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A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

Health Populi

Patients-as-consumers increasingly expect retail-enchanting service levels from health care – especially as patients pay medical bills increasingly out-of-pocket. Convenience can take the form of time: for example, time to drive to an appointment and/or time required to be away from work to attend to that appointment.

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The 2023 Health Economy – The Evolving Primary Care and Retail Health Convergence Through Trilliant Health’s Lens

Health Populi

And we realize there’s also more inter-play between the north and south parts of this diagram with, for example, CVS Health’s acquisition of Signify Health earlier this year as health care to the home and closer-to-home begins to take shape. For example, the chart tells us that Walmart welcomes 37 million U.S.

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2022 Patient Payment Statistics and Bad Debt in Healthcare

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According to the same statistics, approximately one in five American households has “bad medical debt.” These numbers are concerning, as they indicate that many Americans are struggling to keep up with their medical bills. How Many Healthcare Organizations Still Rely on Paper Bills.

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10 Healthcare Payment Trends in 2022

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They can also access their health information online, schedule appointments, and manage bills. When it comes to digital payment options, a recent Instamed study showed that 91% of consumers prefer an electronic payment method for their medical bills. Patient portals are an example of this.

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Urgently Ortho’s integrated EHR-telehealth creates seamless, tech-enabled clinic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Urgently Ortho in San Francisco, California, had an overarching goal: to create a tech-enabled orthopedic urgent care facility that provided a seamless patient experience using technology that could scale with leadership’s growth ambitions. ” Most hospital EHRs did not offer a great patient experience.

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

Health Populi

Look to examples like The Rise to Health Equity Coalition bringing together industry stakeholder organizations to build capacity, influence policy and payment, and transform mindsets and narratives around racial justice – including the AHA, the AMA, Genentech, and other organizations under this important umbrella.

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How Technology Can Help Us Achieve Health Equity

Healthcare IT Today

And, as we’ve seen with the diagnostic tools coming online across the medical landscape, AI brings ancillary benefits that extend beyond their fundamental clinical utility. Take, for example, a community that lives in a food desert and is unable to reliably access high-nutrition food, or lacks the time to shop and prepare nutritious food.