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“Complexity is Profitable” in U.S. Healthcare – How to Save a Quarter-Trillion Dollars

Health Populi

health care employment since 2001, today accounting for twice as many staff as physicians and nurses. The team noted in their JAMA viewpoint that over 1 million administrative employees were added to U.S.

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Bonus Features – May 21, 2023 – 82% of wearable users willing to share data with their physicians, 81% of Americans trust pharmacists and nurses to diagnose minor illnesses, and more

Healthcare IT Today

Nearly 60% of Americans would visit a pharmacy as their first stop for non-emergency care , and 81% trust pharmacists and nurse practitioners to diagnose minor illnesses and prescribe medications, according to a Wolters Kluwer Health survey. Women are also twice as likely than men to cancel appointments because of anxiety.

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Digital Health Gaps in the Pandemic Through the Eyes of Younger Physicians

Health Populi

” Physicians and nurses began the calendar year 2020 with a great degree of emotional burnout, anxiety and depression, the 2020 Medscape National Physician Burnout and Suicide Report warned. Many of those who rushed to help on September 11, 2001, are, today, supporting COVID-19 efforts as highlighted in this Wall Street Journal story.

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Correctional Healthcare Is Changing and Here’s Why

GlobalMed

When you think of a typical telehealth visit, you might picture a patient at home communicating with a primary care provider or a patient and nurse in a long-term care facility coordinating care with a specialist. In 2001, a prisoner taken to University Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas took two nurses hostage and assaulted them. .

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Tell Me Your Story: How Narrative Medicine Fosters Trust

Society for Participatory Medicine

This approach to co-creating narratives is an innovative practice founded in 2001 by a team led by Dr. Rita Charon at Columbia University. among gangways, elevators, and nurses’ pods to Jane’s room. I’ve been studying Narrative Medicine since 2015 and teaching/facilitating workshops since 2018. to interrogate the grave helpers.

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Should Graduate Schools Teach Telehealth Competency?

Telebehavioral Health Institute

A 2001 Institute of Medicine report highlighted the shortcomings of healthcare professional training and ongoing proficiency assessment to enhance patient care and safety (IOM, 2001). The need to implement and evaluate telehealth competency frameworks to ensure quality care across behavioral health professions. Institute of Medicine.

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As Medical Cost Trend Remains Flat, Patients Face Growing Health Consumer Financial Stress

Health Populi

” That was written in the 2001-2010 period of healthcare spending, so an old story giving me feelings of déjà vu. In 2007, the year I launched Health Populi , the inaugural post focused on just this issue; the post was titled, “Health care is the #1 line item in our national economy…and taking more out of your pocket.”

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