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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Telehealth Mental health Nursing Primary Care 203

Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2022

What is a “pharmacy” these days? You might have recently walked into a brick-and-mortar retail pharmacy. Or, you might have refilled a prescription to help you manage a chronic condition, online.

Mental health 170

Mental health Nursing Telehealth Primary Care 170

Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2024

For health care in 2030, I’ve thought about each driving force and then gotten more granular in the second column focusing a bit deeper on the factor and how it might play out in 2030.

Primary Care 220

Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Patient Experience Public Health 220

Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

The Humana-Kindred deal, the existing United Health Care conglomerate with insurer and provider services, and other providers under the payor umbrella, are further exemplars of this approach — becoming “ payviders ,” to cite the neologism favored by one of my recent podcast guests.

Primary Care 60

Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Accountable Care Health Policy 60

Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

The Humana-Kindred deal, the existing United Health Care conglomerate with insurer and provider services, and other providers under the payor umbrella, are further exemplars of this approach — becoming “ payviders ,” to cite the neologism favored by one of my recent podcast guests.

Primary Care 60

Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Accountable Care Health Policy 60

Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

The Humana-Kindred deal, the existing United Health Care conglomerate with insurer and provider services, and other providers under the payor umbrella, are further exemplars of this approach — becoming “ payviders ,” to cite the neologism favored by one of my recent podcast guests.

Primary Care 60

Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Accountable Care Health Policy 60

Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

The Humana-Kindred deal, the existing United Health Care conglomerate with insurer and provider services, and other providers under the payor umbrella, are further exemplars of this approach — becoming “ payviders ,” to cite the neologism favored by one of my recent podcast guests.

Primary Care 60

Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Accountable Care Health Policy 60

Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

The Humana-Kindred deal, the existing United Health Care conglomerate with insurer and provider services, and other providers under the payor umbrella, are further exemplars of this approach — becoming “ payviders ,” to cite the neologism favored by one of my recent podcast guests.

Primary Care 60

Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Accountable Care Health Policy 60

Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

The Humana-Kindred deal, the existing United Health Care conglomerate with insurer and provider services, and other providers under the payor umbrella, are further exemplars of this approach — becoming “ payviders ,” to cite the neologism favored by one of my recent podcast guests.

Primary Care 60

Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Accountable Care Health Policy 60

Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

The Humana-Kindred deal, the existing United Health Care conglomerate with insurer and provider services, and other providers under the payor umbrella, are further exemplars of this approach — becoming “ payviders ,” to cite the neologism favored by one of my recent podcast guests.

Primary Care 60

Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Accountable Care Health Policy 60

Health Populi

MAY 20, 2020

are self-rationing care in the era of COVID-19 by cutting spending on health care visits and prescription drugs. Patients in the U.S.

Telehealth 182

Telehealth Telemedicine Mental health Medicare 182

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.

Primary Care 102

Primary Care Mental health Telehealth Patient Experience 102

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Patients are the new healthcare payors, and as such, taking on the role of health consumers. In fact, health and wellness consumers have existed since a person purchased the first toothpaste, aspirin, heating pad, and moisturizing cream at retail.

Medicare 193

Medicare Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Patient Experience 193

Health Populi

AUGUST 6, 2021

key detractors from good performance on these measures include: Lack of universal access to care for all Americans (the Fund points out that 30 mm people in the U.S. Less adequate primary care “backbone” with large gaps in PCP coverage throughout the United States. bn for on-demand care by July 1st, 2021.

Digital Health 401

Digital Health Primary Care Mental health Public Health 401

Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

And PLM did business deals with large pharmaceutical companies who wanted the data to advance their research and development efforts – that’s how the PLM business was primarily funded. Patients knew this – PLM was emphatic about transparency in its community and the company never hid what they were doing with people’s data.

Pharmaceuticals 216

Pharmaceuticals HIPAA BioTech Patient Experience 216

Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In healthcare, patients and health consumers are looking for more convenient, accessible, less-costly health care services in light of their growing health economic awareness. As health consumers, U.S.

Health Technology 156

Health Technology Mental health Digital Health Primary Care 156

Henry Kotula

JULY 28, 2023

The series covered broad issues related to the healthcare workforce, economy, and health policy, and highlighted internal industry changes and trends in service delivery, quality, and equity. As we noted, this was due to such factors as higher-than-normal expenses for staff, supplies, and pharmaceuticals and lower revenues.

Public Health 41

Public Health Digital Health Primary Care Telehealth 41

Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

as well as purchasing pharmaceuticals. To mitigate the rising costs of care, healthcare systems and providers will begin to rely even more heavily on artificial intelligence and smart devices. These realities will increase the role of primary care as the needed coordinator of health services for patients.

Primary Care 41

Primary Care Nursing Patient Experience Medicare 41

Health Populi

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The new year will see a “looming tsunami” of high prices in healthcare, regulation trumping health reform, more business deals reshaping the health/care industry landscape, and patients growing do-it-yourself care muscles, according to Top health industry issues of 2020: Will digital start to show an ROI from the PwC Health Research Institute. (..)

Life Science 194

Life Science Medical Billing Health Data Primary Care 194

Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2018

During the hearing, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) challenged Azar, “As a pharmaceutical executive, you raised drug prices year after year. Note that Azar was once President of Eli Lilly, among the world’s largest pharma companies and marketer of products that treat diabetes, among other conditions.

Medicare 147

Medicare Pharmaceuticals Primary Care Patient Experience 147

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The post Come Together – A Health Policy Prescription from the Bipartisan Policy Center appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. In a week such as that we are living through in the U.S., one yearns for the days of the kind of bipartisanship the BPC report embodies, invoking the energies of Daschle, Mitchell, Baker and Dole.

Health Policy 191

Health Policy Medicare Primary Care Medical Billing 191

Health Populi

AUGUST 8, 2022

By race/ethnicity, marginally more Black and Hispanic adults are health care cost-concerned than Whites: 44% of Black adults, 42% of Hispanic adults, and 38% of White adults.

Primary Care 156

Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Health Policy 156

Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2019

Klobuchar argued for a public option which was baked into the original Affordable Care Act. She is concerned about “kicking half of America off of health insurance in 4 years,” pivoting to the “much bigger issue” of pharmaceuticals pricing. health care outcomes was recently described by the CDC ].

Mental health 214

Mental health Medicare Pharmaceuticals Public Health 214

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Democrats have been committed to the concept of the government negotiating drug prices directly with pharmaceutical companies the way other developed countries do. Expect strange bedfellow’ing between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and President Trump, who has made Rx costs a top priority at least in his healthcare portfolio.

Medicare 97

Medicare Pharmaceuticals Primary Care Telehealth 97

Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2019

Primary care must be available to all, noting that his father who was recently quite ill was financially saved by Medicare coverage. Biden, too, told his personal story of family health trauma and financial coverage with health insurance. Even countries like the U.K. and Canada have some private insurance.

Medicare 175

Medicare Mental health Public Health Primary Care 175