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Patients 2.0 – health citizens back into the center of the ecosystem
“Amused,” tweeted @francisds, a tweeter from Norway. “#Patients20 session happening on floor above #Doctors20 #Law20 #Employers20. Pt-centricity is ‘above’ other issues.” Thank you, Francis, for your...
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More health consumers look to pharmacists and pharmacy staff for...
Health consumers prefer supermarket-based pharmacies to chain or mass merchandiser drugstores, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2011 U.S. National Pharmacy Study. Mass merchants, however,...
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The tough nut of health behavior change: it's about today, not next week
While women may equally ‘value’ healthy aging in the long-run, it’s their daily quality of life that may motivate them to stick with exercise routines. Simply put, immediate payoffs are more motivating...
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Working for health care: what $15,000 will buy an American worker
What could $15,000 get you? - The value of the proposed Home Buyers Tax Incentive initiative being discussed in Congress - A Kia Rio automobile - The cost of an NFL fine. $15,404 was the average annual...
View ArticleConnance Announces "360 Degree View on Creating Value for Patients"...
Connance, Inc., a leading provider of revenue cycle solutions that help healthcare providers cut costs, improve resource productivity and increase cash collection, today announced that it is sponsoring...
View ArticleHealth is a team sport: the 2011 Edelman Health Barometer
Lifestyle, nutrition, the environment and the health system are four key factors that people globally say have the most impact on their health. Underlying these influences, its friends and family who...
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Americans' new normal in health: paying attention and responding to costs
The passage of health reform in the U.S. has not enhanced peoples’ confidence in the American health system. In fact, U.S. health consumers’ high confidence level in the future of employer-sponsored...
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Tech fast forward families are ripe for health care self-care
Kids lead their parents in the adoption of digital technologies; that’s why the youngers are called Digital Natives. An intriguing survey of adults’ use of technologies finds that those who do so like...
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Consumer electronics comes to health care — but don't overestimate...
More people with higher levels of concern about their health feel they are in good health, see their doctors regularly for check-ups, take prescription meds “exactly” as instructed, feel they eat...
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Health insurance: employers still in the game, but what about patient health...
U.S. employers’ health insurance-response to the nation’s economic downturn has been to shift health costs to employees. This has been especially true in smaller companies that pay lower wages. As...
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Employers aren't engaging with patient/health engagement
The vast majority of employers who sponsor health benefits look at those benefits as part of a larger organization culture of health. While one-third are adopting value-based health plan strategies —...
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Retail health is hot, especially for the young, affluent and not particularly...
Walmart issued a Request for Information to expand its retail health footprint in the communities in which the world’s largest company operates. That was a strong sign that retail health has surpassed...
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What's baked into the Affordable Care Act? Half of Americans still...
The U.S. public’s views on health reform — the Affordable Care Act (ACT) – remain fairly negative, although the percent of people feeling favorably toward it increased from 34% to 37% between October...
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Consumer engagement in health: greater cost-consciousness and demand for...
People enrolled in consumer-directed health plans (CDHPs) are more likely than enrollees in traditional health insurance products to be cost-conscious. In particular, CDHP members check prices before...
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Consumers are at the center of the business of health and wellness
The market for health and wellness has traditionally included over-the-counter medicines, gym memberships, and vitamins/minerals/supplements. In 2012, the boundaries of health/wellness are blurring...
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Paying medical bills is a chronic problem for 1 in 3 uninsured, and 1 in 5...
Over 20% of U.S. families had problems paying medical bills in 2010 — about the same proportion as in 2007. The Center for Studying Health System Change found this datapoint “surprising,” given the...
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The social determinants of health – U.S. doctors feel unable to close the gap...
Most U.S. primary care physicians realize the health of their patients is largely out of their hands — with their social needs ranking as important as addressing their medical conditions, according to...
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Health spending in America – self-rationing slows cost increases
The Big Headline under the banner of Health Economics this week is the statistic that growth in U.S. national health spending slowed to an anemic 3.9% in 2010 — the slowest rate of growth in the...
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Hey, Big Spender: 1% of US health citizens consume 20% of costs
Cue up the song “Hey Big Spender” from the Broadway hit, Sweet Charity, when you read the January 2012 AHRQ report with the long-winded title, The Concentration and Persistence in the Level of Health...
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Top 15 Hospitals are very wired
Congrats to the 2012 Top 15 Health Systems as crowned by Thomson Reuters today, shown in the chart. They are segmented by size, with large systems (>$1.5 bn), medium ($750mm – $1.5 bn), and small...
View ArticleThe Trust Deficit – what does it mean for health care?
Technology, autos, food and consumer products — two-thirds of people around the globe trust these four industries the most. The least trusted sectors are media, banks and financial services. Welcome to...
View ArticleOn the road to retail health: healthcareDIY and primary care, everywhere
At the ConvUrgent Care Symposium in Orlando, attendees from the worlds of clinics, ambulatory care, hospital beds, pharmacies, medical devices, life sciences, health information, health IT, health...
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We are all health illiterates: navigating the health system in a sea of paper...
“Older patients, caregivers, and family members face growing challenges in understanding and navigating the nation’s increasingly complex healthcare system,” begins a well-articulated column called...
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From volume to value: how health execs see the future of health care
Transparency and authenticity, constant and clear communication, and a drive toward value underpin the future health system — for those health leaders who can commit to these pillars of...
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Addressing chronic illness can help cure the U.S. budget deficit
Chronic illness represents $3 of every $4 of annual health spending in the U.S. That’s about $1.5 trillion. Living Well With Chronic Illness, a report from The Institute of Medicine (IOM), issues a...
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The self-care economy: OTC medicines in the U.S. deliver value to the health...
U.S. health consumers’ purchase and use of over-the-counter medicines (OTCs) generate $102 billion worth of value to the health system every year. Half of this value accrues to employers who sponsor...
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Rising cost of healthcare a headache among affluent Americans
For the third year in a row, wealthy Americans cite increasing health costs as their top financial concern. Furthermore, 1 in 3 affluent Americans are more concerned about the financial stress that...
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Job #1 in data analytics for health care: get the data, and make sure you can...
The ability to get the data is the #1 obstacle that will slow the adoption of data analytics in health care, according to IBM’s report, The value of analytics in healthcare: from insights to outcomes....
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More people in American have trouble paying medical bills: prognosis worse...
1 in 3 U.S. health citizens had some problem paying for medical care in the first half of 2011, according to a survey from the Centers for Disease Control. In 2010, about 1 in 5 people had trouble...
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Superconsumers and value mining: health care's uber-trends driving care,...
There’s a shift in power in health care moving away from providers and suppliers like pharma and medical device companies, toward patients and payers. This is the new health world according to Ernst...
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Public health is valued by Americans, but health citizens balance personal...
While most Americans largely believe in motorcycle helmet laws, seatbelt-wearing mandates, and regulations to reduce sale in packaged foods, most are also concerned about the nation turning into the...
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The life-cycle costs of obesity in health and financial terms: the true math
About 50% of women and men in the U.S. are projected to be obese by 2030. The majority of people in America concur that the nation has an obesity problem. What’s been unknown and underestimated is just...
View ArticleLeverage the American DIY attitude for health
As I leave Asia, where I’ve been for the past two weeks, for the U.S. today, I am reading the daily newspaper, the Korea Joongang News. On today’s op-Ed age is The Fountain column titled, Embracing the...
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Americans continue to self-ration health care in the economic recovery
Even though Inside-the-Beltway economists have said The Great Recession of 2007 is officially over, it doesn’t look that way when you ask consumers about health spending in 2012, based on results from...
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It's the prices and the technology, stupid: why U.S. health costs are...
The price of physician services, proliferation of clinical technology and the cost of obesity are the key drivers of higher health spending in the U.S., according to The Commonwealth Fund‘s latest...
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For consumers, time is money and life when it comes to health care
Once upon a time, patient satisfaction with visits to doctors’ offices used to be a function of bedside (exam room) manner, demeanor and responsiveness of the reception and insurance staff, and the age...
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Sick of health care costs in America
9 in 10 Americans who know the health system — those with a serious illness, medical condition, injury or disability — believe that health care costs are a serious problem for the nation. This problem...
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Health costs will increase in 2013, and employees will bear more: can...
Health spending will increase by 7.5% in 2013, with employees’ contributions rising for in-network deductibles, prescription drugs and emergency room visits. 3 in 4 employers, seeking to control rising...
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58% of Americans self-rationing health care due to cost
Since the advent of the Great Recession of 2008, more Americans have been splitting pills, postponing needed visits to doctors, skipping dental care, and avoiding recommended medical tests due to the...
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The impact of out-of-pocket medical expenses on credit card debt
More than 2 in 3 U.S. households with debt point to medical spending as a key contributor to their indebtedness. Among the out-of-pocket (OOP) costs that drive household debt are the cost emergency...
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