Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2021

with employer-sponsored health insurance worry that a major health event in their household could lead to bankruptcy, according to research gathered by West Health and Gallup in Business Speaks: The Future of Employer-Sponsored Insurance. Health Populi’s Hot Points: U.S. One-half of U.S.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 20, 2019

Now that the 2019 health insurance Open Enrollment period has concluded, healthcare industry stakeholders are watching closely for any shifts in consumer behavior regarding enrollment and the overall uninsured rate. After a record drop in the uninsured rate from 2008 to 2016 in response to […].

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 27, 2019

Ibex Medical Analytics, an Israel-based startup founded in 2016 which is developing their own AI-driven computational pathology cancer diagnosis system, recently completed an $11M Series A funding round led by aMoon Fund.

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Health Populi

JULY 25, 2022

Now, check out the second chart from The New Retail Health chapter of HealthConsuming : I often refer to this graphic as my Rodney Dangerfield-Aretha Franklin touchpoint, noting Rodney’s “I Don’t Get No Respect” and Aretha’s demand for “Respect.” healthcare system.

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The Health Law Firm

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

.; Law Clerk, The Health Law Firm In a David and Goliath legal battle, a whistleblower recently won a small victory against several large insurance companies accused of defrauding the Medicare Advantage Program. Ignorance Was Bliss: Medicare Payments for Over-Coded Diagnoses.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The HHS’ Office for Civil Rights has announced its second financial penalty of 2023 to resolve alleged violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Banner Health has agreed to pay a financial penalty of $1,250,000 and adopt a corrective action plan to resolve the alleged HIPAA Security Rule violations.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

This data is highly regulated and hospitals in the United States must comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA). According to data from the National Institute of Health (NIH) one of the most effective tools to help prevent the loss of this PHI data and reduce time lost to cyberattacks is data backup.

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HIPAA Journal

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

million being defrauded from Medicaid, Medicare, and private health insurance programs. According to the FBI, more than $43 billion was lost to these scams between June 2016 and December 2021, and in 2021 alone, the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center received reports of losses of $2,395,953,296 to BEC scams. million, and $6.4

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Patient care is covered by Medicare and is available under most major insurance providers. Founded in 2016, XRHealth is the first company to create virtual reality clinics that provide remote care to patients throughout the United States and is covered by most major health insurance companies as well as medicare.

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Jane Sarashon

MARCH 3, 2025

We learned a lot about health equity and disparities during the pandemic: one key driver of health (or social determinant of health, SDoH) which had been one of my talking points since writing about it in the Huffington Post in 2016 was connectivity — the Internet kind of connection. health care.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 9, 2019

All health/care is retail now in America. who have health insurance must take on a deductible of some amount, which compels that insured individual to spend the first dollar on medical services up until they meet their financial commitment. I say this as most people in the U.S. In the median U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2024

He leads ClearDATA’s internal privacy, security, and compliance strategies as well as advises on the security and privacy risks faced by customers, which include global healthcare organizations, health insurance companies, providers, life science companies, and market-leading innovators from Asia Pacific, North America, and Europe.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 31, 2024

Tell the readers about your career in the healthcare industry I have been building marketing software for years and focused on healthcare marketing software beginning in 2016. He wanted to work with patients who needed a certain surgical intervention and ideally had non-government health insurance.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

workers were enrolled in a high-deductible health plan in the first 9 months of 2017, according to the latest research published by the National Center for Health Statistics, part of the Centers for Disease Control in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Over four in 10 U.S. million Americans in 2017.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 11, 2022

Protenus has been releasing annual Breach Barometer reports since 2016, and the number of healthcare data breaches has increased every year, with the number of breached records increasing every year since 2017. The data for the report was provided by databreaches.net.

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Bill of Health

JULY 26, 2022

Department of Health and Human Service estimates , the total per capita lifetime health spending (in 2016 dollars) is $414k; if health care spend increases 3% greater than overall inflation (quite likely), that number would be $2.3 Amazon Health Insurance? First, health care is hard and expensive.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 29, 2022

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has announced its first financial penalties of 2022 to resolve alleged violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Three of the cases were settled with OCR, and one resulted in a civil monetary penalty being imposed.

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The Digital Health Corner

JULY 17, 2017

A 2016 study published in the Journal of Patient Safety demonstrated a 17-30% reduction of in-hospital adverse events in patients with cardiovascular diagnoses, pneumonia or a diagnosis leading to surgery when a fully electronic EHR is used. RFID and other advanced digital technologies have been developed to help in this regard.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Americans who have commercial health insurance (say, through an employer or union) are rarely thought to face barriers to receiving health care — in particular, primary care, that front line provider and on-ramp to the health care system. visits per 100 member-years.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2021

To pay for health care expenses, the average nest-egg required for a couple retiring in the U.S. in 2021 will be $300,000 according to the 20th annual Fidelity Investments Retiree Health Care Cost Estimate.

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Health Populi

APRIL 24, 2018

Otherwise, the news is negative across the remaining four segments: consumer health is the second most-trusted segment, by 56% of Americans, but dropped by 7 percentage points from 2017. Biotech is roughly tied for second place with consumer health, dropping also by 7 points. But you may be asking, “What happened in Colombia?

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Health Populi

APRIL 2, 2018

It’s important to note that equal numbers of Democrats and Republicans were worried about healthcare between 2014 and 2016 as the Affordable Care Act was being implemented. I covered EBRI’s poll here in Health Populi earlier this year, explaining that, “Workers dissatisfaction with U.S. Gallup interviewed 1,041 U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Milliman IntelliScript® , an insurtech company with risk assessment solutions for life and health insurers, has acquired OneRecord , a digital healthcare company that empowers consumers to access, aggregate, and share their healthcare data with the people and organizations they trust using standards-based APIs.

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HIPAA Journal

APRIL 5, 2024

The lawsuit was dismissed in 2016 due to a lack of standing, as the plaintiffs failed to allege a concrete, identifiable injury had been sustained as a result of the breach. The lawsuit, which named seven policyholders as plaintiffs, alleged breach of contract and violations of the Consumer Protection Acts in Maryland and Virginia.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

especially, affordable healthcare depends on having health insurance. Research shows that people of color fare far worse than their white counterparts in the areas of health insurance coverage, access, health status, outcomes, behaviors and social determinants of health. Financial burdens In the U.S.

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The Health Law Firm

MARCH 31, 2016

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On March 21, 2016, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) launched a new round of audits to help ensure compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), especially its Privacy Rule and Security Rule.

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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2018

Health Populi’s Hot Points: What most U.S. health citizens agree on is fairness about health premiums and health insurance access for sick and well people, alike. While 41% of voters are unfavorable, some 8% still don’t know or can’t say how they feel about the law.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 7, 2018

National health care spending growth slowed in 2017 to the post-recession rate of 3.9%, down from 4.8% Per person, spending on health care grew 3.2% Growth in utilization of medical services dramatically slowed from 2016 to 2016-17 as the bar chart shows. Healthcare spending in America is a $3.5

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Healthcare Consumer Survey from TransAmerica ‘s Center for Health Studies underscores that Americans are “settling in” during a phase of “healthcare uncertainty.” ” The first chart illustrates the top sources of stress gauged in each of the past four years of this survey since 2016.

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HIPAA Journal

JULY 18, 2023

On April 25, 2023, PMC confirmed the affected information included names, contact information, demographic information, date of birth, state identification numbers, medical record numbers, diagnosis and treatment information, provider name(s), date(s) of service, prescription information, and/or health insurance information.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Our industry has undergone several iterations of consumer data protection rules — starting in 1996 with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA ). In 2009, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act , HITECH for short, became law, setting standards for electronic health records.

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The Health Law Firm

DECEMBER 7, 2015

The pending acquisition of Cigna by Anthem would cover approximately 53 million medical members resulting in the formation of the nation's largest health insurance company. The transaction is expected to close in late 2016. However, shareholders' support alone is not sufficient to complete the merger.

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The Health Law Firm

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On November 4, 2016, a federal judge sentenced Landon Eckles, a former manager at Warner Chilcott, to one year of probation and a $10,000 fine after he pled guilty to wrongful disclosure of protected health information (PHI). By George F. Indest III, J.D.,

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HIPAA Journal

JULY 14, 2022

The breach was detected on April 20, 2022, with the forensic investigation confirming an unauthorized third-party had accessed the IT networks of Baptist Medical Center or Resolute Health Hospital between March 31 and April 24, 2022, and removed files containing sensitive patient data.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The regulations may provide an opportunity for health insurers to attract new members – and retain existing ones – with hearing loss. Amplifon partners with health care organizations to administer hearing benefits to their members. . Epub 2016 Aug 23. Expanding membership. million U.S. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2016.303299.

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The Health Law Firm

AUGUST 31, 2016

Law Clerk, The Health Law Firm On August 16, 2016, Health Net Inc. The health insurance company paid the penalty without admitting or denying the SEC’s allegations. By Miles Indest, J.D./M.B.A.;

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The Health Law Firm

AUGUST 9, 2016

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On August 4, 2016, one of Illinois' largest hospital chains agreed to pay $5.5 million in settlement for lax data security and breaches of protected health information for millions of patients. Indest III, J.D.,

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