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Mashup Score: 0Medical Debt: "The Debt of Necessity" - A Current U.S. Picture from the CFPB - HealthPopuli.com - 2 year(s) ago
On April 11, 2023, three of the largest U.S. consumer credit rating companies — Equifax, Experian and TransUnion — planned to remove medical bill collections that were under $500 from consumers’ credit reports. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) calculated that these medical bill “erasures” under $500 impacted nearly 23 million consumers and eliminated medical collections totally for…
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Mashup Score: 0Three More Signposts on the Road to Retail Health - Weight Loss Drugs, OTC Birth Control and Fashion-Meets-the-Flu - HealthPopuli.com - 2 year(s) ago
We continue to track to evolving, expanding landscape of retail health — which we see as the expanding ecosystem of health/care accessible to people-as-health consumers. This week, three intriguing examples are resonating with us: The ever-evolving weight-loss industry FDA favors OTC use for Perrigo’s Opill daily oral contraceptive birth control pill The convergence of fashion and health —…
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Mashup Score: 2Health Care Financing: How Inflation and Health Care Prices Could Hit the U.S. Consumer - HealthPopuli.com - 2 year(s) ago
In the U.S. in 2021, per person health care spending increased by nearly 15%, reversing 2020’s spending decline of 3.5% in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The latest Health Care Cost and Utilization Report from the Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) details health spending in 2021, dissecting the change in terms of utilization of services and prices by category. That’s a big rise over…
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Mashup Score: 0Consumers Expect Every Company to Play a Meaningful Role in "My Health" - New Insights from the 2023 Edelman Trust Barometer - HealthPopuli.com - 2 year(s) ago
People have expanded their definitions of health in 2023, with mental health supplanting physical health for the top-ranked factor in feeling healthy. Welcome to the Edelman Trust Barometer Special Report: Trust and Health, released this week, with striking findings about how the economic, post-pandemic life, pollution and climate change all feed mis-trust among citizens living in 13 countries —…
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Mashup Score: 5"Your care, your way:" Learning from the Philips Future Health Index 2023 - HealthPopuli.com - 2 year(s) ago
Consider the key drivers of supply and demand in health care, globally, right now: On the medical delivery supply side, the shortage of staff is a limiting factor to continuing to deliver care based on the usual work-flows and payment models. On the demand side, patients are taking on more demanding roles as consumers with high expectations for service, convenience, and safe care delivered closer…
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Mashup Score: 9My Health, My Data - Thinking Consumers, Privacy and Self-Care at HIMSS 2023 - HealthPopuli.com - 2 year(s) ago
The Washington State legislature passed House Bill 1155, aka the My Health, My Data Act, last week. Governor Jay Inslee is expected to sign this into State law later this year. The bill expands privacy protections for Washington State’s health citizens beyond HIPAA’s provisions. The My Health, My Data Act defines “consumer health data” as “personal information that is linked or…
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Mashup Score: 0Food-as-Medicine Update: How SNAP Members Face Greater Chronic Illness and a "Hunger Cliff" - HealthPopuli.com - 2 year(s) ago
The pandemic worsened food insecurity for many people in the U.S., putting more people at risk for not only hunger but for chronic diseases that can be managed with access to nutritious, fresh food. In Helping SNAP Consumers During Economic Headwinds from Numerator, we get a current read on food security, the SNAP program, and the challenges of chronic health management that are intimately tied….
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People who need #nutrition help have >risk of #chronicillness & #hungercliff @numeratorone study Helping #SNAP #healthconsumers in economic headwinds sees ending #publichealth emrgency & >#foodinsecurity https://t.co/sRJJNP8Qxf #retailhealth #foodasmedicine #SDoH #grocerystore https://t.co/UcDyoduJ3I
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Mashup Score: 0How Consumers and Physicians View Digital Health - An Update from the Consumer Technology Association - HealthPopuli.com - 2 year(s) ago
Most consumers are bullish on the benefits that digital health technologies can play in their health. Most health care practitioners are also positive about the potential of digital health — recognizing room for improvement for better data integration, interoperability, and the opportunity to bridge gaps to achieve health equity and bolster access. So assesses the Consumer Technology Association…
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Since we opened our first Walmart Health center in 2019, our goal has been simple: serve our communities by providing accessible, convenient and affordable healthcare. Our healthcare providers don’t just care for patients – they build relationships within their communities. Take Dr. Umara Saleem at…
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Mashup Score: 4We Are All Health Consumers Now - Toluna's Latest Look at Consumers' Health & Well-Being - HealthPopuli.com - 2 year(s) ago
The challenging financial climate at the start of 2023 is impacting how people, globally, are perceiving, managing, and spending money on health and well-being, based on the latest (Wave 21) Global Consumer Barometer survey conducted by Toluna, a sister company of Harris Interactive. Globally, one-third of health citizens the world over are confronting greater stress levels due to…
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We're all #healthconsumers now @TolunaCorporation Consumer Barometer links #financialhealth to #health & #wellbeing -> & #healthcare spending 1 in 2 people feel #financialstress in '23 https://t.co/Eed857k5eb @AccessOne IDs 1/2 consumers delaying care cross income & generation https://t.co/JRQw3MRPaU
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Our #medicalbills now "debt of necessity" @CFPB reports some good news->3 biggest #creditrating agencies have "erased" consumers' #medicaldebt under $500, improving credit ratings for some But mms of #healthconsumers still ration #healthcare due to cost https://t.co/K0Jegd17b6 https://t.co/hikeeCKAjL