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Insurance companies vow to fix prior authorization process…again

Medical Economics

Physicians remain cautiously optimistic, recalling past commitments with limited progress, but hope for meaningful improvements in patient care. SHOW MORE Pledge to streamline the process comes amid growing public and government pressure, but the previous industry promises in 2018 accomplished little.

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How to Make Healthcare More Intelligent and Trustworthy: Accenture’s Digital Health Tech Vision 2018

Health Populi

Trust has become a key currency in provider/patient/supplier relationships: 94% of health executives say treating customers as partners is important to gain trust, according to the Digital Health Tech Vision 2018 from Accenture. Finally, the Internet of Thinking rounds out Accenture’s five themes in the 2018 Health Tech Vision.

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Retail Health Ends 2018 With Big Plans for 2019

Health Populi

As the CVS + Aetna merger crosses its last regulatory hurdle at the close of 2018, we enter 2019 facing a fast-growing and -morphing retail health landscape. The company announced a collaboration with the Department of Veterans Affairs along with Philips and T-Mobile to expand healthcare access to veterans via telehealth.

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From Evolution to Innovation, from Health Care to Health: How Health Plans With Collaborators Are Re-Defining the Industry

Health Populi

Consider the following market developments and collaborations that are addressing health access, bolstering value-based models, streamlining and re-imagining service delivery. Walmart launched a ten-year collaboration with Optum in late 2022. These trends began to take hold in the U.S. Expanding value-based care, nationally.

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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

Health Populi

In 2018, consumers’ tracking of at least one health metric crossed over from an analog method to digital tracking, illustrated in the line chart. The proportion of people tracking at least one health metric digitally was 38% in 2018 and grew to over one-half, 54%, in 2020.

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The Biggest Opportunity for Sporting Goods is Consumers’ Physical Inactivity: Learning from McKinsey (with a personal nod to pickleball)

Health Populi

McKinsey calls for greater collaboration in and beyond the sporting goods industry, bringing together both public- and private-sector organizations to tap, motivate, and inspire this under-served market. This is 5 percentage points greater than in 2010, and expected to reach 35% by 2030.

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How Young People Are Using Digital Tools to Help Deal with Mental Health

Health Populi

Three organizations collaborated to conduct and consider this important research: Common Sense, California Healthcare Foundation, and Hopelab. The first chart details what younger people, ages 14 to 22, searched online in 2018 compared with 2020. sought health information online in 2020, a slight decline from 2018.