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?” That test already has a name -the RightEye GeoPref Autism Test. Are we OK with that?

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2022

Declines in preventive care services like cancer screenings and blood glucose testing concern employers, whose continued to cover health insurance for employees during the pandemic. The full report speaks to medical spending and utilization trends for preventive care, telehealth, and behavioral health.

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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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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.

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Health Populi

MARCH 18, 2024

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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Sensible Medicine

MAY 24, 2024

However, from a strictly medical perspective, I do not think the “exposed group” is thriving. VP and I wrote a whole chapter on this in Ending Medical Reversal. I started seeing patients in a dedicated Covid clinic in April 2020 and we had no access to N95 masks. I have no moral qualms about this.

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Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2021

The Wall Street Journal featured the grocery chain Kroger in an article yesterday titled, COVID-19 Vaccinations, Tests Give Boost to Kroger’s Health Ambitions. consumers’ self-care trends, IRI has been tracking peoples’ retail behaviors during the coronavirus pandemic since the first quarter of 2020.

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Scrubs

APRIL 20, 2023

According to the State of The World’s Nursing 2020 Report, nursing occupies the largest chunk of the healthcare domain. It accounts for approximately 59% of medical professionals. It also brought to light new medical innovations to address the crisis. It will eventually result in quicker test collection and fast outcomes.

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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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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

With President Trump’s somber speech from the Oval Office last night, we wake up on 12th March 2020 to a ban on most travel from Europe to the U.S., His remarks focused largely on an immigration and travel policy versus science, triaging, testing and treatment of the virus itself. Prudential surveyed U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

Care delivery that uses both traditional “physical” and virtual modalities, which got stress-tested during the pandemic, and, Care to the home leveraging remote monitoring and the power of patient engagement. In 2019, J.D. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services.

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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. 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.

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Health Populi

MAY 4, 2020

And when food, hygiene supplies, and medical care can’t be delivered by Amazon or Instacart via FedEx, UPS, or the U.S. The most visible product of the new drive-through health care is COVID-19 testing, which keeps people in their cars and out of brick-and-mortar doctors’ offices, clinical labs, and hospital outpatient centers.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

While a social security number can fetch $1 by a data evil-doer, a credit card can score $110, and a full medical record as much as $1,000. Alissa Knight , an expert on hacking and cybersecurity, conducted this research by first downloading 30 mHealth apps in collaboration with the companies, to do penetration testing of their apps and APIs.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2021

consumers would be likely to have a clinician visit their homes for several kinds of medical care, including: “DIY care,” as PwC exemplifies as a home strep or flu test, or remote monitoring, likely among 85% of people. preferring the medical office. preferring the medical office.

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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 3, 2020

There’s been a flurry of research into this question since the hockey-stick growth of telemedicine visits were evident in March 2020, just days after the World Health Organization uttered the “P-word:” pandemic. 2% of tech-enabled home medication administration (think: specialty drugs come home). Some 3 in 4 U.S.

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CareerStep

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Offered through the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC), the Certified Professional Coder (CPC) credential is a gold-standard in the industry, allowing you to stand out when you’re applying for medical billing and coding jobs. Earning this certification shows that you have expertise in coding medical services and procedures.

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Sensible Medicine

JULY 30, 2024

A pretty good portion of what we post on Sensible Medicine could be considered critical appraisal of the medical literature. Thus, it was an easy decision when a group of medical students asked if we would consider posting an appraisal that came out of their journal club. You also get a chance to appraise the appraisers.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 15, 2020

Physicians are evolving as digital doctors, embracing the growing role of data generated in electronic health records as well as through their patients using wearable technologies and mobile health apps downloaded in ubiquitous smartphones, described in The Rise of the Data-Driven Physician , a 2020 Health Trends Report from Stanford Medicine.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2021

Paying for the New Medical Miracle. Trend #1, The Year of the Pharmacist, speaks to pharmacists bolstering medication management along with joining the growing “arm forces” of vaccinators to get COVID-19 shots into patients’ arms. Cancer Needs a Better Roadmap. The EHR Hits Its Stride. Diabetes Care is Community Care.

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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. Financial literacy, especially key to U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 4, 2023

With an Index of 100 for the first 8 weeks of 2020 (that is, the 2 months before COVID-19 emerged in the U.S.), However, elective procedures haven’t yet reached pre-pandemic utilization (latest read of 98) and for screening and diagnostic tests, underwhelming use at 89 versus the 100 index pre-pandemic.

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Health Populi

JUNE 2, 2020

In 2020, there’s a new third-place cause for mortality in America: COVID-19. across medical conditions, mortality and morbidity, and access to services. exceeds the CDC’s Healthy People 2020 target of 161.4. Start with the CDC story, the importance of which we should both laud and details of which, understand.

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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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Mildred Elley

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Seeking a career in assisting others at your job as a clinical or medical assistant in the healthcare profession is a well-thought decision. Medical Assistant School will prepare you to assist doctors and act as a link between patients and healthcare providers. Graduates are equipped to work as medical assistants at the entry-level.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2020

The findings were published in a May 2020 report , detailing study findings among 2,533 U.S. adults polled in early April 2020. People with complex chronic conditions also adjusted these personal medical work-flows: 35% skipped annual physicals and well visits. 23% skipped recommended lab tests or screenings.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2020

in April 2020, Gallup gauged that barely 1 in 2 people felt they were thriving. adults in late March into early April 2020 to explore Americans’ self-evaluations of their well-being. .” In 2020 advanced economies (including and beyond the U.S.) As COVID-19 diagnoses reached 200,000 in the 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. ” Emily also talks about Amazon planning a new health diagnostics are for at-home medical tests, and Microsoft investing heavily to build out its health care footprint.

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Accepted Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Show Summary Dr. Cynthia Boyd, Associate Dean for Admissions and Recruitment at Rush Medical College, discusses the distinctive elements of the Rush Medical College program, including its focus on developing critical thinkers and providing excellent clinical care. Will you be ready next Spring to apply to your dream medical schools?

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Health Populi

MARCH 30, 2020

The 2020 WebMD survey on the state of physicians showed a growing anomie among doctors working in the U.S. Call your government representatives asking for more support for your local clinicians and health care systems for #PPE, ventilators, and testing. according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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NHA Now

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

How can you stay current with the rapidly evolving medical billing codes related to COVID-19? For encounters for COVID-19 testing, including preoperative testing, code as exposure to COVID-19 (guideline I.C.1.g.1.e). The additional codes are: Z11.52 Do not assign code Z11.52. Guideline I.C.1.g.1.e: Guideline I.C.1.g.1.e:

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

I was scheduled to meet with Roy Jakobs, Chief Business Leader of Connected Care at Philips, at HIMSS in Orlando on 9th March 2020. It’s also an enormous stress test of the [health care] system. And with any stress test, you see where the limits are in what you have been building to-date,” he humbly confessed.

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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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Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 14, 2024

The CDC reports that in the US in 2020 there were 93 Sudden Unexpected Infant Deaths per 100,000 live births (Fig. million babies born in 2020, and the CDC reports there were about 1,389 SIDS deaths. Only 23% of all cases across all seven states did genetic testing. Dr. Paul N. Subscribe now How Many Infants Die of SIDS?

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Then, COVID-19 emerged as a pandemic the world over, and the move to Brussels in January 2020 was quite short-lived. It takes some paperwork, testing, and information uploading and computer entry to build up a dossier that enables one to fly into Belgium. and the E.U. Why Brussels?

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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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