HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Why, then, are medical libraries among the first services to be cut when hospitals and health systems trim their budgets? In December 2021, as the COVID-19 pandemic led to hospital department closures around the U.S., Those benefits are worth revisiting as the share of hospitals with registered medical libraries continues to fall.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 12, 2024

Risk Mitigation: REMS The FDA Amendments Act of 2007 gave the agency new authority to restrict distribution and use of approved drugs through something called Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS). You might think: if ketamine is available, will MDMA also be available via telehealth soon? The short answer is: probably not.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Hospital costs contribute to rising medical costs to 49% of health consumers. NPR covered this and other research in a piece on how non-profit hospitals could be driving up health care spending. In the words of NPR, “Hospitals are the largest individual contributor to health care costs in the U.S… Exacerbating U.S.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 19, 2023

HHIT currently services a large customer base that includes top-tier health systems, independent hospitals, and ambulatory networks, making them proficient in working with a wide array of clinical, financial, and administrative legacy systems. Triple Tree, Inc. served as HHIT’s exclusive financial advisor.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 4, 2023

Mayo Alao (Denver/Indianapolis offices) practices in the area of health care law with a focus on hospital and health system matters, regulatory and compliance issues, corporate transactions and hospital/physician alignment. McKinney School of Law in 2007. Mayo graduated from the Saint Louis University School of Law in 2015.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Therefore, a patient’s full record can be trapped in multiple systems across a hospital or health system setting. Storing historical data and maintaining these out-of-production systems can put a financial burden on hospitals and health systems. In 2007, Tom joined the board of Harmony Healthcare IT and became CEO in 2015.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 23, 2023

While the distribution of vaccines has allowed for a version of pre-pandemic life to resume, hospitals are still not recovered from the high rates of hospitalizations that occurred in March 2020, and the indirect costs of the pandemic continue to loom over the American population as a result of strained health systems.

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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. of the GDP and that PPO reached $28,166 — nearly two times the 2007 cost. Who’s responsible? of the U.S. .”

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The first chart illustrates that most people see each of the seven industries studied as wellness channels, from the more obvious health-oriented categories like skincare and food to hospitality (hotels and airlines), financial services, and automotive (which I’ve covered as far back as 2007 here on Health Populi).

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Health Populi

MAY 31, 2019

Over the ten years between 2007 and 2017, U.S. Furthermore, income disparity between wealthy Americans and people earning lower-incomes dramatically widened: between 2007-2017, income for high-income earners grew 1,305 percent more than lower-incomes.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 6, 2023

He’s also one of many Exalta patients who took advantage of a partnership with a local hospital to receive needed specialty care through a unique hybrid remote/in-person model. Background UMH-West is a hospital located approximately 9 miles southeast of downtown Grand Rapids in the suburb of Wyoming, Michigan.

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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%.

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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.

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Compliancy Group

APRIL 6, 2023

Since HITRUST was formed in 2007, 83% of health plans and 81% of health systems and hospitals, have adopted HITRUST standards. The framework also provides for tailoring security measures based on unique organizational factors such as type of organization, size, systems, and regulatory requirements.

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Health Populi

MAY 2, 2019

Today in America, electronic health records (EHRs) are implemented in most physician offices and virtually all hospitals. Just last month, Amazon announced HIPAA-compliant privacy bundled into Alexa skills with Atrium Health, Boston Children’s Hospital, CIGNA, ExpressScripts, Livongo, and Swedish Health Connect.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

When the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) developed the concept of the Triple Aim in 2007, it was founded on three pillars: enhancing patient experience, improving population health, and lowering per capita health care costs. Four in ten U.S. By 2014, Dr. Thomas Bodenheimer and Dr. As we consider re-investing in the U.S.

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The Health Law Firm

OCTOBER 9, 2012

the contractor for RAC audit services for 15 states and two US territories, will sort through claims filed by doctors and hospitals from as far back as October 1, 2007. These claims had previously been off-limits to RACS. Connolly, Inc.,

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Those were the early days of the formation of patient social networks [Patients Like me was founded in 2004, and WEGO Health and Stupid Cancer in 2007]. .” Trust and truth underpin health engagement, we learned in the first Edelman Health Engagement Barometer launched ten years ago.

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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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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

According to a December report from Akasa “74 percent of health systems and hospitals have automation in their revenue cycle; 46 percent of these same organizations use some form of AI.” In 2007, he developed a business intelligence solution and founded Interpoint Partners, LLC, where he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

According to a December report from Akasa “74 percent of health systems and hospitals have automation in their revenue cycle; 46 percent of these same organizations use some form of AI.” In 2007, he developed a business intelligence solution and founded Interpoint Partners, LLC, where he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 10, 2022

In 2007, the Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press published a Guide to Medical Privacy Law.

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Health Law Advisor

AUGUST 14, 2023

2] Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Spotlight: Physician-Owned Hospital Expansion Exception Requests – Changes Effective October 1, 2023 , available at [link] (last accessed August 2, 2023). [3] 5, 2007) (emphasis added). [5] 2, 2023). [2] 2, 2023). [4] 51011, 51019 (Sept. at 51020. [6]

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Founded in 2007, Rockbridge Growth Equity is a middle market private equity firm committed to helping both founder-operated and established companies accelerate growth and build long-term, sustainable value. For more information on CheckedUp, visit www.checkedup.com. About Rockbridge Growth Equity .

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Hall Render

AUGUST 24, 2023

addressed several issues raised by a Mississippi Critical Access Hospital (“the Hospital”) and its management company, both of which are owned by the same individuals. The qui tam complaint was filed by the Hospital’s former CEO in May 2007. Corporate Mgmt.,

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Pharmacy Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

I have seen cash taken from a mother (the wife of the alleged suspect) going into the delivery room at a hospital to give birth, when the cash had just been given to her by her mother to pay the hospital bill. Click here to read one of my previous blog posts regarding Medicare audits.

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New Jersey Healthcare Blog

JANUARY 12, 2022

The chapter applies to State psychiatric hospitals and DMHAS services. 10:191, Children’s Partial Care Programs, by the Department in 2007; and N.J.A.C. DMHAS has identified changes to be made to the rules but are too significant to be made part of this readoption. Additionally, an outdated reference to N.J.A.C. Patient Rights.

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Hall Render

MARCH 30, 2023

and 5%, the highest since September 2007. The increase poses challenges for hospitals , particularly for providers with lower credit ratings as they look to borrow funds, complete construction projects and control labor costs. The legislation would also limit sale-leaseback transactions on hospitals’ real estate.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 31, 2023

During the past 20 years, hospitals have consolidated and merged at an increasingly rapid rate , especially since 2010. A study on hospital market concentration found between 2007 and 2017, one single hospital system was serving 19% of the market — 11.2 million Americans. million Americans.

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Health Populi

JULY 16, 2021

Underlying these outcomes and financial inputs are the fact that in the 1990s, community-based care that paid attention to social determinants and social services shifted to more hospital-based, institutional care with worsening health disparities based on ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic status. A fixed population.

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Jane Sarashon

JULY 19, 2022

Some patients dealing with cancer at Mercy Health’s Lourdes Hospital have been supplied with gas cards. Here’s the Hospital’s Facebook page featuring their gratitude to FiveStar Food Mart, the American Cancer Society, and the Mercy Health Foundation. a gallon compared with $2.92 one year ago.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Almost a full week after the accident occurred, I woke up in a Phoenix hospital. From 2007-2012, I lived down the hallway in my Houston condominium from Robert Durst. In late November, I woke up in a hospital in Houston. I was out for an early start before a day at my first post-law school job in a federal courthouse.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

That core set of services covers consultations with doctors, tests and examinations, along with inpatient hospital care. Health Populi’s Hot Points: This last chart compares gains in life expectancy (longevity) between two periods, 2002-2007 and 2012-2017. In the U.S., The primary care “backbone” in the U.S.

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 29, 2022

1] E.g., Anna Edney, Kids’ Covid Hospitalizations Hit Record in U.S. 31, 2021), [link] (describing a record number of pediatric COVID-19 hospitalizations due to the omicron variant). [2] A full form of this Article is forthcoming in the Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality Vol. Omicron Surge , Bloomberg (Dec.

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Verisys

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Type 2 NPI are organizations and may include acute care facilities, health systems, hospitals, physician groups, assisted living facilities, and healthcare providers who are incorporated. The UPIN Registry was discontinued in 2007 when CMS replaced UPINs with NPI numbers as the preferred provider identification number.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Back to Indu, who recalled, “In 2007, we had a dream.” In the yin-and-yang riffing style that is the brand of this duo, Matthew continued in that vein of “breaking things,” invoking a metaphor of storming the castle walls or getting through a moat, those barriers that have prevented truly transforming health care.

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