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A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity

Health Populi

NABIP, whose members represent professionals in the health insurance benefits industry, drafted and adopted a new American Healthcare Consumer Bill of Rights launched at the meeting. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 had embedded within the law a Patient’s Bill of Rights.

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The Ill Health of Rural Hospitals in Four Charts

Health Populi

The first line chart illustrates rural hospital closures since 2010. Now we’ll move to the third chart, a heat map which shows those states with the highest number of rural hospital closures since 2010. The darker red shades represent the states with the greatest rural hospital losses. and lower Great Plains.

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Dispatches from the Frontlines: Connected Health and COVID-19

Connected Health Initiative

Key Challenges for Telehealth, RPM, and Other Digital Health Technology Before the COVID-19 pandemic, connected health solutions like telehealth and remote patient monitoring (RPM) showed enormous promise but had a modest impact on the practice of healthcare in the United States. billion in 2018. billion in 2018.

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The Burgeoning Role Of Venture Capital In Health Care

Henry Kotula

The growth of venture capital and venture capital -backed, early-stage companies (startups) deserves the attention of patients and policy makers because advancements in medicine are no longer exclusively born from providers within the delivery system and increasingly from innovators outside of it.

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A Mid-Year Update on 2023 Healthcare Trends

Henry Kotula

The series covered broad issues related to the healthcare workforce, economy, and health policy, and highlighted internal industry changes and trends in service delivery, quality, and equity. As noted by the publication Pitchbook and CB Insights , venture capital funding in the digital health space totaled $7.5

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Patients, Health Consumers, People, Citizens: Who Are We In America?

Health Populi

“Patients as Consumers” is the theme of the Health Affairs issue for March 2019. Now consider what happens when consumers (the noun chosen by the authors of the second paper I’m adding to the mix) access data, information and tools for self-management in health care.