Practice Index

JUNE 20, 2024

Now that the British Medical Association (BMA) has opened its ballot for collective action among General Practitioners (GPs) in England, in protest at the imposition of the latest GP contract, Practice Index has asked a number of Practice Managers how they feel about any upcoming action. The BMA’s GP leaders requested an uplift of 8.7%

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

That wand has begun to initiate its magic in the physician community, based on a wonderful essay in JAMA published 20 December 2018 titled, Social Determinants of Health in the Digital Age: Determining the Source Code for Nurture. One is transportation, which is getting a lot of play at HIMSS19.

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Minority Nurse

OCTOBER 12, 2022

More than ever, hospitals seek to attract the best nurses, physicians, and ancillary medical staff. A Magnet appointment is an investment into a safer physical work environment for the nurses. Stop by booth 2018. Magnet hospitals appear to fare better with these recruiting metrics, but do the benefits outweigh the costs?

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Health Populi

JULY 11, 2019

Launched in January 2018, Civica Rx started with pent-up demand for these medicines: nine months after launching, one-third of American hospitals had contacted the organization interested in accessing the generic drugs that Civica Rx was focused on supplying.

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DrChrono

JULY 10, 2018

Santa Monica, CA – July 10, 2018 – Nimblr, which offers the first AI assistant for medical appointments, announced today its platform integration with Amazon Alexa, enabling patients to book and reschedule appointments using voice commands, eliminating the need to pick up the phone.

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Practice Index

AUGUST 29, 2024

The practice attracted media attention last week after the relatives of a 95-year-old patient took to TikTok to complain about spending four days trying to get an appointment for her. UK best for same-day practice appointments General practice in the UK leads the world in providing same-day appointments.

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Valant

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

New mental health medications are often more effective, while also offering fewer and/or less severe side effects. It is important for prescribers and other mental health professionals to stay informed about the latest medications so they can share the information with colleagues and make the right decisions for patients.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

every year from 2020 to 2027, the actuaries at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services forecast in their report, National Health Expenditure Projections, 2018-2927: Economic And Demographic Trends Drive Spending And Enrollment Growth , published yesterday by Health Affairs. National health spending in the U.S.

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The HIPAA Journal

APRIL 27, 2025

Since then, OCR has been cracking down on entities that have failed to provide individuals with timely access to their medical records. In December 2020, the practice fell victim to a ransomware attack that saw hackers encrypt medical records and gain access to the electronic protected health information of 6,800 individuals.

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Health Populi

JUNE 15, 2023

Our platform streamlines coordination across multiple benefits—non-emergency medical transportation, prescription delivery, and food and over-the-counter medication delivery, empowering payers and providers to support patients beyond the four walls of a medical office. Uber Health addresses this challenge head-on.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Assumption 2: Providing transportation to/from health care services will bolster patients’ appointment-making. adults miss medical appointments each year due to transportation challenges, many of whom earn lower incomes. million U.S. versus 36.7%. versus 36.7%. lower costs.

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DrChrono

JANUARY 29, 2018

29, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) —drchrono Inc., the company enabling the medical practice of the future, today announced a new partnership with Nimblr, developers of Holly, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) assistant who automates healthcare appointments in sync with a practice’s practice management platform. SUNNYVALE, Calif.,

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Northwest Career College

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

million adult Americans reported considering massage therapy in 2018. This is the time to ask if they have any medical history or injury you need to know before initiating the massage. You can also ask if they would like to schedule another appointment in the future, especially if they found it helpful.

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 6, 2025

The Supreme Court has declined to hear a case about whether a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) is immune from liability over data breach that exposed the personally identifiable information of patients.Sandhills Medical Foundation is an FQHC that serves patients in the Chesterfield, Kershaw, Lancaster, and Sumter Counties in South Carolina.

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Practice Index

JUNE 20, 2024

The resources, from the Londonwide Local Medical Committees, deal with threats to the safety of staff and risks to patient safety from overworked staff. The LMCs’ Medical Director, Dr Elliott Singer, said: “The document covers steps practices can take to reduce the chances of patient behaviour escalating into abuse or violence.

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Health Prime

JANUARY 24, 2024

The ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, coupled with financial pressures on medical practices and the rapid adoption of technology and digitalization, are continuing to reshape the healthcare landscape for both physicians and patients. The year 2024 is no exception. between 2023 and 2032.

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Relias

JUNE 28, 2023

Integrated care is a best practice model that combines evidence-based medical and behavioral healthcare services at one point of entry. The main purpose is to effectively address and treat co-occurring and chronic mental health, substance use, and medical disorders. This model of care takes place in a variety of settings and locations.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2018

There’s a shortage of medical providers in the United Kingdom, a nation where healthcare is guaranteed to all Britons via the most beloved institution in the nation : The National Health Service. The NHS celebrated its 70th anniversary in July this year. You can learn more about Jo Cox and the loneliness agenda here.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

This blog appears today as part of a #HIMSS18 primer series for attendees, and the industry at large, to discuss major health IT issues that will help move health and healthcare delivery forward in 2018 – and beyond. Still, clinicians need to hone their webside manner , listening and empathy skills.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

One reason is because a medical data breach is more valuable than a hack of, say, consumers’ credit card identities. Emerging categories, like medical cannabis, was also a new-new thing to add to the growing menu of possible healthy things Amazon could channel.

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Doximity

APRIL 19, 2021

This week, we interviewed Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA, FAAP, FACP, FAHA, FTOS , obesity medicine physician scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Within a couple of minutes, I had called her, she clicked the link, and we were live for the telemedicine appointment. In fact, 42.4%

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Doximity

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

⬇️ Learn More about Sanah Ali, MD Dr. Sanah Ali completed her medical training in New York State, and practices Internal Medicine. Jennifer completed medical school and residency training at the Eastern Virginia Medical School and was in private practice until 2021. She hopes to continue it indefinitely!

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2022

Walgreens launched Find Care Now in 2018. As an ecommerce platform, Jasper also supports consumers’ ability to schedule appointments, track symptoms and side effects, receive personalized content, messages, and recommendations. The platform connects patients to the Jasper Care Guides – the high-touch aspect of the service.

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Sensible Medicine

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Jonasson lecture given by Joan Reede MD at the ACS Clinical Congress in 2018. The ACS appointed a Task Force on Racism to “to address the issue of structural racism within the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and within the profession of surgery.” It began with the Olga M.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2022

I asked her to meet with me to discuss her professional news update: being appointed Parexel’s first Patient Ambassador. In 2018, Stacy launched her website, began blogging, and got social media traction when HIMSS appointed her a digital influencer. Why should this be an imperative?

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2020

Because a plethora of patients have postponed seeking medical care from their doctors, 43% of physicians have reduced staff; another 18% expect to do so in the next year, the chart also indicates. Two-thirds of doctors are also concerned about closure of practices due to COVID-19 causing great harm to patients. On the payor front, large U.S.

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Accepted Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

If you want to know how much of BU medical school’s recent $100 million gift it intends to use for scholarships, or what happens to applications to ensure a genuinely holistic process, or what its associate dean of admissions wants to see in students read on! Are you ready to apply to your dream medical schools? 2:03] Sure.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2020

The Fund points out in “Looking Forward” that 30 million people were already uninsured in 2018, with 44 million people underinsured due to high deductibles that were beyond the insured’s ability to afford based on their income. Another 17% were concerned about payment and out-of-pocket expenses for treatment.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

health care economics, patients are now payors as health consumers with more financial skin in paying medical bills. As consumers, people have great expectations from the organizations on the supply side of health care — providers (hospitals and doctors), health insurance plans, pharma and medical device companies.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The number of deaths caused by an overdose of prescription drugs continued to rise until 2018, when it began modestly reversing the trend; however, the Covid 19 pandemic saw mortality numbers rise again across multiple categories of overdosing. First, the prescription must be issued for a legitimate medical purpose.

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Arkenea

MARCH 5, 2025

A statistic from a 2018 Harris Poll on behalf of Stanford Medicine survey revealed that more than half (59%) of the primary care providers believed their EHR system needed a major overhaul. We develop custom EHR solutions for medical practices and facilities. Arkenea is a trusted, software development firm with 13+ years of experience.

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Minority Nurse

JUNE 23, 2023

In 2018, I was promoted to my current role of managing director of NCPC. webPOISONCONTROL was developed and is maintained by a team of board-certified medical and clinical toxicologists. After that fateful doctor’s appointment, I immediately went on sick leave and then short-term disability.

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Setting Sights

AUGUST 11, 2021

Yet, even when I was a medical student, working busy days on the wards and in clinics, with even the petty things still lingering from my past, the PTSD from my own hospital experiences, I thought it was all okay, because I spoke about it, and wrote about it openly, on different platforms. Did anyone sit down and explain any of these to me?

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Health Populi

JULY 30, 2018

Think of this program as the pharmacy chain’s expansion of existing programs in telehealth, married to a ZocDoc-style platform that enables the consumer to shop for and schedule an appointment in one digital encounter. MedExpress Urgent Care, an Optum company and provider of neighborhood medical care. Providence St.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This year’s Temkin Experience Index ranked health insurance among the lowest consumer-facing experiences, and Interbrands’ released their 2018 Best Global Brands report this week — which names only a couple of health-focused companies.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 24, 2019

That individual could be a member of a health plan, a nurse, a physician, a grandparent-caregiver tapping into her grandchild’s medical portal…all people, with different abilities to read and comprehend data, values, and incentives. Why can’t appointments be made online like I do with restaurants on OpenTable?

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The HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 14, 2022

There have been calls from many healthcare stakeholder groups to align Part 2 regulations more closely with HIPAA to allow clinicians to view patients’ entire medical records, including SUD records, to get a complete view of a patient’s health history to inform treatment decisions. 21 st Century Cures Act. Recent Changes to HIPAA Enforcement.

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