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The Infomercial Comes to The Wall Street Journal

Sensible Medicine

“The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services should make establishing payment codes for products involving women’s heart disease a priority to prompt private insurers to cover new service lines.” Insurers will be forced to raise rates to cover this new charge. What would I foresee as happening if CMS took action?

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Most U.S. Physicians, Burned Out, Favor A Flavor of Single Payer Health System

Health Populi

healthcare system and, thus, patient care. The loss of clinical autonomy, through strict utilization review, protocols, and heavy-handed health insurance interventions also contribute to doctors’ ill feelings and compromised productivity. That’s an idea on which doctors and patients can hug. The post Most U.S.

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How Digital Health Can Stimulate Economic Development

Health Populi

As the only health economist in the family of the 2018 HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors, this is a voice through which I can uniquely speak. One rationale for adopting digital health records was to be able to measure, and then better manage, health care outcomes and, eventually, spending. GDP, in 2018. trillion, over 18% of U.S.

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Isn’t It Eyeconic? Vision Care in the Evolving Health Care Ecosystem

Health Populi

He shared this image from Cracked Labs which illustrates the many data sources beyond the legacy health care claim that stakeholders can access and, if used for good, can benefit patient care and health outcomes. Walmart, in particular, had a huge uptick in this during the 2018 holiday shopping season. for Americans.

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HIPAA Update to Include Cybersecurity Requirements for Health Care Organizations

Pulmonology Advisor - Practice Management

An update to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule is now underway with new cybersecurity requirements. In addition, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is issuing new guidance for health care providers to help better prepare them on how best to respond to cyber threats.

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Healthcare Data Breach Statistics

The HIPAA Journal

2023, OCR reported a 239% increase in hacking-related data breaches between January 1, 2018, and September 30, 2023, and a 278% increase in ransomware attacks over the same period. Dominion National Insurance Company, and Dominion Dental Services USA, Inc. In 2019, hacking accounted for 49% of all reported breaches. In 2023, 79.7%

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Cost and Convenience Underpin Patient Demands As Health Consumers

Health Populi

In past studies, such word-of-mouth from “people like me” has been a top driver of consumer health care decision-making. Collaboration for health care in the community, for services and for social determinants of health factors, is a growing feature in U.S. health care — and desirable.