Practice Index

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

A review of major NHS policy documents, including the Five Year Forward View (2014), NHS Long-Term Plan (2019) and Fuller Stocktake (2022), reveals that zero mention the role of PMs despite these same reports emphasising the need for leadership in primary care. This exclusion has tangible consequences.

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Patient Care Appointments Collaboration Documentation 105

Medical Economics

JULY 2, 2025

In 2019, the baby boomer generation was estimated at 71.6 Plan today for tomorrow’s nurses The nurse shortage isn’t a problem just for hospitals; it has ramifications for the entire health care industry, including private practice physicians. Here’s how doctors can find and keep good nurses.

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We Care Online

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Healthcare charity/hospital volunteer: Opportunities for voluntary work with health-related charities could include fundraising, providing administrative support, taking part in research studies, or working directly with patients.

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Medical Economics

JUNE 9, 2025

Analyzing Medicare claims from 2019 to 2023, researchers found that primary care physicians (PCPs) who adopted a full-risk, multipayer VBC model in 2022 — with operational support from agilon health — saw an average of eight more new Traditional Medicare patients in 2023 than similar peers who remained in fee-for-service models.

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Medication Billing Patient Satisfaction Patient Care 52

Health Populi

JUNE 25, 2025

For more on reimagining health as flourishing, check out this essay from JAMA , going back to 2019, where a trio of health researchers from Harvard identifies those layers of well-being that people value, from the physical to the fiscal, the social, on purpose, and on happiness. That pushes the percent of the GDP devoted to NHE to 20.3%

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Billing Insurance Hospital Medication 71

The Healthcare Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Insurers Shift Strategy from Sharing Risk with Hospitals and Doctors to Markedly Implicating their Patients. After the 2008 recession, employers and their health plans shifted strategy from putting physicians and hospitals at risk through delegated risk capitation to putting patients at risk through higher patient cost sharing.

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Insurance Hospital Follow-Up Medication 57

Sensible Medicine

MARCH 14, 2025

If sepsis screening was shown to be beneficial in one hospital, would it be beneficial in another, with an entirely different set of caregivers? Article Background With all that as background, I was excited when I saw the article Electronic Sepsis Screening Among Patients Admitted to Hospital Wards in JAMA. 0.93; P < 001.

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Vital Signs Hospital Follow-Up Transfers 246

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. We’ve seen with rural hospitals that corporate acquisitions often lead to closures. “We

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Medication Collaboration Patient Care Hospital 52

Medical Economics

JULY 14, 2025

The Ambulatory Specialty Model (ASM) targets specialty care for heart failure and low back pain, rewarding early detection and reduced hospitalizations. Physician reimbursement changes include leveraging hospital data for accurate payment rates and expanding telehealth services. The ASM would run January 2027 to December 2031.

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Scheduling Medication Hospital Billing 66

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

JUNE 30, 2025

A district court first sided with Planned Parenthood on the matter, and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals reaffirmed the court’s decision in 2019, 2022 and 2024, finding Medicaid law did create an individual right that can be enforced under federal civil rights law, according to a press release from the plaintiffs. TechTarget, Inc.s

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Medical Coding Billing Hospital Insurance 66

CollaborateMD

JANUARY 17, 2025

Fierce Healthcare just issued a 2025 healthcare outlook with several key findings, including: An American Hospital Association (AHA) report published in 2024 finds reimbursement from government payers is not keeping pace with the high costs of drugs, labor, and supplies and the inflation rate. Administrative costs.

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Billing Insurance Hospital Medication 84

Medical Economics

JULY 18, 2025

Newland, MD, MEd, is division chief of infectious diseases for Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. And what we have seen in the United States, and that in 2019 report from the CDC, that 35,000 Americans die annually, again, die annually from an antimicrobial resistant infection, which are predominantly bacteria in origin.

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Medication Insurance Patient Care Hospital 52

The Healthcare Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Yet if the data actually support NYU Langones assertion that its the best health system, as the ad trumpeted, shouldnt they be praised for competing on the quality of patient care rather than the quality of the pull-on-the-emotions advertising typical of most hospitals? While many Americans know of the hospital rankings by U.S.

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Hospital Patient Experience Patient Care Medication 57

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Anti-obesity drug sales led both long- and short-term growth among the top ten retail therapies by sales in terms of 2019-2024 5 year compound annual growth. While immunology therapies ranked first in spending, the fastest-growing therapy area by far was anti-obesity (excluding dietetics) — growing by 147% in 2024.The in the year.

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Medication Hospital Patient Experience 71

The Healthcare Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

In 2019, during my tenure as secretary of the U.S. Participating patients experience a home dialysis start rate that is 85 percent higher than the national average, a transplant rate 41 percent higher, and an all-cause hospitalization rate that is 20 percent lower than average.

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Patient Experience Tests Patient Care Hospital 62

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Hospital occupancy rates were higher in 2024 than 2019. If occupancy rates trend up, the nation could face a bed shortage by 2032, according to researchers.

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Hospital 116

Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. In 2019, J.D. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

hospitals and why I’ve titled this post, “outpatient is the new inpatient,” a future paradigm for U.S. This realization is informed by data in a new report from Deloitte, Where have the many hospital inpatient gone? Our ability to create that network outside the hospital is huge.”

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

I’d interviewed Roy at CES 2020 in Las Vegas in January to catch up on consumer health developments, and the March meeting was going to cover Philips’ innovations on the hospital and acute care side of the business, as well as to learn more about Roy’s new role as head of Connected Care.

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Hospital Acute Care Unit Organization and Environment Vital Signs 149

Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 26, 2019

With greater numbers of people requiring doctor visits and hospital care, the industry is looking for ways to be even more productive and efficient to ensure […]. The article How Will AI Transform Health Sectors In 2019 and Beyond appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Hospital Medication 89

Minority Nurse

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Healthcare is a dynamic field with countless opportunities for advancement and growth, with nurses poised at the forefront as hospitals attempt to meet the pressures to treat, educate and manage our aging U.S. Explore our showcase of Magnet hospitals to find an institution that meets your needs. population.

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Hospital Acute Care Patient Care Medication 105

Health Populi

JULY 25, 2019

increase over 2018, according to the 2019 Milliman Medical Index (MMI). The Milliman MMI team has updated the methodology for the Index; the chart shown here is my own, recognizing that the calculations and assumptions beneath the 2019 data point differ from previous years. Milliman has changed the methodology for the 2019 MMI.

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Insurance Follow-Up Hospital Billing 83

Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2019

Cleveland Clinic is a prime example of a hospital system imagining and re-shaping what a hospital will be in the future. The post Health/Care Everywhere – Re-Imagining Healthcare at ATA 2019 appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. Finally, consumer-patient pressures are playing a positive role in telehealth adoption.

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Hospital Collaboration Patient Experience 91

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

There are 1,844 rural hospitals operating in the U.S. That number is down by 19 in the 2019 calendar year, the worst year of rural hospital closings seen in the past decade. That hockey-stick growth of closures is shown in the first chart, where 34 rural hospitals shut down in the past 2 years.

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Sensible Medicine

JULY 29, 2024

Yet the failure of the hospital readmission penalty policy and sepsis protocols expose the risks of implementing a policy because it sounds good. In 2019, I wrote about the provocative book Elephant in the Brain --co-authored by George Mason economist Robin Hansen. Yet policies mostly escape this challenge. Their results were sobering.

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Transfers Insurance Hospital Medication 297

Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

In the Fear of Going Out Era spawned by the COVID-19 pandemic, many patients were loath to go to the doctor’s office for medical care, and even less keen on entering a hospital clinic’s doors. In May 2019, 14% of older patients’ health care providers offered telehealth visits, growing to 62% in June 2020 during the pandemic.

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Follow-Up Physical Exams Communication Hospital 171

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.

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Huddles/Rounds Tests Collaboration Hospital 79

Health Populi

MARCH 29, 2019

Welcome to health politics in America as of March 2019, according to The Public and High U.S. LIMRA wrote up this analysis in honor of National Women’s History Month as it draws to a close this month of March 2019. But one issue that brings U.S. Health Care Costs , a poll conducted by POLITICO and the Harvard T.H.

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Insurance Hospital Long Term Care Medication 105

Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Bold doing is better,” Dr. Eric Topol introduced his talk yesterday at Medecision’s Liberation 2019 conference. He showed new evidence from Nature (journal) Volume 574 dated 24th October 2019 — Eric is never guilty of showing old data unless it’s making a new-new insight. “Bold thinking is great.

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Hospital Medication 75

Scrubs

AUGUST 17, 2023

As 2019 comes to a close, you may be thinking of hitting the reset button on your nursing career. For example, a hospital may not receive funding from the federal government if their patients are readmitted too quickly. For example, Connecticut currently only has one for-profit hospital and 28 non-profit hospitals.

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Health Populi

JUNE 4, 2019

Ultimately, building capacity for delivering on the promise of consumer experiences will compel providers to adopt a hospital mindset to “delight,” not just satisfy, Kaufman Hall urges.

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Scheduling Best Practices Appointments Collaboration 69

Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 15, 2019

The Innovation Studio at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) announces 10 semi-finalists of the first ever Gamifying Pediatrics Hackathon, which took place April 12 through 14, 2019, at BCG Digital Ventures (BCGDV) in Manhattan Beach (CA), the global corporate venture and incubation arm of the Boston Consulting Group.

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Hospital 79

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

APRIL 14, 2025

The rate increase is the lowest since 2019. The American Hospital Association slammed it as inadequate.

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Hospital 66

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. John has been hands-on in curating the participants in this space, which John said are moving care outside of the hospital into peoples’ homes and hands across the continuum. It is a must-read for any HIMSS19 attendee.

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Collaboration HIPAA Patient Records Hospital 84

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

kicks off today in pre-conference sessions, there is useful context described in a new report from the American Hospital Association’s Center for Health Innovation and EY talking about health care digital transformation in the form of “Anywhere Care.” 2019 will feature examples of all of these technologies and services.

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Acute Care HIPAA Hospital Medication 76

Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2019

The rest of the CES story for 2019 is positive, Shelly optimistically continued. The post Shelly Palmer De-Hypes CES 2019 & Has Lessons for Health/Care appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. ” Information asymmetry is one of the most primitive instincts we have, he noted.

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Tests Medication Communication Hospital 79

Sensible Medicine

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Instead of measuring AF with a monitor, like most studies, the authors decided to measure what is most important to patients: time to any hospital episode related to treatment for atrial arrhythmia. The Struggle to Publish The authors presented this data at the European Heart Rhythm Association meeting in 2019.

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Follow-Up Hospital Medication 291