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Consumers Expect Every Company to Play a Meaningful Role in “My Health” – New Insights from the 2023 Edelman Trust Barometer

Health Populi

People have expanded their definitions of health in 2023, with mental health supplanting physical health for the top-ranked factor in feeling healthy.

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Consumers’ Trust In Pharmacists As Providers Grows Along with Omnichannel Health Care

Health Populi

It is ironic and very concerning to consider, in this context, the latest data on the outflow of health care professionals from the field, accelerating since the emergence of the pandemic in 2020.

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Value Comes to Healthcare: But Whose Value Is It?

Health Populi

Families USA is “the voice for health care consumers,” so advocates on behalf of patients and caregivers. “Our health system is failing us,” the report’s summary asserts in its first sentence.

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

Health Populi

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.”

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Universal Health Care and Financial Inclusion – Not Mutually Exclusive

Health Populi

Millions of Americans who are “insured” are now considered “under-insured,” defined by the Commonwealth Fund as people who pay an insurance premium who also spend over 10% of household income on covering health care co-payments and coinsurance percentages, and meeting deductible limits.

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Primary Care in the U.S. – Still a Weak Backbone for the Health of Health Citizens

Health Populi

To invest in telehealth that provides an on-ramp for patients to access primary care, especially important for rural residents and people with lower incomes. To expand payment reforms rewarding health care providers accountable for continuity of care (and outcomes).

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Health Equity: Searching for a New Angle

Healthcare IT Today

By enabling patients to receive care in rural areas or non-traditional settings, or to access technology that is customized for their specific language and health literacy levels, RPM can reduce or eliminate many social determinants of health barriers and improve access to care for individuals.