19 Labs

APRIL 26, 2018

19Labs GALE, powered by AmWell, offers customers a friendly, inviting experience with full virtual visits securely leveraging the industry’s latest digital health diagnostic devices. experience. This partnership furthers our efforts to make healthcare accessible,” said Ram Fish CEO of 19Labs. “It It allows us to offer enhanced Telehealth 2.0

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19 Labs

APRIL 26, 2018

19Labs GALE, powered by AmWell, offers customers a friendly, inviting experience with full virtual visits securely leveraging the industry’s latest digital health diagnostic devices. experience. This partnership furthers our efforts to make healthcare accessible,” said Ram Fish CEO of 19Labs. “It It allows us to offer enhanced Telehealth 2.0

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Diagnostics Hospital 52

Health Populi

JUNE 1, 2022

MMI 2018 Health Care for Typical Working Family of Four in America Will Cost $28,166. For my previous write-ups of the MMI, here are some links to check out… MMI 2021 The Cost of Health Care for a Family of 4 in America Will Reach $28,256 in 2021. MMI 2019 Milliman Finds PPO for Family of 4 in 2019 Will Cost $28,386.

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Medication Hospital Outpatient Care Diagnostics 87

Health Populi

APRIL 3, 2024

The phrase “patient safety” summons up a list of common sources such as medication errors, surgical errors, health care-associated infections, diagnostic errors, among other adverse events and harms people experience in the course of receiving health care. “First, do no harm” is a key M.O. in health care.

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Health Populi

MAY 30, 2018

.” When the concept of therapies tailored to individual patients is explained, most people like the idea of diagnostic tools that can identify biological markers and marry to personal medical records data to help determine medical treatments that best fit them. This picture of U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Dr. Osler had been a strong advocate for the physician-patient conversation to inform the doctor’s diagnostic acumen and improve patient outcomes. There’s a lot of artfulness baked into the agenda and flow of this event, I learned last year when I attended my first Liberation (2018).

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Health Populi

JUNE 21, 2019

Not that in 2018, 75% of employers offered these programs. One of employers’ key challenges in moderating healthcare costs is the burden of chronic disease among workers. Employers’ healthcare spending on individuals with chronic diseases is nearly four-times that for healthy workers, shown in the second graphic from the report.

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Sensible Medicine

JANUARY 27, 2025

The Edinburgh-based team presented their 5-year results in 2018, and their 10-year results last week. Here is the 5-year survival curves for the composite endpoint of CV death and MI: How can a diagnostic test lead to this much benefit? Both were positive. That is the mystery. It means it was possible. No other trial showed it.

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Tests Diagnostics Follow-Up Medication 304

Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2022

Walgreens launched Find Care Now in 2018. Then one year into the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2021, Walgreens expanded Find Care a year into the COVID-19 pandemic with additional health systems, virtual care providers, specialty care, and lab and diagnostics services. Now, Walgreens is enabling cancer patients to say, “Hello, Jasper.”.

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Patient Experience Diagnostics Appointments Billing 62

ACMA Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

In the healthcare field, many organizations are actively incorporating AI technology into different aspects of the field such as diagnostics, medical imaging, and lifestyle management, towards enhancing overall care delivery. AI is a growing technology that simulates human intelligence within machines.

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Medication Insurance Documentation Follow-Up 40

Arkenea

JANUARY 3, 2025

The use of telehealth in nursing has grown significantly, with a 2020 survey by HIMSS finding that 79% of respondents reported using telehealth to deliver patient care, compared to just 22% in 2018. In this blog, we will explore the ways in which technology has impacted nursing and how it is being used to improve patient care.

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Patient Care Vital Signs Communication Hospital 52

Sensible Medicine

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

JMM Although the skeptical cardiologist questions the value of many procedures and diagnostic tests in cardiology, he remains an enthusiastic advocate of the use of coronary artery calcium (CAC) testing to better personalize each individual's risk of heart attack and stroke. Pearson makes the pro-CAC case below.

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Tests Follow-Up Diagnostics Documentation 117

Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

Sleep has been a key theme at CES, which I began to note in 2018 in this post on prescribing sleep for health at CES. Philips is also expanding tele-dentistry this year , being honored at CES 2021 for this program that connects consumers to dentists which has been especially useful in the COVID-19 pandemic. Sleep-as-medicine for all ages.

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Hospital Acute Care Patient Experience Medication 77

Health Populi

MAY 20, 2024

In the past year, the growth of prescription drug utilization and spending has much to do with the use of GLP-1 agonists to treat diabetes and obesity, along with immunology therapy, and lipid meds, along with specialty medicines now accounting for over half of spending — up from 49% in 2018.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Here’s a snippet from a post he wrote as a new father of son Henry in January 2018. Perhaps that’s because the app provides, “a big hug around the mom,” Andrew believes. He should know. He used Philips UGrow app as a new Dad. At CES 2019, Philips launched new features in the Pregnancy+ app.

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Triage Hospital Medication Follow-Up 75

Health Populi

MARCH 23, 2021

ECRI has published their annual Top 10 list since 2018, when the list featured diagnostic errors, o behavioral health needs in acute care settings, and patient engagement and health literacy — all of which play into this year’s #1 issue, racial and ethnic disparities in health care.

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Sensible Medicine

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

It all started when the Supreme Court overturned the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act in 2018 , effectively legalizing sports betting across the United States by offloading their regulation to states. If you picked up on it, you’re seeing a much bigger trend. Few could have predicted the magnitude of its impact.

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Health Populi

JUNE 2, 2020

There was great news published last week in An Update on Cancer Deaths in the United States from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC): cancer mortality rates have declined by 26% over 20 years, between 1999 to 2018. In 2018, there were 599,274 cancer deaths; 283,721 were among females and 315,553 among males.

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Tests Diagnostics Communication Medication 106

Health Populi

JULY 30, 2018

LabCorp, lab testing and diagnostics. households shopped at retail in January and February 2018. DermatologistOnCall, national online dermatology service. Florida Hospital, Tampa. Heal, on-demand doctor house calls in California, Washington, D.C. and Northern Virginia. MDLIVE, national telehealth service.

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Health Populi

MAY 4, 2023

However, elective procedures haven’t yet reached pre-pandemic utilization (latest read of 98) and for screening and diagnostic tests, underwhelming use at 89 versus the 100 index pre-pandemic. Prescriptions for these medicines in women were up 46% from 2018 (compared with men, growing in Rx volume by 26%).

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Tests Diagnostics Medication Insurance 62

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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Insurance Appointments Documentation Tests 61

Minority Nurse

MAY 14, 2024

To get you all caught up and ready for her guest appearance, this story is a repost of her interview with Minority Nurse from 2018. wildfires, hurricanes, floods) and then bioterror (small pox, anthrax) and worked with drug companies to develop vaccines, treatments, and diagnostics. We worked on emerging infectious diseases (e.g.,

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Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 14, 2024

The death has an “unknown cause” rather than SIDS if the investigation or autopsy is missing, or an alternative diagnosis cannot be ruled out (see Duncan and Byard, 2018 , p. Cause-of-death determination is subject to death certifier preferences, training and experience, and state and local guidance.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 25, 2018

We know that a top issue driving American voters to the 2018 mid-term polls was health care, in at least two dimensions: direct costs to the voters (as patients and taxpayers); and, personal and collective concerns about losing coverage due to pre-existing conditions. Expect health care costs and access to be at least as important to U.S.

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