Health Populi

MARCH 18, 2024

The most common home-test by far has been for COVID-19, with other kinds of DTC diagnostic testing still lagging well behind. Patients’ willingness to share their personal health information is eroding, varying by age group and race/ethnicity along with the kind of organizations folks would share with.

Patient Experience 90

Patient Experience Tests Diagnostics Insurance 90

Health Populi

APRIL 3, 2024

The phrase “patient safety” summons up a list of common sources such as medication errors, surgical errors, health care-associated infections, diagnostic errors, among other adverse events and harms people experience in the course of receiving health care. “First, do no harm” is a key M.O. in health care.

Patient Safety 83

Patient Safety Teamwork Patient Experience Diagnostics 83

Health Populi

MAY 21, 2020

Patients’ concerns of COVID-19 risks have led them to self-ration care in the following ways: 41% have delayed health care services. adults 18 to 74 years of age in the first week of May 2020. Thus, 38% of people would delay an elective procedure and 27% would delay a diagnostic test in a hospital setting for at least six months.

Insurance 161

Insurance Tests Follow-Up Huddles/Rounds 161

Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2021

Since the early phase of the pandemic, CVS Health expanded the use of Epic MyChart, the report explains, to deliver COVID-19 test results to patients as well as provide an on-ramp to patients seeking telehealth visits. Health care is omni-channel.

Medication 174

Medication Tests Diagnostics Hospital 174

Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2022

Then one year into the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2021, Walgreens expanded Find Care a year into the COVID-19 pandemic with additional health systems, virtual care providers, specialty care, and lab and diagnostics services. Now, Walgreens is enabling cancer patients to say, “Hello, Jasper.”.

Patient Experience 62

Patient Experience Diagnostics Appointments Billing 62

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The important aspects of that is to provide care outside of bricks-and-mortar physician offices, to improve resource allocation, to demonstrate awareness of new technology, and to allow physicians to see more patients, among other underlying adoption drivers.

Vital Signs 102

Vital Signs Diagnostics Follow-Up Patient Records 102

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Blue Shield of California was well-positioned to support plan members at-home in the pandemic with this platform in place, recognizing peoples’ own personal crises in care and disrupted lives as the coronavirus crisis emerged in early 2020.

Diagnostics 102

Diagnostics Collaboration Long Term Care Hospice 102