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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Health Populi

OCTOBER 16, 2018

World Food Day 2018 has four objectives: Don’t waste food. Danone works on medical nutrition designed around patients in various stages of diseases including allergy, metabolic disorders, oncology and stroke. The post On World Food Day 2018, Imagine A Chef Cooking for Patients appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2018

The study, Adjuvant Chemotherapy Guided by a 21-Gene Expression Assay in Breast Cancer, was published in The New England Journal of Medicine on June 3, 2018, coinciding with the researchers’ ASCO presentation of the results. ” A genetic test that costs $3,000 helps to identify women who could benefit from avoiding chemo.

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Health Populi

MARCH 7, 2018

This week at the 2018 annual HIMSS conference, telehealth is playing a mainstream role in discussions about right-sizing and right-placing healthcare. The evidence for telehealth’s tipping point is rooted in new research published today by Accenture on Patients + Doctors + Machines, Accentures’ 2018 Consumer Survey on Digital Health.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 11, 2018

As the CVS + Aetna merger crosses its last regulatory hurdle at the close of 2018, we enter 2019 facing a fast-growing and -morphing retail health landscape. Another grocery, Giant Eagle, is moving its pharmacies further into medical services through an agreement to channel DarioHealth’s Digital Diabetes Education and Rewards Program.

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

First you would find patients with severe TR (with or without symptoms) and then randomize one group to surgery and one group to medical therapy. The title gives away the results: Here is what they did: They took 159 patients who had severe TR and were operated on from 2004-2018. What does it say about medical science?

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Medication 335

Health Populi

MARCH 8, 2018

Privacy and cybersecurity ranked the second highest priority to hospitals and healthcare providers polled in HIMSS 2018 Healthcare Leadership Survey. In January 2018, over 400,000 patient records were breached. The second bar chart shows records breached by month from August 2017 through January 2018.

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Sensible Medicine

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

For someone like me who only knew Matthew Perry from occasional glimpses of Friends during my “lost decade” of medical training, I was surprised by the attention paid to his death. They also have traditionally not offered medication for addictions, even where those medicines are FDA-approved.

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Scrubs

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

From 2008 to 2018, pit bulls killed or maimed 3,569 people in the U.S. From 2011 to 2019, 14 peer-reviewed retrospective medical studies from Level 1 trauma centers from all four corners of the U.S. From February 2013 to the present, animal control agencies and health departments in 19 U.S. and Canada. When they bite, they bite hard.

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Health Populi

APRIL 2, 2019

Spending on medical care costs crowded out other household spending for millions of Americans in 2018, based on The U.S. Americans borrowed $88 billion in 2018 to pay for health care spending, West Health and Gallup estimated. Healthcare Cost Crisis , a survey from West Health and Gallup. Gallup polled 3,537 U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 31, 2018

This concerning finding was confirmed in recent observations from Gartner, which wrote in a market trends report that, “generally, medical devices are not replaced for at least ten years, with many running old software that has not been updated or patched.” based healthcare IT leaders for the survey in October 2018.

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Medication Diagnostics Patient Care Hospital 89

Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

In 2018, consumers’ tracking of at least one health metric crossed over from an analog method to digital tracking, illustrated in the line chart. The proportion of people tracking at least one health metric digitally was 38% in 2018 and grew to over one-half, 54%, in 2020. Why do people use wearable tech for health?

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Health Populi

JULY 26, 2022

Today we review the various viewpoints on Amazon’s announced acquisition of One Medical (ONEM, aka 1life Healthcare) which has been a huge story in both health care trade publications, business news, and mainstream media outlets. With PillPack, I wrote here in June 2018 that Amazon got 50 U.S.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 14, 2019

The 22-page report summarized nationwide trends in health information exchange in 2018, including the adoption of EHRs and other technologies that support electronic access to patient information. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) filed its annual year-end report to Congress at the start of 2019.

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Medication 179

Health Populi

APRIL 8, 2019

The average 65-year old couple retiring in 2019 will need to have a cash nest-egg of $285,000 to cover health care and medical expenses through retirement years, Fidelity Investments calculated. Fidelity estimates the average retiree will allocate 15% of their annual spending in retirement on medical costs.

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Scrubs

AUGUST 4, 2023

However, much of that spending may not be medically necessary. New studies reveal just how widespread medically unnecessary care can be, forcing patients to pay for procedures and tests they may not need. Find out why medically unnecessary care is on the rise and what patients can do to protect themselves.

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 20, 2025

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. PA Business Associate 2,675,934 Hacking/IT Incident 45 2018 AccuDoc Solutions, Inc. In 2019, hacking accounted for 49% of all reported breaches.

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Electronic Health Reporter

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

As of 2019, the voters in 33 American states have passed some form of legislation allowing the use of medical marijuana. In late 2018, the U.S. The article The Importance of Protecting Medical Cannabis Patient Records appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Patient Records Medication 79

Scrubs

JUNE 8, 2023

Over 70 staff members want to suspend all surgeries at Kaiser Zion Medical Center, a San Diego hospital, after strange particles were found on a series of surgical trays. “In the meantime, surgical instruments used at Zion Medical Center are being safely cleaned and processed at our nearby San Diego Medical Center and an outside agency.”

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Health Populi

APRIL 9, 2018

consumers rank supermarkets, fast food chains, retailers, and banks as their top performing industries for experience according to the 2018 Temkin Experience Ratings. The post What Would Healthcare Feel Like If It Acted Like Supermarkets – the 2018 Temkin Experience Ratings appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. Postal Service.

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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 27, 2024

The 2018 American guidelines recommend an LDL-C level <100 mg/dl for primary prevention. To achieve levels <20, most individuals would require multiple cholesterol-lowering medications each with a potential for side effects and a significant cost. Attia ends his chapter with a discussion on cholesterol-lowering medications.

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Health Populi

JUNE 1, 2018

Health care features prominently in the nearly-300 slides curated by Mary Meeker in her always- informative report on Internet Trends 2018. Meeker, of Kleiner Perkins, released the report as usual at the Code Conference, held this year on 30 May 2018 in Silicon Valley. 2015 – Musings with Mary Meeker on the digital/health nexus.

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Electronic Health Reporter

AUGUST 28, 2019

The article New Innovations Spark Uptick In Medical Research For Cosmetic Surgery appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Medication 79

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

As such, American health consumers are wrestling with sticker shock from surgical procedures, surprise medical bills weeks after leaving the hospital, and the cost of prescription drugs — whether six-figure oncology therapies or essential medicines like insulin and EpiPens. Patients are now front-line payors in the U.S. health care system.

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Minority Nurse

MAY 8, 2024

As burn injuries are often associated with several social determinants of health, including poverty (Patel, 2018), food insecurity (Elsey, 2016), and living in under-resourced neighborhoods (Alnabantah, 2016), burn nurses play a crucial role in caring for some of the patients most in need of care. 2018 Apr;202:38-42. Epub 2018 Feb 23.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

DECEMBER 4, 2024

More than half of survey respondents reported using an AI algorithm for at least one imaging use case, compared with just 17% in 2018.

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Medication 74

Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2022

The good news about prescription drugs, in the context of medical spending in the U.S., But there’s bad news about prescription drugs in the context of medical spending in America. billion more in 2018 for 184 common generic medications compared with prices for the same drugs available to cash-paying Costco members.”

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Insurance Medication 154

Scrubs

JUNE 17, 2023

Cedric Lodge, the former manager of the Harvard Medical School morgue, and his wife Denise were among five people arrested on Wednesday in a case that’s sure to keep you up at night. The alleged crimes took place between 2018 and 2022. The other defendants include Katrina Maclean, 44, the owner of a store in Peabody, Mass.

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

In 2018, three modern trials comparing asa vs placebo for primary prevention were published. My point is to inform users of medical evidence to be mindful of the implications of early termination of trials. This was one of the trials that got aspirin use established as a preventive medicine. All were nonsignificant.

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Medication 278

Health Populi

DECEMBER 5, 2019

of their household income on health insurance premiums and deductibles based on The Commonwealth Fund’s latest report on employee health care costs, Trends in Employer Health Coverage, 2008-2018: Higher Costs for Workers and Their Families. Workers covered by health insurance through their companies spend 11.5% of household income.

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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. That’s what 2018 felt like for me. As a nurse I knew the way to do it with medication, but I wanted an easy out. The medication didn’t kick in for at least a month. My World collapsed. Then came thoughts of suicide.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Digital connectivity can ameliorate social isolation and anxiety, bolster mental health, and access needed medical care via telehealth channels. Since starting GreatCall Rides with Lyft in 2018, three-fourths of the pilot riders have continued to patronize the service as repeat riders.

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Insurance Medication 140

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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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Adults Aged 18 and Over , published in November 2018. Headspace Health launched in June 2018 as a digital health company to build the evidence-based for mainstream healthcare adoption. These data come out of the NCHS’s Data Brief, Use of Yoga, Meditation, and Chiropractors Among U.S. One in five women do yoga in America.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 16, 2020

One-half of consumers also believe people would be more likely to be healthier longer with care delivered at home, and nearly half of people also think people could be more adherent to medical advice and less stressed in the process.

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Practice Index

APRIL 3, 2025

The case is backed by United Medical Associate Professionals, a trade union formed earlier this year. The country was hoping for improvements following the signing of a new GP contract in 2018, but seven years later, the deal has failed to deliver in several ways, according to Government auditors. The majority are women.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

And note how Americans’ trust in hospitals — historically the top-trusted health care segment in the nation — eroded from 2018, tying with consumer health companies, and just north of biotech and life science organizations. .” Yet it’s health care costs that rank top in U.S.

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