Health Populi

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Sicker people also spend much more time traveling to health care appointments. An article published in Health Services Research in August 2018 talks about Trends in the Types of Usual Sources of Care: A Shift from People to Places or Nothing at All. Why should that be, in a physical sense?

Follow-Up

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Patient-facing digital tools help patients with fairly basic tasks like making appointments, seeking doctors, and paying bills. The key findings in the survey of 136 health care executives were that: Digital health tools are a priority for half of the health system leaders. ” Yet it’s health care costs that rank top in U.S.

Billing

Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2018

40, published April 2018. In terms of consumer health workflows, accessing the EHR is about “tests and tasks:” 85% looked to view test results, and 62% wanted to perform a health-related task like requesting prescription refills and making appointments online. The message: “Your prescription on your schedule!”

Scheduling

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Note that projected health care costs in retirement grew 23% in the four years prior to 2018, according to EBRI. This third chart comes from the BofA 2019 Workplace Benefits Report based on the bank’s poll of 996 U.S. employees who participated in 401(k) plans in February 2019.

Long Term Care

Health Populi

JULY 29, 2022

In another factor to add into the retail health landscape, Dollar General (DG) the 80-year old retailer known for selling low-priced fast-moving consumer goods in peoples’ neighborhoods appointed a healthcare advisory panel this week. Here’s another lens on the Optum health consumer data.

Appointments

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

That wand has begun to initiate its magic in the physician community, based on a wonderful essay in JAMA published 20 December 2018 titled, Social Determinants of Health in the Digital Age: Determining the Source Code for Nurture. One is transportation, which is getting a lot of play at HIMSS19.

Appointments

Minority Nurse

OCTOBER 12, 2022

A Magnet appointment is an investment into a safer physical work environment for the nurses. Stop by booth 2018. Hospitals are constantly striving to improve patient safety. However, a safer work environment extends beyond patient safety through lower nurse-to-patient ratios. So, nurses, do your research.

Hospital

Health Populi

JULY 11, 2019

Launched in January 2018, Civica Rx started with pent-up demand for these medicines: nine months after launching, one-third of American hospitals had contacted the organization interested in accessing the generic drugs that Civica Rx was focused on supplying.

Huddles/Rounds

Health Populi

JULY 20, 2018

Aside from the technology challenges, which are not trivial, physicians do concur with consumers about the potential benefits of virtual care to expand access, provide convenience to patients, and enable connections in-between office appointment times.

Appointments

Health Populi

JUNE 25, 2018

The company’s 2018 State of Consumerism in Healthcare report is out, subtitled, “Activity in Search of Strategy.” Convenience is an integral component to consumer experience, and for healthcare that means same-day appointments, messaging between patients and clinicians, hours of operation, and on-line scheduling.

Hospital

Practice Index

AUGUST 29, 2024

The practice attracted media attention last week after the relatives of a 95-year-old patient took to TikTok to complain about spending four days trying to get an appointment for her. UK best for same-day practice appointments General practice in the UK leads the world in providing same-day appointments.

Huddles/Rounds

Practice Index

JUNE 20, 2024

to bring practices back to the financial position of 2018/19 following years of sub-inflationary contract rises. I think that whatever collective action the BMA takes must be carefully positioned to avoid providing ammunition to those who might struggle to get an appointment on short notice, who will then claim GPs as ‘lazy’ and so on.

Follow-Up

DrChrono

JULY 10, 2018

Santa Monica, CA – July 10, 2018 – Nimblr, which offers the first AI assistant for medical appointments, announced today its platform integration with Amazon Alexa, enabling patients to book and reschedule appointments using voice commands, eliminating the need to pick up the phone. Other voice command platforms will follow.

Scheduling

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Assumption 2: Providing transportation to/from health care services will bolster patients’ appointment-making. adults miss medical appointments each year due to transportation challenges, many of whom earn lower incomes. million U.S. versus 36.7%. versus 36.7%. lower costs.

Appointments

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

every year from 2020 to 2027, the actuaries at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services forecast in their report, National Health Expenditure Projections, 2018-2927: Economic And Demographic Trends Drive Spending And Enrollment Growth , published yesterday by Health Affairs. National health spending in the U.S.

Insurance

DrChrono

JANUARY 29, 2018

29, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) —drchrono Inc., the company enabling the medical practice of the future, today announced a new partnership with Nimblr, developers of Holly, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) assistant who automates healthcare appointments in sync with a practice’s practice management platform. SUNNYVALE, Calif.,

Appointments

Health Populi

JUNE 15, 2023

Uber Health was established in 2018, by now amassing over 3,000 health care clients including Boston Medical Center which has leveraged Uber Health transportation to streamline sickle cell patients’ transport to doctors’ appointments, bolstering outcomes and families’ quality of life.

Appointments

The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 6, 2025

Ford received medical services at Sandhills in 2018 but ceased being a patient of Sandhills before the November ransomware attack. Consider a scenario where, in anticipation of receiving healthcare, Appellant provided her PII and billing information to Sandhills but never showed up for her appointment.

HIPAA

Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2018

For further information on loneliness in the UK, here was the New York Times’ take on the appointment of the Minister for Loneliness published in January 2018. You can learn more about Jo Cox and the loneliness agenda here.

Unit Organization and Environment

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

This blog appears today as part of a #HIMSS18 primer series for attendees, and the industry at large, to discuss major health IT issues that will help move health and healthcare delivery forward in 2018 – and beyond.

HIPAA

Practice Index

JUNE 20, 2024

The dashboard contains details of rising numbers of appointments, declining patient satisfaction and NHS financial support for practices. It shows that last year, just 35% of patients usually saw their preferred GP, compared with 50% in 2018. The Foundation intends to update the data quarterly.

Huddles/Rounds

Relias

JUNE 28, 2023

Appointments are then scheduled one week later to focus on behavioral health with a mental health practitioner. If a physician builds rapport, arranging for a follow-up appointment – including a warm hand-off to a bi-lingual psychiatric professional during accessible hours – can facilitate this patient’s appointment compliance.

Follow-Up

Health Populi

MARCH 26, 2018

The Healthiest Communities for 2018 are: • Falls Church, VA. Public transportation which helps people get to doctor’s appointments and workplaces which, then, bolsters personal income. Key health service factors among the town leaders are lower rates of chronic disease and hospitalizations, and greater access to primary care.

Collaboration

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

At HIMSS19, we’ll see this play out, through the fast-growth of voice assistants, price transparency and appointment-scheduling tools, and platforms for health benefits self-service. PS — For more insights into Epic, see a New York Times article published December 23, 2018, titled, “Willy Wonka and the Medical Software Factory.”

Collaboration

Health Prime

JANUARY 24, 2024

The easy follow-up of patients using telemonitoring solutions and the augmented access to internet services will continue increasing telemedicine delivery. Learn more about this in our blog Optimize your telemedicine appointments with these best practices. Therefore, it is expected that this technology will continue growing this year.

Billing

The HIPAA Journal

APRIL 27, 2025

territory of Guam, was investigated after a complaint was received about a December 2018 ransomware attack. The data was exposed online between August 2015 and July 2018. The first breach involved unauthorized access to the ePHI of 197,986 individuals betweenSeptember 25, 2018, and November 30, 2018. Warby Parker, Inc.,

HIPAA

Doximity

APRIL 19, 2021

Within a couple of minutes, I had called her, she clicked the link, and we were live for the telemedicine appointment. Since the pandemic, it has been very interesting because we had converted exclusively to a telemedicine model for all appointments that were non-COVID related. That platform was Doximity Dialer. In fact, 42.4%

Appointments

Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2022

Walgreens launched Find Care Now in 2018. As an ecommerce platform, Jasper also supports consumers’ ability to schedule appointments, track symptoms and side effects, receive personalized content, messages, and recommendations. The platform connects patients to the Jasper Care Guides – the high-touch aspect of the service.

Patient Experience

Valant

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Although this treatment requires at least several weeks of appointments at certified treatment centers where patients are observed for at least 2 hours, the time and cost can be worth it. This is quite different and, for many patients, potentially more effective than other medications. Recent research (e.g.,

Medication

Doximity

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Follow him on LinkedIn , Twitter , and Instagram ⬇️ Learn More about Clarence Kong, MD Dr. Clarence Kong is a 2018 Tylenol Future Care scholar and a 2014 Milken scholar, Dr. Clarence Kong is an emergency resident doctor at Northwell Health - North Shore University Hospital/Long Island Jewish Medical Center.

Follow-Up

Sensible Medicine

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Jonasson lecture given by Joan Reede MD at the ACS Clinical Congress in 2018. The ACS appointed a Task Force on Racism to “to address the issue of structural racism within the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and within the profession of surgery.” It began with the Olga M.

Appointments

Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2022

I asked her to meet with me to discuss her professional news update: being appointed Parexel’s first Patient Ambassador. In 2018, Stacy launched her website, began blogging, and got social media traction when HIMSS appointed her a digital influencer.

Patient Advocacy

Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2020

Four in five consumers would choose telemedicine for their next medical appointment, with 79% wanting to connect with a medical professional using video conferencing and 93% satisfied with the experience. A survey published by Metova last week featured survey results of over 1,000 U.S. consumers, conducted in August 2020.

Patient Care

Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2020

The Fund points out in “Looking Forward” that 30 million people were already uninsured in 2018, with 44 million people underinsured due to high deductibles that were beyond the insured’s ability to afford based on their income. Another 17% were concerned about payment and out-of-pocket expenses for treatment.

Insurance

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

consumers told Salesforce that life circumstances have caused them to miss a medical appointment; 40% have challenges finding health services nearby; and, 44% of people said taking time off of work to get care is challenging. A few key data points illustrate the magnitude of the frustration: 50% of U.S.

Follow-Up

The HIPAA Journal

JUNE 11, 2025

When the code is added to healthcare providers’ websites, it can collect sensitive healthcare information, including information about medical conditions, treatments, appointments, and website searches. One of the plaintiffs claims to have visited a Planned Parenthood website in 2018 when she was seeking an abortion procedure.

HIPAA

Healthcare Law Insights blog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The number of deaths caused by an overdose of prescription drugs continued to rise until 2018, when it began modestly reversing the trend; however, the Covid 19 pandemic saw mortality numbers rise again across multiple categories of overdosing. The degree to which the legislation has made a positive impact is up for debate.

Triage