Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Remote monitoring, the Internet of Things (both medical and via a smart home), wearables, and telehealth/virtual care channels will enable that care, anywhere, in this AHA/EY vision. 2019 will feature examples of all of these technologies and services. This week, Health 2.0 This is my lens as I enter this year’s annual Health 2.0

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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. One reason is because a medical data breach is more valuable than a hack of, say, consumers’ credit card identities. The fact is that HIPAA may not cover all of these data flows.

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 7, 2025

Apria Healthcare, an Indianapolis-based provider of home healthcare equipment and related services, has agreed to pay $6,400,000 to resolve all claims related to data breaches in 2019 and 2021 that affected 1,869,598 individuals. In April 2019, hackers gained access to parts of its network where employee and patient data were stored.

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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. Only weight and medication tracking had a majority of people using analog formats to track. In 2020, the top tech companies with whom U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

People would especially welcome virtual services from traditional medical care providers, as opposed to virtual care from a technology or social media company, a retailer, or a medical startup. But even trust in the most trusted steward, my doctor, eroded between 2019 and 2020. Three-fourths of U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

adults 18 and over in September 2019. In 2019, few health care providers have adopted voice assistants into their workflows. The report calls out one big barrier to early adoption especially among hospitals and physicians: concerns about privacy and HIPAA compliance. The study polled 1,004 U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 2, 2019

Today, we can also call on Alexa to remind us to take medications, play nostalgic music when we are lonely, check our physical activity status with Fitbit, and query WebMD about a symptom. Chapter 5 of my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen , details the promise of digital health: wearable, shareable and virtual.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2019

One-third of people were very concerned that a company would use search information to try and sell medical products based on the search parameters. adults 18 and older via phone in July 2019. See the Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll data from April 2019 in this last chart for that insight.

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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. But America’s per capita primary care physician supply fell between 2005 and 2015.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

I called this out in my 2019 book, HealthConsuming: from health consumer to health citizen. This is particularly concerning when personal health data is downloaded to an app that may fall out of the protection of HIPAA. This study re-confirms the current state of the health consumer who has a “concerned embrace” of technology.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

It feels like the vision industry is at an inflection point at this moment, I intuited during yesterday’s convening of Decoding the Consumer: The new science of customer behavior, the theme of the 13th annual global leadership summit hosted by Vision Monday, a program of Jobson Medical Information which is part of the WebMD family.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 21, 2019

There are over 60 million enrollees in Medicare in 2019, and fully one-third are in Medicare Advantage plans. Medicare Advantage enrollment is fast-growing, shown in the first chart where over 22 million people were in MA plans in January 2019. Medicare is adding 10,000 new beneficiaries every day in the U.S. There’s more!

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

I called this out in my 2019 book, HealthConsuming: from health consumer to health citizen. This is particularly concerning when personal health data is downloaded to an app that may fall out of the protection of HIPAA. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Earlier this year, Accenture found that U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

” The last paragraph of the press release states: “All work related to Ascension’s engagement with Google is HIPAA compliant and underpinned by a robust data security and protection effort and adherence to Ascension’s strict requirements for data handling.” Let’s talk about Technology and Trust. health care.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

need a new-and-improved HIPAA or more over-arching new national privacy law like a USGDPR? Check out this chart from the Waystar study, showing that nearly one in four patients at high-risk miss medical appointments at least once a month, and two-thirds miss appointments a few times a year. Does the U.S.

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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.”

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Health Populi

JANUARY 9, 2020

era of the IoT needs lots of data to feed the AI machine, and much of that information quite personal and largely un-related to the purely medical. adults conducted in November 2019. ENGINE Insights polled over 2,000 auto owners in November 2019 and revealed that. But to be “Intelligent,” this V2.0

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Arkenea

JANUARY 20, 2025

The medical industry and business leaders are realizing that telemedicine technology is instrumental in optimizing the experience between a patient and a physician. percent in five years, from 2014 to 2019. People used radios to communicate with doctors for medical advice while sailing on ships.

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Northwest Career College

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Healthcare administrators are the backbone of any medical facility, ensuring everything runs smoothly behind the scenes. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) , job growth for medical and health services managers is projected to grow significantly, with a notable percentage rise from 2019 to 2029. According to the U.S.

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Arkenea

DECEMBER 4, 2024

(Source: Mental Health America ) Nearly 20 percent of young people and children between the ages 3 to 17 in the USA have a mental, developmental, emotional, or behavioral disorder, and suicidal behaviors among high school students increased by 40 percent in the decade before 2019, and accelerated in the post-Covid era.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 10, 2019

So welcome the Versa, one of many women-targeted health tools featured at CES 2019 that are getting real and impactful about women, tech and health. On a joyful note, Spade’s upbeat design sense lives on in 2019, featuring some adorable watches that track activity. In 2019, the company launches Ava tracker 2.0.

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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 scorecard website provides details for each of the medical record organizations reviewed. Why is this so important?

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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. Keep in mind that as our homes evolve into a major place for us to make health, this is the consumer-demand side in health care.

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 20, 2025

AZ Business Associate 67,567 Hacking incident Charleston Area Medical Center WV Healthcare Provider 67,413 Email accounts compromised in phishing incident Heartland Medical Clinic, Inc. These figures are commonly used as placeholders to meet the reporting requirements of the HIPAA Breach Notification Rule. Warby Parker Inc.,

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 7, 2025

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has imposed its second financial penalty of the year to resolve a violation of the HIPAA Rules. The HIPAA Privacy Rule gives individuals rights over their healthcare data, one of which is the right of an individual to obtain a copy of their health records.

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Health Populi

JULY 23, 2019

” EY rightly notes that the use of the 55 million NHS patient records must conform with medical ethics and research regulations, with patient’s “informed” and “confident” that their data would be used for their individual and public good, safeguarding privacy and rights. The reality of U.S. In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2019

The health care section of Mary Meeker’s 334-page annual report, Internet Trends 2019 , comprises 24 of those pages (270 through 293). But then there’s the formidable challenge of medical privacy and the regulation of Big Tech companies’ use of personal data, covered in general terms on page 167 shown here.

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The HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 14, 2022

It has been several years since new HIPAA regulations have been signed into law, but HIPAA changes in 2022 are expected. The last update to the HIPAA Rules was the HIPAA Omnibus Rule in 2013, which introduced new requirements mandated by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act.

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The HIPAA Journal

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

In July this year, a federal jury convicted a former resident of Arlington, VA, for illegally accessing the medical records of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg while employed as an organ transplant coordinator, although was acquitted on the charge of publishing that information online. District Judge Michael S. Nachmanoff.

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Health Populi

MAY 3, 2019

” Hippocrates’ book The Corpus is thought to be one of the first medical textbooks. ” Franklin, he didn’t have a medical degree at all. Greece was the birthplace of Democracy with a capital “D.” Here, the discussion detailed the roles of air and water for health.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 25, 2018

The tea leaves have been brewing here at THINK-Health as we prepared our 2019 forecast at the convergence of consumers, health, and technology. voters through 2019, and on the Presidential debate stages for both Democrats and Republicans leading up to the parties’ nominees for 2020.

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