Health Populi

DECEMBER 5, 2019

of their household income on health insurance premiums and deductibles based on The Commonwealth Fund’s latest report on employee health care costs, Trends in Employer Health Coverage, 2008-2018: Higher Costs for Workers and Their Families. Workers covered by health insurance through their companies spend 11.5% of household income.

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Insurance Billing Medication Patient Experience 109

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

There’s a gap between the supply of digital health tools that hospitals and health systems offer patients, and what patients-as-consumers need for overall health and wellbeing. This chasm is illustrated in The future of the digital patient experience , the latest report from HIMSS and the Center for Connected Medicine (CCM).

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Experian is best known as the consumer credit reporting agency; Experian Health works with healthcare providers on revenue cycle management, patient identity, and care management, so the company has experience with patient finance and medical expense sticker shock. More people with pre-existing conditions are concerned, as well.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 16, 2020

“All healthcare is social,” Dr. Sachin Jain, CEO and President of CareMore Health, wrote about the latter in Forbes in April 2018 — and his essay is worth reading if you missed it the first time around. And so the modern house call enables more social care, the CareMore model shows us.

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Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2018

It takes a good nudge from a provider to motivate a patient to access online medical records, found by ONC in their latest research into consumers’ use of EHRs detailed in Individuals’ use of online medical records and technology for health needs , the ONC Data Brief No. 40, published April 2018.

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Health Populi

JUNE 25, 2018

Hospital and healthcare providers are getting real about improving patient and health consumer experience, the latest Kaufman Hall research finds. The company’s 2018 State of Consumerism in Healthcare report is out, subtitled, “Activity in Search of Strategy.”

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Hospital Customer Service Patient Experience Billing 81

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

consumers, including Seniors, found in the 2018 digital health consumer survey from Deloitte. adults in February and March 2018 for this research, conducted in English and Spanish. Using digital health tech is a new normal for U.S. That’s the consumer-demand side of the equation. Deloitte surveyed 4,530 U.S.

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Customer Service Medication Tests Patient Experience 109

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Seeking health information online along with researching other patients’ perspectives on doctors are now as common as booking dinner reservations and reading restaurant reviews, based on Rock Health’s latest health consumer survey, Beyond Wellness for the Healthy: Digital Health Consumer Adoption 2018. Tech companies?

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2022

step in the right direction” CBS News 8 San Diego covered a caregiver and cancer patient’s experience with a live shot of their thick binder, containing CDs with medical images and data from these various provider institutions laying on top of a pile of letters and lab test results.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

People dealing with chronic conditions are keener to share personally-generated data than people that don’t have a chronic disease, Deloitte’s 2018 Survey of U.S> adults online in February and March 2018 for the study. > Health Care Consumers learned. Deloitte surveyed 4,530 U.S.

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Patient Satisfaction Hospital Billing Medication 85

Health Populi

OCTOBER 5, 2018

trillion to national healthcare spending in 2018. This week, Kaiser Family Foundation published its 2018 study into employer-sponsored benefits, finding that the average cost is about $20,000 this year. trillion in 2018. The economic argument for the MedModular innovation in the U.S. is compelling. trillion a year.

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Hospital Follow-Up Billing Insurance 87

Health Populi

MARCH 5, 2018

The median American uses 3 social networking platforms in 2018. Facebook is the primary platform for most Americans who use social media in 2018: two-thirds of U.S. adults age 18 and over in early January 2018 for this study. adults use Facebook, and 3 in 4 of them check in on a daily basis.

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Collaboration Hospital Patient Experience 69

Health Populi

APRIL 29, 2018

Governor Mark Leavitt, who held the post of Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Bush, offered this advice at the recent Liberation 2018 conference hosted by Medecision. Part 2: Design to Liberate Healthcare , published 19 April, 2018.

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Patient Experience Medication 63

Health Populi

APRIL 3, 2024

that people — both patients and the health care workforce — feel less safe, discussed in Safety in Healthcare 2024 from Press Ganey. It anchors all experiences — for patients and the workforce,” the report summarizes. “Safety is the foundation of healthcare.

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Patient Safety Teamwork Patient Experience Diagnostics 83

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

And maintaining good mental health and staying on-track with health goals come close to managing uncovered costs, Oliver Wyman’s 2018 consumer survey learned. But this time around, polling health-insured consumers in July 2018, Oliver Wyman perceives a change in consumers’ “willingness to try new kinds of health services.”

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Insurance Medication Tests Hospital 73

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

An article published in Health Services Research in August 2018 talks about Trends in the Types of Usual Sources of Care: A Shift from People to Places or Nothing at All. Our homes are evolving into our health hubs — truly our “medical homes,” which have been formally defined as a primary care gatekeeper’s office.

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Health Populi

JULY 26, 2022

With PillPack, I wrote here in June 2018 that Amazon got 50 U.S. billion investment makes ONEM the third largest acquisition in Amazon’s portfolio, following Whole Foods at $13.7 bn and MGM Studios for $8.5 The PillPack (pharmacy) buy was $1 billion. State pharmacy licenses with the deal.

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Health Populi

APRIL 30, 2018

Three-fourths of healthcare providers experienced a data breach in 2017, according to the HIMSS 2018 Cybersecurity Survey. Only 41% of healthcare workers say they receive security training, a Forrester study learned in January 2018. The link will take you to the Request, and input will be accepted until 31 May 2018.

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Documentation Hospital Medication Patient Experience 59

Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

Use of wearable tech nearly halved, from 33% to 18%, between 2018 and 2020. Yet with that bullish supply side of digital health, there was a marked decline in peoples’ use of them in the past two years, found by Accenture in their latest health consumer survey, Digital is Transforming Health, So Why is Consumer Adoption Stalling?

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Appointments HIPAA Documentation Tests 139

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

adults 18 and over in August 2018. The findings reinforce what we know-we know about health care in America: that “It’s not just the uninsured – it’s also the cost of health care,” as Drew Altman of Kaiser Family Foundation wrote in Axios on 20 August 2018. The poll was conducted among 1,002 U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: The issue of privacy and voice assistants began to reach mass media in 2018 as smart speakers became popular holiday gifts; here’s a cautionary explanation from the University of Michigan published in November 2018 just-in-time for last year’s holiday shopping season.

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HIPAA Hospital Scheduling Medication 69

Health Populi

MAY 5, 2022

Wearing our health and wellness lens, IRI’s data has shown broad-based category growth for wellness supplements since 2018, with a 10% growth rate per annum. The third chart serves up examples of the manufacturers by category which IRI has divined exemplify winners in the post-COVID CPG marketplace.

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Patient Centered Care Best Practices Medication Hospital 115

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

healthcare consumers 18 and over in November and December 2018. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Patients, now consumers and ultimately payors managing up to their deductible and out-of-pocket health care costs, are clearly seeking health care services on their terms — based on value and personal values.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

Overall, 2017 to 2018 year-on-year, HBW sales were flat-to-no growth, notwithstanding the consumer and influencer buzz around the categories. While sales for HBW via FDM channels were pretty flat between 2017 and 2018, “the basket is upgrading,” Knight said.

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Collaboration Hospital Patient Experience 83

Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2018

The 6% trend is equal to that of 2018, illustrating a flat scenario, roughly the same trend seen in 2016 at 6.2%. trillion in the first quarter of 2018, the 15th consecutive quarter with an increase that ranks the level higher than the previous peak of $12.68 I’ve curated the four charts from the study to explain this story.

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Medication Insurance Hospice Hospital 63

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

This blog appears today as part of a #HIMSS18 primer series for attendees, and the industry at large, to discuss major health IT issues that will help move health and healthcare delivery forward in 2018 – and beyond. Patients as Consumers: How Leading Providers are Digitally Transforming Patient Consults | #Engage4Health + #HIMSS18.

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HIPAA Patient Experience Appointments Insurance 48

Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

Over one-half of 213 retail chains listed in Internet Retailers top 1000 offered “buy online, pick up in store” fulfillment in 2018. Walmart, in particular, had a huge uptick in this during the 2018 holiday shopping season.

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HIPAA Insurance Patient Care Billing 102

Health Populi

JULY 20, 2018

The smartwatch category, with fitness tracking, is hot in 2018, some “smarter” than others. Wearable tech is an important category these days in department stores, with discount retailers like Target and Walmart, at electronics outlets like Best Buy and, of course, via Amazon’s wearable tech ma.

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Appointments Medication Patient Experience 78

Health Populi

APRIL 19, 2018

This is the second post of three written to summarize what I learned participating in Medecision’s annual meeting with the company’s partners, held March 27-29, 2018 at the Ritz-Carlton in Dallas, TX. . Take 3” of this series, to publish April 26, will address the big learnings shared during Liberation 2018.

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Patient Experience 54

Health Populi

JUNE 26, 2018

I’m blogging live while attending HXD 2018 in Cambridge, MA, the health/care design conference convened by Mad*Pow, 26th and 27th June 2018. Amy, Founder and Chief Experience Office of Mad*Pow, kicked off the conference with context-setting and inspiration. Today was Day 1 and I want to recap my learnings and share with you.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2019

Ann Mond Johnson assumed the helm of CEO of ATA in 2018, and she’s issued a call-to-action across the health/care ecosystem for a delivery system upgrade. “ATA” is the new three-letter acronym for the American Telemedicine Association, meeting today through Tuesday at the Convention Center in New Orleans.

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Hospital Collaboration Patient Experience 91

Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2018

The survey was conducted online among 1,005 Americans age 50 and older between January and February 2018. Health Populi’s Hot Points: As patients morph into health consumers, seeking food options that make health, they’re also savvy buyers, who clip coupons, shop private labels, and look for value-priced products in their lives.

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Patient Experience Medication 63

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

“Every company is a tech company,” Christopher Mimms asserted in the Wall Street Journal in December 2018. Connectivity, artificial intelligence, and automation are now competencies every company must master, Mimms explains.

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Insurance Collaboration Patient Experience 88

Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2018

Sleep, too, or lack thereof, is top-of-mind for so many consumers: there was a growing category of sleep-assisting digital health tools featured at the 2018 CES, which I covered here in the Huffington Post. One-third of people cite mental health as a goal, closely followed by improving finances.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Here’s where you can do just that beginning on 8th November 2018 at Open Source Healthcare. So am I, and I’m absolutely thrilled and grateful to be part of this collaborative effort. I hope that you will click into the publication to learn more about our joint healthcare mission and vision.

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Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2018

To more effectively help patients manage diabetes , CentraForce Health used geospatial mapping of SBDoH data to develop deeper insights into peoples’ health needs and behaviors — such as eating fast food in the past 30 days, sufficient time to eat healthy food, and tendency to follow a doctor’s recommendations.

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Insurance Follow-Up Communication Patient Experience 82

Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2022

Walgreens launched Find Care Now in 2018. In pre-pandemic times, family and friends were lifelines for patients undergoing treatments and grappling with a life-changing disease,” BDO observes at the end of the report.

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