Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Let’s start with the pocketbook of the patient — now a key payer in health systems’ revenue cycle management processes on the health system side, and continuing challenge for medical debt for U.S. And convenience actually mashes up costs for everyday people in the form of time-costs. PwC’s 2024 U.S.

Appointments

Sensible Medicine

MARCH 14, 2025

If patient data tripped the alert, an EMR pop-up message would appear for nurses and physicians. These alerts were backed up with training and monitoring to encourage real action. Reading who uses these five hospitals in Saudi Arabia, it seems like a population that would be easy to follow. 3 I’ve written editorials.

Vital Signs

The Healthcare Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Instead of shopping for care, consumers found themselves saddled with almost $200 billion in medical bills they could not pay, and hospitals and physicians ended up eating most of it. These firms used AI driven machine learning to analyze and process the flow of hundreds of billions of dollars in medical claims.

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The Healthcare Blog

JANUARY 23, 2025

As history.com reports: On the day of Nixons second inaugural celebration, Johnson watched sullenly as Nixon announced the dismantling of many of Johnsons Great Society social programsThe following day, while Lady Bird and their daughters were in Austin, Johnson suffered a fatal heart attack at his ranch in Johnson City. Grove/2020)

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Medical Economics

JULY 18, 2025

© Alila Medical Media - stock.adobe.com When patients aged 50 years or older have a significant history of smoking, primary care physicians often order lung cancer screenings with low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) scans. Yet, there has long been a gap in options between noninvasive medical management and more high-risk surgical approaches.

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Medical Economics

JUNE 20, 2025

But, for the vast majority who won’t hit that threshold, rising deductibles and a shift toward coinsurance are quietly driving up what they pay at the pharmacy. But our research shows that this comes with a clear tradeoff — most Medicare beneficiaries will likely see their drug costs go up.”

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The Healthcare Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

the following day, and by weeks end was near record highs. Teaming up with AI in Medicine will likely inform well beyond the operating suite. But AI generated tools have grown up and demand inclusion and respect if we wish to avoid becoming their servants. Mike Magee MD is a Medical Historian and regular contributor to THCB.

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Forbes Healthcare

JUNE 24, 2025

Senior editor covering healthcare Follow Author Jun 24, 2025, 06:00am EDT Updated Jun 24, 2025, 08:45am EDT Share Save Comment ForSight Robotics founders (left to right) Daniel Glozman, Joseph Nathan and Moshe Shoham ForSight Robotics Millions of people get cataract surgery every year. What if a robot could do it better than humans?

Insurance

Health Populi

JULY 24, 2025

As I tracked home-bound consumers’ behaviors from the start of COVID-19 in March 2020, I hunted-and-gathered data from Nielsen, Acosta, Circana, Gallup, Harris, and other sources of consumers @ retail. The DIY food-health concept, coined by Nielsen, was the build-up of our “pandemic pantries.”

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

JULY 9, 2025

Daily Dive M-F Payer Weekly Every Wednesday IT Weekly Every Thursday By signing up to receive our newsletter, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Trump said the order was an effort to secure critical medical supply chains, but the administration’s focus on onshoring the drug supply chain is neither new nor strictly partisan.

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The Healthcare Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

I am slightly relieved to report that a new follow-up study by Pew indicates that trust is up slightly – but still way below where they were pre-pandemic. Overall, 76% of Americans express fair or a great deal of confidence in scientists to act in the public’s best interests (versus 87% in April 2020). I could go on. “We

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Forbes Healthcare

JUNE 25, 2025

Follow Author Jun 25, 2025, 08:00am EDT Share Save Comment Global clinical research getty The pharmaceutical industry is experiencing its own “DeepSeek moment,” according to science writer Hiya Jain. This stagnation comes at a time when medical needs are growing and pharmaceutical innovation is more critical than ever.

Unit Organization and Environment

Forbes Healthcare

JULY 7, 2025

Follow Author Share Save Comment Innovation Healthcare Hedge Funds Are Investing In Employee Wellness To Enable Peak Performance By Dr. Sai Balasubramanian, M.D., getty Top-tier hedge fund Citadel announced last week that it will be hiring its first ever chief medical officer. Sai Balasubramanian, M.D., Contributor. More workforce.

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Forbes Healthcare

JUNE 20, 2025

Follow Author Jun 20, 2025, 10:54am EDT Share Save Comment Gen Z is picking up where past generations left off—with a cigarette in hand. Zendaya lights up in “Euphoria”; Jacob Elordi does the same in “Saltburn.” " In 2020, cigarette sales rose for the first time in decades — though still far below the 1981 peak of 636.5

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Health Populi

MAY 27, 2025

Welcome to this year’s 20th anniversary edition of the Milliman Medical Index (MMI) , which I’ve looked forward to reviewing for most of its two-decade history. This year, we learn that outpatient care and pharmacy were the two line items most responsible for driving the PPO cost up to over $35K: pharmacy costs rose 9.7%

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The Healthcare Blog

JULY 25, 2025

By MIKE MAGEE Last week, following a visit to the White House, Jensen Huang instigated a wholesale reversal of policy from Trump who was blocking Nvidia sales of its H20 chip to China. research start-ups. Mike Magee MD is a Medical Historian and regular correspondent at THCB. Grove/2020). What did Jensen say?

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The Healthcare Blog

AUGUST 8, 2025

By 2020, the shift in emphasis clearly pointed to a career in politics. As journalist Sanya Mansoor noted, South Asians “see his rise as a sign of hope in a city where racism and Islamophobia erupted following the September 11 terrorist attacks.” But young up-and-coming journalists like USA Today’s Sara Pequeño didn’t hold back.

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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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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

adults from early September to early October 2020 to gauge peoples’ interest in and utilization of digital health tools and telehealth. This represents a shift more to “me care” in 2020 with the sharp uptake of digital platforms and wearable tech. Rock Health and Stanford commissioned an online survey among 7,980 U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 19, 2020

Imagine this: you find yourself with $6,553 in your pocket and you can pick one of the following: A new 2020 Breitling Navitimer watch; A year’s in-state tuition at Valdosta State University; or, A PPO for an average individual. In 2020, that $12K+ represents over 18% of the median household income in the U.S.

Medication

The HIPAA Journal

MAY 6, 2024

Marlton, NJ-based Continuum Health Alliance has recently confirmed that it has experienced a security incident that exposed the data of 377,119 patients of its client, Consensus Medical Group, a physician-owned medical group in Evesham, NJ. No financial information or Social Security numbers were present in the file.

Medication

Health Populi

JUNE 2, 2021

The good news for health care costs for a family of four in America is that they fell, for the first time in like, ever, in 2020. But like a déjà vu all over again, annual health care costs for a family of four enrolled in a PPO will climb to over $28,000 in 2021, based on the latest 2021 Milliman Medical Index (MMI).

Insurance

Health Populi

JULY 7, 2020

The pace of digital health investments quickened in the first half of 2020, based on Rock Health’s look at health-tech financing in mid-year. Note that in H1 2020, the average deal size exceeded $25 mm. I’ve written about Outset Medical here in Health Populi : Home is the New and Future Medical Home for Dialysis.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Key challenges to adopting digital health tools are first and foremost cost, following by interoperability and operational barriers. health citizens’ minds in 2020 leading up to the election. health citizens’ minds in 2020 leading up to the election.

Billing

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.

Communication

Health Populi

MAY 21, 2020

Patients’ concerns of COVID-19 risks have led them to self-ration care in the following ways: 41% have delayed health care services. 42% felt uncomfortable going to a hospital for any medical treatment. 42% felt uncomfortable going to a hospital for any medical treatment. ACHP and AMCP polled 1,263 U.S.

Insurance

Health Populi

MAY 14, 2020

In the report, published in April 2020, IQVIA mined the company’s many data bases that track real-time data, including medical claims, flu data, sales data, oncology medical and pharmacy claims, formularies, among other sources. Top-line, IQVIA spotted the following key shifts in U.S. health care. health care.

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Health Populi

JULY 22, 2021

In the Age of COVID, over 90,000 new health apps were released, as the supply of digital therapeutics and wearables grew in 2020. IQVIA has been closely following the growth, investment in, and clinical evidence for digital health since 2013, when I reviewed their first paper on “mHealth” here in Health Populi. .

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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. 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.

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Health Populi

JUNE 11, 2024

between 2023 and 2024, according to the 2024 Milliman Medical Index. Milliman also calculated that the largest driver of cost increase in health care, accounting for nearly one-half of medical cost increases, was pharmacy, the cost of prescription drugs, which grew 13% in the year.

Medication

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

At the start of CES 2021, I had the opportunity to catch up with Karsten Russell-Wood, Portfolio Marketing Leader, Post Acute & Home, Connected Care at Philips. Each of them is dealing with different medical conditions: George has been diagnosed with heart failure and Dorothy is managing COPD. Take George and Audrey.

Discharges

Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2020

A total of 7,000 interviews were conducted in April 2020, in Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North America — including 500 interviews in the U.S. The largest sector wellness-gap was found in food and snacks, followed by financial services. ” The COVID-19 crisis exacerbated consumers’ financial stress: in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

JULY 10, 2020

health care providers set up virtual care arrangements to convene with patients. In Patient Perspectives on Virtual Care , Kyruus answers this question based on an online survey of 1,000 patients 18 years of age and older, conducted in May 2020. Within days of the coronavirus pandemic emerging in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Most doctors see the advantages of digital health tools like telehealth, consumers’ access to their health information, and point-of-care workflow solutions, the American Medical Association found in a survey of 1300 physicians, published in September 2022. physicians and nurses as the pandemic emerged in early 2020.

Patient Care

The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 20, 2025

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Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic drove U.S. Parks Associates’ research identified other categories of consumer electronics growth in the 2020 year of the coronavirus, including: Smart home devices, growing to 30% of U.S. broadband households in 2020 from 17% in 2015. Once purchased, most consumers set up devices themselves.

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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. For the research, CES interviewed 1,500 U.S.

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