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Safety in Health Care Ties Closely to Workforce Well-Being – Updates from Press Ganey and ECRI

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While safety outcomes and health care organizations’ “safety cultures” are improving, there is evidence in the U.S. that people — both patients and the health care workforce — feel less safe, discussed in Safety in Healthcare 2024 from Press Ganey. “Safety is the foundation of healthcare.

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Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

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This drove health consumers to virtual care platforms in the first months of the public health crisis — including lots of older people who had never used telemedicine or even a mobile health app. The survey was conducted online in June 2020 among 2,074 U.S. adults ages 50 to 80 years of age.

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Shelly Palmer De-Hypes CES 2019 & Has Lessons for Health/Care

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These skills are already helping make health care better for providers in medical practice and consumers and caregivers at home for aging support, medication adherence, and mental health. The rest of the CES story for 2019 is positive, Shelly optimistically continued.

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Listening to Osler Listening to the Patient – Liberating Health Care at Medecision Liberation 2019

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Osler had been a strong advocate for the physician-patient conversation to inform the doctor’s diagnostic acumen and improve patient outcomes. The post Listening to Osler Listening to the Patient – Liberating Health Care at Medecision Liberation 2019 appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

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The proportion of people tracking at least one health metric digitally was 38% in 2018 and grew to over one-half, 54%, in 2020. This and other studies have tracked consumers’ growing use of digital tech and wearables during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the 10% point growth from 2019 to 2020 is notable.

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The Expectation Gap Between What Patients Want Vs What They Get

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Health Populi’s Hot Points : Nine in ten patients said they’d look for different health care providers if they were dissatisfied with their patient experience, West’s research found. They message the Go-Know-Control mantra bundling a mental health call-to-action as well.

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Telehealth Platforms: Building Blocks for Omnichannel, Networked Healthcare

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Statistically, this was an inverse-shift: In the previous year, the second quarter of 2019, 15% of telehealth encounters happened through a local physician’s practice, versus 46% in Q2 2020; and, In the second quarter of 2020, 41% of telehealth occurred through a telehealth company with a nationwide network of doctors, versus 13% in Q2 2020.