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Consumers Are So Over Their Paper Chase in Health Care Payments

Health Populi

That’s twice as many patients who would prefer to pay their health care bills on doctor’s or provider’s websites versus online through their health plan’s website (19%). Mailing a paper check? That garners only 5% of patients’ preferences.

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From Evolution to Innovation, from Health Care to Health: How Health Plans With Collaborators Are Re-Defining the Industry

Health Populi

As a constant observer and advisor across the health/care ecosystem, for me the concept of a “health plan” in the U.S. Furthermore, health plan members now see themselves as medical bill payers, seeking value and consumer-level services for their health insurance premium investment.

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Design, Empathy and Ethics Come to Healthcare: HXD

Health Populi

Design-thinking has come to health/care, finally, and Amy Cueva has been beating this drum for a very long time. I’m delighted to be in her collegial circle, speaking at the conference about the evolving healthcare consumer who’s financially strapped, stressed-out, and Amazon Primed for customer service.

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Deep Human Interactions: The Antidote To More AI In Health Care – Learning From Philips’ CEO At HIMSS19

Health Populi

.” In his introductory remarks, Frans called out that health care is unaffordable. Eventually, he said, the medical bill needs to be contained. At this year’s conference, AI has been a major theme discussed in both education sessions and on the exhibit floor.

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Top 45 Healthcare Blogs for 2019

eVisit

Medical Billing & Coding Blog. This blog is all about medical billing and coding. The perfect resources for doctors, managers, and medical billers and coders, blog posts are written exclusively by Manny Oliverez, CEO of capture billing. The Atlantic Health Blog.

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Gail Phillips: My journey to the Society for Participatory Medicine

Society for Participatory Medicine

Editor’s note: this guest post by SPM member Gail Phillips shares the odyssey that led her through numerous related disciplines, eventually discovering our society and our conference last October. The theme of the conference Democratizing Healthcare! Members can submit guest posts to our blog ( guidelines ). Join SPM here.

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150 top places to work in healthcare

Henry Kotula

A privately held company, InterSystems has earned recognition as the Frost & Sullivan European Company of the Year in Integrated Connected Health Technologies and was recognized for innovation and leadership in database technologies by SD Times. National Medical Billing Services (St. Lenovo (Morrisville, N.C.).