Health Populi

MAY 19, 2020

Imagine this: you find yourself with $6,553 in your pocket and you can pick one of the following: A new 2020 Breitling Navitimer watch; A year’s in-state tuition at Valdosta State University; or, A PPO for an average individual. In 2020, that $12K+ represents over 18% of the median household income in the U.S.

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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

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. 42% felt uncomfortable going to a hospital for any medical treatment.

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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. The first chart shows how health care costs declined in our Year of COVID, 2020, by over $1,000 for that hypothetical U.S. up, compared with the largest cost increase across categories in 2020 of 7.2%.

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2021

Most industries lost citizens’ trust between 2020 and 2021, most notably, Technology, dropping the greatest margin at 9 points. Healthcare experienced a bounce in the one year 2020-21, rising from 56 points of trust among U.S. By mid-2020, Edelman detected, “a decline in willingness to share personal data to fight the pandemic.

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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. For more on the telemedicine moment in the C19 era, read this analysis].

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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. ” in a May 2020 report out of the company’s consumer survey. Some 3 in 4 U.S.

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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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NHA Now

JULY 1, 2020

We shared a summary of our findings in the 2020 Industry Outlook , now available for download as a PDF. The average EKG technician runs 13 tests a day. EKG technicians test the electrical activity of the heart, and play a part in treating and preventing heart disease. Want a sneak peek?

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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

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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The HIPAA Journal

MAY 6, 2024

Guardant Health Discovers Online Exposure of Patient Data Guardant Health, a medical laboratory in Redwood City, CA, that performs cancer screening tests on samples provided by physicians and hospitals, has recently notified patients of some of its clients that their protected health information has been exposed online.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2023

patients viewed their laboratory test results online in 2022. As of 2022, three in four consumers were offered online access to their medical records by a health care provider or health insurance plan, and well over one-half accessed their medical record or portal — growing by 50% over the two years, 2020 to 2022 (from 38% to 57%).

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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

APRIL 6, 2020

Interestingly, only 30% of Republicans felt this way in March 2020, more than doubling to 70% as of early April 2020 more closely reflecting Democrats’ and Independents’ views on life-disrupted.

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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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Scrubs

APRIL 20, 2023

According to the State of The World’s Nursing 2020 Report, nursing occupies the largest chunk of the healthcare domain. For instance, AI can recognize the requirement for blood tests much faster than any human can. It will eventually result in quicker test collection and fast outcomes. Altogether, there are close to 27.9

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

We wait for the test results. The article states: “Overall, just 40% of those surveyed rated the quality of healthcare in the United States as very good or good, down six percentage points since March 2022 and nearly 20 points from the high-water mark in March 2020. We wait to see the provider. We wait for our IV to be started.

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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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Doximity

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

As a 2020-2021 Doximity Thought Leadership Fellow, I had the opportunity to write several Op-Meds focused on health equity, using my platform to shed light on disparities in medicine. Doximity has been an invaluable resource in my journey as a physician and advocate for health equity. Read my Doximity Op-Meds.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

health citizens’ minds in 2020 leading up to the election. Only 1 in 5 health systems plans to offer a tool to help patients-consumers “get estimates for costs of care.” ” Yet it’s health care costs that rank top in U.S. As such, financial wellness is bound up in overall health and wellness.

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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

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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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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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

APRIL 3, 2020

with the largest gross domestic product on Earth in 2020, out fragmented health care system and 50-State Federalist approach has proven to land Americans in first place for steepest infection curve as of early April 2020. With test kit and reagent shortages, ventilator un. In the U.S.,

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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. As digital health industry stakeholders will be convening at the 2021 annual HIMSS conference in Las Vegas and digitally, this report is well-timed to give us a level-set on just “where” U.S.

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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. The need for a holistic platform the serves up a continuum-of-care tools across the patient journey became evident in a matter of months, Capgemini Research Institute calls out in The Health Fix , a research report assessing peoples’ perspectives on health care in the Age of COVIOD-19. This process can.

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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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Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2019

Chan School of Public Health adopt a patient lens on personal health, observing that: “a patient cares not only about physical health and test results ‘within normal limits’ but also more broadly about being happy, having meaning and purpose, being ‘a good person,’ and having fulfilling relationships.”.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2019

Most people using a portal do so to review test results. We watch California implementing their state version of GDPR on January 1, 2020 (CCPA), to learn how that larger privacy protective umbrella will cover Californians. Diving deeper, the survey found that 1 in 4 Americans had set up a patient portal.

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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

And now there are separate test item banks, too.” In response, we developed and launched the online (and now, award-winning) BCEN Learn platform in 2020 and offered our first regional, in-person CE conference, BCEN Learn Live , in 2022. This process ensures the exams reflect current practice and roles for nurses in each specialty.

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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. 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). We’re witnessing an era in the U.S.

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CareerStep

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The CPC exam is a challenging test, so it’s not easy to pass. If you choose to take the test online instead of going to a testing center, you will need to do so with a remote proctor. For example, you can’t have a 2020 and 2022 edition of the ICD-10. Where do I take the test? Is the CPC exam hard to pass?

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