Walker Info - Patient Experience

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Patient experience is more than feeling good about feeling good. Simply providing excellent medical treatment is not enough. In fact, more than 70% of patients would switch healthcare providers to improve their experience. Patient safety and health is priority number one. The two assess different things.

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Walker Info - Patient Experience

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

trillion—this is how much the United States spends on healthcare each year according to the American Medical Association. Siemens Healthineers reports that active patient choices impact more than 60% of healthcare spending. Organizations wanting to earn their business must win on the patient experience (PX).

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Most doctors see the advantages of digital health tools like telehealth, consumers’ access to their health information, and point-of-care workflow solutions, the American Medical Association found in a survey of 1300 physicians, published in September 2022. Note that #2 and #3 were new questions added to the 2022 study wave].

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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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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The cost of health insurance for a worker who buys into a health plan at work in 2022 reached $22,463 for their family. The average monthly mortgage payment was $1,759 in mid-2022. The post Thinking Value-Based Health Care at HLTH 2022 – A Call-to-Action appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. Think value-based care.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The latest read from ONC, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, tells a story about patients’ growing use of online portals, medical records, and smartphone apps to access personal health information. ” But ONC data belies that: as it happens, patients can handle the truth, as we learn that 9 in 10 U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

In early 2022, over half of those over 50 (the AARP core membership base) told the Association they would likely use telehealth in the future. adults 50 and over in February and March 2022, to gauge older peoples’ views on virtual care now and in the future. Two years after the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, one-half of U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

This report provides insightful context for the upcoming annual ATA Conference for 2022 , being held in-person in Boston kicking off May 1st. As such, most physicians and clinical organizations are interested in continuing to offer and expand telehealth to their patients. Creating An Opportunity in a Time of Uncertainty.”

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Health Populi

MAY 30, 2022

Add on top of these significant stressors the need to deal with medical bills, which is another source of stress for millions of patients in America. told the Gallup Poll in April 2022 that their financial situation has eroded in the past year, up to 1 in 2 people which is a statistic we haven’t seen since the Great Recession of 2008.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 2, 2022

adults chose to defer health care in 2022, split by. ” The Healthcare Cost of Living also directly impacts patients-as-prescription drug payers. adults chose not to fill a prescription drug due to the cost in the 12 months prior to the study (conducted August-September 2022). Rising costs are the #1 reason U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 7, 2023

In the 2023 Patient Consumer Survey report, the topline lesson is that “cost and location drive patient decisions, while service and comfort drive experience.” Importantly, based on their experience, 7 in 10 patients who had a telehealth visit in the past year would prefer telehealth in the future.

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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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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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Minority Nurse

JUNE 26, 2024

Temitope (Temi) Oseromi, MSN, RN, CCRN-K, has been serving as the nurse manager of Greater Baltimore Medical Center (GBMC) HealthCare’s Intensive Care Units—the Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) and the Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) since 2022. I knew I wanted to be in the medical field.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2023

The top-line is that 60% of Americans would be uncomfortable with [their health] provider relying on AI in their own care, found in a consumer poll fielded in December 2022 among over11,000 U.S. Pew Research Center has published several analyses based on the data collected in the December 2022 consumer survey. For better and worse.”

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Health Populi

AUGUST 3, 2023

While moving health care to the home will involve quite different workflows and disruptions to current general medical practice, it is clear that physicians in the U.S. I like to plant this thought from the report into our collective thinking — wisdom shared by Dr. Anthony Wylie who is Senior Medical Director with Geisinger at Home.

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Health Populi

JUNE 11, 2024

between 2023 and 2024, according to the 2024 Milliman Medical Index. Milliman also calculated that the largest driver of cost increase in health care, accounting for nearly one-half of medical cost increases, was pharmacy, the cost of prescription drugs, which grew 13% in the year.

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2022

We met up last week at the DIA Europe 2022 meeting (Drug Information Association) in the cool SQUARE Conference Center in Brussels, Belgium (my current home base for work and life). He had me at the statement, “I believe health data is medicine.”.

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Health Populi

MAY 5, 2022

When it comes to peoples’ relationship to consumer packaged goods (CPG), the public health crisis has indeed impacted consumers’ purchasing behaviors and definition of “value,” based on IRI’s latest analysis of CPG shifts in 2022 and 2023.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 13, 2022

There were a few visible shifts over the past two years of COVID-19 life that are worth calling out before diving further into the medical profession nuances… First, while teachers are still lauded as a top ethical profession with health care workers, teachers’ ranking fell a bit in this round of polling to a relative low.

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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.

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Health Populi

MAY 18, 2023

consumer credit rating companies — Equifax, Experian and TransUnion — planned to remove medical bill collections that were under $500 from consumers’ credit reports. From the start, CFPB has been monitoring medical debt along with other forms of household debt — student loans, mortgages, credit cards, and so on.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Power’s 2022 Telehealth Satisfaction Study. 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.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Let’s start with the pocketbook of the patient — now a key payer in health systems’ revenue cycle management processes on the health system side, and continuing challenge for medical debt for U.S. PwC’s 2024 U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

have not returned to pre-pandemic levels by the end of 2022. One contributor to lackluster return-to-healthcare volumes is patients’ forgoing care due to cost — which Trilliant Health points out has overtaken COVID-19 concerns as the key driver for avoiding medical care services. That’s the demand side.

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2024

On June 11, Rohit Chopra, the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced the agency’s vision to ban Americans’ medical debt from credit reports. He called out that, “In recent years, however, medical bills became the most common collection item on credit reports.

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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.

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Health Populi

APRIL 4, 2022

Inflation and rising prices are the biggest problem facing America, most people told the Kaiser Family Foundation March 2022 Health Tracking Poll. About 3 in 5 people worry about unexpected medical bills, followed by one-half concerned about their home’s utility bills and grocery store spending. Overall, 55% of people in the U.S.

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Arkenea

JULY 12, 2024

If a primary healthcare provider wants to refer his patient to a specialist for additional medical services then he puts in a recommendation for it. A patient needs a referral before getting medical care from any other physician. This whole recommendation process falls into the patient referral process.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

As Dr. John Whyte, WebMD’s Chief Medical Officer, calls out, “Doctors who don’t use AI are going to be replaced by doctors who do” as well as to figure out how to best use the tools and, as Dr. Whyte rightly notes, “to ensure empathy rises to the top.” I discussed the economic burden of health inequities in the U.S. health citizens.

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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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Health Populi

JUNE 26, 2023

are now delaying care is due to cost , not concerns about exposure to COVID-19 which created the phenomenon of “medical distancing” between 2020 and 2022, resulting in some patients avoiding preventive screenings and necessary care in face-to-face medical settings. “If The top reason people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 29, 2022

Just about one year ago, DG appointed the company’s first Chief Medical Officer, which I covered here in Health Popul i in a post titled, “Dollar General, the Latest Retail Health Destination?” So even older work-age patients are seeking the convenient communication channel of text in 2022. Power 2022 U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Which sectors enhanced consumers’ favorable views between 2021 and 2022? In the Gallup poll, the most favorable industries in 2022 are restaurants (with 60% of Americans holding positive views) and farming/agriculture (at 57% favorability). These would be retail (growing by 5 points) and healthcare, up by 4 points in the year.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

In the YouGov survey, most patients said they would be willing to pay more for quality of care, and nearly one-half would pay more for choosing the medical team for their care. Dr. Pearl’s perfect storm of 3 mega forces include, Healthcare inflation, expecting medical costs to grow by double-digits in 2023.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Among patients unfamiliar with AI, 42% are uncomfortable, and another 50% feel neither comfortable nor uncomfortable with the technology. However, among patients familiar with AI, 60% feel comfortable with visiting a medical practice that uses AI. In consumer interviews conducted in December 2022, Pew found that 60% of U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

compared to 16% in 2022. Within the report, there are mentions of health and medical care, with prominent graphics and column inches on Amazon featuring One Medical, and GE HealthCare’s Global CMO Linda Boff in conversation with Interbrand discussing the reinvention of three GE brands, one of which was focused on health care.

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