog

MAY 13, 2020

National Women’s Health Week is upon us—a time to raise awareness about steps women can take to improve their health. The week serves as a reminder for women to make their overall wellbeing a priority, which is especially important true during the COVID-19 pandemic. Mental health plays an essential role in a person’s overall wellbeing, and a recent poll shows that stress caused by the coronavirus may be taking a greater toll on women’s mental health than on men’s.

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Osf Healthcare

MAY 12, 2020

OSF HealthCare is using predictive analytics to stay stay prepared during the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

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Health Populi

MAY 15, 2020

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