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Doing Less Can Be Doing More for Healthcare – the Biggest Takeaway From ASCO 2018

Health Populi

A report published in May this year by the Commonwealth Fund learned that one-half of working-age Americans would not have the money to pay an unexpected $1,000 medical bill within 30 days. The second chart illustrates patient-borne costs for early stage breast cancer. The ASCO story is such good news.

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

Health Populi

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. patients are increasingly accepting retail health sites for accessing and receiving care, found in this New England Journal of Medicine study.

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Gallup Reveals Americans’ Views on Industry Are the Lowest Since 2008 – Implications for Healthcare and Pharma

Health Populi

In this this third chart, I’ve focused in on grocery, retail, healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors which have become core touchpoints in consumers’ health ecosystems. The Gallup data can help us understand the changing nature of consumers’ trust, business, and health/care as organizations strike up these relationships.

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150 top places to work in healthcare

Henry Kotula

Campbell County Health is a health system with 1,244 employees across its 90-bed acute care hospital, 160-bed skilled nursing facility, inpatient behavioral health unit, ASC, and 14 outpatient primary care and specialty clinics. National Medical Billing Services (St. Intermountain Healthcare (Salt Lake City).

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

Health Populi

Partnering, too, will be important on the road to digitization in health care across the three industry segments. specialty medicines), and people expect greater levels of retail-enhanced service from health care providers, plans, and pharma companies.

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The Health Consumer in 2024 – The Health Populi TrendCast

Health Populi

health care micro-economy and how health costs will crowd out other household spending in 2024 Consumers’ financial health blurs (or sometimes bleeds) into their personae as patients: CivicScience has tracked a direct relationship between peoples’ perceptions of financial health and one’s overall well-being.

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Come Together – A Health Policy Prescription from the Bipartisan Policy Center

Health Populi

The objectives would be to stabilize the insurance premiums in individual health insurance marketplaces, to provide relief and flexibility to employers, to reduce system-wide health care costs across payers (including ending surprise medical bills and eliminating barriers to prescription drug competition), to improve Medicare (eg.,