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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Scrubs

AUGUST 19, 2023

I thought I was almost emotionally invincible, which I felt aided me in my work, until 2018 happened. My father committed suicide, my grandfather died and my partner and I broke up. I would blow up on friends and family occasionally when I reacted to something bad. That’s what 2018 felt like for me. My World collapsed.

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Sensible Medicine

MAY 9, 2024

. “Outcry as Philip Morris International funds smoking cessation courses on Medscape,” read an April 9 headline in the British Medical Journal. We observed the standard firewall between funder and faculty in continuing-medical-education programs. The videos were dense with evidence.

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Accepted Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Located in the bustling heart of lower Manhattan, the New York University (NYU) Grossman School of Medicine is known for its strengths in patient care, medical education, and scientific research. To support its mission, since 2018, NYU Grossman has offered full-tuition scholarships to all matriculating med students.

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Health Populi

JULY 21, 2019

Nearly nine in 10 working Americans believe that medical costs will rise in the next few years as they pondering potential changes to the Affordable Care Act. It’s no shock, then, to find that 59% of employees said they consistently carried balances on their credit cards in 2019, a huge jump from 49% who did so in 2018.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Most Americans have been surprised by a medical bill, a NORC AmeriSpeak survey found. 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% Who’s responsible? Plus ça change.

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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

MAY 15, 2019

Far and away the top reason for not obtaining health insurance in 2018 was that it was simply too expensive, cited by 60% of Millennials. Following that, 26% of Millennials noted that paying the tax penalty plus personal medical expenses were, together, less expensive than available health options.

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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 campaign was launched following a survey of practices undertaken in December. It also details how to plan for scenarios where this unfortunately cannot be avoided.”

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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

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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Sensible Medicine

MAY 25, 2023

Have I been neglecting the medical literature? For calcium deposits in breast arteries to be important, we would need to know that some action based on this finding, whether it be further diagnostic testing, lifestyle modification, or medical therapy, actually benefits a woman. Why didn’t I know this? ” U.S.

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ACMA Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The Burden of Prior Authorization According to the 2021 American Medical Association survey of physicians, prior authorizations contribute to 93% of patient care delays. According to the 2018 American Medical Association survey of physicians, prior authorization issues contribute to 92% of care delays.

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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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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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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 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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Health Populi

MARCH 19, 2019

For the organization’s 2020 vision, there are three category pillars in sight: over-the-counter (OTC) drugs (the core mission for over a century), dietary supplements, and consumer medical devices (think: the CES digital health aisles, and beyond). billion in medical visits and reduce reliance on prescription drugs by a $51.6

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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. Why should that be, in a physical sense?

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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

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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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

84% of Americans told the Foundation that they were concerned about how much health care costs will affect them in the future, with 42% of patients saying they couldn’t afford to pay over $500 for an unexpected medical bill. Hospital costs contribute to rising medical costs to 49% of health consumers. Exacerbating U.S.

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ACMA Blog

JUNE 25, 2024

Engagement in Prior Authorization: Duties and Training INTRODUCTION: The prior authorization (PA) process is critical in providing some patients with their medically necessary products. It ensures that what the patient receives is medically appropriate for their situation.

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Doximity

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Learn more about our honorees and follow them on social media to stay up to date with their content and what they're working on. ⬇️ Learn More about Sanah Ali, MD Dr. Sanah Ali completed her medical training in New York State, and practices Internal Medicine. She hopes to continue it indefinitely!

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The degree to which the legislation has made a positive impact is up for debate. 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.

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A Young Doctor's Journey

DECEMBER 30, 2021

This month I am once again making January wallpapers…but otherwise, this month will be a strange one for me — the first month that I will take a deliberate break from Instagram, the first time since this account’s inception in 2018. Without further ado, here they are: DOWNLOAD the free PHOTO wallpapers here (new designs up!)

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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 27, 2024

Pages 119 through 125 do a great job of explaining how atherosclerosis develops insidiously in the coronary arteries and how you can build up substantial plaque without symptoms. The 2018 American guidelines recommend an LDL-C level <100 mg/dl for primary prevention. I keep my own apoB and LDL-C levels in the 40s.

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Health Populi

JULY 29, 2022

Just about one year ago, DG appointed the company’s first Chief Medical Officer, which I covered here in Health Popul i in a post titled, “Dollar General, the Latest Retail Health Destination?” AmerisourceBergen started up a platform to streamline bringing physicians and patients together for channeling digital therapeutics.

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ACMA Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

INTRODUCTION: The prior authorization (PA) process is critical in providing some patients with their medically necessary products. It is the insurance or payers’ way of controlling costs by approving or denying certain medications, procedures, or devices that may not usually be covered or is on a higher tier on the formulary.

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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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Minority Nurse

JUNE 23, 2023

In 2018, I was promoted to my current role of managing director of NCPC. The tool also provides automated follow-up to the user and has the capability to provide further triage recommendations based on the interaction with the user during follow-up. That was a bit before my time though.

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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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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

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

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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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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Pulmonology Advisor - Practice Management

JANUARY 12, 2024

However, many of the challenges — moral injury, internalized stigma from peers, fear of external repercussions, and physicians’ own sense of responsibility — have been discussed across the American Medical Association (AMA) and public forums for years prior. 6 Physician suicide rates are also alarming. 12 Yet such practices may be changing.

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