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

Health Populi

I’ll be referring to the research, with gratitude, over the coming months for my own work with clients spanning the health/care ecosystem. health care financing. The line chart here illustrates one piece of the Report’s section on “Unraveling Health,” showing that primary care volumes in the U.S.

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Bonus Features – September 24, 2023 – 72 percent of patients say affordability is the biggest challenge for paying medical bills

Healthcare IT Today

Commercial payers lag behind Medicare in covering nearly all aspects of digital medicine , and coverage policies are inconsistent and not transparent, according to an American Medical Association report. When digital services are available, they’re often disconnected from primary care.

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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

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. is getting fuzzier by the day.

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The future of the waiting room, and how telemedicine and mobile health could change it

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Dr. David Berg, cofounder and chairman of the board of Redirect Health, a primary care national healthcare organization featuring telemedicine and mobile health, believes the healthcare industry should reduce unnecessary inconveniences – such as extensive travel or wait times – from the healthcare experience.

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Call It Deferring Services or Self-Rationing, U.S. Consumers Are Still Avoiding Medical Care

Health Populi

adults had problems paying medical bills, largely delaying care due to cost for a visit or for prescription drugs. Several new studies converge to further tells us that Americans are self-rationing, delaying, or otherwise avoiding care nearly one year into the COVID-19 public health crisis.

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Consumers Expand Their Definition of Well-Being to Include Food-As-Medicine

Health Populi

The consumer-as-medical-bill-payor is now looking at foods with health benefits, first and foremost for heart health. That’s because these countries have strong primary care backbones, spend more on social care relative to health care spending, and have other policies that bake in health well beyond medical care.

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

Healthcare IT Today

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Continued consolidation in primary care There will continue to be consolidation in primary care. Optum Care is becoming a model for big companies.