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

Health Populi

McKinsey just published a detailed report into Sporting Goods 2025 , which the firm calls a “new balancing act” that must turn uncertainty into opportunity.

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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

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 ventures described here are reshaping what the consumers’ health experience is, pressuring legacy healthcare providers — hospitals, doctors, pharma, health plans, et al.

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Healthcare Policies We Can Agree On: Pre-Existing Conditions, Drug Prices, and PillPack – the June 2018 KFF Health Tracking Poll

Health Populi

but one issue is on the mind of most American voters where there is evidence of some agreements: health care, as evidenced in the June 2018 Health Tracking Poll from Kaiser Family Foundation. Top-line, health care is one of the most important issues that voters want addressed in the 2018 mid-term elections, tied with the economy.

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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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