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The Increasing Need for Ambulatory Care During COVID-19

The Beryl Institute

Like many of you, I have witnessed the changing environment of healthcare during these challenging times. In recent days, with two teenagers who are back in school, I have started to catch up on scheduling their doctors’ visits, dentist checkups and orthodontist appointments that have been suspended these last few months.

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More Evidence of Self-Rationing as Patients Morph into Healthcare Payors

Health Populi

Wolters Kluwer released a summary of a study this week, to be published in full in 2020, surveying 1,000 consumers (232 of whom had been a hospital inpatient in the past year) and 837 health care providers (a mix of physicians, nurses, and hospital administrators). BLS calculated that general price inflation rose 1.8%

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Consumers Want Help With Health: Can Healthcare Providers Supply That Demand?

Health Populi

These and other important health consumer insights are revealed in the firm’s latest report, Waiting for Consumers – The Oliver Wyman 2018 Consumer Survey of US Healthcare. Once a patient enters that healthcare new front door of, say a retail clinic, one-third of these people told Oliver Wyman that it was a better experience.

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Health Disparities in America: JAMA Talks Structural Racism in U.S. Health Care

Health Populi

The coronavirus pandemic has changed so many aspects of American health care for so many people, including doctors. health care. The elimination of health care inequities will require effective integration of health care systems with communities and the social safety net.

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

Health Populi

Rising costs, generational shifts, digital transformation, and fast-growing investments in new health care models and technologies are forcing change in the legacy health care, noted in the State of Consumerism in Healthcare 2021: Regaining Momentum , from Kaufman, Hall & Associates.

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Our Pandemic Lessons: Listening to Michael Dowling – a #HIMSS21 Wrap-Up

Health Populi

healthcare was relatively low (with Northwell Health actually a more mature user of virtual care). On the other end of the size spectrum, smaller independent facilities faced huge challenges pivoting in the pandemic without the support of an integrated system to scale their response. What is the doctor of the future?

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Changing Your Healthcare Mindset with Rhone D’Errico | E. 63

Vie Healthcare

I honor all healthcare professions and the roles we play, but I do know that nurse practitioners bring very real value in terms of quality focus on patient care, efficiency, and really making that human connection to ensure that our patients are healing and able to live their best possible life.’’