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

Health Populi

Year 3 into the COVID-19 pandemic, health citizens are dealing with coronavirus variants in convergence with other challenges in daily life: price inflation, civil and social stress, anxiety and depression, global security concerns, and the safety of their families. Another health risk is medical debt.

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Jasper, Scaling a Human Touch for People Dealing with Cancer, Now With Walgreens

Health Populi

Patients can track nutrition and food intake, mood and mental health, financial issues, transportation, and activity (such as steps). Together, these “data points” are our personal real world evidence of daily living – reflecting our risks for determinants of health (social and otherwise) and well-being.

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How COVID-19 is Hurting Americans’ Home Economics in 2020

Health Populi

With most Americans living paycheck to paycheck, lacking sufficient savings or liquidity to cover emergency expenses (beyond the emergency room in a hospital), fewer people can now pay a $500 medical bill, KFF found.

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American healthcare: The good, bad, ugly, future

Henry Kotula

And, of course, our world is now better prepared for when the next viral pandemic strikes. As prices climb ever-higher, at least half of Americans can’t afford to pay their out-of-pocket medical bills, which remain the leading cause of U.S. bankruptcy. healthcare over the past five years.

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Getting Started with Telehealth

TheraNest

It can be a powerful tool that makes mental health care easier and more convenient to access and provide. Greater access: Telehealth can make mental health services more accessible and convenient—increasing mental health treatment outcomes. According to the ONC. The Benefits of Telehealth.

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Getting Started with Telehealth

TheraNest

It can be a powerful tool that makes mental health care easier and more convenient to access and provide. Greater access: Telehealth can make mental health services more accessible and convenient—increasing mental health treatment outcomes. According to the ONC. The Benefits of Telehealth.

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How to Automate Patient Healthcare Payments Before and After a Visit

Mend

Today, patients prefer convenient payment options to stay on top of medical bills. Here’s Why Your Practice Should Automate Medical Billing. There are several reasons why switching from paper to automated patient billing. And when you automate healthcare billing, your practice is doing your part. Save Space.