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Nurses Earn Highest Grade for Care Far Above All Other Health Care Workers — Including Doctors — In Latest Gallup Poll

Health Populi

The pharmaceutical industry and health insurance companies garnered 3 in 10 people rating them as excellent/good, with nursing homes at the bottom a 2.5/10 Physicians’ fall was also a big hit of 15 percentage points down, from 84% of consumers rating doctors with the highest grade of service down to 69% in 2023. health system.

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Doctors’ Offices Morph into Bill Collectors As Patients Face Growing Out-Of-Pocket Costs

Health Populi

patients have assumed the role of health care payors with growing co-payments, coinsurance amounts, and deductibles pushing peoples’ out-of-pocket costs up. Specifically, as the viewpoint’s title attests, doctors taking on the role as bill collectors are “destined for failure.” In the U.S.,

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GLP-1 Revolution, Non-Traditional Delivery, and Telehealth Expansion

HIT Consultant

But that will almost certainly happen as more pharmaceutical companies enter this market and the economies of scale take hold. Weight loss through these drugs should be managed by a clinician, but there aren’t enough doctors available to meet the coming demand.

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Rethinking Big Data in 2024: How Healthcare Can Leverage Workforce Intelligence to Improve Care

HIT Consultant

Leaders must leverage data inside and outside their organizations for healthcare systems to thrive, let alone survive in an arena of extreme supply and demand limitations among doctors, advanced practice providers, allied health professionals, and nurses. Workforce Shortages Are the New Normal According to the U.S.

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

Health Populi

There’s a gap between the supply of digital health tools that hospitals and health systems offer patients, and what patients-as-consumers need for overall health and wellbeing. This chasm is illustrated in The future of the digital patient experience , the latest report from HIMSS and the Center for Connected Medicine (CCM).

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While Virtual Care is “Table Stakes” in Health Care, Consumers Are Growing More Protective About Data-Sharing

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Rock Health points out that younger people and people of color are less likely to have ongoing relationships with primary care doctors or as the phrase goes “medical homes.” Rock Health polled 8,014 U.S.

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Trust in Healthcare

Healthcare Leadership

Do we have the tools to differentiate between helpful marketing that aims to inform versus the more darkly-shaded ask of pharmaceutical marketing that often does not align with best practices? Hurting innovation & research – clinical trial enrollment based on patient trust in their doctor – study.