The Healthcare Blog

MAY 13, 2024

Turns out he didn’t have to remember that number for long as by 2021 he was making $12m. Because in 2021–the last year for which UPMC filed a 990 –Tracey was the 118th highest paid executive at UPMC and had the misfortune to only make $499,446. But the munificence is spreading down the executive ladder. So why do I bring them up?

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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2021

News & World Report’s 2021 Healthiest Communities Rankings. Rounding out the top ten is Carver County, Minnesota, in seventh position. Some of America’s least-healthy communities are also those that index greater for vaccine hesitancy and other risks for well-being, found in U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 21, 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. One-half of people said they were comfortable using the technology, shown in the third graphic from the ACHP/AMCP survey.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 27, 2022

That is roughly what a year at an independent college in Connecticut would cost, or a round of pay for a ref in the Stanley Cup playoffs. The post $22,463 Can Get You a Year of College in Connecticut, a Round of Ref Work in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, or Health Benefits for a Worker’s Family appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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19 Labs

MAY 2, 2021

On March 30, 2021, the FCC announced that it would move forward with a second round of the COVID-19 Telehealth Program, this time with a total of $250M to be provided in funding. Over 500 health systems benefitted from this , but applications were halted on June 25, 2020 due to increasing demand.

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19 Labs

MAY 2, 2021

On March 30, 2021, the FCC announced that it would move forward with a second round of the COVID-19 Telehealth Program, this time with a total of $250M to be provided in funding. Over 500 health systems benefitted from this , but applications were halted on June 25, 2020 due to increasing demand.

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Setting Sights

DECEMBER 30, 2021

And 2020-2021 has been no exception. The patients on my new ward befriended me, taking in turns to do the coffee rounds to the downstairs café, making sure I heard the nurses and could reach my call-bell, all whilst I remained sunken and immobile in my new bed, yet another new home. 2021 hasn’t been my best year. Nor was 2020.

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Scrubs

JUNE 22, 2023

According to a 2021 analysis of federal data, Black women living in rural areas also are more likely to die or experience more severe health complications during delivery than white women living in rural areas. Sanford won the grant in 2021. Why isn’t HRSA stepping up to the plate, especially with this rural moms’ program?”

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NHA Now

JUNE 22, 2020

For more, download the 2021 Industry Outlook from the latest edition of access TM. As more health care organizations shift to team-based care models, medical assistants are often a central part of the team, playing the role of a flow manager, running team huddles, preplanning patient visits and completing various health screenings.

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Health Populi

JUNE 20, 2022

This round of research also includes data from The Urban Institute and the JPMorgan Chase Institute. in 2021, 58% of debts in collections were for a medical bill, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (almost 4x as many debts as telecomm bills, #2 in the list of most prevalent forms of debt in the U.S.).

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The Healthcare Blog

MARCH 18, 2024

And indeed, the DAX system was massively enhanced by the tech Nuance acquired when purchasing a company called Saykara in 2021, some years after that unconvincing demo back at HIMSS 2018. One former employee told me that they have never invented anything. Alternatively, one of them may be a monopoly winner that soon starts printing money.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Expect MDLive’s IPO in 2021. During the crisis, Ginger, the behavioral health provider, raised $50 million of funding, and Brightline, which provides behavioral health services in pediatrics, scored $20 million in a Series A round. Note consumers’ embrace of tele-mental health, too, in the pandemic that CTA quantified.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Caregivers’ stress grew more acute and intense during the COVID-19 pandemic, and by 2021 revealed that 70% of unpaid caregivers had at least one mental health condition such as anxiety, depression, or trauma and stress-related disorders.

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Health Populi

MAY 17, 2021

This round, the hackathon attracted hundreds of nurses from at least 20 countries and 30 U.S. In health care, right here, right now at the May 2021 #NH4H session, our problems were categorized in four challenge areas; Vaccine education and delivery.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The first chart quantifies that bad debt attributable to patients’ self-pay payments after insurance kicks in: that category of bad debt grew by five times between 2018 and 2021, from 11% to nearly 58%. Collection rates for the bad debt fell from 76% in 2020 to 55% in just the one year from 2020 to 2021, a drop of nearly one-third.

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Relias

MAY 24, 2023

Standardize the practice of regular patient safety huddles among your teams. Huddles promote patient safety, but they can also facilitate teamwork, provide a place to respectfully air grievances, and build rapport among nurses and leaders. Emphasize nurses’ professional responsibility to promote patient safety.

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Relias

MAY 24, 2023

Standardize the practice of regular patient safety huddles among your teams. Huddles promote patient safety, but they can also facilitate teamwork, provide a place to respectfully air grievances, and build rapport among nurses and leaders. Emphasize nurses’ professional responsibility to promote patient safety.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This time around for the 2021 research into health equity, Genentech polled 2,200 U.S. Key findings in this year’s 2021 study were that: Inequities within the U.S. This year Genentech followed up the 2020 exploration of patients’ perspectives, adding in the health care provider/physician view on health equity.

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Pulmonology Advisor - Practice Management

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The scan of Mr W’s left lung revealed a complicated bulla (a rounded air-filled space in the lung, often found in emphysema and COPD, which has been linked to lung cancer in some cases1,2). At the end of Mr W’s telehealth visit, Dr P made a follow-up appointment with him for an in-person visit one year later — in November 2021.

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Setting Sights

MAY 2, 2022

The start of 2021 saw me seeing through my birthday, too poorly to care, and unable to see my own family whom I’d been unable to see or hug for many months. I was supposed to qualify as a Doctor in the summer of 2021. My dreams and hard work were supposed to pay off, in the summer of 2021. I’m going back to Medical School.

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Minority Nurse

JULY 20, 2023

The total number of registered nurses in the workplace decreased by more than 100,000 in 2021 , the most significant drop observed in four decades. We began offering Colleague Care Resiliency Rounding, a real-time, one-on-one, human connection for colleagues in high-volume, highly demanding areas within the hospital setting.

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Health Populi

MAY 12, 2021

The research was conducted among 335 respondents, which included 182 digital health companies polled between November 2020 and March 2021. and sponsored by WIPFLI. In Sunny’s explanation, investors are attracted to digital health companies that have largely “de-risked” which means they are more mature and in scaling mode.

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Relias

AUGUST 4, 2023

A 2021 Achievers Workforce Institute survey examined 3,500 employees’ sense of belonging at work. In others, it could mean holding regular huddles or check-ins with your nurses. The best solutions match nurses with the care specialty they are best suited for and can even determine growth and leadership potential.

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Setting Sights

AUGUST 11, 2021

The Consultant had previously told me on ward-rounds, “You made yourself come in. On the next ward round, I asked to see someone – 7 months into my hospital admission and I needed to address my mental wellbeing. From then on, there were occasions where I had to remove my hearing-aids during the ward-round. I had nothing left.

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MedCerts

MARCH 29, 2024

- Amazon Reviewer Beyond Basics: Online RDA Dental Assistant Exam Preparation Course | $4,000 Dental assistants today perform more clinical and administrative duties than ever. The exam format can include multiple-choice questions, true/false statements, and scenario-based questions.

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Relias

MARCH 13, 2023

As a result, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) public rule on price transparency requirements for hospitals came into effect on January 1, 2021. The Craneware Group hosted a round table with healthcare leaders from across the United States to understand why so many hospitals had not complied with the new ruling.

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Arkenea

OCTOBER 15, 2024

For instance, doctors can update patient records in real-time during their rounds, significantly reducing the chances of missing or incorrect information. As we delve into the topic of mobile EHR application development, it’s important to understand the significant growth this market is witnessing.

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Accepted Blog

MAY 3, 2023

After asking admissions officers in 2021 to rank the relative importance of the various data they use to evaluate applicants, the Association of American Medical Colleges found that “community service and volunteer work—in both medical and nonmedical settings—were given the highest weight of any experiences.”

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Setting Sights

MAY 7, 2021

Each morning, the doctors came round to the bedside, barely taking one look at my desperate face, before finally making brief eye contact and clearing their throats. It was a good two hours before handover to the day shift, and they were far off from starting the rounds of routinely repositioning the other patients in the bay.

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The Healthcare Blog

JULY 14, 2024

By MATTHEW HOLT All of a sudden we are back in 2021. The vaccine that became generally available at the start of the Biden Administration in 2021 put paid to the idea that telehealth was the majority of the future of care delivery. You remember those huge rounds that Jess & I used to report on and make fun of?

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Accepted Blog

APRIL 16, 2024

But that might add a little extra color then to the application and be able to then round out what that view can look like. Now we’re getting to the point where people have virtual shadowing maybe from 2022 or 2021. Pediatrics, neurology. Add one in whatever else you might be interested in or have a curiosity about.

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Health Populi

MARCH 14, 2023

ages 12 to 17 presented to the emergency department for suspected suicide attempts in the winter of 2021 — 39% greater than in the same period in 2019. The risk to suicide among young people has been especially acute, with ECRI citing CDC data finding that more young people in the U.S.

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Sensible Medicine

JUNE 23, 2023

To settle the controversy, Pfizer launched a randomized controlled trial of 4,000 pregnant women in February 2021. Since early 2021 women were reporting changes to their periods and unexpected vaginal bleeding , calling for proper study. Pfizer never gave us a reason. But not having any good data didn’t seem to bother the CDC.

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Accepted Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2024

We launched a new curriculum in 2021, so we’re fully engrossed in what’s called the Trek curriculum. And so if you’re seeing a patient in clinic and they get hospitalized, you might then go round on them in the inpatient hospital. 1:44] Absolutely. It was a great overview, by the way.

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Practice Index

MAY 30, 2024

This is compared with 67% in 2021-22 and 79% in the year before the pandemic. The survey also showed a big increase in the proportion of face-to-face appointments in the last two years, with 62% of patients saying they had in-person appointments, compared with 37% in 2021-22 and 87% pre-pandemic.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2022

Following Apple, the nine companies rounding out the top ten most relevant brands were Peloton, Spotify, Bose, Android, Instant Pot, Pixar, Fitbit, TED, and USAA. Another way to consider that value is in terms of growth: over 10 years to 2021, the Prophet most relevant brands grew on average 24% more than the S&P 500.

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Health Populi

MAY 23, 2022

“In September 2021, we started to notice all over the world that food prices started to go up due to energy going up too…the fertilizer prices were going up and then alarm bells were ringing,” for him and his colleagues in and beyond WHO.

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