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The Evolution of a Patient Ambassador – Learning from Stacy Hurt

Health Populi

I asked her to meet with me to discuss her professional news update: being appointed Parexel’s first Patient Ambassador. My Zoom invitation to Stacy was a very convenient excuse for me to catch up with a friend in the field: we have known each other since Stacy started to grow her health-social media presence on Twitter.

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Tools for Paying Medical Bills Don’t Help Health Consumers Manage Their Financial Health

Health Populi

Patient-facing digital tools help patients with fairly basic tasks like making appointments, seeking doctors, and paying bills. Key challenges to adopting digital health tools are first and foremost cost, following by interoperability and operational barriers. .” health citizens’ minds in 2020 leading up to the election.

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Do Practice Managers support the BMA’s GP collective action?

Practice Index

This decision follows the BMA’s member referendum on the 2024/25 General Medical Services (GMS) contract changes in which over 99% of members who responded (that’s more than 19,000 GPs and GP trainees) rejected the Government and NHS England’s 2024/25 GP contract changes. The BMA’s GP leaders requested an uplift of 8.7%

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Time To Travel And Wait In Health Care: The Opportunity For Self-Care At Home

Health Populi

People travel further and wait longer for medical services than for veterinary care (second in this line-up), auto repair, banking, and household services. In terms of personal opportunity costs, Altarum gauged the following lost-times: A working person loses 90 minutes of work-time. A working person loses 37 minutes of leisure time.

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The Retail Health Battle Royale, Day 5 – Consumer Demands For a Health/Care Ecosystem (and What We Can Learn from Costco’s $1.50 Hot Dog)

Health Populi

In another factor to add into the retail health landscape, Dollar General (DG) the 80-year old retailer known for selling low-priced fast-moving consumer goods in peoples’ neighborhoods appointed a healthcare advisory panel this week. Here’s another lens on the Optum health consumer data.

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The New Drug Companies Aren’t Drug Companies At All

Health Populi

The press release suggests that ocular diseases will be the first therapeutic area addressed, to be followed by other condition categories that impact people as they age. Demonstrating the blur between hospitals, insurance and pharma, Civica Rx appointed Martin VanTrieste, formerly Chief Quality Officer at Amgen, as CEO.

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With AI assistant Nimblr, patients can schedule doctor visits via Amazon Alexa

DrChrono

Santa Monica, CA – July 10, 2018 – Nimblr, which offers the first AI assistant for medical appointments, announced today its platform integration with Amazon Alexa, enabling patients to book and reschedule appointments using voice commands, eliminating the need to pick up the phone.