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The Patient as Consumer and Payer – A Focus on Financial Stress and Wellbeing

Health Populi

These self-care tasks extended in our health care across all dimensions of “health” including mental health, nutrition and gut wellness, sleep, and certainly financial health. And that is part of the patient-as-payer’s workflow. As a result, more people in the U.S.

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

Health Populi

” I ask in an essay published today on Crossover Health’s website titled Value-Based Care: Driving a Social Contract of Trust and Health. Warren Buffett wrote Berkshire Hathaway shareholders in 2008, asserting that, “Price is what you pay. The answer: embrace value-based care. Value is what you get.”

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Health @ Retail – Prelude to GMDC SelfCare Summit with Updates from Hims & Hers, GoodRx, Sam’s Club and Amazon Care

Health Populi

I’ve addressed the company’s growing health/care ethos here in Health Populi in these posts written this year — Walmart’s Growing Footprint in Health/Care, from Guns to Mental Health and Gardens. FANGs & MAGA – Meet WaWa for Health, Walgreens and Walmart.

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

Health Populi

trillion from the third quarter of 2008 — as the Great Recession hit the U.S. The NY Fed found that household debt increased to $13.21 trillion in the first quarter of 2018, the 15th consecutive quarter with an increase that ranks the level higher than the previous peak of $12.68

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When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

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health citizens face physical, financial, and mental health challenges of a syndemic, inflation, and stress – all of which will shape peoples’ demand side for health care and digital technology, and a supply side of providers challenged by tech-enabled organizations with design and data chops. Which virus is it?”

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The Tech Giants are Coming for Healthcare

Lloyd Price

In the first strategic partnership for Healthcare NExT, Microsoft worked with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center to develop digital services intended to reduce drudgery for physicians and improve patientsexperiences. Participants will also be asked to use sleep sensors in their beds and to undergo mental health tests.

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Everybody is Stressed in America, and It’s Not Good for Our Health: the 2023 Update from the American Psychological Association

Health Populi

The APA has been quantifying Stress in America since 2007; for context, at the end of that year The Great Recession kicked in , and in response President Obama’s team put together assistance to bolster the national economy, jobs, and health technology (codified in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act).