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

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NABIP, whose members represent professionals in the health insurance benefits industry, drafted and adopted a new American Healthcare Consumer Bill of Rights launched at the meeting. The post A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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In U.S. Health Care, It’s Still the Prices, Stupid – But Transparency and Consumer Behavior Aren’t Working As Planned

Health Populi

I’m glad to be getting back to health economic issues after spending the last couple of weeks firmly focused on consumers, digital health technologies and CES 2019. There’s a lot for me to address concerning health care costs based on news and research published over the past couple of weeks.

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Will Technology Cure Americans’ Health Care System Ills? Considering Google and Ascension Health’s Data Deal

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At least 150 Google employees already have access to much of the data on tens of millions of patients, according to a person familiar with the matter and the documents.” ” While Google is a well-known brand and customer experience for most people, Ascension Health may not be as familiar an organization. health care.

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Patients, Health Consumers, People, Citizens: Who Are We In America?

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“Patients as Consumers” is the theme of the Health Affairs issue for March 2019. Now consider what happens when consumers (the noun chosen by the authors of the second paper I’m adding to the mix) access data, information and tools for self-management in health care.