Health Populi

JULY 10, 2020

health care providers set up virtual care arrangements to convene with patients. Three months into the COVID-19 crisis, how have patients felt about these telehealth visits? Each of these health consumers had at least one virtual care visit between February and May 2020. health citizens and their providers.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

At the start of CES 2021, I had the opportunity to catch up with Karsten Russell-Wood, Portfolio Marketing Leader, Post Acute & Home, Connected Care at Philips. We meet George and Audrey in their open kitchen-dining room space, with George finishing up a conversation with his cardiologist via a tablet.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2024

More patient-consumers are connecting the dots between the cost of care between one site versus another. Patients-as-payers seek virtual care for two key reasons: convenience and cost. And convenience actually mashes up costs for everyday people in the form of time-costs.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic drove U.S. Parks Associates’ research identified other categories of consumer electronics growth in the 2020 year of the coronavirus, including: Smart home devices, growing to 30% of U.S. broadband households in 2020 from 17% in 2015. Once purchased, most consumers set up devices themselves.

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Health Populi

JUNE 11, 2024

As an Index, the MMI combines several line items of healthcare spending to make up the overall number, and this methodology allows us to compare the rising costs of care for a family of 4 covered by a PPO year to year.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 19, 2021

peoples’ expectations of their health care experience is melding with their best retail experience — and that’s taken a turn toward their digital and ecommerce life-flows. The study was fielded between October 2020 and September 2021. Outpatient care inched up from 73 to 74. In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2021

Two studies published in May 2021 illustrate the value and importance of telehealth to patients in 2020, and a disconnect among many C-level executives working in hospitals, academic medical centers, and other care provider organizations. The post Telehealth Bolsters Patient Satisfaction (J.D. Together, the two reports from J.D.

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Health Populi

MAY 30, 2022

Some people could not work from home due to the nature of their jobs requiring up-close-and-personal human touch; other workers lacked households with broadband or WiFi connectivity, limiting their ability to do work tasks that could have been remotely accomplished. As a result, more people in the U.S. It’s true to say that in the U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

.” The vast majority of consumers are concerned about some aspect of their home’s health, like air or water quality, according to Healthy Home Technologies , a report published in October 2020 by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), convener of the annual CES. For the research, CES interviewed 1,500 U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2021

By party, nearly all Democrats agree with the negotiating power by the Feds, followed by 4 in 5 Independents and almost as many Republicans. The graphic shown here from Ginger Szala’s review calculates the cost increase since 2000 for prescription out-of-pocket costs (covering generic, brand, and specialty drugs), up 272%.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

doctors are using digital health tools in patient care, with quickening adoption of telehealth and remote monitoring technology, according to a study from the American Medical Association (AMA). Looking past 2020, we can also expect greater physician use of telehealth and remote care tech, based on a forward-looking question in the poll.

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

When a new technology or product starts to get used in a market, it follows a diffusion curve whose slope depends on the pace of adoption in that market. The first chart from the CDC illustrates that dramatic growth in the use of telehealth ratcheting up since the first case of COVID-19 was diagnosed in the U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2019

For mainstream Americans, “the math doesn’t add up” for paying medical bills out of median household budgets, based on the calculations in the 2019 VisitPay Report. Cost influenced two-thirds of patients in terms of their satisfaction with a physician or a health system. Given a $60K median U.S. The post In the U.S.,

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MedicalGPS

AUGUST 10, 2022

After you answer the ‘what’, not too many people will ever follow up and ask, “ why do you do what you do?”. Then, in 2020, because of the uncertainty brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic, the resignation rate slowed as workers held on to their jobs in greater numbers. The ‘what’ is straightforward enough.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 7, 2022

For many years, I have followed the activities of CHPA, the Consumer Healthcare Products Association , and have participated in some of their conferences. Since 2020, the organization has expanded its mission beyond OTC meds to be a “self-care association,” Anita explained. Or in my own take on this… the patient is the payor.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

“We” was a trio including Antoinette Thomas (@NurseTechExec1), Chief Patient Experience Officer with Microsoft, David Ryan (@DavidPRyan), former long-time Global Head of Intel’s Health/Life Science business; and, me. Understanding the health inequities borne by “telemedicine.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Hims and Hers will invest in a Columbus, Ohio-based mail order pharmacy to be operational in 2020, featuring customer support and fulfillment centers. Up to now, the companies have been working with third-party pharmacies to pick-and-pack medicines for consumers looking to support their gender-specific wellness needs.

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Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2023

This is the eighth annual global FHI report, with detailed country-specific analyses to follow for the U.S. Here’s what I wrote about the 2020 FHI , research conducted in the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Walker Info - Patient Experience

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Speed was found to be an essential factor of CX in Walker’s 2013 report, Customers 2020 – and it’s only become more important since. The seven themes we’ve discussed in our CX Now series so far have all been building up to this critical aspect of customer experience. Customers 2020 What’s the value of speed?

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Walker Info - Patient Experience

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Measuring customer satisfaction and acting on the data to drive up scores will earn new customers and develop loyalty among existing clients. Even a world-class marketing campaign for a superior product/service cannot make up for a company unconcerned with low customer satisfaction scores. consumers contacted customer service in 2020.

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CollaborateMD

JUNE 18, 2024

It will define patient engagement and examine its significance. This guide will set your practice up for success in the fast-evolving healthcare landscape. It’s an exciting time to be operating, and positive patient outcomes have never been more accessible. This is a sharp increase from about 1% in February 2020.

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Medical Advantage

MARCH 8, 2024

Moreover, athenaCollector also employs efficient billing practices, using a rules-based engine to automatically submit claims and follow up on unpaid or underpaid claims. In 2020, athenahealth merged with Virence Health, further expanding its product suite and customer base.

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Accepted Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Part of what you do when you sign up for medicine is like you didn’t sign up to sit in the classroom. You signed up to go in the hospital and see patients. A lot of them talk about where they grew up or who influenced them during their careers. They’re way up there.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2022

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. And that involvement in social media is intimately woven with Stacy’s patient advocacy journey….for I like business and people.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

His company has conducted a large quantitative and qualitative research program culminating in a first report, The Human Condition 2020: A Shock To The System. Known’s team of marketers has explored the perspectives 1,795 U.S. adults between 13 and 71 years of age in the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 21, 2020

adults 18 and older online in February and March 2020. That’s 80% of consumers saying they would be likely to disagree with physicians, a vast majority of folks showing self-determination in their health care flows across all generations, from Gen Z to Seniors — the most likely to speak up to their doctors.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Medscape polled 12,339 physicians representing over 29 specialties between late August and early November 2020 to gauge their feelings about work and life in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. In the second half of 2020, about 4 in 10 U.S. Physicians in the U.S. Medscape researched its first Physician Lifestyle Report in 2012.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 3, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic certainly accelerated the fast-adoption of telehealth for all kinds of patient questions and needs starting in the late second quarter of 2020. Mental health spiked up for virtual visits and to this day, is among the medical services in highest demand for virtual platforms.

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Health Populi

MAY 31, 2022

The overall finding that emerges out of patients’ own observations: that one’s race, age, insurance status, admission diagnosis, and living situation were all associated with completion of physician follow-up — or lack of follow-up.

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Relias

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Another benefit of the framework was that it could serve as a communication tool to help patients assess care quality and their satisfaction with the care they received. In 2020, researchers from Ireland, the U.S., AHRQ defined each of the domains as follows: Safe — avoiding harm to patients from the care that is intended to help them.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

On that personalization, tactical level, most of the healthcare suppliers don’t provide relevant communications to patients: the top performer here was providers, with 49% of consumers saying hospitals’ and clinicians’ communications were personally relevant.

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Health Populi

APRIL 22, 2020

Stress is up, smoking increasing, drinking more alcohol… Americans are tapping into a variety of coping mechanisms in the coronavirus outbreak, with health on their collective minds. adults between 9-20 April 2020. adults between 9-20 April 2020.

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Walker Info - Patient Experience

JUNE 20, 2023

A company objective might be to ramp up sales. This can work especially well if the communication is more informative (no need for immediate action) or it is difficult to set up direct time with busy executives. One must keep up/strive to stay ahead or risk being left behind. How actionable is it?

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2024

He pointed to a visit to an emergency room, where “the debt is taken on unexpectedly and in a time of crisis,” as well as consumers dealing with “complexities with insurance” (consider: out of network providers, lack of up-front cost estimates, and trauma which prevents one from “shopping” for care).

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Arkenea

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Patient portal development is one such shift that has heralded a novel era of patient engagement in the healthcare industry. According to a report published by Chime, 83 percent of acute care organizations stated high use of patient portals by users in 2021, as compared to 74 percent in 2020. at any given time.

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Health Populi

JUNE 25, 2021

In the “NewTopia” for later next year into 2023, David presented a portfolio of color-palettes rooted in themes like foundation, heart, embryo, earthed, supernatural, and wake-up, among others. Foundation, for example, has several micro-themes embodied in its color group like dreaming, resting, and writing.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2022

Ford let us know up-front that he could not be more proud of the stories he was about to share with us…and I will do my best to capture some of his remarks with you here in Health Populi so you can be inspired, as well. For more on that collaboration, please see my blog post which describes the program which launched in June 2020].

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