Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Families with children feel particularly strapped for the 2021 holiday season: while they will be less likely to reduce holiday spending, one-half are concerned about medical expenses compared with one year ago. Their top line is that hospital margins dropped for a second month as expenses climbed year-over-year, 2020-2021.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Collection rates for the bad debt fell from 76% in 2020 to 55% in just the one year from 2020 to 2021, a drop of nearly one-third. In the YouGov survey, most patients said they would be willing to pay more for quality of care, and nearly one-half would pay more for choosing the medical team for their care.

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Doximity

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

This week we are interviewing, Fatima Cody Stanford , MD, MPH, MPA, MBA, FAAP, FACP, FAHA, FAMWA, FTOS; Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Obesity Medicine Physician Scientist, Massachusetts General Hospital; Director of Equity, Endocrine Division, Massachusetts General Hospital.

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Accepted Blog

APRIL 16, 2024

Show Summary In this episode, Linda Abraham interviews Christian Essman, Senior Director of Admissions and Financial Aid at Case Western Reserve University Medical School. Are you ready to apply to your dream medical schools? Show Notes Thanks for tuning into the 571st episode of Admissions Straight Talk. 1:31] Hi, Linda.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

I noted this Morning Consult survey , data shown here, finding that people of color who were lower-income as of June 2020 had a more difficult time paying for Internet and phone bills than white people with lower incomes. ” However we define them, these factors impact health much more than medical interventions applied downstream.

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Accepted Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Are you ready to apply to your dream medical schools? He then did his residency in pediatrics at Harbor UCLA Medical Center and a fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine at Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles. He is also Duke Medical’s Associate Dean for Admissions and a returning guest on Admissions Straight Talk.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Since their publication by the US Sentencing Commission in 1991, seven elements have become core tenets of healthcare compliance programs not only because of their impact on potential damages, but in helping organizations develop well-rounded compliance programs.

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Arkenea

JANUARY 25, 2025

Key Takeaways A need to control substance usage and reduce medication errors is driving the e-prescribing market growth during the 2023-2030 timeframe. Online medication orders, refills, and reminders help such patients to keep a track of their health care. Around 75 percent of medication errors have occurred due to distraction.

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Setting Sights

MAY 7, 2021

Each morning, the doctors came round to the bedside, barely taking one look at my desperate face, before finally making brief eye contact and clearing their throats. I was unimaginably weak, temporarily paralysed, and couldn’t keep even the smallest of sips down without vomiting, yet still, nobody knew what was going on, or why. BMI is fine.

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Accepted Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2024

They discuss the unique aspects of the Colorado Medical curriculum, including the new Trek curriculum, the importance of longitudinal integrated clerkships, and the various tracks available for students. Dr. SooHoo emphasizes the competitive nature of medical school admissions and the holistic review process used to evaluate applicants.

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Setting Sights

DECEMBER 31, 2022

It was my first outing unaided since the Spring of 2020, far away from the bubble of the hospital ward corridor or rehabilitation room besides the physiotherapist’s gym, or the netting of using crutches or the wheelchair; both of which I had purposely tucked away in the garage. I did, in the end, return to medical school, in June 2022.

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Sensible Medicine

APRIL 9, 2025

I was a third year medical student and assigned there for pediatric rotation. The children were a delight— you couldn't help but smile when you saw their cute faces on rounds, but the moment you reflected on what they were dealing with, the moment you thought of their parents or siblings, you would be crushed. Where will I match?—

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Relias

MARCH 16, 2022

hospitals each year as a result of preventable medical errors. One action you can take this week: At your next huddle or staff meeting, whether it’s a daily huddle with your team or a weekly leadership huddle, make a point of speaking up about the importance of ways to improve patient safety. into perspective.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

In January 2020, before we knew how to spell “coronavirus,” millions of consumers were already “Amazon-Primed” for everyday life-flows and consumer behaviors. adults ages 18 and over in the second half of July 2020. CTA conducted a survey among 2,000 U.S. During the pandemic, this peaked to 33%.

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Pulmonology Advisor - Practice Management

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

He was 64 years old and had a host of medical issues, including diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease , and deep vein thrombosis. Mr W received his health care through a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical center. Dr P was Mr W’s pulmonologist at the VA medical center.

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Setting Sights

MAY 2, 2022

I can still remember my last day of Medical School, though it was never meant to be the last. All medical students were sent home. That was the last time I saw the hospital, where I lived and learnt as a medical student, for a very long time. The honest truth ? It was early March 2022. And I had to believe.

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Health Populi

MARCH 19, 2019

To meet the future, Scott Melville, CEO of CHPA, described the organization’s 2020 project which is determining the categories the Association should represent. billion in medical visits and reduce reliance on prescription drugs by a $51.6 medical system in terms of direct costs. health care system $94.8 billion savings.

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Setting Sights

AUGUST 11, 2021

Yet, even when I was a medical student, working busy days on the wards and in clinics, with even the petty things still lingering from my past, the PTSD from my own hospital experiences, I thought it was all okay, because I spoke about it, and wrote about it openly, on different platforms. Did anyone sit down and explain any of these to me?

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Minority Nurse

JULY 12, 2023

In 2020 Flores was a featured guest on the TV Show, The Doctors , sharing his expertise on end-of-life hospice care. My experience as a CNA helped form me into a well-rounded nurse. I found that medically challenged children bring joy to everyone around them. Nursing is a second career for Derek J.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In 2020, Genentech launched its first study into health inequities. ” To give voice to these important perspectives, we interviewed 2,207 patients — 1,001 from the general population and 1,206 who qualified as “medically disenfranchised” from four communities: Black, Latinx, LGBTQ+, and low socioeconomic status.

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Setting Sights

DECEMBER 30, 2021

And 2020-2021 has been no exception. We’ll find her”, as she shivered in the shadows, not knowing that in this stillness this soon would be her last hour. I have seen more death as a patient in one year than as a working medical student training to be a Doctor. Nor was 2020. We’ve all fallen to our knees and crumbled.

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Health Populi

MARCH 30, 2021

As a real-world evidence point on telemedicine for mental health, we point to a report from Cigna out last week attesting to the hockey-stick growth of tele-behavioral health at the start of the pandemic and persisting through 2020, shown in the last chart. (An McKinsey’s post-COVID bet is on growth across all three segments.

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The Healthcare Blog

JULY 14, 2024

You remember those huge rounds that Jess & I used to report on and make fun of? This round was a $50m top-up but it has raised nearly $400m. Harmonycares is a housecall medical group, presumably pursuing the strategy that Signify and others followed. You digital health fans remember that halcyon time. They’re back.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

While nurses were in short supply before 2020, the coronavirus pandemic and stress on front-line health care workers exacerbated the shortage of nursing staff globally. voice tech, smart medication dispensers, and remote health monitors).

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Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2021

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. You can see million-person differences for registered nurses, nursing assistants, and personal care aides, and half-million worker deltas for LPNs and medical assistants.

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Ashley, 2020), is that increased cultural tolerance of transgender persons has encouraged those wishing to take steps to align their gender expression with their feelings to do so. These parents are also alarmed by the prospect of their children taking unnecessary, harmful, and irreversible medical steps. The correspondence (i.e.,

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The Healthcare Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2024

He’s also launched “a robot for every citizen” as part of a cover for sagging expectations for the Tesla Cybertruck, and issued a new round of hollow promises on his Robotaxi scheme. Mike Magee MD is a Medical Historian and regular contributor to THCB. He is the author of CODE BLUE: Inside America’s Medical Industrial Complex.

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Sensible Medicine

JULY 28, 2023

MJ is a 24-year-old man who presents to his primary care physician on March 16, 2020 with fever, myalgia, and sore throat. March 2020: COVID strips a veteran physician of his invincibility. Early 2020 was scary. Owing to a collaboration with the Wuhan University Medical School, I had visited Wuhan in 2008 and 2017.

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The Healthcare Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2024

of the county had been infected by April 2020. No one asked the researchers for an apology, presumably because the study had passed anonymous peer review and had escaped the wrath of the medical commentariat. of the county had been infected by April 2020. The researchers estimated that 2.8% The researchers estimated that 2.8%

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The Healthcare Blog

JULY 22, 2024

If we thought 2020 was the most consequential election of our lifetimes, then fasten your seat belt, because 2024 is already proving to be a bumpier ride, with more shocks undoubtedly to come. Just to round out the bottom ten states, they were Arkansas, Georgia, Alabama, Arizona, Tennessee, and Wyoming.

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