Sensible Medicine

APRIL 17, 2024

The parallels to universal precautions, the balance of comfort, communication, and patient safety, and the issues of power in the doctor patient relationship keeps me coming back to the issue. But what if patients prefer that their doctors don’t wear masks in settings that we never did before March 2020?

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Sensible Medicine

APRIL 18, 2024

As such, I’ll start with a single absolute statement: with the strain of Covid that circulated in the spring of 2020, having the provider wear a surgical mask and eye protection and the patient wear a surgical mask was highly effective in an outpatient setting. My very first morning in the clinic, I saw eight patients.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2019

In 2020, large employers will be “doubling down” efforts to control health care costs. Key strategies will include deploying more telehealth and virtual health care services, Centers of Excellence for high-cost conditions, and getting more personal in communicating and engaging through platforms.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2020

.” The backstory: Kansas Governor Laura Kelly issued a mask mandate on July 2, 2020. This was the message directly communicated to U.S. residents by the White House Coronavirus Task Force that week before Independence Day. And as Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young might offer, “Teach Your Children… math.”

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Minority Nurse

APRIL 1, 2025

A Long Road Back to Education Reflecting on her decision to return, Ortega shares, “In September 2020, after spending six months working from home due to COVID, I found myself reflecting during a conversation with a friend. I also communicated with Julian so he understood when I needed to focus on school.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 18, 2020

The 2020 tech vision for health is summarized here, tying to Accenture’s previous two years of forecasts. Note how the top line of the 2020 forecast “networks” into the 2019 trends. This year, the five pillars include: The “I” in Experience. The Dilemma of Smart Things.

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NHA Now

JULY 1, 2020

We shared a summary of our findings in the 2020 Industry Outlook , now available for download as a PDF. 42% of employers said newly certified EKG technicians lacked communication skills. To learn more about this profession and certification, visit NHAnow.com , and don't forget to download your copy of the 2020 Industry Outlook.

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NHA Now

JUNE 4, 2020

Take a look at a few phlebotomy technician employment trends we uncovered in our 2020 Industry Outlook research. Soft skills like communication are in high demand. 49% of employers surveyed said "communication" was a skill that newly-certified phlebotomy technicians lacked. This specialist position changes as healthcare evolves.

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NHA Now

JUNE 10, 2020

Here are three key findings to guide you through 2020 and beyond. For a full summary, download our 2020 Industry Outlook PDF , now available in access TM : an allied health industry journal. We gathered insights and data from 159 pharmacy employers to uncover factors that can impact your journey.

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NHA Now

JUNE 10, 2020

At NHA, we always strive to provide information to support frontline healthcare workers like billing & coding specialists on their path to success, which is why we recently surveyed hundreds of healthcare employers to discover insights to help lead us into 2020 and beyond. Below are a few highlights from the report.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 9, 2020

Several consumer surveys published to coincide with CES 2020 provide insights into the new consumer trust mindset across industries, but especially important for health engagement. Tech-privacy-convenience trade-offs were also gauged in Morning Consult’s national tracking poll conducted in December 2020.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

We must be mindful that hospitals, health systems and physicians quickly stood up and adopted virtual care, especially telemedicine programs, in March and April 2020. ” The coronavirus and #StayHome mandates were the wild card that changed every normal forecast for telehealth utilization in 2020. .” In 2019, J.D.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 30, 2020

The article Hyland Healthcare and HIMSS Media Publish 2020 Connected Care and the State of Interoperability in Healthcare Study Results appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. The results are published […].

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Health Populi

MAY 3, 2021

The first four most-trusted sources for health information in 2021 remained the same short-list from 2020: doctors in-person, pharmacists, nutritionists and dieticians, and government or NGOs. adults told Euromonitor they were very or extremely comfortable receiving medical advice online, up from about 35% in 2020.

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Intercoast

DECEMBER 11, 2024

million received any substance use treatment in the past year (SAMHSA, 2020). The American Medical Association recommends using non-stigmatizing terminology in all communications (AMA, 2017). According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), in 2019, approximately 20.4 Yet, only about 4.2

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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. Communicating other information, like blood pressure, weight, or heart health) to a health care provider.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 15, 2020

Physicians are evolving as digital doctors, embracing the growing role of data generated in electronic health records as well as through their patients using wearable technologies and mobile health apps downloaded in ubiquitous smartphones, described in The Rise of the Data-Driven Physician , a 2020 Health Trends Report from Stanford Medicine.

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NHA Now

JUNE 24, 2020

For a full summary, download your PDF copy our 2020 Industry Outlook from the latest edition of access TM : an allied health industry journal. Professionalism" and "verbal communication" were the top two desired soft skills identified by employers. Here are some of the key findings.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

.” The vast majority of consumers are concerned about some aspect of their home’s health, like air or water quality, according to Healthy Home Technologies , a report published in October 2020 by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), convener of the annual CES. cast to communicate their collective political will.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

can learn from the Widening Digital Participation program’s work over 2017 into 2020. The second phase of the project ran from 2017 to 2020, bringing together community stakeholders and patients to co-design health and social care solutions underpinned by digital tech. There are many lessons the U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2021

Household penetration of smartwatch ownership grew 12%, whereas activity tracker growth was fairly flat between 2020 and 2021. In 2020, one-fourth of U.S. In 2021, smartwatch adoption exceeded wearable activity fitness tracker market penetration, both around one-third of U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

As technology continues to re-shape consumers’ experiences and expectations with health/care, retail, travel and work, peoples’ concerns about data privacy are also growing as observed by a 2020 consumer trends forecast from GlobalWebIndex, Connecting the dots. First, some overall context to the study.

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 20, 2025

The major rise in HIPAA violation penalties in 2020 was largely due to a new enforcement initiative by OCR targeting non-compliance with the HIPAA Right of Access – the right of patients to access and obtain a copy of their healthcare data. Dominion National Insurance Company, and Dominion Dental Services USA, Inc.

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The Healthcare Blog

MAY 29, 2024

The discourse in recent years had bled over into the fringes to include the belief by some that plants “think” even though they are not in possession of a nervous system, or the belief that ants communicating with each other in a colony are an example of “distributed cognition.” Perhaps the last word on this should go to Descartes.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

The January 2020 Health Affairs published a paper on Primary Care Physicians’ Role in Coordinating Medical and Health-Related Social Needs in Eleven Countries. Primary care promotes effective communication with patients and encourages the role of the patient as a partner in health care.

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Losing Touch In far too many provider-patient encounters, the art of communication is lost, seemingly forgotten in the rush of things to do. It’s never fun to be a patient, and being left in the timeless dark — hungry, bored, thirsty, and without information — can be an awful moment in time.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 23, 2020

adults between 23 September and 5 October 2020 — giving consumers many months of living in the context of the coronavirus. For a positive experience, consumers used words such as caring, good, time, friendly, efficient, attentive, listened, compassionate, clear, comfortable, and communication. and covers a range of issues.

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19 Labs

APRIL 21, 2021

The full press release from Viasat can be found below: Viasat, 19Labs Collaborate to Deliver Real-time, Enhanced Telemedicine and Remote Patient Monitoring Solution for Unserved and Underserved Communities. 19Labs point-of-care e-clinics are being installed throughout Latin America in unserved and underserved communities. In the U.S.,

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Relias

JUNE 2, 2022

Through conscious interventions and strategic communication, healthcare organizations can work to protect their employees and allow them to focus on what matters most: serving their patients. Create Open Lines of Communication. Editor’s Note: This post was originally published in August 2020 and has been updated.

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Health Populi

APRIL 9, 2021

This week, Raley’s, a grocery chain based in California, released its first-ever Raley’s 2020 Impact Report. To communicate openly and honestly. “Imagine a grocery store with a higher purpose,” the landing page for the company’s social impact resources calls us to do. To lead with purpose and passion.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic drove U.S. Parks Associates’ research identified other categories of consumer electronics growth in the 2020 year of the coronavirus, including: Smart home devices, growing to 30% of U.S. broadband households in 2020 from 17% in 2015. Financial literacy, especially key to U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

He is wearing his BioIntelliSense “BioSticker” which communicates vital sign metrics, used along with Philips remote patient monitoring program. We meet George and Audrey in their open kitchen-dining room space, with George finishing up a conversation with his cardiologist via a tablet.

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2021

2020 changed everything, the W2O team asserts, now issuing its latest look into the issue through the Relevance Quotient. The year 2020 pushed several issues into headlines and peoples’ online searches and social network shares. Five years ago, in 2016, the W2O Group said that, “Relevance is reputation.”

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The Healthcare Blog

MAY 15, 2024

The notion of instantaneous, multimodal communication with machines has seemingly come of nowhere but is actually the product of nearly a century of imaginative, creative and disciplined discovery by information technologists and human speech experts, who have only recently fully converged with each other.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2021

Two studies published in May 2021 illustrate the value and importance of telehealth to patients in 2020, and a disconnect among many C-level executives working in hospitals, academic medical centers, and other care provider organizations. Consumers’ satisfaction with both health plan websites and information and communication.

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Scrubs

APRIL 20, 2023

According to the State of The World’s Nursing 2020 Report, nursing occupies the largest chunk of the healthcare domain. It accounts for approximately 59% of medical professionals. Altogether, there are close to 27.9 million nurses, and 19.3 million of them are categorized as professional nurses.

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NHA Now

JUNE 4, 2020

We recently surveyed 171 healthcare employers to gain insights and trends related to the role of medical administrative assistant to carry us into 2020 and beyond. For a full summary, download your PDF copy of our 2020 Industry Outlook , now available in this year's edition of a ccess TM : an allied health industry journal.

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