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The Patient as Consumer and Payer – A Focus on Financial Stress and Wellbeing

Health Populi

MAY 30, 2022

These self-care tasks extended in our health care across all dimensions of “health” including mental health, nutrition and gut wellness, sleep, and certainly financial health. And that is part of the patient-as-payer’s workflow. It’s true to say that in the U.S. Those of us in the U.S.

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

Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Mental health can be scaled with telehealth. map and citizens’ access has been marked with mental health supply shortages. Mental health via virtual platforms has sustained significant use since the waning of the public health crisis. In fact, most people living and working in the U.S.

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Three in Five People 50+ in the US Will Likely Use Telehealth In the Future – An Update from AARP

Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

The study polled U.S. “It appears that telehealth is likely to continue to remain an important tool in the health care delivery tool kit — at least for those with computers and high-speed internet access,” the AARP report concludes with a caveat about connectivity/broadband access.

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Telehealth-As-Healthcare Is a Mainstream Expectation Among Consumers, J.D. Power Finds

Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Telehealth has increased access to mental health services, I’ve highlighted this Mental Illness Awareness Week here in Health Populi. But telehealth has also emerged as a preferred channel for routine health care services, we learn from J.D. Power’s 2022 Telehealth Satisfaction Study.

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McKinsey’s Six Shifts To Add Life to Years — and One More to Consider

Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2022

And loneliness can kill us, we learned, from the study Social Relationships and Mortality Risk: A Meta-analytic Review , seminal research published in 2010 led by Julianne Holt-Lunstad and collaborators from Brigham Young University and University of North Carolina.

Life Science

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

Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2022

PCPs reported offering after-hours arrangements for their patients seeking care “off-hours.” ” Next, check out the second bar chart here showing American PCPs’ huge gap in providing home visits compared with doctors in the ten other countries studied. Only one in three U.S. Only one-third of PCPs in the U.S.

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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

APRIL 19, 2023

People have expanded their definitions of health in 2023, with mental health supplanting physical health for the top-ranked factor in feeling healthy. social polarization plays an outsized role in factors that “make us sick” compared with other nations Edelman studied.

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

Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Increasingly, technology is playing a role in patients’ relationships with pharmacies, whether for e-prescribed refills, apps enabling telehealth visits (including mental health therapy sessions), or live chats with licensed pharmacists for real-time advice.

Mental health

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Most Virtual Care Consumers, Satisfied With Visits in the COVID Era, Expect It for Future Care

Health Populi

JULY 10, 2020

Among satisfaction deflectors were perceived quality of care, an impersonal experience, and technical issues. Commercial conferencing platforms like Zoom (23%), Facetime (17%), and Skype (9%) were also stood up by clinicians touching base with patients for telehealth encounters. What about physicians?

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Telehealth Primary Care Mental health Patient Experience

What Are Patients Looking for in a Doctor? It Depends on Who You Ask…and Their Race

Health Populi

JANUARY 26, 2023

While the same proportion of Black and White patients say they are looking for a doctor with empathy and compassion, there are relatively large differences between patients based on their race, found in the Everyday Health-Castle Connolly Physician-Consumer study. The post What Are Patients Looking for in a Doctor?

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Be Mindful About What Makes Health at HLTH

Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

But there are opportunities to learn from patients and advocacy groups at the meeting to inform the demand side of the health/care equation, and that’s crucial to understanding consumer experience, values and sense of value that enables people to get the care they need. That’s the supply side of HLTH.

Digital Health

Digital Health Primary Care Mental health Public Health

Great Expectations for Health Care: Patients Look for Consumer Experience and Trust in Salesforce’s Latest Research

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

But as payors, health consumers face challenges in getting care, so great expectations are met with frustration and eroding trust with the system, according to the latest Connected Healthcare Consumer report from Salesforce published today as the company announced expansion of their health cloud capabilities.

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

Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

health citizens face physical, financial, and mental health challenges of a syndemic, inflation, and stress – all of which will shape peoples’ demand side for health care and digital technology, and a supply side of providers challenged by tech-enabled organizations with design and data chops. Which virus is it?”

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Social Determinants of Health Risks Challenge the Promise of Hospital-to-Home

Health Populi

MAY 31, 2022

Amidst bullish forecasts for the promise of hospital-to-home discharges, the ability for many patients to make this migration would be a difficult bridge to cross. Earlier this year, McKinsey addressed how “Care at Home” ecosystems can reshape the way health systems — and people — envision patient care.

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Self-Care is Healthcare for Everyday People

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

health consumer, bearing more first-dollar costs through high-deductible health plans, or being un- or under-insured, uses self-care as a financial health hedge. healthcare system in terms of clinician visits averted and prescription drug cost savings.

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Medicare Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Patient Experience

Health Equity: Searching for a New Angle

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

This highlights the dire need to address patient access to care. Even in large metropolitan areas, many individuals still lack adequate access to basic healthcare services, especially for mental health. We believe the critical avenue to mental health equity is ensuring access to timely and high quality care through Medicaid.

Primary Care

Primary Care Mental health Telehealth Patient Experience

How to Restore Americans’ Confidence in U.S. Health Care: Deal With Access and Cost

Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2021

No surprise, then, that more families (55%) earning lower incomes (in this study, that would fall under $40,000 a year) had trouble paying for basic living expenses between December 2020 and mid-February 2021. As some people had trouble covering at least one of these expense line items, a total of 37% of U.S.

Mental health

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Nurses Continue to Rule in Honesty and Ethics in U.S. Professions – Healthcare Professions Still Top Gallup’s Annual Poll

Health Populi

JANUARY 13, 2022

Here is the grade-school teacher decline for 2021 along with that for military offices, both top professions but declining in the year in reputation in the Gallup study. The pandemic has wreaked havoc on nurses’ mental health and well-being, driving many to sign onto their individual “Great Resignations.”

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In the New Inflationary Era, Gas and Health Care Costs Top Household Budget Concerns

Health Populi

APRIL 4, 2022

adults, followed by vision care for 25%, a doctor’s office visit among 24%, mental health services among 18%, and 14% of people avoiding hospital services. The issue of health care costs, and in particular out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs, continues to be a priority for most U.S. One-half of people in the U.S.

Medical Billing

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Connected Health Pulse

The Patient as Consumer and Payer – A Focus on Financial Stress and Wellbeing

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

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Three in Five People 50+ in the US Will Likely Use Telehealth In the Future – An Update from AARP

Telehealth-As-Healthcare Is a Mainstream Expectation Among Consumers, J.D. Power Finds

McKinsey’s Six Shifts To Add Life to Years — and One More to Consider

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

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

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

Most Virtual Care Consumers, Satisfied With Visits in the COVID Era, Expect It for Future Care

What Are Patients Looking for in a Doctor? It Depends on Who You Ask…and Their Race

Be Mindful About What Makes Health at HLTH

Great Expectations for Health Care: Patients Look for Consumer Experience and Trust in Salesforce’s Latest Research

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

Social Determinants of Health Risks Challenge the Promise of Hospital-to-Home

Self-Care is Healthcare for Everyday People

Health Equity: Searching for a New Angle

How to Restore Americans’ Confidence in U.S. Health Care: Deal With Access and Cost

Nurses Continue to Rule in Honesty and Ethics in U.S. Professions – Healthcare Professions Still Top Gallup’s Annual Poll

In the New Inflationary Era, Gas and Health Care Costs Top Household Budget Concerns

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