Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Improves the patient experience. Rising costs have placed more of the financial burden on patients. In fact, 1 in 11 adults delay or go without medical care due to cost reasons, according to the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). Here are three trends we see on the horizon: .

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Note that patients falling into all four of these segments believe, in the words of Lavidge, that, “companies developing health care technology care more about making money than helping patients…All patients worry that a single medical bill could severely impact their financial security.”

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Mend

JULY 19, 2022

What are Current Patient Payment Trends? There are a few different trends for patient payments currently. As briefly mentioned above, one trend is that patients are increasingly responsible for a larger portion of their healthcare costs. Another trend is that more patients are using online payment options.

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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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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

“The odds are against hospitals collecting patient balances greater than $7,500,” the report analyzing Hospital collection rates for self-pay patient accounts from Crowe concludes. to reveal trends on health care providers’ ability to collect patient service revenue.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2022

And they have helped people co-create health outcomes as quantified in the cancer care experience slide shown here. Individuals and their families are overwhelmed with the information, tasks, steep medical bills and the ‘unknown’ that cancer brings and are trying to manage everything with limited to no support.

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Mend

JUNE 8, 2022

The question is no longer whether a practice will adopt the telehealth trends, but which platform they will choose. And, more than ever, they must be aware of new trends that will soon come to market. What are the telehealth trends to look for this year? The Patient’s Journey. Patient Self-Scheduling.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 23, 2023

They must also think carefully about what it takes to deliver an outstanding patient experience—including digitally—in a post-COVID world, where consumers expect digital access and support at each stage of their care journey. But finding the right approach is key.

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Mend

AUGUST 22, 2022

If a patient experiences technical issues before an appointment, this could lead to a decrease in both staff and provider productivity, as well as further patient no-shows. While the login process may seem like something small, keep in mind that patient satisfaction is a vital element to consider as healthcare trends evolve.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 26, 2024

The following is a guest article by Richard O’Rourke, Senior Vice President of Sales and Client Relations at Nordis Technologies In a landscape where patients are responsible for an ever-growing share of healthcare costs, traditional billing practices are falling short as consumers fall farther behind on their payments.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Low performers must reverse this trend if they are to reinvest in their ability to provide community care, leaders note. But a closer look at the numbers shows the gap between high performers and low performers is widening.

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Mend

OCTOBER 25, 2022

This approach can boost staff productivity, drive faster revenue cycles, and create a more rewarding patient experience. Many patients and professionals enjoy fully-remote access, but this trend won’t last forever. Mend starts by integrating with your organization’s medical billing software.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Most patients have experienced frustrations – in the designer’s parlance, “friction” – when seeking routine care as well as during a routine medical appointment. Clearly, patients’ experiences as consumers of healthcare lack the service levels they expect as payors based on this MITRE-Harris Poll.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2024

While not every aspect of medical care is shoppable, many factors are research-able and in doing so, bolsters a persons health literacy and empowerment. Fast-forward to a trend identified for 2025 by the team at Mesh Digital they call the era of health ownership.

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Health Populi

MAY 22, 2018

Milliman notes that pharmacy initiatives have helped to bring costs down over the past 18 years in terms of “trend” of cost increases, driven down through the massive adoption of generics when available on the market. Thus, the total pharmacy spend for families is over 20%, the Milliman team calculates. .

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

While customer satisfaction with health insurance plans slightly increased between 2018 and 2019, patient satisfaction with hospitals fell in all three settings where care is delivered — inpatient, outpatient, and the emergency room, according to the 2018-2019 ACSI Finance, Insurance and Health Care Report. ACSI polls about 300,000 U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Complementing the Commonwealth Fund and CFPB data (discussed below) is another report out this week from Glassdoor addressing Worklife Trends 2025 published this week. As employees were feeling “stuck” in their jobs and careers in 2024, they have also been struggling with prioritizing mental health.

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Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

This change is occurring as the result of clinical innovations, patient preferences, financial incentives, electronic health records, telemedicine, and an increased focus on improving quality of care and clinical outcomes. Some ways to do this are to offer better patient portals, expanded hours, improved access, and clear procedure pricing.

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