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The Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for 2023 Are About Social, Mental and Behavioral Health

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While technology is embedded in this list, the headlines have more to do with social, mental, and behavioral health than pure-play technology and devices. Topping the 2023 list of patient safety concerns is the pediatric mental health crisis.

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Digital Health Tools Are Finding Business Models – IQVIA’s 2021 Read on the Health of Digital Health

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Evidence supporting the use of digital health tools if growing, tracked in Digital Health Trends 2021: Innovation, Evidence, Regulation, and Adoption from IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science. Then, IQVIA evaluated the universe of about 40,000 apps available in the iTunes store.

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A New Chevy Equinox SUV, a Year in Grad School, or Health Care for Four – The 2022 Milliman Medical Index

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Note that this does not reflect prescription drug rebates, which made up about 26% of drug claims in 2021, Milliman noted, more than doubling from 2013). For my previous write-ups of the MMI, here are some links to check out… MMI 2021 The Cost of Health Care for a Family of 4 in America Will Reach $28,256 in 2021.

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The Ultimate Health Outcome, Mortality, Is Rising in America

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This is shown in the third graphic, the line chart showing the hockey-stick growth of synthetic opioids since 2013. ” Three years later, there’s little national/Federal progress on resourcing the social determinants and personal/household economies that could help turnaround this public health challenge.

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What John Mackey of Whole Foods Said at the 2022 HIMSS Conference – and Why This is Important for the Whole Health Ecosystem

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” Four years later in 2013, promoting his (then) new book Conscious Capitalism, Mackey did an interview with NPR, morphing the word “socialism” to “fascism” when speaking about the Affordable Care Act. Yes, to health care access (especially primary care). Yes, to healthy food.

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#HelloHumankindness and Happy New Year….

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When Dignity Health, the Catholic health care system, launched the “Hello humankindness” PR campaign in June 2013 , well, they had me at “Hello.” culture and the nation’s health care industry: The institutionalization of health care, and, The decline of civility in society. .”

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Dr. Burnout – The 2021 Medscape Physician Burnout & Suicide Report

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In 2013, the issue of burnout was called out on the cover of the report, shown here with the question, “does burnout affect lifestyle?” ” In 2015, the Physician Lifestyle Report was titled, Health-Wealth-Weed Burnout. Medscape researched its first Physician Lifestyle Report in 2012.