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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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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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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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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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Controlling Prison Healthcare Costs with Telemedicine

GlobalMed

In 2001, a prisoner taken to University Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas took two nurses hostage and assaulted them. One 2013 emergency room incident turned violent when an inmate visiting the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary fought with his security guards. He was shot in the chest and a deputy sheriff was shot in the leg.

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Telehealth and Underserved, Vulnerable Populations: Prisons, Schools, Military, Seniors

Enzyme Health

But with only 40% of elementary schools staffed by a full-time school nurse, providing rapid treatment or diagnosis can be near impossible. Established in 2001 in just three childcare centers, the program has grown and has provided more than 13,000 telemedicine visits since program initiation.