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. Top-line, there are new-new costs borne in 2020 for virus testing and treatment.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Medically disenfranchised patients are not participating in clinical trials, vaccinations, and testing due to lack of trust. Trust is the killer app for health engagement: some 1 in 3 medically disenfranchised patients don’t participate in clinical trials, don’t get vaccinated, and don’t get tested for medical conditions due to lack of trust.

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A Young Doctor's Journey

OCTOBER 6, 2021

As a graduate of medical school in Europe, but having grown up in the United States, I have a little knowledge about both: let’s start with Europe first, which I know a lot of my American readers are rather unfamiliar with. This surprised a lot of my American followers. Wow, right?

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Arkenea

JULY 2, 2024

HL7 promotes data sharing of records, lab reports, test results, etc., These challenges are as follows: A lack of a consistent data model, it is more implied. CDA includes the following elements for all clinical documents – stewardship, persistence, potential for authentication, wholeness, context, and human readability.

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Accepted Blog

MAY 8, 2024

What you’ll learn: Overview of the dental school application process: Primary, secondaries and interviews General dental school application timeline and information Academic requirements (Courses, GPA, DAT) Dental admissions test (DAT) Experience requirements for dental school How to choose where to apply? The exam costs $495 (2021).

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ACMA Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The Burden of Prior Authorization According to the 2021 American Medical Association survey of physicians, prior authorizations contribute to 93% of patient care delays. 29% of patients who endure the prior authorization process end up with the originally prescribed product and 40% of patients end up abandoning therapy.

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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 27, 2024

Designed to help fund good nutritional research with the ultimate goal of reducing obesity and testing the hypothesis that “all calories are equal,” NUSI, unfortunately has floundered and is dead. He now knows these numbers indicate high levels of apoB "but no one bothered to test my apoB number." Medicine 2.0

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Setting Sights

MAY 2, 2022

It was also a year where Christmas and New Year were seen through a tired and painful fog from the hospital bed, barely being able to keep my eyes open, testing positive for COVID-19 just before the year’s end, which then had me developing blood clots and pulmonary embolisms, seeing death on our wards like I had never seen before.

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Relias

DECEMBER 29, 2023

deaths per 100,000 Native Americans in 2021, the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic — a sharp increase of 33%. Tactics included providing sterile syringes and pipes, distributing the overdose-reversal medication naloxone, and encouraging the use of test strips to detect potentially lethal fentanyl or xylazine (“tranq”). per 100,000.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

MARCH 22, 2023

Senior DOJ officials have in turn emphasized in public remarks that investigating clinical research shortcomings is now a Justice Department priority, with the whistleblower bar following suit. 21, 2021) (indictment). [6] What exactly are clinical researchers doing to merit this scrutiny? 15, 2022) (indictment). [3] 15 (S.D.N.Y.

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Health Populi

JUNE 2, 2021

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). Looking at Figure 3, the table on average person cost trends to 2021, we see that costs grow for every service category in 2021.

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MedicalGPS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Endeavor for Excellence: Step 4 – Establish Performance Baselines If you have been following along for the redeployment of MedicalGPS’ service improvement program, this week we move into Step #4 — establishing baseline performance measures. The minimum score was 44.67%, which occurred in November of 2021.

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Sensible Medicine

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

It’s been a few years since I first heard about the Galleri test produced by the Menlo Park startup Grail. Galleri is a blood-based screening test for cancer. For a couple of reasons, I didn’t work very hard to learn about the Galleri test. Second, I was worried that this test might have real promise.

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Relias

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

With these practices in place, your organization can ensure its practitioners have the most up-to-date clinical and technical skills, as well as world-class soft skills. An example of this comes from our 2021 Relias DSP Survey. This technique operates on the idea of periodically testing learners’ knowledge.

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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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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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Setting Sights

AUGUST 11, 2021

But, my colleagues’ wellbeing isn’t hanging in the balance just because of the taboo that comes with opening up on their mental health struggles, or that there is little time to address it on top of the day-to-day work pressures – it’s hanging in the balance because we are simply not supported full-stop. The virus destroyed me.

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Sensible Medicine

JULY 11, 2023

How large a number needed to screen is too large for a test to be acceptable? If we are to reach agreement on the benefit of cancer screening, thus enabling guideline committees to speak with one voice, we must agree on what constitutes an effective screening test and on how much we, as a nation, are willing to pay for it.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 16, 2019

Opiods are the second- most concerning pharmacy issue, for three-quarters of large employers, followed by the impamct of coupons and patient access programs on consumer behavior when lower-cost alternatives are available in the market. Some 15% of companies will consider this tactic in 2021-22.

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Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2022

” This has led to some patients avoiding care due to cost – for doctors’ visits, treatment for chronic conditions, recommended tests, or prescription drug fills. Dr. Murthy concludes with an ask and a hope: “Will we step up, and meet our moral obligation to care for those who have cared for.

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Setting Sights

MAY 7, 2021

For God’s sake , get UP !” The nurse thrust me up, yanking me off the floor; I was hanging just by the whim of my hollow, spindly armpits. If you don’t eat, you’ll keep ending up on the floor, and quite frankly, I don’t have the time or care for the extra paperwork. the nurse bellowed close into my ear. I felt hideous.

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Relias

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The behavioral health sector is following suite. To chart your organization’s path, consider the following four steps outlined by? By following these steps, your organization can undergo its own digital transformation, allowing you to be more agile in the face of change. up to date?on 85% of psychiatrists ?met taking but?will

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Doximity

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

You can learn about ChenMed by visiting chenmed.com , or visit the upcoming ChenMed Physician Career Fair on November 18, 2021. Imagine when you grew up in a home where your father’s got a lab in the house, you get to tinker as a child. So, I grew up in this environment where I felt like nothing was off the table.

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Accepted Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

DON’T MISS Linda Abraham’s 2021 interview with Dr. Kristen Goodall: All About BU School of Medicine, a Social Justice-Minded Med School [Episode 405]. We can look up stuff. If it’s just facts, we can look them up. But I would assume that the scores on the step two should go up. Plus, it’s all free.

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Accepted Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In the guide, you will learn how to prepare for interviews (including those difficult questions), how to make sure your body language matches your intent, and proper interview follow-up. What’s new since we last spoke in 2021? Download your complimentary copy today! Now, let’s move into today’s interview.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Health insurance companies garnered an aggregate satisfaction index of 74 in 2019, one point up from 2018. The top-ranked health plan for customer satisfaction was Humana, with a score of 79, up one point from 2018.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 5, 2021

The first year of the coronavirus pandemic in America was a kind of stress test on the U.S. ” In other instances, some staff was fired for speaking out on safety issues like the lack of PPE and long test turnaround times. 8 – These towns trusted a doctor to set up COVID testing; sample patient fee = #1,944. #7

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