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May Conference Recap – APA 2018 and UCAOA Spring Conference

DrChrono

UCAOA Spring 2018 – Paris Hotel – Las Vegas – May 6-9, 2018 We attended UCAOA 2018 with our enterprise sales and RCM team leaders, Reid Storch and Axel Perez, and several other team members. It was exciting to see people quickly picking up the software on our demo iPads, and walking away anticipating follow-ups from our team.

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Healthcare Data Security Breach: What to Do If Your Records Have Been Hacked

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The number of healthcare data breaches keeps going up year after year. In 2018, the healthcare sector saw 15 million patient records compromised across 503 breaches, which was three times the amount seen in 2017. These data breaches have affected millions of patients, putting their sensitive healthcare information at risk.

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Breastfeeding at Work: Here’s What You Need to Know

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In Illinois, women who breastfeed in a place of worship must “follow the appropriate norms within that place of worship.” ” Standing Up for Your Right to Breastfeed at Work Studies show that a lot of women have trouble breastfeeding their children for the first year after a child’s birth.

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The Evolution of a Patient Ambassador – Learning from Stacy Hurt

Health Populi

My Zoom invitation to Stacy was a very convenient excuse for me to catch up with a friend in the field: we have known each other since Stacy started to grow her health-social media presence on Twitter. Health care executive first; patient advocacy followed. for herself and for her son, Emmett. I like business and people.

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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

Health Populi

Most of these live video calls were also done through a service offered by consumers’ health care providers (doctors/clinicians), followed by services offered by insurance companies. In 2018, consumers’ tracking of at least one health metric crossed over from an analog method to digital tracking, illustrated in the line chart.

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I’m a Nurse, and I Nearly Committed Suicide.

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I thought I was almost emotionally invincible, which I felt aided me in my work, until 2018 happened. My father committed suicide, my grandfather died and my partner and I broke up. I would blow up on friends and family occasionally when I reacted to something bad. That’s what 2018 felt like for me. My World collapsed.

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Do Practice Managers support the BMA’s GP collective action?

Practice Index

This decision follows the BMA’s member referendum on the 2024/25 General Medical Services (GMS) contract changes in which over 99% of members who responded (that’s more than 19,000 GPs and GP trainees) rejected the Government and NHS England’s 2024/25 GP contract changes. The BMA’s GP leaders requested an uplift of 8.7%

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