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“Complexity is Profitable” in U.S. Healthcare – How to Save a Quarter-Trillion Dollars

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health care employment since 2001, today accounting for twice as many staff as physicians and nurses. Health Populi’s Hot Points : Consider just the line item of “customer and patient services,” and one of all of our least-favorite patient experiences: the dreaded call center.

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Medicare Members Are Health Consumers, Too – Our AHIP Talk About Aging, Digital Immigrants, and Personalizing Health/Care

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Digital immigrants, first coined by Marc Prensky in 2001. In my introduction to the survey, I wrote about “digital immigrants,” the other end of the continuum from “digital natives” — young people who were born over the past fifteen years into the digital era of personal computers, mobile phones and mobile-first.

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As Medical Cost Trend Remains Flat, Patients Face Growing Health Consumer Financial Stress

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” That was written in the 2001-2010 period of healthcare spending, so an old story giving me feelings of déjà vu. In 2007, the year I launched Health Populi , the inaugural post focused on just this issue; the post was titled, “Health care is the #1 line item in our national economy…and taking more out of your pocket.”

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Benefit Cost Increases Overwhelm Flat Wages for Most in US: Pew

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since 2001, compared with a 5.3% That is, if those patients-as-health-consumers can vote with their feet and pocketbook. As the patient is increasingly the payor, the financial experience is embedded into the patient experience, too. wage and salary cost increase.

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Slip Slidin’ Away: the Reputations of Pharma and Healthcare in the U.S. Decline in the Latest Gallup Poll

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This stat for the pharma industry was the lowest Gallup ever recorded for the sector since 2001. consumers’ positive views for healthcare, pharma and retail have significantly fallen in just one year, the latest annual Gallup poll of industry rankings in America found as of August 2023.