Bill of Health

JUNE 13, 2022

As medical care advanced — and categories like “ brain death ” emerged — doctors found themselves facing challenging new dilemmas and old ones more often. In the 1970s, the medical community was shaken by several high-profile lawsuits alleging unethical behavior by physicians.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

When scheduling a doctor’s appointment, patients must consider a variety of personal barriers, such as: travel time, time off work, childcare, and more. Especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, doctors were able to hold the necessary distance from potentially infectious patients while staying in touch digitally. 2017; 7: e016242.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2018

Underlying this clinical and economic phenomenon is obesity, which primary care doctors are challenged to deal with as a chronic condition along with typically co-occurring comorbidities of hypertension, diabetes, and hyperlipidemia. Because they are public goods, and the U.S. In the U.S., Why has this been the case?

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 16, 2023

While Ozempic was initially developed to manage Type 2 diabetes, its emerging potential for weight loss is captivating medical professionals and the public alike. How Ozempic Works: The Basics Ozempic is a weekly injection containing the active ingredient semaglutide, FDA-approved in 2017 for adults with Type 2 diabetes.

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Health Populi

APRIL 24, 2018

Among these people, healthcare trust fell by 20 percentage points between 2017 and 2018, a “crash” (Edelman’s descriptor) from 75 percent to 55%. Only Colombia had a larger decline in healthcare market trust among a country’s most-informed public. health ecosystem stakeholders. Why the 7-point drop?

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Health Populi

MAY 29, 2020

” than, “when can I return to my primary care doctor or cardiologist?” In the coronavirus quarantine era, millions of Americans have been staying home to flatten the curve, and it’s been working from the evidence-based, public health standpoint.

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MedTrainer

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

These agencies safeguard public health and ensure the competence and ethical conduct of providers. These agencies help maintain the integrity and quality of healthcare services in Florida , protecting the public and promoting patient safety. Eligible patients include Florida residents with specific qualifying conditions.

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Florida Health Care Law Firm

APRIL 10, 2022

It is no longer legally possible for a medical doctor to prescribe OxyContin to a patient and then make money for referring that patient to treatment when they developed an addiction within a year of regular use. In Florida, this was an especially important law.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 31, 2018

That hasn’t yet been available to those of us who quantify our steps, weight, sleep, food intake, and other health metrics. In 2017, Hugh Langley wrote in Wareable that, “blood pressure is wearable tech’s next challenge.” Knowing your blood pressure is an important step for managing the risks of heart disease.

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Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 27, 2021

That a pharmaceutical company executive is speaking on the main stage at CES speaks to digital health’s mainstreaming beyond elite athletes and smartwatches that track activity.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Three factors will drive healthcare costs to 2026: prices for medical goods and services, changes in income growth, and shifting enrollment from private health insurance to Medicare — driven by the aging of Boomers. per year, 2017-26, expected to hit $5.7 What are those “fundamentals” pushing up healthcare spending?

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Tahlia continuing her research examining topics related to psychology, clinical and research ethics, psychedelics, culturally-responsive trauma-informed care, and health disparities through doctoral study at the University of Ottawa with Dr. Monnica Williams at her Laboratory for Culture and Mental Health Disparities.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

But these stores aren’t necessarily seen as being “on my side” to help me bolster my health, consumers say. Food stores gained in trust between 2017 and 2018, illustrating the opportunity that a consumer’s favorite grocery store can leverage in a trusted relationship with a person keen on health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

” "Nearly overnight, as volumes dropped precipitously, the deadly pandemic thrust patients, doctors, pharmaceutical companies and payers headfirst onto virtual platforms and other digital technologies." “Regulators, for their part, have tried to smooth the way for a pivot to virtual during the public health emergency.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

As we emerge from a public health crisis that magnified and exacerbated health disparities, the need to address social determinants of health (SDOH) has reached a pivotal moment. In both social and healthcare, the pressure is mounting to address key drivers of health and amplify value-based care models. .

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Health Populi

MAY 1, 2018

Here’s my write-up of health, everywhere, at #SXSW2015 , including the Philips story. The serious public health data informing this campaign is that 85% of Europeans do not consume sufficient recommended quantities of fresh produce on a daily basis. The bar chart illustrates mean fruit and veg intake by European nation.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Government mandates were an impetus for change, starting with the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 to “promote the adoption and meaningful use of health information technology” (Office of Civil Rights (OCR), 2017).

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 5, 2018

In healthcare, being smart and mission-driven at the same time requires addressing the Quadruple Aim: those four pillars are to enhance the healthcare experience, to bolster health outcomes, to support clinicians (doctors, nurses, allied professionals) in their daily work and prevent burnout, and to lower per-patient costs.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

health care system every other year. adults ages 27-75 who had seen the same doctor at least once in the past year. 42% of Americans could afford a bill of $500 or less before they would have financial issues; 22% could afford between $501 and $2,500; and, 37% could afford more than $2,500 to pay for an unexpected health issue.

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Pharmacy Law Blog

APRIL 20, 2018

Washington, a former Jets football player, is hoping to force the hand of Congress and the White House by arguing that current federal policy is unconstitutional given marijuana’s health benefits. The complaint filed in September of 2017, argued the 1970 federal law classifying marijuana as a dangerous drug violates patients’ rights.

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Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2018

“Health agencies will have to become at least as sophisticated as other consumer/retail industries in analyzing a variety of data that helps uncover root causes of human behavior,” Gartner recommended in 2017. That’s because “health” is not all pre-determined by our parent-given genetics.

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Health Populi

JULY 12, 2021

Regarding the one-half of people who would be interested in an exercise class at a retail store, note that Hy-Vee grocery began collaborating on that concept with Orangetheory fitness in 2017. Health Populi’s Hot Points: A central pillar of user-centered design is to meet people where they “are.”

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Another arena in which CHIME is seeking to be a convener is in designing health IT approaches to address the opioid epidemic. A CHIME task force formed in honor of a member who lost a son to the epidemic in 2017 is working to pull together member organization best practices and identify regulatory barriers and opportunities.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Another arena in which CHIME is seeking to be a convener is in designing health IT approaches to address the opioid epidemic. A CHIME task force formed in honor of a member who lost a son to the epidemic in 2017 is working to pull together member organization best practices and identify regulatory barriers and opportunities.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

After the use of opioid prescriptions rose in the 1990s and 2000s, based on alleged false promises of safety, the truth about dependence and addiction was made clear when hundreds of local governments filed lawsuits against Purdue Pharma, maker of OxyContin, in 2017. Email: afox@himss.org Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 31, 2024

As the chart shows, healthcare security breaches are occurring twice as often as in 2017/2018, with two large healthcare data breaches reported each day on average in 2023. Just a few years ago it was alarming that large healthcare data security breaches were being reported at a rate of one a day.

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AIHC

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Doctors there were instructed to reclassify congestive heart failure as hypervolemia (an untracked diagnosis), and were instructed to admit veterans only as hospice patients, whose deaths would not be counted against the hospital. I believe healthcare, as a profession, is safe. The Perverse Incentive or Cobra Effect? Sound familiar ?

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AIHC

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Doctors there were instructed to reclassify congestive heart failure as hypervolemia (an untracked diagnosis), and were instructed to admit veterans only as hospice patients, whose deaths would not be counted against the hospital. I believe healthcare, as a profession, is safe. The Perverse Incentive or Cobra Effect? Sound familiar ?

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

symptoms of depression were three-times greater in April 2020 in the COVID-19 pandemic than in 2017-2018. In the U.S., adults during the coronavirus pandemic compared with pre-COVID-19, and what are the risk factors associated with depression symptoms?

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

SDOH interventions typically involve screening patients within a clinical setting using trusted health care providers (nurses, doctors, community health workers, case managers, social workers, etc.) Health-system based SDOH efforts are large and growing. The Age of SDOH Technology. million in 2019 to $75.7

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

.: Relatively high levels of obesity are literally weighing down Americans’ health status, contributing to higher rates of diabetes, raising risks for many cancers, and reversing gains made in heart disease. The 2017 U.S. Americans have relatively less access to a doctor when care is needed, the OECD report revealed.

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Kaiser Health News

APRIL 6, 2022

In presentations, they often share a 2017 study — conducted by an independent research institute at TROSA’s request — which found TROSA saves the state nearly $7.5 About 30% of its funding comes from government grants and contracts. million annually in criminal justice and emergency care costs.

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The Health Law Firm

APRIL 25, 2017

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law President Trump fired Vivek H. as the US Surgeon General on April 21, 2017, and replaced the nation's top doctor with a nurse. Dr. Murthy was replaced with Sylvia Trent-Adams, a nurse who is a career Public Health Service officer. Indest III, J.D., Murthy, M.D.,

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

CARPL’s technology platform is used by the world’s top healthcare organizations like the Singapore Government, Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston), Radiology Partners (Los Angeles), University Hospitals (Cleveland), I-MED Radiology (Australia), Albert Einstein Hospital (São Paulo), Clinton Health Access Initiative, to name a few.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 14, 2022

Arkansas governor says large businesses in state should not comply with Biden administration’s ‘oppressive vaccine mandate’ Arkansas health officials warn current COVID-19 surge could continue to skyrocket next week. Arkansas doctors pushing for more COVID-19 vaccinations among children. Apria to be Acquired in $1.6B

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Hall Render

JANUARY 28, 2022

California health system to outsource RCM jobs to Optum. New California public health rules make it harder to visit loved ones in nursing homes. Doctors withdraw request for hospital emergency protocols as Colorado COVID numbers seem to improve. Executive director of Colorado consumer health group to step down.

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 14, 2022

There have been calls from many healthcare stakeholder groups to align Part 2 regulations more closely with HIPAA to allow clinicians to view patients’ entire medical records, including SUD records, to get a complete view of a patient’s health history to inform treatment decisions.

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