Health Policy, Patient Experience, Primary Care and Study

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

Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2022

Thus, millions of Americans continue to lack access to primary care compared with peers in other nations, according to a report from The Commonwealth Fund. The 2022 Fund report, P rimary Care in High-Income Countries: How the U.S. have a PCP relationship, compared with 71% of health citizens in Germany and the Netherlands.

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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. adults 50 and over in February and March 2022, to gauge older peoples’ views on virtual care now and in the future. Among people 50 and over, the doctor’s visit for routine care is the top reason for using virtual care, among 2 in 3 older people.

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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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Medical Costs Are Consuming Americans’ Financial Health

Health Populi

APRIL 2, 2019

Pay more than the residents of any other country on Earth for health care, and get less in terms of outcomes and service levels for many key medical metrics: infant and maternal mortality, access to primary care, and those growing deaths of despair from suicide, accident and overdose.

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Telehealth Update from the AMA – Setting the Context for ATA 2022

Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

One-half of doctors uses telehealth for continuous monitoring of patients, Overwhelming, medical and chronic disease management are the workflows for telehealth, followed by one-half of physicians using virtual care for specialty visits and 44% for mental and behavioral health. Mental and behavioral health.

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

Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Power’s 2022 Telehealth Satisfaction Study. Among people who had used virtual care in the past year, telehealth-as-healthcare is now part of mainstream Americans’ expectations as a normal part of their medical care. would use virtual care to receive medical services in the future, J.D.

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Bonus Features – July 31, 2022 – House passes bill to extend telehealth flexibility to 2024, only 60% of practices hit their 2021 revenue goal, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Primary care in particular seems to be suffering, as visit volumes have yet to return to their 2019 levels. Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features.

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Be Mindful About What Makes Health at HLTH

Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

And as the RWJF/NPR/Harvard Chan study shows, these social determinants risks travel in groups and double-down on those health risks for people who rent, people of color, those without access to healthy food, and folks who earn lower incomes. That’s the supply side of HLTH.

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

Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

are living omnichannel lives : whether in retail via ecommerce, buying online and picking up in store, or banking online, or studying for college degrees via Coursera, people live, work, play, pray, and learn offline and on-, in real-time and asynchronously. In fact, most people living and working in the U.S.

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

Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2022

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Considering the double-whammy phenomena of the Deaths of Despair combined with the impact of deaths due to the coronavirus pandemic: the U.S. This research found that our social relationships are linked both to mental health as well as morbidity and mortality — that is, death.

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The Most Relevant Companies in Health Care – Learning From the W2O Group

Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2021

” That year the firm began to study the relevance of, well, relevance for organizations especially operating in the health/care ecosystem. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Why care about “relevance” as described in this study? FYI, I did not have a hand in this study. .

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

Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The American Pharmacists Association and the National Alliance of State Pharmacy Associations studied pharmacists’ and pharmacy personnel’s workplace issues and well-being at the end of 2021, finding that 75% of these workers lacked time and personnel to safely perform their duties.

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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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Health Equity: Searching for a New Angle

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

Sean Lynch, Vice President of Clinical Operations at Curebase A major reason why health disparities exist in clinical trials today can be attributed to the burden traditional trial models place on participating patients. These practitioners ensure that all patients, regardless of socioeconomic status, receive the care they need.

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

Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The Business Group on Health’s survey into large employers’ plans for health benefit designs in 2023 has a strong focus on value, concurring with employee benefit consulting studies from Mercer, SHRM, and WTW, among others. Consumers are excited about connected health care , the Trusted Future study bullishly reports.

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Our Homes Are Health Delivery Platforms – The New Home Health/Care at CES 2021

Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

Remember the bulky Holter monitors worn at the waist to gather data about The AT-Patch from ATsens won an honoree award at CES 2021 , transforming the form factor and streamlining the patient experience of collecting electrocardiogram data over time.

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A Matter of Trust, Perception, Risk, and Uncertainty – The Big Issues Raised by the Acquisition of PatientsLikeMe and Other Patient Data Transactions

Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

For more color, read Jane’s April 2008 report, “The Wisdom of Patients,” where she wrote about PLM in its start-up phase (see section on page 20 entitled “ An Ongoing, Live Outcomes Study ”). And they invested in people because the communities they built require a human touch. It is impossible to paint them with a one-color brush.

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Hospitals Suffer Decline in Consumer Satisfaction

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

For historic trends, you can check out my coverage of the 2014 version of this study here in Health Populi. The 2019 ACSI report bundles finance/banks, insurance (property/casualty, life and health) and hospitals together in one document. ACSI polls about 300,000 U.S.

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In 2020, PwC Expects Consumers to Grow DIY Healthcare Muscles As Medical Prices Increase

Health Populi

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Health care access and costs — which tend to be inter-related issues for a patient facing medical issues in the present day — are top-of-mind for Americans these days. They’re a major cause of stress and anxiety, according to the American Psychological Association’s Stress in America study.

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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 third chart illustrates that U.S. consumers’ perspectives on honest and ethics and professions fell to pre-pandemic levels and lower for many professions.

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

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

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

Medical Costs Are Consuming Americans’ Financial Health

Telehealth Update from the AMA – Setting the Context for ATA 2022

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

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

Bonus Features – July 31, 2022 – House passes bill to extend telehealth flexibility to 2024, only 60% of practices hit their 2021 revenue goal, and more

Be Mindful About What Makes Health at HLTH

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

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

The Most Relevant Companies in Health Care – Learning From the W2O Group

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

Self-Care is Healthcare for Everyday People

Health Equity: Searching for a New Angle

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

Our Homes Are Health Delivery Platforms – The New Home Health/Care at CES 2021

A Matter of Trust, Perception, Risk, and Uncertainty – The Big Issues Raised by the Acquisition of PatientsLikeMe and Other Patient Data Transactions

Hospitals Suffer Decline in Consumer Satisfaction

In 2020, PwC Expects Consumers to Grow DIY Healthcare Muscles As Medical Prices Increase

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

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