Health Populi

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Patients are now front-line payors in the U.S. health care system. As such, American health consumers are wrestling with sticker shock from surgical procedures, surprise medical bills weeks after leaving the hospital, and the cost of prescription drugs — whether six-figure oncology therapies or essential medicines like insulin and EpiPens. To manage personal health finances, patients-as-payors are increasingly willing to face trade-offs and change personal behaviors to lower health care costs, b

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Health Care Leader News

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Population health is a popular phrase in the NHS, but what does it really mean and how can we, as commissioners, providers and health systems, benefit from it? Dr Nick Pulman explains. At its most basic, population health management (PHM) uses data about patients – be that health, social care, education, demographic or housing data – to understand the needs of a population.

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Osf Healthcare

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

OSF Medical Group, which oversees all clinics, worked with Healthcare Analytics, IT and finance to create a standard clinic operations performance management system to help drive operational excellence and better serve our patients.

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Healthy Debate

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The post Can wastewater monitoring help inform future drug prevention strategies? appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Health Dialog

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

February is American Heart Month, a time to bring heightened awareness to the risks of heart disease, which takes the lives of about 647,000 Americans each year. As a population health management company, we’ve spent decades coaching and engaging individual patients from all walks of life to better manage their heart health. In this article, we highlight some of the key patient engagement strategies we’ve implemented to motivate long-term behavior change. .

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Turner Healthcare Quality

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Metaphorically Speaking: Health Care Quality and Puzzles

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The Beryl Institute

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

We want to thank everyone who participated and shared their comments and suggestions in our first annual Community Needs Assessment launched in December. Moving beyond our standard member survey questions asked in the past, we grounded the assessment in the opportunity to learn what you, our community, needs and wants and what really matters to you in your experience efforts.

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Osf Healthcare

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The ED Dashboard includes more than 50 measurements that leaders at each hospital can use to make decisions that will improve care.

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Healthy Debate

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The post What should you know about your electronic Ontario health record appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Health Dialog

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Beyond helping to treat rashes, colds, and migraines, a call with a nurse can mean the difference between a trip to the ER or a trip to the local pharmacy. Nurses can offer advice to scared parents in the middle of the night, to newly diagnosed diabetes patients who don’t know how to manage their new symptoms, or to those patients who need help navigating the complexities of the healthcare system.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Americans who have commercial health insurance (say, through an employer or union) are rarely thought to face barriers to receiving health care — in particular, primary care, that front line provider and on-ramp to the health care system. But in a new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine , commercially-insured adults were found to have visited primary care providers (PCPs) less often, and 1 in 2 had no PCP visits in one year.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Outpatient revenue is crossing the curve of inpatient income. This is the new reality for U.S. hospitals and why I’ve titled this post, “outpatient is the new inpatient,” a future paradigm for U.S. hospitals. This realization is informed by data in a new report from Deloitte, Where have the many hospital inpatient gone? The line chart illustrates Deloitte’s top and bottom line: “The shift toward outpatient is happening and will likely have a tremendous impact on ope

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Even with the prospect of enrolling in Medicare sooner in a year or two or three, Americans approaching retirement are growing concerned about health care costs, according to a study in JAMA Network Open. The paper, Health Insurance Affordability Concerns and health Care Avoidance Among US Adults Approaching Retirement , explored the perspectives of 1,028 US adults between 50 and 64 years of age between November 2018 and March 2019.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

There are 1,844 rural hospitals operating in the U.S. That number is down by 19 in the 2019 calendar year, the worst year of rural hospital closings seen in the past decade. That hockey-stick growth of closures is shown in the first chart, where 34 rural hospitals shut down in the past 2 years. Rural U.S. hospitals are in poor fiscal health. “The accelerated rate at which rural hospitals are closing continues to unsettle the rural healthcare community and demands a more nuanced investigati

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

With our HealthConsuming “health is everywhere” ethos, this post updates some of the most impactful recent retail health developments shaping consumers’ health/care touchpoints beyond hospitals, physicians, and health plans. For inspiration and context, I’ll kick off with Roz Chast’s latest New Yorker cartoon from the February 3rd 2020 issue — Strangers in the Night, taking place in a Duane Reade pharmacy.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

More U.S. doctors are using digital health tools in patient care, with quickening adoption of telehealth and remote monitoring technology, according to a study from the American Medical Association (AMA). This survey, conducted in 2019 among 1,359 U.S. physicians, follows up AMA’s research conducted in 2016 and largely reflects the original questionnaire to be able to understand real changes among doctors’ use of tech in practice.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Millions of Americans have to work 53 weeks to cover a year’s worth of household expenses. Most Americans haven’t saved much for their retirement. Furthermore, the bullish macroeconomic outlook for the U.S. in early 2020 hasn’t translated into individual American’s optimism for their own family budgets. (Sidebar and caveat: yesterday was the fourth day in a row of the U.S. financial markets losing as much as 10% of market cap, so t he global economic outlook is being revised downward by the like

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

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). The big gap in supply to patients vs. demand by health consumers is highlighted by what the arrow in the chart below points to: managing payments and paying bills.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

“We need to demand our health citizenship. That means our nation must approach medical treatment and data privacy as civil rights that protect everyone.” This is the start of my column, Americans, let’s claim our health care rights , published by USA Today today. USA Today is publishing a 10-part series called “Hidden Common Ground” addressing key issues where Americans can come together.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

At this year’s CES — that’s the annual meta-meet-up of tech-loving folks from around the world who meet in Las Vegas to see the latest in all forms of consumer electronics and technology, from smart refrigerators and sexy sleek cars to videogames and personal emergency systems — there was a lot for the health care industry to soak up.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The Consumer Technology Association (CTA), collaborating with industry stakeholders, has ushered in a standard for artificial intelligence in health care. CTA is the membership organization for companies that innovate, manufacture and market consumer-facing tech like big-screen TVs, slick new autos, video games and voice assistants. So what’s an organization like CTA doing with AI and health care?

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

On February 12, 2020, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of the U.S. submitted the Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to Congress and testified to the Senate Banking Committee. Chairman Jerome Powell detailed the current state of the economy, discussing the state of the macroeconomy, GDP growth, unemployment, inflation, and projections for 2022 and beyond.

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Speaker: Dr. Ugo Uwaoma, MD, MBA

Due to the impact of COVID-19, integrating telehealth software into practices and organizations has become the new normal. In turn, this has increased the effectiveness of collaborative healthcare by strengthening communication amongst healthcare workers and helping combat the woes of burnout. Communication between patients and healthcare providers has also improved, allowing patients to reach their providers easily and decreasing turnaround time.

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Healthy Debate

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The post The time has come…health care makes the push to go digital appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Healthy Debate

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The post We need to change how we discuss goals of care in Canada appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Healthy Debate

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The post Why your next emergency room bed should be in the cloud appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Healthy Debate

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The post Prescriptions are for more than just drugs. Ontario Health Teams should use ‘social prescribing’ to improve our health and wellbeing. appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Speaker: Matt McBride, CEO and Co-Founder of Mend

Patient engagement happens before, during, and after interactions. Consumer research has found that in 2021, 64% of US households reported using Telehealth services. In addition 34% of patients would prefer Telehealth visits to in-office visits. Accessible patient engagement technology can help you improve your relationships with your patients while also improving your KPIs.

Health Dialog

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Achieving a Star Rating of 4.5 or more results in a 5% bonus for your health plan. Concentrating efforts on improving pharmacy measures for your population can significantly improve your odds of qualifying for these bonus dollars, which could equate to millions in revenue. In a recent webinar, titled 3 Steps that Improve Star Ratings: A Focus on Medication Adherence, Health Dialog’s Pharmacy Director , Jenny Glennon, PharmD, MPH, discussed key strategies for optimizing the return on investment (

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Health Dialog

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

When a sudden healthcare issue arises, patients aren’t always sure where to seek care. Scheduling an appointment with their primary care provider may take too long. According to a survey Health Dialog conducted , 51% of patients say they can get an appointment with their provider within a week, but 33% have to wait 1-3 plus weeks to be seen. Sometimes waiting isn’t an option but the alternative of visiting the emergency room might be too extreme for a patient’s current situation.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Most Americans associate more optimistic words with human genetics research than they do darker implications: “curious,” “hopeful,” “amazed.” and indeed “optimistic” ranked the top four impressions in peoples’ minds, based on a survey form the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG). Below these perceptions are a few concerning concepts such as “cautious,” “concerned,” “hesitant, and “skeptical,” th

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Among all Americans, the most popular approach for improving the health care in the U.S. isn’t repealing or replacing the Affordable Care Act or moving to a Medicare-for-All government-provided plan. It would be to improve the current health care system, according to the Bipartisan Policy Center’s research reported in a Bipartisan Rx for America’s Health Care.

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