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Insights from Digital Health Leaders at ViVE 2025

EvidenceCare

Innovation, AI, and the Future of Patient Care At the ViVE conference leaders in digital health shared their experiences and forward-thinking strategies for improving patient care, streamlining operations, and integrating technology into clinical workflows. In this special edition of The Better Care Podcast , EvidenceCares Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer, Dr.

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Hospital-At-Home Startups DispatchHealth And Medically Home To Merge

Forbes Healthcare

DispatchHealth and Medically Home - startups that work with health systems to provide hospital-level care at home have agreed to merge.

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Congress extends Medicare telehealth flexibilities for 6 months

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

Telehealth groups celebrated the extension, but added the short-term reprieve means continued uncertainty for providers.

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The NP And PA Will See You Now

Forbes Healthcare

Nurse practitioners and physician associates are providing an increasing amount of care. It's time to ask key questions.

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FTC reiterates opposition to controversial Indiana hospital merger

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

Terre Haute Regional may be forced to close if it’s not acquired by Union Health, the hospitals argue in their latest request for a certificate that allows mergers to sidestep antitrust review. The FTC does not agree.

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Emerging Breakthroughs In Diabetes Treatment: A New Era Of Hope

Forbes Healthcare

From promising research to clinical-stage cell therapies and AI software updates, diabetes treatment and management is poised to change like never before.

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Pharmacy Benefit Manager Reform Keeps Getting Scuttled, Despite Bipartisan Support

Forbes Healthcare

Failure to include PBM reforms in the December continuing resolution and the latest draft proposal indicates political fracturing and how hard it is to break the impasse.

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Netcare Scheduled Downtime - Thursday March 20, 2025 at 21:00 to Friday March 21, 2025 at 04:00

Connect Care Bytes Blog

The Alberta Netcare Portal will be unavailable from Thursday, March 20, 2025 at 21:00 to 04:00 on Friday, March 21, 2025 in order to accommodate system maintenance and a software upgrade. Connect Care will still be available, but Connect Care users will not be able to launch the Alberta Netcare Portal during this time. Users who are logged in during this time will be disconnected and will need to re-authenticate following the outage period.

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NIH Cuts Funding For Vaccine Hesitancy Research, Amid Measles Outbreak

Forbes Healthcare

NIH cuts over 40 grants for vaccine hesitancy research, which could threaten public health and allow misinformation to soar.

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Top medical schools for physicians working in primary care – a slideshow

Medical Economics

U.S. News & World Report, AAFP tally colleges with physician alumni working in family, internal, and pediatric medicine.

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Between Hope and Grief: A Medical Memoir of Father, Son, and Family

The Healthcare Blog

By GEORGE BEAUREGARD This piece is different from the typical health-care industry topics covered in this forum. My Sunday morning routine usually involves getting a cup of coffee and downloading the most recent editions of magazines on my iPad. The cover of the February 13 edition of Time magazine immediately caught my attention because the title read OUR CANCER MYSTERY.

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14 tips to guide patients through a cancer diagnosis

Medical Economics

The important role of primary care doctors after your patient is diagnosed with cancer.

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Risk assessments in medical practice

Physicians Practice

Andrea Greco, SVP of healthcare safety at CENTEGIX, discusses risk assessments in medical practices.

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What health care CFOs predict for 2025

Medical Economics

After years of volatility, health care leaders across the nations hospitals, health systems, and other health care organizations view 2025 with cautious optimism.

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Leveraging technology to combat administrative burnout, enhance patient care in 2025

Physicians Practice

Technology offers promising solutions to alleviate administrative challenges and free up valuable time for clinicians to focus on direct patient care.

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MicroTransponder secures $65 million to expand stroke recovery therapy

Medical Economics

Investment will support the expansion of its FDA-approved therapy designed to improve upper extremity function in chronic ischemic stroke survivors.

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Illinois Accountancy Firm Sued Over 217,000-Record Data Breach

The HIPAA Journal

Legacy Professionals, an Illinois-based certified public accountancy firm, has notified almost 217,000 individuals about an April 2024 security incident involving data theft from its systems. Suspicious activity was identified within its computer network in late April, and a forensic investigation was launched to confirm the nature and scope of the activity.

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Just 43% of Medicaid managed care plans cover all FDA-approved alcohol use disorder medications

Medical Economics

Limited coverage may hinder personalized treatment options for alcohol use disorder.

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New HIPAA Exemption Added to Kentucky Consumer Data Protection Act

The HIPAA Journal

In April 2024, Kentucky joined the growing number of states that have adopted comprehensive consumer privacy and data protection laws. The Kentucky Consumer Data Protection Act was signed into law on April 4, 2024, and is due to take effect on January 1, 2026. The Kentucky Consumer Data Protection Act applies to individuals and legal entities that control or process the personal data of at least 100,000 Kentucky consumers or control or process the personal data of 25,000 Kentucky consumers and d

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Medicaid cuts are coming: Here’s how health care leaders can lessen the blow

Medical Economics

No matter how or when Medicaid cuts manifest, Medicaid plan leaders must act now to preserve member support and provider payment stability.

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$17.5 Million Settlement Resolves Infosys McCamish Systems Data Breach Lawsuit

The HIPAA Journal

A settlement has been agreed to resolve multiple Infosys McCamish Systems class action lawsuits that were filed in response to a 2023 ransomware attack and data breach that involved unauthorized access to the personal data of more than 6 million individuals.Infosys is Indias second-largest IT services provider, and Infosys McCamish Systems is a U.S. subsidiary that provides life insurance and retirement software and services.

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FDA campaign prevented 450,000 youth from starting e-cigarette use in 1 year; surgery for mild sleep-disordered breathing in children; regular exercise prior to hospitalizations – Morning Medical Update

Medical Economics

The top news stories in medicine today.

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Guide for Medical Billers/Coders on ICD-10 Codes versus CPT Codes

Northwest Career College

If you have ever considered a medical billing and coding career, you likely have come across the terms ICD-10 and CPT codes by now. These codes form the building blocks of what medical billers and coders use daily to ensure that healthcare providers get paid and patients’ records remain accurate. But what do the two codes mean, and how different are they?

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How GLP-1 Policy Fits Into Trump’s Greenland Strategy, And Five Other Health Tech Developments

Forbes Healthcare

What do pharmaceuticals have to do with Greenland?

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How to Balance a Job in Healthcare and Family

We Care Online

It can be both rewarding and demanding to work in healthcare, and you’ll sacrifice long hours and your own emotional well being to keep a strong sense of calm with your patients. Balancing a healthcare career with family life is not easy. When you’re managing young children along the way, it can feel very overwhelming to try and keep one foot in your career and one for at home.

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Reducing physician burnout: How technology solutions can ease administrative burdens

Medical Economics

Burnout is caused by more than just the EHR

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The IAMI Study: The Forgotten Influenza Vaccine Trial

Sensible Medicine

There are studies that change practice because they should. There are studies that change practice because they are misinterpreted and thought to prove something they don’t. There are also studies that should change practice but, for some reason, do not. Dr. Folmsbee returns to Sensible Medicine today to discuss a 2021 study which has had little impact.

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Art Collides with Health Policy: When “When Calls the Heart” Met MAHA This Week

Health Populi

Art reflects life — or in this case, bumps into life and health care — once again when the pop culture facet of my own media consumption converges with a news announcement where the timing of these events is just too uncanny. It never occurred to me I’d ever write about the Hallmark Channel in the Health Populi blog. But reading the news that President Trump’s administration plans to cut funding for the ongoing 30-year study into diabetes and pre-diabetes — the land

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At Little-Known Health Agency, DOGE Ends Dream ‘To Make A Difference’

The Healthcare Blog

By MICHAEL MILLENSON Four days after emergency surgery and barely able to walk, Heather Sherman flew from Chicago to Washington for first-day-of-work onboarding at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Fourteen months later, Sherman suddenly became one of the thousands of federal employees summarily dismissed by a weekend email telling them they were not fit for future employment.