Health Populi

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

By the autumn of 2020, U.S. The pandemic may have led to excess deaths from diabetes, dementia, hypertension, heart disease, and stroke, as well as record drug overdoses in the 12 months ending in May 2020. adults ages 18-64 as of September 11 through 28, 2020.

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Health Populi

JUNE 2, 2021

The good news for health care costs for a family of four in America is that they fell, for the first time in like, ever, in 2020. But like a déjà vu all over again, annual health care costs for a family of four enrolled in a PPO will climb to over $28,000 in 2021, based on the latest 2021 Milliman Medical Index (MMI).

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2022

My Zoom invitation to Stacy was a very convenient excuse for me to catch up with a friend in the field: we have known each other since Stacy started to grow her health-social media presence on Twitter. Health care executive first; patient advocacy followed. for herself and for her son, Emmett. I like business and people.

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Health Populi

JULY 7, 2020

The pace of digital health investments quickened in the first half of 2020, based on Rock Health’s look at health-tech financing in mid-year. Note that in H1 2020, the average deal size exceeded $25 mm. I’ve written about Outset Medical here in Health Populi : Home is the New and Future Medical Home for Dialysis.

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Accepted Blog

MARCH 11, 2025

At what is now Drexel Medical School. The students are broken up into 16 groups. So it’s been moved up a bit. So the basic science portion goes up to the winter break, and then they start the block system which we had before. It’s very, very much focused on small group learning. That’s great.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Key challenges to adopting digital health tools are first and foremost cost, following by interoperability and operational barriers. health citizens’ minds in 2020 leading up to the election. health citizens’ minds in 2020 leading up to the election.

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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2020

The new era of virtual care has begun and is here to stay, Accenture expects in its latest look at How COVID-19 will permanently alter patient behavior , a patient survey conducted in May 2020. Accenture polled 2,700 patients around the world, 450 participants each from China, France, Germany, Japan, the U.K., and the U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 14, 2020

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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Health Populi

MAY 21, 2020

Patients’ concerns of COVID-19 risks have led them to self-ration care in the following ways: 41% have delayed health care services. 42% felt uncomfortable going to a hospital for any medical treatment. 42% felt uncomfortable going to a hospital for any medical treatment. ACHP and AMCP polled 1,263 U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 11, 2024

between 2023 and 2024, according to the 2024 Milliman Medical Index. Milliman also calculated that the largest driver of cost increase in health care, accounting for nearly one-half of medical cost increases, was pharmacy, the cost of prescription drugs, which grew 13% in the year.

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Health Populi

JULY 22, 2021

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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Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2021

economic outlook following today’s news that the U.S. economy lost 140,000 jobs — the greatest job loss since April 2020 in the second month of the pandemic. The 2020-21 economic recession is the first time in U.S. history that a downturn had nothing to do with the economy per se.

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Health Populi

APRIL 29, 2020

Once the pandemic hit, “feeling isolated or lonely” spiked up, followed by access to a safe environment for exercise, too much time on technology, and that limited choice of healthy food. 22% of health consumers told PwC they’re adjusting spending on medications, and 31% on healthcare visits.

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 20, 2025

WI Business Associate 4,112,892 Hacking/IT Incident 24 2023 Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing CO Health Plan 4,091,794 Hacking/IT Incident 25 2013 Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation, d/b/a Advocate Medical Group IL Healthcare Provider 4,029,530 Theft 26 2024 Concentra Health Services, Inc.

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Sensible Medicine

JULY 11, 2023

Different guideline producing groups, working off this same data, could come up with very different recommendations. The American Cancer Society lists in its 2020 Annual Report contributions of over $1 million from Merck & Co, Genentech, and Pfizer to name a few. 2020 Annual Report. 2021 Jul 20;326(3):279]. doi:10.1001/jama.2021.4417

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Health Populi

JULY 10, 2020

health care providers set up virtual care arrangements to convene with patients. In Patient Perspectives on Virtual Care , Kyruus answers this question based on an online survey of 1,000 patients 18 years of age and older, conducted in May 2020. Within days of the coronavirus pandemic emerging in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2022

Here for 2022, the second chart tracks the “stark toll” of the COVID-19 pandemic and the excess deaths experienced for each state since the pandemic emerged in February 2020. deaths per 100,000 population between 2019 and 2020. Pre-pandemic, that rate was even for eight years, then this jump spiked in 2020.

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The Healthcare Blog

APRIL 4, 2024

By MIKE MAGEE How comfortable is the FDA and Medical Ethics community with a new super-charged medical Facial Recognition Technology (mFRT) that claims it can “identify the early stages of autism in infants as young as 12 months?” The medical research community has already expanded way beyond “contactless” patient verification.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2020

A total of 7,000 interviews were conducted in April 2020, in Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North America — including 500 interviews in the U.S. The largest sector wellness-gap was found in food and snacks, followed by financial services. ” The COVID-19 crisis exacerbated consumers’ financial stress: in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

At the start of CES 2021, I had the opportunity to catch up with Karsten Russell-Wood, Portfolio Marketing Leader, Post Acute & Home, Connected Care at Philips. Each of them is dealing with different medical conditions: George has been diagnosed with heart failure and Dorothy is managing COPD. Take George and Audrey.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Most doctors see the advantages of digital health tools like telehealth, consumers’ access to their health information, and point-of-care workflow solutions, the American Medical Association found in a survey of 1300 physicians, published in September 2022. physicians and nurses as the pandemic emerged in early 2020.

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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. Once purchased, most consumers set up devices themselves.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Let’s start with the pocketbook of the patient — now a key payer in health systems’ revenue cycle management processes on the health system side, and continuing challenge for medical debt for U.S. And convenience actually mashes up costs for everyday people in the form of time-costs. PwC’s 2024 U.S.

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Accepted Blog

MAY 22, 2024

Each year, I talk to applicants who say they don’t want their ethnic or racial identity to be part of their medical school application. However, from the general perspective of the medical profession, it’s important to look at why having underrepresented groups in medicine is desirable. This is a noble principle that I respect.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The American Customer Satisfaction Index Insurance and Health Care Study 2020-2021 published today, recognizing consumers’ value for the quality of health insurance companies’ mobile apps and reliability of those apps. The study was fielded between October 2020 and September 2021. Outpatient care inched up from 73 to 74.

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Minority Nurse

JULY 29, 2022

“When you sign up for nursing, this is what you sign up for,” he says. “But I met my tribe at Hopkins,” he says, and ended up staying to complete an MSN and an MPH there as well, working as an ED nurse and even working with an emergency medical residency program in Tanzania. .

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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. For the research, CES interviewed 1,500 U.S.

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NHA Now

JUNE 4, 2020

One of our priorities at NHA is to provide information and resources to support frontline healthcare workers like medical administrative assistants on their career journey. 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.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2022

It’s important to place this story in the context of what was happening in Baltimore at the time: the Network evolved in the middle of the Baltimore uprising which followed the death of Freddie Gray. Brown conjured up Noah for this third pillar, as in “building an ark.” The Arc Initiative.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Placing it on Schedule I meant there was no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse, making research access difficult. If approved by the FDA, the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) would then be required to reschedule MDMA to make it available for prescription medical use. Sci Rep 10, 20442 (2020).

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2019

For mainstream Americans, “the math doesn’t add up” for paying medical bills out of median household budgets, based on the calculations in the 2019 VisitPay Report. With high health spending and lower life expectancy dollar for dollar, financial and health in-security will surely be voters’ priorities in 2020.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

I covered depression impacts due to COVID-19 here in Health Populi yesterday , and wanted to follow that up with this McKinsey study to connect some dots. health care system in terms of workflow and payment parity. From the article: One of Paul’s most famous quotes is this: “Politics is not about power.

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The Healthcare Blog

MAY 29, 2024

And yet, in the years following Neisser’s publication there has been a progressively intense, and sometimes heated debate between psychologists and neuroscientists over the definition of cognition. Mike Magee MD is a Medical Historian and regular contributor to THCB.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Several new studies reveal that more patients are feeling and living out their role as health care payors as medical spending vies with other household line items. The summary’s title tells you the focus of the research: Mending Healthcare in America 2020 – Consumers + Costs. on an annual basis as of October 2019.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 3, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic certainly accelerated the fast-adoption of telehealth for all kinds of patient questions and needs starting in the late second quarter of 2020. Mental health spiked up for virtual visits and to this day, is among the medical services in highest demand for virtual platforms.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

That means our nation must approach medical treatment and data privacy as civil rights that protect everyone.” In their study conducted in December 2020, U SA Today polled 1,020 adults age 18 and over in the USA TODAY/Public Agenda Hidden Common Ground Survey. “We need to demand our health citizenship.

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2024

On June 11, Rohit Chopra, the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced the agency’s vision to ban Americans’ medical debt from credit reports. He called out that, “In recent years, however, medical bills became the most common collection item on credit reports.

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