Health Populi

MAY 21, 2020

Among those covered with insurance, one-half had employer-sponsored insurance, 1 in 4 Medicare, and 13%, individual cover. One in 5 of people with health insurance were concerned about losing their health plan in the next six months as the coronavirus heats up, recedes, and may re-emerge in the fourth quarter of 2020 into 2021.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

With an innovative care model and technology platform designed to deliver consistently superior outcomes and patient experiences, Oak Street Health has demonstrated that its model is scalable. in 2025, with upside in 2025 based on the successful resolution of its Medicare Stars Ratings mitigation efforts.

Primary Care 70

Primary Care Medicare Patient Experience Nursing 70

Lloyd Price

AUGUST 23, 2023

This ensures that patients receive the care they need, when they need it. VBC is still a relatively new approach to healthcare, but it has the potential to improve the quality of care, reduce healthcare costs, and improve the patient experience.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 21, 2022

WELL Health's platform facilitates conversations, including pre-procedure instructions, virtual care coordination and post-appointment follow-ups, between patients and their providers via secure SMS/texting, email or phone messaging. According to the vendor, 19 different languages are available for use. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2023

Inflation will push Payers back into the Public Marketplace whether Statewide and Federal Health Exchanges, Medicaid and Medicare Before the pandemic, many payers left statewide health exchanges as they found more ways to become profitable outside of the public market. The past two years have seen the enrollment numbers surge to 14.5

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2023

A just-breaking report from the CDC explores the demographics of patients between 18 and 64 years of age (that is, not children and not folks of Medicare-age) who avoid prescription drugs due to cost, in Characteristics of Adults Age 18-64 Who Did Not Take Medication as Prescribed to Reduce Costs: United States, 2021.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 26, 2022

NEJM Catalyst defines value-based care (VBC) as “A healthcare delivery model in which providers are paid based on patient health outcomes – providers are rewarded for helping patients improve their health, reduce the effects and incidence of chronic disease, and live healthier lives in an evidence-based way.”. Denied Claims Double.

Primary Care 78

Primary Care Medicare Healthcare IT Patient Experience 78

Health Populi

DECEMBER 9, 2021

adults with health insurance, 18 years of age and older, and was fielded between 24 and 28 June 2021. Both employees accessing employer-sponsored health care via the private sector and commercial insurance, as well as health citizens covered by public sector plans Medicare and Medicaid had concerns about medical bills.

Medical Billing 182

Medical Billing Primary Care Medicare Patient Experience 182

Xealth

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

When I started at Xealth in October 2021, SDOH was an acronym I wasn’t familiar with … I remember Googling it and having an “a-ha” moment. Now, social determinants of health (SDOH) are front and center as I think about how a digital front door strategy impacts all stages of the patient journey.

Patient Experience 52

Patient Experience Health Data EHR Medicare 52

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2022

It is Brooklyn's tertiary care hub serving diverse communities with large Medicaid, Medicare and uninsured populations. "Our long-term goal is to advance and evolve digital capabilities that ensure optimum patient experience and benefit from innovations that allow for seamless care access and delivery. THE PROBLEM.

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Digital Health Telemedicine Leadership Patient Experience 139

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 26, 2022

That was posted in November of 2021, with surveying ending in 2020 (just before Covid-19) and was made available within the last month. Telehealth vs. in-person: the Covid-19 public health emergency declaration to reimburse doctors for providing telehealth services for Medicare recipients has been repeatedly renewed.

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Telehealth Nursing Medicare Patient Experience 75

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 18, 2023

Value-based care makes care more affordable for patients while rewarding clinicians for improved care, and the industry recognizes the value. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has expanded Medicare Advantage through 2023 to make the shift, and digital health tools are crucial for support. spent nearly $4.3

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Medicare Digital Health Pharmaceuticals 52

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2023

This requirement, aimed at streamlining data availability for payers and patients, increased the quantity of available data to the detriment of clinical data quality , creating a lag in the utility of this data for advanced applications. Medicare saved $1.6

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

CES 2021 featured some obvious quick-pivoting products that had the pandemic written all over them, with sessions invariably speaking to the way the public health crisis impacted companies and strategic plans. Joining Peloton in connected fitness at CES 2021 was NordicTrack, which recently announced its purchase of Precor.

Digital Health 182

Digital Health Public Health Life Science Patient Experience 182

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

Healthcare staffing shortages will continue to negatively impact patient experience in 2023. With healthcare professionals working longer hours and dealing with increased workloads, patient experience has fallen to the wayside. Almost 75% say that this impacts patient care moderately to severely.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

Health Populi’s Hot Points: The COVID-19 pandemic will persist well into 2021 based on current projections, and the health care system will continue to adapt to both clinical workflows and the public health guidance for physical distancing and hygiene.

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Telehealth Primary Care Mental health Telemedicine 427

Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

Look, too, to the upcoming annual 2021 ATA Conference and Expo that will bring current and futures thinking to attendees every week in June. That’s public sector covered, but in your scenarios-future planning modeling, don’t leave out the commercial payors which cover another roughly half of U.S. health citizens.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2022

billion raised in the first half of 2021 across 372 deals. “To He was Special Assistant to the National Coordinator in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and was part of the founding team at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI). billion—down from $14.7

Digital Health 52

Digital Health Leadership Pharmaceuticals Primary Care 52

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

A 2021 report by the Department of Health and Human Services estimates that the number of medical visits via telehealth grew from 840,000 in 2019 to 52.7 Healthcare providers maintain different systems than payers, as do government entities like Medicare and Medicaid. Personalized healthcare can take many different forms.

Primary Care 65

Primary Care Telehealth Interoperability Healthcare Innovation 65

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

At the start of CES 2021, I had the opportunity to catch up with Karsten Russell-Wood, Portfolio Marketing Leader, Post Acute & Home, Connected Care at Philips. We brainstormed just as CES 2021 was going to “open,” virtually, for the consumer electronics conference’s first all-virtual meeting.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

A report from the American Association of Medical Colleges in 2021 showed only about 1.5% Another study published in 2021 analyzed the geographic distribution of neurologists actively billing in Medicare and compared this to the geographic distribution of Medicare beneficiaries with neurologic disease. are neurologists.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 19, 2022

nearly one in five children experience a mental health disorder. In October 2021, leading pediatric healthcare associations declared a national emergency in child and adolescent mental health. Today in the U.S., What’s just as alarming is that for every five children with a mental health disorder, only one will receive treatment.

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Mental health Telehealth Telemedicine Medicare 87

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The year-on-year decline from 2021 find oil and gas at the lowest level of positivity, advertising/PR, legal, the Federal government, and pharma at the bottom of the ratings. Which sectors enhanced consumers’ favorable views between 2021 and 2022?

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2023

Research shows that 38% of consumers want more personalized and inclusive healthcare options, and organizations are beginning to invest in technology and infrastructure that will enhance the patient experience and empower them to make educated care decisions. Health consumers demand better care experiences.

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Health IT Patient Experience Mental health Private practice 83

Health Populi

JULY 7, 2021

Nearly one-half of the 3,600 new stores that will open in 2021 will be dollar stores, according to Coresight Research. At the same time, nearly 3,400 retail stores will close in 2021.

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Pharmaceuticals Patient Experience Mental health Medicare 344

Henry Kotula

MARCH 29, 2023

Not surprisingly, congressional lobbying was intense during the last two weeks of 2022 in a partially successful effort to ameliorate spending cuts for Medicare payments for physicians and hospitals. One measure of healthcare system’s financial strength is operating margin , the amount of profit or loss from caring for patients.

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Nursing Medicare Patient Experience Leadership 41

Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Operationally, hospitals and health systems will be more designed around the patient experience rather than the patient accommodating to the hospital design and operations. Specifically, more geared toward patient choice, shopping for services, and price competition for out-of-pocket expenses. Ronda Lehman, PharmD.

Primary Care 41

Primary Care Nursing Patient Experience Medicare 41

Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Drug price negotiation, say by the Medicare program, is a unifying public policy in the current era of political schisms in America, based on the findings in a special Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) Health Tracking Poll conducted in late September-early October 2021. This patient experience crosses political parties in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

I was intrigued by Republicans’ spike upward in positivity in 2019-2020, then Democrats’ in 2021-22… with the obvious observation that the occupant in the Oval Office of the White House changed in the interval. Nonetheless, there is not a lot of love for the pharma industry right now in the second half of 2023.

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Pharmaceuticals Medicare Patient Experience 170

Health Populi

APRIL 4, 2022

For example, allowing the Federal government to negotiate with drug companies to get a lower price on prescription drugs for people with Medicare is favored by 96% of Democrats, 87% of Independents, and 84% of Republicans. As the chart shows, this accelerated in the third quarter of 2021 when the overall U.S. economy improved.

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Medical Billing Mental health Medicare Patient Experience 182