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.

Follow-Up

Forbes Healthcare

JUNE 24, 2025

C ataract surgery is one of the world’s most common medical procedures, with more than 4 million of them done each year in the United States alone, but there simply aren’t enough doctors available to meet the demand for everyone who needs the surgery. What if a robot could do it better than humans? It’s targeting the U.S.

Insurance

The Healthcare Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

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). Some more mainstream experts see the picks as part of the libertarian “medical freedom” movement. A year ago those numbers were flipped. “It

Follow-Up

Medical Economics

JULY 11, 2025

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Medication

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 could hit medical offices managing patient bill paying (e.g., A Canyon BYO playground set for your yard, school, or social-athletic club? Stay tuned!

Billing

The Healthcare Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

His article, titled “5 AI bots took our tough reading test. As he explained, “We challenged AI helpers to decode legal contracts, simplify medical research, speed-read a novel and make sense of Trump speeches.” I n December 2020 , Dario, Daniela and 14 other OpenAI researchers jumped ship. Grove/2020)

Tests

Sensible Medicine

OCTOBER 2, 2024

It was believed that being a doctor meant you had to remember a great number of obscure things, and so we designed tests that heavily weighted memorization. We restricted medical school to undergraduates who excelled in biology, chemistry, and physics because doctors were also expected to be scientists.

Admissions

Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

Use of wearable tech nearly halved, from 33% to 18%, between 2018 and 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.

Appointments

Sensible Medicine

MAY 24, 2024

However, from a strictly medical perspective, I do not think the “exposed group” is thriving. VP and I wrote a whole chapter on this in Ending Medical Reversal. I started seeing patients in a dedicated Covid clinic in April 2020 and we had no access to N95 masks. I have no moral qualms about this.

Diagnostics

Health Populi

JANUARY 7, 2020

Oral care is a pillar of overall health and self-care, with medical evidence growing connecting the dots between a healthy mouth and risks for heart disease, diabetes, disabilities, and socioeconomic status. P&G launched the Oral-B iO in a press conference on Sunday, announcing the product was a 2020 CES Innovation Award Honoree.

Collaboration

Sensible Medicine

APRIL 18, 2024

“Always wearing a mask on a medical service in 2024 is an extreme measure and lies outside what should be considered acceptable professional behavior.” I started seeing patients in a dedicated Covid clinic in April 2020 and we had no access to N95 masks. Sensible Medicine is a reader-supported publication.

Precepting

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 Healthcare Blog

APRIL 2, 2024

Then someone discovered that the largest living thing in the world was actually the 106 acre, 47 thousand tree Pando aspen grove in central Utah, which genetic testing revealed to be a single organism. If true, this would still be between double and triple the size of Permanente Medical Groups.

Tests

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

JUNE 16, 2021

Wherever you live in the world touched by the coronavirus pandemic, you felt (and were) stress-tested. In this year’s 2021 annual report by Deloitte into Connectivity & Mobile Trends, their report details How the pandemic has stress-tested the crowded digital home. Both you were, and your home was as well. ” In the U.S.,

Tests

Health Populi

MAY 21, 2020

42% felt uncomfortable going to a hospital for any medical treatment. adults 18 to 74 years of age in the first week of May 2020. One in 5 of people with health insurance were concerned about losing their health plan in the next six months as the coronavirus heats up, recedes, and may re-emerge in the fourth quarter of 2020 into 2021.

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. health care. Top-line, IQVIA spotted the following key shifts in U.S.

Tests

Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

Care delivery that uses both traditional “physical” and virtual modalities, which got stress-tested during the pandemic, and, Care to the home leveraging remote monitoring and the power of patient engagement. In 2019, J.D. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services.

Hospital

Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2020

There’s been a flurry of research into this question since the hockey-stick growth of telemedicine visits were evident in March 2020, just days after the World Health Organization uttered the “P-word:” pandemic. 2% of tech-enabled home medication administration (think: specialty drugs come home). Some 3 in 4 U.S.

Long Term Care

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.

Tests

Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The latest read from ONC, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, tells a story about patients’ growing use of online portals, medical records, and smartphone apps to access personal health information. patients viewed their laboratory test results online in 2022.

Tests

NHA Now

JUNE 4, 2020

Phlebotomy technicians draw blood for tests, transfusions, donations, medical procedures, and research. Take a look at a few phlebotomy technician employment trends we uncovered in our 2020 Industry Outlook research. Take a look at a few phlebotomy technician employment trends we uncovered in our 2020 Industry Outlook research.

Certification

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

health citizens’ minds in 2020 leading up to the election. The post Tools for Paying Medical Bills Don’t Help Health Consumers Manage Their Financial Health appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. Only 1 in 5 health systems plans to offer a tool to help patients-consumers “get estimates for costs of care.”

Billing

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. ” Emily also talks about Amazon planning a new health diagnostics are for at-home medical tests, and Microsoft investing heavily to build out its health care footprint.

HIPAA

Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

I was scheduled to meet with Roy Jakobs, Chief Business Leader of Connected Care at Philips, at HIMSS in Orlando on 9th March 2020. It’s also an enormous stress test of the [health care] system. And with any stress test, you see where the limits are in what you have been building to-date,” he humbly confessed.

Hospital

Scrubs

APRIL 20, 2023

According to the State of The World’s Nursing 2020 Report, nursing occupies the largest chunk of the healthcare domain. It accounts for approximately 59% of medical professionals. It also brought to light new medical innovations to address the crisis. It will eventually result in quicker test collection and fast outcomes.

Tests

The Healthcare Blog

MARCH 18, 2025

On September 14, 2017, I was standing in a hospital room in Boston, when my previously healthy son, Patrick, then 29, received the shocking news that he probably had stage 4 colorectal cancer, which further tests confirmed. That grave diagnosis came with a bleak 14 percent relative 5-year survival rate.

Medication

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. Financial literacy, especially key to U.S.

Follow-Up

Health Populi

MARCH 30, 2020

The 2020 WebMD survey on the state of physicians showed a growing anomie among doctors working in the U.S. Call your government representatives asking for more support for your local clinicians and health care systems for #PPE, ventilators, and testing. according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Hospital

Health Populi

MARCH 18, 2024

The most common home-test by far has been for COVID-19, with other kinds of DTC diagnostic testing still lagging well behind. While consumers’ most-trusted data steward is still physicians, even willingness to share health data with physicians fell from the high of 72% of consumers in 2020 to 64% in 2023.

Patient Experience

Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

The Pew team surveyed 1,213 adults ages 18 and over in June and July 2020, interviewing in English and Spanish. health citizens are with respect to their medical information. And most patients would also want access to information on their mental, behavioral, and substance use history.

Medical History

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

For inspiration and context, I’ll kick off with Roz Chast’s latest New Yorker cartoon from the February 3rd 2020 issue — Strangers in the Night, taking place in a Duane Reade pharmacy. Roz really channels the scene in front of the pharmacy counter, from Q-tips to vitamins and tea.

Discharges

Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

They are likely to stay there,” asserts “ The smartphone will see you now ,” an article in the March 7th 2020 issue of The Economist. I’d seen ATA’s initial statement on the coronavirus published on March 3 2020, so I knew Ann was on this issue. Congressional leadership on February 28 2020. Clearly, the U.S.

Billing

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).

Communication

Mildred Elley

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Seeking a career in assisting others at your job as a clinical or medical assistant in the healthcare profession is a well-thought decision. Medical Assistant School will prepare you to assist doctors and act as a link between patients and healthcare providers. Graduates are equipped to work as medical assistants at the entry-level.

Medical Assistant

The HIPAA Journal

APRIL 27, 2025

The following three years saw similar numbers of financial penalties; however, there was another major increase in HIPAA fines in 2020 when 19 HIPAA violation cases were settled with OCR. The 2020 increase is largely due to OCR’s HIPAA Right of Access enforcement initiative, which was launched in late 2019.

HIPAA