Article, Health Policy and Patient Experience

A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In addition to highlighting the Patient’s Bill of Rights, NABIP’s keynotes and general sessions will speak to similar topics being brainstormed at VIVE this week — including mental health, maternal health, pharmacy and prescription drugs (pricing, PBMs), population health, and Medicare and Medicaid innovations.

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Health Consumers Expect Healthcare to be Digital (and Secure), Philips Future Health Index Finds

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Older people, in particular, would be more likely to use digital health tools if their clinicians recommend these technologies. Thus, Philips asserts that health care professionals are becoming “true digital collaborators,” seeing positive impacts on the way they and their patients experience health care.

Interoperability

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Real-Time Versus Store-and-Forward Telehealth Technology

AMD Telemedicine

JANUARY 31, 2023

This article was originally published in July 2015 but was updated in January 2023. Patient experience, trust, and satisfaction are other significant benefits offered by live technology. For more information on live real-time telemedicine technologies and to begin developing your own custom solution, request a demo today.

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Bonus Features – July 31, 2022 – House passes bill to extend telehealth flexibility to 2024, only 60% of practices hit their 2021 revenue goal, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Value-based payment platform provider Clarify Health launched Clarify Access , an analytics tool designed to help pharma companies develop market access strategies.

Telehealth

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A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

To protect his licensure, the doctor asked the patient to drive from his home in West Virginia across the border into Ohio and “pull into a McDonald’s parking lot” from which the patient could access Wi-Fi and engage with the Ohio-based doctor for the consultation. Mental health can be scaled with telehealth.

Telehealth

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Telehealth-As-Healthcare Is a Mainstream Expectation Among Consumers, J.D. Power Finds

Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

with retailers, via contactless experiences, curbside pickups, BOPIS (buy online, pick up inside store), and good old-fashioned brick-and-mortar physical shopping in stores. [to to that point, I noted with interest this week’s Wall Street Journal article on the re-birth of commercial retail real estate markets in the U.S.].

Telehealth

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Navigating Healthcare Industry Challenges: Privacy, Access, & Patient Satisfaction

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 30, 2023

In this article, we will explore the major challenges facing the healthcare industry, and offer insights and solutions for industry leaders to address them. Ongoing collaboration and innovation are necessary to overcome the challenges in the health industry and ensure that patients have access to the care they need.

Patient Experience

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Telehealth and COVID-19 in the U.S.: A Conversation with Ann Mond Johnson, ATA CEO

Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

Let’s travel to Shanghai, China where, “the covid-19 epidemic has brought millions of new patients online. They are likely to stay there,” asserts “ The smartphone will see you now ,” an article in the March 7th 2020 issue of The Economist.

Telehealth

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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

JANUARY 18, 2019

It is bittersweet to read the latter half of the title, as our friend and mentor Professor Reinhardt, a health economics pioneer, passed away last year. He co-wrote the first “It’s The Prices Stupid” research article in Health Affairs with Gerard Anderson et.

BioTech

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Will Technology Cure Americans’ Health Care System Ills? Considering Google and Ascension Health’s Data Deal

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

You can read more details about this evolving situation in the WSJ article linked above, and other takes in tech, business, and social media that have begun to populate the interwebs.

BioTech

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

Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

the title of the article updating the winter 2022-23 sick-season asked. Most patients have experienced frustrations – in the designer’s parlance, “friction” – when seeking routine care as well as during a routine medical appointment. People are sick of being sick, the New York Times tells us. Which virus is it?” Entering 2023, U.S.

Health Technology

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Can AI Make Healthcare Human Again? Dr. Topol Says “Yes”

Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2019

. “Shallow Medicine” is the theme of this discussion, which includes the word cloud shown here describing Americans’ views on doctors in 2017, published in a JAMA Surgery article called, “Patient Perceptions About Their Physician in 2 Words: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.” ” The U.S.

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This Mission is Possible: Achieving Better Data in Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2023

The following is a guest article by Sarah Bavar, RN, BSN, Director at ReMedi Health Solutions. At ReMedi , we frequently support health systems going through transitions at various stages of the EHR life cycle. They have more time to improve the patient experience and spend less time making sense of the EHR.

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A Matter of Trust, Perception, Risk, and Uncertainty – The Big Issues Raised by the Acquisition of PatientsLikeMe and Other Patient Data Transactions

Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

Disclosures: All three of the authors provide strategic advice to health care companies and organizations (including payers, providers, retailers, tech companies, emerging companies and others), including some of the companies and organizations mentioned in this article. Jane Sarasohn-Kahn Bio and her Blog, Health Populi.

Pharmaceuticals

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

Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

“Patients as Consumers” is the theme of the Health Affairs issue for March 2019. Health care consumerism is a central focus in my work, and so it’s no surprise that I’ve consumed every bit of this publication. [In patients in 2019 — patients, consumers, people, health citizens?

Digital Health

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Health systems in 10 years: 20 predictions from top executives

Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

[link] The executives featured in this article are all speaking at the Becker’s Healthcare 13th Annual Meeting April 3-6, 2023, at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago. Question: What will hospitals and health systems look like in 10 years? President and CEO of Trinity Health (Livonia, Mich.): David Rahija. Ronda Lehman, PharmD.

Primary Care

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People Want to Flourish, Not Just Live – Speaking Health Politics to Real People

Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2019

“How should we define ‘health?'” ” a 2011 BMJ article asked. Eight years later, in May 2019, I read Reimagining Health – Flourishing in the 7th May 2019 issue of JAMA with some feelings of déjà vu. The authors, a global, multidisciplinary team from Europe, Canada and the U.S.,

Public Health

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Nurses Continue to Rule in Honesty and Ethics in U.S. Professions – Healthcare Professions Still Top Gallup’s Annual Poll

Health Populi

JANUARY 13, 2022

Consider the following six calls-to-action, cited in a recent Nursing Journal article authored by three of my own trusted go-to nurse industry touchpoints: Listen to nurses’ concerns. call out and confront the real phenomenon of bullying nurses in health care settings). The front-line of nurses in shrinking.

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Connected Health Pulse

A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity

Health Consumers Expect Healthcare to be Digital (and Secure), Philips Future Health Index Finds

Trending Sources

Real-Time Versus Store-and-Forward Telehealth Technology

Bonus Features – July 31, 2022 – House passes bill to extend telehealth flexibility to 2024, only 60% of practices hit their 2021 revenue goal, and more

A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

Telehealth-As-Healthcare Is a Mainstream Expectation Among Consumers, J.D. Power Finds

Navigating Healthcare Industry Challenges: Privacy, Access, & Patient Satisfaction

Telehealth and COVID-19 in the U.S.: A Conversation with Ann Mond Johnson, ATA CEO

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

Will Technology Cure Americans’ Health Care System Ills? Considering Google and Ascension Health’s Data Deal

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

Can AI Make Healthcare Human Again? Dr. Topol Says “Yes”

This Mission is Possible: Achieving Better Data in Healthcare

A Matter of Trust, Perception, Risk, and Uncertainty – The Big Issues Raised by the Acquisition of PatientsLikeMe and Other Patient Data Transactions

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

Health systems in 10 years: 20 predictions from top executives

People Want to Flourish, Not Just Live – Speaking Health Politics to Real People

Nurses Continue to Rule in Honesty and Ethics in U.S. Professions – Healthcare Professions Still Top Gallup’s Annual Poll

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