DrChrono

JUNE 4, 2018

UCAOA Spring 2018 – Paris Hotel – Las Vegas – May 6-9, 2018 We attended UCAOA 2018 with our enterprise sales and RCM team leaders, Reid Storch and Axel Perez, and several other team members. It was exciting to see people quickly picking up the software on our demo iPads, and walking away anticipating follow-ups from our team.

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Health Populi

JULY 26, 2022

billion investment makes ONEM the third largest acquisition in Amazon’s portfolio, following Whole Foods at $13.7 With PillPack, I wrote here in June 2018 that Amazon got 50 U.S. “It’s easier for them to continue to build up a benefit stack until at some point they said, ‘Hey, you’re already paying me $1,000 a year.

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2022

We met up last week at the DIA Europe 2022 meeting (Drug Information Association) in the cool SQUARE Conference Center in Brussels, Belgium (my current home base for work and life). In summing up the patient-centered interoperability goal, Ardy summarized: “We’ve created the Mint.com of health data.”

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Key challenges to adopting digital health tools are first and foremost cost, following by interoperability and operational barriers. health citizens’ minds in 2020 leading up to the election. .” health citizens’ minds in 2020 leading up to the election.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Seeking health information online along with researching other patients’ perspectives on doctors are now as common as booking dinner reservations and reading restaurant reviews, based on Rock Health’s latest health consumer survey, Beyond Wellness for the Healthy: Digital Health Consumer Adoption 2018. Tech companies?

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Practice Index

JUNE 20, 2024

This decision follows the BMA’s member referendum on the 2024/25 General Medical Services (GMS) contract changes in which over 99% of members who responded (that’s more than 19,000 GPs and GP trainees) rejected the Government and NHS England’s 2024/25 GP contract changes. The BMA’s GP leaders requested an uplift of 8.7%

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

People travel further and wait longer for medical services than for veterinary care (second in this line-up), auto repair, banking, and household services. In terms of personal opportunity costs, Altarum gauged the following lost-times: A working person loses 90 minutes of work-time. A working person loses 37 minutes of leisure time.

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DrChrono

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

In our article with Health IT Outcomes, COO and Co-Founder Daniel Kivatinos does a deep dive on how these two technologies will be extremely useful at every point of the healthcare experience for patients: at home, in the waiting room, during the encounter, and even after for billing and follow up.

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Health Populi

JULY 25, 2019

increase over 2018, according to the 2019 Milliman Medical Index (MMI). The key points of the report are that: Health care costs are growing at a slower pace, although up-ticked from last year’s trend: in 2018-19 costs grew 3.8%, and last year 2017-18 the growth rate was 2.9%. will cost $28,386, a 3.6%

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 5, 2018

On that supply side, though, I met up with an innovation that can help to bend the capital cost curve of how we envision and build new hospitals and clinics. This is a pre-fabricated structure that can be purposed as a single hospital bed room, an imaging pod, a clinical laboratory set-up, or any permutation for healthcare delivery.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Nearly all Americans (86% net responsible) first blame health insurance companies, followed by hospitals (82%). adults 18 and over in August 2018. In 2017, healthcare made up 18.2% Most Americans have been surprised by a medical bill, a NORC AmeriSpeak survey found. Who’s responsible? of the U.S. Plus ça change.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

This was followed by 22% of folks who believed that community organizations (offline) made the greatest impact in reducing lonely feelings, followed by online social networks among 13% of seniors. In the case of loneliness, technology solutions most recently are seen coming out of voice technology: “Alexa, cheer me up.”

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Health Populi

MARCH 19, 2019

Next up in the agenda was the presentation of the Ivan D. If you follow the Vagisil brand and others in the Combe portfolio, you will see the company’s support of women’s health, engagement and empowerment. To that point, IRI’s Kristin Hornberger presented new data on retail health market performance in 2018.

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Health Populi

JUNE 30, 2020

feel this way, up from 56% in 2018 and 2019. This was the highest proportion APA polled since 2018 when 46% of black adults reported discrimination was a significant stressor. adults), followed by States (72% of consumers), and local governments (64% of people feeling the stress). Furthermore, 4 in 5 people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 14, 2019

adults between 18 and 64 years of age in December 2018. Food insecurity was the most important SDoH for driving IP and ER use, followed by safety risks, housing challenges, transportation and social isolation. McKinsey conducted the survey among over 12,500 U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2018

Sleep, too, or lack thereof, is top-of-mind for so many consumers: there was a growing category of sleep-assisting digital health tools featured at the 2018 CES, which I covered here in the Huffington Post. One-third of people cite mental health as a goal, closely followed by improving finances.

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Health Populi

JULY 11, 2019

The press release suggests that ocular diseases will be the first therapeutic area addressed, to be followed by other condition categories that impact people as they age.

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

In 2018, over 48,000 Americans died by suicide, with 50% of those deaths involving firearms. With these sources, it is estimated that in 2018, 1.4 One study found that the number of suicide deaths decreases when someone follows-up after a suicide intervention. million adults attempted suicide—or 0.5%

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Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 7, 2024

For example, Bergman reports a 2002 study in which ventilated premature babies were placed to sleep on either their tummies or backs, and the following states were measured: quiet sleep, active sleep (which is less restorative than quiet sleep), crying time, number of stress responses (startle, tremor, and twitch), and oxygen saturation.

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Pulmonology Advisor - Practice Management

MAY 17, 2024

The latest data show a 93% increase in large breaches (from 369 to 712) reported from 2018 to 2022. Ryan Witt, vice president of Industry Solutions for Proofpoint in Sunnyvale, California, recommends that clinicians follow the guidance from the HHS’s 405(d) program.

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Sensible Medicine

MAY 9, 2024

If Medscape were to put the courses back up – they had removed the videos on April 5 -- the professor warned, there “would be a rapid global boycott by healthcare professionals disgusted by their behavior.” ” I must note, no one objected to content that my co-presenters and I fully controlled.

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Health Populi

MAY 19, 2020

Imagine this: you find yourself with $6,553 in your pocket and you can pick one of the following: A new 2020 Breitling Navitimer watch; A year’s in-state tuition at Valdosta State University; or, A PPO for an average individual. For your historical context, here’s last year’s write-up on the 2019 MMI. That is a 4.1%

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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

So I continued with advancement and education and then completed the doctorate in 2018. I’m making a difference with the platform that I started in 2018. And then, I followed up a couple of years later, during the pandemic, and I launched a transition to practice a summit for NP graduates. Her name is Mary.

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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. Other voice command platforms will follow.

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Health Populi

JUNE 26, 2018

I’m blogging live while attending HXD 2018 in Cambridge, MA, the health/care design conference convened by Mad*Pow, 26th and 27th June 2018. Then open up the Strava app, run on your military base and — oops! — Every design decision you make has the power to lift people up or push them down, Sara warned.

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The Healthcare Blog

APRIL 2, 2024

United channeled almost $52 billion of that cash into buying health-related businesses, nearly all of which end up housed inside Optum. However, Optum Health’s profit margin declined from more than 10% in 2018 to about 6.6% It is a sprawling nationwide roll-up of healthcare assets. billion since 2019. Optum Health is a $95.3

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Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2018

The Sage team explains that, by layering knowledge about peoples’ behaviors, beliefs, and attitudes on top of the traditional SDOH factors, health care providers can mash-up SBDoH – “socio-behavioral determinants of health” — your new acronym to add to your growing list of healthcare ABCs.

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Health Populi

JULY 18, 2024

Following the BLS report on the CPI for June 2024, PwC published their new annual report from PwC titled Behind the Numbers 2025 tells us that commercial health care spending is expected to grow some 8.0% That positive economic news did not extend to medical care and personal care, the BLS reported, whose costs increased by 3.3%

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

By 2018, Medscape conducted a separate study from the Lifestyle report, titled the National Physician Burnout & Depression Report. Following administrative hassles, working too many hours, lack of respect from staff and colleagues, and insufficient compensation and reimbursement are closely ranked in second place.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Over one-half of Americans blame pharmaceutical companies as most responsible for the opioid crisis, followed by physicians, whom 39% of health consumers blame, and patients, whom 38% of people blame. NPR covered this and other research in a piece on how non-profit hospitals could be driving up health care spending. Exacerbating U.S.

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Minority Nurse

MARCH 22, 2023

I was constantly stricken with various illnesses when I was growing up. Furthermore, I grew up in a community with significant health challenges, yet people didn’t prioritize their health. Most people don’t have primary care physicians, schedule annual check-ups, or think about preventive care.

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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

JULY 29, 2022

All this week in Health Populi , I’ve covered various aspects of the Retail Health Battle Royale — the shake-up of the legacy healthcare industry that is evolving into a health/care ecosystem shaped by growing consumer demands for more experiences the way people deal with retail in omni-channel, digitally-enabled ways.

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Health Populi

JULY 31, 2018

teens and young adults, ages 14 to 22, polled in February and March 2018. As I write up my read on the survey results, I will use the acronym “TYAs” alternating with the phrase “young adults,” to refer to the cohort of 14-22 year old’s surveyed in this study.

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Relias

JUNE 28, 2023

This means considering things like: Referring working patients to clinics that offer extended hours Referring Medicaid patients to well-known psychiatric units that work well with their insurance And more Building rapport and understanding the patient more fully can help PCPs direct patients to the appropriate resource and encourage follow-ups.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

I read three reports in the past week sobering up my bullish #SDOH ethos dealing with food deserts, transportation, and health service access — three key social determinants of health. The study was published in the January 2018 issue of Diabetes Care , the journal of the American Diabetes Association. million U.S. versus 36.7%.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2018

One-third of PwDs spend up to two extra hours a week shopping for and preparing healthy meals, and 14% spend up to five hours more a week to deal with good meal preparation. Following a healthy diet can help the person with diabetes maintain healthy blood glucose levels — literally the lifeblood for this patient.

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