Forbes Healthcare
DECEMBER 19, 2024
This issue goes beyond coverage; it calls for a foundational rebuild of our healthcare system to reduce waste and increase value. Reform is the only way to address the dysfunction that is causing so much despair across the US.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Cyberattacks targeting the healthcare industry continued to rise this year. Here are some of the largest incidents, from Change Healthcare to Ascension.
Forbes Healthcare
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Researchers continue to investigate the so-called Disease X in the DRC. Officials from the Africa CDC noted that the diagnosis is leaning toward malaria.
Electronic Health Reporter
DECEMBER 19, 2024
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Despite the rapid adoption of digital tools, healthcare practices still rely heavily on manual workflows, with staff spending countless hours on phone calls, paperwork, and fragmented systems. While most solutions focus on automating individual tasks,Confido […] The article Confido Health secures $3M for AI-Powered digital workers on healthcare’s front lines appeared first on electroni
Forbes Healthcare
DECEMBER 19, 2024
From reprogrammed stem cells to next-generation gene editing, 2024 has seen some incredible developments with the potential to become new treatments.
Northwest Suburban College
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Operative dentistry focuses on diagnosing, treating, and preventing dental diseases, playing a vital role in oral health. From cavity fillings to complex restorative procedures, it covers a vast range of practices. Aspiring dental professionals must understand these basics for effective patient care, restore function and aesthetics, and ensure patients maintain healthy smiles.
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Northwest Suburban College
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Dental assistants are vital in ensuring dental offices run efficiently, balancing clinical and administrative responsibilities to support dentists and care for patients. This role requires diverse skills, making dental assistants indispensable in any dental setting. Key Responsibilities of Dental Assistants Northwest Suburban College (NWSC) teaches its Dental Assistant students how to perform crucial tasks that keep dental offices functioning smoothly.
Practice Index
DECEMBER 19, 2024
You told us how much you loved it! So we've updated and refreshed the Practice Index Ultimate Social Media Planner 2025 (January June) for the first half of the year ahead. This essential document contains all the popular awareness days, health-related events and important dates to help you effectively plan your practice's social media. Download your copy and save it to your computer, or print off a copy for your desk to help your communication planning for the year ahead.
Medical Economics
DECEMBER 19, 2024
New statement aims to ensure access to tirzepatide as other GLP-1 drug shortages persist.
Open Dental
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Open Dentals latest version 24.3 has been released as stable! Read on to learn more about some of the version highlights. The post Software Update: Stable Version 24.3 Highlights appeared first on Open Dental Blog.
Medical Economics
DECEMBER 19, 2024
The transition to value-based care presents serious challenges to physicians. Here are three concrete ways that health plans, ACOs and others can help them thrive.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
DECEMBER 19, 2024
The policy allows providers, health IT developers or data exchanges to restrict information sharing when there’s risk it could expose patients or clinicians to legal fallout.
Medical Economics
DECEMBER 19, 2024
What happens with future rate cuts will go a long way toward determining what happens in the stock market
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
DECEMBER 19, 2024
It's a major step forward for the nine-hospital deal, which has faced pushback from some Illinois residents and a union.
Medical Economics
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Some well-known apps are collecting a surprising amount of data from you. How many of these are on your phone?
Physicians Practice
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Leaders across the industry sound off.
Practice Management Institute
DECEMBER 19, 2024
This article highlights the unique journey of Cynthia Voorhees, an acute care nurse practitioner who transitioned into a dual role as CFO and operations manager for Texas Neuro Spine (TNSPINE), one of San Antonios leading neurosurgery group
The Healthcare Blog
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Brad Kittredge is CEO of Brightside Health, which he co-founded with CMO Mimi Winsberg. They are a large online mental health group that aims a providing more access with higher quality. They have built their own technology stack and medical group, and are in network for about 135m lives. They also take patients from the emergency departments of health systems–as well as direct patient outreach for “standard” mental health conditions.
Minority Nurse
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Providing maintenance for your car may seem very unlike the maintenance of your nursing career, but these two important processes may have more in common than you think. Both your car and your nursing career are vehicles for getting you from one place to another, and a car in disrepair can’t be as reliable or take you as far as one that’s well-maintained and in tip-top shape.
Medical Economics
DECEMBER 19, 2024
The top news stories in medicine today.
Forbes Healthcare
DECEMBER 19, 2024
The Federal Reserve rolled out its third interest rate cut of 2024 yesterday, a move expected to lower borrowing costs across the economy.
Medical Economics
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Researchers find that children misinterpret common medical phrase and urge health care professionals to simplify communication
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
DECEMBER 19, 2024
A sweeping funding bill that would have preserved the pandemic-era policies for two years was derailed by President-elect Donald Trump, less than two weeks before the flexibilities are set to expire.
Forbes Healthcare
DECEMBER 19, 2024
The Republican-led House of Representatives stripped reforms to pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs in legislation also designed to fund the government.
Practice Index
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Its a question, no doubt, thats somewhere near the forefront of Practice Managers minds this December: is Santa GDPR-compliant? I mean, the rest of us have to be. And Santa, despite living in Lapland, does carry out data-processing activities in relation to children across the UK. So how does his data protection regime shape up when compared with that of a typical GP practice?
Science Based Medicine
DECEMBER 19, 2024
The Science-Based Medicine blog was established way back in 2008. Since that time, contributors to this blog have been sounding the alarm about the harmful effects of pseudoscience and conspiracy theories related to health. Few people in positions of authority heeded these warnings or recognized the severity of the threat over the next decade. Sometimes we as health professionals were even mocked […] The post Homeopathy: Magical thinking, not medicine first appeared on Science-Based Medici
Sensible Medicine
DECEMBER 19, 2024
A few years ago, an economist I care for sent me an email asking if she could talk to me about a medical issue. She said she didn’t need to see me as the question was academic rather than personal. Her question had grown out of a conversation she had had with her students. “When someone’s cholesterol is high, the standard of care seems to be to recommend a period of “lifestyle modification” before prescribing a statin.
The Healthcare Blog
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Joining Matthew Holt on #THCBGang on Thursday December 19 at 1pm PST 4pm EST are three leaders in the patient movement Hugo Campos ( @HugoCampos ); Gilles Frydman ( @GillesFrydman ); and ePatient Dave deBronkart ( @DavedeBronkart ). They will be bring us up to speed on the very latest in patients using AI. You can see the video below live (and later archived) & if youd rather listen than watch, the audio is preserved as a weekly podcast available on our iTunes & Spotify channels.
Practice Index
DECEMBER 19, 2024
The Budget announcements of a huge hike in employer National Insurance contributions and a further rise to the National Living Wage were unexpected. Theyve hit practices hard because they come on top of sustained financial pressure over the last three years, with each year harder to deal with than the one previous. What the Budget… The post The fallout from the Budget – By Ben Gowland appeared first on GP Practice Management Blog.
The Healthcare Blog
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Danielle Vaeth is Head of Growth and Strategic Development at Qbtech, a company that helps diagnose ADHD, working mostly with virtual providers. They use facial recognition and tracking to do this. Qbtech can diagnose 50% more patients than self-reporting and has approval from a big NHS study, the FDA and many peer-reviewed studies. They raised $6.8m in 2022 have just tested their millionth patient.
Practice Index
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Ministers promise news on practice funding Practices in England are pressing for rapid decisions on their future funding amid concern about next years National Insurance increase. Ministers this week promised announcements but indicated they would be in January. Questioned in the House of Commons, Health Minister Karin Smyth said there would be an announcement on National Insurance very shortly.
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