Minority Nurse

JANUARY 9, 2024

With vaccination, screening, and treatment, the world can be on track to eliminate this form of cancer which killed 300,000 women in 2018. According to the WHO, the HPV vaccine is key and the goal is to fully vaccinate 90 percent of girls before they reach 15 years of age.

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Sensible Medicine

MAY 25, 2023

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. One of them, the coronary artery calcium score (CAC) was reviewed in 2018 by the U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 2, 2020

There was great news published last week in An Update on Cancer Deaths in the United States from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC): cancer mortality rates have declined by 26% over 20 years, between 1999 to 2018. In 2018, there were 599,274 cancer deaths; 283,721 were among females and 315,553 among males.

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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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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

But most doctors base their conversations with patients on purely medical options like lab test results and surgical procedures. The top issues doctors discuss with patients are physical health (74%), test results (56%), medications (52%), and exercise (51%), only one-third broach the subject of mental health.

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Electronic Health Reporter

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Despite widespread adoption, a 2018 Quest Diagnostics survey was among the first to cast doubt on overall usefulness of “basic” EHRs. By Tom Romeo, general manager of healthcare IT, Quanum Solutions, Quest Diagnostics. As of 2017, nearly nine in 10 office-based physicians had implemented an electronic health record (EHR).

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Health Populi

MAY 4, 2023

However, elective procedures haven’t yet reached pre-pandemic utilization (latest read of 98) and for screening and diagnostic tests, underwhelming use at 89 versus the 100 index pre-pandemic. Prescriptions for these medicines in women were up 46% from 2018 (compared with men, growing in Rx volume by 26%).

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Practice Index

JUNE 20, 2024

It shows that last year, just 35% of patients usually saw their preferred GP, compared with 50% in 2018. Patients would also be diverted to community pharmacies while other community clinicians, such as opticians, would be allowed to make direct referrals to specialists or tests. The Foundation intends to update the data quarterly.

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The Healthcare Blog

APRIL 2, 2024

Then someone discovered that the largest living thing in the world was actually the 106 acre, 47 thousand tree Pando aspen grove in central Utah, which genetic testing revealed to be a single organism. However, Optum Health’s profit margin declined from more than 10% in 2018 to about 6.6% Optum Health is a $95.3 It generates nearly $6.6

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

consumers, including Seniors, found in the 2018 digital health consumer survey from Deloitte. adults in February and March 2018 for this research, conducted in English and Spanish. Using digital health tech is a new normal for U.S. That’s the consumer-demand side of the equation. Deloitte surveyed 4,530 U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

And maintaining good mental health and staying on-track with health goals come close to managing uncovered costs, Oliver Wyman’s 2018 consumer survey learned. But this time around, polling health-insured consumers in July 2018, Oliver Wyman perceives a change in consumers’ “willingness to try new kinds of health services.”

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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. “Now” is the lowest point in history that most Americans can remember: 7 in 10 people in the U.S. 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

APRIL 6, 2022

step in the right direction” CBS News 8 San Diego covered a caregiver and cancer patient’s experience with a live shot of their thick binder, containing CDs with medical images and data from these various provider institutions laying on top of a pile of letters and lab test results.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Most of the surprise bills were for charges associated with a physician’s service or lab test. adults 18 and over in August 2018. Most surprise charges were not due to the service being excluded from a health plans provider network. The poll was conducted among 1,002 U.S.

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Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 14, 2024

The death has an “unknown cause” rather than SIDS if the investigation or autopsy is missing, or an alternative diagnosis cannot be ruled out (see Duncan and Byard, 2018 , p. Only 23% of all cases across all seven states did genetic testing.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2020

In the past 12 years, the percent of Americans feeling they were thriving hit a peak in 2018, as the life evaluations line graph illustrates. “Countries should continue to spend generously on their health systems, perform widespread testing, and refrain from trade restrictions on medical supplies. Gallup polled over 20,000 U.S.

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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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Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2019

In June 2018, the FCC rolled back net neutrality, a policy that President Obama had put in place. Last year, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai didn’t show up to CES 2018, reportedly because he had death threats related to his position on rejecting net neutrality. In no particular order… Where was the Chairman of the FCC?

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Note that projected health care costs in retirement grew 23% in the four years prior to 2018, according to EBRI. This third chart comes from the BofA 2019 Workplace Benefits Report based on the bank’s poll of 996 U.S. employees who participated in 401(k) plans in February 2019.

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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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Health Populi

MAY 30, 2018

consumers’ views on personalized medicine comes from a survey conducted for PMC, the Personalized Medicine Coalition, and GenomeWeb , published in May 2018. Most consumers believe that insurance companies “should” cover personalized tests and treatments. This picture of U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 26, 2022

With PillPack, I wrote here in June 2018 that Amazon got 50 U.S. He points to the dominance of voice assistant Alexa, the Astro household robot, and other consumer-generated data from Amazon’s ecosystem which can be mashed up with others’ (say, from wearable technologies like Fitbit or Withings, lab tests, etc.).

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Health Populi

JULY 29, 2022

Hy-Vee grocery pharmacy announced test-to-treat services for consumers shown positive for COVID-19 with the therapy Paxlovid to be delivered across the store’s eight-state footprint. billion in 2018. News & World Report named Mayo Clinic the #1 health system in the U.S. for the 7th consecutive year.

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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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Health Populi

MAY 19, 2020

Milliman bases the MMI on actual claims data from health plans; estimates of cost changes from 2018 and 2019; and, research on how MMI’s costs for the hypothetical family of four differ from those of an 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

MARCH 10, 2020

Use of wearable tech nearly halved, from 33% to 18%, between 2018 and 2020. This is where testing and learning become a key part of adoption and ultimately the maturity of digital health,” said Kaveh Safavi, M.D., Use of mobile apps to track personal health activity fell from nearly 1 in 2 consumers to 1 in 3.

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NHA Now

JULY 9, 2020

Statistics reveal that 15% of Americans filled at least one opioid prescription in 2018. The number of these deaths declined from 47,600 in 2017 down to 46,802 in 2018. That represents an average of 128 deaths each day in 2018. Errors include insufficient documentation and incorrect coding.

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2019

I ran this little test because I’m speaking on Monday 18 March at the annual meeting of the Consumer Healthcare Products Association. As a short-term salve, check out this special digital section that staff from the New York Times published online in November 2018. A Google search overall yielded over 2 billion results.

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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. Summary Overall, PACS is an accredited program developed by experts and tested by regulators. If a care delay occurs, it prolongs the patient’s access to the originally prescribed product.

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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. I’m delighted to be in her collegial circle, speaking at the conference about the evolving healthcare consumer who’s financially strapped, stressed-out, and Amazon Primed for customer service.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The combination of Kaiser Permanente and Geisinger to form Risant Health will be a test of how Kaiser can build a national brand while embedding its approach to a regional health system that has been geographically boxed-in in central Pennsylvania. These trends began to take hold in the U.S. Expanding value-based care, nationally.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 8, 2018

Most Americans are healthcare cost-conscious, concerned about various kinds of healthcare expenses, data from McKinsey’s research has found presented in Healthcare consumerism 2018: An update on the journey. As part of this growing health-consumer ethos, people are open to digital healthcare solutions.

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2022

While several types of claims can be made for digital health innovations — such as patient engagement, economic benefits, or clinical impact on a patient’s health or well-being — only a small population of about 20% of the developments had rigorously tested solutions.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2018

I wasn’t surprised that Maneesh was revealing this private message with me, because he is very transparent via social networks on his personal tests and hacks with wearables and apps. He wears many devices at once, putting the techs to his tests, and figuring out just what works well, and for whom.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

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. GDP, in 2018. Lower health care costs, through reducing hospital readmission rates and reducing duplicate testing, and. Fast forward nine years later. trillion, over 18% of U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Food stores gained in trust between 2017 and 2018, illustrating the opportunity that a consumer’s favorite grocery store can leverage in a trusted relationship with a person keen on health. Private labels from these stores, and particularly when there’s organic food in the can or package, is a further trust equity factor.

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