Medical Economics

JUNE 10, 2025

Independent physicians in rural areas declined 43%, or 9,500 doctors, in the five-year period from January 2019 to January 2024, according to a new analysis commissioned by the Physicians Advocacy Institute (PAI), with data from Avalere. Medical practices in rural areas decreased by 3,300, from 30,000 to 25,700.

Medication

Medical Economics

JULY 28, 2025

She is the co-founder of the Lifestyle Medicine Education Collaborative , which has published free medical education curriculum materials on lifestyle medicine. The authors’ goal was to recommend nutrition competencies in medical education to improve patient and population health. Jennifer L.

Medication

Intercoast

APRIL 19, 2025

Addressing these issues requires a comprehensive approach that involves collaboration between healthcare providers, social service agencies, and community organizations. million people experienced a mental health condition in 2019, and approximately 20.4 Mental health issues and substance use disorders are on the rise in the US.

Unit Organization and Environment

Medical Economics

JULY 29, 2025

The study, a collaboration between the University of Michigan, Penn State University, and Purdue University, reveals that teenagers who had never used e-cigarettes had less than a 1-in-50 chance of smoking cigarettes weekly. Medically, vaping has been linked to lung injuries, respiratory irritation, and nicotine addiction.

Medication

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Eroding trust in government, media, and public health officials was already a dynamic in late 2019-early 2020, as I discussed here in Health Populi in the context of the 2020 Edelman Trust Barometer. The prescription: Collaboration is key. public that would connect with people. That year, just prior to the pandemic emerging in the U.S.,

Communication

Sensible Medicine

MARCH 12, 2025

Share In contrast to influenza, in which vaccine strains are selected by a collaborative process led by the World Health Organization (WHO), the COVID-19 strain selection approach is fragmented and lacks global alignment. April 26, 2019. Accessed September 9, 2024.    US Food & Drug Administration. April 30, 2024.

Collaboration

Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2025

This displays the shift from eating and dining out-of-home down and to the left to eating and dining at-home, from 2019 to 2023. In looking to bolster a civil, civic society and a healthy, productive workforce, it will take local collaboratives to re-build trust, and working across industries and organizations to do so.

Collaboration

Scrubs

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

in 2019 to 82.5% This can be done by scaling existing solutions, working collaboratively and being prepared to learn from each other.” Here’s how it could affect the staffing shortage: Pass rates for first-time takers of the national licensure exam have been steadily declining over the last few years. The pass rate fell from 88.2%

Critical Thinking

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 three of us will be on a panel addressing retail health disruption at CES 2019 on 9th January 2019 at the Digital Health Summit.

Huddles/Rounds

Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Patients searching online for health information and health care provider reviews is mainstream in 2019. Rock Health’s Digital Health Consumer Adoption Report for 2019 was developed in collaboration with the Stanford Medicine Center for Digital Health. Digital health tracking is now adopted by 4 in 10 U.S.

Collaboration

Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2019

We’ve stayed close through the years, and so collaborating with #ATA19 is an especially sweet moment for me both personally and professionally. The post Health/Care Everywhere – Re-Imagining Healthcare at ATA 2019 appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

Hospital

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

On January 10, 2019, Jim Cramer of CNBC’s Mad Money recommended that Apple buy Epic, a market leader in EHRs. Brian Ahier, another close collaborator, asserted that “Judy” (Faulkner), Epic’s CEO, would have nothing to do with such a deal would go against the company’s legal foundation structure. Here’s what I wrote.

Collaboration

Health Populi

JUNE 4, 2019

The most popular consumer-facing health service where providers are collaborating with third parties are virtual health services (think telehealth vendors like American Well or Teladoc), digital experience tools (like Welltok or Salesforce), outpatient lab (e.g.,

Scheduling

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Consider the following market developments and collaborations that are addressing health access, bolstering value-based models, streamlining and re-imagining service delivery. Walmart launched a ten-year collaboration with Optum in late 2022. These trends began to take hold in the U.S. Expanding value-based care, nationally.

Collaboration

Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2019

“Health is now everyone’s business,” Shaheed Peera, Executive Creative Director of Publicis LifeBrands, said this week at the 2019 Cannes Lions awards. Shaheed also led the Health & Wellness jury at Cannes Lions 2019, the mission of which is to, in the words of the award’s portal, “celebrate creativity for personal wellbeing.”

Communication

Scrubs

MAY 22, 2023

The University of Newcastle in collaboration with the Newcastle Fertility Center have become pioneers in this emerging technique. “Mitochondrial donation treatment offers families with severe inherited mitochondrial illness the possibility of a healthy child,” said the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority in a statement.

Transfers

Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

This and other studies have tracked consumers’ growing use of digital tech and wearables during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the 10% point growth from 2019 to 2020 is notable. Willingness in sharing health data with insurers, pharmacies, research institutions all fell between 2019 and 2020.

Follow-Up

Health Populi

JANUARY 17, 2019

It takes a village to make health, and it took a village of suppliers collaborating to build this house with wellness tech in virtually every room, including the three-car garage. The post A Smarter Home for Healthy Living at CES 2019… and a nod to Microsoft appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

Unit Organization and Environment

Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 2, 2019

1, 2019, the Centers for Medicare […]. Beginning Oct. The article AHIMA and AHCA Partner To Train Skilled Nursing Facilities In Coding Ahead of Upcoming Reimbursement Overhaul appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

Collaboration

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The recent revelation that Google and Ascension have been collaborating on shared patient data has spawned engaging conversation across the health/care ecosystem, including stakeholders in hospitals and physician practices, health plans, pharma, tech companies and especially among patient advocates and groups.

Appointments

Health Populi

AUGUST 18, 2020

Note how the top line of the 2020 forecast “networks” into the 2019 trends. This year, the five pillars include: The “I” in Experience. The Dilemma of Smart Things. Robots in the Wild, and, Innovation DNA.

Collaboration

Health Populi

APRIL 11, 2019

Trust is a precursor to health engagement, I learned way back in 2008 when I collaborated with Edelman on the first Health Engagement Barometer in 2008. Read my post for more context and details into my post-HIMSS 2019 thinking on trust in data stewardship.

Collaboration

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Accenture has conducted research among health consumers for several years, so we could compare 2016 to 2019. In 2019, that digital health preference reached three-fourths of consumers, “a step function increase,” Kaveh noted. In 2016, one-half of people said they would choose a doctor based on digital capabilities.

Collaboration

Minority Nurse

MAY 2, 2023

Emergency department visits for suspected suicide attempts by youth aged 12 to 17 increased by 39 percent from February through March 2021, compared with the same time in the same period in 2019. On April 27, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.V., introduced the Improving Mental Health Access from the Emergency Department Act (S.

Collaboration

Health Populi

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Safety was the key driver for utilization at a rate of 46% of people using telehealth in 2020, and only 13% in 2019. For example, AmWell began collaborating with the Google cloud business, where the company invested $100 million to scale the alliance. This is the second year that J.D.

Physical Exams

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Several factors underpin the adoption of telehealth in 2019: Consumers’ demand for accessible, lower-cost health care services as people face greater financial responsibility for paying the medical bill (via high-deductible health plans and greater out-of-pocket costs for co-payments). Ro will expand in women’s health in 2019.

Follow-Up

Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In 2019, she mentored a student struggling to pass her exam to become an LPN. By actively listening to feedback, encouraging interdisciplinary collaboration, and prioritizing patient satisfaction initiatives, she establishes and maintains a patient-first mindset within Sheppard Pratt’s nursing staff.

Unit Organization and Environment

Minority Nurse

JUNE 16, 2022

In 2018-2019, about 15,000 Black Americans earned PhDs, about 14,000 Hispanic or Latino Americans, and just 720 American Indians — compared to over 100,000 white Americans. Commodore-Mensah traveled a more direct research path however, while Dr. Turkson-Ocran became a nurse practitioner first. The COVID-19 curveball.

Collaboration

Health Populi

JANUARY 29, 2019

Today, as Congress kicks off hearings about the cost of prescription drugs in the United States, IQVIA published its 2019 report on The Global Use of Medicine in 2019 and Outlook to 2023. The top-line of the research is the robust pharma market growth will be driven by two factors, and limited by two others: spending in the U.S.

Patient Advocacy

Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2019

I have, at CES 2019, when I sat down with Sean Carney, Chief Designer at Philips. I was grateful to Sean for spending time with me at CES 2019 in Las Vegas to brainstorm the role of design in health/care. For this service, Philips is collaborating with the Toothpic dental network.

Follow-Up

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Some context: this announcement builds on Amazon’s previous major move into pharmacy with its acquisition of PillPack, which I explained here on Health Populi in early 2019. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, health care as we know it in the U.S.

Collaboration

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Hospitals, clinicians, long term care and other legacy health care system players must collaborate with the folks on the right side of the chart to provide continuity of care to people at home, if we are to realize the vision of connected health where people live.

Collaboration

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

” Here’s Ascension’s press release on the collaboration , described in the title as “healthcare transformation.” Here’s the link to our post here on Health Populi, from July 1, 2019. Take a look at the bar chart data from a RealClear Politics poll conducted in April-May 2019. health care.

Collaboration

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

For context, I re-visited a similar recent study on this topic, published in the November/December 2019 Annals of Family Medicine, looking at national trends in primary care visit use between 2008 and 2015. office, inpatient, critical care, long-term care, home care, day care, etc.).

Patient Advocacy

Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2019

consumers age 18 and over in August and September 2019. One-third of these patients had a health care bill go to collections in the past year, according to Cedar’s 2019 U.S. Survata conducted the study for Cedar among 1,607 online U.S. Healthcare Consumer Experience Study.

Billing

Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2021

Now the question is, going forward, to make sure we don’t forget to meet the challenge of health inequities and disparities, and “don’t let public officials forget about it,” Dowling urged, recommending that we all collaborate with community-based organizations and directly with communities adversely impacted by the pandemic.

Hospital

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Philips published results from this global study in The Future Health Index 2019 , themed “Transforming healthcare experiences, exploring the impact of digital health technology on healthcare professionals and patients.”

Patient Experience