Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 17, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Studies About 70% of hospitals face hidden challenges to business continuity , such as poor data integrity or network disruptions, according to a report from Veriti.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

” For this report, PwC’s Health Research Institute surveyed 2,511 American consumers, 128 health plan executives, 153 healthcare provider organization executives, and 124 pharmaceutical and life sciences executives in August and September 2020. ” the report read. “Quite a bit, it turns out.

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2021

For Medicare Part B programs alone, the drug could consume one-half of the total $57 billion of medicines spending… as much as the U.S. While telehealth and virtual care stood up quickly in 2020, questions remain about how it will/can persist in terms of funding, regulation, and business models. spends on NASA.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

patients’ negative views of the pharmaceutical industry in this study was the opioid epidemic. A recent study on politics and health care spending in the U.S. published by the National Bureau of Economic Research found a close link between electoral politics and Medicare: that is, between legislative processes in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Andrew Eye, CEO of the healthcare data science company ClosedLoop , estimates that about 15% of physicians collect SDoH-related data from patients and use it to assess their needs. Data can be spotty, according to Eye, who says for instance that data from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) often lacks racial identifications.

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Health Populi

MARCH 19, 2019

CHPA released a new study this week into the value of OTC meds. Payors have begun to recognize the value of nudging consumers toward over-the-counter products under Medicare Advantage plans. Edelman’s health industry segments for this study are pharma, consumer health, insurance, biotech/life science, and hospitals.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 1, 2019

After figuring in health plan changes such as increased employee cost sharing and network and benefit changes, PwC’s Health Research Institute, which conducted the study, projects a net growth rate of 5 percent. The trend has implications for employers, payers, providers and even pharmaceutical and life science companies.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Out of the gate, Stanford used it to develop an app to enroll volunteers in a heart study. In one day 11,000 people enrolled - more users in 24 hours than most medical studies find in a year. Millions of people around the world have already joined medical studies using this infrastructure.

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The Digital Health Corner

JUNE 14, 2017

According to a study in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine ER physicians spend only 28% of their time in direct face to face patient contact and can go through 4000 computer mouse clicks in one shift. Opportunities thus exist for life sciences and technology companies to develop products for this new therapeutic approach.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2019

A study in JAMA published this week analyzed research reports that have measured waste in the U.S. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) forecasts that prescription drug spending will be the fastest-growing cause of rising health spending by 2027. If spending is gauged at $3.8 of the U.S. patients).

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The Digital Health Corner

MARCH 26, 2018

According to an excellent whitepaper describing a case study of Medrec , a platform utilizing blockchain technology, health information interoperability is facilitated with the use of blockchain. Blockchain technology’s potential impact on the life sciences industry (drug development, distribution and prescribing) is significant.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

The public health crisis, combined with Medicare Advantage and other payors’ regimes, supported an economic model for the hospital-to-home movement. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, more hospitals were piloting and planning to move inpatient acute care to certain patients’ home when that made clinical and economic sense.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2023

Jesse Cugliotta, Global Industry GTM Lead, Healthcare & Life Sciences at Snowflake. Patient insight management will be a key strategic pillar: Life science organizations are more confident in the business value of insights management and are increasingly willing to commit the necessary technological resources to support this need.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

In the different phases of clinical trials, the advent of generative AI will empower research sites with tools to address anticipated study start-up challenges. With more studies anticipated to be conducted in hybrid and remote environments, more challenges will arise, specifically distinct ones for patients, sites and sponsors.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2020

By demographics, more women than men are concerned about rising costs for the three health care spending categories the survey studied: drug prices, insurance premiums, and healthcare costs (medical care services spending). A majority of people across political party share this concern: overall, 88% of U.S. 84% of Republicans. bn to $32.8

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Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2021

adults note that expanding Medicare to including hearing aids, dental and vision coverage would be their top or an important priority, shown in the second line in the bar chart on public priorities. States to negotiate with drug companies to get lower prices on Rx meds in their state, and. On the cost-front, 90% of U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 19, 2019

They don’t tend to shop around for health care or be super-engaged in their care, probably because they tend to be older and more likely to be covered by Medicare. They may be threatened by a call for “Medicare for All” given their affection for the program. That’s an interesting conundrum to consider.

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