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Health Care Planning for 2022 – Start with a Pandemic, Then Pivot to Health and Happiness

Health Populi

One of my favorite Dr. Seuss characters is the narrator featured in the book, I Had Trouble In Getting to Solla-Sollew. I frequently use this book when conducting futures and scenario planning sessions with clients in health/care. along with health disparities and inequities. Of more than one kind.

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Financial Health Is On Americans’ Minds Just Weeks Before the 2020 Elections

Health Populi

. “Combine these scenarios with one of most unprecedented presidential elections in modern history, and it is no surprise that financial health is greatly impacting how consumers are voting this year,” the report concludes. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The patient in the U.S.

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Listen Up, Healthcare: Hear The Patient’s Voice!

Health Populi

Media may report that the annual change in drug pricing has been more modest in the past year; however, the patient-facing cost can be onerous based on people enrolled in high-deductible health plans, co-payments and co-insurance. Once we analyzed the results, we titled the poll, “The Empowered Patient and the Endangered Wallet.”

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The Promise of Digital Health and the Privacy Perils – HealthConsuming Explains, Part 4

Health Populi

There are mobile apps and remote health monitors, digital therapeutics and wearable tech from head-to-toe. Today in America, electronic health records (EHRs) are implemented in most physician offices and virtually all hospitals. Dr. Eric Topol recommended this in his book, The Patient Will See You Now.

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

Jane Sarashon

NABIP’s ten-article “Bill” incorporates a broad range of rights the speak to today’s health care environment — with States’ rights eroding health care access for certain populations, cybersecurity threats reducing patient trust in health systems and technology ubiquity, and health disparities compromising health (..)

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Americans Grew Digital Health-Data Muscles in the Pandemic – New Insights from the Pew Charitable Trusts

Health Populi

The pandemic has further evolved health consumers toward health citizenship — learning that without health care access, mitigated risks of social determinants of health, and trust in institutions, Life in the Coronavirus Era was very difficult.

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Learning from Dr. Eric Topol, Live from Medecision Liberation 2019

Health Populi

Riffing on his great book, Deep Medicine: How AI Can Humanize Health Care , Eric started his talk donning my own professional hat as a heath economist, sharing data about America’s high health care spending with low ROI yield. “The U.S.

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