Health Populi
FEBRUARY 7, 2019
Talk to me, patients are demanding in unison. Most health consumers expect providers to communicate about routine health care and prevention; this is especially true among those patients trying to manage chronic conditions we learn from 10 Ways to Fulfill Patients’ Communication Wish List , a report based on a consumer survey from West, the communications and network infrastructure company.
Health Blawg
FEBRUARY 16, 2019
Good points. Without HIPAA, healthcare organizations would have no strict standards to adhere to in terms of PHI security. A change in HIPAA regulations are most certainly welcome but we need to make sure the current rules are enforced more closely.
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Health Recovery
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
Artificial Intelligence (AI), has been playing a robust and growing role in the world the past few decades. What most do not realize is artificial intelligence presents itself in many forms that impact daily life. Logging into your social media, e-mail, car ride services, and online shopping platforms all involve artificial intelligence algorithms to improve user experience.
Osf Healthcare
FEBRUARY 22, 2019
There are many great products and services being developed to transform the health care industry. Quite frankly, it’s difficult to sort through them all, let alone find the ones that might be the best fit for OSF HealthCare.
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The Beryl Institute
FEBRUARY 6, 2019
Recently Facebook challenged its users to post a current and a ten-year-old photo of themselves side by side. While I didn’t participate, seeing the many photos of those that accepted the challenge, did get me to think beyond what I looked like ten years ago to how much can really happen in a decade. I also heard a recent commentary by John Dickerson, co-host of CBS This Morning.
Healthy Debate
FEBRUARY 21, 2019
Funded IVF in Ontario: A look at the OFP's impact on patients and providers, and how it has made IVF both a public and private health service in Ontario.
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Health Populi
FEBRUARY 20, 2019
Across generations, from younger to older patients, cost, transparency and convenience drive consumer satisfaction, Accenture’s latest health consumer survey found. I had the opportunity to brainstorm the study’s findings in real-time on the day of survey launch, 12 February, with Dr. Kaveh Safavi, Brian Kalis, and Jenn Francis at HIMSS19.
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
What industry compels its “consumers” to wait longer and travel further for services more than any other in a person’s daily life? That would be health care, a report from Altarum notes. People travel further and wait longer for medical services than for veterinary care (second in this line-up), auto repair, banking, and household services.
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
“The promise of AI is undeniable…could AI help clinicians deliver better and more humanistic care?” This question is asked and answered in a JAMA viewpoint published January 1/8 2019 titled, Humanizing Artificial Intelligence. This theme motivated a conversation held over a dinner convened by Philips hosted by Frans Van Houten this week at HIMSS19.
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 22, 2019
When you think “genomics,” your mind probably pictures a human DNA strand. Well, my mind did, prior to meeting with Dr. Joseph Frassica and Dr. Felix Baader at HIMSS19 to discuss Philips’ approach to the tragic problem of healthcare-acquired infections that kill patients. Ever since that conversation, my mind’s eye is filled with images of MRSA cells like those shown here.
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Health Populi
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
Just as we experienced “e-business” departments blurring into ecommerce and everyday business processes, so is “telehealth” morphing into, simply, health care delivery as one of many channels and platforms. Telehealth and virtual care are key education topics and exhibitor presences at HIMSS19. Several factors underpin the adoption of telehealth in 2019: Consumers’ demand for accessible, lower-cost health care services as people face greater financial responsibility
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 11, 2019
In the health care world, it is now commonly accepted that genes contribute less than half of the influence on peoples’ health status. Other issues play starring roles in overall well-being, including environmental factors, health care services, and social determinants of health (SDOH). These inputs include education, personal economics (like job security and financial stability), physical built environments (think: transportation access, safe and healthy housing), food and nutrition, and
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 9, 2019
On January 10, 2019, Jim Cramer of CNBC’s Mad Money recommended that Apple buy Epic, a market leader in EHRs. At that moment in the Twitterverse, it occurred to me that health IT as a consumer-facing industry was beginning to mainstream in America. Cramer’s pronouncement led to a tweetstorm where hundreds of tweeters in and outside of health/care talked back and with Cramer.
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 19, 2019
Seeking health information online along with researching other patients’ perspectives on doctors are now as common as booking dinner reservations and reading restaurant reviews, based on Rock Health’s latest health consumer survey, Beyond Wellness for the Healthy: Digital Health Consumer Adoption 2018. Rock Health has gauged consumes’ digital health adoption fo a few years, showing year-on-year growth for “Googling” health information, seeking peer patients’
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Health Populi
FEBRUARY 1, 2019
Our homes should nurture our health. In addition to nutrition and good food, positive relationships, clean air and water, and the basic needs that bolster whole health, technology is playing a growing role to help us manage health at home. At CES 2019, I spent time with Roy Jakobs, Chief Business Leader of Personal Health with Philips , to discuss the company’s evolving portfolio of products that help fulfill the mission to support people across their own continuum of health.
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 27, 2019
CVS + Aetna have merged to evolve a new business model for health and medical care. Walgreen’s continues to add new services beyond the core pharmacy business, and Walmart is expanding telehealth and healthier food aisles in the grocery. 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 fo
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 10, 2019
Most patient visits to doctors result in a prescription written for a medicine that people retrieve from a pharmacy, whether retail in the local community or via mail order for a maintenance drug. This one transaction generates a lot of data points, which individually have a lot of importance for the individual patient. Mashed with other patients’, prescription drug utilization data can combine with more data to be used for population health, cost-effectiveness, and other constructive research p
Osf Healthcare
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
In 2015, the OSF Rehabilitation division was charged with increasing the value of service it provides its patients. As a result, the department needed to transform how it was delivering care across the Ministry.
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Osf Healthcare
FEBRUARY 21, 2019
What do you picture when you think of a hospitalist? You picture a physician who goes from room to room in the hospital, checking on patients and directing their care, right?
Healthy Debate
FEBRUARY 22, 2019
Kieran Quinn is back on the Rounds Table this week with Michael Fralick, general internist at the University of Toronto. This week they are covering four articles in rapid-fire style on maternal first trimester ondansetron and fetal outcomes, assessment of outpatient antibiotic prescribing patterns, creatinine in the peri-partum period, and a pharmacist-led intervention for deprescribing.
Healthy Debate
FEBRUARY 15, 2019
Andre Madison, General Internal Medicine (GIM) fellow at Western University, is back on The Rounds Table with Michael Juba, clinical pharmacist at London Health Sciences Centre in Infectious Disease and Anti-Microbial Stewardship. Together they are covering the efficacy of ceftazidime-avibactam salvage therapy for Klebsialla pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC)-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae and transcatheter mitral-valve repair in heart failure.
Healthy Debate
FEBRUARY 8, 2019
Christopher Giuliano, clinical pharmacist, is hosting this week’s episode of The Rounds Table with Claudia Hanni, an Internal Medicine clinical pharmacist. Together they are covering pantoprazole for gastrointestinal bleeding in the intensive care unit and aspirin for primary prevention in patients with diabetes. In the intensive care unit, many patients receive pantoprazole for prevention of gastrointestinal stress ulceration.
Speaker: Dr. Ugo Uwaoma, MD, MBA
Due to the impact of COVID-19, integrating telehealth software into practices and organizations has become the new normal. In turn, this has increased the effectiveness of collaborative healthcare by strengthening communication amongst healthcare workers and helping combat the woes of burnout. Communication between patients and healthcare providers has also improved, allowing patients to reach their providers easily and decreasing turnaround time.
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 14, 2019
Ten years ago, two brothers, physicians both, started up a telemedicine company called American Well. They launched their service first in Hawaii, where long distances and remote island living challenged the supply and demand sides of health care providers and patients alike. It’s ten years later, and I sat down for a “what’s new?” chat with Roy Schoenberg, American Well President and CEO.
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 21, 2019
National health spending in the U.S. is expected to grow by 5.7% every year from 2020 to 2027, the actuaries at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services forecast in their report, National Health Expenditure Projections, 2018-2927: Economic And Demographic Trends Drive Spending And Enrollment Growth , published yesterday by Health Affairs. For context, note that general price inflation in the U.S. was 1.6% for the 12 months ending January 2019 according to the U.S.
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