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Optum: Testing Time for an Invisible Empire

The Healthcare Blog

Then someone discovered that the largest living thing in the world was actually the 106 acre, 47 thousand tree Pando aspen grove in central Utah, which genetic testing revealed to be a single organism. billion since 2019. It is a sprawling nationwide roll-up of healthcare assets. Of Optum’s $226 billion topline, $136.4

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Get Your Microsoft Office Specialist Certification With MedCerts

MedCerts

It follows a structured curriculum that covers the following aspects of Microsoft Office: Word : Ideal word processing application, allowing you to prepare and edit documents easily. Completing the MOS certification program qualifies you to take up to five exams at an authorized testing center.

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What I Read This Week

Sensible Medicine

The researchers looked at every patient that had mammograms between 2004 and 2019 and developed breast cancer. We so desperately need RCT data for our screening tests. It shows a benefit of close follow-up in a heart failure clinic. (It It also shows us how hard it is to up-titrate GDMT. Let me count the ways.

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What I Read Last Week

Sensible Medicine

I even have a talk, “keeping up on the literature.” All had urea breath tests for Helicobacter pylori , the bacteria that causes most peptic ulcer disease and is closely associated with gastric cancer. People that tested negative were followed. Those who tested positive received either curative H.

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Babies with the DNA of Three Different People Born in the U.K.

Scrubs

“The Newcastle team involved in carrying out the procedures are cautious and will have wanted to include at least some follow-up data on the babies, while also protecting the privacy of the families,” Lovell-Badge explained. “This is a challenge in itself. Some 32 patients in the U.K.

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Personalizing Health Means Personalizing Health Insurance for Patient-Members – Learning from HealthEdge

Health Populi

We can see health consumers’ shifting priorities for satisfaction-boosting changing from 2019 to 2023 based on HealthEdge’s previous research. That’s followed by making access to “my” health records easier, and granting access to me to providers who align well with my preferences and personal values.

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Prescriptions Are Up, Health Services Utilization Down, and GLP-1s Are a Major Growth Driver: IQVIA’s 2024 Update

Health Populi

In the past year, the growth of prescription drug utilization and spending has much to do with the use of GLP-1 agonists to treat diabetes and obesity, along with immunology therapy, and lipid meds, along with specialty medicines now accounting for over half of spending — up from 49% in 2018.