Health Populi

MARCH 18, 2024

Rock Health offers four key themes coming out of the late 2023 consumer health data: Virtual care has blended into the “modern care paradigm” in the U.S. The most common home-test by far has been for COVID-19, with other kinds of DTC diagnostic testing still lagging well behind. Rock Health polled 8,014 U.S.

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Scrubs

MAY 30, 2024

In May 2023, the median annual wage for registered nurses was $86,070. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics , employment of registered nurses is projected to grow by 6% from 2021 to 2031, with an estimated 195,400 job openings each year.

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Take Action to Receive Results to your Community/ Non-AHS Clinic(s) Community providers throughout Alberta who order general lab, microbiology tests, pathology, and all other specialty labs, diagnostic imaging (DI), or who submit specimens for testing, need to take action.

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

APRIL 10, 2024

Take Action to Receive Results to your Community/ Non-AHS Clinic(s) Community providers throughout Alberta who order general lab, microbiology tests, pathology, and all other specialty labs, diagnostic imaging (DI), or who submit specimens for testing, need to take action.

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Prism Career Institute

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

When a doctor comes in and evaluates the patient, they may decide a test or treatment is necessary. They may even be asked to perform diagnostic testing themselves. You’ll need to schedule off-site tests with other facilities and call in prescriptions to the patient’s pharmacy.

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Health Populi

JULY 2, 2024

Congress enforce accountability for advanced algorithms through legislation — such as amending and passing the 2023 Algorithmic Accountability Act to assure all organizations involved in developing and using AI in health care have transparent access to the results of audits resulting from that accountability process.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 22, 2023

Due to their delayed return to medical services and diagnostic testing in the COVID-19 pandemic era, U.S. Dealing with mental health issues is the top health and well-being impact workers in large companies are addressing in 2023.

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Health Populi

JULY 4, 2022

With one-in-three consumers saying, in the previous multi-circle graphic, that health consumers have grown price-sensitive to healthcare and medicine costs, we can expect people turning to cost-saving tactics for their health care decisions and spending in 2022 and 2023 (when a recession in the U.S.

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Arkenea

JANUARY 16, 2025

However, a survey points out that amongst the top 50 health systems in the USA, over half reported spending 5 to 20 percent more on interoperability in 2023 compared to 2022. Testing HL7 V2 Message Validator is designed to help developers make sure their message formatting meets Epics EHR interpretation standards.

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CareerStep

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This test measures your competency in coding, focusing on physician and non-physician providers, like nurses. This certification is offered through the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC) and can be taken online or at an in-person testing center. The CCA exam can only be taken in person at a testing location.

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Relias

MARCH 17, 2023

For 2023, its list of patient safety goals for hospitals includes the following: Identify patients correctly. The guidance encourages teams to communicate better with each other when delivering results — specifically, to “get important test results to the right staff person on time.” Improve staff communication. Use medicines safely.

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19 Labs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Redwood City, CA – September 5, 2023 The day prior to Ram’s presentation, 19Labs facilitated a remote ultrasound session of a pregnant patient in rural Oaxaca to be streamed in real-time to Jamaica, the location of his discussion. Watch his full presentation here. Conclusion Let's be clear: This isn't solely about cost savings.

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The HIPAA Journal

APRIL 27, 2025

Northeast Surgical Group Northeast Surgical Group, a Michigan-based provider of surgical services, experienced a ransomware attack in 2023 that resulted in unauthorized access to ePHI and the encryption of the ePHI of all 15,298 of its patients. The ransomware group was able to access the ePHI of 31,248 individuals. million penalty.

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The Vox headline was “Mind-reading technology has arrived”, although the study had just seven participants and the error rate in the three test participants was 0.92 Will it be used as a strict diagnostic criterion or as a tool to encourage critical thinking [12]? 2023 May;26(5):858-66. 2023 Mar;30(6):1103-13.

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The Vox headline was “Mind-reading technology has arrived”, although the study had just seven participants and the error rate in the three test participants was 0.92 Will it be used as a strict diagnostic criterion or as a tool to encourage critical thinking [12]? 2023 May;26(5):858-66. 2023 Mar;30(6):1103-13.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2024

In the pandemic, IQVIA developed a useful index that looks across five types of health services utilization and tracks trends for each, with a composite overall score as a tool for comparison calculated to be 97 in 2023. As the graphic illustrates, the index for new prescriptions in 2023 was 104, thus four points above the 100 mark.

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Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Susan Dresser, Cynthia Teel, and Jill Peltzer, in their 2023 article entitled, Frontline Nurses’ Clinical Judgment in Recognizing, Understanding, and Responding to Patient Deterioration: A Qualitative Study , noted that nurses who work at the bedside are essential in the recognition of patients’ decline and initiating contact with the SWAT RN.

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The Healthcare Blog

APRIL 4, 2024

That test already has a name -the RightEye GeoPref Autism Test. Its’ UC San Diego designer says it was 86% accurate in testing 400 infants and toddlers. Or how about Face2Gene which claims its’ mFRT tool already has linked half of the known human genetic syndromes to “facial patterns?”

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

This means NPs can evaluate patients, diagnose, order, and interpret diagnostic tests, and initiate and manage treatments (including prescribing medications) under the licensing authority of the State Board of Nursing. Since 2023, 27 states and the District of Columbia have granted NPs full practice authority (AANP, 2023).

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Health Populi

MAY 4, 2023

Reviewing the annual 2023 report from the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science discussing The Use of Medicines in the U.S. However, elective procedures haven’t yet reached pre-pandemic utilization (latest read of 98) and for screening and diagnostic tests, underwhelming use at 89 versus the 100 index pre-pandemic.

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

In this essay, I will build the case that if you are sick, you should not test for COVID19. If your child is sick, you should not test them, and you should send them to school if they are mildly ill. People who got a COVID19 test, which happened to be positive, admitted for elective procedures, or entirely unrelated complaints.

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

In this essay, I will build the case that if you are sick, you should not test for COVID19. If your child is sick, you should not test them, and you should send them to school if they are mildly ill. People who got a COVID19 test, which happened to be positive, admitted for elective procedures, or entirely unrelated complaints.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 31, 2025

The metric illustrated here in the fourth chart from the report shows us that childhood vaccination rates continued to decline in the 2023-24 school year, discussed in a Kaiser Family Foundation report published in November 2004. Kennedy, Jr.,

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