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Weekly Roundup – November 19, 2022

Healthcare IT Today

It’s a good strategic move for the EHR vendor, but it also benefits eCW customers, as John found out when he spoke to Bryant Stetz at Rothman Orthopaedic Institute and learned that hosted EHR helped can help practice expand their national footprint since they don’t need to find new physical data center.

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Value-Based Health Care Needs All Stakeholders at the Table – Especially the Patient

Health Populi

Their research mines data from the Medicare Part D drug benefit program to identify several facts about consumer-facing drug costs, behavior change in consumption/use, and resulting patient mortality: An increase of one-third in a patient’s out-of-pocket price — about $10.40

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Will Consumers Cross the Cost-and-Trust Chasm Between Prescription Drugs and Hospitals?

Health Populi

Taken together, these two data points demonstrate the potent political import of prescription drug prices as the U.S. Hospital costs contribute to rising medical costs to 49% of health consumers. People in the U.S. approaches the 2020 Presidential election. The Physicians Foundation surveyed 2,001 U.S.

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

Health Populi

Eventually, he said, the medical bill needs to be contained. million data points from 1,362,559 pediatric patient visits to a health system. The data model proved accurate compared with pediatricians diagnosing common childhood conditions. The study mashed up 101.6

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Business of Healthcare and Value Based Care – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

More tech requires more upkeep, more data requiring complex management, and less interoperability or communication between dissimilar systems. The recession will leave many patients in a difficult financial situation, likely resulting in delayed medical bills and elective surgeries. Justin Butler, Partner at Eclipse Ventures.

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The Women’s Health Gap Is Especially Wide During Her Working Years – Learning from McKinsey, the World Economic Forum, and AARP in Women’s History Month

Health Populi

McKinsey and team have considered data from U-Wash’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation on the global burden of disease, coupled with OECD data on retirement ages — for the latter, finding that the average pension age for women in 2016 was 63.7 Health Populi’s Hot Points: More tightly focusing on the U.S.

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In 2020, PwC Expects Consumers to Grow DIY Healthcare Muscles As Medical Prices Increase

Health Populi

In this 14th year of the publication, PwC polled executives from payers, providers, and pharma/life science organizations. The post In 2020, PwC Expects Consumers to Grow DIY Healthcare Muscles As Medical Prices Increase appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.