Course, Health Policy and Patient Experience

The Patient as Consumer and Payer – A Focus on Financial Stress and Wellbeing

Health Populi

MAY 30, 2022

in 2022, billing and medical payments are now embedded in patients’ experience, regardless of the type of payor. CarePayment conducted a survey among consumers learning more about patients-as-payers and their demands for more retail-style options for billing and payment processes. Another health risk is medical debt.

Medical Billing

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The Top Pain Point in the Healthcare Consumer Experience is Money

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Experian is best known as the consumer credit reporting agency; Experian Health works with healthcare providers on revenue cycle management, patient identity, and care management, so the company has experience with patient finance and medical expense sticker shock.

Patient Experience

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Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

The four stories we generate are: Retail Health For All, starring “The Consumer” DIY Healthcare, starring “The CEO” Fragmentation Meets Bureaucracy, starring “The Castaway,” and, “One World, One Health,” starring “The Health Citizen.” Federal investment in climate and environmental health are part of holistic health policy.

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The Home and Low-Touch Health Care – a Health Consumer Update from Capgemini

Health Populi

JULY 27, 2020

Former National Coordinator for Health IT Dr. Farzad Mostashari co-authored a report with Dr. Mark McClellan, former FDA Commissioner, and colleagues at Duke’s Margolis Center for Health Policy, on how the U.S. ” Of course, this requires cross-agency and cross-health care industry collaboration on a national basis.

Digital Health

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And the Oscar Goes To….Power to the Patients!

Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2021

A patient’s right to access information regarding their healthcare is crucial and with this movement I hope we can engage and shed a light around this conversation,” Erivo asserted. So, of course, healthcare and healthcare costs are important to me.

Medical Billing

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McKinsey’s Six Shifts To Add Life to Years — and One More to Consider

Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2022

The first graphic from the report illustrates four dimensions of health and the factors underneath each of them that can bolster or diminish our well-being: personal behaviors (such as sleep and diet), personal attributes (like financial situation and genetics), interventions (e.g., To extend life expectancy, globally.

Life Science

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The Digital Consumer, Increasingly Connected to Health Devices; Parks Associates Kicking Off #CES2021

Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

Privacy literacy, understanding HIPAA and the importance of personal health data security and control; and, of course, Foundational literacy – the reading, writing, and arithmetic basics that form traditional definitions of “literacy.”

Connected Health

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Isn’t It Eyeconic? Vision Care in the Evolving Health Care Ecosystem

Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

Marge Axelrad of Jobson then set out the agenda for the day, asking one of the day’s big questions, “Can experience and data co-exist?” She said, “of course it can,” as the day’s content proved out. Data and tech can re-define new experiences,” she said.

HIPAA

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Self-Care is Healthcare for Everyday People

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Today, the health and wellness consumer can DIY all of these things at home through a huge array of products available in pharmacies, supermarkets, Big Box stores, cosmetic superstores, convenience and dollar stores, and other retail channels – increasingly, online (THINK, of course, of Amazon — more on the A-word in the Hot Points below).

Medicare

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: An Introduction

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Rutledge says that Medicare, which already penalizes hospitals when one of their patients is readmitted within 30 days, will increase penalties if the hospital has not addressed the patient’s SDoH. One of the resulting papers lists a large number of public sources for SDoH data (pages 26-30).

Public Health

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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

Of course, few have more of your data already than those very same organizations and, thank goodness, they are there to also help us get access to care and get it paid for. So, it’s not that surprising that some people might look at the UHG/PLM transaction through their already negative-colored glasses. “Oh How could you?”.

Pharmaceuticals

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Health systems in 10 years: 20 predictions from top executives

Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Of course, not all patients have a safe or stable home environment where they could receive care, so hospitals aren’t going away anytime soon. I’m not suggesting that most current patients could be cared for remotely in a decade — but I do think we’re moving in that direction. David Rahija. Ronda Lehman, PharmD.

Primary Care

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

Health Populi

AUGUST 9, 2018

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Of course, one of the objectives of the Affordable Care Act was to help nudge healthcare toward affordability. That is, if those patients-as-health-consumers can vote with their feet and pocketbook. The 50th percentile wage was $928 a week, or $48,256 annually. (As

Medical Billing

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Connected Health Pulse

The Patient as Consumer and Payer – A Focus on Financial Stress and Wellbeing

The Top Pain Point in the Healthcare Consumer Experience is Money

Trending Sources

Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

The Home and Low-Touch Health Care – a Health Consumer Update from Capgemini

And the Oscar Goes To….Power to the Patients!

McKinsey’s Six Shifts To Add Life to Years — and One More to Consider

The Digital Consumer, Increasingly Connected to Health Devices; Parks Associates Kicking Off #CES2021

Isn’t It Eyeconic? Vision Care in the Evolving Health Care Ecosystem

Self-Care is Healthcare for Everyday People

Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: An Introduction

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

Health systems in 10 years: 20 predictions from top executives

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

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