Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

health care’s negative-sum game, stakeholders who survive and win that game will have to deliver value-for-money, we learn from Trilliant Health’s 2023 Trends Shaping the Health Economy Report. adults saying inflation has made it harder to pay medical bills.

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2023

“Brick-and-mortar pharmacies forge meaningful connections with customers” through conversations between pharmacists and patients, “on a first-name basis.” Power who released the company’s annual 2023 U.S. Power’s 2023 Rankings appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. Each year, J.D.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 9, 2023

With the HLTH 2023 Conference meeting up in Vegas these past couple of days, this “what if” scenario can be constructed with announcements coming out of the meeting, coupled with recent developments in the larger health/care ecosystem. .” Building Blocks for the Scenario appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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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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Mobius MD

MARCH 20, 2024

In addition, entering data during visits makes it harder for physicians to communicate empathetically with patients. Could AI medical scribes alleviate the burden of clinical documentation? You’ve probably heard about AI medical scribes by this point. The post Do AI medical scribes work?

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Health Populi

MARCH 18, 2024

health care delivery landscape, patients-as-health care consumers are becoming more savvy and discriminating based on their “maturity” and exposure to various flavors of telehealth. We first note overall that fewer patients, year on year 2021-2023, seem willing to share data with ANY entity.

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CollaborateMD

MAY 15, 2023

Experts discussed the possibility of improving data exchange by standardizing health data formats, promoting data-sharing among providers and patients, and increasing patient access to their health information. The post HIMSS Global Conference 2023: Top Trends and Takeaways appeared first on CollaborateMD.

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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

APRIL 19, 2023

People have expanded their definitions of health in 2023, with mental health supplanting physical health for the top-ranked factor in feeling healthy. In 2023, it’s much harder to take care of my health, consumers say. In the U.S., that delta is 11 points worse, the second chart graphs, with the U.S.

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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. BambooHR Employee Satisfaction Shows 2023 Holiday Blues.

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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. By December 2023, there were nearly 2.6

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

feel their well-being or healing was negatively impacted by difficulty paying for their medical care. Welcome to the convergence of patients’ health care life with financial and retail lives, we learn from the 2024 Healthcare Financial Experience Study from Cedar. One in two consumers in the U.S. Cedar polled 1,239 U.S.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 18, 2023

health system in the latest Gallup poll — earning a grade of “excellent” or “good” by American adults surveyed in November 2023. ” For pharma/drug companies and health insurers, 3 in 10 consumers also ranked these medical segments as “poor” providers in the U.S. health system.

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Health Populi

JULY 10, 2023

Now in Aisle E(commerce) – get your one-year membership to One Medical for $149. Today and tomorrow are Amazon Prime Days, 2023 style, when you can fetch bargains on lots of electronics (esp. Today and tomorrow are Amazon Prime Days, 2023 style, when you can fetch bargains on lots of electronics (esp.

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Health Populi

MAY 18, 2023

On April 11, 2023, three of the largest U.S. consumer credit rating companies — Equifax, Experian and TransUnion — planned to remove medical bill collections that were under $500 from consumers’ credit reports. ” The Commonwealth Fund data in the bar chart tells us that many patients in the U.S.

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Health Prime

JUNE 20, 2024

According to the 2023 ACHE’s Top Issues Confronting Hospitals survey , workforce challenges emerged as the foremost concern for hospital CEOs, ranking number one on their list of priorities. Read more about strategies to overcome this challenge in our blog How to address staff shortage in your medical practice.

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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

JANUARY 6, 2023

” asks the lead article featured in the January 2023 issue of the AARP Bulletin. AARP is in fact a very visible stakeholder in the 2023 CES, collaborating on the AgeTech content track at the tech conference. In 2023, OMRON celebrates 50 years of working on consumer-facing technologies for heart health. In the U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2024

This report compiled quantitative data from payments processed on the InstaMed network amounting to some $656 billion in healthcare payments in addition to results from three qualitative surveys that Qualtrics conducted polling consumers, providers and payors in 2023. ” In the best of all possible medical payments worlds, U.S.

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Amber Pharmacy

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

14, 2023) – In honor of Amber Specialty Pharmacy’s 25th anniversary, the specialty pharmacy provider has launched Vitality, a new six-month transplant recovery program to help support patients and caregivers during the post-transplant period, which is considered the most critical time for those patients.

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19 Labs

AUGUST 29, 2023

This challenge is being solved in seven rural, medically underserved counties thanks to the collaboration between 19Labs and Missouri Highlands Health Care (MHHC). This access to care means that patients no longer have to wait days or weeks to see a provider, significantly reducing the wait times and ensuring timely medical attention.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

health care” citing the example of weight loss medications — in short, the uptake of GLP-1 drugs to address Type 2 diabetes first, and subsequently obesity. “If the U.S. were sensible, weight management would be treated as a public health issue,” David Cutler writes in the JAMA Health Forum dated August 15, 2024.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Keep that relationship in mind in the context of a new forecast from Kaiser Family Foundation estimate the 2023 cost for employer-sponsored insurance for a family to reach nearly $24,000 in 2023. ’| the CFO of Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center, Vincent Tammaro, was quoted in the Cedar report.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Unique to this study is the patient sample polled: Software Advice surveyed 876 patients in September 2023 to gauge their perspectives on wearable tech and health. 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

APRIL 8, 2024

While so-called recreational GLP-1 consumers may experience these benefits, this population would be less likely to be covered by medical insurance under current obesity criteria which are in use to ration access to the medicines in Germany and the United Kingdom.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 7, 2022

CHPA represents the vast majority of manufacturers and marketers of over-the-counter medicines, dietary supplements, and consumer-facing medical devices, Anita explained. Going through the eight questions helps the consumer understand risk factors and personal issues that are important in figuring out the right medication to use.

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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.” Retail health-meets-Medicare.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2024

The study was fielded between December 2023 and February 2024. Over one-third are prioritizing reuse of medical equipment and supplies. Next, consider how to bridge the insights gap, given the vast amounts of data flowing from many care sites within and outside but allied to the health care organization.

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Health Prime

MAY 2, 2024

According to The State of Mental Health in America 2023 , 28% of all adults with a mental illness reported that they were not able to receive the treatment they needed. there is only one mental health provider for every 350 individuals , reducing the possibility of patients getting the care they need. At Health Prime, we can help!

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2024

consumers said the don’t trust the information enough to use GenAI for health or wellness purposes compared with 23% who didn’t trust the data in 2023 — those 7 percentage points representing a 30% “skepticism” growth. We see that in 2024, 30% of U.S. About 1 in 4 people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 20, 2024

First, those GLP-1s: at the time of the study’s fielding in March 2024, one in 10 Americans were found to have used a prescription medication to lose weight in the past year. published this month on spending by program for FY 2023. Now consider finance and food: two-thirds of U.S. Now consider finance and food: two-thirds of U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 26, 2023

The 2023 Kaiser Family Foundation Survey of Consumer Experiences with Health Insurance updates our understanding of and empathy for insured peoples’ Patient Administrative Burdens (PAB). adults 18 and over in February and March 2023 who had health insurance across different plan types.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 4, 2023

adults in late September 2023 to gauge peoples’ perspectives on AI and health care. In research published in August 2023, the Pew Research Center observed, in their words, “growing public concern about the role of artificial intelligence in daily life.” Medtronic collaborated with Morning Consult to poll 2,213 U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

As the university paper the Daily Orange reported in March 2024, “In an effort to increase access and affordability of birth control at SUNY Upstate Medical University, third-year medical students Serena Schmitt and Olivia Preston have worked to open an on-campus access point for birth control: an emergency contraceptive vending machine.

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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. Published April 3, 2023. Why we should not mistake accuracy of medical AI for efficiency.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2024

Not known for its salubrious qualities, Las Vegas will nonetheless be a locus for health, medical care, and well-being inspiration next week when the Consumer Technology Association convenes the annual CES featuring innovations in consumer technology. One such company I’ll check in on, which I encountered at CES 2023, is Nuvilab.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The aspirational document sets out the mission that “every individual deserves the right to obtain health care that is comprehensive, equitable and compassionate.”

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