Health Populi

AUGUST 2, 2021

This has raised the importance of price transparency, which is based on the hypothesis that if patients had access to personally-relevant price/cost information from doctors and hospitals for medical services, and pharmacies and PBMs for prescription drugs, the patient would behave as a consumer and shop around.

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Billing Insurance Patient Experience Hospital 133

Amber Pharmacy

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The new Vitality program helps support patients through billing, medications, dietitian support and patient outreach. At Amber Specialty Pharmacy, each patient is assigned a billing specialist who ensures all resources are being utilized to reduce patient expenses and guarantee timely medication delivery.

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Health Populi

MARCH 18, 2024

We first note overall that fewer patients, year on year 2021-2023, seem willing to share data with ANY entity. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Rock Health points out that younger people and people of color are less likely to have ongoing relationships with primary care doctors or as the phrase goes “medical homes.”

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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. Power 2021 U.S. Together, the two reports from J.D. Power has conducted the U.S.

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Patient Satisfaction Follow-Up Patient Experience Communication 87

Health Populi

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Without a health plan, an uninsured person in America is far more likely to file for bankruptcy due to medical costs, and lack access to needed health care (and especially primary care). But even with health insurance coverage, most health-insured people are concerned about medical costs in America, found in a MITRE-Harris Poll on U.S.

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Insurance Billing Medication Communication 77

Health Populi

JANUARY 4, 2022

Among the top 10 AI-informed tasks to which people would be open are shopping and purchase recommendations, fitness or nutritional advice, and cooking meals — all life-flows that can feed into a healthy lifestyle or medically-tailored support at home. On average, consumers globally subscribe to eight online services.

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Medication Communication Patient Experience 174

MedicalGPS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

If your organization has an ongoing patient experience survey in place, such as M3-Patient Experience ®, many of the seven steps have already been accomplished for your practice. 1 – Collect Patient Experience Survey Data There are many ways (modes) to collect patient experience survey data.

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Customer Service Patient Experience Patient Satisfaction Appointments 52

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. Emergency room experience stayed at an index of a (low) 66.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

And with patients’ collective exposure to and experience with virtual care in 2020, demand for these services is persisting in and beyond 2021. .” The coronavirus and #StayHome mandates were the wild card that changed every normal forecast for telehealth utilization in 2020.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

In October 2021, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced that Robert Ford, CEO and President of Abbott, would give a keynote speech at CES 2022, the world’s largest annual convention of the technology industry.

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Collaboration Medication Patient Experience 162

ACMA Blog

MAY 21, 2024

Through enhanced coding and charge capture, these algorithms analyze clinical documentation to propose precise medical codes, minimizing the risk of undercoding or overcoding while ensuring comprehensive coverage of billable services. Why we should not mistake accuracy of medical AI for efficiency. Published online April 28, 2021.

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Billing Documentation Patient Satisfaction Patient Experience 40

Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Suzette Porter, MBA, BSN, RN, is an elder care nurse manager and adjunct faculty member who has been with Hackensack University Medical Center (HUMC) for over 25 years. Through Porter’s leadership as a nurse manager, her unit was awarded the Team Daisy Award in 2021 for teamwork. I started in 2019 and graduated in 2021 with my MBA.

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Huddles/Rounds De-Escalation Teamwork Communication 115

Health Populi

AUGUST 6, 2024

The bar and line chart here shows the trajectory of 3 GLP-1s from January 2021 to the end of 2023: Ozempic, by far the most-prescribed of the three medicines represented over 70% of the fills in the period; Wegovy and Rybelsus were adopted at a much lower rate by late 2023. “Employers indicated that 8.9%

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Insurance Collaboration Medication Patient Experience 71

Relias

MARCH 4, 2024

Increased demand for health care With the constant improvement and innovation in medicine, average life expectancy for individuals has also increased, creating a greater need for nurses to care for older patient populations and their more complex medical needs. In some states, four patients per nurse is the maximum for emergency care.

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Patient Safety Unit Organization and Environment Critical Thinking Patient Satisfaction 52

Health Populi

JULY 25, 2022

for a couple of months, having lived in and worked from Brussels, Belgium, since October 2021 (save for about ten days in March 2022). I’ve returned to the U.S. Work and life slow down in Europe in July and August, giving us the opportunity to return to our U.S. The timing of my return to the U.S. healthcare system.

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Insurance Care Plan Medication Patient Experience 127

Health Populi

JANUARY 26, 2023

More white patients prioritized the doctor’s ability to listen to my questions and thoughts and clinical experience. Health Populi’s Hot Points : Emotional support is just as important as medical support, Accenture observed in the Health and Life Science Experiences study conducted in 2021.

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Scheduling Medication Patient Experience 62

Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2021

In movies in particular, we’ve seen health care costs and hassles play featured in plotlines in As Good as it Gets [theme: health insurance coverage], M*A*S*H [war and its medical impacts are hell], and Philadelphia [HIV/AIDS in the era of The Band Played On], among dozens of others. Here’s the ad you can watch for yourself.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Among the key findings, Software Advice learned that, 9 in 10 patients (again, health-engaged wearable tech-adopters) were interested in sharing data from their devices with their physicians. This proportion of folks interested in sharing their wearable health data grew from 56% in 2021 to 91% in 2023.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The first chart quantifies that bad debt attributable to patients’ self-pay payments after insurance kicks in: that category of bad debt grew by five times between 2018 and 2021, from 11% to nearly 58%. Robert Pearl’s latest post in Forbes magazine titled, Saving US Healthcare From a Disaster Worse Than Covid-19.

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Hospital Insurance Billing Huddles/Rounds 71

Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2022

in 2021 along with Walgreens, worked with Morning Consult to poll 2,210 U.S. Major job stressors included increased demands, harassment and bully by patients and consumers, constant interruptions and calls to insurance companies, and adding services to their work-flows without adequate support to deliver them.

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Patient Satisfaction Insurance Medication Patient Experience 71

Health Populi

AUGUST 18, 2020

Consumers, especially people managing multiple conditions, want digital tools that enable self-care; at the same time, transparency and control about how one’s data is used are also table stakes for addressing The “I” in Experience.

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Collaboration Communication Patient Experience Medication 162

Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

physicians were using telehealth to care for patients at the end of 2021. Among those doctors who were not providing telehealth by late 2021, just over one half never did so during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the 2021 Telehealth Survey Report from the AMA. Four in five U.S. Mental and behavioral health.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 3, 2022

And about one-in-three Americans has made a 2022 New Year’s resolution involving some aspect of mental health, the American Psychiatric Association noted approaching the 2021 winter holiday season. 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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Follow-Up Medication Patient Experience 122

Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2022

.” The official description of the program is, “The launch of voice-activated general medical virtual care on supported Echo devices, such as an Echo, Echo Dot, and Echo Show. will now be able to connect with a Teladoc care provider 24/7 from supported Echo devices for general medical needs. Customers in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2022

Consider: fighting health insurance appeals, crafting countless medical necessity letters, justifying being discharged against medical orders, and other battles fought hand-in-hand with her husband on behalf of Emmett and his well-being. Parexel discovered Stacy who was delivering a keynote speech at DPHARM 2021.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

This year, medical cost trend will rise by 7.0%, expected to decline a bit in 2022 according to the annual study from PwC Health Research Institute , Medical Cost Trend: Behind the Numbers 2022. In 2021, 4 in 5 providers and nurses see EHRs as important, and increasingly demand digital interactions with patients.

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Insurance Medication Hospital Patient Experience 116

Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2023

In health care, one of the “gifts” inspired by the coronavirus pandemic was the industry’s fast-pivot and adoption of digital health tools — especially telehealth and more generally the so-called “digital front doors” enabling patients to access medical services and personal work-flows for their care.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Among people who had used virtual care in the past year, telehealth-as-healthcare is now part of mainstream Americans’ expectations as a normal part of their medical care. would use virtual care to receive medical services in the future, J.D. consumers has accessed video telehealth services in the 12 months from June-July 2021.

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Follow-Up Patient Satisfaction Insurance Tests 87

Health Populi

JULY 29, 2021

Power found in the company’s latest 2021 U.S. This is the 13th year of the study, which surveyed responses from 12,646 consumers who had filled a prescription in the 3 months prior to September 2020 through May 2021. Pharmacy Study. Each year, J.D. This year, J.D. Power appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Acute Care Medication Patient Experience 109

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Furthermore, health plan members now see themselves as medical bill payers, seeking value and consumer-level services for their health insurance premium investment. Its meaning was, “insurance against loss through illness of the insured,” especially, “insurance providing compensation for medical expenses.” among providers and payors.

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Collaboration Insurance Medication Billing 90

Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Abbott and others in their core business space of pharma, specialty medicines, and medical devices are now part of the expanding digital therapeutics world that marries software to medical goods – whether a pill or device – to bolster health outcomes, adherence, and quality.

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Collaboration Medication Patient Experience 147

Health Populi

JANUARY 26, 2023

Grocery stores have been morphing into health/care destinations for the past decade, in the best cases bolstering nutrition, supporting medication adherence and patient outcomes, and helping us curate healthy grocery carts with nutritionists as part of the store pharmacy team.

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Collaboration Medication Patient Experience 62

Health Populi

JULY 28, 2020

As a postscript, we learned yesterday that CES 2021 will be an all-virtual conference — a sound, science-based decision for this event which is, increasingly, baked with health. I look forward to CTA developing a very engaging, informative meeting which will be a high-energy start to 2021. .

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Collaboration Medication Insurance Patient Experience 116

Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

Only weight and medication tracking had a majority of people using analog formats to track. Rock Health and Stanford Center also looked into patients’ delaying medical care during the pandemic — a topic I frequently address on Health Populi most recently, here. Why do people use wearable tech for health?

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Follow-Up Insurance Hospital Medication 174

Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2021

The pace of market signals happening in medical and wellness over the past month bolsters the trend that many consumers are shifting their focus of a preferred site of health care from brick-and-mortar health care providers and systems to places closer to home or at-home — via retail-, community- and home-based services.

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Tests Collaboration Hospital Patient Experience 174

Relias

JANUARY 11, 2023

But momentum will continue, since the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced in 2021 that it plans to transition fully to value-based reimbursement by 2030. More healthcare organizations are now tying physician compensation to quality performance metrics, up from 26% in 2016 to 42% in 2021.

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Patient Satisfaction Tests Billing Medical Coding 52

Health Populi

AUGUST 2, 2022

The paper’s central thesis is that improving patient support is a critical step in the biopharma value chain, illustrated in the first diagram from the report. To build collaborative relationships with regulators, balancing risk and ensuring patient safety.

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