Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 1, 2019

The article Technology Trends In Healthcare In 2019 appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. It is now easier to cope with our everyday routine because we have smart solutions that speed up the pace of our life and make it more convenient. Healthcare is where technologies are expected to revolutionize treatment and research […].

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Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2019

There was a lot of Twitter activity in my tweet-feed about an Amazon Alexa-enabled toilets at CES 2019. Descriptions waxed lyrically about it, such as a, “fully-immersive experience,” “Game of Thrones,” and, “CES 2019 is flush with smart toilets.” Kohler launched one called Numi 2.0,

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Health Populi

JANUARY 9, 2019

who have health insurance must take on a deductible of some amount, which compels that insured individual to spend the first dollar on medical services up until they meet their financial commitment. For more on retail health’s prospects in 2019, see this Health Populi post. I say this as most people in the U.S. In the median U.S.

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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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Electronic Health Reporter

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Have you reviewed the changes to the Circulatory System section in the ICD-10-CM 2019 Official Guidelines for coding and reporting? To support medical necessity and payment for your cardiology CPT codes and cardiology HCPCS codes, your ICD-10-CM coding needs to be spot-on. And that doesn’t mean […].

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Health Populi

JULY 25, 2019

increase over 2018, according to the 2019 Milliman Medical Index (MMI). The Milliman MMI team has updated the methodology for the Index; the chart shown here is my own, recognizing that the calculations and assumptions beneath the 2019 data point differ from previous years. Milliman has changed the methodology for the 2019 MMI.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 15, 2019

And while data breach may not be a new term or even a new problem, in 2019, it’s become a massive issue, particularly in the healthcare […]. The article Why Healthcare Companies Should Better Protect Medical Data appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 26, 2019

The article How Will AI Transform Health Sectors In 2019 and Beyond appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. With greater numbers of people requiring doctor visits and hospital care, the industry is looking for ways to be even more productive and efficient to ensure […].

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Sensible Medicine

JULY 29, 2024

The medical journal JAMA published the first trial. A Harvard group of mostly medical people randomized 2800 low-income people in a Massachusetts town to receive a cash benefit of $400 per month for 9 months or not. Unlike many medical researchers, the economists wrote strongly about the null results, as if they were not disappointed.

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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. The three of us will be on a panel addressing retail health disruption at CES 2019 on 9th January 2019 at the Digital Health Summit. Giant serves 4.6

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

They rose 26%, and general price inflation by 20%, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation survey on employer-sponsored benefits for 2019 released yesterday. In 2019, ”cost” for health consumers translates into the premium, deductible, out-of-pocket spending, and surprise medical bills — an issue that’s getting a lot of attention in U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Bold doing is better,” Dr. Eric Topol introduced his talk yesterday at Medecision’s Liberation 2019 conference. He showed new evidence from Nature (journal) Volume 574 dated 24th October 2019 — Eric is never guilty of showing old data unless it’s making a new-new insight. “Bold thinking is great.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

That’s what came to my mind when reading the latest global health report from the OECD, Health at a Glance 2019 , which compares the United States to other nations’ health care outcomes, risk factors, access metrics, and spending. An October 2019 CBS News Poll on how Americans feel about U.S. starts Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities. .

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Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2019

These skills are already helping make health care better for providers in medical practice and consumers and caregivers at home for aging support, medication adherence, and mental health. The rest of the CES story for 2019 is positive, Shelly optimistically continued. Another buzzword at CES this year, as last, is “5G.”

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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. adults 18 and over in January and February 2019. 27 million Americans — 1 in 100 people — each borrowed at least $10,000 to pay for medical care. Gallup polled 3,537 U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

In the Fear of Going Out Era spawned by the COVID-19 pandemic, many patients were loath to go to the doctor’s office for medical care, and even less keen on entering a hospital clinic’s doors. 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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Scrubs

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The nurse was accused of swapping medications at a nursing home in North Dakota in 2017, but she recently landed a plea deal that will keep her out of jail. Prosecutors say Reilly stole prescription medications from residents during her time at Borg Pioneer Memorial Home in Mountain, ND and replaced them with over-the-counter medications.

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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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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

The researchers looked at every patient that had mammograms between 2004 and 2019 and developed breast cancer. We discuss in Ending Medical Reversal why we should be suspicious of single center studies. I also individualize my recommendations, provide a variety of infographics , and respect each patient’s decision.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Patients searching online for health information and health care provider reviews is mainstream in 2019. Rock Health’s Digital Health Consumer Adoption Report for 2019 was developed in collaboration with the Stanford Medicine Center for Digital Health. Digital health tracking is now adopted by 4 in 10 U.S. Amazon down 8 points.

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Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 4, 2024

I’ve got a pretty stable approach to reading the medical literature. Many people compared this article to a classic 2019 NEJM article: Epidemiologic Signatures in Cancer. Writing a piece like this reminds me of the transcendently good weekly summaries of the medical literature Richard Lehman once wrote.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2020

The same percentage of people over 50 own a voice assistant, a market penetration rate which more than doubled between 2017 and 2019, AARP noted in the 2020 Tech and the 50+ Survey published in December 2019. For this research, AARP worked with Ipsos to survey (online) 2,607 people ages 50 and over in June and July 2019.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2022

debt) by type: a low credit score, medical debt in collections, nonmedical debt in collections, bankruptcy, and any delinquent debt across all types. The actual costs calculated for any medical debt was an increase of 60% for individuals with no (0) chronic conditions at $784 rising to $1,252 for people with 7 to 13 conditions.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

On January 10, 2019, Jim Cramer of CNBC’s Mad Money recommended that Apple buy Epic, a market leader in EHRs. One reason is because a medical data breach is more valuable than a hack of, say, consumers’ credit card identities. There will be a slew of data security solutions to evaluate at this conference.

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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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Health Prime

APRIL 25, 2024

In the complex world of medical billing, dealing with bad debt is an inevitable challenge that healthcare providers often face. Unpaid bills, denied claims, and delayed payments can significantly impact the financial health of a medical practice. Strategies to improve bad debt management in medical billing 1.

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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.” Achieving these goals would require multiple different cholesterol-lowering medications. FACP, FNLA, a world-renowned expert in lipidology.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Remote monitoring, the Internet of Things (both medical and via a smart home), wearables, and telehealth/virtual care channels will enable that care, anywhere, in this AHA/EY vision. 2019 will feature examples of all of these technologies and services. This week, Health 2.0 This is my lens as I enter this year’s annual Health 2.0

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Sensible Medicine

DECEMBER 11, 2023

IOW: did a patient require medical attention of an arrhythmia. The Struggle to Publish The authors presented this data at the European Heart Rhythm Association meeting in 2019. Final Comment I show this study because it makes you stop and think about the human aspects of medical science. Why was this so hard to publish?

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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. The article The Importance of Protecting Medical Cannabis Patient Records appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

This and other studies have tracked consumers’ growing use of digital tech and wearables during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the 10% point growth from 2019 to 2020 is notable. Only weight and medication tracking had a majority of people using analog formats to track. In 2020, the top tech companies with whom U.S.

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Intercoast

DECEMBER 11, 2024

When individuals view their condition as a personal failing rather than a medical issue, they may experience decreased self-esteem and increased feelings of hopelessness. Mistrust in Healthcare Systems: Past negative experiences or perceived bias within healthcare settings may lead to avoidance of medical intervention.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 25, 2019

But we must and we will, a group of inspiring and inspired people who work across the health/care ecosystem affirmed this week in Dallas at the conference of Medecision Liberation 2019. sclerotic” medical thinking and prescriptions (as in “athero-sclerosis” blocked arteries) that aren’t based on the latest sound science.

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 20, 2025

In 2019, hacking accounted for 49% of all reported breaches. CA Healthcare Provider 2,364,359 Hacking/IT Incident 57 2024 Medical Management Resource Group, L.L.C. In 2023, 79.7% of data breaches were due to hacking incidents. It is not just the number of data breaches that are increasing as the breaches are becoming more severe.

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Health Populi

JUNE 1, 2021

Medical grade wearables for data collection, and. Medical alert/personal emergency response systems for safety. Laurie also pointed out that both men and women are Apple Watch consumers, with nearly one-half of purchases made by women in 2019. greatest growth, up 15% in 2019. Fitness trackers, separate from watches.

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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. This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited.

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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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