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Post #2 Back-to-Sleep Series

Sensible Medicine

In 2022 the CDC paid the AAP to form an expert working group to revise its developmental surveillance checklists. ” To quantify the diminished skills of infants, I compared the new CDC milestones with classic screening tests like the Bayley Scales of Infant Development and the Denver Developmental Screening Tests (DDST).

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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. The map below showed where Optum Health’s assets were as of 2022.

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More Problems with (and Suggestions for) Medical Education

Sensible Medicine

One of our early series (fall 2022) featured these two pieces. Recently, Dr. Prasad criticized medical schools for testing outdated evidence, unrealistic clinical scenarios, and requiring students to know useless and impractical information. Today we have a current trainee extending Dr. Prasad’s most recent critique.

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Sara Ratner, Nomi Health

The Healthcare Blog

Nomi raised $110m in 2022 and also made a decent amount in covid testing earlier in its life before pivoting. In addition they have an analytics company called Artemis which recommends care paths and a PBM to lower drug prices. Sara is trying hard to integrate mental health into their program too.

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Universal Depression Screening Leads to Unnecessary Harm

Sensible Medicine

In October 2022 , the USPSTF recommended childhood anxiety screening starting at eight years old. None of these trials adequately test or quantify the benefit of postpartum depression screening, not to mention universal depression screening. In June 2023 , the same was recommended to adults.

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Food Insecurity, Energy Prices, and Medical Debt Spike in February 2022

Health Populi

household budgets in February 2022, highlighted in a poll from Morning Consult : inflationary spikes for housing, food, and energy, and the COVID-19 Omicron variant forcing health care costs up for some consumers driving medical debt up. in January 2022. in January 2022. There’s a trifecta cost challenge hitting U.S.

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HPH Sector Warned About Exploitation of Miracle Exploit Vulnerabilities in Oracle Systems

The HIPAA Journal

The vulnerabilities also affect Oracle Business Intelligence, Enterprise Manager, Identity Management, SOA Suite, WebCenter Portal, Application Testing Suite, and Transportation Management. The vulnerabilities are tracked as CVE-2022-21445 (CVSS 9.8) and CVE-2022-21497 (CVSS 8.1)

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