Scrubs

MARCH 27, 2023

Linda Pegg and Becky Meadows may be done with nursing after hanging up their scrubs, but they aren’t done helping people in need. has taken in some 76,000 Afghan refugees since Afghanistan fell to the Taliban in the summer of 2021. “In (the United States), you can follow your own ideas and beliefs. We’re it.

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Pulmonology Advisor - Practice Management

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Unfortunately, it’s not uncommon for physicians to order tests and then fail to follow up on results — often due to the sheer volume of patients that the physician sees. However, Dr P, who had an extremely high caseload at the medical center, failed to follow up on this finding. Some follow up on results.

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Scrubs

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Fast forward to 2021 where I am now an attending physician running a clinic and working as a hospitalist. This is why we must stand up and start advocating for increased diversity in medicine. Our oldest daughter even had a brain bleed when she was three, and again there was no deep look into the cause of them all.

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Medication Admissions Follow-Up Insurance 276

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

In this year’s update, the Deloitte Center for Technology, Media & Telecommunications found that most households use five key digital devices daily: above all, smartphones, followed by laptop and desktop computers, tablets, and computer monitors. ” The bar chart updates our understanding of U.S.

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The HIPAA Journal

MAY 2, 2024

BioPlus Specialty Pharmacy Services has proposed a settlement to resolve a class action lawsuit that was filed in response to a 2021 data breach that exposed the data of up to 350,000 patients. BioPlus disagreed with the allegations; however, a settlement has been proposed to bring the legal action to an end.

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Follow-Up HIPAA Best Practices Documentation 111

Scrubs

JUNE 16, 2023

In fall 2021, staffers at Johnson Memorial Health were hoping they could finally catch their breath. One study found that cyberattacks on the nation’s health care facilities more than doubled from 2016 to 2021 — from 43 attacks to 91. Today, Johnson Memorial is up and running again. But on Oct. 1 at 3 a.m.,

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Insurance Hospital Vital Signs Billing 186

Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2022

My Zoom invitation to Stacy was a very convenient excuse for me to catch up with a friend in the field: we have known each other since Stacy started to grow her health-social media presence on Twitter. Health care executive first; patient advocacy followed. Parexel discovered Stacy who was delivering a keynote speech at DPHARM 2021.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 25, 2021

In advance of that discussion, I wanted to feature remarks shared by Brad Smith, Microsoft President, that I recently heard at CES 2021 , the annual (this year, virtual) meeting convening the largest community of consumer electronics stakeholders globally. It was not about the rocks that were picked up….it and Robert F.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

Health Populi’s Hot Points: The COVID-19 pandemic will persist well into 2021 based on current projections, and the health care system will continue to adapt to both clinical workflows and the public health guidance for physical distancing and hygiene.

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The Healthcare Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2024

By TREVOR VAN MIERLO In 2021, digital mental health and substance use startups attracted a record-breaking $5.1 Following the surge, investment plummeted. Those regions are ripe for follow-on expansion and digital scale. billion in funding. And as time passes, this customer-base grows exponentially with technology pervasiveness.

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Insurance Follow-Up Collaboration Patient Support 64

Sensible Medicine

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Physician burnout rates hit 63% in 2021. Even on the days I am able to limit work to, let’s say, a nine-hour day, and nobody calls after hours, the worry about patients can follow me. A former section chief once told a colleague, “You have to figure out funding so you can get out of clinical medicine before it kills you.”

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

At the start of CES 2021, I had the opportunity to catch up with Karsten Russell-Wood, Portfolio Marketing Leader, Post Acute & Home, Connected Care at Philips. We brainstormed just as CES 2021 was going to “open,” virtually, for the consumer electronics conference’s first all-virtual meeting.

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Discharges Hospital Follow-Up Vital Signs 144

Health Populi

MAY 21, 2020

Patients’ concerns of COVID-19 risks have led them to self-ration care in the following ways: 41% have delayed health care services. 42% felt uncomfortable going to a hospital for any medical treatment. 45% felt uncomfortable using an urgent care or walk-in clinic, and, 38% intended to delay future care, treatment, and procedures.

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Insurance Tests Follow-Up Huddles/Rounds 161

Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

Most of these live video calls were also done through a service offered by consumers’ health care providers (doctors/clinicians), followed by services offered by insurance companies. Watch this dynamic continue to play out in 2021 as we emerge from the public health crisis into 2022.

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Follow-Up Insurance Hospital Medication 174

The HIPAA Journal

MAY 1, 2024

Credential theft was the most common method of breaching networks and was the initial access vector in 38% of all data breaches, followed by phishing (15%). 15% of data breaches involved third parties such as software supply chains, hosting providers, and data custodians, up 68% year-over-year.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2021

When I say “Oscar” here on the Health Populi blog, you’re conjuring up an image of the health plan insurance innovator founded in 2012. But the ad for Patient Power was up-close-and-personal with Shepard Fairey painting in his iconic style a poster for empowered health consumers.

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Insurance Follow-Up Medication Billing 143

Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

I thought, wow, how could an educator be so negative and deter me from following my dream? I was jumping up and down for joy when I got the offer. Moral of the story: “Follow Your Dreams!” My mission is to empower all nurses, especially new nurses, to follow their passion and dreams. ” I was shocked! Hey, hey, hey!

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

I covered depression impacts due to COVID-19 here in Health Populi yesterday , and wanted to follow that up with this McKinsey study to connect some dots. could have a behavioral health need in 2021. The first chart illustrates data on the impact of COVID-19 on behavioral health across different population groups.

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Minority Nurse

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Mentors that reflect or identify with their mentees would be optimal (Schuler, 2021). of the American population is White, forming the majority; Hispanic and Latino Americans are the largest ethnic minority comprising 18.7%; Black or African Americans are the largest racial minority making up 12.1% 2021, August 12). Challenges.

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Transfers Follow-Up 105

Setting Sights

DECEMBER 30, 2021

A belated Christmas, and a gift to myself – a cushion reading ‘Never Give Up’ to wake up to each morning. There have been so many moments in which we’ve felt like giving up, where it’s felt like the day isn’t worth seizing, that the night isn’t worth seeing through. And 2020-2021 has been no exception.

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Follow-Up Hospital Huddles/Rounds Tests 52

The HIPAA Journal

MAY 2, 2024

Data Breach Insights Healthcare accounted for 28% of data breach incidents, followed by finance and insurance (17%), business and professional services (15%), and education (13%). The biggest known root cause of all incidents was the exploitation of unpatched vulnerabilities (23% of incidents) followed by phishing (20%).

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2021

Two studies published in May 2021 illustrate the value and importance of telehealth to patients in 2020, and a disconnect among many C-level executives working in hospitals, academic medical centers, and other care provider organizations. Power 2021 U.S. Together, the two reports from J.D. Commercial Member Health Plan Study.

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Patient Satisfaction Patient Experience Follow-Up Communication 87

The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 20, 2025

Trends In Healthcare Data Breach Statistics Our healthcare data breach statistics clearly show there has been an upward trend in data breaches over the past 14 years, with 2021 seeing more data breaches reported than any other year since records first started being published by OCR. 2021 was a bad year for data breaches with 45.9

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Health Populi

JUNE 23, 2022

Physical health, comprising 33% of well-being, followed by. Emotional health, making up 27% of well-being. This line chart comes from the pollster’s April poll into Americans’ personal financial ratings, which spiked downward by April 2022… as inflation was heating up. in the U.S. in Belgium, $8.66

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Follow-Up Billing Insurance Hospital 115

Minority Nurse

AUGUST 15, 2022

Another could be to use a registry or database to discover what patients have followed up on their chronic disease since, during COVID, many patients stopped visiting healthcare providers. What we observed in the COVID crisis,” says Dolansky, “was an opportunity for nurses to stand up and speak out more. Emphasizing Leadership.

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Follow-Up Acute Care Critical Thinking Patient Care 105

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. Outpatient care inched up from 73 to 74.

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Health Populi

JUNE 23, 2023

states ranked by a mash-up of health system indicators. As Annie Burkey of FierceHealthcare succinctly summed it up , the “Commonwealth Fund gives healthcare in southeastern states failing grades across the board.” Here’s a picture of the annual study’s top-line findings, a roster of the fifty U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 3, 2022

And about one-in-three Americans has made a 2022 New Year’s resolution involving some aspect of mental health, the American Psychiatric Association noted approaching the 2021 winter holiday season. Mental health spiked up for virtual visits and to this day, is among the medical services in highest demand for virtual platforms.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

When he arrived in Detroit in 1932 to begin painting, the city was hard-hit by the Great Depression following the 1929 Crash. Rivera engaged many of the unemployed workers to team up in constructing the museum murals. Mark’s Church of Philadelphia, delivered on February 2, 2021. Have you gotten yours yet? Both shots?

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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 27, 2024

Pages 119 through 125 do a great job of explaining how atherosclerosis develops insidiously in the coronary arteries and how you can build up substantial plaque without symptoms. The Notes section at the back of his book cites a 2021 paper first-authored by Libby. Medicine 2.0 Medicine 3.0,

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Tests Medication Follow-Up Documentation 285

19 Labs

APRIL 21, 2021

With Viasat 3 and global coverage coming up, every rural community around the world can get healthcare through GALE. April 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Viasat Inc. Currently, 19labs is assisting healthcare and education groups prepare applications under the recently expanded 2021 FCC telemedicine grant program. CARLSBAD Calif.,

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Sensible Medicine

JULY 11, 2023

Different guideline producing groups, working off this same data, could come up with very different recommendations. Trials powered to show overall survival benefits are hugely expensive, requiring large populations followed for years. 2021 Jul 20;326(3):279]. N Engl J Med. 2013;369(12):1106-1114. 2021;325(19):1978-1998.

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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. These new workflows will also impact what the MMI will look like in 2021 and beyond.

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Medication Insurance Hospital Follow-Up 98

Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) (2022) estimated over 100,000 registered nurses left the profession and predicted that another 800,000 nurses would follow them by 2027. According to the Joint Commission (2022), 1,441 sentinel events were reported in 2022, a 19% increase from 2021.

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Patient Care Hospital Critical Thinking Patient Safety 111

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

While venture funding for digital health technology declined globally by 35% in the first three quarters of 2022 compared with 2021, this marks a “return to normal” based on the assessment in the Global State of Digital Health Report from FINN Partners and Galen Growth, published today and launched during the HLTH 2022 conference.

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Follow-Up Patient Support Medication Patient Experience 96

Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

physicians were using telehealth to care for patients at the end of 2021. Among those doctors who were not providing telehealth by late 2021, just over one half never did so during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the 2021 Telehealth Survey Report from the AMA. Hospital or emergency room follow-up.

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Follow-Up Patient Satisfaction Best Practices Appointments 62

Minority Nurse

MAY 11, 2022

After showering, applying deodorant twice, and cranking up her car’s air conditioning against the summer heat (“I will not be the sweaty, smelly fat girl,” she thinks), Eva arrives at the doctor’s office ready to get to the bottom of what ails her: a newly swollen, tender abdomen, growing breathlessness, and debilitating fatigue.

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