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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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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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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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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Practice Index

APRIL 10, 2025

Change of rules creates 1,500 GP jobs More than 1,500 GPs have found jobs following changes to practice funding rules over the last year. The warning was issued by the Caledonia Medical Practice in Cumbernauld, which has told patients that the request could cause a delay of 14 days in administration.

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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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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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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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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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The HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 24, 2022

In addition to financial penalties, covered entities are required to adopt a corrective action plan to bring policies and procedures up to the standards demanded by HIPAA. . It is the responsibility of each covered entity to ensure that HIPAA Rules are understood and followed. Tier 1: Minimum fine of $100 per violation up to $50,000.

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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

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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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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Health Populi

APRIL 4, 2022

Inflation and rising prices are the biggest problem facing America, most people told the Kaiser Family Foundation March 2022 Health Tracking Poll. was Russia’s invasion into Ukraine, noted by 18% of people — from 14% of Republicans up to 23% of Democrats. The cost of filling up a car’s gas tank ranked first among U.S.

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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 8, 2024

His other medical problems are hypertension, atrial fibrillation, and diabetes. Although this patient sounds like someone who would see me at 4:40 on Friday afternoon, he is completely made up. ” I planned that February, my 25 th year teaching this critical appraisal course to our fourth-year medical students, would be my last.

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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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Arkenea

JULY 12, 2024

Medical insurance verification software is developed to automate the process of verifying patients’ insurance coverages. A medical insurance verification software checks for coverage benefits, copayments, deductibles, and other relevant information needed for the healthcare provider to proceed with the patient’s care.

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Arkenea

JULY 12, 2024

If a primary healthcare provider wants to refer his patient to a specialist for additional medical services then he puts in a recommendation for it. A patient needs a referral before getting medical care from any other physician. percent CAGR between 2022 to 2030 ). This eventually results in the growth of medical practice.

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Health Prime

AUGUST 10, 2023

Running a medical practice comes with its own challenges, and one of the most common hurdles healthcare providers face is staff shortage. According to the 2022 ACHE’s Top Issues Confronting Hospitals survey , workforce challenges emerged as the foremost concern for hospital CEOs, ranking number one on their list of priorities.

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Valant

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

New mental health medications are often more effective, while also offering fewer and/or less severe side effects. It is important for prescribers and other mental health professionals to stay informed about the latest medications so they can share the information with colleagues and make the right decisions for patients.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 9, 2023

SVB notes that venture funding in healthcare fell in terms of both deals and dollars each quarter of 2022 after hitting records in 2021. Dx/Tools, where early-stage investment set records in 2022 notwithstanding declines for some of the sub-categories (R&D tools investments especially), and.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The bottom chart arrays data on feelings of discrimination by various factors: most notably, discrimination based on race or ethnicity yields the highest level, followed by the factors of age, finances, gender, and class. in a 2022 essay , weaving data from several studies that quantified the cost of health disparities using various methods.

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Health Populi

JULY 29, 2022

Just about one year ago, DG appointed the company’s first Chief Medical Officer, which I covered here in Health Popul i in a post titled, “Dollar General, the Latest Retail Health Destination?” AmerisourceBergen started up a platform to streamline bringing physicians and patients together for channeling digital therapeutics.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 1, 2023

consumers say they can’t afford to pay their medical bills on-time, based on the 2023 Consumer Survey from Access One, a financial services company focused on healthcare payments. Furthermore, one-third of consumers are not confident they could pay a medical bill of $500 or more. Two-thirds of U.S. Note that U.S.

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CollaborateMD

JANUARY 5, 2024

The medical billing market is growing fast. billion in 2022. This growth shows just how vital medical billing is becoming. Choosing the right medical billing software is crucial in healthcare management. In this article, we’ll make choosing the right medical billing software easy. The market was valued at USD 13.5

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The Healthcare Blog

MARCH 21, 2025

As it happens I did a video interview at Hinges booth at HLTH in 2022 when my back collapsed, and I got to try out their Enso device (it helped a bit but not much after the first few minutes using it). This didn’t stop me strapping up, taking drugs and snowboarding in the 2024 season but it certainly slowed me down a whole lot.

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Health Populi

APRIL 8, 2022

By February 2022, given inflationary pressures on households, people are shifting to lower-priced alternatives, with price top of mind versus quality. consumers, followed by Aldi, Kroger, Costco, Safeway, Sam’s Club, Trader Joe’s, Stop and Shop, Food Lion, and Dollar stores, among others. The wordle diagram here arrays U.S.

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Accepted Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2023

When premed students contact us about guiding them through the medical school application process , many of their questions are related to timing. Although no one single answer applies to everyone, here are the guidelines we use when advising our medical school clients. When should I apply to medical school? When should I …?”

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