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The 2020 Health Populi TrendCast – HealthConsuming, TechLash, and Public Health Goes Private

Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2019

In 1971, Céline published his book, Death on the Installment Plan ; one wonders what Louis-Ferdinand would have thought about this medical billing model. We’re monitoring EU regulators who have been pretty tough on Big Tech in Europe with respect to the GDPR and growing concern for tech companies’ access to data.

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Inflation and the cost of health care top U.S. voters’ issues for 2024 elections

Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2023

A close second in line is affordability of health care, as consumers’ household budgets must make room for paying medical bills — with prescription drug costs also very important as a discussion topic for 2024 Presidential candidates, we learn from the latest KFF Health Tracking Poll published 1 December.

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A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

NABIP’s ten-article “Bill” incorporates a broad range of rights the speak to today’s health care environment — with States’ rights eroding health care access for certain populations, cybersecurity threats reducing patient trust in health systems and technology ubiquity, and health disparities compromising health (..)

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Americans’ Top 2 Priorities for President Trump and Congress Are To Lower Health Care and Rx Costs

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Health care pocketbook issues rank first and second place for Americans in these months leading up to the 2020 Presidential election, according to research from POLITICO and the Harvard Chan School of Public Health published on 19th February 2020. There’s another interesting data point in the detail in the second busy table.

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Bonus Features – April 2, 2023 – 63% of nurses say AI will cause a generational divide among nursing staff, 67% of consumers prefer electronic medical bills but 78% of providers still use paper, and more

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 2, 2023

With the end of the public health emergency, DEA is proposing a rollback on flexibility for remote prescribing. If the DEA’s proposed rules become final, ATA warned in a statement , patients “will fall through the cracks, creating a significant and avoidable public health crisis.”

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Most Consumers Are Health and Wellness Consumers, Even in Hard Financial Times, Accenture Finds

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

As patients continue to morph into health consumers and medical bill payers, they will seek value-based care based on their own values, customers, preferences, and beliefs.

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The Health Consumer in 2024 – The Health Populi TrendCast

Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2023

For this round, I’m firmly focused on the key noun in health care, which is the patient – as consumer, as Chief Health Officer of the family, as caregiver, as health citizen. There’s a sort of health care “shrinkflation” that has been shaping patients-as-payors of medical bills.

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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

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

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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Health, Wealth & COVID-19 – My Conversation with Jeanne Pinder & Carium, in Charts

Health Populi

APRIL 23, 2020

She began to build a network of other journalists, each a node in a network to crowdsource readers’-patients’ medical bills in local markets. We’ll be brainstorming Health and Wealth in the coronavirus pandemic, covering a broad array of facts, health consumer challenges and hacks in our conversation.

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When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

health citizens face physical, financial, and mental health challenges of a syndemic, inflation, and stress – all of which will shape peoples’ demand side for health care and digital technology, and a supply side of providers challenged by tech-enabled organizations with design and data chops. Entering 2023, U.S.

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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

MARCH 6, 2024

That middle pillar here illustrates that nearly 50% of health burdens affect women in the years, generally speaking, in which she could earn a living. Another aspect of the female/male health gender gap related to research and pipelines is the finding that global drug withdrawals due to women’s health risks were 3.5

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Peering Into the Hidden Lives of Patients: a Manifesto from Paytient and Nonfiction

Health Populi

MARCH 19, 2024

The study was commissioned by Paytient, a health care financial services company, engaging the research firm Nonfiction to conduct the study (quantitative and qualitative) and analyze the results. I live and breathe and work with patient and consumer health financial data every working day.

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

Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2021

Note: I may be biased as a University of Michigan graduate of both the School of Public Health and Rackham School of Graduate Studies in Economics]. health care, patient assistance programs, Medicare Advantage plans, and the bundling of proven high-value preventive services into the Affordable Care Act. .”

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

Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

There’s a new data continuum with a shift in the relationship between the deliverers of services and their buyers. That data powers new relationships and programs, Marc explained. Marc then presented an intriguing, if disturbing (to me), bar chart of “the future value of your data.” Globally, that calculated to a value of $2.36

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While Costs Are A Top Concern Among Most U.S. Patients, So Are Challenges of Poverty, Food, and Housing

Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Rising health care costs continue to concern most Americans, with one in two people believing they’re one sickness away from getting into financial trouble, according to the 2019 Survey of America’s Patients conducted for The Physicians Foundation. In addition to paying for “my” medical bills, most people in the U.S.

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TransUnion Reveals the Home Economics and Social Determinants of COVID-19

Health Populi

MAY 7, 2020

TransUnion has been tracking consumer-level effects on a weekly basis, and today in Health Populi with 3 mm+ claims filed for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, I wanted to share TU’s latest analysis of U.S. consumers’ financial health in the COVID-19 pandemic. adults the week of 27 April 2020. Six in 10 people in the U.S.

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Wistful Thinking: The National Health Spending Forecast In a Land Without COVID-19

Health Populi

MARCH 26, 2020

In my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumers to Health Citizens , I conclude with a call-to-action and my own question: “What if…people in America were Health Citizens, where the government ensured health care as a social and civil right, health informed public policy, and people owned and controlled their heatlh data?

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Thinking About Health Care One Year From the 2020 Presidential Election

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The second poll we’ll consider is the survey from The Harvard Chan School of Public Health published in October 2019 (conducted in July-August 2019) teamed with the Commonwealth Fund and the New York Times. And many – more than four in ten – find affording basic medical care a hardship.

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A Tale of Two Americas as Told by the 2019 OECD Report on Health

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Americans used to believe they enjoyed the “best health care system in the world,” but this has eroded due to challenges of access, high costs that can be an access barrier for patients, and medical bills that have recently motivated a market among patients to launch GoFundMe campaigns to help fund families’ health care costs.

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Top 45 Healthcare Blogs for 2019

eVisit

JULY 8, 2019

Published by HIMSS Media, this is a reliable, daily updated source for all your healthcare IT news, whether you're looking for the most recent updates on meaningful use rules, tips for implementing your EMR successfully, or are wondering how to leverage patient data to provide better care. Medical Billing & Coding Blog.

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Design, Empathy and Ethics Come to Healthcare: HXD

Health Populi

JUNE 26, 2018

She explained how a technology can start with earnest health-goals and result in ethical dilemmas: consider the potential for wearables to change how we improve our health, a “wonderful thing,” Sara said, enabling passive data collection. Then open up the Strava app, run on your military base and — oops! —

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The Great Resignation in Healthcare & What To Do About It

Mend

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

A recent report on healthcare workplace shortages by the Minnesota Department of Public Health offers a physician’s perspective. Mend integrates with your organization’s medical billing software in order to automate patient payments. The integration automatically moves forms and data into the chart.

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Does Amazon have answers for the future of the NHS?

Lloyd Price

AUGUST 29, 2019

Critics saw it as a sign of creeping privatisation and a data-protection disaster in waiting. Reactions to news last monththat Amazon’s voice-controlled digital assistant Alexa was to begin using NHS website information to answer health queries were many and varied. Can we trust it with our sensitive health data?

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The 2020 Health Populi TrendCast – HealthConsuming, TechLash, and Public Health Goes Private

Inflation and the cost of health care top U.S. voters’ issues for 2024 elections

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A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity

Americans’ Top 2 Priorities for President Trump and Congress Are To Lower Health Care and Rx Costs

Bonus Features – April 2, 2023 – 63% of nurses say AI will cause a generational divide among nursing staff, 67% of consumers prefer electronic medical bills but 78% of providers still use paper, and more

Most Consumers Are Health and Wellness Consumers, Even in Hard Financial Times, Accenture Finds

The Health Consumer in 2024 – The Health Populi TrendCast

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

Health, Wealth & COVID-19 – My Conversation with Jeanne Pinder & Carium, in Charts

When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

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

Peering Into the Hidden Lives of Patients: a Manifesto from Paytient and Nonfiction

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

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

While Costs Are A Top Concern Among Most U.S. Patients, So Are Challenges of Poverty, Food, and Housing

TransUnion Reveals the Home Economics and Social Determinants of COVID-19

Wistful Thinking: The National Health Spending Forecast In a Land Without COVID-19

Thinking About Health Care One Year From the 2020 Presidential Election

A Tale of Two Americas as Told by the 2019 OECD Report on Health

Top 45 Healthcare Blogs for 2019

Design, Empathy and Ethics Come to Healthcare: HXD

The Great Resignation in Healthcare & What To Do About It

Does Amazon have answers for the future of the NHS?

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