The Healthcare Blog
APRIL 3, 2024
Andy Chu is the SVP of Product and Technology at Providence’s innovation unit. They have launched four companies in recent years (Wildlfower, Xealth, Dexcare and just this week Praia). Andy talked a little about Praia, and more about both how Providence comes up with solutions and gets them through their process, and also the inverse, how his group helps new companies get into Providence (not easy!).
Minority Nurse
APRIL 3, 2024
Kendra Coles, DNP, RNC-OB, C-EFM, NEA-BC, is a seasoned nursing leader with over 20 years of experience in the field. For 17 years, she has been dedicated to women’s services and has a wealth of knowledge in managing inpatient and outpatient obstetric care. She also has a knack for communication and team empowerment. Coles is known for optimizing performance and outcomes for obstetric and neonatal populations , achieved through fostering collaboration and building multidisciplinary teams.
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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
APRIL 3, 2024
The deal closed roughly a year after it was first announced. Geisinger is the first health system to join Risant, but it’s far from the last — the hospital operator wants to acquire at least four additional nonprofits.
Health Populi
APRIL 3, 2024
“First, do no harm” is a key M.O. in health care. The phrase “patient safety” summons up a list of common sources such as medication errors, surgical errors, health care-associated infections, diagnostic errors, among other adverse events and harms people experience in the course of receiving health care. While safety outcomes and health care organizations’ “safety cultures” are improving, there is evidence in the U.S. that people — both patients a
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
APRIL 3, 2024
It's the latest negotiation to spill out of the boardroom and into the public eye as tensions between providers and payers ramp up.
The Healthcare Blog
APRIL 3, 2024
By KMI BELLARD I’ve been thinking a lot about infrastructure. In particular, what to do when it fails. There was, of course, the tragic collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge. Watching the video – and, honestly, what were the odds there’d be video? — is like watching a disaster movie, the bridge crumbling slowly but unstoppably. The bridge had been around for almost fifty years, withstanding over 11 million vehicles crossing it each year.
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Forbes Healthcare
APRIL 3, 2024
Some payers are imposing further restrictions or eliminating coverage of GLP-1 drugs while either maintaining access to bariatric surgery or making it easier to obtain.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
APRIL 3, 2024
The financially strapped physician group finalized a midnight deal to sell some services to Trinity Health-owned Saint Alphonsus Health System and Intermountain Medical Imaging of Idaho.
Forbes Healthcare
APRIL 3, 2024
The USTA today announced a growth strategy aimed at making the United States the number one tennis-playing nation in the world by 2035 with 35 million tennis players.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
APRIL 3, 2024
Starting in 2026, plans sold in state-based exchanges will be required to meet time and distance standards for provider access that are already applied to plans sold federally.
Accepted Blog
APRIL 3, 2024
One of the most important parts of your application to postbac programs will be your personal statement. This piece of writing allows the admissions committee to get to know you and understand your path to medicine. Three attributes of a compelling postbac personal statement Three important elements can make your postbac personal statement resonate with your reader: 1.
Medical Economics
APRIL 3, 2024
If we are to solve the dire dilemma in American health care, our approach will have to be radically different from those we’ve taken to date.
Emerging RN Leader
APRIL 3, 2024
By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN When asked about their top challenges, nurse leaders will discuss how communication has become more difficult in today’s environment. Best-selling author Charles Duhigg offers some much-needed advice in his latest well-researched book, Supercommunicators. I found ten important leadership takeaways from reading this excellent work: The most critical goal […] The post 10 Lessons About Communication from Supercommunicators appeared first on Emer
Medical Economics
APRIL 3, 2024
The American Osteopathic Association offers highlights from the National Resident Matching Program.
Physicians Practice
APRIL 3, 2024
Generation Z is driving changes to patient engagement and payment.
Medical Economics
APRIL 3, 2024
Here’s why physicians, other clinicians and employers are getting behind zero-interest payment plans.
Sensible Medicine
APRIL 3, 2024
Why start this series with the RCT? RCTs are used to determine if one treatment is better than another. They are clinical experiments that provide medicine’s most reliable data. When there is a good RCT, one that can be generalized to a specific patient’s situation, there is no better guide. However, RCTs are far from perfect. Individually, their design may lead them to include important biases and not be generalizable.
Forbes Healthcare
APRIL 3, 2024
Plus: The consortium building the digital tools that hospitals actually need.
19 Labs
APRIL 3, 2024
Telemedicine technology experts Ram Fish from 19Labs and Osama Chamsi Pasha of Doctory engaged in a thought-provoking conversation, delving into the nuances of healthcare kiosks' evolution. From dissecting past failures to proposing innovative solutions and envisioning the future, their dialogue offers insights for industry stakeholders and anyone invested in utilizing healthcare kiosks to solve their healthcare needs.
Science Based Medicine
APRIL 3, 2024
I’m always wary of new medical terms that seem to be used and promoted prematurely, when still in the hypothesis phase. It seems like an obvious way to bias any thinking about an alleged phenomenon – just label it as the hypothesis, as if it is already a conclusion. Calling symptoms that may follow a lyme infection “chronic lyme disease” implies something […] The post What Is Type 3 Diabetes?
Medical Economics
APRIL 3, 2024
The top news stories in medicine today.
Connect Care Bytes Blog
APRIL 3, 2024
The AHS Professional Billing team will be holding webinars in April for all Connect Care prescribers (including Launch 8). These 1-hour Zoom sessions will review how a prescriber can enter billing into Connect Care and access billing in reports. There will also be an opportunity for attendees to ask questions about prescriber billing in Connect Care.
We Care Online
APRIL 3, 2024
As an allied health professional, your commitment to the well-being of others is commendable, but it’s crucial to remember that your own health and well-being are equally important. The demands of your job can be relentless, often resulting in physical and mental fatigue. However, neglecting your own self-care can compromise your ability to provide the best possible care to your patients.
Northwest Career College
APRIL 3, 2024
Are you currently working as a massage therapist or considering going to school for massage therapy? If so, you have likely received a massage before and are aware of how important effective communication between the therapist and client can be for the client’s comfort. You may not have articulated it that way before (out loud or in your internal dialogue).
Mobius MD
APRIL 3, 2024
Physicians are overwhelmed by administrative tasks that take the joy out of practicing medicine. We hear tips for streamlining clinical documentation , but what about the EHR inbox? One recent study of EHR use found that primary care doctors in a Massachusetts hospital spent, on average, 36 minutes using the EHR per visit. About 6 of those minutes were after-hours “ pajama time ,” and physicians spent nearly 8 minutes in the EHR inbox for each patient visit.
Physicians Practice
APRIL 3, 2024
Collecting copayments and coinsurance can be challenging.
Medical Economics
APRIL 3, 2024
Ongoing communication with care providers enables earlier detection and treatment of health problems
Health Populi
APRIL 3, 2024
How many people do you know that don’t know their cholesterol or their BMI, their net worth or IQ, their credit score, astrological sign, or ancestry pie-chart? Chances are fewer and fewer as most people have gained access to medical records and lab test results on patient portals, calorie burns on smartwatches, credit scores via monthly credit card payments online, and completing spit tests from that popularly gifted Ancestry DNA test kits received during the holiday season.
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