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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? In June of 2020, Dr P ordered a chest scan for the patient. That fall, in November 2020, Mr W had a telehealth appointment with Dr P.

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2020 Was Our Year of COVID; 2021 Will Be Our Year of Vaccines and Excess Deaths in America

Health Populi

But there’s another angle on 2021 for which health care providers and health citizens alike should prepare: that is the excess deaths that will happen due to patients postponing needed health care, diagnostic tests, and preventive services that stem from people avoiding care in doctor’s offices and hospitals.

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Clinical Experience: The Neglected Leg of the Three-Legged Stool of Evidence-Based Medicine

Sensible Medicine

I know when it is pneumonia, I know when it is influenza or RSV, I kind of know when it is COVID though that tends to be a bit of a diagnostic moving target. I think my diagnostic reasoning is pretty plausible. I started seeing patients in a dedicated Covid clinic in April 2020 and we had no access to N95 masks.

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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. Impacts on oncology, and, Impacts on lab use and diagnostic services. health care. health care.

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Oh. Never Mind

The Healthcare Blog

There have already been three known cases that have crossed over from cows to humans, but, like the early days of COVID, we’re not actively testing or tracking cases (although we are doing some wastewater tracking ). “No

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While Virtual Care is “Table Stakes” in Health Care, Consumers Are Growing More Protective About Data-Sharing

Health Populi

The most common home-test by far has been for COVID-19, with other kinds of DTC diagnostic testing still lagging well behind. While consumers’ most-trusted data steward is still physicians, even willingness to share health data with physicians fell from the high of 72% of consumers in 2020 to 64% in 2023.

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

Health Populi

adults 18 to 74 years of age in the first week of May 2020. One in 5 of people with health insurance were concerned about losing their health plan in the next six months as the coronavirus heats up, recedes, and may re-emerge in the fourth quarter of 2020 into 2021. 42% felt uncomfortable going to a hospital for any medical treatment.

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