Medsphere March 7, 2017
Irv Lichtenwald, President and CEO

Earlier this year, Monmouth University conducted a survey to determine which issues were most important as the country transitions to a new presidential administration. Among all the potential concerns Americans now face, the issue that rises to the top is healthcare costs.

How acute a concern is this? It’s significant enough that, when asked the open-ended question, “turning to issues closer to home, what is the biggest concern facing your family right now?”, 25 percent of respondents made it their number one issue.

“It’s also worth noting that issues that have been dominating the news, such as immigration and national security, rank very low on the list of items that keep Americans up at night,” said Director Patrick Murray of...

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Topics: ACA (Affordable Care Act), CMS, EMR / EHR, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, HHS, HIE (Interoperability), HITECH, Investments, Medicare, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Physician, Population Health Mgmt, Primary care, Provider
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