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Great Expectations for Health Care: Patients Look for Consumer Experience and Trust in Salesforce’s Latest Research

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health care economics, patients are now payors as health consumers with more financial skin in paying medical bills. ” But patients here, too, want pharma to build direct relationships with them, according to Salesforce’s analysis. On the demand side of U.S.

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

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Patients as Consumers” is the theme of the Health Affairs issue for March 2019. Article #3 in my deep dive here extends the second analysis into digital health information, next focusing on Americans’ use of quality information on doctors.

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

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The third chart, a perennial favorite we use here on Health Populi and in our advisory work throughout the year and across lots of project types, tells that story of the wage/benefit cost tradeoff over the years. The Pew analysis recognizes this factor, citing the BLS statistic that total benefit costs for civilian workers have risen 22.5%