Setting Sights

MAY 7, 2021

For God’s sake , get UP !” The nurse thrust me up, yanking me off the floor; I was hanging just by the whim of my hollow, spindly armpits. If you don’t eat, you’ll keep ending up on the floor, and quite frankly, I don’t have the time or care for the extra paperwork. the nurse bellowed close into my ear. I felt hideous.

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Setting Sights

AUGUST 11, 2021

But, my colleagues’ wellbeing isn’t hanging in the balance just because of the taboo that comes with opening up on their mental health struggles, or that there is little time to address it on top of the day-to-day work pressures – it’s hanging in the balance because we are simply not supported full-stop.

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Accepted Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

If you want to know how much of BU medical school’s recent $100 million gift it intends to use for scholarships, or what happens to applications to ensure a genuinely holistic process, or what its associate dean of admissions wants to see in students read on! Welcome to the 541st episode of Admissions Straight Talk. 12:28] Yeah.

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Setting Sights

MAY 2, 2022

2020 marked the start of my hellish journey, and a hellish journey it was for so many , but for me it meant a bunch of new, life-changing diagnoses, a kind of sentence that would mean everything changing, nothing ever being the same again. I had been left again, slipped from any system of follow-up or overseeing care.

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Medication Follow-Up Hospital Huddles/Rounds 52

The Healthcare Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Instead of shopping for care, consumers found themselves saddled with almost $200 billion in medical bills they could not pay, and hospitals and physicians ended up eating most of it. A key factor in the wave of denials was the increased centrality of hospital emergency admissions as the main gateway to complex and expensive inpatient care.

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CollaborateMD

JUNE 18, 2024

This guide will set your practice up for success in the fast-evolving healthcare landscape. According to a 2022 study , more active patient engagement results in “fewer complications, minimizing unnecessary visits, and emergency admissions in the hospital.” This is a sharp increase from about 1% in February 2020.

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Setting Sights

DECEMBER 31, 2022

But, we will never experience those great life lessons, if we never show up to stuff. I had dawdled, in somewhat a deep, drifting thought, up to the muddy cornfields behind the house, crops not yet budded, streaks of morning grey and damp brown for miles up ahead. Only I could roll the blinds up if I wanted to see the sunlight.

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The Healthcare Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

It happened to United, Humana and more, but I’ll focus on Agilon because of this lovely quote : “During 2023, agilon health experienced an increase in medical expenses attributable to higher-than-expected specialist visits, Part B drugs, outpatient surgeries, and supplemental benefits, partially offset by lower hospital medical admissions.

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Accepted Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Show Summary In this episode of Admissions Straight Talk, host Linda Abraham interviews Dr. Jeffrey SooHoo, Assistant Dean for Admissions at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. SooHoo emphasizes the competitive nature of medical school admissions and the holistic review process used to evaluate applicants.

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Health Populi

MAY 31, 2022

The overall finding that emerges out of patients’ own observations: that one’s race, age, insurance status, admission diagnosis, and living situation were all associated with completion of physician follow-up — or lack of follow-up.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 2, 2023

via “food farmacies” ) are quantified here in the Tufts model, amounting to billions of dollars of savings and over a million hospital admissions averted in Year 1 of such a program. ” And that prompts the question, “What if…food and pharma companies teamed up to make nutritious food more accessible?”

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The HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 14, 2022

OCR issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on December 10, 2020, that proposed a slew of changes to the HIPAA Privacy Rule, and a Final Rule is expected to be issued in 2022; however, no date has yet been provided on when the 2022 HIPAA changes will take effect and become enforceable. How are New HIPAA Regulations Introduced?

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