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Flashback: 2005 Tennessee Medicaid disenrollment led to increased crime, study finds

FierceHealthIT

A new study, that draws parallels to current day redeterminations, delves into the relationship between mass Medicaid disenrollment in 2005 and how it may have led to violent crime.

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

Health Populi

Paper Kills , as Newt Gingrich asserted in 2005 talking about the importance of electronic medical records about the time we started the CAQH Index project. Claims — that’s the paper-based workflow that eats up some of the $billion U.S. It still does. The post “Complexity is Profitable” in U.S.

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DIY Health Care and Self-Care Accelerating in the Pandemic

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Reading the Drug Store News story was a kind of déjà vu for me, reflecting on work I did with Rod Falcon and Institute for the Future on personal health ecologies in… 2005.

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Integrated EHR enables shift to virtual post-discharge follow-up

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The research team studied nearly 250,000 hospital discharges in patients with diabetes from 2005 to 2011. Although the study tracked patients from 2005 to 2011, before the current telehealth boom , it offers yet another piece of evidence for why virtual care is likely to remain a staple in healthcare even after the pandemic.

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A Look at Changes in the NEW HIPAA Security Rule

Healthcare IT Today

The changes are far overdue as the last revision to the original 2005 HIPAA Security Rule was made in 2013, before the healthcare industry moved to widespread reliance on technology and before many of todays cyber threats were introduced.

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Rural emergency department visits jumped more than 50% in about a decade—study

FierceHealthIT

Visits to the emergency department in rural areas jumped by more than 50% since 2005 even as the overall population in rural areas fell—a sign of increasing pressure on rural hospitals as safety-nets, a study published in JAMA Network Open found.

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What’s Causing Fewer Primary Care Visits in the US?

Health Populi

But America’s per capita primary care physician supply fell between 2005 and 2015. Oh, and did I mention that life spans are longer for people who live in places with greater primary care physician supply?