HIT Consultant
DECEMBER 19, 2023
Our industry has undergone several iterations of consumer data protection rules — starting in 1996 with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA ). In 2009, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act , HITECH for short, became law, setting standards for electronic health records.
Health Populi
JUNE 30, 2023
As the first line chart illustrates, the peak of medical trend in the last 18 years was in 2007 when the U.S. Here’s a link to PwC’s 2007 study looking behind the numbers, noting that the 11.9% Here’s a link to PwC’s 2007 study looking behind the numbers, noting that the 11.9% That’s history.
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Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
Nearly all Americans (86% net responsible) first blame health insurance companies, followed by hospitals (82%). I wrote my first post on Health Populi nearly eleven years ago Labor Day week 2007. The theme was, “Health Care is the #1 Line Item In Our National Economy…and Taking More Out of Your Pocket.”
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 8, 2020
Consider the frontline health care workers data point: behavioral health addresses peoples’ negative or dangerous “behaviors,” like the aforementioned binge drinking which may lead to alcohol use disorder or result from post-traumatic stress as a reaction to the daily grind working in the hospital ICU.
Health Populi
JUNE 13, 2018
Here is the first “good news” line chart, showing declining medical trend from 2007 to next year in 2019. That’s one-half the high point at nearly 12% in 2007. The 6% trend is equal to that of 2018, illustrating a flat scenario, roughly the same trend seen in 2016 at 6.2%.
Health Populi
MAY 31, 2019
Over the ten years between 2007 and 2017, U.S. consumer spending for education, food and health care substantially grew, crowding out spending for other categories like transportation and housing. The goods will have to deliver more “good” to the buyer, including health and wellness benefits.
Health Populi
JUNE 5, 2018
Health Populi’s Hot Points: One of the earliest and most important books on the benefits of “doing less” in healthcare was Shannon Brownlee’s Overtreated , which I’ve covered here in Health Populi since the start of the blog in 2007. It’s not enough to open up doctors notes to patients.
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