Forbes Healthcare

JULY 10, 2024

Kids and adults drank far less sugar following the launch of a tax on sodas in 2018 in the U.K. But experts say the country is still consuming too much.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2018

November 14, 2018, is World Diabetes Day , and the International Diabetes Federation reminds us that this condition impacts the whole household — not just the person diagnosed with diabetes. The post The Growing State of Diabetes in America on World Diabetes Day 2018 appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. Why the family?

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Electronic Health Reporter

AUGUST 28, 2019

Data from AMGA’s 2019 Medical Group Compensation and Productivity Survey shows physician compensation increased in 2018, while changes in work relative value unit (wRVU) productivity remained low. The article Physician Pay Increased, Productivity Remained Stagnant in 2018, AMGA Survey Finds appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 4, 2025

By Thomas Thatapudi, CIO, AGS Health In 2018, the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued a challenge to health IT developers and providers alike to help make every doctors office in […] The article An Automated Solution to Healthcares $125 Billion Fax Problem appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Health Populi

MAY 29, 2018

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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Health Populi

OCTOBER 16, 2018

World Food Day 2018 has four objectives: Don’t waste food. The post On World Food Day 2018, Imagine A Chef Cooking for Patients appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. At Health Populi and THINK-Health, we celebrate the birthday of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), allied with the United Nations.

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Sensible Medicine

JUNE 17, 2024

Proponents wrote back in 2018 that longer-term safety studies are needed that specifically assess…”cerebral microemboli assessed by magnetic resonance imaging.” The bubbles seen on ultrasound imaging during PFA was enough for the proponents to write in 2018 that brain safety was an issue to be studied.

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JUNE 5, 2018

The study, Adjuvant Chemotherapy Guided by a 21-Gene Expression Assay in Breast Cancer, was published in The New England Journal of Medicine on June 3, 2018, coinciding with the researchers’ ASCO presentation of the results. ” A genetic test that costs $3,000 helps to identify women who could benefit from avoiding chemo.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 14, 2019

The 22-page report summarized nationwide trends in health information exchange in 2018, including the adoption of EHRs and other technologies that support electronic access to patient information. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) filed its annual year-end report to Congress at the start of 2019.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 2, 2021

As of 2018, there were nearly one million physicians in the United States alone. This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. That number has undoubtedly grown, because the healthcare industry is in high demand. Being a physician is one of the most […].

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KevinMD.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Having worked in non-profit health care all my life, I decided in 2018 to switch to the “dark side,” or the insurance industry, out of curiosity. With the murder of the UnitedHealthcare CEO, many have expressed vitriol towards the insurance industry. What is it that they do, and how are they doing it?

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Sensible Medicine

MAY 9, 2024

My partner on one video, Brad Rodu of the University of Louisville, conducted work on smokeless tobacco between 1999 and 2018 with support from unrestricted industry grants to his universities. But times have changed, and the tobacco industry is now held accountable for its research by the Food and Drug Administration.

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Scrubs

APRIL 4, 2023

Records show Martinek worked at the facility from January 2018 to September of last year when the incident occurred. She was denied unemployment benefits for months because her former employer challenged her claim, but a state court recently ruled in her favor.

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Scrubs

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

From 2008 to 2018, pit bulls killed or maimed 3,569 people in the U.S. From February 2013 to the present, animal control agencies and health departments in 19 U.S. states report that pit bulls are leading all breeds in biting incidents. and Canada. Pit bull bites are also more deadly than those of other breeds. When they bite, they bite hard.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JUNE 9, 2021

In 2018, we at Lenox Hill Hospital found ourselves at a crossroads. This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Joe Leggio, associate executive director, Lenox Hill Hospital (Northwell Health).

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Electronic Health Reporter

MAY 20, 2019

in 2018 (both acute and ambulatory applications) according to Signify Research’s 2019 global EMR market report. However, only one vendor, Cerner, is estimated to have had a double-digit revenue share in 2018. The EMEA market for electronic health record (EHR) IT is estimated to have been worth $3.7B

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FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The work was performed in 2018. The providers alleged that the company violated state and federal laws by paying them just $2 an hour for their work on weekdays with an extra 50 cents an hour on weekends. CHI Health has agreed to $800,000 as part of the settlement more than four years after the complaint was first filed.

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Scrubs

MARCH 6, 2023

And lawmakers in Washington state have proposed a bill that would provide workers’ compensation insurance coverage for nurses with PTSD, similar to a 2018 law that provides workers’ PTSD compensation to firefighters and police officers. Low pay, long hours, and staff shortages have only compounded the crisis.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2018

At the bottom of the list for honesty and ethics in 2018, Gallup points to U.S. “Nursing is at the heart of health care,” the 2018 National Council of State Boards of Nursing report on nursing supply in 2018 attested.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

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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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The title gives away the results: Here is what they did: They took 159 patients who had severe TR and were operated on from 2004-2018. The Actual Study published in an Actual Journal: A group of surgeons from the Cleveland Clinic reported their study in The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery , which has an impact factor of 6.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

MARCH 27, 2024

Gross Medicare spending on the pricey drugs rose from $57 million in 2018 to $5.7 billion in 2022, according to a new analysis from the health policy group.

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Minority Nurse

MAY 8, 2024

As burn injuries are often associated with several social determinants of health, including poverty (Patel, 2018), food insecurity (Elsey, 2016), and living in under-resourced neighborhoods (Alnabantah, 2016), burn nurses play a crucial role in caring for some of the patients most in need of care. 2018 Apr;202:38-42. Epub 2018 Feb 23.

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 20, 2025

2023, OCR reported a 239% increase in hacking-related data breaches between January 1, 2018, and September 30, 2023, and a 278% increase in ransomware attacks over the same period. PA Business Associate 2,675,934 Hacking/IT Incident 45 2018 AccuDoc Solutions, Inc. In 2019, hacking accounted for 49% of all reported breaches.

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Scrubs

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Louis, MO Burkes has been a staunch advocate for reducing workplace violence against nurses since becoming a leader in the field in 2018. Ahnyel Burkes, National Senior Director of Nursing at Ascension in St. She currently oversees Ascension’s national residency program for new graduate nurses and transition-to-practice programs.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 17, 2019

As reported by Rock Health’s Midyear Funding Review, 2018 got off to a roaring start with $3.4 This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Amy Sklar, SVP of advanced manufacturing communities, UBM. billion for digital health funding in the first six months of the year.

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KevinMD.com

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

According to data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the median time spent in the ED has increased from 2 hours and 15 minutes in 2018 Read more… Rising ER wait times signal larger health system challenges originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2021

Year-on-year, different spikes and ups-and-downs call out for special mention, such as: Pharma’s 13-point steep dive to 38% between 2017 and 2018, dramatically recovering by 9 points in the last year to 47% [with the wild card here of whether U.S. Hospitals’ fall from 70% to 63% between 2018 and 2019.

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Intercoast

MARCH 26, 2025

Thumbtack report ) This shift is already reflected in vocational school enrollments , which saw a 16% increase in 2023 , the highest rise since the National Student Clearinghouse started tracking this data in 2018. (CF: Bureau of Labor Statistics , the median salary for electricians was $61,590 in 2023.

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Electronic Health Reporter

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

In his keynote session at the DreamIt conference in Tampa, November 6, 2018, Sumit Kimar Nagpal, global lead of digital health strategy at Accenture, says the future of healthcare is about a few simple things: Keeping people safe, providing for their well-being and improving care via information and technology.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 5, 2019

of their household income on health insurance premiums and deductibles based on The Commonwealth Fund’s latest report on employee health care costs, Trends in Employer Health Coverage, 2008-2018: Higher Costs for Workers and Their Families. Workers covered by health insurance through their companies spend 11.5% of household income.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2021

The first chart details what younger people, ages 14 to 22, searched online in 2018 compared with 2020. sought health information online in 2020, a slight decline from 2018. Compared with 2018, all online health search topics fell in engagement except for smoking/vaping. Some 8 in 10 younger people in the U.S.

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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 27, 2024

The 2018 American guidelines recommend an LDL-C level <100 mg/dl for primary prevention. This viewpoint is directly challenged by a 2018 JAMA Cardiology paper coauthored by Allan Sniderman, comparing ten-year versus thirty-year risk horizons in terms of prevention.

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Electronic Health Reporter

OCTOBER 16, 2018

This is one of many concerning findings in Kaufman Hall’s new 2018 State of Cost Transformation in U.S. Fewer than one-in-five healthcare executives has seen cost reductions of more than 5 percent in any priority area in the last year. Hospitals and Health Systems: Time for Big Steps report. The report is Kaufman Hall’s second […].

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Medbridge

APRIL 17, 2024

Since 2018, more than $25 billion dollars has flowed into the digital health sector, funding over 2,000 companies. No matter what setting or discipline you’re working in, you’ve probably heard people talking about digital healthcare. But despite the digital health wave, many providers have been slow to adopt these new technologies.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

In 2020, KFF found that 89% of large companies offered a telemedicine benefit, compared with 82% in 2019 and 74% in 2018. 2018 – As Workers’ Healthcare Costs Increase, Employers Look to Telehealth and Wearable Tech to Manage Cost & Health Risks. 2016 – Employer Health Insurance Costs Reach $18,142.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Clearly, while supporting older peoples’ healthy living at home was part of Best Buy Health’s initial vision that went public in August 2018, the pandemic has accelerated the demand for services the Lively Flip supports.

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