Sensible Medicine

DECEMBER 20, 2023

I’ve been following the general conversations and have been particularly interested in AI’s potential to improve diagnostic performance. Judging AI’s performance in December of 2023 is like looking at a college applicant’s APGAR scores. What follows is the suggested reply to the partner of a patient of mine.

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 28, 2025

of all data breaches in 2024 originated from third-party compromises, up 6.5% Other threat groups that were highly active last year include RansomHub, which has grown into the most dominant ransomware group following the shutdown of the AlphV/BlackCat ransomware group and law enforcement operations disrupting the LockBit ransomware group.

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Scrubs

MAY 9, 2023

He’s been chronicling the journey on social media to show his followers what it means to give back to the community. For his next act of kindness, Tsiliacos teamed up with Good Morning America to surprise a group of 167 nurses at Shriners Children’s Hospital/Northern California for Nurses’ Week 2023.

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Scrubs

JULY 20, 2023

Although the letter started out rather humorlessly with “I am writing to address an incident in room [number] of your Emergency Department on 2023,” this was not a complaint. Needless to say, it was smelly and messy, but I quickly cleaned up and put the woman and her partner at ease. He handed the email to me.

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Scrubs

APRIL 26, 2023

government has offered a 5 percent pay increase for 2023/24 and one-payment of at least £1,655, but the RCN union members voted down the proposal 54 percent to 46 percent. “If that ballot is successful, it will mean further strike action right up until Christmas,” Cullen said.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 29, 2019

Today, as Congress kicks off hearings about the cost of prescription drugs in the United States, IQVIA published its 2019 report on The Global Use of Medicine in 2019 and Outlook to 2023. will be followed by China, Japan, Germany, and Brazil in 2023. The post In 2023, the U.S. with over four times the number of people.

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Sensible Medicine

DECEMBER 11, 2023

During the follow-up period, 9 patients (8%) in the AVATAR arm had a redo procedure following a primary endpoint compared to 15 patients (15%) in the conventional ablation arm. Yet, you can see it was not in print until March 2023. Here is another Tweet from an electrophysiologist.

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EvidenceCare

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

CMS Policy Changes to Reduce Costs Financial pressures are rising as CMS implements the updated Version 28 Hierarchical Condition Category (HCC) model , which introduces changes aimed at limiting types of codes that are most used for up-coding or over-coding to help rein in spending. For Star Ratings specifically, CMS spent $12.8

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2022

With valuations of digital health companies expected to decline in 2023, investors in the sector are Missourian in spirit in “Show Me” mode: here, it’s all about the clinical evidence and ROI, according to a survey from GSR Ventures. conducted among over 50 major digital health venture capital investors.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

consumers will continue to spend their disposable incomes on connected consumer devices, but will be looking for more balance in their digital lives according to Deloitte’s fourth annual 2023 Connected Consumer Survey. adults in the second quarter of 2023. For the survey, Deloitte polled 2,018 U.S. While 2 in 3 U.S.

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Scrubs

JUNE 12, 2023

The biotech firm known as Grail made headlines earlier this year thanks to its signature Galleri blood tests, which can detect up to 50 different kinds of cancer early on to improve patient outcomes. The tests were hailed as the “first of its kind” when it hit the market in 2023. It’s that they simply didn’t exist.

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Minority Nurse

MARCH 15, 2023

March is National Kidney Month and Minority Nurse caught up with nephrology nurse Nancy Colobong Smith, MN, ARNP, ANP-BC, CNN to find out what it’s like to be a nurse in this specialty. She is the national president-elect 2023-24 of the American Nephrology Nurses Association (ANNA).

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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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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Every year when American Thanksgiving weekend comes along, you’ll find folks involved in digital imaging flocking to chilly Chicago to convene at McCormick Place for the 2023 annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America — RSNA for short. It is up to us to adapt and embrace it, or be left behind.

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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. In fiscal year 2023, the CMS identified $12.7

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Sensible Medicine

MAY 25, 2023

On April 26, 2023, Bobby Jindal and Chirag Parghi declared, on the opinion pages of the WSJ, that “ Mammograms Can Promote Heart Health.” This finding suggests an increased risk of coronary artery disease; clinical follow up recommended.” Doctors get cash up-front, stock in the company, and management services.

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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%). While ransomware groups were a major threat in 2023 and were behind some of 2023’s largest data breaches, there was a slight decline in attacks year-over-year.

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Health Prime

MAY 2, 2024

According to The State of Mental Health in America 2023 , 28% of all adults with a mental illness reported that they were not able to receive the treatment they needed. Implement appointment reminders and follow-ups Use automated appointment reminders and follow-up communications to enhance the patient experience.

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Practice Index

APRIL 10, 2025

In 2023/24, CCS helped the public sector to achieve commercial benefits equal to 4.9 To find out more, sign up to the Public Procurement Gateway. We are excited to announce that Practice Index has been named as a supplier on the Crown Commercial Services (CCS) G-Cloud 14 framework.

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The HIPAA Journal

MAY 6, 2024

Continuum identified unauthorized activity within its network on October 19, 2023, and after taking steps to secure its systems, third-party cybersecurity specialists were engaged to identify the suspicious activity.

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The Healthcare Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Following the surge, investment plummeted. Digital Mental Health Investment (2010-2023 ) Incumbents Build Deep, Startups Go Wide Incumbent scale is infrastructure-heavy, slow, and linear , and focuses on deep integration within their established markets. Those regions are ripe for follow-on expansion and digital scale.

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Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2023

This dynamic informs The Future Health Index 2023 report from Philips, launched this week at HIMSS 2023. This is the eighth annual global FHI report, with detailed country-specific analyses to follow for the U.S. And a growing cohort of young clinicians appear keen to be part of this new life- and work-flow.

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Practice Index

APRIL 3, 2025

Just 31% said they were satisfied with practice services, representing a reduction from 34% in 2023. The country was hoping for improvements following the signing of a new GP contract in 2018, but seven years later, the deal has failed to deliver in several ways, according to Government auditors.

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Health Populi

JULY 7, 2023

In the 2023 Patient Consumer Survey report, the topline lesson is that “cost and location drive patient decisions, while service and comfort drive experience.” 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).

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Health Populi

MAY 24, 2023

As most Americans confess to feeling stressed over the past six months, peoples’ food and beverage choices have been intimately connected with their mental and emotional well-being, we learn from the 2023 Food & Health Survey from the International Food Information Council (IFIC).

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 20, 2025

There was no letup in cyberattacks on healthcare organizations in 2023, which set two new records – The most reported data breaches and the most breached records. In 2023, 725 data breaches were reported to OCR and across those breaches, more than 133 million records were exposed or impermissibly disclosed. In 2023, 79.7%

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Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 25, 2024

He followed it up with an article. Far be it from me to pass up the chance to comment on something this hot 1 and, because I lack my own Substack, I’m posting it here. Working at a university, caring for people in leadership positions, has made 2023/2024 an especially fraught academic year for me.

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The HIPAA Journal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Ransomware attacks were amongst the most expensive cyberattacks, with average losses of $353,000 per incident, up from average losses of $239,000 in H2, 2023 but down from an average loss of $402,000 in H1, 2023. Other incidents accounted for 23% of claims, down 10% from H2, 2023. Users of FortioOS SSL VPNs were 2.8

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Three in four nurses working in hospitals care about the success of their institution — “they show up and gown up…yet only 57% feel a sense of ownership in their hospitals, leaving leaders to expect 100% quality to be delivered by about half of the nursing workforce.”

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 18, 2025

A settlement has been agreed to resolve multiple Infosys McCamish Systems class action lawsuits that were filed in response to a 2023 ransomware attack and data breach that involved unauthorized access to the personal data of more than 6 million individuals.Infosys is Indias second-largest IT services provider, and Infosys McCamish Systems is a U.S.

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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. link] Joint Commission (2023, August 24). link] Mcfanhn, C (2023, August 24). Some workers at U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 19, 2023

People have expanded their definitions of health in 2023, with mental health supplanting physical health for the top-ranked factor in feeling healthy. In 2023, it’s much harder to take care of my health, consumers say. In the U.S., that delta is 11 points worse, the second chart graphs, with the U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

That 1 in 2 clinicians is significantly greater than the global 37% of physicians and nurses thinking about leaving their roles in the next 3 years, according to the report Clinician of the Future 2023 from Elsevier. clinicians for the 2023 research (fielded in April and May 2023).

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Health Populi

JUNE 11, 2024

between 2023 and 2024, according to the 2024 Milliman Medical Index. This year, I opted for a 2025 Subaru Forester and a year’s tuition for a New Mexico resident living off-campus for 2023-24 attending University of New Mexico. Health care costs for an “average” person covered by an employer-sponsored PPO in the U.S.

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Coronis Health

MARCH 13, 2024

The CHOPD accelerated and advance payments may be granted in amounts representative of up to thirty days (30) of claims payments to eligible providers and suppliers. The average 30-day payment is based on the total claims paid to the provider between August 1, 2023 and October 31, 2023, divided by three.

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The HIPAA Journal

APRIL 4, 2025

Mercer County Joint Township Community Hospital in Coldwater, Ohio, has suffered a significant data breach involving the electronic protected health information of up to 88,541 individuals. The post Mercer County Joint Township Community Hospital Cyberattack Affects Up to 88,500 Individuals appeared first on The HIPAA Journal.

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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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