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Think Quintuple Aim This Week at #HIMSS25

Health Populi

The growth of wearable technology, need and desire for real-world evidence and patient feedback, and especially patients’ growing role in paying for health care (think: high deductibles, co-insurance, and the challenge of medical debt) all drive the need to enhance the health care experience for patients in consumer and retail grades.

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The Patient As Payor: Workers Covered by Employer Health Insurance Spend 11.5% of Household Incomes on Premiums and Deductibles

Health Populi

The topline of this study is that average annual growth in employer premiums rose faster between 2016 and 2017, by about 5% for both single and family plans. Workers covered by health insurance through their companies spend 11.5% Health care stress is a mainstream featured in Americans’ collective psyche approaching the 2020 election.

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A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

Health Populi

S 2016) and second, re-introduce and sign the Telehealth Modernization Act. Patients-as-consumers increasingly expect retail-enchanting service levels from health care – especially as patients pay medical bills increasingly out-of-pocket. Why this call-to-action on the 118 th U.S. Congress to address telehealth right now?

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Bonus Features – October 29, 2023 – 66% of patients prefer email or text for reminders about medical bills, 94% of clinicians said lack of timely access to insights within EHR impacts patient care, and 28 more

Healthcare IT Today

Digital health funding has dropped to levels not seen since 2016 , with just $3 billion in global funding announced in Q3, according to the latest report from CB Insights. That’s an increase of more than 10x from 2021, though the gains are explained in part from a longer reporting period and more providers participating.

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Why health care costs are making consumers more afraid of medical bills than an actual illness

Henry Kotula

health care costs keep rising, and hit more than $10,000 a year per person in 2016. ” However, the poll, conducted by the University of Chicago and the West Health Institute, found Americans fear large medical bills more than they do serious illness. And 53 percent received a bill that was higher than they expected.

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ACA Cut Unpaid Hospital Care By $7.4 Billion

ACA Times

The HHS review of the economic impact of Medicaid expansion looked at the program’s effect in the 28 states and the District of Columbia that took advantage of the federal government’s 100% of the cost of expanding Medicaid through 2016, decreasing to 90% by 2020.

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The Rise of High-Deductible Insurance

ACA Times

Deductibles are the portion of medical bills individuals must pay before their insurance begins to cover the costs. The average deductible for an individual bronze-level plan will exceed $5,700 for 2016, according to a plan-comparison service cited in the article.