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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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

JUNE 19, 2023

But it all turned out to be a huge mix-up. Because I had been consoling her.” “I just got up and just started running around the house,” Janet Brown said. Staff immediately followed up and verified this misidentification with the emergency contacts.” “We Vannest said the call was gut wrenching.

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Scrubs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

An Oregon hospital, Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center, is embroiled in a $303 million lawsuit following an alarming case of fentanyl theft and medical malpractice. If found guilty, Schofield could face up to 10 years in prison. The remaining patients, who survived the ordeal, are part of a collective lawsuit against the hospital .

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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. for herself and for her son, Emmett. I like business and people.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Most doctors see the advantages of digital health tools like telehealth, consumers’ access to their health information, and point-of-care workflow solutions, the American Medical Association found in a survey of 1300 physicians, published in September 2022. Note that #2 and #3 were new questions added to the 2022 study wave].

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Patient Care Follow-Up Patient Experience Medication 159

Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

This report provides insightful context for the upcoming annual ATA Conference for 2022 , being held in-person in Boston kicking off May 1st. Most frequently, virtual care is being used for treatment or therapy, screening or diagnosis, and follow-up care, by at least 70% of clinicians. Hospital or emergency room follow-up.

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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. For the survey, Deloitte polled 2,018 U.S. adults in the second quarter of 2023.

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Scrubs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

While there are also some skills that are difficult to find in this profession but are in high demand: physical examination (86%), RN license (54%), coaching (46%), healthcare providers (39%), cpr certification (36%), follow up (36%), etc. Be engrossed in the dialogue, ask insightful questions, and remain engaged.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

For Labor Day 2022, I’m thinking about health, vaccines, work (especially returning-to-work), and art. This history of art lesson has a specific reason as the inspiration for today’s Labor Day 2022 Health Populi post: because one of the 27 frescoes illustrates vaccination in the context of innovation, economics and politics.

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Setting Sights

DECEMBER 31, 2022

But, we will never experience those great life lessons, if we never show up to stuff. I had dawdled, in somewhat a deep, drifting thought, up to the muddy cornfields behind the house, crops not yet budded, streaks of morning grey and damp brown for miles up ahead. In brutal honesty, 2022 turned out to be the hardest year yet.

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Follow-Up Hospital Triage Huddles/Rounds 52

Health Prime

APRIL 25, 2024

From that, set up a project for the AR team to adjust the old AR. Ensure you follow up on the progress and run reports at the end of the process to identify all adjusted claims that can be used in return when filing your taxes.

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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 consumer research was conducted in January 2022 — well before a gallon of gas cost an average of $4.98 in Hong Kong the week of 20 June 2022). in Hong Kong the week of 20 June 2022). in the U.S.

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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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HIPAA Follow-Up Certification Business Associate 95

A Young Doctor's Journey

DECEMBER 30, 2021

January 2022 will mark the return of desktop wallpapers. Download the January 2022 wallpapers here! Without further ado, here they are: DOWNLOAD the free PHOTO wallpapers here (new designs up!) new designs up!) And now onto the good stuff. You’ll see that my style changed/is changing a little bit.

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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

Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

It’s the creation of a consortium of nurses sharing a strong desire to foster community with the goal to make the ever-evolving world of healthcare easy to digest by arming healthcare professionals with the most up-to-date information. . Nurses Supporting Community Initiatives . Magic Behind The Startup.

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Health Populi

JULY 7, 2023

adults in April 2023 to gauge peoples’ experiences with healthcare received in the past year (think back to April 2022 and the next 12 months for the time horizon). Patients most frequently make visits for primary or preventive care, followed by seeing a specialist, and seeking urgent care, the first bar chart illustrates.

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Health Populi

JUNE 2, 2021

A big uncertainty in this year’s forecast, pondering the 2022 picture, is what extent eliminate care will have on future adverse health outcomes… something that keeps my scenario planning humming across various modeling. up, compared with the largest cost increase across categories in 2020 of 7.2%.

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Insurance Follow-Up Tests Medication 174

Sensible Medicine

MAY 28, 2024

In October 2022 , the USPSTF recommended childhood anxiety screening starting at eight years old. The USPSTF claims "screening interventions" decrease the prevalence of depression at six-month follow-up by an odds ratio of 0.60. But in the real world, not everyone who screens positive for depression ends up in therapy.

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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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Follow-Up Transfers HIPAA Medication 92

Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

For example, according to the NSO and CNA Nurse Practitioner Claim Report: 5th Edition , which analyzed professional liability claims data, the average total incurred of NP professional liability claims in the 2022 report dataset was $332,137, which was more than a 10.5% to 35.3% (CNA & NSO, 2022). to 35.3% (CNA & NSO, 2022).

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The HIPAA Journal

OCTOBER 29, 2024

When diagnoses are reported only using enrollees’ HRAs and HRA-linked chart reviews and there are no follow-up visits, procedures, or tests, HHS-OIG is concerned that the diagnoses may be inaccurate and therefore the payments made by the CMS may be improper. HHS-OIG’s analysis of MA encounter data identified 1.7

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Follow-Up HIPAA Tests Documentation 86

Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2022

We met up last week at the DIA Europe 2022 meeting (Drug Information Association) in the cool SQUARE Conference Center in Brussels, Belgium (my current home base for work and life). In summing up the patient-centered interoperability goal, Ardy summarized: “We’ve created the Mint.com of health data.”

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Follow-Up Medication Tests Hospital 174

Relias

MAY 2, 2022

Beginning July 16, 2022, the 988 crisis hotline will be fully operational. Following on the heels of the COVID-19 pandemic, this service is sorely needed. By integrating your organization into the 988 response system, you can become a resource for follow up needs those in crisis may have, such as outpatient appointments.

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De-Escalation Follow-Up Appointments 92

Health Prime

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Denied claims, follow-ups on unpaid claims, and inefficient billing practices can all contribute to financial setbacks for your practice. If claims are not addressed, the average cost to rework a claim is $25.20, which quickly adds up. stood at 22.7%

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Billing Medication Patient Care Follow-Up 98

Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 7, 2024

For example, Bergman reports a 2002 study in which ventilated premature babies were placed to sleep on either their tummies or backs, and the following states were measured: quiet sleep, active sleep (which is less restorative than quiet sleep), crying time, number of stress responses (startle, tremor, and twitch), and oxygen saturation.

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Follow-Up Transfers Tests Documentation 95

Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2022

If you heed the words of JLL’s 2022 Patient Consumer Survey , you’d chill (at least a bit). Between July 1, 2921, and January 2022, 50% of consumers in this survey had had a telehealth appointment, led by urban community dwellers and Millennials. adults in the first half of January 2022 for this study.

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Health Populi

MAY 30, 2022

I appreciated the opportunity to share my perspectives on “The Patient As the Payer: How the Pandemic, Inflation, and Anxiety are Reshaping Consumers” in a webinar hosted by CarePayment on 25 May 2022. in 2022, billing and medical payments are now embedded in patients’ experience, regardless of the type of payor.

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Billing Insurance Customer Service Patient Experience 105

Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Actual cardiologists performed these visits, which included up-titration of meds, but, also, as Adam correctly notes, patients had MD-level assessments. It was presented at the 2022 AHA meeting to great celebration. Most experts held this trial up as a win for aggressive up-titration of medicines. Here were the results.

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Discharges Follow-Up Admissions Hospital 91

Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Power’s 2022 Telehealth Satisfaction Study. Power found in their Study which was conducted among 4,306 health care consumers who had used a telehealth service in the 12 months preceding June and July 2022 when the survey was fielded. For health plan-provided telehealth, Humana topped the list, followed by Aetna in second place.

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Follow-Up Patient Satisfaction Insurance Medication 87

Health Populi

JULY 18, 2024

Following the BLS report on the CPI for June 2024, PwC published their new annual report from PwC titled Behind the Numbers 2025 tells us that commercial health care spending is expected to grow some 8.0% See here the level of cost-insecurity rose to 37% in 2023-24 from 32% in 2022. and 3.2%, respectively. in the report, FYI).

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Hospital Insurance Follow-Up Medication 71

Minority Nurse

MARCH 20, 2024

The technological advancements in gastroenterology and endoscopy have opened up new ways of achieving better patient outcomes in our field, effectively and efficiently. If possible, network with GI professionals in your Endoscopy unit and seek opportunities to shadow a case or two and follow a patient through the different phases of care.

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Follow-Up Documentation Hospital 105

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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Follow-Up Collaboration Tests 98

Health Populi

JUNE 11, 2024

As an Index, the MMI combines several line items of healthcare spending to make up the overall number, and this methodology allows us to compare the rising costs of care for a family of 4 covered by a PPO year to year.

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Medication Follow-Up Billing Insurance 77

Health Populi

MAY 20, 2024

In the past year, the growth of prescription drug utilization and spending has much to do with the use of GLP-1 agonists to treat diabetes and obesity, along with immunology therapy, and lipid meds, along with specialty medicines now accounting for over half of spending — up from 49% in 2018. Health services utilization in the U.S.

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