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.

De-Escalation

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Among stresses facing people at least 50 years of age, health care costs rank top of mind compared with other issues like long-term care, health insurance, Social Security, taxes, and being read to retire. Note that projected health care costs in retirement grew 23% in the four years prior to 2018, according to EBRI.

Long Term Care

Health Populi

JULY 26, 2022

With PillPack, I wrote here in June 2018 that Amazon got 50 U.S. According to the team’s analysis, Amazon is not yet active in AR/VR, med-tech/biotech, or insurance (but see more on that below via Mike McSherry’s observations). Longer-term, Mike could envision Amazon expanding into health insurance.

Medication

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Among people who have health insurance, managing the costs of their medical care doesn’t rank as a top frustration. consumers’ frustrations — above managing the costs of care not covered by insurance. health-insured adults in July 2018. This survey was conducted among 2,509 U.S.

Insurance

Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2018

patients were offered online access to their health records by providers or insurers, and one-half of them accessed the EHR at least once in the last year. 40, published April 2018. 40, published April 2018. Half of U.S. One in four of those offered online EHR access looked at them more than 3 times.

Scheduling

Health Populi

MAY 30, 2018

consumers’ views on personalized medicine comes from a survey conducted for PMC, the Personalized Medicine Coalition, and GenomeWeb , published in May 2018. Most consumers believe that insurance companies “should” cover personalized tests and treatments. This picture of U.S.

Insurance

Health Populi

MAY 19, 2020

Welcome to the annual Milliman Medical Index (MMI) , which gauges the yearly price of an employer-sponsored preferred-provider organization (PPO) health insurance plan for a hypothetical American family and an N of 1 employee. Top-line, there are new-new costs borne in 2020 for virus testing and treatment. That is a 4.1%

Medication

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Furthermore, health plan members now see themselves as medical bill payers, seeking value and consumer-level services for their health insurance premium investment. According to the online Merriam-Webster dictionary , the first use of the phrase “health insurance” occurred in 1901. Like speaking “American,” health insurance in the U.S.

Collaboration

Health Populi

JULY 29, 2022

” Well beyond our individual genetic codes, our health is made where we live, work, play, pray, learn, and shop… also well beyond hospitals and doctors’ offices in-between appointments, and often paid-for out-of-pocket quite separate from peoples’ health insurance plans. billion in 2018.

Appointments

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Consumers point to some organizations that they perceive may be working against their better health: these include fast food manufacturers, the entertainment industry, food processors (“Big Food”), the media, government agencies, and health insurance companies.

Unit Organization and Environment

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

And note how Americans’ trust in hospitals — historically the top-trusted health care segment in the nation — eroded from 2018, tying with consumer health companies, and just north of biotech and life science organizations. ” Yet it’s health care costs that rank top in U.S.

Billing

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

In the Effect of High-Deductible Insurance on High-Acuity Outcomes in Diabetes , researchers found that overall, patients’ use of health services declined and led to 3.8% The study was published in the January 2018 issue of Diabetes Care , the journal of the American Diabetes Association. lower costs.

Appointments

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

Scrubs

AUGUST 4, 2023

Providers are typically paid for each test and procedure they perform, which can lead to a conflict of interest, especially when patients have to foot the bill. New studies reveal just how widespread medically unnecessary care can be, forcing patients to pay for procedures and tests they may not need. The findings were astonishing.

Tests

Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2022

Declines in preventive care services like cancer screenings and blood glucose testing concern employers, whose continued to cover health insurance for employees during the pandemic. fewer commercially insured employees were tested for HbA1C (hemoglobin blood glucose test), and wellness exams dropped by nearly 11%.

Insurance

Health Populi

OCTOBER 16, 2018

World Food Day 2018 has four objectives: Don’t waste food. Our health center provides free services to people who are un- and under-insured, regardless of ability to pay. The post On World Food Day 2018, Imagine A Chef Cooking for Patients appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. Produce more food with fewer resources.

Hospital

Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2020

lost their job as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, some of whom lost health insurance and others anxious their health coverage will be threatened, revealed in a survey from The Commonwealth Fund published on April 21, 2020. Nearly all Americans believe the dots of COVID-19 testing and treatment should be free to all.

Insurance

Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2020

In the past 12 years, the percent of Americans feeling they were thriving hit a peak in 2018, as the life evaluations line graph illustrates. “Countries should continue to spend generously on their health systems, perform widespread testing, and refrain from trade restrictions on medical supplies. Gallup polled over 20,000 U.S.

Tests

Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2019

In June 2018, the FCC rolled back net neutrality, a policy that President Obama had put in place. Without online access, people can’t seek jobs, get educated, enroll in health insurance, socially connect with other people, and seek health information for self-care or diagnosed conditions on WebMD or “Dr.

Communication

Accepted Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In 2017, she was appointed Assistant Dean of Admissions at the Boston University School of Medicine and became Associate Dean in 2018. I would assume that it’s probably one of the goals or one of the ways you’re going to test it. So 98% of the population of Massachusetts is insured. 1:57] Thank you so much.

Admissions

Health Populi

AUGUST 8, 2018

Most Americans are healthcare cost-conscious, concerned about various kinds of healthcare expenses, data from McKinsey’s research has found presented in Healthcare consumerism 2018: An update on the journey. The first chart shows consumers’ concerns about health care expenses over time, comparing perceptions in 2009 and 2017.

Long Term Care

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

adults conducted in December 2017 into January 2018. ” Because people are getting stressed about how their digital data — from retail receipts to gene and lab tests and wearable tech metrics — are being stored, stewarded and secured, and shared with third parties. The Index is based on a survey of 25,800 U.S.

Insurance

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.

Follow-Up

Health Populi

AUGUST 19, 2019

HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act that was legislated in 1996, isn’t sufficiently robust to deal with the nature of this health information 23 years after that law was first implemented. “The The study assessed the type of information patients requested (test results, the entire medical record, etc.),

HIPAA

Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2020

In the midst of growing inpatient admissions and test results for COVID-19, Congress is working as I write this post to finalize a round of legislation to help Americans with the costs-of-living and (hopefully) health care in a national, mandated, clarifying way. This is based on models for treating pneumonia in U.S.

Discharges

Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

In some ways the UHG/PLM deal is a bit of a Rorschach test for those intersecting with the health care field, be they providers, payers, researchers, or patients; one’s view of this deal is intrinsically intertwined with the pre-existing perceptions of the observer. A 2018 national survey found that 39% of U.S. How could you?”.

Unit Organization and Environment

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

While customer satisfaction with health insurance plans slightly increased between 2018 and 2019, patient satisfaction with hospitals fell in all three settings where care is delivered — inpatient, outpatient, and the emergency room, according to the 2018-2019 ACSI Finance, Insurance and Health Care Report.

Hospital

Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2018

The nation’s largest retail pharmacy chain signed a deal to combine with one of the top three health insurance companies. The legacy healthcare system — hospitals, insurance companies, and pharma — haven’t delivered on that expectation. The deal is valued at $69 billion. as the first chart shows.

Insurance

Health Populi

JULY 30, 2018

LabCorp, lab testing and diagnostics. households shopped at retail in January and February 2018. DermatologistOnCall, national online dermatology service. Florida Hospital, Tampa. Heal, on-demand doctor house calls in California, Washington, D.C. and Northern Virginia. MDLIVE, national telehealth service.

Collaboration

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%).

Tests

Health Populi

JUNE 25, 2020

” As health insurance for working-age people is tied to employment, COVID-19 led to disproportionate loss of health plan coverage especially among people earning lower incomes, as well as non-white workers, explained in the Commonwealth Fund Health Care Poll: COVID-19, May-June 2020. economy considered “non-essential.”

Insurance

Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2020

And in 2018, a new statistic emerging that the rate among women for deaths due to opioid overdoses rose. In 2019, an emerging concern is how the growth in adoption of artificial intelligence and cognitive computing among health care organizations – particularly, insurance plans, providers, and pharma.

Admissions

Health Populi

JANUARY 24, 2019

As a payor, the insured patient in 2019 is likely to be managing a high-deductible health plan, responsible for first-dollar costs until s/he reaches that threshold. What’s so hard about getting me my lab test on the day or next-day after I provide my sample? Health insurance plans? Not so much.

Insurance

Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2024

And in 2018, a new statistic emerging that the rate among women for deaths due to opioid overdoses rose. In 2019, an emerging concern is how the growth in adoption of artificial intelligence and cognitive computing among health care organizations – particularly, insurance plans, providers, and pharma.

Admissions

Health Populi

JANUARY 16, 2023

And in 2018, a new statistic emerging that the rate among women for deaths due to opioid overdoses rose. In 2019, an emerging concern is how the growth in adoption of artificial intelligence and cognitive computing among health care organizations – particularly, insurance plans, providers, and pharma.

Admissions

Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

And in 2018, a new statistic emerging that the rate among women for deaths due to opioid overdoses rose. In 2019, an emerging concern is how the growth in adoption of artificial intelligence and cognitive computing among health care organizations – particularly, insurance plans, providers, and pharma.

Admissions

Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2019

And in 2018, a new statistic emerging that the rate among women for deaths due to opioid overdoses rose. In 2019, an emerging concern is how the growth in adoption of artificial intelligence and cognitive computing among health care organizations – particularly, insurance plans, providers, and pharma.

Admissions