Sensible Medicine

JULY 30, 2024

A pretty good portion of what we post on Sensible Medicine could be considered critical appraisal of the medical literature. Thus, it was an easy decision when a group of medical students asked if we would consider posting an appraisal that came out of their journal club. The cohort enrolled patients from 2008 to 2022.

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Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2022

states to live in for health and health care are Hawaii, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Washington, Vermont, Rhode Island, and Maryland… Those are the top health system rankings in the new 2022 Scorecard on State Health System Performance annual report from the Commonwealth Fund. The best U.S. and some Midwestern states.

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Health Prime

APRIL 25, 2024

In the complex world of medical billing, dealing with bad debt is an inevitable challenge that healthcare providers often face. Unpaid bills, denied claims, and delayed payments can significantly impact the financial health of a medical practice. Strategies to improve bad debt management in medical billing 1.

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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. Legal and Financial Ramifications Schofield now faces 44 second-degree felony counts related to the theft and tampering of medications.

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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. 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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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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Health Prime

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Accurate and efficient medical billing is essential for your practice to get timely reimbursement for the services you render to patients. Therefore, optimized medical billing cannot be overstated. Learn about the benefits of outsourcing your medical billing in our blog 5 reasons to outsource your medical billing.

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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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Sensible Medicine

JUNE 6, 2023

Not to date him, but David Rind was one of the faculty members who first taught me how to critically read the medical literature. As a result, many medical students and residents get the impression that the goal of reading a trial is a hunt for a fatal error. Loss to follow-up: This concern is less reasonable.

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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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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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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

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. Only weight and medication tracking had a majority of people using analog formats to track. Why do people use wearable tech for health?

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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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Sensible Medicine

MAY 21, 2023

Although Mr. Allely is a medical student— his analysis of the RSV vaccine for pregnant women is superior to the FDAs. They end up going around and having each committee member give their thoughts with respect to efficacy and safety. It’s my pleasure to introduce today’s guest post by Dave Allely.

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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

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). These increases range from the highest percentage change for inpatient care, over 10%, followed by professional services (e.g.,

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 20, 2025

Data breaches increased once again in 2022, with OCR receiving reports of 720 data breaches of 500 or more records. million records breached, and 2022 was worse with 51.9 TX Business Associate 2,700,000 Hacking/IT Incident 44 2022 Connexin Software, Inc. 2021 was a bad year for data breaches with 45.9

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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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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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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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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Her service included setting up hospital wards in Japan, aiding evacuations during the Korean and Vietnam wars, and flying on the first medical evacuation mission into Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam. Suffolk County Legislator Jason Richberg, who presented her with a proclamation in 2022, described her as a “firecracker.”

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Health Populi

JUNE 23, 2022

An hour after the Morning Consult session, I brainstormed the topic of consumers-as-payers of medical bills and prescription drugs with GoodRx strategy leaders. Physical health, comprising 33% of well-being, followed by. Emotional health, making up 27% of well-being. in Hong Kong the week of 20 June 2022). in the U.S.

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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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Health Populi

JUNE 11, 2024

between 2023 and 2024, according to the 2024 Milliman Medical Index. Milliman also calculated that the largest driver of cost increase in health care, accounting for nearly one-half of medical cost increases, was pharmacy, the cost of prescription drugs, which grew 13% in the year.

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Accepted Blog

APRIL 2, 2024

Dr. Woodson discusses the unique aspects of Tulane’s medical program, including its focus on healing communities and its integration of nursing students into the curriculum. Are you ready to apply to your dream medical schools? It doesn’t really pertain per se to the medical school, but it will affect us.

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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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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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Health Populi

MAY 30, 2022

Add on top of these significant stressors the need to deal with medical bills, which is another source of stress for millions of patients in America. told the Gallup Poll in April 2022 that their financial situation has eroded in the past year, up to 1 in 2 people which is a statistic we haven’t seen since the Great Recession of 2008.

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Health Populi

JULY 18, 2024

That positive economic news did not extend to medical care and personal care, the BLS reported, whose costs increased by 3.3% 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%

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Let’s start with the pocketbook of the patient — now a key payer in health systems’ revenue cycle management processes on the health system side, and continuing challenge for medical debt for U.S. And convenience actually mashes up costs for everyday people in the form of time-costs. PwC’s 2024 U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Power’s 2022 Telehealth Satisfaction Study. 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.

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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. For your historical context, here’s last year’s write-up on the 2019 MMI.

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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 27, 2024

Pages 119 through 125 do a great job of explaining how atherosclerosis develops insidiously in the coronary arteries and how you can build up substantial plaque without symptoms. To achieve levels <20, most individuals would require multiple cholesterol-lowering medications each with a potential for side effects and a significant cost.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2022

If you heed the words of JLL’s 2022 Patient Consumer Survey , you’d chill (at least a bit). Telehealth and virtual care are here to stay, opening new on-ramps for greater access, system expansion, and pressure on the supply of medical real estate. adults in the first half of January 2022 for this study.

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Sensible Medicine

JULY 11, 2023

Different guideline producing groups, working off this same data, could come up with very different recommendations. The evidence supporting screening guidelines should arguably be more robust than other medical interventions given the otherwise healthy patient population. Accessed November 8, 2022. 2021 Jul 20;326(3):279].

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We Care Online

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Here are some situations where you might consider adding voluntary roles to enhance your resume: If youre at an early stage in your career: if youre recently qualified or youre applying for junior and entry-level positions, you might find its been difficult to build up the skills and experience required for some healthcare jobs.

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