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New Primary Care, Retail and Tech Entrants Motivating Hospitals to Grow Consumer Chops

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The most visible threat was seen from UnitedHealth Group, with 3 in 4 hospitals noting UHG as a formidable threat to their health system business. CVS Health/Aetna, Amazon, and Walmart rank in the next-most competitive group impacting hospitals, followed by new primary care models.

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The 2022 US Health System Report Card: Pretty Terrific If You Live in Hawaii or Massachusetts

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The Commonwealth Fund has conducted this study since 2006 , assessing a range of health system indicators and patient outcomes to track trends over time identifying which U.S. states set the bar higher for their health citizens’ well-being. Pre-pandemic, that rate was even for eight years, then this jump spiked in 2020.

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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

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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.” Health equity is prioritized in Quincy’s community as a community investment.

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Consider Mental Health Equity on World Mental Health Day

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COVID-19 exacted a toll on health citizens’ mental health, worsening a public health challenge that was already acute before the pandemic. It’s World Mental Health Day , an event marked by global and local stakeholders across the mental health ecosystem.

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The Post-COVID 19 Health Consumer: Ready for DIY Health Care and More Open to Telehealth

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Those percentages were polled as of September 2020, about six months into the now-year+ long pandemic, Peoples’ homes became their safe havens, literally, in the public health crisis, or our “Year of COVID” as Dr. Michael Osterholm of CIDRAP has nicknamed 2020.

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Ten Forces Shaping Health Care in 2021: A View from CVS Health

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We can weave these market forces together into several mega-trends… Community-based care grows in 2021. The most obvious trend from which CVS Health benefits, as well as is defining, is the growing opportunity for primary care to be delivered in the community and in peoples’ homes.

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Health Disparities and the Risks of Social Determinants for COVID-19 – 14 Months of Evidence

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For some people such as American Indian and Native Alaskan folks, geography, remoteness, and lack of public health infrastructure are challenges. Analyzing county-level data for 3,142 U.S. suggested social determinants were at play in the disparate outcomes for people of color.