Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 16, 2025

UnitedHealth’s net income plummeted to its lowest level since 2019 amid hefty costs, including some from the Change cyberattack. CEO Andrew Witty also remembered slain executive Brian Thompson on a Thursday morning call.

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Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Hospital occupancy rates were higher in 2024 than 2019. If occupancy rates trend up, the nation could face a bed shortage by 2032, according to researchers.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 6, 2025

Two years later in 2019, the hospital introduced its EMR system, which combined patient data, including medical records, laboratory results, radiology reports, and updated treatment history. The app provides patients with access to hospital services and health-related information and improves communication between the hospital and patients.

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Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 6, 2023

Deb Edberg has been a practicing physician with Oak Street since 2019.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 2, 2025

Source: Image by freepik What You Should Know: – A new report commissioned by the Physicians Advocacy Institute (PAI) and conducted by Avalere reveals a significant decline in the number of independent physicians and medical practices in rural areas of the United States between January 2019 and January 2024.

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Healthcare Dive

AUGUST 18, 2022

Fewer than one in five primary care physicians electronically exchanged patient health information with public health agencies in 2019, according to a new report from the Office of the National Coordinator.

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Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 30, 2024

Insurers' MA earnings were 2% lower in 2022 than in 2019, signaling profits in the lucrative insurance program may be weakening.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 22, 2025

PROPOSAL In 2019, SMC implemented the first online system for issuing medical records in South Korea to address the growing demand for quick and safe medical records access. The hospital was met with challenges, however.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 25, 2025

Between 2019 and 2023, patient volume at U.S. urgent care centers increased by 60%. But while that surge in demand highlights urgent care's value, especially when compared with crowded hospital emergency rooms, there are significant improvements that can be made for better patient experience, a new report shows.

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Healthcare Dive

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The massive for-profit operator has allegedly shuttered services at Mission Health, the hospital system it acquired in 2019, violating the terms of its purchase agreement.

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Healthcare Dive

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The amount of messages Cleveland Clinic providers are answering on the portal has doubled since 2019, prompting the system to start billing for those that require more time and expertise.

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 26, 2022

Hospital labor expenses per patient alone increased about 20% from 2019 to 2021, according to a new report from the hospital lobby.

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Healthcare Dive

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Attorney General Josh Stein slammed staffing and service shortages at Mission Hospital after HCA acquired it in 2019. “Responsibility for this downward spiral rests entirely with HCA,” the lawsuit says.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 20, 2021

In 2019 Germany introduced its DiGA Fast Track process for rapid approval, testing, piloting and evaluation of health apps, which is open to all companies in the European Union (EU). I’m very direct with you – we will just replicate what works in Germany.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 17, 2025

Prime has seen improvements in this area since system-wide adoption began in 2019. "This resource has brought down the response times and intervention windows dramatically," he reported. "With any neurological condition, a quicker response time yields improved outcomes.

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Healthcare Dive

AUGUST 10, 2022

Hiring bias, which Cerner denies, resulted in a notable shortfall of Black and Asian hires for certain positions between 2015 and 2019, federal regulators allege.

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Compliancy Group

JANUARY 15, 2025

Solara, a direct-to-patient diabetes care supplier, filed a breach report in November 2019 regarding a phishing incident, launching an OCR investigation. In the phishing attack targeting Solara employee email accounts, a malactor was able to access their accounts from April to June 2019.

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Healthcare Dive

MARCH 30, 2022

Meanwhile, the percentage of claims for telehealth shot up from just 0.22% of all claims in 2019 to about 15% in 2020, as COVID-19 restrictions set in and patients worried of virus transmission.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

THE LARGER CONTEXT The family doctor system was introduced as part of health reforms establishing primary health centres in China in 2019. Two years later, it became a national strategy to establish the GP system. In 2013, family doctor contract services were piloted in rural areas before its nationwide implementation in 2016.

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 6, 2023

If funding in the next three quarters matches the average funding in the prior three, 2023 is on pace to see the lowest level of digital health funding since 2019, a new report from Rock Health found.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Another study also noted regional disparities in the number of ICU beds and length of stay from 2011 to 2019: two regions, Seoul and Gyeonggi-do, accounted for almost half of the country's total ICU beds and length of stay, which suggested centralisation of the health system, according to researchers.

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Healthcare Dive

JUNE 13, 2023

Between 2019 and 2022, fewer adults reported taking on medical debt or forgoing medical care due to cost, according to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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Healthcare Dive

JULY 20, 2023

Medicaid managed care organizations studied by the HHS’ Office of the Inspector General denied one out of every eight requests for prior authorization in 2019, and most states don’t regularly monitor whether denials are appropriate.

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AJPH

JUNE 12, 2025

American Journal of Public Health, Ahead of Print.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 30, 2025

One-third of family physicians remain in independently owned practice, 2017–2019. Congress can help stem the tide. Rittenhouse, D.R., Bazemore, A.W., Morgan, Z.J, and Peterson, L.E. The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine 34 (5): 1033-1034. eClinicalWorks. December 11, 2024. AI and the age of intelligence has arrived.

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 2, 2025

A collaboration between Express Scripts and Prime Therapeutics from late 2019 is under the legal microscope again, this time by the Michigan Attorney General. The state says the partnership amounted to collusion and led to pharmacy deserts across the state.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The Global Health Data Exchange : “The world’s most comprehensive catalog of surveys, censuses, vital statistics, and other health-related data,” including data from 1990 to 2019 on mortality and morbidity in 204 countries and territories, which spans 369 diseases, injuries, and impairments, and 87 risk factors.

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 14, 2025

The rate increase is the lowest since 2019. The American Hospital Association slammed it as inadequate.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 19, 2025

in 2019 to $0.19, in mid-2024, according to a new report from GoodRx. Key findings from the GoodRx research reveals: Insulin prices have fallen by 42% since 2019. in 2019 to $0.19 What You Should Know: – The average price per insulin unit dropped 42%, from $0.33 The drop represent the lowest average recorded in a decade.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 18, 2024

The uninsured rate in the U.S. has declined by 26% over the past several years, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. | The uninsured rate in the U.S. has declined by 26% over the past several years, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 8, 2024

digital health startups pulled in $5.7 billion across 266 deals in the first six months of 2024, marking continued momentum in the sector after a rocky few quarters last year. | digital health startups pulled in $5.7

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 17, 2021

’ … So now to have an area where I can look at all of that is very helpful," said Dr. Sumbul Desai, VP of health at Apple, in February 2019. "I will tell you, as a physician I’ll see patients in the ER … and a lot of times the questions we ask are ‘What kind of medications are you on?’

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Bill of Health

APRIL 28, 2025

This brief but busy history includes the 2019 acquisition of GEDmatch , which maintains approximately 2 million DNA profiles, by Verogen, a forensic genomics firm. This is not the first time a direct-to-consumer genetics company, including all of its customer data, has changed hands.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

More than half viewed clinical notes written by their provider – and in 2019, about 10% requested a correction of inaccurate portal information. More patients are also using their portals to communicate with providers: Roughly six in 10 did so in 2020, a 10 percentage point increase from 2017. The rate for 2020 was not available.).

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 5, 2023

Published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association , the ONC study by Richwine and her colleagues Christian Johnson and Vaishali Patel found that in 2019 and 2020, "black and Hispanic individuals were significantly less likely to report being offered and subsequently accessing their portal."

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Healthcare It News

JULY 29, 2022

In 2019, Vizient collaborated with Civica Rx on provider needs analytics data to reduce Rx costs. Last year, Cardinal Health announced the launch of a digital patient engagement platform aimed at addressing medication adherence challenges – a significant issue for the health industry and patients.

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Compliancy Group

DECEMBER 20, 2024

In late February of 2019, Gulf Coast discovered that between early September of 2018 and early February of 2019 (after the contractor stopped providing services), the contractor had impermissibly accessed Gulf Coasts electronic medical record (EMR) system and accessed the ePHI of approximately 34,310 individuals.

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