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Woman Faked Nurse Credentials to Inject Fake Botox, Say Prosecutors

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She was scheduled to appear in federal court in Worcester on November 1, 2024. In 2019, Susan Ann Tancreto, a 60-year-old resident of Shasta County, California, was charged with multiple felonies for posing as a nurse and administering unauthorized Botox and filler treatments.

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Healthcare Staffing Executive Indicted for Nurse Wage Fixing

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Prosecutors say Lopez and his co-conspirators, who were not named in the indictment, tried to artificially suppress competition for nurses between the three agencies from 2016 to 2019, which would have resulted in lower wages for nurses. His next hearing is scheduled for March 28.

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Healthcare Providers’ Consumer Experience Gaps – Learnings from Kaufman Hall’s 2019 Index

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The most prevalent convenient access points providers offer are walk-in clinic hours, “save-a-spot” urgent care, and same-day appointments, with online schedule, evening and weekend clinic hours, and online-self scheduling for new patients falling behind.

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Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

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In the August 2020 National Poll on Heathy Aging , the University of Michigan research team found a 26% increase in telehealth visits from 2019 to 2020, March to June 2020 year-over-year. In May 2019, 14% of older patients’ health care providers offered telehealth visits, growing to 62% in June 2020 during the pandemic.

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

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On January 10, 2019, Jim Cramer of CNBC’s Mad Money recommended that Apple buy Epic, a market leader in EHRs. This is continued evidence that in 2019 and the near-term future, Amazon continues to “prime” consumers for experience. These facets of consumer experience are bleeding over into peoples’ expectations for health care.

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Virtual Health Tech Enables the Continuum of Health from Hospital to Home

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In 2019, J.D. The report dives into the stakeholder groups, offering market maps with examples of companies and innovators in each innovation space, from digital front doors like Dexcare, Phreesia and Doctor.com, scheduling access via Symplr, ZocDoc and DocASAP, and digital diagnosis and triage from Gyant and K Health, et.

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The Expectation Gap Between What Patients Want Vs What They Get

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Most health consumers expect providers to communicate about routine health care helping them track lab results, recommend and schedule preventive tests and screenings, text or online chat between appointments, and send reminders about taking medicines. Take Control,” a phrase which Cigna has service-marked.