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Doctor’s Failure to Follow Up on Medical Test Leads to Large Settlement

Pulmonology Advisor - Practice Management

Ordering diagnostic tests is a standard procedure for physicians; yet if the test results aren’t reviewed and acted upon, what was the point of ordering the test? Unfortunately, it’s not uncommon for physicians to order tests and then fail to follow up on results — often due to the sheer volume of patients that the physician sees.

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How COVID-19 Has Re-Shaped Health Care Delivery So Far

Health Populi

In the report, published in April 2020, IQVIA mined the company’s many data bases that track real-time data, including medical claims, flu data, sales data, oncology medical and pharmacy claims, formularies, among other sources. Top-line, IQVIA spotted the following key shifts in U.S. health care. health care.

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Trust My Doctor and Fear the Office: The Telehealth Opportunity in and Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic

Health Populi

Patients’ concerns of COVID-19 risks have led them to self-ration care in the following ways: 41% have delayed health care services. Patients’ concerns of COVID-19 risks have led them to self-ration care in the following ways: 41% have delayed health care services. adults 18 to 74 years of age in the first week of May 2020.

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Digital Health Tools Are Finding Business Models – IQVIA’s 2021 Read on the Health of Digital Health

Health Populi

In the Age of COVID, over 90,000 new health apps were released, as the supply of digital therapeutics and wearables grew in 2020. IQVIA has been closely following the growth, investment in, and clinical evidence for digital health since 2013, when I reviewed their first paper on “mHealth” here in Health Populi. .

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Viasat [VSAT] + 19Labs: Delivering Rural Healthcare Globally

19 Labs

With Viasat 3 and global coverage coming up, every rural community around the world can get healthcare through GALE. 19Labs recently deployed eClinic kits to schools in Utah and with physician practices in Missouri to extend healthcare access funded by the original 2020 FCC CARES Act grant. In the U.S.,

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Physicians Lean In to Digital Health, Especially Telehealth and Remote Monitoring

Health Populi

physicians, follows up AMA’s research conducted in 2016 and largely reflects the original questionnaire to be able to understand real changes among doctors’ use of tech in practice. The top factors supporting adoption were improving efficiency, safety, and diagnostic ability.

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Will Medical Facial Recognition Technology (mFRT) Reawaken Eugenics?

The Healthcare Blog

The answer to that final question is what DARPA , the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency , was attempting to answer in the Spring of 2020 when they funded researchers at Wuhan University. Justice and sanity did catch up eventually, but it took decades, and that was before AI and neural networks. Grove/2020)