Flu Activity In US Now May Be Highest Since 2017-2018
Forbes Healthcare
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Flu test data and Tamiflu prescription fills show that influenza activity has already surpassed the past seven seasons and may soon exceed that of 2017-2018.
The Smartphone Is the Consumer’s Personal Health Platform – Implications from Deloitte’s 2018 Survey
Health Populi
NOVEMBER 15, 2018
Furthermore, voice technologies are “making noise,” according to Deloitte in A New Era in Mobile Continues, the 2018 Global Mobile Consumer Survey : US Edition. Note in the first bar chart that in 2018, 89% of those 45-54 and 74% of people 55 and over have “ready access” to a smartphone. which 1 in 2 U.S.
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Optum: Testing Time for an Invisible Empire
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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Retail Health Ends 2018 With Big Plans for 2019
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. The pilot brings together grocery, pharmacy, health and beauty, testing out first in 13 stores in Northern Kentucky. — to grow their own consumer-facing muscles in 2019.
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Doing Less Can Be Doing More for Healthcare – the Biggest Takeaway From ASCO 2018
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.
The Infomercial Comes to The Wall Street Journal
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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Post #2 Back-to-Sleep Series
Sensible Medicine
AUGUST 7, 2024
Research by Collett et al (2018) shows that, despite some improvement in PP by 18 months, the deformations persist beyond 36 months. Comparison of 1967 Denver Developmental Screening Tests and 2022 CDC milestones, 75 th percentile. Let’s look at 1967 vs. 2022 for the DDST and the CDC: Table 2.
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Burn Care for Underserved Communities: A Certified Burn Nurse’s Perspective
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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Outsourced Software Product Development: A Comprehensive Guide
Arkenea
APRIL 10, 2025
Rather than building and maintaining a large inhouse team, businesses partner with specialized vendors to handle design, development, testing, and deployment. Quality assurance: Manual and automated testing, security audits, compliance checks. Conduct unit, integration, system, and user acceptance testing.
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Supplementing Your EHR To Improve Patient Care and Experience
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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Partnership Between DrChrono and Genomind Benefits Patients and Doctors Looking for Personalized Genetic Tests
DrChrono
OCTOBER 1, 2018
Physicians Can Now Order Test Kits, Review Results and Check for Drug Interactions Through Electronic Health Records SUNNYVALE, Calif., 01, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — DrChrono Inc., Physicians Can Now Order Test Kits, Review Results and Check for Drug Interactions Through Electronic Health Records SUNNYVALE, Calif.,
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Going Digital for Health Is a New-Normal for Consumers
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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Nudging Patients to Use EHRs: Moving Toward a Tipping Point for Consumer Health IT
Health Populi
APRIL 10, 2018
40, published April 2018. Among those patients who do access their EHR, the most important data sought were lab test results (for 92% of those who accessed their EHR), current list of medications (79%), summaries of their office visit (76%), and a list of health/medical problems 70%.
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How Digital Health Can Stimulate Economic Development
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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What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster
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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Surprise, Surprise: Most Americans Have Faced a “Surprise” Medical Bill
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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Worrying About Paying for Health Care Is the Norm in America
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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Consumers’ Embrace of Digital Health Tech Stalls, and Privacy Concerns Prevail – Accenture’s 2020 Research
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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139 Consumers Want Help With Health: Can Healthcare Providers Supply That Demand?
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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The Retail Health Battle Royale in the U.S. – A Week-Long Brainstorm, Day 2 of 5 – Amazon and One Medical
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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Tools for Paying Medical Bills Don’t Help Health Consumers Manage Their Financial Health
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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96 Self-Care Is Healthcare In Consumers’ Hands, Peaking on Google Trends
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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117 Personalized Medicine: Consumer Concerns About Coverage, Affordability and Privacy
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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What $6,553 Buys You in America: A Luxury Watch, a Year at Valdosta State, or a PPO for One – the 2020 Milliman Medical Index
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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Consumers Expand Their Definition of Well-Being to Include Food-As-Medicine
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.
Loneliness, Public Policy and AI – Lessons From the UK For the US
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.
Design, Empathy and Ethics Come to Healthcare: HXD
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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75 Will Consumers Cross the Cost-and-Trust Chasm Between Prescription Drugs and Hospitals?
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 Retail Health Battle Royale, Day 5 – Consumer Demands For a Health/Care Ecosystem (and What We Can Learn from Costco’s $1.50 Hot Dog)
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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Getting Real About Social Determinants of Health
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 7, 2018
The study was published in the January 2018 issue of Diabetes Care , the journal of the American Diabetes Association. However, among patients that lived in low-income neighborhoods, “large concerning” high-acuity emergency department visits and inpatient hospital days significantly increased.
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Retail Tomorrow, Today: A Smart Grocery Cart and Digital Samples For Paleo-Eating Moms
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 15, 2018
Kroger testing autonomous vehicle delivery. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Retail Tomorrow will be convening stakeholders in Toronto on 2nd-5th October 2018 collaborating with Google Sidewalk Labs, working in partnership to re-develop the city’s waterfront in Smart Cities mode. Small format stores accounting for $1 trillion in business.
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When Trials Find Implausible Results—The SCOT-HEART trial
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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Primary care news round-up (13th June to 19th June 2024)
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.
From Evolution to Innovation, from Health Care to Health: How Health Plans With Collaborators Are Re-Defining the Industry
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.
The Retail Health Battle Royale in the U.S. – A Week-Long Brainstorm, Day 3 of 5 – Apple as “Intelligent Health Guardian”
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.
The Risk of Food and Nutrition Security in America – A Bipartisan Concern and Call-to-Action from the BPC
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
” I asked in this blog in 2018. The year before, A mazon began to test tying SNAP nutrition benefits to the Amazon pantry food channel. We now recall that Amazon had a seat on the BPC Food and Nutrition Security Task Force table: that was Kristina Herrmann, Director of Underserved Populations in Amazon. month or $99 a year.
Think Like a LEGO Builder in Healthcare – Considering PwC’s New Health Economy Vision
Health Populi
MAY 4, 2018
Health Forum, held at the Lansdowne Resort on 7-8 May 2018. Onduo is focused on helping people with diabetes better manage daily living, from food choices and glucose testing to accessing care through coaches. analytics and artificial intelligence), and media which provides both content and platforms for conversations and support.
Prior Authorization Staffing: The need for certified experts
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.
Physician Spotlight: Interview with Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA
Doximity
APRIL 19, 2021
First of all, if you are trying to contact a patient to communicate with them about recent test results, or maybe you just want to connect with them about a new medication you've prescribed, you can go onto Doximity’s app and click on the Dialer feature to call them in a HIPAA secure way. In fact, 42.4%
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Do I Really Need That? Patients Wary of Conflicts of Interest in Healthcare
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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On World Food Day 2018, Imagine A Chef Cooking for Patients
Health Populi
OCTOBER 16, 2018
World Food Day 2018 has four objectives: Don’t waste food. This is one of my family’s choices to engage in DIY healthcare to bolster our well-being and minimize our health risks given what we know-we know from family history, lab tests, and lifestyles. Produce more food with fewer resources.
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Neuralink Brain Implant Gets FDA Approval for First Human Clinical Trial
Scrubs
JUNE 7, 2023
The latest approval frees the company from having to test its products on animals. The news comes as Neuralink is being investigated for possibly rushing the testing process. lawmakers asked regulators to look into the Neuralink panel that oversees the startup’s animal testing. As recently as last month, several U.S.
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Peter Attia, Outlive, Cardiology 3.0 and primordial prevention of heart attacks
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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Use of Preventive Health Services Declined Among Commercially Insured People – With Big Differences in Telehealth for Non-White People, Castlight Finds
Health Populi
JUNE 27, 2022
Declines in preventive care services like cancer screenings and blood glucose testing concern employers, whose continued to cover health insurance for employees during the pandemic. fewer commercially insured employees were tested for HbA1C (hemoglobin blood glucose test), and wellness exams dropped by nearly 11%.
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