Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2021

Wherever you live in the world touched by the coronavirus pandemic, you felt (and were) stress-tested. In this year’s 2021 annual report by Deloitte into Connectivity & Mobile Trends, their report details How the pandemic has stress-tested the crowded digital home. Both you were, and your home was as well. ” In the U.S.,

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Scrubs

JANUARY 4, 2024

It is also especially crucial nowadays, as technology further advances and more comprehensive eye tests are becoming more common. On top of this, traditional eye tests often focus solely on visual acuity, which measures the ability to see details at a distance.

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The HIPAA Journal

MAY 6, 2024

Continuum then worked to verify the information and obtain up-to-date address information, and notification letters were mailed on April 29, 2024. The file review was completed on March 8, 2024, when it was confirmed that the exposed data included patients’ names and Social Security numbers.

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MedCerts

JULY 30, 2024

The technical knowledge from this MyCAA-approved program enables you to set up, configure, maintain and troubleshoot your computer workstation. In this position, you get to support other healthcare experts by performing tests to detect cardiovascular issues in patients.

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Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 25, 2023

We read about diseases and their associated diagnostic tests and treatments. Clinical findings and blood tests hint at the diagnosis, but the only truly confirmatory test is a biopsy of the temporal artery – a small procedure but a procedure all the same. Diagnostic tests give you more than just a diagnosis.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

MARCH 22, 2023

Senior DOJ officials have in turn emphasized in public remarks that investigating clinical research shortcomings is now a Justice Department priority, with the whistleblower bar following suit. And what can academic medical centers and other universities and hospitals do to protect themselves against the misconduct of their researchers?

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NHA Now

MAY 13, 2020

Pharmacy technician employers can be grouped into four main categories: community pharmacies (retail pharmacies), specialty pharmacies, mail-order pharmacies and hospital pharmacies. However, the day-to-day tasks of a pharmacy technician in a hospital are unique to that environment. Order and maintain protocol specific to inventory.

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Arkenea

JULY 12, 2024

It could be transition from a hospital to a rehabilitation center, or from a GP to a cardiologist. It also helps to maintain the flow of data between healthcare providers, allowing for timely interventions, follow-up care, and medications. Test, Release, and Maintenance Once coding is done and dusted, it is time for testing.

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Minority Nurse

AUGUST 15, 2024

Growing up in a household where the medical field was ever-present, the sight of my mom, a nurse, coming home from her shifts at the hospital and the stories my aunt shared from her nursing career filled our family gatherings. Nursing felt like a natural path for me to follow. Louis, working in the oncology unit.

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Health Populi

MAY 21, 2020

Patients’ concerns of COVID-19 risks have led them to self-ration care in the following ways: 41% have delayed health care services. 42% felt uncomfortable going to a hospital for any medical treatment.

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Sensible Medicine

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

If applicants are more impressive on paper, but no more impressive in the clinics and hospitals, aren’t we doing something wrong? They spend money on test prep courses and needle their teachers into inflating grades. One could also follow the lead of the tech industry and invest in the selection process.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

rank prescription drugs, lab tests, emergency room visits, dental and vision care, preventive services, chronic disease management and mental health care as the “most essential” health care services, according to the 2019 Survey of America’s Patients conducted by The Physicians Foundation. People in the U.S.

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Practice Index

JUNE 13, 2024

A spokesperson said: “We can confirm all GP and outpatient appointments, planned operations and procedures are going ahead today and patients should please come to the GP surgery, hospital or health centre as planned.” The region was the latest to be hit by IT problems following the cyber-attack in London.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 28, 2021

By casting my eyeballs in different directions across the health/care ecosystem, I came up with the following data-driven plotline for your 2022 strategic and scenario planning toolkit… The pandemic persists. Mortality will be up in the U.S. > consumers are “shrugging off” Omicron.

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Sensible Medicine

JANUARY 15, 2024

Doctors and hospitals incur penalties if a patient with an MI is not on a beta-blocker—unless there is a darn good reason put down in the chart. A place where a learner can go to look up the seminal trials that established modern day cardiology practice. About 16,000 patients were randomized from more than 200 hospitals.

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Practice Builders

AUGUST 11, 2024

In this blog post, we talk about some of the most common patient complaints against doctors and hospitals and how healthcare providers can address these issues. When patients feel valued and well taken care of, satisfaction and health outcomes are likely to go up. Why is Focusing on Patient Experience a Must?

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

There’s a gap between the supply of digital health tools that hospitals and health systems offer patients, and what patients-as-consumers need for overall health and wellbeing. Key challenges to adopting digital health tools are first and foremost cost, following by interoperability and operational barriers.

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Sensible Medicine

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Don’t get hung up on the specific medical problem. The medical question comes up pretty often: What to do with moderate anemia (low red blood cell counts) in a patient recovering from a heart attack (myocardial infarction = MI)? (We The MINT trial tested these two strategies. No drug companies. No devices. with CI to 0.99-1.7

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

People who skipped care were most likely to avoid dental care (25%), visit to a GP or specialist (21%), preventive health screening or medical test (16%), treatment or follow-up care (12%), or a hospital visit (10%). About one in four people who avoided care reported that their chronic health condition worsened.

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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. The test characteristics of most data from the history is poor. I started with a steroid two years ago, but the pain was too severe and I ended up with an injection in my back.

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Sensible Medicine

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

For anyone interested in medical reversal, this article is up there with CAST , the WHI , and the vertebroplasty articles as landmark articles. Inspired by their work, I decided to follow on this somewhat unconventional path in the field of osteoporosis. Of note, we tested all available DXA scanners (i.e.,

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2024

He pointed to a visit to an emergency room, where “the debt is taken on unexpectedly and in a time of crisis,” as well as consumers dealing with “complexities with insurance” (consider: out of network providers, lack of up-front cost estimates, and trauma which prevents one from “shopping” for care).

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CareerStep

JANUARY 24, 2024

If you’re looking for a new healthcare career or want to switch it up, keep reading! The quick, painless test provides valuable information about the patient’s heart in real-time. ” Here’s what it could look like: You begin by setting up and calibrating the EKG equipment, ensuring everything functions correctly.

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Health Populi

MAY 14, 2020

Top-line, IQVIA spotted the following key shifts in U.S. The top chart illustrates several health care delivery segments that COVID-19 disrupted starting January 3, 2020: research, hospital treatments, and prescription drugs. health care since the start of the coronavirus pandemic: Patients’ use of health services.

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Prism Career Institute

JULY 23, 2024

This ensures that their skills remain up to date with growing knowledge and evolving practices. OB/GYN medical assistants can be found in physician offices, family planning centers, hospital outpatient clinics, urgent care, health maintenance organizations (HMOs), and more. Where Do OB/GYN Medical Assistants Work?

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Sensible Medicine

JUNE 30, 2023

Patients present with troublesome symptoms that they “just want checked out before the weekend” and I’m left either worrying about them all weekend or admitting them to the hospital where I know little will happen for the next two days. He had also had had a normal stress test a couple of years before.

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Relias

MARCH 17, 2023

Each year, the Joint Commission issues a list of top national patient safety goals for healthcare settings, including hospitals, nursing care centers, behavioral health care and human services, ambulatory healthcare, home care, and more. Improve staff communication. Use medicines safely. Evaluate policies regularly to implement improvements.

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 29, 2024

billion has been provided to safety net hospitals and federally qualified health centers that serve high-risk patients and communities. The Washington State Hospital Association ( WSHA ) has also been contacted by its members who have expressed concern about the notification requirements after reading OCR’s letter. 40% of the $3.3

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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

For some patients, their cardiovascular issues aren’t immediately identifiable by vital signs or diagnostic tests. As a nurse and researcher, I follow the most up-to-date treatment national guidelines published by the American Colleges of Cardiology (ACC) and American Heart Association (AHA) and PCNA.

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Sensible Medicine

MAY 31, 2023

Her outpatient follow-up appointments were scheduled; we had reviewed her safety plan; she felt well and ready to leave the hospital. Her hospital course was uneventful, and she made good therapeutic use of her time on the unit. ” As the conversation wrapped up, I started putting the papers back on her bed.

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Sensible Medicine

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Even though my practice is made up of about 750, overwhelmingly older people, mostly with chronic medical conditions, I only attend to the death of a patient a few times a month.   I usually see people who die alone in the hospital. Some of these patients die alone in the hospital, with nobody at their bedside.

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Prism Career Institute

MARCH 18, 2024

Prism Career Institute, with campuses in Philadelphia, PA, and Cherry Hill and Egg Harbor Township in NJ, offers a practical nursing program for students who want to further their careers or switch up their job opportunities. They must also complete an interview process with a Prism Career Institute Admissions Representative.

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ACI Medical & Dental School

OCTOBER 24, 2023

At ACI Medical & Dental School, you can become a Certified Phlebotomy Technician (CPT) in just five months, ready to work in hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare settings. A phlebotomist is a medical professional trained to draw blood from patients for clinical or medical testing, transfusions, research, or donations.

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Health Populi

JULY 26, 2022

billion investment makes ONEM the third largest acquisition in Amazon’s portfolio, following Whole Foods at $13.7 For the former, Amazon leadership is talking up the company’s expertise in consumer experience and delight, efficiency and engagement (which I addressed in yesterday’s Day 1 post ).

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Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

Once purchased, most consumers set up devices themselves. Data literacy, the ability to comprehensive one’s “numbers” displayed in lab test results and other patient-facing clinical communications. Please follow my posts here on Health Populi all this week during the consumer electronics show (100% virtual!)

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Health Populi

JULY 4, 2022

Spending on mental health apps, in particular, spiked up in the COVID-19 pandemic reaching at least $500 million according to Deloitte’s analysis. Avoiding recommended follow-up care such as diagnostic tests and labs, or visits to specialists. Value will be in the eye of that beholder.

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Northwest Suburban College

MARCH 8, 2024

Laboratory Procedures: They may also collect and prepare laboratory specimens and perform basic laboratory tests under the supervision of a healthcare professional. Hospitals: Some Medical Assistants work in hospital settings, assisting with administrative duties and patient care in various departments.

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