Minority Nurse

MARCH 19, 2024

million from March 2020 to February 2021. Immediate Access to Clinical Support Virtual nurses regularly assist with tasks that do not require physical proximity to the patient, such as patient-family education, completing admission and discharge tasks, and participating in two-person verification processes. Numbers skyrocketed from 2.1

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Arkenea

JANUARY 25, 2025

The CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) has posted the latest standards for e-prescribing which are as follows: In 2020, the CMS published the 2021 PFS (Physician Fee Schedule) final rule which requires prescribers to use the NCPDP SCRIPT standard version 2017071 for EPCS (Electronic Prescribing of Controlled Drugs) transactions.

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Arkenea

JULY 2, 2024

One of the uses of FHIR: In 2021, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center inducted FHIR to increase interoperability across the organization, with an aim to connect hospital-based EHR with ambulatory EHR systems. This simplifies the process of onboarding new data exchange partners. It also speeds up the data-sharing process.

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Setting Sights

MAY 2, 2022

The start of 2021 saw me seeing through my birthday, too poorly to care, and unable to see my own family whom I’d been unable to see or hug for many months. It saw me making the 160 mile transfer trip via ambulance to the next hospital, where I would spend many more months. I was supposed to qualify as a Doctor in the summer of 2021.

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Setting Sights

AUGUST 11, 2021

What I am sharing in this blog takes on an alternative approach to my usual form of writing, for this is a particularly raw, personal account and summary of what I have experienced in the last fourteen months of my hospital admission, and more specifically, how it has largely impacted my mental health.

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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.

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Setting Sights

MAY 7, 2021

For those eight weeks, I witnessed more patients slip away right beside me than I’ve ever seen in all my admissions collectively – lying next to a stale blue curtain that was closed around a still body was an uncomfortable thought and presence. The year-long hospital admission following numerous abdominal surgeries was hard.

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