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. healthcare spending, with curves moving up and to the right, and the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund moving into the opposite direction toward insolvency by 2033.

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Healthcare Success

MAY 31, 2022

To further complicate matters, as healthcare consumers continue to prioritize patient experience, physicians are leaving private practices for hospitals and larger medical groups at an alarming rate. According to Avalere Health , nearly three in four doctors work for a hospital, health system, or corporate entity today.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 27, 2024

Transitions from hospital to home remain one of the biggest problem areas for the U.S. health care system. There are benefits of a patient staying in the hospital. Chief among them is the ability to have regular attention being paid to the patient.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Albany Med - Columbia Memorial Health (CMH) in Hudson, New York, is a community hospital and health system serving more than 100,000 residents in Columbia and Greene counties. Patients would look for their symptoms on Google and seek care at other hospitals and health systems in the region that had a stronger digital presence.

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Healthcare Success

APRIL 8, 2024

For medical organizations, the best packaging goes beyond mere window dressing and encompasses the entire patient experience (e.g., Aligning your patient’s tangible experiences with the image you want to convey is essential. Hospitals and health systems can also achieve promotional success by packaging service lines (e.g.,

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

So in today’s Health Populi we turn to a new report, Health Care Disruption 2023 Outlook , part of AHA’s “The Buzz” market scan initiative. The American Hospital Association is taking disruption seriously right here, right now, as the U.S. markets by 2025 and planning for 1,000 by 2027.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

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. In 2019, J.D. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 20, 2022

Paddy Padmanabhan For a while now, we have been watching how voice-recognition based artificial intelligence tools can improve physician productivity, reduce burnout and improve the quality of the patient experience. Big tech and voice-recognition in healthcare.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 17, 2024

Director of Healthcare Strategy at LexisNexis Risk Solutions Healthcare delivery continues to evolve to meet ever-changing patient demands. These new entrants are largely focused on offering primary care, urgent care, and a growing list of specialty services to make care more easily accessible, affordable, and cost-transparent.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Check out this 1940s ad from Blue Cross (“Plan for Hospital Care”) and Blue Shield (“Plan for Doctor Care”). Back in that day, “1 family in 3 got a hospital bill” and “A doctor bill came with each hospital bill…most likely for surgery.”

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 21, 2022

These patients could be bed-bound, homebound, have little to no support structure, have an inability to access transportation to medical appointments, have infirmities, have high fall risks or more. “It is precisely these patients who are consuming the healthcare dollar at an increasing rate.

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Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2018

So the vast majority of consumers look to doctors to help them achieve their health goals, the second chart illustrates. This is followed by feeling sick, prompting people to schedule time to see the doctor for more urgent (non-preventive) issues. Two in three consumers have made a health care goal to reduce their healthcare costs.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

In the Fear of Going Out Era spawned by the COVID-19 pandemic, many patients were loath to go to the doctor’s office for medical care, and even less keen on entering a hospital clinic’s doors. Once adjusted for volumes, the higher expenses are more evident as hospitals struggle to hold down per-patient costs.”

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CHQ Healthcare

DECEMBER 27, 2022

26 webinar, sponsored by CHG Healthcare and hosted by Becker’s Hospital Review , four industry experts discussed strategies to ensure providers aren’t leaving money on the table. Providers and physicians are the revenue generators for hospitals and health systems. Work to foster a long-term relationship with patients.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 9, 2024

Among other use cases, the health system currently is using advanced ambient AI technology to document doctor-patient conversations and has deployed large language model AI – akin to that used by the popular ChatGPT – to draft replies to patient portal messages. I'm a primary care doctor.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

I’d interviewed Roy at CES 2020 in Las Vegas in January to catch up on consumer health developments, and the March meeting was going to cover Philips’ innovations on the hospital and acute care side of the business, as well as to learn more about Roy’s new role as head of Connected Care.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Founded in 2012, Chicago-based Oak Street Health is a network of value-based primary care centers for adults on Medicare. Its service lines include behavioral health, pharmacy and primary care, among others. AARP selected the organization to provide primary care for Medicare-eligible adults.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Geisinger plans to open more clinics for primary care, senior care, and convenient/retail care. The program resulted in a reduction of both trips to the emergency department and hospitalizations among patients dealing with congestive heart failure. Connectivity as a social determinant of health.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Telehealth will help many people meet up with health care access — but not necessarily universally or equitably. Healthcare delivery will be omnichannel, featuring digital front doors and new primary care on-ramps. Mental health will continue to be the epidemic beyond the pandemic.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 23, 2020

As patients returned to in-person, brick-and-mortar health care settings after the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic, they re-enter the health care system with heightened consumer expectations, according to the Beryl Institute – Ipsos Px Pulse report, Consumer Perspectives on Patient Experience in the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 10, 2022

The fastest way to access healthcare in the United States isn’t through a primary care physician or urgent care or orchestrated referrals processes. She has experience in building digital workflow, analytics and AI technologies, with a heavy emphasis on human-centered design.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

physicians were using telehealth to care for patients at the end of 2021. Among those doctors who were not providing telehealth by late 2021, just over one half never did so during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the 2021 Telehealth Survey Report from the AMA. Specialty care. Specialty care. Four in five U.S.

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Vie Healthcare

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Episode Introduction Justin shares the lightbulb moment that led to a change in his focus, the three keys to LifeMD’s success, and how compliance and mentality can improve the patient experience. There are three big things that I think a direct to patient telehealth company needs to be successful. It’s proven at scale.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Virtual care also offers an opportunity to enhance the patient experience, improve population health , reduce costs and improve the work-life of healthcare providers — the quadruple aim of healthcare. “To The future of healthcare is most likely a hybrid model, where patients receive a mix of virtual and in-person care.

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Health Populi

JULY 23, 2020

This was a major shift in telehealth “service channel,” Parks points out, from accessing a platform from a company specializing in telehealth with a nationwide network of doctors to using a local provider’s service.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

adults’ levels of trust in health care services and suppliers, finding the greatest trust lies with a consumer’s local pharmacy (for 77% of consumers), followed by hospitals (for 73% of people) and in third rank, health technology (63%). The 2023 Edelman Trust Barometer gauged U.S. public health, as well. million medical records ).

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Etactics

APRIL 12, 2024

Imagine you’re a doctor and you have a patient that comes in for a service such as a check-up. Some seek eligibility for financial assistance programs offered by hospitals or other organizations. They can pretty much select any doctor or hospital they please. Both are quite an important subject if you ask me.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 29, 2023

Carrum Health collaborates with apree health , the company formed by digital health innovator Castlight Health and leading advanced primary care provider Vera Whole Health. CliniComp and Oroville Hospital expanded its multi-year partnership beyond Perinatal areas to include Critical Care and high acuity Medical/Surgical units.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 20, 2023

It will be essential that the industry has the data and outcomes to show the broader value impact — in addition to capacity, home health provides a more positive patient experience with lower costs. In addition, the impact to margin of the payer mix and specific payer strategies designed to maximize care will be critical in 2024.

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Health Populi

JULY 26, 2022

As we all grapple with what this means at this preliminary stage and then what could evolve over time, I focus on the dual aspect of the opportunity: is this about primary care or is this about data? Amazon is already well-entrenched in many health care activities, as a new report from Bertelsmann Stiftung presented in this chart.

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The Beryl Institute

OCTOBER 19, 2020

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. In fact, in The Beryl Institute’s recent report on Consumer Perspectives on Patient Experience in the U.S. ,

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Ambulatory Care Patient Experience Telemedicine Primary Care 52

Health Populi

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The American Customer Satisfaction Index Insurance and Health Care Study 2020-2021 published today, recognizing consumers’ value for the quality of health insurance companies’ mobile apps and reliability of those apps. Year on year, few experience benchmarks significantly shifted between 2020 and 2021, the first bar chart shows.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 16, 2020

The definition of that “modern house call” is largely based on the model of care delivered by CareMore Health — a team-based approach that serves the whole person beyond their diagnosis.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Walgreens and Pearl Health , a provider enablement company has announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the expansion of value-based care in collaboration with community-based primary care physicians. In addition, Walgreens will also work with providers to help patients discharged from the hospital transition to home.

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Health Populi

JULY 10, 2020

Over one-half of consumers learned about virtual care options through an online search like Google or Bing (“Calling Dr. Google!”), ”), and another one-third through a patient portal, hospital system, or urgent care website.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

They are all trying to tackle this issue of broader access by launching new primary care models and virtual services. One positive side effect of past market downturns was healthcare practitioners returning to hospital networks and the healthcare workforce. Nicole Rogas, President at symplr. In so doing, the U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2019

Power is that only one in ten Americans have ever used telehealth or virtual health to substitute for an in-person visit to a doctor’s office, hospital, ER or urgent care clinic in the past year. And cost, to both the end-user patient and plan-sponsor, is clearly a potential advantage. The top-line finding from J.D.

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Telemedicine Urgent Care Doctors Medicaid 81