Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Bupa Arabia , the Saudi-owned and publicly traded health insurance company, has just announced its backing of the Dubai-based online appointment booking platform, Okadoc. The two MENA businesses have signed a “strategic partnership”, which includes an undisclosed equity investment by Bupa Arabia in Okadoc.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

“Every company is a tech company,” Christopher Mimms asserted in the Wall Street Journal in December 2018. You can read more about Broussard’s consumer-centric approach discussed at HIMSS 2015 here in Health Populi ). Thus began the reinvention of Humana from V 1.0

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Compliancy Group

JANUARY 24, 2025

A clear understanding of health information breaches is necessary to comply with regulations like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Data breaches in healthcare increased by 239% from January 2018 to September 2023. There was also a 278% jump in ransomware attacks in the same period.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The AI might misinterpret images from patients with darker skin tones and fail to diagnose melanoma due to sampling bias (Adamson & Smith, 2018). The Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act (HIPAA) mandates strict data privacy and security measures for AI systems handling protected health information (PHI).

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2018

The study, Adjuvant Chemotherapy Guided by a 21-Gene Expression Assay in Breast Cancer, was published in The New England Journal of Medicine on June 3, 2018, coinciding with the researchers’ ASCO presentation of the results. ” A genetic test that costs $3,000 helps to identify women who could benefit from avoiding chemo.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2022

Fast-forward through the 1990s and the advent of PBMs — pharmacy benefit management companies — the intermediaries managing drug benefits for health insurance plans. Today, the three largest PBMs, processing about 4 in 5 retail prescription claims, are embedded in large health insurance companies.

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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.

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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

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

One-third of Americans would opt into using a personal monitoring system 24/7 by an insurance company or health care provider in exchange for lower-cost insurance. 1 in 4 people would work with an artificial intelligence (AI) technology for lower health care costs.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

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. In fact, the number of uninsured Americans rose by 2 million people in 2018 , and by 1.9 lacked health insurance.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2021

Year-on-year, different spikes and ups-and-downs call out for special mention, such as: Pharma’s 13-point steep dive to 38% between 2017 and 2018, dramatically recovering by 9 points in the last year to 47% [with the wild card here of whether U.S. Hospitals’ fall from 70% to 63% between 2018 and 2019.

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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. But Castlight expects a flat-line in PMPM spending for 2022, leveling out at $4,232 per member/per month for commercially-insured employees.

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Health Populi

APRIL 9, 2018

consumers rank supermarkets, fast food chains, retailers, and banks as their top performing industries for experience according to the 2018 Temkin Experience Ratings. Peoples’ experience with health plans rank at the bottom of the roster, on par with rental cars and TV/Internet service providers.

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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. With Lyfegen’s patent-pending platform, health insurances & hospitals can implement and scale value-based healthcare, improving access to treatments, patient health outcomes and affordability. “We

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

“Consumers are not disciplined about saving in general,” with saving for healthcare lagging behind other types of savings, Alegeus observes in the 2018 Alegeus Consumer Health & Financial Fluency Report. Thus Alegeus says that peoples’ overall health insurance fluency is low.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 22, 2020

Due to a deficiency in the security architecture, the insured master data system was partially disrupted from 27 May this year, meaning that for around eight weeks doctors were not able to transfer patient master data. Last year Spahn, launched the Health Innovation Hub , in a step to drive digital transformation of the healthcare system.

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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2021

. — in particular, impacts on mental health, access to care, and health equity and d isparities the latter of which have been a research focus from the initiation of this research. I participated with the Aetna Foundation and team on examining the health equity aspects of this study in 2018, linked here.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 9, 2022

The data mostly related to patients who were insured through Humana and received medical services from Platinum providers at acute hospitals and other medical facilities in the Las Vegas area between approximately October 2018 and March 2022.

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Health Populi

JULY 15, 2018

The cost of a healthcare data breach is $408, nearly three-times the cross-industry average, revealed in the 2018 Cost of a Data Breach Study: Global Overview , from IBM Security and the Ponemon Institute. This 2018 report found the average cost of a data breach globally was $3.86 million, up 6.4%

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2022

Consider: fighting health insurance appeals, crafting countless medical necessity letters, justifying being discharged against medical orders, and other battles fought hand-in-hand with her husband on behalf of Emmett and his well-being.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Among stresses facing people at least 50 years of age, health care costs rank top of mind compared with other issues like long-term care, health insurance, Social Security, taxes, and being read to retire. Note that projected health care costs in retirement grew 23% in the four years prior to 2018, according to EBRI.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

There’s no mistaking that more Supercenters are located in areas with greater levels of people without insurance based on data from 2019 (Walmart store location count) and 2018 (uninsured rates). This week, too, The Wall Street Journal analyzed the impact of insurer-owned retail clinics’ potential threat to hospitals.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Among people who have health insurance, managing the costs of their medical care doesn’t rank as a top frustration. Instead, attending to health and wellbeing, staying true to an exercise regime, maintaining good nutrition, and managing stress top U.S. health-insured adults in July 2018.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Those costs are shown in the household expenditure table here, illustrating that by 2018, the median household expenditures in the U.S. Note how health insurance, in particular, swelled as a component of family budgets more than housing, transportation, and college education. could barely be covered by median household income.

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Bill of Health

JULY 26, 2022

Indeed, it does appear that Amazon is methodically stitching together a series of assets that over the next few years will better reveal the scope of its health care strategy. With significant fanfare, the January 2018 the formation of the health care consortium Haven with Berkshire Hathaway and J.P. Amazon Health Insurance?

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

The loss of clinical autonomy, through strict utilization review, protocols, and heavy-handed health insurance interventions also contribute to doctors’ ill feelings and compromised productivity. Across political party, most Americans also favor some flavor of universal health insurance. The post Most U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

It’s National Health IT Week in the US, so I’m kicking off the week with this post focused on how digital health can bolster economic development. As the only health economist in the family of the 2018 HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors, this is a voice through which I can uniquely speak. GDP, in 2018.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 18, 2023

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights is the main enforcer of HIPAA compliance; however, state Attorneys General also play a role in enforcing compliance with the Rules of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). million 78.8 million 78.8 million 78.8 million 78.8

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 16, 2023

In July 2018, MedEvolve informed OCR that an error had been made configuring an FTP server. The exposed information included names, billing addresses, telephone numbers, health insurer information, doctor’s office account numbers, and, for some individuals, Social Security numbers. 164.308(a)(1)(ii)(A).

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 8, 2024

Read more… Reforming Health Insurance by Automating It. Only 53% of health insurance premiums go back to members as benefits. When it comes to bringing AI to RCM, Austin Ward at Fathom recommended organizations consider automation rate, accuracy, EHR compatibility, adaptability, scalability, and vendor support.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

More grocery stores added dietitians to their operations in 2018, as well. As people take on more self-care for health care, they are looking to access products and services in retail bricks-and-mortar and ecommerce channels in the same places they buy food and other products. ACSI’s research found U.S. percentage points.

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CMS.gov

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Census Bureau released their annual report on health insurance coverage in the United States which shows the number of uninsured Americans rose from 2017 to 2018.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 19, 2022

" Rural residents are in poorer physical condition, have more health risks and are more likely to lack health insurance, she added. The wage gap between urban and rural Pennsylvanians is getting wider. In fact, it has doubled in the last 30 years.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 1, 2022

Augustine locations prior to May 2018. Jax Spine and Pain Centers in Jacksonville, FL has recently announced it was the victim of a ransomware attack that occurred on January 24, 2022. The attack was conducted on an inactive server that contained records of patients who had visited either its Jacksonville or St.

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Health Populi

APRIL 24, 2018

I covered the launch of the 2018 Edelman Trust Barometer across all industries here in Health Populi in January 2018 , when this year’s annual report was presented at the World Economic Forum in Davos as it is each year. Biotech is roughly tied for second place with consumer health, dropping also by 7 points.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The lawsuits allege violations of the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act, Unfair Competition Law, the FTC Act, and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 22, 2022

However, the lawsuit claims, “Despite knowingly receiving health-related information from medical providers, Facebook has not taken any action to enforce or validate its requirement that medical providers obtain adequate consent from patients before providing patient data to Facebook.” The decision was upheld by the U.S.

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