Health Populi

APRIL 3, 2024

The phrase “patient safety” summons up a list of common sources such as medication errors, surgical errors, health care-associated infections, diagnostic errors, among other adverse events and harms people experience in the course of receiving health care. “First, do no harm” is a key M.O. in health care.

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ACMA Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The goal of PAs is to ensure patients receive the most appropriate care for their medical needs in agreement with the most up-to-date medical evidence and guidelines 1. AI-driven automation can expedite the approval process, making access to prescribed medications more readily available to patients.

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Health Populi

JUNE 21, 2019

a year, PwC notes in their annual report, Medical cost trend: Behind the numbers 2020 from the firm’s Health Research Institute. Medical cost trend is the projected percent growth in healthcare costs over a year based on an equivalent benefit package from one year to the next. .” In the U.S.

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Arkenea

JANUARY 3, 2025

Robotics and automation technologies are transforming nursing workflows and patient care delivery, such as medication administration, wound care, and rehabilitation. Robotics, data analytics, mobile technology, and diagnostic tools are just a few examples of innovations that are changing the way that nurses access healthcare.

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Sensible Medicine

JANUARY 27, 2025

The Edinburgh-based team presented their 5-year results in 2018, and their 10-year results last week. Here is the 5-year survival curves for the composite endpoint of CV death and MI: How can a diagnostic test lead to this much benefit? Both were positive. That is the mystery. It means it was possible. No other trial showed it.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2022

Walgreens launched Find Care Now in 2018. Then one year into the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2021, Walgreens expanded Find Care a year into the COVID-19 pandemic with additional health systems, virtual care providers, specialty care, and lab and diagnostics services. Now, Walgreens is enabling cancer patients to say, “Hello, Jasper.”.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

Where we physically lived in 2020 transformed into sites for the many daily verbs in our lives: working, learning, praying, cooking/baking/dining, exercising, and indeed, self-caring for wellness and medical care. Sleep has been a key theme at CES, which I began to note in 2018 in this post on prescribing sleep for health at CES.

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Sensible Medicine

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

JMM Although the skeptical cardiologist questions the value of many procedures and diagnostic tests in cardiology, he remains an enthusiastic advocate of the use of coronary artery calcium (CAC) testing to better personalize each individual's risk of heart attack and stroke. Pearson makes the pro-CAC case below.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Philips looks for health engagement across the care continuum, as the first graphic illustrates, with solutions that are deployed on the clinical/medical side of health in diagnosis and treatment in hospitals, as well as for at-home care. Here’s a snippet from a post he wrote as a new father of son Henry in January 2018.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2024

In the past year, the growth of prescription drug utilization and spending has much to do with the use of GLP-1 agonists to treat diabetes and obesity, along with immunology therapy, and lipid meds, along with specialty medicines now accounting for over half of spending — up from 49% in 2018.

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Health Populi

MARCH 23, 2021

ECRI has published their annual Top 10 list since 2018, when the list featured diagnostic errors, o behavioral health needs in acute care settings, and patient engagement and health literacy — all of which play into this year’s #1 issue, racial and ethnic disparities in health care.

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Health Populi

JUNE 2, 2020

There was great news published last week in An Update on Cancer Deaths in the United States from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC): cancer mortality rates have declined by 26% over 20 years, between 1999 to 2018. In 2018, there were 599,274 cancer deaths; 283,721 were among females and 315,553 among males.

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The Healthcare Blog

MAY 15, 2025

Oura also hired Dr. Ricky Bloomfield as its first Chief Medical Officer; Dr. Bloomfield had previously served as Clinical and Health Informatics Lead at Apple, and is known for his expertise in health data interoperability. I reached for a similar point in 2018, in a piece entitled, We Are Not a Dashboard.

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Health Populi

JULY 30, 2018

LabCorp, lab testing and diagnostics. MedExpress Urgent Care, an Optum company and provider of neighborhood medical care. NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in collaboration with Weill Cornell Medicine and Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York. households shopped at retail in January and February 2018.

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Health Populi

MAY 4, 2023

However, elective procedures haven’t yet reached pre-pandemic utilization (latest read of 98) and for screening and diagnostic tests, underwhelming use at 89 versus the 100 index pre-pandemic. Prescriptions for these medicines in women were up 46% from 2018 (compared with men, growing in Rx volume by 26%).

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This year’s Temkin Experience Index ranked health insurance among the lowest consumer-facing experiences, and Interbrands’ released their 2018 Best Global Brands report this week — which names only a couple of health-focused companies.

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Minority Nurse

MAY 14, 2024

To get you all caught up and ready for her guest appearance, this story is a repost of her interview with Minority Nurse from 2018. wildfires, hurricanes, floods) and then bioterror (small pox, anthrax) and worked with drug companies to develop vaccines, treatments, and diagnostics. We worked on emerging infectious diseases (e.g.,

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Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 14, 2024

The death has an “unknown cause” rather than SIDS if the investigation or autopsy is missing, or an alternative diagnosis cannot be ruled out (see Duncan and Byard, 2018 , p. Dr. Paul N. Cause-of-death determination is subject to death certifier preferences, training and experience, and state and local guidance.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 25, 2018

We know that a top issue driving American voters to the 2018 mid-term polls was health care, in at least two dimensions: direct costs to the voters (as patients and taxpayers); and, personal and collective concerns about losing coverage due to pre-existing conditions. Expect health care costs and access to be at least as important to U.S.

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