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In Honor of the Three Greatest Words in the English Language

Sensible Medicine

RM is a 72-year-old man who comes to the office for routine follow-up of spinal stenosis, hypertension, and peripheral vascular disease. I was obsessed with the sport long before I began telling people, “I want to be a doctor when I grow up.” Medicine and baseball are collaborative tasks. It is March.

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Connect Care Satisfaction Follow-Up Survey

Connect Care Bytes Blog

Connect Care is once again working with the Arch Collaborative to assess best practices in healthcare information technology and the use of electronic health records (EHR). The collaborative uses standardized surveys and benchmarking to collect data which will improve the experience of clinicians using EHRs.

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How One Nurse Made $2 Million in Two Years Selling Study Sheets Online

Scrubs

She said remote learning made it difficult to collaborate with other students. Beggs shared the videos on TikTok where she quickly racked up hundreds of thousands of views. She now has over 600k followers on the app. Now that I’ve made a name for myself, I do try to follow more of a schedule.

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Navigating Medicare Advantage: Strategies for Hospitals to Tackle Growing Challenges

EvidenceCare

CMS Policy Changes to Reduce Costs Financial pressures are rising as CMS implements the updated Version 28 Hierarchical Condition Category (HCC) model , which introduces changes aimed at limiting types of codes that are most used for up-coding or over-coding to help rein in spending. We call them CMS 4201 violations.

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Hospice Nurse Locates Missing Woman While Out Visiting Patients

Scrubs

She called the police and started following the woman from a safe distance. “I I just kind of followed her where she was walking, and they were there very, very quickly.” I thought for sure when it was him calling me that he was going to say, thank you for calling, it didn’t end up being her, if you see anything else, give us a call.”

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The Clinician of the Future: A Partner for Health, Access, Collaboration, and Tech-Savviness

Health Populi

Elsevier first conducted research among doctors and nurses for the Clinician of the Future report in 2022, following up this year’s survey research online among 2,607 clinicians working around the world: Elsevier polled 365 U.S. clinicians for the 2023 research (fielded in April and May 2023).

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Friday Reflection 32: The Trauma of Not Dying Alone

Sensible Medicine

Even though my practice is made up of about 750, overwhelmingly older people, mostly with chronic medical conditions, I only attend to the death of a patient a few times a month. There have been previous admissions after which the patient did not make it to follow-up appointments. Acceptance followed and waxed and waned.

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