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Planned Home Birth - Marty Makary’s Blind Spot

Sensible Medicine

A 2019 study by Hutton et al. In the Netherlands, where 16% of women deliver at home, midwives formally collaborate with obstetricians and hospitals under clearly defined protocols. Rather than demonizing home birth, we should focus on improving its safety through randomized trials, integration, and collaboration.

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Practice Managers and patient outcomes – New research highlights their critical role

Practice Index

Leadership and culture They set the operational tone of the practice, fostering an environment that supports patient engagement and staff collaboration. Staffing and workforce management Recruitment, retention and staff wellbeing are overseen by PMs, directly affecting the availability and quality of care.

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NCLEX to Be Changed as Fail Rates Climb

Scrubs

in 2019 to 82.5% This can be done by scaling existing solutions, working collaboratively and being prepared to learn from each other.” Here’s how it could affect the staffing shortage: Pass rates for first-time takers of the national licensure exam have been steadily declining over the last few years. The pass rate fell from 88.2%

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Retail Health Ends 2018 With Big Plans for 2019

Health Populi

As the CVS + Aetna merger crosses its last regulatory hurdle at the close of 2018, we enter 2019 facing a fast-growing and -morphing retail health landscape. The three of us will be on a panel addressing retail health disruption at CES 2019 on 9th January 2019 at the Digital Health Summit.

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A Health Future with Lyft and Uber as Patient Data Stewards: Rock Health’s 2019 Consumer Survey

Health Populi

Patients searching online for health information and health care provider reviews is mainstream in 2019. Rock Health’s Digital Health Consumer Adoption Report for 2019 was developed in collaboration with the Stanford Medicine Center for Digital Health. Digital health tracking is now adopted by 4 in 10 U.S.

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Health/Care Everywhere – Re-Imagining Healthcare at ATA 2019

Health Populi

We’ve stayed close through the years, and so collaborating with #ATA19 is an especially sweet moment for me both personally and professionally. The post Health/Care Everywhere – Re-Imagining Healthcare at ATA 2019 appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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HIMSS 2019: The Mainstreaming of Health IT, from Jim Cramer to Opioid Risk Scores

Health Populi

On January 10, 2019, Jim Cramer of CNBC’s Mad Money recommended that Apple buy Epic, a market leader in EHRs. Brian Ahier, another close collaborator, asserted that “Judy” (Faulkner), Epic’s CEO, would have nothing to do with such a deal would go against the company’s legal foundation structure. Here’s what I wrote.