HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Comprehensive Health Services Notifies 94,449 Patients About September 2020 Cyberattack. Comprehensive Health Services, a Cape Canaveral, FL-based provider of workforce medical services and subsidiary of Acuity International, has recently announced it was the victim of a cyberattack that was detected on September 30, 2020.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2020

In CTA’s 2020 Consumer Tech Forecast launched yesterday at Media Day 1 at CES, Steve Koenig VP of Research, said that, “digital health is an ecosystem of ecosystems.”. The post “Digital Health Is An Ecosystem of Ecosystems” – CTA’s 2020 Trends to Watch Into the Data Age appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

and post-pandemic job growth in 2021, the cost of health insurance premiums rose faster than either the price of goods or wages. That family health plan premium reached $22,221, an increase of 22% since 2016, we learn in the annual report from Kaiser Family Foundation, 2021 Employer Health Benefits Survey.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

households entered 2020 in the best financial shape they’d been in years, based on new Census data released earlier this week. Census Bureau found that the level of health insurance enrollment fell by 1 million people in 2019 , with about 30 million Americans not covered by health insurance. However, the U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 19, 2020

Imagine this: you find yourself with $6,553 in your pocket and you can pick one of the following: A new 2020 Breitling Navitimer watch; A year’s in-state tuition at Valdosta State University; or, A PPO for an average individual. In 2020, that $12K+ represents over 18% of the median household income in the U.S.

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HIPAA Journal

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The investigation also uncovered unauthorized access to email accounts, with the email accounts accessed by unauthorized individuals at various points over the preceding 8 months, between December 22, 2020, and July 15, 2021. This post will be updated when the scale of the breach is known.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 22, 2020

But in developed, wealthier parts of the world, like the U.S., “a record number of countries are experiencing an all-time high ‘mass-class’ trust divide,” according to the 2020 Edelman Trust Barometer.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

In 2020, national health expenditures (NHE) in the United States will exceed $4 trillion to cover 334.5 of health spending per person. The three largest line items of NHE in 2020 will be: Hospitals = $1,326 trillion = 38% of NHE. Together, these three categories will comprise just over 80% of health spending in 2020.

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Health Populi

JULY 13, 2020

Advertising Age announced their list of the top 20 brands in 2020 this week. ” Health Populi’s Hot Points: Even before the coronavirus pandemic, patients in the U.S. COVID-19 accelerated trends already in place by early 2020. In the U.S., In the U.S., Dr. Fauci, stay strong. Your brand certainly is.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

(You can read more about Broussard’s consumer-centric approach discussed at HIMSS 2015 here in Health Populi ). as a “health insurance company” evolving to its vision as technology-informed health care. Thus began the reinvention of Humana from V 1.0

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Health Populi

JANUARY 10, 2020

The digital health presence at CES 2020 is the fastest-growing segment of consumer technologies at the Show this year, increasing by 25% over 2019. In fact, in our search for devices and tools underpinned with clinical proof, evidence is growing for consumer-facing technology for heart-health, demonstrated by this year’s CES.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 15, 2023

South Korea's Ministry of Health and Welfare has released its report on the conduct of temporary telemedicine during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. million people from February 2020 to January 2023. FINDINGS According to the report, over 25,000 medical institutions provided remote treatment to 13.79

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2022

Declines in preventive care services like cancer screenings and blood glucose testing concern employers, whose continued to cover health insurance for employees during the pandemic. As a result, commercial healthcare spending fell in 2020, rebounding in 2021. compared with 916,7 visits per 1000 members in 2020.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2019

In 2020, large employers will be “doubling down” efforts to control health care costs. Key strategies will include deploying more telehealth and virtual health care services, Centers of Excellence for high-cost conditions, and getting more personal in communicating and engaging through platforms.

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2021

A major side-effect of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 was its impact on the national U.S. In 2021, patients-as-health-consumers seek lower health care and prescription drug costs coupled with higher quality care, discovered by the patient advocacy coalition, Consumers for Quality Care. population). population).

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Currently, less than 2% of the health insurance population requiring specialty drugs is responsible for 51% of drug spending. The cost of specialty drugs in the US is spiraling out of control, increasing 12% from 2020 to 2021 alone, with no sign of slowing down due to the increase of cell and gene therapies expected to come to market.

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Health Populi

APRIL 19, 2021

To gauge Americans changing perspectives on personal health, HealthLine conducted surveys among 1,533 U.S. consumers age 18 and over in February 2020 (just about the time the coronavirus pandemic was emerging in the U.S.) and 1,577 consumers in December 2020. were cooking more at home by December 2020.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Blue Shield says it will standardize its datasets and scale its ongoing automated billing efforts by integrating Google Cloud technologies and those from the health insurance company's other tech partners.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 19, 2021

peoples’ expectations of their health care experience is melding with their best retail experience — and that’s taken a turn toward their digital and ecommerce life-flows. The study was fielded between October 2020 and September 2021. In the U.S., Outpatient care inched up from 73 to 74. All other plans landed at 73.

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American Medical Compliance

DECEMBER 26, 2023

On December 27, 2020, the United States Congress adopted the No Surprises Act (NSA) as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, which has various provisions to assist in protecting customers against unexpected costs beginning January 1, 2022. The following course highlights the NSA and how it impacts healthcare.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 13, 2023

As the heatmap chart illustrates, health insurance ranks relatively low in peoples’ simplicity lens, akin to general insurance, media, and automotive, and below booking travel (air, train, car rental), and social media. ” Think of it as an ROI on delivery simplicity to health care experiences.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 7, 2023

transactions each year for more than 347,000 healthcare providers and 8,000 health insurance payers. THE LARGER TREND Cognizant began partnering with Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare after its late 2020 launch and last year, leveraged cloud services in order to enhance virtual health offerings with remote patient monitoring tools.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 27, 2023

The initial review of files that were potentially compromised in the breach was completed on March 6, 2023, and confirmed that names, medical record numbers, treating/referring physician names, health insurance information, subscriber numbers, medical history information, and diagnosis/treatment information may have been accessed or acquired.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 20, 2021

” The DiGA initiative, created under the 2019 Digital Healthcare Act (DVG), means doctors can prescribe apps to the 73 million German citizens covered by public health, with costs reimbursed through health insurance.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

voters did not vote in the 2020 presidential election, pointing to structural barriers such as onerous voter registration requirements, inflexible voting hours, long lines in polling locations, and cynicism about government which can be dispiriting to some voters. But she reminds us that one-third of eligible U.S.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 11, 2022

905 incidents are included in the report, which is a 19% increase from 2020. The largest healthcare data breach of the year occurred affected Florida Healthy Kids Corporation, a Tallahassee, FL-based children’s health plan. The time taken to discover a data breach decreased by 30% since 2020.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Even with the prospect of enrolling in Medicare sooner in a year or two or three, Americans approaching retirement are growing concerned about health care costs, according to a study in JAMA Network Open. One-half said they weren’t confident in their ability to afford health insurance in or near retirement.

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Health Populi

MAY 21, 2020

adults 18 to 74 years of age in the first week of May 2020. There are other forms of fear taking hold of the COVID-19 era health consumer: namely, financial anxiety in the wake of the pandemic. Nearly every respondent in the study reported having health insurance coverage. ACHP and AMCP polled 1,263 U.S.

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HIPAA Journal

AUGUST 4, 2022

Dental Care Alliance said its systems were compromised on September 18, 2020, the breach was detected on October 11, 2020, and was contained on October 13, 2020. Individuals were notified about the breach in December 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 24, 2021

But lawmakers worry the promise of telehealth may not be fully realized for children, particularly those enrolled in the Children’s Health Insurance Program. Burgess, R-Texas, introduced the Telehealth Improvement for Kids’ Essential Services, or TIKES, Act of 2020. This past October, U.S. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2021

For the report, RAND researchers examined insurance claims from more than six million people with employer-based health insurance in 2019 and 2020. They examined the number of care encounters and types of services received by these enrollees from January 2019 through July 2020. Robin Kelly, D-Ill.,

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Despite the important enactment in 2010 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), which increases access to care by expanding Medicaid eligibility and protecting insurance coverage of people with pre-existing health conditions and disabilities, more than 25 million people remain uninsured.

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Health Populi

JULY 16, 2020

The median charge for hospitalizing a patient with COVID-19 ranged from $34,662 for people 23 to 30, and $45,683 for people between 51 and 60 years of age, according to FAIR Health’s research brief, Key Characteristics of COVID-19 Patients published July 14th, 2020. privately-insured people.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Umass Memorial Health has proposed a $1.2 million settlement to resolve a class action lawsuit that was filed on behalf of individuals affected by its 2020 hacking incident and data breach.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2021

Using data from Blue Health Intelligence data repository – an independent data and analytics company that is a licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association – researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health compared claims data from March through June 2019 with March through June 2020.

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2021

A major side-effect of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 was its impact on the national U.S. In 2021, patients-as-health-consumers seek lower health care and prescription drug costs coupled with higher quality care, discovered by the patient advocacy coalition, Consumers for Quality Care. population). population).

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, health care spending in the U.S. This year, medical cost trend will rise by 7.0%, expected to decline a bit in 2022 according to the annual study from PwC Health Research Institute , Medical Cost Trend: Behind the Numbers 2022. increased by a relatively low 6.0%

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