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Outpatient is the New Inpatient – The Future of Hospitals in America

Health Populi

.” And another verbatim observation that illustrates some hospitals’ doubling-down on the outpatient opportunity: “The focus of the past 10 years has been on preventing readmissions, and now in the next 10 years, the focus will be on preventing admissions.”

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Scaling the Social Determinants of Health – McKinsey and Kaiser’s Bold Move

Health Populi

Respondents were both uninsured and insured through individual coverage, Medicare, Medicaid, and dual enrollees. McKinsey also found that consumers reporting greater use of the emergency department and inpatient hospital admissions were also more likely to report unmet social needs. McKinsey conducted the survey among over 12,500 U.S.

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What’s behind all these assessments of digital health?

The Healthcare Blog

Their logic always goes something like “XY% of patients used our solution, most of them like it, and after they use it hospital admissions and ER visits go down, and clinical metrics get better”. Also worth a mention that many of those insurers, including Aetna & United have competitive diabetes products too.

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HIPAA Violation Cases

The HIPAA Journal

The 2020 increase is largely due to OCR’s HIPAA Right of Access enforcement initiative, which was launched in late 2019. Hackers had access to the system between April 2019 and January 2020. In 2022 and 2024, OCR resolved 22 HIPAA violation cases with financial penalties.

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How To Become A Medical Assistant?

MedAssistantEDU.org

in the year 2019. Having updated records also help with treatments and claiming health insurance. AAMA (American Association Of Medical Assistants) predicts increased demand for skilled medical assistants in the U.S. A total of 725,000 medical assistants were working in the U.S. This number is expected to increase up to 19% by 2029.

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The Median Hospital Charge In the U.S. for COVID-19 Care Ranges From $34-45K

Health Populi

FAIR Health based these numbers on private insurance claims associated with COVID-19 diagnoses, evaluating patient demographics (age, gender, geography), hospital charges and estimated allowed amounts, and patient comorbidities. privately-insured people. They used two ICD-10-CM diagnostic codes for this research: U07.1,

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All You Need to Know about BU’s Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Accepted Blog

If you want to know how much of BU medical school’s recent $100 million gift it intends to use for scholarships, or what happens to applications to ensure a genuinely holistic process, or what its associate dean of admissions wants to see in students read on! Welcome to the 541st episode of Admissions Straight Talk.