Health Populi

AUGUST 23, 2021

Financial Experience (let’s call it FX) is the next big thing in the world of patient experience and health care. Patients, as health consumers, have taken on more of the financial risk for health care payments. The post Why Is So Much “Patient Experience” Effort Focused on Financial Experience?

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2025

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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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

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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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2025

.” Health Populi’s Hot Points : Exactly one year ago, I constructed the scenarios illustrated in the last graphic in advance of a panel I led at the annual AHIP conference — focused on consumers and the future of health care in the U.S. collective, community-driven versus individualistic.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2024

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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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2024

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%). 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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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Furthermore, health plan members now see themselves as medical bill payers, seeking value and consumer-level services for their health insurance premium investment. Patients and health plan members continue evolving into medical bill payers, with their homes and budgets baked into the concept.

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