Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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Follow-Up Hospital Insurance Medication 174

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

An article published in Health Services Research in August 2018 talks about Trends in the Types of Usual Sources of Care: A Shift from People to Places or Nothing at All. “The positive, salutary effects of having a USC have been documented for decades,” the authors note. Why should that be, in a physical sense?

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Health Populi

APRIL 30, 2018

Three-fourths of healthcare providers experienced a data breach in 2017, according to the HIMSS 2018 Cybersecurity Survey. Only 41% of healthcare workers say they receive security training, a Forrester study learned in January 2018. The link will take you to the Request, and input will be accepted until 31 May 2018.

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Documentation Hospital Medication Patient Experience 59

Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

Use of wearable tech nearly halved, from 33% to 18%, between 2018 and 2020. “Privacy” is mentioned over 500 times in the document; “HIPAA,” well over 300. Use of mobile apps to track personal health activity fell from nearly 1 in 2 consumers to 1 in 3.

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Appointments HIPAA Documentation Tests 139

Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2019

Research published in JAMA Internal Medicine in December 2018 found that as out-of-pocket costs for insulin have increased over the past few years, many patients use less insulin than needed. But what’s been published online since hospitals began to post prices hasn’t been very helpful, as this story in Vox documents.

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Insurance Hospital Documentation Patient Experience 66

Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2019

An intriguing data point comes in Figure 14 on the distribution of non-hospital-based provider-to-patient telehealth claim lines in 2018. FAIR Health’s paper on A Multilayered Analysis of Telehealth published in July 2019 found that telehealth usage has substantially grown since 2015 as more states implement laws for coverage.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

And, according to the WSJ reporting, “Neither patients nor doctors have been notified. At least 150 Google employees already have access to much of the data on tens of millions of patients, according to a person familiar with the matter and the documents.” health care. Out-of-network costs?

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