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Think Quintuple Aim This Week at #HIMSS25

Health Populi

As HIMSS 2025, the largest annual conference on health information and innovation meets up in Las Vegas this week, we can peek into what’s on the organization’s CEO’s mind leading up to the meeting in this conversation between Hal Wolf, CEO of HIMSS, and Gil Bashe, Managing Director of FINN Partners. Reduce per capita costs.

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

Health Populi

That’s the mantra coming out of this week’s annual Capitol Conference convened by the National Association of Benefits and Insurance Professionals (NABIP). health economy includes employers, unions, public sector plans and other groups as well as the Patient as Payor — thus prompting NABIP’s Bill of Rights.

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Consumers Are So Over Their Paper Chase in Health Care Payments

Health Populi

That’s twice as many patients who would prefer to pay their health care bills on doctor’s or provider’s websites versus online through their health plan’s website (19%). Mailing a paper check? That garners only 5% of patients’ preferences. The financial lives of patients in America continues to play out in U.S.

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Seeing Health/Care Everywhere at CES 2025: My Preview for #CES2025

Health Populi

At CES 2025, I’ll be updating my environmental analysis of consumer-facing health tech in the categories shown in my chart here: tracking food, weight, activity, sleep, safety, kitchens and cooking, heart functions, mental health, gait, home care, cars and mobility, and bathrooms.

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Should You Keep RCM in House or Leverage RCM As a Service?

Healthcare IT Today

Medical practices that have a great RCM leader that’s doing a great job making sure they’re paid every dollar they deserve are fine to do it in house. What happens when your medical billing staff leave and you’re faced with the challenging task of replacing them? However, what happens when that leader leaves?

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Why Is So Much “Patient Experience” Effort Focused on Financial Experience?

Health Populi

Patient experience and engagement were a trending topic at the recent HIMSS 2021 conference, a growing portion of panels and presentations focusing on patient billing, revenue cycle management, and health consumers’ financial literacy. Two-thirds of U.S.

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Deep Human Interactions: The Antidote To More AI In Health Care – Learning From Philips’ CEO At HIMSS19

Health Populi

Eventually, he said, the medical bill needs to be contained. At this year’s conference, AI has been a major theme discussed in both education sessions and on the exhibit floor. .” In his introductory remarks, Frans called out that health care is unaffordable.