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More than three-fourths of doctors are employed by corporations, report finds

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

Rampant consolidation continues to threaten the existence of independent physicians, according to a new report from Avalere and the Physicians Advocacy Institute.

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Meet The Billionaire-Owned Company Making Injectors For Blockbuster Drugs Like Ozempic

Forbes Healthcare

Roger Samuelsson is a new billionaire thanks to soaring demand from big pharma firms like Novo Nordisk for his company SHL Medical’s autoinjectors.

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VillageMD faces lawsuit over online tracking technologies

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

The class action alleges the Meta Pixel embedded on VillageMD’s website allowed the primary care provider to disclose personal and protected health information to third parties, including Facebook and Google.

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Tim O’Connell, CEO, emtelligent

The Healthcare Blog

Tim O’Connell discusses emtelligent’s capability to take unstructured clinical data and using NLP, match it to clinical ontologies and figure out what disease patients have, and enable payers and providers to do something about it–rather than payment coding which is what NLP has usually been used for. I spoke to him at HIMSS in March where he was launching emtelligent own new large language model (LLM).

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More than 20M disenrolled amid Medicaid redeterminations

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

Overall, 31% of people with a completed renewal were removed from the safety-net insurance program, while 69% had their coverage renewed, according to KFF.

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Intense Exercise Is Not Harmful For People With Long Covid:Study

Forbes Healthcare

A recent study found that different types of exercise were not harmful for people diagnosed with long Covid.

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Change Healthcare cyberattack inflicts severe damage on physician practices

Medical Economics

AMA survey paints a grim picture of the aftermath of the cyber-attack, with an 36% of respondents reporting the suspension of claim payments.

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New Study Finds No Link Between Autism and Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy

Science Based Medicine

A new study designed to better account for hidden confounding factors has found no link between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and the risk of neurodevelopmental conditions in childhood. The post New Study Finds No Link Between Autism and Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

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1 In 4 Who Lost Medicaid During Unwinding Now Uninsured

Forbes Healthcare

Nearly one in four adults who say they were dis-enrolled from Medicaid health coverage as states unraveled a pandemic-era program are now uninsured, a new poll from KFF shows.

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A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

Health Populi

Whether you’re a patient or a physician in the U.S., you’re burned out, tapped out, stressed out, timed out. While the 118 th U.S. Congress can’t agree on much before the 2024 summer recess, there’s one bipartisan stroke of political pens in Washington, DC, that could provide some satisfaction for both patients and doctors: bring telehealth back to patients and providers permanently.

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CMS Is Not Solomon When It Comes To Healthcare

Forbes Healthcare

We need to come at the problem very differently if we ever expect to get meaningful healthcare access and clinical solutions for American consumers.

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First, don’t disappear: Independent practices continue losing ground to hospital systems and corporations

Medical Economics

Nearly four in five doctors now work for a health care institution or corporate entity

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An Effective Environment of Care Checklist

Performance Health

For healthcare providers, the physical environment of care has a significant impact on patient wellbeing and the ability of care teams to deliver high-quality outcomes. As the healthcare industry has evolved to focus more on patient-centered care, an environment of care rounding checklist has become an increasingly useful tool in improving both patient and staff engagement.

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Older adults embrace non-traditional medical care sites, poll finds

Medical Economics

Urgent care, retail clinics, and other alternative care win on convenience, but patients still prefer traditional primary care

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Practicing medicine “in the zone”

Physicians Practice

Just Like Nadal, Mahomes, and Lebron, physicians and practices can get in the zone.

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Friday Reflection 38: Yesterday’s Solutions; Today’s Problems

Sensible Medicine

PR is a 66-year-old man who presented to an emergency room with a week of decreased exercise tolerance. He also reported brief episodes of chest pain. His initial work up was notable only for an elevated d-dimer. He was started on anticoagulation, admitted to the inpatient general medicine team, and scheduled for a CT angiogram of the chest to verify the suspected diagnosis of pulmonary embolism.

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Online with AHRQ; new hydrogel technology; heart risks for women drinkers – Morning Medical Update

Medical Economics

The top news stories in medicine today.

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UVM’s Student National Medical Association Chapter Shares AMEC Conference Experiences

UVM Larner College of Medicine

On Wednesday, March 27, 2024, UVM’s Student National Medical Association (SNMA) chapter sent six members off to New Orleans, Louisiana for the Annual Medical Education Conference (AMEC). The SNMA, which supports underrepresented minorities in medicine, holds its national conference to bring in thousands of pre-medical and medical students, residents, attendings, as well as other medical professionals to cultivate professional development and personal growth through a series of workshops, program

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Practice Management Institute Forges New Partnership with Lamar State College to Bring Affordable Medical Practice Specific Training to Port Arthur and Jefferson County, TX

Practice Management Institute

Practice Management Institute Forges New Partnership with Lamar State College to Bring Affordable Medical Practice Specific Training to Port Arthur and Jefferson County, TX Practice Management Institute and Lamar State College Port Arthur have forged a partnership that will result in localized continuing educational courses for the region’s medical practice staff.

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Getting ahead of risk adjustment

Physicians Practice

To help practices prepare for their value-based care transition, here are three top considerations for success.

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Practice Management Institute® Partners with Foothills Medical Society- Lakewood /Denver In Exciting New Training Initiative for Affiliated Medical Practice Staff

Practice Management Institute

PMI is thrilled to announce that we have partnered with Foothills Medical Society (FMS) in a joint effort to provide affordable medical practice specific training and certification opportunities to its membership. This partnership supports the strong commitment of FMS to enhance the knowledge base of medical practice staff through education. So often, providers and practice leadership are hard-pressed to find quality, localized, in-person or web-based educational opportunities for their team.

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Burnout, Poor Staffing Substantially Contribute to Nurses Leaving Health Care

Pulmonology Advisor - Practice Management

HealthDay News — Nurses primarily end health care employment due to systemic features of their employer, according to a study published online April 9 in JAMA Network Open. K. Jane Muir, Ph.D., R.N., from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and colleagues examined the top contributing factors to registered nurses ending health care employment between 2018 and 2021 in New York and Illinois.

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Countdown Checklist L8, T-minus 21: Confirm PRD Access

Connect Care Bytes Blog

Continuing a list of essential actions for Connect Care Launch 8 prescribers readying for launch May 4, 2024. Check your PRD (Production) Access All prescribers who have completed their On Our Best Behaviours (InfoCare) training and Connect Care Proficiency Assessment (EUPA) should be able to log in to the full production version of Connect Care (PRD) by now.

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Burnout, Poor Staffing Substantially Contribute to Nurses Leaving Health Care

Pulmonology Advisor - Practice Management

HealthDay News — Nurses primarily end health care employment due to systemic features of their employer, according to a study published online April 9 in JAMA Network Open. K. Jane Muir, Ph.D., R.N., from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and colleagues examined the top contributing factors to registered nurses ending health care employment between 2018 and 2021 in New York and Illinois.

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Honoring Radiology Nurses Day on April 12

Minority Nurse

Radiology Nurses Day, also known as Radiological and Imaging Nurses Day , is celebrated annually on April 12 and was established to recognize the work that nurses do in the specialties of radiologic and imaging nursing. The work of radiologic and imaging nurses is not only important for an accurate assessment and diagnosis, but it is also a skill set increasingly in demand.

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MedPAC ponders future of physician pay

Medical Economics

Report lists concerns about physician reimbursement and policy approaches.

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A Patently Catastrophic Move

Forbes Healthcare

The Biden scheme to seize drug patents is so far-reaching that it guts the patent clause of the Constitution.

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