Minority Nurse

MARCH 15, 2023

March is National Kidney Month and Minority Nurse caught up with nephrology nurse Nancy Colobong Smith, MN, ARNP, ANP-BC, CNN to find out what it’s like to be a nurse in this specialty. She is the national president-elect 2023-24 of the American Nephrology Nurses Association (ANNA). Every day and week vary some.

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Health Populi

MAY 24, 2023

As most Americans confess to feeling stressed over the past six months, peoples’ food and beverage choices have been intimately connected with their mental and emotional well-being, we learn from the 2023 Food & Health Survey from the International Food Information Council (IFIC).

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Health Prime

MAY 2, 2024

According to The State of Mental Health in America 2023 , 28% of all adults with a mental illness reported that they were not able to receive the treatment they needed. Learn other strategies to build your online presence and market your practice in our blog How to market your medical practice and improve your business.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

consumers will continue to spend their disposable incomes on connected consumer devices, but will be looking for more balance in their digital lives according to Deloitte’s fourth annual 2023 Connected Consumer Survey. adults in the second quarter of 2023. For the survey, Deloitte polled 2,018 U.S. While 2 in 3 U.S.

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Arkenea

JULY 12, 2024

Medical insurance verification software is developed to automate the process of verifying patients’ insurance coverages. A medical insurance verification software checks for coverage benefits, copayments, deductibles, and other relevant information needed for the healthcare provider to proceed with the patient’s care.

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2024

On June 11, Rohit Chopra, the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced the agency’s vision to ban Americans’ medical debt from credit reports. He called out that, “In recent years, however, medical bills became the most common collection item on credit reports.

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Health Populi

JULY 18, 2024

That positive economic news did not extend to medical care and personal care, the BLS reported, whose costs increased by 3.3% Following the BLS report on the CPI for June 2024, PwC published their new annual report from PwC titled Behind the Numbers 2025 tells us that commercial health care spending is expected to grow some 8.0%

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Scrubs

JULY 20, 2023

Although the letter started out rather humorlessly with “I am writing to address an incident in room [number] of your Emergency Department on 2023,” this was not a complaint. Needless to say, it was smelly and messy, but I quickly cleaned up and put the woman and her partner at ease. He handed the email to me.

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The HIPAA Journal

MAY 1, 2024

Credential theft was the most common method of breaching networks and was the initial access vector in 38% of all data breaches, followed by phishing (15%). While ransomware groups were a major threat in 2023 and were behind some of 2023’s largest data breaches, there was a slight decline in attacks year-over-year.

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Health Populi

JULY 7, 2023

In the 2023 Patient Consumer Survey report, the topline lesson is that “cost and location drive patient decisions, while service and comfort drive experience.” adults in April 2023 to gauge peoples’ experiences with healthcare received in the past year (think back to April 2022 and the next 12 months for the time horizon).

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Health Populi

JULY 10, 2023

Now in Aisle E(commerce) – get your one-year membership to One Medical for $149. Today and tomorrow are Amazon Prime Days, 2023 style, when you can fetch bargains on lots of electronics (esp. Today and tomorrow are Amazon Prime Days, 2023 style, when you can fetch bargains on lots of electronics (esp.

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Health Populi

APRIL 19, 2023

People have expanded their definitions of health in 2023, with mental health supplanting physical health for the top-ranked factor in feeling healthy. In 2023, it’s much harder to take care of my health, consumers say. In the U.S., that delta is 11 points worse, the second chart graphs, with the U.S.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 1, 2023

consumers say they can’t afford to pay their medical bills on-time, based on the 2023 Consumer Survey from Access One, a financial services company focused on healthcare payments. Furthermore, one-third of consumers are not confident they could pay a medical bill of $500 or more. Two-thirds of U.S. Note that U.S.

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Sensible Medicine

MAY 28, 2024

In June 2023 , the same was recommended to adults. The USPSTF claims "screening interventions" decrease the prevalence of depression at six-month follow-up by an odds ratio of 0.60. But in the real world, not everyone who screens positive for depression ends up in therapy. She ended up on antidepressants.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2024

In the past year, the growth of prescription drug utilization and spending has much to do with the use of GLP-1 agonists to treat diabetes and obesity, along with immunology therapy, and lipid meds, along with specialty medicines now accounting for over half of spending — up from 49% in 2018.

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CollaborateMD

JANUARY 5, 2024

The medical billing market is growing fast. This growth shows just how vital medical billing is becoming. Choosing the right medical billing software is crucial in healthcare management. In this article, we’ll make choosing the right medical billing software easy. Medical billing software comes with many helpful features.

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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) (2022) estimated over 100,000 registered nurses left the profession and predicted that another 800,000 nurses would follow them by 2027. link] Joint Commission (2023, August 24). link] Mcfanhn, C (2023, August 24). Some workers at U.S.

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The Healthcare Blog

APRIL 4, 2024

By MIKE MAGEE How comfortable is the FDA and Medical Ethics community with a new super-charged medical Facial Recognition Technology (mFRT) that claims it can “identify the early stages of autism in infants as young as 12 months?” The medical research community has already expanded way beyond “contactless” patient verification.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2024

Paper checks are still a go-to form of payment to patients and plan members, and there remains lots of confusion among patients when it comes to up-front pricing and eventually the EOB statements resulting from the claims payment process. ” In the best of all possible medical payments worlds, U.S. Mailing a paper check?

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Health Populi

APRIL 8, 2024

While so-called recreational GLP-1 consumers may experience these benefits, this population would be less likely to be covered by medical insurance under current obesity criteria which are in use to ration access to the medicines in Germany and the United Kingdom.

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Health Populi

JUNE 23, 2023

If you live in Massachusetts, Hawaii, and New Hampshire, you win a kind of state lottery for public health and well-being, based on this year’s read of the 2023 Scorecard on State Health System Performance from The Commonwealth Fund. states ranked by a mash-up of health system indicators.

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Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Types of MSN Degrees There are numerous types of MSN degrees, making it essential to know your long-term goals as a nurse before selecting which path you will follow. This will ensure you stay current on changes in healthcare and utilize the most up-to-date information in your daily practice. References AMN Healthcare.

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Coronis Health

MARCH 13, 2024

The agency has been in constant communication with Change Healthcare and its parent company, UnitedHealth Group, since the company revealed the details of the attack and its attendant disruptions in downline processes, including interruptions in the payment of medical claims by multiple insurance plans and programs.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Three in four nurses working in hospitals care about the success of their institution — “they show up and gown up…yet only 57% feel a sense of ownership in their hospitals, leaving leaders to expect 100% quality to be delivered by about half of the nursing workforce.” They responded with one word: “Trust.”

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Accepted Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

I’m neither a doctor nor a crystal-ball gazer, but I have spent the past 25-plus years advising hundreds of medical school applicants, some of whom were waitlisted. My encounter with these blunders has given birth to this list of “nine mistakes you don’t want to make on a medical school waitlist.” What should I do?

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Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 25, 2024

He followed it up with an article. Far be it from me to pass up the chance to comment on something this hot 1 and, because I lack my own Substack, I’m posting it here. Much of his public persona is advocacy; advocacy for thoughtful, conservative , measured medical care. Vinay Prasad took a swipe at him.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 21, 2023

Health plans would also boost consumers’ satisfaction by channeling patients’ access to the kinds of medical providers that align with consumers’ preferences and personal values, and by personalizing information to steer people toward lower-cost care.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Fast forward and we’re in the next-gen of direct-to-consumer models, with Lilly Direct and PfizerForAll launching programs that get up-close-and-personal with patients for medicines delivery and support services. I referred to that experience here in Health Populi several years ago when discussing health care access and transparency.

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ACMA Blog

JUNE 25, 2024

Engagement in Prior Authorization: Duties and Training INTRODUCTION: The prior authorization (PA) process is critical in providing some patients with their medically necessary products. It ensures that what the patient receives is medically appropriate for their situation.

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Accepted Blog

MAY 22, 2024

Each year, I talk to applicants who say they don’t want their ethnic or racial identity to be part of their medical school application. However, from the general perspective of the medical profession, it’s important to look at why having underrepresented groups in medicine is desirable. This is a noble principle that I respect.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

On December 12, 2023, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies Public Benefit Corporation (“MAPS PBC”) announced it has submitted a new drug application (“NDA”) to the FDA for the use of 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (“MDMA”) for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (“PTSD”). Bedrosian, L., Feduccia, A.,

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Accepted Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

Before he was Joshua Wienczkowski, MD, a prevention and addiction medicine specialist, he was a premed juggling coursework and extracurriculars and trying to make the right choices for his best shot at medical school. Here, he shares, with 20/20 hindsight, four things he’s glad he did (or wishes he’d done) before beginning medical school.

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The Healthcare Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

Not surprisingly, Medical AI (mAI), has been front and center. In November, 2023, Brynjolfsson teamed up with fellow West Coaster, Robert M. Unlike the power elite of America’s Medical Industrial Complex , mAI is open-minded and not inherently resistant to change. And we are literally the source of that data.

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Accepted Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

Show Summary The 2024-25 medical school application cycle is looming. Would you like to learn how to craft a quality application to medical school, a compelling persuasive application? Are you considering using an admissions consultant at any point during your medical school application journey? registration is required.

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Accepted Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Dr. Wherley gives an overview of the 17 competencies identified by the AAMC as essential for success in medical school and beyond. She leans into her expertises as an Assistant Dean, medical school program director, and advisor to present practical tips on how to develop these traits and demonstrate them in an application. 2:27] Sure.

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Sensible Medicine

DECEMBER 11, 2023

IOW: did a patient require medical attention of an arrhythmia. During the follow-up period, 9 patients (8%) in the AVATAR arm had a redo procedure following a primary endpoint compared to 15 patients (15%) in the conventional ablation arm. Yet, you can see it was not in print until March 2023. This one hits home.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 9, 2023

First, check out the top portion on funding by therapeutic area: note the blue bars all show declining funding across five therapeutic areas between 2021 and 2022 following go-go growth from 2020 to 2021. That’s my 2023 work-theme for the New Year. and health justice for all health citizens?

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