Scrubs

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Husband of Boston Nurse Lindsay Clancy Speaks Out Following Tragic Incident Involving Their Children Lindsay Clancy, a 32-year-old nurse from Duxbury, Massachusetts, was charged with the deaths of her three young children in January 2023. The case shocked the nation, drawing attention to mental health struggles, particularly postpartum mental illness, which can have devastating consequences.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

OCTOBER 21, 2024

UnitedHealth, CVS and Humana used technology to increase MA prior authorization denials for post-acute services, boosting profits, according to a report from a Senate subcommittee.

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Sensible Medicine

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The story begins in Nottingham UK in 1980. It was a small study at one hospital. But its lessons are large. First the background. I believe the CAST trial (1991) was the most important trial in all of modern medicine. It showed that the common practice of using drugs to suppress rhythm disturbances (anti-arrhythmics) in patients after heart attack (myocardial infarction) led to higher death rates.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

OCTOBER 21, 2024

It’s the latest in a string of lawsuits from health insurers scrambling to protect their prized quality scores and the money that ratings represent.

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Medbridge

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Bellevue, WA – October 21, 2024 – Medbridge, a leader in healthcare technology solutions, today announced its acquisition of Rehab Boost, a pioneering motion capture and movement-based artificial intelligence (AI) company. The acquisition will relaunch Rehab Boost as Medbridge Motion Capture, a key component of Medbridge AI, providing Medbridge with in-house motion capture and AI […] The post Medbridge Acquires Rehab Boost, Launches Medbridge Motion Capture as Part of Medbridge

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Forbes Healthcare

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Amazon One Medical, the provider of physician-staffed clinics and virtual care is partnering with the Cleveland Clinic and its specialized network of medical providers.

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Forbes Healthcare

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Don’t look for new CVS Health CEO David Joyner to move away from vertical integration and breakup the healthcare giant from Aetna.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

OCTOBER 21, 2024

A cybersecurity expert explains why healthcare organizations are vulnerable to cyberattacks — and how they can strengthen their defenses.

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Forbes Healthcare

OCTOBER 21, 2024

To combat this risk, Epic by mid-2022 had a new strategy with MyChart and network effects at the heart of it. The company is now in the process of executing its plan.

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Science Based Medicine

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Ever since recombinant DNA has been used to develop and manufacture vaccines, antivaxxers have portrayed it as evil. This weekend, an antivaxxer decided that fear mongering about SV40 in COVID-19 vaccines wasn't enough. Here we go again. The post “And we’d better not risk another frontal assault. That plasmid’s dynamite.” Antivaxxers vs. plasmid DNA first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

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Forbes Healthcare

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Polls will change daily even if no one changes their mind about who they will vote for. The media seems confused about this.

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The Healthcare Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2024

By KIM BELLARD Earlier this month U.S. dockworkers struck, for the first time in decades. Their union, the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILW), was demanding a 77% pay increase, rejecting an offer of a 50% pay increase from the shipping companies. People worried about the impact on the economy, how it might impact the upcoming election, even if Christmas would be ruined.

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Forbes Healthcare

OCTOBER 21, 2024

There has been more and more talk about menopause in the workplace–including the need for menopause-specific benefits and supports. Momentum for action is growing.

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Medical Economics

OCTOBER 21, 2024

By envisioning this next-generation patient experience, we can see how a fully connected and collaborative ecosystem powered by innovation at every care touchpoint can deliver an integrated, intelligent experience that benefits patients and providers.

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Forbes Healthcare

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The companies will be launching a new framework entitled BRIDGE.

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Medical Economics

OCTOBER 21, 2024

A tool for searching medical records and one that standardizes patient medical information aim to reduce administrative burnout

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Medical Terminology Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Medical Terms for The Common Cold Each year in the United States, there are millions of cases of the common cold. Colds are minor viral nose and throat infections and are highly contagious. Although Sir William Osler famously said, “ The only way to treat the common cold is with contempt, ” most seek ways to relieve its symptoms. Click anywhere on the image below for more information from the American Lung Association on cold symptoms, prevention, and complications.

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Medical Economics

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Eve Cunningham, MD, chief of virtual health and digital care at Providence and founder of MedPearl, joins the podcast to discuss challenges with patient management and workflow.

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Minority Nurse

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Halloween is around the corner, and that means getting the chance to work in fun costumes. However, finding appropriate workplace costumes can be challenging. You might discover that typical costumes aren’t always the best in healthcare, however, you can still be creative and celebrate on a festive holiday with your outfit. If you’re tired of seeing “sexy nurse” while googling for nurse costumes, find some ideas you can wear for the spooky season below. “Operation!

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Medbridge

OCTOBER 21, 2024

In outpatient rehabilitation, maintaining patient engagement between clinic visits is an ongoing challenge. High drop-off rates, inconsistent adherence to home exercise programs, and limited follow-up opportunities can lead to poor patient outcomes. Digital care management offers you a solution by using digital health tools to support ongoing communication.

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Performance Health

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Preventing never events in healthcare is a critical factor for improving safety, specifically surgical safety , as these errors can have devastating consequences for patients. Incident reporting solutions play a pivotal role in identifying, analyzing, and addressing the root causes of these preventable events, stopping them from occurring all together.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

OCTOBER 21, 2024

M&A could allow startups to add products and capabilities in a more restrained funding environment, panelists said at HLTH.

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Medical Economics

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Stores are closing as nation’s largest drug store chain, large-scale competitors adapt to market conditions.

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Northwest Career College

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Healthcare administrators are the backbone of any medical facility, ensuring everything runs smoothly behind the scenes. Their days are filled with balancing long hours at a desk and spending time in the facility to ensure it operates efficiently. From attending meetings to delivering presentations on patient care, quality, and efficiency, healthcare administrators have many responsibilities.

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Medical Economics

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Political, medical leaders react to the announcement of expanded coverage of reproductive health services.

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Continuing a list of essential actions for Connect Care Launch 9 prescribers readying for launch November 2, 2024. Anticipate Post-Acute Cutover Cutover for post-acute care is a process through which key pieces of information about admitted patients are entered into Connect Care prior to launch. The primary concern for prescribers will be the management of medication and non-medication orders, and the translation of important information about patients’ clinical status from a paper record to Con

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Medical Economics

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Resident and citizenship status can affect the specialty chosen by international physicians

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Physicians Practice

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Your weekly dose of wisdom from the Physicians Practice experts.

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Medical Economics

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The top news stories in medicine today.

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Learning + Leading

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching was established in 1905. Its founder, Andrew Carnegie, created it to act as a general pension fund for universities in the United States, Canada and Newfoundland. Carnegie quickly realized there needed to be a way to determine which schools qualified as legitimate institutions of higher education, and thus which faculty members qualified for pensions.

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