Forbes Healthcare
OCTOBER 31, 2024
Startup Ataraxis, which emerged from stealth Thursday, has developed a model that can predict the risk severity of breast cancer up to 30% more accurately than current tests.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
OCTOBER 31, 2024
The lawsuit argues Prospect broke the terms of its agreement to purchase Pennsylvania system Crozer Health and seeks to stop the hospital operator from closing more facilities.
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Forbes Healthcare
OCTOBER 31, 2024
While language models are getting better at performing tasks like writing poetry and emails, Jumper is looking forward to an era where AI solves problems humans never could on their own.
Practice Index
OCTOBER 31, 2024
I have impostor syndrome: never thinking I’m good enough, always imagining that everyone else is doing a better, safer, stronger job than me. That everyone else is more organised, prepared and together, and I’m just about managing. You’d think that in conferences I’d be hiding in a corner, but you’d be surprised to hear that I actually love being there, speaking and chairing, but most of all, meeting all of you and knowing that we all feel exactly the same way!
Forbes Healthcare
OCTOBER 31, 2024
This Sunday, clocks will roll back one hour starting at 2. a.m., marking the end of daylight savings 2024. Here's how to adjust for the Fall time change.
Science Based Medicine
OCTOBER 31, 2024
The organization scapegoated by the lab leak-promoting GOP-led House Covid subcommittee publishes its defense The post EcoHealth Alliance Fights Back first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.
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We Care Online
OCTOBER 31, 2024
Running a health centre is not an easy task. From patient safety to avoiding medical errors, you have to be efficient in all aspects of efficiency. Millions of people visit hospitals or health centres for medical help every day. To ensure quality, many people wonder how to keep patients safe in hospitals. According to the World Health Organization, medical errors or inefficient staff harm thousands of patients annually.
Forbes Healthcare
OCTOBER 31, 2024
While it may not have generated the same pomp and circumstance as AI, HLTH featured several announcements, sessions and discussions about innovative models of care
Practice Index
OCTOBER 31, 2024
I’ve just taken some time, in peace and quiet, to listen to the Budget speech in full. At a time when every penny counts for our primary care, I really needed to know what this would mean for the practice, and my team. What do I think? I’m pretty irked if I’m honest. On a personal level, I’ll see some tax implications coming down the line, but honestly, I know that those who can afford to pay it need to pay it.
Open Dental
OCTOBER 31, 2024
Sometimes you want to pull a quick set of patient data out of Open Dental. See how the Patients-Raw report may be just what you need. The post Get to Know the “Patients-Raw” Report appeared first on Open Dental Blog.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
OCTOBER 31, 2024
Despite reports this fall that the two payers had reopened merger talks, Cigna plans to use excess cash to buy back its shares, David Cordani told investors.
Forbes Healthcare
OCTOBER 31, 2024
The dialogues at the forum illuminated that while technology sets the tempo, it is our collective steps—deliberate, inclusive, and mindful—that will define the dance toward progress.
The HIPAA Journal
OCTOBER 31, 2024
Mystic Valley Elder Services, a Malden, Massachusetts-based non-profit agency providing home and community-based care to elders and adults living with disabilities, has started issuing individual notifications about a cyberattack and data breach that was identified on April 5, 2024. A digital forensics company was engaged to investigate the unauthorized activity and confirmed that there had been unauthorized access to its internal systems on April 5, 2024, during which time files may have been a
Forbes Healthcare
OCTOBER 31, 2024
The Cigna Group reported a $739 million third quarter net income despite a $1 billion loss on its investment in doctor-staffed clinic operator VillageMD.
Medical Economics
OCTOBER 31, 2024
Based on 23 key health metrics, SmileHub compiled nationwide rankings of health & wellness; these 10 states scored the highest.
Emerging RN Leader
OCTOBER 31, 2024
By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN During a recent workshop, I asked nurse managers what they felt was the biggest workforce problem they face today. Without hesitation, they talked about the mismatch between what new graduates expect nursing to be and what they find it to be when they enter practice. The late […] The post When Expectations About Nursing Are Unmet appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
OCTOBER 31, 2024
Citrus ACO in Central West Florida had the highest savings rate, while Health Connect Partners — an ACO operated by hospital giant Providence — had the highest total savings in the Medicare Shared Savings Program last year.
The HIPAA Journal
OCTOBER 31, 2024
A critical vulnerability affecting multiple Oracle products is being exploited in the wild. The vulnerability was dubbed The Miracle Exploit by the security researchers who discovered it, due to its severity and the number of products they affected – all products based on Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle online systems. The vulnerability is one of a pair of related vulnerabilities that were discovered two years apart.
Forbes Healthcare
OCTOBER 31, 2024
Weill Cornell Medicine researchers have discovered a way ovarian tumors cripple immune cells: by tampering with their ability to process energy.
Health Prime
OCTOBER 31, 2024
Patient feedback plays an important role in the quest to achieve process improvement in medical practices. An article in the BMJ said that feedback on the patient’s experience, with the encouragement of the healthcare team to address identified problems, improves quality. It said that “this is the best guarantee that services meet the set objectives.” The pursuit of excellence in patient care is an ongoing journey.
Forbes Healthcare
OCTOBER 31, 2024
If you’re having trouble relaxing your body and mind at bedtime, this psychologist-approved sleep hack may be worth a shot.
The Healthcare Blog
OCTOBER 31, 2024
Andrea Ippolito has combined her personal experience as a mum struggling with breast feeding, and her professional career as an entrepreneur and engineer at Athenahealth building integrations with EMRs. She’s now the CEO of Simplifed which has built a network of lactation consultants, and much more, and has placed it in the workflow of that most important part of health care — pre and post partum.
KevinMD.com
OCTOBER 31, 2024
As Valencia, Spain, reels from devastating flash floods and the U.S. Southeast recovers from hurricanes Helene and Milton, I, like many other parents, look at my own kids with increasing concern about the ailing world they will inherit. If a climate haven like Asheville, North Carolina, lying 2,000 feet above and 300 miles away from the ocean, can be swept away by Read more… Why climate change threatens our children’s future: hurricanes, floods, and a call to act originally appeared in Kev
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
OCTOBER 31, 2024
The decision follows a recent announcement that the pharmacy retailer plans to close 1,200 stores over the next three years.
Medical Economics
OCTOBER 31, 2024
Artificial intelligence and personalized incentive structures are coming together to take pressure for treatment plan adherence off doctors’ shoulders.
Health Prime
OCTOBER 31, 2024
Patient feedback plays an important role in the quest to achieve process improvement in medical practices. An article in the BMJ said that feedback on the patient’s experience, with the encouragement of the healthcare team to address identified problems, improves quality. It said that “this is the best guarantee that services meet the set objectives.” The pursuit of excellence in patient care is an ongoing journey.
Practice Index
OCTOBER 31, 2024
Now that the dust has settled on the publication of two damning reports regarding the Care Quality Commission (CQC), which should prompt some significant changes to the regulatory framework, we thought we’d explore what this means for practice management. The two reviews – an internal one led by the former chief inspector of hospitals at the CQC, Professor Sir Mike Richards, and a Government-commissioned review led by North West London ICS Chair, Dr Penny Dash – reported their findings.
Mobius MD
OCTOBER 31, 2024
One of a physician’s most underrated skills is the ability to communicate effectively and compassionately with patients. While most physicians have valuable experience from years of clinical work, few receive formal communication training after medical school. A rapidly changing healthcare environment also requires new skills from providers. Clinical work today demands increasing productivity while offering less time with each patient.
Practice Index
OCTOBER 31, 2024
Capital boost and tax threat for practices in Budget Practice leaders have raised concerns that a huge infusion of cash promised to the NHS will not make enough difference to struggling primary care services. Practice Managers were particularly concerned that the Chancellor Rachel Reeves had not heeded their pleas about the impact of employer National Insurance increases.
Medical Economics
OCTOBER 31, 2024
What doctors should know about using neurofeedback to overcome attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and literacy barriers.
Connect Care Bytes Blog
OCTOBER 31, 2024
An exciting Quality Improvement project is about to launch in three emergency departments within AHS. Starting November 5, an artificial intelligence (AI) digital scribe application is going to be trialed by a small group of emergency physicians at the University of Alberta Hospital, the Royal Alexandra Hospital, and the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre (RDRHC).
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