Flu Activity In US Now May Be Highest Since 2017-2018
Forbes Healthcare
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Flu test data and Tamiflu prescription fills show that influenza activity has already surpassed the past seven seasons and may soon exceed that of 2017-2018.
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U.K. Soda Tax Slashes Childrens’ Sugar Intake
Forbes Healthcare
JULY 10, 2024
Kids and adults drank far less sugar following the launch of a tax on sodas in 2018 in the U.K. But experts say the country is still consuming too much.
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Reviewing the Top Medical Technology of 2018
Electronic Health Reporter
DECEMBER 28, 2018
The article Reviewing the Top Medical Technology of 2018 appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. Through technology and science, medical researchers are creating innovations that are improving, expanding and transforming the healthcare industry. Technological advancements, […].
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The Smartphone Is the Consumer’s Personal Health Platform – Implications from Deloitte’s 2018 Survey
Health Populi
NOVEMBER 15, 2018
Furthermore, voice technologies are “making noise,” according to Deloitte in A New Era in Mobile Continues, the 2018 Global Mobile Consumer Survey : US Edition. Note in the first bar chart that in 2018, 89% of those 45-54 and 74% of people 55 and over have “ready access” to a smartphone. which 1 in 2 U.S.
Healthcare Institutions Received More Attacks than Finance In 2018
Electronic Health Reporter
MARCH 18, 2019
Summarizing the outcomes of 2018, the experts noted an increase in the share of targeted attacks that grew throughout the year reaching 62 percent in Q4. By and large, targeted attacks became the favorite method of attackers (55 percent) in 2018, unlike the previous year.
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Should I Change My Mind About Aspirin for the Prevention of Cardiac Events?
Sensible Medicine
MARCH 4, 2024
In 2018, the NEJM and the Lancet published three trials that randomized tens of thousands of patients without heart disease to either low-dose aspirin or a placebo. In the absence of heart disease, based on the 2018 trials, I had recommended patients stop taking aspirin. The ARRIVE trial excluded patients taking aspirin at baseline).
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Americans End 2018 Worried About Healthcare Costs
Health Populi
DECEMBER 13, 2018
Health insurance in-security is mainstream as of November 2018, when Gallup polled U.S. Gallup notes their October 2018 poll learned that voters were most concerned about healthcare, immigration and the economy as key midterm voting issues. adults about views on healthcare costs. Gallup conducted this survey among 1,037 U.S.
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Physician Pay Increased, Productivity Remained Stagnant in 2018, AMGA Survey Finds
Electronic Health Reporter
AUGUST 28, 2019
Data from AMGA’s 2019 Medical Group Compensation and Productivity Survey shows physician compensation increased in 2018, while changes in work relative value unit (wRVU) productivity remained low. The article Physician Pay Increased, Productivity Remained Stagnant in 2018, AMGA Survey Finds appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.
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How to Make Healthcare More Intelligent and Trustworthy: Accenture’s Digital Health Tech Vision 2018
Health Populi
MAY 29, 2018
Trust has become a key currency in provider/patient/supplier relationships: 94% of health executives say treating customers as partners is important to gain trust, according to the Digital Health Tech Vision 2018 from Accenture. Finally, the Internet of Thinking rounds out Accenture’s five themes in the 2018 Health Tech Vision.
An Automated Solution to Healthcare’s $125 Billion Fax Problem
Electronic Health Reporter
APRIL 4, 2025
By Thomas Thatapudi, CIO, AGS Health In 2018, the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued a challenge to health IT developers and providers alike to help make every doctors office in […] The article An Automated Solution to Healthcares $125 Billion Fax Problem appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.
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Wearable, Shareable, Virtual: The Demands of the Digital Health Consumer in 2018
Health Populi
MARCH 7, 2018
This week at the 2018 annual HIMSS conference, telehealth is playing a mainstream role in discussions about right-sizing and right-placing healthcare. The evidence for telehealth’s tipping point is rooted in new research published today by Accenture on Patients + Doctors + Machines, Accentures’ 2018 Consumer Survey on Digital Health.
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Retail Health Ends 2018 With Big Plans for 2019
Health Populi
DECEMBER 11, 2018
As the CVS + Aetna merger crosses its last regulatory hurdle at the close of 2018, we enter 2019 facing a fast-growing and -morphing retail health landscape. The post Retail Health Ends 2018 With Big Plans for 2019 appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. — to grow their own consumer-facing muscles in 2019.
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Doing Less Can Be Doing More for Healthcare – the Biggest Takeaway From ASCO 2018
Health Populi
JUNE 5, 2018
The study, Adjuvant Chemotherapy Guided by a 21-Gene Expression Assay in Breast Cancer, was published in The New England Journal of Medicine on June 3, 2018, coinciding with the researchers’ ASCO presentation of the results. ” A genetic test that costs $3,000 helps to identify women who could benefit from avoiding chemo.
What the Hell Is Going On with Healthcare Interoperability?
Electronic Health Reporter
MARCH 14, 2019
The 22-page report summarized nationwide trends in health information exchange in 2018, including the adoption of EHRs and other technologies that support electronic access to patient information. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) filed its annual year-end report to Congress at the start of 2019.
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3 Ways To Find Work-Life Balance As A Physician
Electronic Health Reporter
MARCH 2, 2021
As of 2018, there were nearly one million physicians in the United States alone. This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. That number has undoubtedly grown, because the healthcare industry is in high demand. Being a physician is one of the most […].
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Health Populi
JUNE 28, 2018
but one issue is on the mind of most American voters where there is evidence of some agreements: health care, as evidenced in the June 2018 Health Tracking Poll from Kaiser Family Foundation. Top-line, health care is one of the most important issues that voters want addressed in the 2018 mid-term elections, tied with the economy.
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Murder, vitriol, and hidden costs: inside the health insurance industry’s biggest battles
KevinMD.com
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
Having worked in non-profit health care all my life, I decided in 2018 to switch to the “dark side,” or the insurance industry, out of curiosity. With the murder of the UnitedHealthcare CEO, many have expressed vitriol towards the insurance industry. What is it that they do, and how are they doing it?
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Fired Nurse Wins Unemployment Benefits After Being Assaulted by Combative Patient
Scrubs
APRIL 4, 2023
Records show Martinek worked at the facility from January 2018 to September of last year when the incident occurred. She was denied unemployment benefits for months because her former employer challenged her claim, but a state court recently ruled in her favor.
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Data-Driven Patient Rounding: A Deep-Dive At Lenox Hill Hospital
Electronic Health Reporter
JUNE 9, 2021
In 2018, we at Lenox Hill Hospital found ourselves at a crossroads. This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Joe Leggio, associate executive director, Lenox Hill Hospital (Northwell Health).
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EHR Supplier Base In EMEA Remains Highly Fragmented; Cerner Gains Ground
Electronic Health Reporter
MAY 20, 2019
in 2018 (both acute and ambulatory applications) according to Signify Research’s 2019 global EMR market report. However, only one vendor, Cerner, is estimated to have had a double-digit revenue share in 2018. The EMEA market for electronic health record (EHR) IT is estimated to have been worth $3.7B
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CHI Health Settles Suit Over Unlawful On-Call Nurse Pay
Scrubs
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
The work was performed in 2018. The providers alleged that the company violated state and federal laws by paying them just $2 an hour for their work on weekdays with an extra 50 cents an hour on weekends. CHI Health has agreed to $800,000 as part of the settlement more than four years after the complaint was first filed.
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Nurses are the most trusted profession in America, followed by doctors and pharmacists
Health Populi
DECEMBER 27, 2018
At the bottom of the list for honesty and ethics in 2018, Gallup points to U.S. “Nursing is at the heart of health care,” the 2018 National Council of State Boards of Nursing report on nursing supply in 2018 attested.
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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford
Health Populi
MARCH 2, 2021
In 2018, consumers’ tracking of at least one health metric crossed over from an analog method to digital tracking, illustrated in the line chart. The proportion of people tracking at least one health metric digitally was 38% in 2018 and grew to over one-half, 54%, in 2020.
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Medicare’s GLP-1 spending is skyrocketing, even without weight loss coverage: KFF
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
MARCH 27, 2024
Gross Medicare spending on the pricey drugs rose from $57 million in 2018 to $5.7 billion in 2022, according to a new analysis from the health policy group.
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Burn Care for Underserved Communities: A Certified Burn Nurse’s Perspective
Minority Nurse
MAY 8, 2024
As burn injuries are often associated with several social determinants of health, including poverty (Patel, 2018), food insecurity (Elsey, 2016), and living in under-resourced neighborhoods (Alnabantah, 2016), burn nurses play a crucial role in caring for some of the patients most in need of care. 2018 Apr;202:38-42. Epub 2018 Feb 23.
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Rising ER wait times signal larger health system challenges
KevinMD.com
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
According to data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the median time spent in the ED has increased from 2 hours and 15 minutes in 2018 Read more… Rising ER wait times signal larger health system challenges originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
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2019 MedTech Predictions: Unlocking the Potential of Digital Health
Electronic Health Reporter
JANUARY 17, 2019
As reported by Rock Health’s Midyear Funding Review, 2018 got off to a roaring start with $3.4 This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Amy Sklar, SVP of advanced manufacturing communities, UBM. billion for digital health funding in the first six months of the year.
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The Future of Digital Health, According To Accenture’s Sumit Kimar Nagpal
Electronic Health Reporter
NOVEMBER 6, 2018
In his keynote session at the DreamIt conference in Tampa, November 6, 2018, Sumit Kimar Nagpal, global lead of digital health strategy at Accenture, says the future of healthcare is about a few simple things: Keeping people safe, providing for their well-being and improving care via information and technology.
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The Patient As Payor: Workers Covered by Employer Health Insurance Spend 11.5% of Household Incomes on Premiums and Deductibles
Health Populi
DECEMBER 5, 2019
of their household income on health insurance premiums and deductibles based on The Commonwealth Fund’s latest report on employee health care costs, Trends in Employer Health Coverage, 2008-2018: Higher Costs for Workers and Their Families. Workers covered by health insurance through their companies spend 11.5% of household income.
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How Young People Are Using Digital Tools to Help Deal with Mental Health
Health Populi
MARCH 17, 2021
The first chart details what younger people, ages 14 to 22, searched online in 2018 compared with 2020. sought health information online in 2020, a slight decline from 2018. Compared with 2018, all online health search topics fell in engagement except for smoking/vaping. Some 8 in 10 younger people in the U.S.
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Survey: Cost Transformation Is Imperative, But Hospital Efforts Lag Behind
Electronic Health Reporter
OCTOBER 16, 2018
This is one of many concerning findings in Kaufman Hall’s new 2018 State of Cost Transformation in U.S. Fewer than one-in-five healthcare executives has seen cost reductions of more than 5 percent in any priority area in the last year. Hospitals and Health Systems: Time for Big Steps report. The report is Kaufman Hall’s second […].
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In the Past Ten Years, Workers’ Health Insurance Premiums Have Grown Much Faster Than Wages
Health Populi
OCTOBER 8, 2020
In 2020, KFF found that 89% of large companies offered a telemedicine benefit, compared with 82% in 2019 and 74% in 2018. 2018 – As Workers’ Healthcare Costs Increase, Employers Look to Telehealth and Wearable Tech to Manage Cost & Health Risks. 2016 – Employer Health Insurance Costs Reach $18,142.
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Older People Are Digital Migrants, and Best Buy Health Is Paving the Road for the Journey
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
Clearly, while supporting older peoples’ healthy living at home was part of Best Buy Health’s initial vision that went public in August 2018, the pandemic has accelerated the demand for services the Lively Flip supports.
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Healthcare Data Breach Statistics
The HIPAA Journal
MARCH 20, 2025
2023, OCR reported a 239% increase in hacking-related data breaches between January 1, 2018, and September 30, 2023, and a 278% increase in ransomware attacks over the same period. PA Business Associate 2,675,934 Hacking/IT Incident 45 2018 AccuDoc Solutions, Inc. In 2019, hacking accounted for 49% of all reported breaches.
Post #2 Back-to-Sleep Series
Sensible Medicine
AUGUST 7, 2024
Research by Collett et al (2018) shows that, despite some improvement in PP by 18 months, the deformations persist beyond 36 months. A 2018 study showed that childcare centers in Australia and the US self-reported 75% and 100% compliance with tummy-time sessions, respectively, for children under six months of age.
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Supplementing Your EHR To Improve Patient Care and Experience
Electronic Health Reporter
DECEMBER 4, 2019
Despite widespread adoption, a 2018 Quest Diagnostics survey was among the first to cast doubt on overall usefulness of “basic” EHRs. By Tom Romeo, general manager of healthcare IT, Quanum Solutions, Quest Diagnostics. As of 2017, nearly nine in 10 office-based physicians had implemented an electronic health record (EHR).
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Why Is Cybersecurity In Healthcare Still Struggling?
Electronic Health Reporter
JULY 22, 2020
In 2018, the healthcare industry received about twice the number of attacks […]. Illegal copying is prohibited. It’s mostly not news to anyone anymore (at least to those within cybersecurity and healthcare circles) that healthcare is heavily vulnerable to cyberattacks. The article Why Is Cybersecurity In Healthcare Still Struggling?
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What Should We Expect for Healthcare in 2019? Three Predictions for the Year Ahead
Electronic Health Reporter
JANUARY 23, 2019
2018 was another year of rapid changes in the healthcare industry. This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Dr. Giovanni Colella, CEO and co-founder, OODA Health.
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Prepare Your Staff For the Future of Digital Care With the Digital Health Academy
Medbridge
APRIL 17, 2024
Since 2018, more than $25 billion dollars has flowed into the digital health sector, funding over 2,000 companies. No matter what setting or discipline you’re working in, you’ve probably heard people talking about digital healthcare. But despite the digital health wave, many providers have been slow to adopt these new technologies.
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Taking Healthcare Out of the Ransomware Hot Seat
Electronic Health Reporter
SEPTEMBER 10, 2019
Beazley reported that almost half of the ransomware incidents reported in 2018 involved healthcare companies, while CSO Online estimates that […]. The article Taking Healthcare Out of the Ransomware Hot Seat appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.
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Extending Legacy Systems To The Cloud For Secure Communications
Electronic Health Reporter
NOVEMBER 15, 2019
In 2018, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil […]. When organizations factor in the loss of productivity, the amount of civil complaints and fines levied, plus the public relations besmirching, the cost implications skyrocket.
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What If Costco Designed the Prescription Drugs Sales Model?
Health Populi
JUNE 5, 2022
“Among the 184 most commonly prescribed drugs in Medicare Part D in 2018, 90% could be purchased at Costco for less than $20 for a 30-day supply.” billion more in 2018 for 184 common generic medications compared with prices for the same drugs available to cash-paying Costco members.” Now: consider Costco.
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Healthcare Data Security Breach: What to Do If Your Records Have Been Hacked
Scrubs
AUGUST 22, 2023
In 2018, the healthcare sector saw 15 million patient records compromised across 503 breaches, which was three times the amount seen in 2017. These data breaches have affected millions of patients, putting their sensitive healthcare information at risk. The number of healthcare data breaches keeps going up year after year.
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The Cost of a Healthcare Data Breach is $408 Per Stolen Record, 3X the Industry Average
Health Populi
JULY 15, 2018
The cost of a healthcare data breach is $408, nearly three-times the cross-industry average, revealed in the 2018 Cost of a Data Breach Study: Global Overview , from IBM Security and the Ponemon Institute. This 2018 report found the average cost of a data breach globally was $3.86 million, up 6.4%
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