Health Populi

AUGUST 18, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic hastened digital transformation for both the health care industry and for individuals — as health consumers, patients, caregivers, and health citizens. Two new reports from Accenture update our understanding of the changed health consumer in the context of both “home: and the health care ecosystem. These reports are Accenture’s annual Digital Health Technology Vision 202 0 , and an analysis of the firm’s Wave 7 of consumer research, answering the que

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Healthy Debate

AUGUST 18, 2020

Recently, I was dismayed to read an article about plans for a hospice in North York being challenged by some local residents. In the article, the residents claim “in venomous terms” that “they should build it some other place, and not in our place.” These objections led to a local planning review panel.

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Healthcare Highways

AUGUST 18, 2020

THREE QUESTIONS TO SLASH HEALTH BENEFIT COSTS. If your clients are like 93% 1 of employers, affordable and cost-saving health benefits are important to them. On average, about a quarter, or $760 billion of US healthcare spend is wasteful or inappropriate. 2.

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The Beryl Institute

AUGUST 17, 2020

. We recently announced a collaborative partnership to integrate members and resources of the Association of Health Care Volunteer Resource Professionals (AHVRP) into our patient experience community at The Beryl Institute. Previously part of the American Hospital Association (AHA), AHVRP has a 52-year history supporting healthcare volunteer services, retail operations and related support services disciplines.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 17, 2020

The CDC calculated that some 200,000 American lives would be lost to the coronavirus pandemic by Labor Day weekend 2020. Beyond the tragic mortality in the U.S. come morbidity impacts hitting mental health in America, hard. And some people are being hit-harder than others, a report from the Centers for Disease Control details. Overall, 4 in 10 people in the U.S. reported at least one adverse mental or behavioral health symptom in the last week of June 2020.

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Healthy Debate

AUGUST 17, 2020

Alberta is steadily increasing control over key healthcare institutions to minimize opposition to controversial new legislation that creates opportunities for corporations to deliver health services and facilitates expanding the number and nature of surgeries delivered in private facilities.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 21, 2020

The pandemic has become a sort of forcing function on all aspects of daily living, include health care. Deloitte’s latest wave of health care consumer market research updates the COVID-19 impacts on the U.S. health care landscape and asks the question in the study report’s title: “Are consumers already living the future of health?” For the general survey of U.S.

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