Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

adults from early September to early October 2020 to gauge peoples’ interest in and utilization of digital health tools and telehealth. This represents a shift more to “me care” in 2020 with the sharp uptake of digital platforms and wearable tech. Rock Health and Stanford commissioned an online survey among 7,980 U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

In 2020, national health expenditures (NHE) in the United States will exceed $4 trillion to cover 334.5 Three factors will drive healthcare costs to 2026: prices for medical goods and services, changes in income growth, and shifting enrollment from private health insurance to Medicare — driven by the aging of Boomers.

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Health Populi

MARCH 29, 2019

One of the larger delta/differences on this list between Democrats and Republicans relates to people receiving more advanced medical treatments and prescription drugs: 51% of Democrats blame high costs on newer treatments, while only 37% of Republicans do so. I predict that the history of the 2020 Presidential election in the U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

A new report from CoverMyMeds details the current state of medication access weaving together key health care industry and consumer data. The reality even before the coronavirus crisis emerged in early 2020 was that U.S. One in three patients went without treatment or medications to pay for bills and basic needs, the research found.

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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

MAY 21, 2020

42% felt uncomfortable going to a hospital for any medical treatment. adults 18 to 74 years of age in the first week of May 2020. Nearly every respondent in the study reported having health insurance coverage. Another 8% had Medicaid or a state health insurance program. ACHP and AMCP polled 1,263 U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 10, 2020

The digital health presence at CES 2020 is the fastest-growing segment of consumer technologies at the Show this year, increasing by 25% over 2019. Finally, SingFit positions its product and services as “music-as-medicine,” and brings music therapy to CES 2020. Heart-focused technologies are a big part of that growth story.

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2021

A major side-effect of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 was its impact on the national U.S. economy, jobs, and peoples’ household finances — in particular, medical spending. Note that fewer younger people have a good handle on their financial responsibility for their medical care, the bottom data point in the chart.

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Electronic Health Reporter

DECEMBER 3, 2019

2020 predictions from Luma Health chief medical officer and co-founder, Dr. Tashfeen Ekram. With an average profit margin of 8%, hospitals have higher margins than the pharmacy or insurance industries. This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited.

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2020

Whether healthcare spending in 2021 increases by double-digits or falls by one-third directly depends on how the coronavirus pandemic will play out over the rest of 2020, based on PwC’s annual report on medical cost trends for 2021. ” A high scenario of medical trend calculates a 10.0%

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2020

Health care costs continue to be a top issue on American voters’ minds in this 2020 Presidential election year, this survey confirms. This is true for all flavors of health care costs, including health insurance deductibles and premiums, out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs, and the cost of long-term care.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 12, 2021

For this annual report, Ordr analyzed security risks across over 500 deployments in healthcare, life sciences, retail, and manufacturing sectors for the 12 months June 2020 through June 2021. In medical facilities, one-half of the cyber-attacks were on medical devices, the circle graph illustrates.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The paper, Health Insurance Affordability Concerns and health Care Avoidance Among US Adults Approaching Retirement , explored the perspectives of 1,028 US adults between 50 and 64 years of age between November 2018 and March 2019. One-half said they weren’t confident in their ability to afford health insurance in or near retirement.

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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. health care. Top-line, IQVIA spotted the following key shifts in U.S. health care.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

and post-pandemic job growth in 2021, the cost of health insurance premiums rose faster than either the price of goods or wages. Figure A shows the family health insurance premium cost-sharing between employers and workers over ten years. adults with medical debt expect to take at least a year to pay it off.

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The HIPAA Journal

JULY 5, 2024

The first instance occurred on December 15, 2020, and it continued until May 15, 2024. The nature of the access was not disclosed; however, Providence said there is an active investigation by the California Department of Insurance.

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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. One-half of 50+ Americans use a tablet, and 17% own wearable tech. Reminding you when to take your medicine and which to take, and.

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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

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Americans who have commercial health insurance (say, through an employer or union) are rarely thought to face barriers to receiving health care — in particular, primary care, that front line provider and on-ramp to the health care system. visits per 100 member-years. This is one of the pillars for 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. ” Health Populi’s Hot Points: HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, was signed into law in 1996 by President Bill Clinton.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Over one-half of Americans would likely use virtual care for their healthcare services, and one in four people would actually prefer a virtual relationship with a primary care physician, according to the fifth annual 2020 Consumer Sentiment Survey from UnitedHealthcare.

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Health Populi

JUNE 26, 2023

People love being health-insured, but their negative experiences with health plans create serious burdens on patients-as-consumers. The 2023 Kaiser Family Foundation Survey of Consumer Experiences with Health Insurance updates our understanding of and empathy for insured peoples’ Patient Administrative Burdens (PAB).

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2025

The growth of wearable technology, need and desire for real-world evidence and patient feedback, and especially patients’ growing role in paying for health care (think: high deductibles, co-insurance, and the challenge of medical debt) all drive the need to enhance the health care experience for patients in consumer and retail grades.

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 24, 2025

The file review confirmed that the information likely compromised in the incident includes names, dates of birth, medical information, health insurance information, payment card information, and Social Security numbers. What is not clear at this stage is how many individuals have been affected.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Digital connectivity can ameliorate social isolation and anxiety, bolster mental health, and access needed medical care via telehealth channels. Health Populi’s Hot Points: An article in an August 2020 Forbes noted that, “Coronavirus May Help Best Buy Become A Key Healthcare Player.

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Health Populi

JULY 25, 2022

Among these events are Amazon’s plan to acquire One Medical , Apple’s publication of the paper, Empowering People to Live a Healthier Day , and other news that, together with these line items, signal a shake-up of American health care as we know it. The timing of my return to the U.S. healthcare system.

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Health Populi

JULY 10, 2020

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. Each of these health consumers had at least one virtual care visit between February and May 2020. Only 4% four it “somewhat difficult.”

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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. In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

JULY 28, 2020

In 2020, CES featured several hundred digital health exhibitors and a growing array of Internet of Things-connected devices adjacent to health and wellness, with representation from beyond “pure” wearable health tech ranging from FDA-cleared blood pressure watches from Omron to health insurer Humana in the exhibit hall.

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Health Prime

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Medical practices are caught between declining reimbursement and increasing costs due to more complex regulations, higher employee costs, and the need for more sophisticated technology. Partnering with the right medical billing company is crucial for the financial health of your practice. But this is only the tip of the iceberg.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The latest read from ONC, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, tells a story about patients’ growing use of online portals, medical records, and smartphone apps to access personal health information. So what are patients most keen to access online in their medical records or portal?

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

health citizens’ minds in 2020 leading up to the election. The post Tools for Paying Medical Bills Don’t Help Health Consumers Manage Their Financial Health appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. Only 1 in 5 health systems plans to offer a tool to help patients-consumers “get estimates for costs of care.”

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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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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. In research from HealthPocket , 2 in 5 Americans said they needed to reduce other household expenses to be able to afford their monthly insurance premiums.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

But consider the statistic that, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges, there will be a shortage of 65,500 physicians expected in 2020, and 90,400 in 2025. Across political party, most Americans also favor some flavor of universal health insurance. This is sobering through just the N=1 physician lens.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

every year from 2020 to 2027, the actuaries at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services forecast in their report, National Health Expenditure Projections, 2018-2927: Economic And Demographic Trends Drive Spending And Enrollment Growth , published yesterday by Health Affairs. National health spending in the U.S. Presidential Election.

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2021

A major side-effect of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 was its impact on the national U.S. economy, jobs, and peoples’ household finances — in particular, medical spending. That may be largely due to the fact that more younger people than older workers lost jobs in the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as losing health insurance.

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