Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Wisconsin hospitals filed 37% more lawsuits against patients from 2001 to 2018, study finds. Tue, 12/07/2021 - 12:07.

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Healthcare Dive

MARCH 27, 2024

Gross Medicare spending on the pricey drugs rose from $57 million in 2018 to $5.7 billion in 2022, according to a new analysis from the health policy group.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

AHA: Tax-exempt hospitals gave $105B in community benefits such as financial assistance in 2018. Thu, 09/09/2021 - 15:23.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 17, 2023

Nearly a quarter of inpatient admissions experienced an adverse event in 2018, Massachusetts hospital study finds dmuoio Tue, 01/17/2023 - 15:03

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Electronic Health Reporter

AUGUST 28, 2019

Data from AMGA’s 2019 Medical Group Compensation and Productivity Survey shows physician compensation increased in 2018, while changes in work relative value unit (wRVU) productivity remained low. The article Physician Pay Increased, Productivity Remained Stagnant in 2018, AMGA Survey Finds appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The Renton, Washington-based nonprofit health system will refund millions to settle allegations it skirted charity care obligations between 2018 and 2023.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Furthermore, voice technologies are “making noise,” according to Deloitte in A New Era in Mobile Continues, the 2018 Global Mobile Consumer Survey : US Edition. Note in the first bar chart that in 2018, 89% of those 45-54 and 74% of people 55 and over have “ready access” to a smartphone. which 1 in 2 U.S.

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 30, 2018

In the first three months of 2018, MobiHealthNews tracked 27 digital funding rounds comprising $700.9 million in collective funding, as well as two rounds with undisclosed totals.

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

The three key indicators of the company – registered users, monthly active users (MAU) and monthly paying users (MPU) continued to grow at a rapid rate in 2018. China’s one-stop healthcare ecosystem platform, Ping An Good Doctor, yesterday announced its first annual results since listing: the company recorded a revenue of RMB 3.34

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 6, 2018

Digital health-focused news from payers during the first quarter of 2018 generally focused on employee wellness and app-focused member engagement strategies, with a handful of similar partnerships or deals announced around the edges.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 25, 2023

New survey data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is reinforcing doctors’ warnings that the medical field is crumbling under a largely unaddressed mental health crisis and a | Survey data outlining healthcare workers' worsening mental health and workplace difficulties comes alongside new calls for action from the CDC and (..)

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Healthcare Dive

AUGUST 2, 2023

The government is alleging plan administrator UMR improperly denied thousands of ER and drug screening claims submitted between 2015 and 2018.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 13, 2018

Through a mix of studies, pilots, and deployments, the first quarter of 2018 saw a lot of providers moving deeper into digital health. Apple moves in 2018 At the same time, more moves by Apple and a lot of action from the federal government continued to create new possibilities for the space.

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HealthStream

DECEMBER 19, 2019

This guest blog post from VerityStream, A HealthStream Company, announces that the 2018 Annual Report on Medical Staff Credentialing has been released. It documents many ways in which the credentialing and privileging industry is changing at a rapid pace.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

November 14, 2018, is World Diabetes Day , and the International Diabetes Federation reminds us that this condition impacts the whole household — not just the person diagnosed with diabetes. The post The Growing State of Diabetes in America on World Diabetes Day 2018 appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. Why the family?

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Healthcare Dive

MARCH 28, 2023

Bertolini brings decades of experience in the payer sector — including overseeing Aetna’s $70 billion sale to CVS in 2018 — to Oscar as the insurer works toward profitability.

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Healthcare Dive

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Seventy-four percent of healthcare executives surveyed by a consulting firm said they felt burned out in the past six months, compared to 60% in 2018.

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 8, 2022

The draft guidance, which replaces a 2018 document, sets recommendations for how medical device companies should approach cybersecurity in premarket submissions.

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HealthStream

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Our survey of medical staff credentialing professionals occurred December 2017 – January 2018. You’ll see that organizations are still working hard to improve their credentialing processes, but there is still much to be accomplished. Here’s a limited view of five key findings from the survey.

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HealthStream

APRIL 15, 2020

In order to explore issues common in the medical staff credentialing process in more detail, a survey was conducted by VerityStream between December 2017 and January 2018. On a few key issues responses changed from the previous survey to the current survey.

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Health Populi

MARCH 8, 2018

Privacy and cybersecurity ranked the second highest priority to hospitals and healthcare providers polled in HIMSS 2018 Healthcare Leadership Survey. In January 2018, over 400,000 patient records were breached. In January 2018, over 400,000 patient records were breached. Providers put patient safety as #1.

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Health Populi

MARCH 7, 2018

This week at the 2018 annual HIMSS conference, telehealth is playing a mainstream role in discussions about right-sizing and right-placing healthcare. The evidence for telehealth’s tipping point is rooted in new research published today by Accenture on Patients + Doctors + Machines, Accentures’ 2018 Consumer Survey on Digital Health.

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Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Amazon's 2018 news also included new hires, machine-learning tools for healthcare organizations and more.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 11, 2018

As the CVS + Aetna merger crosses its last regulatory hurdle at the close of 2018, we enter 2019 facing a fast-growing and -morphing retail health landscape. The post Retail Health Ends 2018 With Big Plans for 2019 appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. — to grow their own consumer-facing muscles in 2019.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2024

The latest from Epic Research: Use of DNA stool tests for colon cancer screening has jumped 9x since 2018 , from 3% of all screenings to 31%, while fewer women are using oral antibiotics to treat acne. Also, 55% of practices allow staff more data access than they actually need to do their job.

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Health Populi

MAY 29, 2018

Trust has become a key currency in provider/patient/supplier relationships: 94% of health executives say treating customers as partners is important to gain trust, according to the Digital Health Tech Vision 2018 from Accenture. Finally, the Internet of Thinking rounds out Accenture’s five themes in the 2018 Health Tech Vision.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 1, 2024

Spending on GLP-1 drugs in Medicare Part D has spiked massively over the past several years, according to a new analysis from KFF.

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Health Populi

JUNE 1, 2018

Health care features prominently in the nearly-300 slides curated by Mary Meeker in her always- informative report on Internet Trends 2018. Meeker, of Kleiner Perkins, released the report as usual at the Code Conference, held this year on 30 May 2018 in Silicon Valley. 2015 – Musings with Mary Meeker on the digital/health nexus.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 16, 2018

World Food Day 2018 has four objectives: Don’t waste food. The post On World Food Day 2018, Imagine A Chef Cooking for Patients appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. At Health Populi and THINK-Health, we celebrate the birthday of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), allied with the United Nations.

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Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 11, 2023

23, is the former CEO of Express Scripts, the pharmacy benefit manager acquired by Cigna in 2018. Wentworth, who will become Walgreens CEO effective Oct.

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HealthStream

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Our survey of medical staff credentialing professionals occurred December 2017 – January 2018. You’ll see that organizations are still working hard to improve their credentialing processes, but there is still much to be accomplished. Here’s a limited view of five more key findings from the survey.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 3, 2018

The first half of 2018 has been another standout six months for digital health investments, which comprised a total of $3.4 billion according to Rock Health’s latest midyear report.

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The Health Law Firm

JANUARY 9, 2019

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On December 21, 2018, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it recovered more than $2.8 billion from False Claims Act (FCA) cases in 2018. By George F. Indest III, J.D., billion involved health care fraud.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 4, 2018

Rock Health and StartUp Health, two groups that track investment in digital health, have come out with their respective quarterly reports on funding in the space, and both agree on a couple of interesting insights: that Q1 2018 is the largest Q1 yet, that larger late-stage deals contributed disproportionately to that total, and that investment is increasingly (..)

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 20, 2021

A recent study published in Nature found 37% of deaths related to heat exposure around the world between 1991 and 2018 were related to global warming caused by humans. Moreover, one in three European deaths from heat between 1990-2018 is estimated to be attributed to human-induced global warming. THE LARGER CONTEXT.

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HealthStream

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The 2018 Annual Medical Staff Credentialing Survey identified big trends in terms of paperless credentialing, Automation of OPPE efforts, and general centralization and standardization of credentialing and privileging functions.

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