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The Patient as Consumer and Payer – A Focus on Financial Stress and Wellbeing

Health Populi

in 2022, billing and medical payments are now embedded in patientsexperience, regardless of the type of payor. CarePayment conducted a survey among consumers learning more about patients-as-payers and their demands for more retail-style options for billing and payment processes. It’s true to say that in the U.S.

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1 in 2 U.S. Women (“The Bedrock of Society”) Self-Ration Care – the Latest Deloitte Findings

Health Populi

For more on women and health policy in the 2024 election cycle, you can explore the Open Letter on the site of Women Healthcare Leaders for Progress , of which I am one of several hundred signing the Letter.

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Health Consumers Expect Healthcare to be Digital (and Secure), Philips Future Health Index Finds

Health Populi

Older people, in particular, would be more likely to use digital health tools if their clinicians recommend these technologies. Thus, Philips asserts that health care professionals are becoming “true digital collaborators,” seeing positive impacts on the way they and their patients experience health care.

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HLTH 2024: What are the key talking points likely to be?

Lloyd Price

The role of telehealth and remote patient monitoring in improving access to care. The challenges and opportunities of integrating social determinants of health into care delivery. Health Policy: The impact of healthcare policy on patient outcomes and access to care.

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Can Consumer Electronics Help Stem the Decline of U.S. Life-Years? A Preface for #CES2023

Health Populi

Bolstering the impact of digital health technologies — and particularly remote health monitoring and clinically-prescribed wearable tech — was the late December 2922 health policy news that telehealth provisions would be included in the FY2023 Omnibus Appropriations Bill.

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Real-Time Versus Store-and-Forward Telehealth Technology

AMD Telemedicine

In instances where patients are consulting with specialists, live consultations can help practitioners render immediate, on-the-spot diagnoses or treatment suggestions, rather than patients having to transfer to different facilities for second opinions or consults.

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The New DTC Channel Is…A Vending Machine (From Advil to Plan B)

Health Populi

An important one to watch seems simple on its face, but could expand access to specific patient populations who need products and services at home or close-to-home — like needing a condom at 3 am. in the current post-Dobbs health policy environment. Enter the humble vending machine. ” That is, emergency birth control.