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Nurses are the most trusted profession in America, followed by doctors and pharmacists

Health Populi

Nurses rank top in Americans’ minds for the seventeenth year-in-a-row, Gallup found in its annual survey of honesty and ethics in professions. Gallup conjectured that in 2017, some consumers were associating pharmacists with contributing to the opioid addiction crisis (that discussion covered here in Health Populi ).

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Ren Ci Nursing Homes in Singapore to implement 3D wound management app in 2019

Mobi Health News

Created in response to the challenge of wound management in the community care sector in Singapore, the CARES4WOUNDS wound management application was developed and pilot-tested with 25 patients at Ren Ci Hospital and Tetsuyu Healthcare since November 2017, with good initial results.

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Americans’ Trust in the Healthcare System Low Compared to Rest-of-World’s Health Citizens

Health Populi

Among these people, healthcare trust fell by 20 percentage points between 2017 and 2018, a “crash” (Edelman’s descriptor) from 75 percent to 55%. Finally, the pharma industry ranked fifth of five segments, with only 38% of Americans trusting pharma companies, dropped by a whopping 13 percentage points over 2017.

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Consumers Changing the Channel on Where They Shop for Health

Health Populi

Overall, 2017 to 2018 year-on-year, HBW sales were flat-to-no growth, notwithstanding the consumer and influencer buzz around the categories. GMDC and AT Kearney had a meeting in June 2017. While sales for HBW via FDM channels were pretty flat between 2017 and 2018, “the basket is upgrading,” Knight said.

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Hospitals Work to Address Customer Experience Gap With Consumers, Kaufman Hall Finds

Health Populi

Deloitte calculated another way to measure the ROI of patient delight by looking at hospitals’ financial performance, finding that those providers who scored more highly on patient experience yielded better financial outcomes — highly correlated to patient-nurse engagement.

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Trinity Health's RPM program drops 30-day readmissions rate from 16% to 6%

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In 2017, the health system – which has 100 continuing care locations, including home care, hospice, PACE programs and senior living facilities – was in a bind, facing double-digit hospital readmissions of 16% across its high-risk Medicare population. Trinity Health has 94 hospitals across 24 states. THE PROBLEM.

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Aging Populations of Consumers and Physicians Underpin the Future Doctor Shortage

Health Populi

In 2017, HealthLeaders published an essay titled, “The U.S. Nurses, too, can operate at the top of their license and provide a lot of primary care. This Big Trend converges with another aging demographic: that of U.S. physicians themselves. physician workforce is getting old, fast.” were 55 years old or older.