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Tools for Paying Medical Bills Don’t Help Health Consumers Manage Their Financial Health

Health Populi

The key findings in the survey of 136 health care executives were that: Digital health tools are a priority for half of the health system leaders. Key challenges to adopting digital health tools are first and foremost cost, following by interoperability and operational barriers.

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Bonus Features – June 11, 2023 – Amazon adds FHIR APIs, NYU and NVIDIA along with Mayo and Google collaborate on generative AI, and more

Healthcare IT Today

News and Studies At the annual AWS Summit, Amazon announced an initiative to create an open-source database of brain cell data , a Virtual Innovation Center launched in conjunction with the Interoperability Institute, and new FHIR API offerings on Amazon HealthLake aimed at improving data exchange and patient access.

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Bonus Features – August 6, 2023 – 83% of hospitals are collecting SDoH data, 46% of hospitals planning to use large language models in the call center, and more

Healthcare IT Today

Nearly half (46%) of providers already have or plan to deploy large language models in their call centers , according to a survey from Hyro. According to an AdvancedMD survey of providers, 84% of patients are reporting stress levels that are higher today than they were in 2020.

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Patients, Health Consumers, People, Citizens: Who Are We In America?

Health Populi

most visibly for prescription drugs , and increasingly for other line items in the medical bill like nursing home care, hospital care, and physician services. racial and ethnic minority consumers were better informed that whites over time, and people with more education also saw more of the quality information).

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The Health Consumer in 2024 – The Health Populi TrendCast

Health Populi

There’s a sort of health care “shrinkflation” that has been shaping patients-as-payors of medical bills. Further refining the point that patients’ medical bills and expenses are now part of their household and retail financial budgets, the Federal Reserve published this report on households’ well-being, asserting that 23% of U.S.