Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 10, 2019

By Shane MacDougall, senior security engineer, Mosaic451 The other day I was asked what is the biggest information security threat facing any company in 2019. The article Loose Lips Sinks Ships: Humans Remain the Weakest Link In 2019 Healthcare Security appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. Is it ransomware?

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 22, 2019

The article The Healthcare Industry Needs to Address Security in 2019 appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. It has become clear in the last few years that when it comes to cybercrime, hackers are not fussy about which organization or sector they focus on – if there’s profit to be made, anyone is a potential target.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2023

From 2011 to 2019, 14 peer-reviewed retrospective medical studies from Level 1 trauma centers from all four corners of the U.S. In 2019, police found the remains of Freddie Mack (57, Johnson County, TX) in the excrement of his 15 pit bulls. million pit bulls in the United States in 2019, making up approximately 5.8% and Canada.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 20, 2019

42 percent of health IT leaders rate updating technology to improve the patient experience as the top objective for 2019, followed by measuring improvement in patient care (33 percent). The article Health IT Industry Outlook Survey Reveals Six Key Leadership Trends for 2019 appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Electronic Health Reporter

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The article What is Considered a HIPAA Breach in 2019? The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), a bill passed initially in 1996, consists of a set of rules and regulations that protect the privacy and security of health information and provide individuals with certain rights to their health information.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 23, 2019

The article What Should We Expect for Healthcare in 2019? Over the past twelve months, I’ve had fascinating conversations with executives in the provider and payer community and they have described the challenges they face and their visions for the future. One thing has become clear […].

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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 14, 2025

The only problem was that the patient population would change over the course of the study – the unscreened population was studied mostly in 2019 and early 2020 while the screened population was mostly late 2020 early 2021. It looked like this: Ingenious, right? Thus, the results would have to be adjusted.

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Sensible Medicine

OCTOBER 18, 2023

2019 Nov 19;140(21):1706-1716. Epub 2019 Oct 21. Weissler-Snir A, Allan K, Cunningham K, Connelly KA, Lee DS, Spears DA, Rakowski H, Dorian P. Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy-Related Sudden Cardiac Death in Young People in Ontario. Circulation. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.119.040271. 119.040271. PMID: 31630535.

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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 11, 2025

A 2019 study by Hutton et al. A 2014 follow-up study by de Jonge analyzed 743,070 low-risk planned home and hospital births and found no significant difference in perinatal or neonatal mortality. Additionally, three meta-analyses published in the past decade on this topic also demonstrate the safety of home birth.

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Health Populi

APRIL 9, 2019

We need a “new needs model” for the digital age, asserts a new report, Human Needs in a Digital World , the 2019 Digital Society Index report from the Dentsu Aegis network. The post Digital Health As A Basic Human Need – the Dentsu Digital Society Index 2019 appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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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. The post What $285,000 Can Buy You in America: Medical Costs for Retirees in 2019 appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Electronic Health Reporter

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

This year looks to be one of adventure and excitement for healthcare technology, per usual, and according to a new report from HIMSS, 2019 Healthcare Trends Forecast: The Beginning of a Consumer-Driven Reformation, we’re about to get serious about the tangible results of digital health innovation.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

In 2019, Susan Ann Tancreto, a 60-year-old resident of Shasta County, California, was charged with multiple felonies for posing as a nurse and administering unauthorized Botox and filler treatments. She was scheduled to appear in federal court in Worcester on November 1, 2024.

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Electronic Health Reporter

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

According to the UN, by 2050, one in six people in the world will be over the age of 65, up from one in 11 in 2019. Illegal copying is prohibited. The population worldwide is aging. Given that “aging” […]. The article Age-Tech Market 2021: Perspectives and Expectations appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 27, 2021

According to Statista, in 2019, U.S. This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. drug store and pharmacy sales totaled nearly 297 billion dollars. While there has been a big focus on pharmaceutical companies and their sky-high prices in the media, including previously […].

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 13, 2021

Government statistics obtained from the Health Survey for England 2019 show that over three quarters of people aged over 16 in England […]. Illegal copying is prohibited. Bariatrics is the field of medicine that looks after obese and overweight patients.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 14, 2019

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) filed its annual year-end report to Congress at the start of 2019. This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MAY 6, 2019

National Nurses Week 2019 runs May 6 through 12 and […]. By Anne Dabrow Woods, DNP, RN, CRNP, ANP-BC, AGACNP-BC, FAAN, chief Nurse, Health Learning, Research and Practice, Wolters Kluwer. Have you thanked a nurse today? Or any day, for that matter? If not, you now have an entire week to make up for lost time.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 18, 2019

The 2019 HIMSS Annual Conference may be over, but that doesn’t mean an end to the pressing challenges and trends discussed at Orlando’s Orange County Convention Center. This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Sheri Stoltenberg, CEO, Stoltenberg Consulting.

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 17, 2025

CVE-2025-2230 was resolved in the May 2019 release, ISCV 4.2 The vulnerabilities have been resolved in previous releases of ISCV; however, healthcare providers will be vulnerable if they are running older versions of the software. build 20589, and CVE-2025-2229 was resolved in the September 2020 release, ISCV 5.2.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 17, 2020

LocumTenens.com asked physicians and advanced practitioners about their experiences with healthcare consolidation as part of its 2019 Compensation and Employment Survey. By Chris Franklin, president, LocumTenens.com. It can take years to determine success or failure, […].

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

In the August 2020 National Poll on Heathy Aging , the University of Michigan research team found a 26% increase in telehealth visits from 2019 to 2020, March to June 2020 year-over-year. In May 2019, 14% of older patients’ health care providers offered telehealth visits, growing to 62% in June 2020 during the pandemic.

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Practice Index

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

A review of major NHS policy documents, including the Five Year Forward View (2014), NHS Long-Term Plan (2019) and Fuller Stocktake (2022), reveals that zero mention the role of PMs despite these same reports emphasising the need for leadership in primary care. This exclusion has tangible consequences.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Roughly the same proportion of companies offered health benefits to at least some workers between 2019 and 2020, about 56% of firms. This premium growth was 1 percentage point below the 5% uptick in 2019. In 2020, KFF found that 89% of large companies offered a telemedicine benefit, compared with 82% in 2019 and 74% in 2018.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 3, 2020

In early 2019, rumors began circulating about Google’s […]. Although Google first gained prominence as a search engine, it quickly moved into other sectors, like smart home tech and cloud computing. One of the latest projects associated with the brand relates to health care, or, more specifically, electronic health records (EHR).

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Practice Index

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS) has existed since 2019 but has recently hit the headlines again when a long campaign to extend the funding to include paying for GP roles was partly ceded by NHS England at the end of September.

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Scrubs

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

in 2019 to 82.5% Here’s how it could affect the staffing shortage: Pass rates for first-time takers of the national licensure exam have been steadily declining over the last few years. The pass rate fell from 88.2% in 2021, depriving the industry of thousands of potential providers.

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Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 4, 2024

The authors obtained incidence data for 34 types of cancer and mortality data for 25 types of cancer for individuals aged 25–84 years for the period Jan 1, 2000, to Dec 31, 2019 from the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries and the US National Center for Health Statistics, respectively.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Still, gross spending on the drugs increased by more than 500% from 2019 to 2023, according to the health policy research firm.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

JANUARY 16, 2025

UnitedHealth’s net income plummeted to its lowest level since 2019 amid hefty costs, including some from the Change cyberattack. CEO Andrew Witty also remembered slain executive Brian Thompson on a Thursday morning call.

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MARCH 16, 2023

Prosecutors say Lopez and his co-conspirators, who were not named in the indictment, tried to artificially suppress competition for nurses between the three agencies from 2016 to 2019, which would have resulted in lower wages for nurses.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MAY 20, 2019

in 2018 (both acute and ambulatory applications) according to Signify Research’s 2019 global EMR market report. The EMEA market for electronic health record (EHR) IT is estimated to have been worth $3.7B However, only one vendor, Cerner, is estimated to have had a double-digit revenue share in 2018.

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Sensible Medicine

OCTOBER 18, 2023

2019 Nov 19;140(21):1706-1716. Epub 2019 Oct 21. Weissler-Snir A, Allan K, Cunningham K, Connelly KA, Lee DS, Spears DA, Rakowski H, Dorian P. Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy-Related Sudden Cardiac Death in Young People in Ontario. Circulation. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.119.040271. 119.040271. PMID: 31630535.

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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 27, 2024

In 2019 I wrote enthusiastically about his new podcasts in a post entitled “ The Peter Attia Drive Podcast: Longevity, Lipidology, Fructose, and How To Keep Your Face And Joints Young.” FACP, FNLA, a world-renowned expert in lipidology. To support his Medicine 3.0 Medicine 3.0,

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Electronic Health Reporter

MAY 28, 2021

Although the amount of US healthcare organizations that utilize patient portal software increased from 32% in 2014 to 90% in early 2019, less than a quarter of […]. By Andrei Klubnikin, content management team lead, ITRex.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Hospital occupancy rates were higher in 2024 than 2019. If occupancy rates trend up, the nation could face a bed shortage by 2032, according to researchers.

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Electronic Health Reporter

OCTOBER 11, 2019

This guide investigates some of the ways in which mobile health, or mHealth, technology is overhauling healthcare around the world in 2019. […]. They are being used to revolutionize many aspects of healthcare – from patient communications to professional training.

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