Healthcare trends have been impacted by broader economic inflationary pressures with a lag, and the environment will remain challenging for some time to come. While we expect medical cost trends to be similar to last year’s, we see growing cost pressure from prescription drugs, which account ...
After reading this lesson, you will see why health care costs are rising and how the Affordable Care Act has affected this rise in prices. You'll also learn some ways you can help lower your medical costs. Trends It's a sad truth, but health care costs have risen so high and so qu...
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The wide range of trends we’ve discussed shows just how complex the role of marketing leader has become. Modern healthcare marketing covers the whole sales funnel from top to bottom and beyond, encompassing everything from patient scheduling to ROI validation. CMOs are expected to collaborate clo...
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As health care moves toward a value-based payment model, the pharmacy benefit is going in the opposite direction, one that places unit cost over clinical appropriateness. Read More Medicare Costs Push Financial Limits of Many Older Adults
8 Best Healthcare Mobile App Trends in 2024 1. Telemedicine 2. Digital Prescription and Health Records 3. Remote Patient Monitoring and Wearables 4. Personalized Medicine and Genomics 5. Gaming Applications 6. Retail Healthcare 7. Clinical Solutions 8. Fitness Solutions 8 Best Healthcare Technology...
What are healthcare consumers’ biggest pain points? Given the complexities of the healthcare and life sciences industries, one thing is (unsurprisingly) clear: The majority of healthcare consumers find difficulty in navigating it all. Over half of consumers don’t know how to access a comprehens...
Health care spending per privately insured person increased 7.4 percent in 2003. While lower than the 2002 increase, it still outpaced growth in the overall economy by a margin that exceeds the historical average. The trend for drug spending decelerated the most. Meanwhile, hospital spending grew...
It is concluded that Dutch healthcare costs will increase in the next decades by an annual rate of 2.4%. This projected cost increase consists of increasing healthcare use due to demographic change (0.9-1.0%), developments in epidemiology and technology (1.1-1.2%) and of price and wage ...