The HIPAA Journal

MAY 6, 2024

Marlton, NJ-based Continuum Health Alliance has recently confirmed that it has experienced a security incident that exposed the data of 377,119 patients of its client, Consensus Medical Group, a physician-owned medical group in Evesham, NJ. No financial information or Social Security numbers were present in the file.

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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 16, 2021

Wherever you live in the world touched by the coronavirus pandemic, you felt (and were) stress-tested. In this year’s 2021 annual report by Deloitte into Connectivity & Mobile Trends, their report details How the pandemic has stress-tested the crowded digital home. Both you were, and your home was as well. ” In the U.S.,

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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 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

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

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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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

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. patients viewed their laboratory test results online in 2022.

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NHA Now

JUNE 4, 2020

Phlebotomy technicians draw blood for tests, transfusions, donations, medical procedures, and research. Take a look at a few phlebotomy technician employment trends we uncovered in our 2020 Industry Outlook research. Take a look at a few phlebotomy technician employment trends we uncovered in our 2020 Industry Outlook research.

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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

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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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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Accepted Blog

MARCH 11, 2025

At what is now Drexel Medical School. We do have some neighborhoods right around the medical school that are underserved, and there are areas of need. Let’s turn to medical school admissions, which I know is your specialty. So going to medical school is a very big decision to make. So I’m not too sure.

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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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Doximity

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

These interviews provide insight into the unique experiences these physicians encounter in today's medical field, as well as the paths they are pioneering. My past work on pulse oximeter inaccuracies in Black patients reflects my broader mission to ensure that medical tools and research are designed to serve all populations.

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The Healthcare Blog

MARCH 18, 2025

On September 14, 2017, I was standing in a hospital room in Boston, when my previously healthy son, Patrick, then 29, received the shocking news that he probably had stage 4 colorectal cancer, which further tests confirmed. That grave diagnosis came with a bleak 14 percent relative 5-year survival rate.

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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

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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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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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

The Pew team surveyed 1,213 adults ages 18 and over in June and July 2020, interviewing in English and Spanish. health citizens are with respect to their medical information. And most patients would also want access to information on their mental, behavioral, and substance use history.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

For inspiration and context, I’ll kick off with Roz Chast’s latest New Yorker cartoon from the February 3rd 2020 issue — Strangers in the Night, taking place in a Duane Reade pharmacy. Roz really channels the scene in front of the pharmacy counter, from Q-tips to vitamins and tea.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 16, 2019

As large employers’ annual health care costs for an employee are expected to exceed $15,000 in 2020, companies are focusing in on managing the pharmacy line-item, we learn from the 2020 Large Employers’ Health Care Strategy and Plan Design Survey from the National Business Group on Health (NBGH).

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

They are likely to stay there,” asserts “ The smartphone will see you now ,” an article in the March 7th 2020 issue of The Economist. I’d seen ATA’s initial statement on the coronavirus published on March 3 2020, so I knew Ann was on this issue. Congressional leadership on February 28 2020. Clearly, the U.S.

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The HIPAA Journal

APRIL 27, 2025

The following three years saw similar numbers of financial penalties; however, there was another major increase in HIPAA fines in 2020 when 19 HIPAA violation cases were settled with OCR. The 2020 increase is largely due to OCR’s HIPAA Right of Access enforcement initiative, which was launched in late 2019.

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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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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

JANUARY 26, 2021

In 2020, investments in digital health reached $14.1 bn , much of which went into niche applications like lab testing, medication adherence, and on-demand triage for urgent care. These companies targeting primary care components represent the “unbundling of the family doctor,” as CB Insights recently coined the market trend.

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2020

in mid-June 2020. Capgemini offers recommendations to providers, pharmaceutical companies, and medical device manufacturers to tap opportunities outside of inpatient settings and, increasingly, to the home and digital device. This process can. “There is no time to lose,” the team insists.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2019

One-third of people were very concerned that a company would use search information to try and sell medical products based on the search parameters. Most people using a portal do so to review test results. The question is whether Americans are uninformed regarding the huge opportunity data hackers see in the value of medical data.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

rank prescription drugs, lab tests, emergency room visits, dental and vision care, preventive services, chronic disease management and mental health care as the “most essential” health care services, according to the 2019 Survey of America’s Patients conducted by The Physicians Foundation. People in the 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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Health Populi

AUGUST 31, 2021

It’s not that America didn’t have a mental health crisis entering the year 2020. 14 million Americans live in medically under-served areas. Here in Health Populi , we called out the Dollar General’s expanding aisle space and mission to health and medical products and services (such as COVID-19 testing).

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Health Prime

JULY 27, 2023

Prior authorizations (PAs) play a crucial role in medical billing, ensuring that healthcare providers receive efficient and proper reimbursement for the services and treatments they provide. It involves obtaining approval from insurance companies before a specific procedure, treatment, or medication is administered.

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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

APRIL 14, 2024

We do this exercise to immerse ourselves in the different worlds, each of which tease out different ways the driving forces could play out for the person—and then test our strategy (ies) against the alternatives to ensure we are covering our bases, strategically, tactically – to not get caught too-off-guard by surprises in the market.

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Minority Nurse

MAY 9, 2022

His initial plans—playing college baseball and attending medical school—were derailed as recovery took a mental and physical toll. When Conville started the AMNP program in fall 2020, he found another team in pursuit of helping others. That inspired me to want to do something to help other people.”.

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