Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2021

adult 18 and over in April 2021 to gather data for this annual report. In 2021, smartwatch adoption exceeded wearable activity fitness tracker market penetration, both around one-third of U.S. Household penetration of smartwatch ownership grew 12%, whereas activity tracker growth was fairly flat between 2020 and 2021.

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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.

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2022

Declines in preventive care services like cancer screenings and blood glucose testing concern employers, whose continued to cover health insurance for employees during the pandemic. The full report speaks to medical spending and utilization trends for preventive care, telehealth, and behavioral health.

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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

MAY 4, 2020

And when food, hygiene supplies, and medical care can’t be delivered by Amazon or Instacart via FedEx, UPS, or the U.S. The most visible product of the new drive-through health care is COVID-19 testing, which keeps people in their cars and out of brick-and-mortar doctors’ offices, clinical labs, and hospital outpatient centers.

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Pulmonology Advisor - Practice Management

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Ordering diagnostic tests is a standard procedure for physicians; yet if the test results aren’t reviewed and acted upon, what was the point of ordering the test? He was 64 years old and had a host of medical issues, including diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease , and deep vein thrombosis.

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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."

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Health Populi

JANUARY 13, 2021

Yoga classes, concerts and weddings were streamed via Zoom,” Fjord Trends 2021 from Accenture Interactive observes. This has been particularly true for health care, inspiring virtual appointments and medical tests administered at home, as growing virtual care platforms support peoples’ self-care for health care.

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Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2021

The Wall Street Journal featured the grocery chain Kroger in an article yesterday titled, COVID-19 Vaccinations, Tests Give Boost to Kroger’s Health Ambitions. consumers in March 2021 on perspectives one year into COVID. This week, Doordash announced home delivery of COVID-19 test kits from Everlywell and Vault.

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Health Populi

MAY 21, 2020

42% felt uncomfortable going to a hospital for any medical treatment. 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. ACHP and AMCP polled 1,263 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. Condition-focused providers include hims&hers, LemonAid, Ro and Tia, among others.

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CollaborateMD

JANUARY 17, 2025

between 2021 and 2023 two times faster than Medicare reimbursement for hospital inpatient care. This growth has caused rising pharmaceutical prices, increased medical technology costs and labor shortages, resulting in: Health worker wage increases. Economy-wide inflation grew 12.4% Healthcare price transparency can save the U.S.

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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. But on Oct. 1 at 3 a.m., a Friday, the hospital CEO’s phone rang with an urgent call. “My

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Northwest Career College

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Phlebotomy Technicians are vital healthcare professionals inside hospitals who draw blood from patients for medical testing, transfusions, research, or donations. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the employment of phlebotomists is projected to grow 10% from 2021 to 2031 , faster than the average for all occupations.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

household budgets in February 2022, highlighted in a poll from Morning Consult : inflationary spikes for housing, food, and energy, and the COVID-19 Omicron variant forcing health care costs up for some consumers driving medical debt up. This further underscores the reality that medical spending in the U.S. in December 2021 to 5.7%

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2020

In 2021, all economies are expected to recover at some level, the brighter news in the third column in the last chart. “Countries should continue to spend generously on their health systems, perform widespread testing, and refrain from trade restrictions on medical supplies. will decline by -6.1%.

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Health Populi

MAY 19, 2020

Welcome to the annual Milliman Medical Index (MMI) , which gauges the yearly price of an employer-sponsored preferred-provider organization (PPO) health insurance plan for a hypothetical American family and an N of 1 employee. Top-line, there are new-new costs borne in 2020 for virus testing and treatment.

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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Three Major Drivers of Vaccine Hesitancy The study, which involved interviews with 54 Black women in 2021, revealed three main reasons for vaccine hesitancy: 1. Thats why Im anti-vaccination I never like the fact that we [African Americans] are always the lab experiment, the testing community for these vaccinations.

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Scrubs

APRIL 20, 2023

It accounts for approximately 59% of medical professionals. It also brought to light new medical innovations to address the crisis. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing stated that close to 91,938 qualified applicants were denied the baccalaureate nursing programs during 2021 and 2022. million nurses, and 19.3

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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

MAY 30, 2024

In the wake of such a massive breach, medical organizations of all types and sizes should take the opportunity to review their security postures. What Happened in the Change Healthcare Cyberattack On February 21, Change Healthcare — the largest medical clearinghouse in the U.S. Medical groups must also emphasize employee training.

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Setting Sights

DECEMBER 30, 2021

And 2020-2021 has been no exception. We’ll find her”, as she shivered in the shadows, not knowing that in this stillness this soon would be her last hour. I have seen more death as a patient in one year than as a working medical student training to be a Doctor. 2021 hasn’t been my best year. Every single one of us.

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Health Populi

MAY 17, 2021

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. Medical Deserts. The book tests the hypothesis that Compassion Matters. Health equity, and.

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19 Labs

JULY 20, 2021

SAN MATEO, CA — JULY 20, 2021 — The hospital-at-home trend is rapidly changing the healthcare industry globally and throughout the Gulf countries. Bringing hospital-at-home to pharmacies, schools, homes, and rural communities in Gulf countries. Doctory truly cares about making a real difference in the Middle East with GALE eClinics.”.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

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. health citizens are with respect to their medical information.

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Minority Nurse

AUGUST 28, 2023

Despite being first identified in medical literature in the 1940s and impacting 5-12% of women annually, medical professionals rarely diagnose Lipedema due to the lack of training and awareness to recognize the disease. Lipedema is a chronic medical condition involving loose connective tissue. What is Lipedema?

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Scrubs

MAY 30, 2024

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics , employment of registered nurses is projected to grow by 6% from 2021 to 2031, with an estimated 195,400 job openings each year. The nursing field offers excellent job prospects and earning potential in the United States.

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A Young Doctor's Journey

OCTOBER 6, 2021

A lot of people considering attending medical school are curious about what the process is like in various countries, so I’d like to talk about two regions that I get a lot of questions about. I will only be discussing medical degree programs that teach in English. Wow, right? This surprised a lot of my American followers.

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Nurses Service Organization (NSO) and CNA have published the new edition of the Nurse Practitioner Professional Liability Exposure Claim Report analyzing 232 closed professional liability claims against NPs, student NPs, and NPs covered through a CNA-insured healthcare business over five years (2017-2021). Incomplete physical assessment.

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NHA Now

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

How can you stay current with the rapidly evolving medical billing codes related to COVID-19? Encounter for screening for COVID-19 * *From the ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting FY 2021: “ During the COVID-19 pandemic, a screening code is generally not appropriate. The additional codes are: Z11.52 Guideline I.C.1.g.1.e:

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Most health care providers who were using telehealth by August 2021 felt optimistic about virtual care in a study from GoodRx on The State of Telehealth. provider survey, which was complemented by a poll conducted among 1,024 health consumers for the patient perspective in September 2021.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

’ So, we undertook a landmark study to elevate the perspectives of these medically disenfranchised individuals and reveal how this long-standing inequity impacts their relationships with the healthcare system as a whole.” This time around for the 2021 research into health equity, Genentech polled 2,200 U.S.

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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. We first note overall that fewer patients, year on year 2021-2023, seem willing to share data with ANY entity.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2021

As we see the medical and acute care sector moving toward health and wellness, there’s a sort of equal and opposite reaction moving from the other end of the continuum of health/care: that is, wellness and fitness companies blurring into health care. Genetic testing, and. The converging factors are: Primary care. Telehealth.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Among people who had used virtual care in the past year, telehealth-as-healthcare is now part of mainstream Americans’ expectations as a normal part of their medical care. would use virtual care to receive medical services in the future, J.D. consumers has accessed video telehealth services in the 12 months from June-July 2021.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 16, 2019

Medical marketing, and particularly pharma marketing, is a major business in America and big slice of the “Mad Men” advertising industry. One-third of employers were already doing this in 2019, with another 20% adding in 2020 and 16% considering for 2021-22. Some 15% of companies will consider this tactic in 2021-22.

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Minority Nurse

MAY 9, 2022

When Cade Conville took the podium at the Fall 2021 Accelerated Masters in Nursing Pathway Senior Recognition Ceremony , what could have been a typical award speech turned into an emotional account of his path to nursing and his story of resilience. Six years ago, Conville was a gunshot wound victim.

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