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Nurses Earn Highest Grade for Care Far Above All Other Health Care Workers — Including Doctors — In Latest Gallup Poll

Jane Sarashon

Nurses rank highest among various factors in the U.S. Further substantiation for nurses’ topping this poll of excellent care is that Gallup found historic low confidence in the U.S. The second chart arrays the historical trend downward for all healthcare players (except walk-in/urgent care clinics) looking back to 2003 to 2023.

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Thinking Value-Based Health Care at HLTH 2022 – A Call-to-Action

Jane Sarashon

health care system continues to be so much about prices — as Uwe Reinhardt and colleagues advised us in the seminal Health Affairs article from 2003, “It’s the Prices, Stupid.” Check out this 1940s ad from Blue Cross (“Plan for Hospital Care”) and Blue Shield (“Plan for Doctor Care”).

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Chartis Establishes the Chartis Center for Burnout Solutions

Healthcare IT Today

DES Health Consulting works with multi-hospital healthcare systems to reduce burnout and improve retention, safety, quality, and physician and nurse satisfaction. “By In 1995, he began treating physicians and nurses at the University of Arizona College of Medicine.

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Rethinking Big Data in 2024: How Healthcare Can Leverage Workforce Intelligence to Improve Care

HIT Consultant

Leaders must leverage data inside and outside their organizations for healthcare systems to thrive, let alone survive in an arena of extreme supply and demand limitations among doctors, advanced practice providers, allied health professionals, and nurses. Workforce Shortages Are the New Normal According to the U.S.

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In U.S. Health Care, It’s Still the Prices, Stupid – But Transparency and Consumer Behavior Aren’t Working As Planned

Health Populi

back in 2003 — so we’ve known for over 16 years that in the U.S., From 2003 to 2019, the theory that prices are the primary driver of America’s spending more on health care than any other country is still the case. On the supply side, the U.S.

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Patients, Health Consumers, People, Citizens: Who Are We In America?

Health Populi

Article #3 in my deep dive here extends the second analysis into digital health information, next focusing on Americans’ use of quality information on doctors. most visibly for prescription drugs , and increasingly for other line items in the medical bill like nursing home care, hospital care, and physician services.

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Voting for Health in 2020

Health Populi

In 2003, Denise wrote that, “eHealth is the means to deliver responsive healthcare tailored to the needs of the citizen,” invoking that “C”-word quite purposefully. He was the first person to speak to me about “health citizenship.”. In the U.S., voting in 2020 has everything to do with our health baked into every aspect of our lives.