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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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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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

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 12, 2024

The question today is whether modern medical screening can improve on those basic lifestyle choices. And that was the result of screening for just 5 cancers (breast, cervical, colorectal, lung and prostate) in the year 2021. For instance, the estimate includes only the initial cost of the mammogram, PSA test, and CT scan.

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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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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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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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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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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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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

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

JANUARY 27, 2023

Nurse practitioners are trained to evaluate patients, make diagnoses, order and interpret tests, prescribe medications, coordinate care, and educate. She notes that four states moved to full practice authority through the pandemic: Delaware and Massachusetts in 2021 and New York and Kansas in 2022.

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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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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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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Nurse practitioners are trained to evaluate patients, make diagnoses, order and interpret tests, prescribe medications, coordinate care, and educate. She notes that four states moved to full practice authority through the pandemic: Delaware and Massachusetts in 2021 and New York and Kansas in 2022.

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Medical Gas Compliance

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The Responsible Facility Authority is responsible for implementation of the piped medical gas and vacuum system requirements in NFPA 99. Rather, the role required the acting person(s) to receive all the documentation from verifiers and inspectors testing the medical gas system.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 31, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: According to a recent story from NPR, CVS launched a pilot program in January 2021, operating in at least twelve stores in Houston, Philadelphia, and Tampa. adults felt symptoms of anxiety disorder in January 2021 compared with only 1 in 10 between January-June 2019.

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Doximity

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Doximity is excited to announce the launch of our Telehealth Fellowship, a year-long program for medical professionals interested in technology and health care innovation. We are currently accepting applications through October 15, 2021, for our inaugural class, which kicks off November 1, 2021. 1, 2021, and end Oct.

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Setting Sights

MAY 2, 2022

I can still remember my last day of Medical School, though it was never meant to be the last. All medical students were sent home. That was the last time I saw the hospital, where I lived and learnt as a medical student, for a very long time. I was supposed to qualify as a Doctor in the summer of 2021. The honest truth ?

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