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Thinking Value-Based Health Care at HLTH 2022 – A Call-to-Action

Health Populi

health care system continues to be so much about prices — as Uwe Reinhardt and colleagues advised us in the seminal Health Affairs article from 2003, “It’s the Prices, Stupid.” Think sustainability for health and health care. Value is what you get.” ” The U.S.

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Waking Up a Health Consumer in the COVID-19 Era

Health Populi

The high-deductible health plan design in fact prevents many people from seeking preventive care or testing: uninsured patients could pay at least $500 for a test, and a 10-day hospital stay can tally $75,000 according to Gerard Anderson , professor of public health at Johns Hopkins.

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In U.S. Health Care, It’s Still the Prices, Stupid – But Transparency and Consumer Behavior Aren’t Working As Planned

Health Populi

I’m glad to be getting back to health economic issues after spending the last couple of weeks firmly focused on consumers, digital health technologies and CES 2019. There’s a lot for me to address concerning health care costs based on news and research published over the past couple of weeks.

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mHealth in Times of Crisis: the Coronavirus

mHealth Insight

Fiona graduated in 1998 from University College Dublin (Ireland) and qualified as a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners in 2003. Kate led IntraHealth’s work on new private sector business, and other responsibilities included digital health, global health security, facility data, and health economics.

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Patients, Health Consumers, People, Citizens: Who Are We In America?

Health Populi

Now consider what happens when consumers (the noun chosen by the authors of the second paper I’m adding to the mix) access data, information and tools for self-management in health care. agency responsible for monitoring claims and the use of personal data out-of-health-context.

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Voting for Health in 2020

Health Populi

He was the first person to speak to me about “health citizenship.”. My friend and colleague Denise Silber, with whom I’ve been on the digital health journey from the beginning, lives in France and works globally. voting in 2020 has everything to do with our health baked into every aspect of our lives. In the U.S.,

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