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

Health Populi

The coolest thing in health policy in the 21st century!! ” Amitabh Chandra gave the opening context-setting talk about the effects of health care cost-sharing on patients-as-consumers. Kavita Patel to assert in the first panel of the day that, “2713 is my favorite number.”

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

Health Populi

That Love translates, operationally and in health care law and workflows, as respect, health literacy and user-centered design principles (privacy-by-design, equity-by-design, and so on), and enabling health consumer autonomy and accessibility — that is, the right to quality, affordable care.

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

Health Populi

It feels like the vision industry is at an inflection point at this moment, I intuited during yesterday’s convening of Decoding the Consumer: The new science of customer behavior, the theme of the 13th annual global leadership summit hosted by Vision Monday, a program of Jobson Medical Information which is part of the WebMD family.

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

Health Populi

Underpinning this Purple Convergence for Health is that whether a Democrat or Republican, U.S. health citizens are highly concerned about their personal out-of-pocket costs for medical services and insurance, as well as prescription drug coverage. hit this stratospheric deficit under GOP leadership inside the Beltway.