Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Nearly all Americans (86% net responsible) first blame health insurance companies, followed by hospitals (82%). Most of the surprise bills were for charges associated with a physician’s service or lab test. adults 18 and over in August 2018. In 2017, healthcare made up 18.2% The poll was conducted among 1,002 U.S.

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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. Top-line, there are new-new costs borne in 2020 for virus testing and treatment. That is a 4.1%

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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

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

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

OCTOBER 28, 2019

rank prescription drugs, lab tests, emergency room visits, dental and vision care, preventive services, chronic disease management and mental health care as the “most essential” health care services, according to the 2019 Survey of America’s Patients conducted by The Physicians Foundation. People in the U.S.

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The HIPAA Journal

APRIL 27, 2025

OCR stepped up enforcement of compliance with the HIPAA Rules in 2016, more than doubling the number of financial penalties imposed. The following three years saw similar numbers of financial penalties; however, there was another major increase in HIPAA fines in 2020 when 19 HIPAA violation cases were settled with OCR.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

In the wake of Toys ‘R Us closure, Walmart hiring a 6 year old key influencer for the toy business – a social media personality with an $11 mm website, 15 mm followers, and one billion views a month. Kroger testing autonomous vehicle delivery. 20% of smartphone shoppers using an app to order grocers, up 50% from last year.

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Practice Index

JUNE 20, 2024

The campaign was launched following a survey of practices undertaken in December. It shows that last year, just 35% of patients usually saw their preferred GP, compared with 50% in 2018. The post Primary care news round-up (13th June to 19th June 2024) appeared first on GP Practice Management Blog.

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Sensible Medicine

JANUARY 27, 2025

An imaging test. One group of patients with chest pain received standard stress testing; the other received standard stress testing plus a coronary CT scan (CCTA). The Edinburgh-based team presented their 5-year results in 2018, and their 10-year results last week. Not a drug. Not an intervention. Both were positive.

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ACMA Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

According to the 2018 American Medical Association survey of physicians, prior authorization issues contribute to 92% of care delays. 29% of patients who endure the prior authorization process end up with the originally prescribed product and 40% of patients end up abandoning therapy.

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Scrubs

AUGUST 4, 2023

Providers are typically paid for each test and procedure they perform, which can lead to a conflict of interest, especially when patients have to foot the bill. New studies reveal just how widespread medically unnecessary care can be, forcing patients to pay for procedures and tests they may not need. The findings were astonishing.

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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 27, 2024

Designed to help fund good nutritional research with the ultimate goal of reducing obesity and testing the hypothesis that “all calories are equal,” NUSI, unfortunately has floundered and is dead. He now knows these numbers indicate high levels of apoB "but no one bothered to test my apoB number."

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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. Four tests are generally recognized as useful for this.

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Accepted Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In 2017, she was appointed Assistant Dean of Admissions at the Boston University School of Medicine and became Associate Dean in 2018. We can look up stuff. If it’s just facts, we can look them up. I would assume that it’s probably one of the goals or one of the ways you’re going to test it. 12:28] Yeah.

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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 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

AUGUST 19, 2019

Deven’s observation is made based on Ciitizen’s study into some 3,000 medical record facilities between August 2018 and May 2019. In contrast, average escalations would be 2, days to send 8, and follow-up calls 3. The study assessed the type of information patients requested (test results, the entire medical record, etc.),

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

adults conducted in December 2017 into January 2018. The top grocers included Wegmans, which ranked first on the entire poll for SROI score, followed by Aldi, Publix, HEB, Publix, Whole Foods, and Kroger. So consumers are connecting dots in this Brave New World of health data mashing up with other personal information.

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Setting Sights

AUGUST 11, 2021

But, my colleagues’ wellbeing isn’t hanging in the balance just because of the taboo that comes with opening up on their mental health struggles, or that there is little time to address it on top of the day-to-day work pressures – it’s hanging in the balance because we are simply not supported full-stop. The virus destroyed me.

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Sensible Medicine

JANUARY 9, 2024

Glyn Elwyn and I wrote in a 2018 paper “in the vast majority of circumstances, the only outcome of relevance for EBP (evidence-based practice) is to measure whether a shared decision was made.” Adam’s description of his theoretical conversation began as follows.

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Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

For more color, read Jane’s April 2008 report, “The Wisdom of Patients,” where she wrote about PLM in its start-up phase (see section on page 20 entitled “ An Ongoing, Live Outcomes Study ”). data remain with a separate entity with a Board made up of Americans? A 2018 national survey found that 39% of U.S. But the U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

While customer satisfaction with health insurance plans slightly increased between 2018 and 2019, patient satisfaction with hospitals fell in all three settings where care is delivered — inpatient, outpatient, and the emergency room, according to the 2018-2019 ACSI Finance, Insurance and Health Care Report.

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The HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 14, 2022

After considering the comments and feedback, the HHS then releases a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) which is followed by a comment period. The proposed new HIPAA regulations announced by OCR in December 2020 are as follows: Allowing patients to inspect their PHI in person and take notes or photographs of their PHI.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Having the Federal government paying for testing, tracking, and treatment for COVID-19. In fourth place, women cited access to obstetricians and gynecologists, closely followed by equal pay to men and universal health insurance. voters were driven to the polls in the 2018 mid-term elections due to concerns about health care.

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