Health Populi

MARCH 26, 2025

Tom Lawry may be best-known as a leading voice on AI in health care; after all, hes written two very well-selling books on the topic, speaks all over the world on the subject, and in his most recent company-based gig helped lead Microsofts efforts in AI in health care and life sciences.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 28, 2025

Advancements in non-invasive diagnostics allow a wider range of healthcare professionals, not just specialists, to perform screenings, expanding access to liver health assessments in primary care, pharmacy-based clinics, and community health settings.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2024

health citizens was first and foremost with my primary care provider, followed by pharmacists and then family and friends, according to the 2024 Edelman Trust Barometer. health/care consumers in 2025.knowing The greatest health-trust equity among U.S. This is what we know for sure entering the world of U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 19, 2025

Further supporting health consumers’ ability to self-care and receive care remotely and on-the-move, growing access to telehealth, remote health monitoring, and wearable tech can enable a person to gather data and share with providers and health coaches who are not located in-country or -community.

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Health Populi

APRIL 11, 2025

Two new reports to consider in the context of this post published this week: From The Commonwealth Fund , on the impact of medical bills, medical debt, and health care costs on Americans. Updated data on the maternal mortality crisis in the United States published in J AMA Network Open this week.

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Health Populi

MARCH 6, 2025

Specific to consumers home health care economics, we learn from Gallup and West Health that Americans borrowed about $74 billion to pay medical bills in 2024. consumers who borrowed money to pay for health care in the past year. That’s about 30 million U.S. FICO scores). FICO scores).

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Health Populi

JANUARY 31, 2025

.” Data point two: patient access to health care services can be fragmented and inconsistent depending on several factors — especially having health insurance, having a usual source for primary care, and living in a community with retail pharmacies (versus a neighborhood considered a pharmacy desert).

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

I’ll be referring to the research, with gratitude, over the coming months for my own work with clients spanning the health/care ecosystem. health care financing. The line chart here illustrates one piece of the Report’s section on “Unraveling Health,” showing that primary care volumes in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Elation Health continues to expand its primary care offerings. The company recently announced the strategic acquisition of Lightning MD , a cloud-based medical billing and claims management company. ” Lightning MD is a convenient billing solution focused on user experience for independent medical practices. .

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Walmart, clearly, is growing its primary care and mental health service supply side, planning to replicate health centers across markets where it makes sense to do so… like in under-served areas where more people live without health insurance.

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Health Populi

JULY 24, 2023

in any one’s definition of value-based health care — most especially, a consumer’s. Cost, cost, cost, cost, and cost — above quality of care. GNC is channeling to the current concerns of health consumers… value in the eye of the beholder and medical bill payer.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

As a constant observer and advisor across the health/care ecosystem, for me the concept of a “health plan” in the U.S. Furthermore, health plan members now see themselves as medical bill payers, seeking value and consumer-level services for their health insurance premium investment. is getting fuzzier by the day.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

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.,

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

As patients continue take on financial risk for paying for health care, now as medical bill payers and health consumers, these are the UX-designed experiences for health care people want to frequent (when they choose to access health care services).

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Commercial payers lag behind Medicare in covering nearly all aspects of digital medicine , and coverage policies are inconsistent and not transparent, according to an American Medical Association report. When digital services are available, they’re often disconnected from primary care.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The consumer-as-medical-bill-payor is now looking at foods with health benefits, first and foremost for heart health. That’s because these countries have strong primary care backbones, spend more on social care relative to health care spending, and have other policies that bake in health well beyond medical care.

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FierceHealthIT

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

New research from Duke University School of Medicine puts a price tag on collecting medical bills, and it's not cheap. Indeed, the cost of collecting payments for a single primary-care doctor who is affiliated with a big academic medical center is $99,000 a year and represents roughly 1 in 7 dollars collected.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Given that over the past two years most of my medical visits have been via telemedicine anyway, it’s been natural to begin to […].

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Several factors underpin the adoption of telehealth in 2019: Consumers’ demand for accessible, lower-cost health care services as people face greater financial responsibility for paying the medical bill (via high-deductible health plans and greater out-of-pocket costs for co-payments).

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2018

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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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

adults had problems paying medical bills, largely delaying care due to cost for a visit or for prescription drugs. In May, only one-half of patients were interested in returning for an office visit with their primary care provider. The first chart here shows that one in four U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 2, 2023

Products ChristianaCare launched Virtual Primary Care , a subscription-based service available to residents of Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Jersey. Hint Health debuted Hint All-in-One , an EHR, practice management, and patient communications app for direct primary care.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 29, 2018

Where we live may pump clean water, have safer schools and access to healthier food at fair prices, staff more primary care physicians and access points like ambulatory health centers, and have a majority of people who shun smoking cigarettes. This whole world is rough, it’s just getting rougher.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 24, 2022

WELL Health is acquiring CloudMD’s Cloud Practice entity which includes OSCAR based Juno EMR or “Electronic Medical Record” and ClinicAid billing Software applications as well as three primary care clinics located in the province of British Columbia. About WELL Health Technologies Corp.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Dr. David Berg, cofounder and chairman of the board of Redirect Health, a primary care national healthcare organization featuring telemedicine and mobile health, believes the healthcare industry should reduce unnecessary inconveniences – such as extensive travel or wait times – from the healthcare experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 30, 2023

The announced noted that M*Modal parent company 3M Health Information Systems, virtual primary care provider Babylon, and ScribeEMR are early adopters of HealthScribe. One culprit is staffing in post-acute care – 87% of nursing homes report moderate to high staffing shortages. Nearly two-thirds (63%) of U.S.

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NiftyHMS

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The patient has booked primary care physician appointments on Whatsapp and gets confirmation quickly. Schedules routine in-person wellness appointment with primary care physician (PCP) in an office. Remote consulting was done via WhatsApp and delivered A1C tests were in advance to send back via mail at home.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2022

In 2019, Find Care expanded services for consumers to manage chronic health conditions addressing asthma, COPD, and diabetes. And they have helped people co-create health outcomes as quantified in the cancer care experience slide shown here.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Bonus Features for October 29, 2023: 66% of patients prefer email or text for reminders about medical bills, plus 94% of clinicians said lack of timely access to insights within EHR impacts patient care. Digital engagement vendor Uniguest acquired pCare , a patient engagement company.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

Continued consolidation in primary care There will continue to be consolidation in primary care. Optum Care is becoming a model for big companies. Over the last few years, significant private capital has flowed to innovative primary care-led ventures. Ted Shannon, CFO at Strive Health.

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Mend

OCTOBER 25, 2022

For those working indirectly with patients (call centers, billing and coding, IT, accounting and HR), remote work became the norm. Yet those working in direct patient care (primary care offices) were still able to leverage technology to deliver care. Conclusion.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

are more likely to avoid care than men in America, Deloitte found in the consulting firm’s latest survey on consumers and health care. Women in the U.S. Deloitte coins this phenomenon as a “triple-threat” that women face in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Virtual primary care company 98point6 announced a $20 million investment to scale its new technology offering for ambulatory care. Medical billing analytics startup AESOP Technology raised a $2.95 Funding and M&A Activity: With $2.3 million series pre-A round.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

APRIL 6, 2022

I had already been working in health literacy a few years when I received a bill for a recent visit to my primary care physician. Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes are a series of numerical billing codes used to identify medical services and procedures. Wasn’t an annual well visit covered at 100 percent?

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ACA Times

MAY 21, 2015

Compared to those with older non-group plans that are not ACA-compliant, enrollees in marketplace plans are less likely to say they are satisfied with their plan’s choice of primary care doctors and hospitals, but somewhat more likely to express satisfaction with their monthly premiums and annual deductibles.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The transformation is happening, and care management technology is a powerful mechanism, but it alone can’t make this shift, especially for primary care practices and those on the front lines caring for underserved communities with some of the most complex patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 18, 2024

Putting enhanced tools like these in the hands of primary care providers will allow them to provide better care sooner and more easily, which will benefit patients enormously. Up to 80% of medical bills contain errors, leading to systemic waste. An additional use for AI and ML is improving payment integrity.

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