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Worrying About Paying for Health Care Is the Norm in America

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Among stresses facing people at least 50 years of age, health care costs rank top of mind compared with other issues like long-term care, health insurance, Social Security, taxes, and being read to retire. Note that projected health care costs in retirement grew 23% in the four years prior to 2018, according to EBRI.

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The New Drug Companies Aren’t Drug Companies At All

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Launched in January 2018, Civica Rx started with pent-up demand for these medicines: nine months after launching, one-third of American hospitals had contacted the organization interested in accessing the generic drugs that Civica Rx was focused on supplying.

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National Health Spending Will Reach Nearly 20% of U.S. GDP By 2027

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every year from 2020 to 2027, the actuaries at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services forecast in their report, National Health Expenditure Projections, 2018-2927: Economic And Demographic Trends Drive Spending And Enrollment Growth , published yesterday by Health Affairs. National health spending in the U.S.

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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)

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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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Health Is Social – The Social Determinants of Health at HIMSS19

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That wand has begun to initiate its magic in the physician community, based on a wonderful essay in JAMA published 20 December 2018 titled, Social Determinants of Health in the Digital Age: Determining the Source Code for Nurture. One is transportation, which is getting a lot of play at HIMSS19. As health care delivery in the U.S.

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Nudging Patients to Use EHRs: Moving Toward a Tipping Point for Consumer Health IT

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patients were offered online access to their health records by providers or insurers, and one-half of them accessed the EHR at least once in the last year. 40, published April 2018. 40, published April 2018. Half of U.S. One in four of those offered online EHR access looked at them more than 3 times.

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

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Patient-facing digital tools help patients with fairly basic tasks like making appointments, seeking doctors, and paying bills. The key findings in the survey of 136 health care executives were that: Digital health tools are a priority for half of the health system leaders. ” Yet it’s health care costs that rank top in U.S.

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