The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 17, 2025

Amanda Wood Laihow – Acting Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health, Amanda Wood Laihow is a labor lawyer who previously served as a commissioner to the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission from 2020 to 2023.

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Northwest Career College

JULY 10, 2025

Scheduling, appointments, and court filings management. Upwork, the world’s most significant work marketplace, released its second 2020 Future Workforce Pulse Report, which surveyed over 1,000 U.S. Legal assistants play an essential role in the smooth running of a law firm by keeping the lawyers organized and on schedule.

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Forbes Healthcare

JULY 12, 2024

Covid-19 led to a 75% surge in telemedicine appointments between 2020 and 2021. But barriers to wider implementation still exist.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

Use of wearable tech nearly halved, from 33% to 18%, between 2018 and 2020. Six in ten people are open to health and wellness services via virtual channels, over half like the idea of remote monitoring linking with at-home devices, and 1 in 2 people would be open to routine appointments through telehealth.

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Arkenea

MAY 4, 2020

Our list of the top medical appointment scheduling softwares of 2020 to help you choose the right one for your medical practice. The post The Top Medical Appointment Scheduling Softwares In 2020 appeared first on Arkenea.

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Health Populi

MAY 27, 2020

By May 14th, 2020, one-half of consumers in the U.S. expected they would schedule a medical appointment in the next two months. “As This post summarizes the study results published as of 21st May 2020, assessing eight weeks of health consumers’ behaviors and perceptions during two months in the COVID-19 era.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 9, 2020

Health care is the top issue driving voters’ choices in the 2020 elections for most Americans. Check out some of the lower-ranking consumer demand issues that also hold opportunity for tech developers: namely, difficulty in getting appointments with specialists and primary care providers, and long distances to access needed services.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The reality even before the coronavirus crisis emerged in early 2020 was that U.S. One basic pillar of prescription drug access is health care insurance; CoverMyMeds points out that unemployment claims hit record (high) levels in 2020, with millions having lost health coverage. As the COVID-19 crisis led to large parts of the U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2020

By late May 2020, 34% of black Americans had lost their jobs compared with 21% in late April, compared with 18% of white consumers, reported in The COVID-19 Pandemic’s Financial Impact on U.S. adults 18 and older on 28-29 May 2020. As of May 2020, shoppers went to 2.8 Consumers , survey research from TransUnion.

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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2020

The new era of virtual care has begun and is here to stay, Accenture expects in its latest look at How COVID-19 will permanently alter patient behavior , a patient survey conducted in May 2020. Accenture polled 2,700 patients around the world, 450 participants each from China, France, Germany, Japan, the U.K., and the U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

As technology continues to re-shape consumers’ experiences and expectations with health/care, retail, travel and work, peoples’ concerns about data privacy are also growing as observed by a 2020 consumer trends forecast from GlobalWebIndex, Connecting the dots. First, some overall context to the study.

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Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2021

one-half of consumers said they best like their ability to engage in virtual medical appointments and nearly one-half appreciated risk-managing their potential exposure to the virus, shown in the first chart (Figure 4). One in five people liked ease in scheduling virtual appointments. Deloitte found that U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2023

As of 2022, three in four consumers were offered online access to their medical records by a health care provider or health insurance plan, and well over one-half accessed their medical record or portal — growing by 50% over the two years, 2020 to 2022 (from 38% to 57%).

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Patient-facing digital tools help patients with fairly basic tasks like making appointments, seeking doctors, and paying bills. health citizens’ minds in 2020 leading up to the election. Only 1 in 3 felt their consumer digital experience was considered “the best possible”. ” This sage insight was written by Dr.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Note in the chart the emerging trend by 2015 of PCPs emailing with patients and offering after-hours appointments. The January 2020 Health Affairs published a paper on Primary Care Physicians’ Role in Coordinating Medical and Health-Related Social Needs in Eleven Countries.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Fast-forward to 2020, a few months into the pandemic in the U.S.: In October 2020, The American Cancer Society explained that patients were postponing care, which also drove up peoples’ anxiety in dealing with their health and daily lives. The first chart here shows that one in four U.S.

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Minority Nurse

APRIL 28, 2022

Among her academic appointments, she has held the administrative positions of director, assistant dean, associate dean, dean and founding dean at various research-intensive public and private universities. The initiative was expanded to offer telehealth services for patient-provider interactions that do not require in-person visits.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The American Customer Satisfaction Index Insurance and Health Care Study 2020-2021 published today, recognizing consumers’ value for the quality of health insurance companies’ mobile apps and reliability of those apps. The study was fielded between October 2020 and September 2021. In the U.S., All other plans landed at 73.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 12, 2021

Increase in virtual telemedicine appointments increased ten times in 15 days. the CTA forecast saw a 73% increase in connected health device spending in 2020, and expects 34% growth in 2021. Remote learning pivoted 250 million students to move to online learning over 2 weeks, and. For the U.S.,

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

every year from 2020 to 2027, the actuaries at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services forecast in their report, National Health Expenditure Projections, 2018-2927: Economic And Demographic Trends Drive Spending And Enrollment Growth , published yesterday by Health Affairs. National health spending in the U.S. Presidential Election.

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Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2020

That theme was given to us in the fourth quarter of 2019, when initial planning for ATA 2020 had begun. How many of us felt really great scoring toilet tissue and hand sanitizer in February and March, 2020? What a difference a few months make. This is one of the bright spots of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2019

Patients-as-health consumers would like to hear about payment plans, in particular via the statement, through the doctor during an appointment, in a brochure detailing comprehensive information about both the treatment and bill payment options, or speaking with a person from the health system. As they will also be top-of-mind for U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2021

Two studies published in May 2021 illustrate the value and importance of telehealth to patients in 2020, and a disconnect among many C-level executives working in hospitals, academic medical centers, and other care provider organizations. Together, the two reports from J.D. With more digital contact as well, J.D.

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

For telehealth, that S-curve has had a very long and fairly flat front-end of the “S” followed by a hockey stick trajectory in March and April 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic was an exogenous shock to in-person health care delivery. Over a year since the pandemic emerged in the U.S., Access to care, covering both availability (e.g.,

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Arkenea

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Key Takeaways Care visit scheduler is one of the prominent patient portal examples as it allows patients to select appointments as per their routine, reduces wait time, improves accessibility, and is user-friendly. Care Visit Scheduler Care visit scheduler aids in online appointment bookings for patients. Patient Portal Examples 1.

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 6, 2025

The vendor notified Sandhills on January 8, 2021, about a ransomware attack on November 15, 2020. Ransomware was deployed on December 3, 2020. Consider a scenario where, in anticipation of receiving healthcare, Appellant provided her PII and billing information to Sandhills but never showed up for her appointment.

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DrChrono

APRIL 6, 2021

At the beginning of 2020, there were over 9,000 urgent care clinics in the United States, which rely heavily on high patient volume and generally shorter appointments. Urgent Care Before the Pandemic Urgent care has become an established piece of the healthcare puzzle.

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Practice Index

JULY 4, 2024

Doctors worry about safety because of inadequate appointment times In a survey for the Royal College of GPs, most GPs feel they don’t have enough time to undertake adequate assessment and treatment of patients, and report excessive workloads. Practice appointments “exceed ambitions” Practices delivered nearly 30.5

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 13, 2023

ranking: that, “Sharing is caring,” adding that Lyft has continued to expand its healthcare business to link patients needing transportation — a key social determinant of health and care access — to doctor’s appointments, dialysis sessions, mental health services, and college student health services.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2019

Over one half have scheduled appointments via the portal, 42% have done an online refill for a prescription drug, and 4 in 10 received advice about a health issue via the portal. We watch California implementing their state version of GDPR on January 1, 2020 (CCPA), to learn how that larger privacy protective umbrella will cover Californians.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2022

Here is an example of one health system, CommonSpirit, quantifying the impact of expanding virtual visits (telehealth) between March 16, 2020 and April 2, 2021. 923,276 hours saved not traveling to appointments. The healthcare provider examined 1.5 million virtual visits, calculating that patients would have traveled 37.4

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CollaborateMD

JUNE 18, 2024

People who require frequent appointments—such as those with chronic diseases—can maintain a high level of care without compromising other areas of their lives. This is a sharp increase from about 1% in February 2020. This includes SMS messaging, web-based patient portals and appointment scheduling, and instant eligibility verification.

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Health Populi

JUNE 26, 2023

are now delaying care is due to cost , not concerns about exposure to COVID-19 which created the phenomenon of “medical distancing” between 2020 and 2022, resulting in some patients avoiding preventive screenings and necessary care in face-to-face medical settings. “If The top reason people in the U.S.

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NHA Now

JULY 13, 2020

Source: 2020 Industry Outlook You lost your healthcare job or are worried about losing it due to COVID-19 Although there's a high demand for healthcare professionals to help treat patients with COVID-19, many others are out of work as elective procedures, diagnostics, and appointments are canceled or postponed. In April alone, 1.4

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Amber Pharmacy

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

19, 2024) – Amber Specialty Pharmacy announces the appointment of Jessica Ringena as its newest president. OMAHA, Neb. Ringena previously served as president of Vivid Clear Rx, a pharmacy benefit manager and subsidiary of Hy-Vee. Prior to joining Amber Specialty Pharmacy’s parent company, Hy-Vee, Ringena worked at RSM US, LLP.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 9, 2022

By early 2020, most U.S. Other challenges cited include connectivity issues (a barrier for “digital life mastery” for workers and students, as well as patients), and poor design for making appointments or engaging in the visit itself. “Users give wearables a big thumbs up,” Deloitte observes from the study.

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NHA Now

AUGUST 11, 2020

The top three most important soft skills for billing & coding specialists are professionalism, dependability , and critical thinking , according to a recent survey of employers for our 2020 Industry Outlook. You're often dealing with a lot of information, or conversely, you could be missing documentation.

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