Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 2020

If you have Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 systems, doing nothing isn’t an option. After January 14, 2020, Windows 7 and Server 2008 will no longer receive critical security patches and updates from Microsoft. What will your executives, board, and the public think if you report a breach that could have been prevented?

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Electronic Health Reporter

JULY 1, 2019

BlueKeep is a vulnerability (CVE-2019-0708) that affects Windows 7, Windows XP, Server 2003, 2008 and 2008 R2, which many feel will be exploited soon. The first months of 2019 have seen a record number of reported security vulnerabilities. But potentially the riskiest, is BlueKeep. The concern […].

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2020

It’s déjà vu all over again for Americans’ well-being: we haven’t felt this low since the advent of the Great Recession that hit our well-well-being hard in December 2008. As COVID-19 diagnoses reached 200,000 in the U.S. in April 2020, Gallup gauged that barely 1 in 2 people felt they were thriving.

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eVisit

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The Kaiser Family Foundation released data showing a 65% increase in the cost of employee provided healthcare for family coverage from 2008 to 2018. In 2008 the total cost for an employer to cover an employee’s family was $12,679. That cost jumped up to $19,616 in just 10 years, and as an employer, you pay 70% or more.

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Digital Health Global

APRIL 6, 2023

Since its founding in 2008, Noom has established itself as the leading digital health platform, harnessing behavior change and technology to create long-term positive health outcomes. Founded in 2008, Noom’s mission is to help people everywhere lead healthier lives.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In Declining Use of Primary Care Among Commercially Insured Adults in the United States, 2008-2016 , the researchers analyzed data from a national sample of adult health plan members between 18 and 64 years of age and saw that visits to PCPS fell by 24.2%, from 169.5 visits per 100 member-years.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 17, 2024

Radiology caseloads per full-time radiologist had already increased by some 78% between 2008 and 2018, according to Buehl, and hospitals expect a further caseload increase of more than 50% over the next three to five years.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Warren Buffett wrote Berkshire Hathaway shareholders in 2008, asserting that, “Price is what you pay. ” I ask in an essay published today on Crossover Health’s website titled Value-Based Care: Driving a Social Contract of Trust and Health. The answer: embrace value-based care. Value is what you get.” ” The U.S.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 20, 2019

After a record drop in the uninsured rate from 2008 to 2016 in response to […]. 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.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 26, 2019

Pharmaceutical manufacturers face growing pressure from legislators, employers and consumers to control prescription drug costs, which have increased by as much as 15 percent between 2008 and 2016. In late February, a congressional committee grilled executives from seven pharmaceutical companies over relentless price hikes and […].

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 28, 2020

Apple’s Safari did not appear until 2003 and Google Chrome in 2008 – eventually these dominated the browser market, though three cheers for the existence of privacy-oriented browser Brave (2016) and search tool DuckDuckGo (2008). No doubt both will disappear into acquisitions.

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Health Populi

MAY 18, 2023

For some context, it’s useful to know that the CFPB was created as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act passed by Congress and signed by President Obama in July 2010 in the wake of the 2008-9 financial crisis in the U.S.

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Digital Health Global

JANUARY 2, 2024

Since its founding in 2008, Noom has established itself as the leading digital health platform, harnessing behavior change and technology to create long-term positive health outcomes. The cookbook, published by Simon Element, a lifestyle imprint at Simon & Schuster, is available now wherever books are sold.

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LeanIX

JUNE 11, 2019

Time is almost up for enterprises to decide how best to migrate from Microsoft SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 before official support services are discontinued. Come July 9, 2019 the following options must be completely evaluated by Enterprise Architects and their stakeholders:

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

For a fun blast-from-the-telehealth-past, see this paper I wrote for the California Health Care Foundation in 2008 (!) called Right Here, Right Now: Ten Telehealth Pioneers Make It Work. .

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Digital Health Global

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The expanded sales collaboration deal is an extension of the partnership and developer agreement Keena has had with Altera’s TouchWorks® EHR business unit since 2008.

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Health Populi

JUNE 23, 2022

emerged from the Great Recession of 2008. By April, one-half of people living in America said their financial situation was getting worse, a reversal of fortune from several steady years of personal financial improvement which kicked off in 2011 as the U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 4, 2020

This is markedly different than the Great Recession of 2008, the last major financial crisis: that financial decline was coined a “ManCession,” taking a more significant toll out of more typically men’s jobs like construction and manufacturing where fewer women worked.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 4, 2022

And, to finance mental health care embedded into a whole-health system for which Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici advocated in 2008 via their Mental Health Parity Act. Key to scalability is to integrate behavioral health into primary care –requiring a huge shift in the way we look at mental health as, simply and profoundly, health.

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Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2020

consumer credit card debt ballooned to record highs in February 2020 since just before the Great Recession of 2008, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. This worsened between February and late April 2020, the second chart shows, with less than 50% of people able to pay a $500 healthcare bill in full at the time of service.

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Continue Education Journal

JUNE 19, 2019

Another study in 2008 tested if acupuncture was an effective assistant treatment when coupled with vitro fertilization. Acupuncture in support of infertility aid has become a rather niche profession for a minority of acupuncturists.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Banks still had branches, the drop of 1700+ branches hadn’t happened yet, no doubt because the 2008 market crash hadn’t fully kicked in. People still shopped in stores – the Mall of America was thriving compared to strip malls , bookstore sales were at their peak – not yet traumatized by Amazon. Fast forward to today.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

2008; Chóliz 2010). Concerns about phone addiction began appearing early in the literature (Billieux et al. Other concerns involving dangerous consequences were phone use while driving (Bianchi and Phillips 2005 ; White et al. 2004 ), and using phones in forbidden areas (Nickerson et al. Since then, the evidence-base has grown considerably.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 5, 2022

This lightbulb moment finding happened in the 2008 Edelman Health Engagement Barometer study and it holds true today… This is particularly impactful in the current moment as Elizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos, was found guilty by a jury of her peers. Morning Consult polled 2,200 U.S.

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LeanIX

JULY 18, 2019

Amy Asadi reminded Enterprise Architects and IT Managers at US EA Connect Day of what technical constraints were hit during the 2008 financial crisis.

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Health Populi

JULY 14, 2022

states since 2008. People whose sense of well-being shifted positively in the past two years are finding greater personal purpose and financial health, we see in Sharecare’s Community Well-Being Index – 2021 State Rankings Report. Sharecare has been annually tracking well-being across the 50 U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 30, 2023

The chart on the median price of newly marketed drugs between 2008 and 2002 shows the cost in 2022 reaching $222,000. Take prescription drugs pushing medical trend upward. Since 2019, we can see the hockey-stick increase in the price of specialty drugs fast-growing.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 22, 2023

The term (and features) arose from the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act , amended by Congress in 2008, when the focus was on reducing/eliminating discrimination against people with disabilities. Accessibility and usability – who knew they were different?

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 19, 2018

in 2008, one in three Americans delayed medical treatment due to costs. It would not be surprising to know that when the Great Recession hit the U.S. Ten years later, as media headlines and the President boast an improved American economy, the same proportion of people are self-rationing healthcare due to cost.

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LeanIX

APRIL 18, 2019

Java SE 8, Windows Server 2008 and whatever else vendors send your way. Oracle’s 2019 terms and agreements for commercial users of its Java SE 8 platform put Enterprise Architects on the lookout earlier than was expected for affected services in their IT network.

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Health Populi

MAY 30, 2022

told the Gallup Poll in April 2022 that their financial situation has eroded in the past year, up to 1 in 2 people which is a statistic we haven’t seen since the Great Recession of 2008. As a result, more people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 7, 2018

Fastest growing jobs in US are in #healthcare says @paulkrugman at #hx360 @himss #himss18 #Healtheconomics is US are tightly integrated into overall American economy.

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ACA Times

JULY 3, 2017

The crux of the FAQs involves the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 and coverage for mental health related issues, such as addictions and eating disorders. The FAQs About Mental Health And Substance Use Disorder Parity Implementation And The 21st Century Cures Act Part 38 is dated June 16.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2023

Since 2008, NightWatch has found success by focusing on exceptional customer service provided by an outstanding clinical team. We are incredibly proud of the company we have built,” said Christopher Vaught, owner of Vaught, Inc., the parent company of NightWatch.

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Medical Mime - EHR

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

And they make what seems at first to be a non-intuitive suggestion: To figure out how to resolve it, policymakers should look for lessons in what may seem to be an unrelated episode: the 2008 global financial crisis. from 2014 to 2017.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

When this blog was launched in 2008, the Wikipedia definition of aging in place was described as a Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) -- the ability to move from independent living to assisted to skilled nursing. Aging in place forever – the concept.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Increased availability of opioid prescription drugs, chronic pain (for which opioids are often prescribed), and the economic crisis which began in 2008 may all have contributed to an increase in overdoses, suicide, and increased liver disease associated with alcohol abuse.”

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