Medical Economics

JULY 18, 2025

In 2020, there were approximately 8.5 Clear, consistent documentation and communication with both patients and referring providers can help ensure follow-up and appropriate care planning. What primary care physicians can do The next challenge is increasing lung cancer screening participation.

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Arkenea

JANUARY 28, 2025

trillion dollars in 2020. Since mobile phones are convenient for patients to bring even in the case of emergency, a system using cell phones to facilitate meds taking will become highly essential as an aspect of the smart healthcare system as information and communication technology (ICT) grows.

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Intercoast

APRIL 19, 2025

In 2020, an estimated 21.4% In 2020, 3.2 Counselors gain valuable experience in working with diverse populations, developing strong communication and empathy skills, and building resilience in the face of challenging situations. of Americans aged 12 and older, which translates to 59.3 Furthermore, 37.3 of this population.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2025

On March 11, 2020, The World Health Organization announced that the coronavirus was deemed a pandemic. ” In light of these findings and the need to re-build the public’s trust back to pre-pandemic levels, Edelman recommends that experts and health care providers communicate science-based information to people.

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The Healthcare Blog

JULY 18, 2025

This past week, Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, was everywhere, a remarkably skilled communicator celebrating the fact that his company was now the first publicly traded company to exceed a $4 trillion valuation. Grove/2020) Eight decades later, those words reverberate, and we once again are at a seminal crossroads.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

In it, Collins recounts his experience leading NIH while dealing with the coronavirus, and confesses to us mistakes that were made in how America’s lead scientists, at least those in the Federal government involved in pandemic communications, failed to articulate some major messages with the U.S. public that would connect with people.

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Northwest Career College

JULY 10, 2025

Communicate with clients and other legal representatives. Documents, research, and communication can be prepared from any available internet access. Upwork, the world’s most significant work marketplace, released its second 2020 Future Workforce Pulse Report, which surveyed over 1,000 U.S. hiring managers.

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The Healthcare Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

Scientific American called his groundbreaking 1948 paper, “A Mathematical Theory of Communication,” the “Magna Carta of the Information Age.” I n December 2020 , Dario, Daniela and 14 other OpenAI researchers jumped ship. Grove/2020) One can almost see Claude Elwood Shannon in the shadows, quietly smiling.

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Electronic Health Reporter

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

” Updox is designed to organize all patient communications, secure and SMS texts, secure email, e-faxes, referrals, reminders, and even […]. The article Healthcare’s Most Innovative Companies of 2020: Updox appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2020

In CTA’s 2020 Consumer Tech Forecast launched yesterday at Media Day 1 at CES, Steve Koenig VP of Research, said that, “digital health is an ecosystem of ecosystems.”. As IoT morphs into the Intelligence of Things in a world of 5G communications, it splits between “Critical IoT” and “Massive IoT” shown in the chart from CTA’s presentation.

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Sensible Medicine

OCTOBER 15, 2024

We communicate through facial expression. Forced masking sends a false signal to the public that health care facilities are “dangerous” This idea did tremendous harm in the first covid wave in 2020 when many patients with serious symptoms avoided hospitals. Hiding faces is isolating and dehumanizing.

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Sensible Medicine

OCTOBER 2, 2024

1 Starting about 25 years ago, schools decided that there were new priorities, among them humanism, communication skills, and an orientation towards group performance over personal ambition. 1 Unless you are visiting one of the medical schools that pulled all those old class photos down in 2020, of course.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

In the August 2020 National Poll on Heathy Aging , the University of Michigan research team found a 26% increase in telehealth visits from 2019 to 2020, March to June 2020 year-over-year. 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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Health Populi

AUGUST 16, 2019

As large employers’ annual health care costs for an employee are expected to exceed $15,000 in 2020, companies are focusing in on managing the pharmacy line-item, we learn from the 2020 Large Employers’ Health Care Strategy and Plan Design Survey from the National Business Group on Health (NBGH).

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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2020

Patients embraced virtual care and communications at very high rates in the first months of the pandemic, and want to continue to use telehealth platforms after the pandemic ends. 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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Sensible Medicine

APRIL 17, 2024

The parallels to universal precautions, the balance of comfort, communication, and patient safety, and the issues of power in the doctor patient relationship keeps me coming back to the issue. But what if patients prefer that their doctors don’t wear masks in settings that we never did before March 2020?

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Sensible Medicine

APRIL 18, 2024

As such, I’ll start with a single absolute statement: with the strain of Covid that circulated in the spring of 2020, having the provider wear a surgical mask and eye protection and the patient wear a surgical mask was highly effective in an outpatient setting. My very first morning in the clinic, I saw eight patients.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2019

In 2020, large employers will be “doubling down” efforts to control health care costs. Key strategies will include deploying more telehealth and virtual health care services, Centers of Excellence for high-cost conditions, and getting more personal in communicating and engaging through platforms.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2020

.” The backstory: Kansas Governor Laura Kelly issued a mask mandate on July 2, 2020. This was the message directly communicated to U.S. residents by the White House Coronavirus Task Force that week before Independence Day. And as Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young might offer, “Teach Your Children… math.”

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Health Populi

AUGUST 18, 2020

The 2020 tech vision for health is summarized here, tying to Accenture’s previous two years of forecasts. 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.

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NHA Now

JULY 1, 2020

We shared a summary of our findings in the 2020 Industry Outlook , now available for download as a PDF. 42% of employers said newly certified EKG technicians lacked communication skills. To learn more about this profession and certification, visit NHAnow.com , and don't forget to download your copy of the 2020 Industry Outlook.

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NHA Now

JUNE 4, 2020

Take a look at a few phlebotomy technician employment trends we uncovered in our 2020 Industry Outlook research. Soft skills like communication are in high demand. 49% of employers surveyed said "communication" was a skill that newly-certified phlebotomy technicians lacked. This specialist position changes as healthcare evolves.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 9, 2020

Several consumer surveys published to coincide with CES 2020 provide insights into the new consumer trust mindset across industries, but especially important for health engagement. Tech-privacy-convenience trade-offs were also gauged in Morning Consult’s national tracking poll conducted in December 2020.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

We must be mindful that hospitals, health systems and physicians quickly stood up and adopted virtual care, especially telemedicine programs, in March and April 2020. ” The coronavirus and #StayHome mandates were the wild card that changed every normal forecast for telehealth utilization in 2020. .” In 2019, J.D.

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NHA Now

JUNE 10, 2020

At NHA, we always strive to provide information to support frontline healthcare workers like billing & coding specialists on their path to success, which is why we recently surveyed hundreds of healthcare employers to discover insights to help lead us into 2020 and beyond. Below are a few highlights from the report.

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NHA Now

JUNE 10, 2020

Here are three key findings to guide you through 2020 and beyond. For a full summary, download our 2020 Industry Outlook PDF , now available in access TM : an allied health industry journal. We gathered insights and data from 159 pharmacy employers to uncover factors that can impact your journey.

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Health Populi

MAY 3, 2021

The first four most-trusted sources for health information in 2021 remained the same short-list from 2020: doctors in-person, pharmacists, nutritionists and dieticians, and government or NGOs. adults told Euromonitor they were very or extremely comfortable receiving medical advice online, up from about 35% in 2020.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 30, 2020

The article Hyland Healthcare and HIMSS Media Publish 2020 Connected Care and the State of Interoperability in Healthcare Study Results appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. The results are published […].

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Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2020

The same percentage of people over 50 own a voice assistant, a market penetration rate which more than doubled between 2017 and 2019, AARP noted in the 2020 Tech and the 50+ Survey published in December 2019. Communicating other information, like blood pressure, weight, or heart health) to a health care provider.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 15, 2020

Physicians are evolving as digital doctors, embracing the growing role of data generated in electronic health records as well as through their patients using wearable technologies and mobile health apps downloaded in ubiquitous smartphones, described in The Rise of the Data-Driven Physician , a 2020 Health Trends Report from Stanford Medicine.

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NHA Now

JUNE 24, 2020

For a full summary, download your PDF copy our 2020 Industry Outlook from the latest edition of access TM : an allied health industry journal. Professionalism" and "verbal communication" were the top two desired soft skills identified by employers. Here are some of the key findings.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

can learn from the Widening Digital Participation program’s work over 2017 into 2020. The second phase of the project ran from 2017 to 2020, bringing together community stakeholders and patients to co-design health and social care solutions underpinned by digital tech. There are many lessons the U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

.” The vast majority of consumers are concerned about some aspect of their home’s health, like air or water quality, according to Healthy Home Technologies , a report published in October 2020 by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), convener of the annual CES. cast to communicate their collective political will.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2021

Household penetration of smartwatch ownership grew 12%, whereas activity tracker growth was fairly flat between 2020 and 2021. In 2020, one-fourth of U.S. In 2021, smartwatch adoption exceeded wearable activity fitness tracker market penetration, both around one-third of 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

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

The January 2020 Health Affairs published a paper on Primary Care Physicians’ Role in Coordinating Medical and Health-Related Social Needs in Eleven Countries. Primary care promotes effective communication with patients and encourages the role of the patient as a partner in health care.

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 20, 2025

The major rise in HIPAA violation penalties in 2020 was largely due to a new enforcement initiative by OCR targeting non-compliance with the HIPAA Right of Access – the right of patients to access and obtain a copy of their healthcare data. Dominion National Insurance Company, and Dominion Dental Services USA, Inc.

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