Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

in 2017, 54.4% "Physician shortages, already projected to be severe before COVID, have almost become a public health emergency," he added. WHY IT MATTERS. The study, published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, found that the prevalence of burnout among U.S. physicians was 62.8% in 2021, compared with 38.2% in 2020, 43.9%

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

The prevalence ( if not ubiquity ) of broadband, combined with fast-advancing robotics, ingestible technologies and wearable sensors as thin and lightweight as temporary tattoos – to name just a few recent innovations – are set to transform "medical services, public health, social services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 18, 2019

The Guam Department of Public Health and Social Services has to cope with a very serious tuberculosis problem. Guam has an extremely high rate of TB: In 2017, the case rate of TB in Guam was 50.2 THE PROBLEM. per 100,000 residents, compared to the mainland U.S. per 100,000 residents. Guam also has a huge number of non-U.S.-born

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HIPAA Journal

AUGUST 31, 2022

The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) has issued a warning to the healthcare and public health sector (HPH) about one of the most capable and aggressive cybercrime syndicates currently in operation – Evil Corp.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 11, 2019

However, the challenge lies in how government institutions such as the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) can meaningfully engage the private healthcare sector in moving towards VBHC.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 2, 2022

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) has issued a warning to the U.S. health sector about potential cyber threats that could spill over from the conflict and affect U.S. healthcare organizations.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: In the report’s discussion, KFF recognizes that this year’s study, the 22nd annual, was fielded in the unprecedented time of the coronavirus pandemic. Job losses in the public health crisis have resulted in millions of American workers and families losing health benefits.

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Bill of Health

JUNE 7, 2022

1] JAMA opinion pieces did cite the 2017 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association joint report on guidelines regarding the prevention, detection, evaluation, and management of high blood pressure in adults on five occasions. Black Lives Matter, and Black knowledge production matters, too. [1]

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

BMC Public Health. 2017; 7: e016242. DOI:10.1136/bmjopen-2017-016242. Adv in Health Sci Educ. 2017; 8: 399–409. Using Telehealth to Reduce All-Cause 30-Day Hospital Readmissions among Heart Failure Patients Receiving Skilled Home Health Services. Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare.

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HIPAA Journal

APRIL 19, 2022

A study conducted by Bai, Jiang, and Flasher in 2017 found the risk of data breaches was higher at large academic medical centers than at other hospitals. A simple email can lead to big changes,” said Dr. Ge Bai, a professor at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School and Bloomberg School of Public Health, and corresponding author of the study.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

This report details how the National Health Service in the UK — the largest health care delivery system and single payor in the world — developed a model of “digital health hubs” to help address widening health inequities made worse through digital divides in the United Kingdom.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 13, 2023

Claims that these health benefits were clinically or scientifically proven were also made. As the FTC complaint reveals , from 2014 to 2017, ZyCal generated gross sales minus returns of more than $3.1 million to health professionals and more than $1.5 This product was sold directly to consumers and to healthcare professionals.

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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

JUNE 3, 2019

asserted that by 2011, human health was marked less by infectious disease and more by non-communicable conditions that could be highly influenced, reversed and prevented through self-care by the individual and public health policy that promotes social and financial wellness. And I daresay, health reform.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2018

” The authors recommend that public health leaders and policy makers address the obesity trend when designing “policies and interventions to improve the public’s health.” The 2017 Gallup-Sharecare Well-Being Index found West Virginia ranked last of the 50 states in terms of citizen health.

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Jane Sarashon

APRIL 14, 2025

An historic sidebar: read this origin story of Jean Nidetch here in a 2017 New York Times essay – it’s a great yarn that still rings all too true in the swipe-left-online-dating era].

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) Sector has been warned about cyberattacks involving Akira ransomware , of which there have been at least 81 since the new ransomware variant was discovered in May 2023. In 2017, another ransomware variant was identified that was also called Akira but the latest attacks do not appear to be related.

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Health Populi

MAY 29, 2020

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. But this first-wave impact of the pandemic and #StayHome mandates have exacted a price on financial and mental health.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

As cars grow more connected via Bluetooth like our TVs, autos morph into a third space for health, which I’ve considered here in Health Populi and in some of my futures work with clients.

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Bill of Health

JULY 14, 2023

Public Health Service’s (USPHS) Syphilis Study at Tuskegee , whose revelation to the public sparked today’s legal schema for regulating and protecting the research it funds (the “Common Rule”), as well as research done in anticipation of receiving FDA approval for marketing a new product. While the U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Consumers point to some organizations that they perceive may be working against their better health: these include fast food manufacturers, the entertainment industry, food processors (“Big Food”), the media, government agencies, and health insurance companies. Health care delivery in the U.S.

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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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Health Populi

APRIL 25, 2023

The dip in patient volumes is easy to see in 2019-20, followed by the hockey stick increase in 2020-21 for utilization, signally some patients’ return to health care services. between 2017 and 2021. Inpatient costs fell just below the prescription drug share of spending per person in the U.S.

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Jane Sarashon

JUNE 1, 2022

MMI 2018 Health Care for Typical Working Family of Four in America Will Cost $28,166. MMI 2017 Health Care Costs for Family of Four Will Reach $27,000 in 2017. MMI 2019 Milliman Finds PPO for Family of 4 in 2019 Will Cost $28,386.

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Health Populi

JULY 16, 2020

There was a bounce in “Confident” group in 2019, which fell by 10% just months later to nearly the 2017 level. The tagline explaining #2 here especially resonates int his moment: “The huge job losses brought about by COVID-19 were a vivid illustration of how public health can impact the nation’s economic progress.”

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Health Populi

AUGUST 3, 2018

A new poll jointly conducted by Politico and the Harvard Chan School of Public Health bolsters my read on the latter issue – prescription drug pricing, which has become a mass popular culture union. There’s growing evidence that a majority of U.S. for several years across political party lines.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2021

At the same time, 2 in 3 people were also concerned aobut the privacy of their health information on apps. And there’s the ambivalence of “concerned embrace” of digital health. The phrase “concerned embrace” was coined in a 2017 Deloitte consumer study on mobile technology trends.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

concerned about state citizens’ public health in the era of COVID-19. We fast-forward to the era of cloud computing and AI to find that Microsoft has adopted the health citizen persona in their work with health systems around the world, such as in this explanation on democratizing AI to improve citizen health , published in 2017.

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Bill of Health

JULY 17, 2023

As argued by feminist scholar Sara Ahmed (2017: 237) , “ when a whole world is organised to promote your survival, from health to education, to the walls designed to keep your residence safe, to the paths that ease your travel, you do not have become so inventive to survive. ”

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HIT Consultant

MAY 9, 2022

The legislation mandated healthcare providers to modernize their internal recordkeeping, allowing for the swifter dissemination of medical information to support public health efforts and better medical care.

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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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Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Between 2017 to 2021, there was also significant movement in a few other areas: identity and self-esteem (up 11 points from 2017), as well as control and reality (up 7 points between 2017 to 2021). We’ve seen more financial and money-focused media bringing health care cost stories under their mastheads.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 15, 2024

Innovalve’s Pioneering Mitral Valve Technology Founded in 2017 at ARC Innovation, Innovalve has been at the forefront of developing a minimally invasive approach to mitral valve replacement. Soon we will see more and more deals of this kind, the fruits of which strengthen and develop the public health system. ”

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2018

This asked people whether they would prefer a government-run health system. Most say, “no,” a proportion falling from the high of 47% “yes” in 2017 to 40% this year. See the second chart, reported in a recent study by the Harvard Chan School of Public Health on Being Seriously Ill in the U.S. .

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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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C&M Health Law

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

At a European level, medical devices are regulated by Regulation (EU) 2017/745 (the Medical Device Regulation), which replaced Directive 93/42/EEC (the Medical Device Directive). The existing regulatory framework for medical devices. The new royal decrees for in vitro diagnostic medical devices.

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Public Health Governance Hospitals 52

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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