Health Policy, Patient Experience and Strategy

Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

Federal gun legislation is passed and investments in cybersecurity are maxed in this scenario, with policies and procedures in the workplace taken seriously by all health citizens. Federal investment in climate and environmental health are part of holistic health policy. Consider the Wild Cards.

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Health Consumers Expect Healthcare to be Digital (and Secure), Philips Future Health Index Finds

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Older people, in particular, would be more likely to use digital health tools if their clinicians recommend these technologies. Thus, Philips asserts that health care professionals are becoming “true digital collaborators,” seeing positive impacts on the way they and their patients experience health care.

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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

A survey of healthcare leaders by patient engagement vendor pCare and research firm WBR Insights indicated that demand for technology to improve the patient experience is on the rise , with 65% of organizations saying more patients want a tech-enabled care experience.

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“Healthcare Isn’t Healthy:” the Global Challenge of Health Equity, and Calls-to-Action

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Discrimination in health care is reported by more people in the U.S. we learn in the research reported in The Intersection of Health Equity in Communities & Business Strategy: A Call-to-Action , from Omnicomm PR Group (OPRG) and Atlantic Insights. than in Germany, Spain, or the U.K.,

Public Health

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

Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2022

To improve measurement of a “modernized” understand of health, with better data and more holistically across the many dimensions that make health. To scale what works, based on evidence and proven interventions — which depends on our reducing biases in our assumptions, models and strategies.

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

Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

We are talking about omni-channel delivery, which integrates across communications channels based on patients’ preferences. Here, I share research from Avtex’s Omnichannel Healthcare Report which illustrates this point: that “all channels must be part” of healthcare’s strategy going forward.

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Add Behavioral Data to Social Determinants For Better Patient Understanding

Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2018

The Sage team explains that, by layering knowledge about peoples’ behaviors, beliefs, and attitudes on top of the traditional SDOH factors, health care providers can mash-up SBDoH – “socio-behavioral determinants of health” — your new acronym to add to your growing list of healthcare ABCs.

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Value Comes to Healthcare: But Whose Value Is It?

Health Populi

JULY 6, 2018

This is a proxy for positive patient experience at that “moment-of-truth,” in the space between doctor-and-patient where shared decision-making can happen… or not.

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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

Ultimately, respect, empathy, access, and affordable care are key ingredients in the prescription for rebuilding trust in health care systems.

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The ROI on Virtual Care – Thinking About Value and Future Prospects With the AMA

Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

By putting this report out at this time, the AMA hopes to help identify opportunities for health care stakeholders to support digitally-enabled care as they, in the words of the report, “develop their coverage and payment policies and strategies in the years ahead.”

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Can Telemedicine Increase Health Equity? A Conversation with Antoinette Thomas, Dave Ryan, and Me with the ATA

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

“We” was a trio including Antoinette Thomas (@NurseTechExec1), Chief Patient Experience Officer with Microsoft, David Ryan (@DavidPRyan), former long-time Global Head of Intel’s Health/Life Science business; and, me. What would such a strategy address?

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The Digital Consumer, Increasingly Connected to Health Devices; Parks Associates Kicking Off #CES2021

Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

Among the 26% of US broadband households that purchased a connected device during the COVID-19 crisis (between February 2020 to May 2020), the leading reasons given for purchase were for entertainment, to help someone work from home, and to help someone in the home complete schoolwork remotely,” the report noted.

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Re-Imagining Healthcare – a Lesson from Von Clausewitz in the Fog of War

Health Populi

APRIL 29, 2018

.” I interpret this to mean that, in gaining perspective from “elevated ground,” we can both manage risk (the defensive play in Von Clausewitz’s strategic thinking) as well as operating with “separate masses” on multiple fronts (in the offensive strategy).

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Prelude to Health 2.0 2019: Thinking Consumers At the Center of Digital Health Transformation

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

“Digital transformation” is the corporate strategy flavor of the moment across industries, and the health are sector isn’t immune from the trend. As this 13th year of the annual Health 2.0

Digital Health

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Will Technology Cure Americans’ Health Care System Ills? Considering Google and Ascension Health’s Data Deal

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I’ve pointed to the Dignity Health campaign #HelloHumanKindness as a best practice communications and branding strategy for helping heal healthcare. Is there a different, higher moral role for a faith-based healthcare provider versus a not-for-profit (non-faith based) or for-profit provider?

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

Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

No health conference is well-curated in 2019 without some discussion on the growing role of voice tech, and Dave Bovenschulte, VP Strategy with Klick Health, and Justine Santa Cruz, SVP with Satisfi Labs, brought their deep knowledge to the topic. The questions are many and varied and curious.

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Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 1

Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2024

We do this exercise to immerse ourselves in the different worlds, each of which tease out different ways the driving forces could play out for the person—and then test our strategy (ies) against the alternatives to ensure we are covering our bases, strategically, tactically – to not get caught too-off-guard by surprises in the market.

Primary Care

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How IT leaders are reimagining and repurposing technologies to handle new challenges

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2021

The building blocks assume that patients and providers are on-site, together, at the same time. Everything needs to be reimagined for remote care, said Canino at Johns Hopkins Health Systems.

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Health Equity: Searching for a New Angle

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

Government policy is increasingly focused on incorporating SDoH into all aspects of healthcare delivery, from individual patient care planning to quality measures to population health objectives, as part of the government’s strategy for tackling health disparities.

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This Mission is Possible: Achieving Better Data in Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2023

They have more time to improve the patient experience and spend less time making sense of the EHR. They learn to perform a step-by-step process that considers all the important elements from previous records to ensure patient safety and meet organizational needs.

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5 payer trends to watch in 2018

Henry Kotula

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

“Overall, these trends will likely shift significant patient volume from higher-intensity settings to lower-intensity settings while maintaining — or in some cases even improving — quality of care or patient experience,” Krishna said.

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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

She is the author of the recently-published book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen. . She works with exceptional leaders seeking to build value in a transforming health care world. Lisa Suennen is Managing Director at Manatt, Phelps & Philips.

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Hims and Hers and Hearts – Cardiology Blurs Into DTC Retail Health

Health Populi

AUGUST 7, 2023

Heart disease is the #1 cause of death for men worldwide, so Hims seeks this heart-health mission as core to its growth and mission. ED symptoms can precede cardiovascular disease by two to three years in advance, and with that in mind, this strategy for Heart Health by Hims was born.

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

Health Populi

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Internally, health industry business leaders are prioritizing several workforce strategies in the new year, first and foremost to confront digital transformation. Clearly, digital transformation is top-of-mind for healthcare organizations pondering their workforce strategies for 2020.

Life Science

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Health systems in 10 years: 20 predictions from top executives

Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Senior Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer of Northwell Health (New Hyde Park, N.Y.): Operationally, hospitals and health systems will be more designed around the patient experience rather than the patient accommodating to the hospital design and operations. Mike Gentry. David Rahija. Ronda Lehman, PharmD.

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Five Healthcare Industry Changes to Watch in 2020

Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

This change is occurring as the result of clinical innovations, patient preferences, financial incentives, electronic health records, telemedicine, and an increased focus on improving quality of care and clinical outcomes. Consolidation will continue industry wide.

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Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Health Consumers Expect Healthcare to be Digital (and Secure), Philips Future Health Index Finds

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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 Isn’t Healthy:” the Global Challenge of Health Equity, and Calls-to-Action

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

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

Add Behavioral Data to Social Determinants For Better Patient Understanding

Value Comes to Healthcare: But Whose Value Is It?

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

The ROI on Virtual Care – Thinking About Value and Future Prospects With the AMA

Can Telemedicine Increase Health Equity? A Conversation with Antoinette Thomas, Dave Ryan, and Me with the ATA

The Digital Consumer, Increasingly Connected to Health Devices; Parks Associates Kicking Off #CES2021

Re-Imagining Healthcare – a Lesson from Von Clausewitz in the Fog of War

Prelude to Health 2.0 2019: Thinking Consumers At the Center of Digital Health Transformation

Will Technology Cure Americans’ Health Care System Ills? Considering Google and Ascension Health’s Data Deal

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

Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 1

How IT leaders are reimagining and repurposing technologies to handle new challenges

Health Equity: Searching for a New Angle

This Mission is Possible: Achieving Better Data in Healthcare

5 payer trends to watch in 2018

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

Hims and Hers and Hearts – Cardiology Blurs Into DTC Retail Health

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

Health systems in 10 years: 20 predictions from top executives

Five Healthcare Industry Changes to Watch in 2020

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