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New Primary Care, Retail and Tech Entrants Motivating Hospitals to Grow Consumer Chops

Health Populi

Kaufman Hall analyzed 100 health care organizations in this year’s consumerism survey to assess their readiness to embrace consumer-centric strategies, understand how the industry prioritizes these approaches, evaluate their progress toward responding to them, and identifying best practices.

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From Evolution to Innovation, from Health Care to Health: How Health Plans With Collaborators Are Re-Defining the Industry

Health Populi

Health plans are designed to provide a range of medical services, preventive care, and financial protection against the costs of healthcare. Neither of these explanations satisfies my current view of where I see the industry at this moment, and especially as I work through my forecast to 2030.

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Why Telehealth is a Lifeline for Primary Care Physicians

GlobalMed

Primary care physicians are the frontline of healthcare. The Association of American Medical Colleges predicts a primary care provider shortfall , with numbers landing between 21,000 to 55,000 by 2023. But other factors drive primary care barriers as well, such as affordability issues and rural shortages.

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Most Americans See Rise of Mental Health Issues, And Poorly Treated by the Health System (with a postscript on Walmart Health)

Health Populi

May is Mental Health Awareness Month each year, so time to be even more vigilant in calling out the Gallup findings and continued stigma and barriers to accessing needed services. In the meantime, more older people feel the mental/physical health service gap even more acutely than younger health citizens.

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The American Hospital Association Looks at Retail and Tech Health Care Disruptors

Health Populi

Ever since Clayton Christensen explained the concept of disruptive innovation in 1995, health care became one of the poster children emblematic of an industry ripe for disruption. “By 2030, nontraditional players could own as much as 30% of the primary care market.”

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How Business Can Bolster Determinants of Health: The Marmot Review for Industry

Health Populi

It is time this changed,” asserts the report, The Business of Health Equity: The Marmot Review for Industry , sponsored by Legal & General in collaboration with University College London (UCL) Institute of Health Equity, led by Sir Michael Marmot.

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Virtual Health Tech Enables the Continuum of Health from Hospital to Home

Health Populi

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. TripleTree is an investment bank that has advised health care transactions since 1997.