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Letters of Recommendation Should Not Be a Component in Residency Selection

Sensible Medicine

It was believed that being a doctor meant you had to remember a great number of obscure things, and so we designed tests that heavily weighted memorization. 1 Unless you are visiting one of the medical schools that pulled all those old class photos down in 2020, of course.

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Masking in 2024: A Response

Sensible Medicine

As such, I’ll start with a single absolute statement: with the strain of Covid that circulated in the spring of 2020, having the provider wear a surgical mask and eye protection and the patient wear a surgical mask was highly effective in an outpatient setting. My very first morning in the clinic, I saw eight patients.

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Large Employers’ Focus on Prescription Drugs: Costs, Coupons and Communication

Health Populi

As large employers’ annual health care costs for an employee are expected to exceed $15,000 in 2020, companies are focusing in on managing the pharmacy line-item, we learn from the 2020 Large Employers’ Health Care Strategy and Plan Design Survey from the National Business Group on Health (NBGH).

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Dr. Roboto? Stanford Medicine Foresees Digital Doctors “Maturing”

Health Populi

Physicians are evolving as digital doctors, embracing the growing role of data generated in electronic health records as well as through their patients using wearable technologies and mobile health apps downloaded in ubiquitous smartphones, described in The Rise of the Data-Driven Physician , a 2020 Health Trends Report from Stanford Medicine.

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EKG Technician Career & Salary Outlook in 2020

NHA Now

We shared a summary of our findings in the 2020 Industry Outlook , now available for download as a PDF. The average EKG technician runs 13 tests a day. 42% of employers said newly certified EKG technicians lacked communication skills. 42% of employers said newly certified EKG technicians lacked communication skills.

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Phlebotomy Technician Trends for 2020

NHA Now

Phlebotomy technicians draw blood for tests, transfusions, donations, medical procedures, and research. Take a look at a few phlebotomy technician employment trends we uncovered in our 2020 Industry Outlook research. Take a look at a few phlebotomy technician employment trends we uncovered in our 2020 Industry Outlook research.

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

Health Populi

Care delivery that uses both traditional “physical” and virtual modalities, which got stress-tested during the pandemic, and, Care to the home leveraging remote monitoring and the power of patient engagement. In 2019, J.D. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services.

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