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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. This commitment is in effect now.

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No More ‘Dabbling’: It’s Time to Embrace Value-Based Care

The Healthcare Blog

I sit on the board of Interwell Health , a VBC kidney care company serving nephrologists, patients, and payers. Participating patients experience a home dialysis start rate that is 85 percent higher than the national average, a transplant rate 41 percent higher, and an all-cause hospitalization rate that is 20 percent lower than average.

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

Health Populi

“Do no harm” has been the professional and ethical mantra of physicians since the Hippocratic Oath was first uttered by medical students. Finally, the Internet of Thinking rounds out Accenture’s five themes in the 2018 Health Tech Vision. Accenture’s vision this year is built on five pillars: Citizen AI. Extended Reality.

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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. Another grocery, Giant Eagle, is moving its pharmacies further into medical services through an agreement to channel DarioHealth’s Digital Diabetes Education and Rewards Program.

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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. Why do people use wearable tech for health?

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The Retail Health Battle Royale in the U.S. – A Week-Long Brainstorm, Day 2 of 5 – Amazon and One Medical

Health Populi

Today we review the various viewpoints on Amazon’s announced acquisition of One Medical (ONEM, aka 1life Healthcare) which has been a huge story in both health care trade publications, business news, and mainstream media outlets. With PillPack, I wrote here in June 2018 that Amazon got 50 U.S.

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Tools for Paying Medical Bills Don’t Help Health Consumers Manage Their Financial Health

Health Populi

There’s a gap between the supply of digital health tools that hospitals and health systems offer patients, and what patients-as-consumers need for overall health and wellbeing. This chasm is illustrated in The future of the digital patient experience , the latest report from HIMSS and the Center for Connected Medicine (CCM).

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