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Primary care news round-up (13th June to 19th June 2024)

Practice Index

The dashboard contains details of rising numbers of appointments, declining patient satisfaction and NHS financial support for practices. It shows that last year, just 35% of patients usually saw their preferred GP, compared with 50% in 2018. The Foundation intends to update the data quarterly.

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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. News & World Report named Mayo Clinic the #1 health system in the U.S.

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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. 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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Consumers’ Embrace of Digital Health Tech Stalls, and Privacy Concerns Prevail – Accenture’s 2020 Research

Health Populi

Use of wearable tech nearly halved, from 33% to 18%, between 2018 and 2020. Six in ten people are open to health and wellness services via virtual channels, over half like the idea of remote monitoring linking with at-home devices, and 1 in 2 people would be open to routine appointments through telehealth.

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Worrying About Paying for Health Care Is the Norm in America

Health Populi

Note that projected health care costs in retirement grew 23% in the four years prior to 2018, according to EBRI. This third chart comes from the BofA 2019 Workplace Benefits Report based on the bank’s poll of 996 U.S. employees who participated in 401(k) plans in February 2019.

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Loneliness, Public Policy and AI – Lessons From the UK For the US

Health Populi

I wasn’t surprised that Maneesh was revealing this private message with me, because he is very transparent via social networks on his personal tests and hacks with wearables and apps. He wears many devices at once, putting the techs to his tests, and figuring out just what works well, and for whom.

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

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40, published April 2018. Among those patients who do access their EHR, the most important data sought were lab test results (for 92% of those who accessed their EHR), current list of medications (79%), summaries of their office visit (76%), and a list of health/medical problems 70%. ” [their exclamation point, not mine].