Fri.Aug 30, 2024

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Walgreens sued by shareholder amid plummeting stock price

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

The company’s top directors — including CEO Tim Wentworth and CFO Manmohan Mahajan — allegedly breached their fiduciary duty by inflating Walgreens’ performance projections.

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FDA Approves Updated Novavax COVID Vaccine Week After Approving Moderna And Pfizer’s Shots

Forbes Healthcare

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends everyone six years and older receive the updated shots.

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Vaccines: Saving Lives and Money for Over 200 Years

Science Based Medicine

Vaccines save lives and money according to a recently published CDC report. This shouldn't come as a surprise, but it's still nice to see. The post Vaccines: Saving Lives and Money for Over 200 Years first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

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Friday Reflection 43: The Absence of Reassuring Counterfactuals in Clinical Medicine

Sensible Medicine

KN is a 90-year-old man I visit at an inpatient hospice. His son warned me that my visit might “be a waste of time” because he sleeps much of the day and “can’t even get out of bed.” When I arrive, however, I find him in good spirits. He is pain free, cognitively intact, and genuinely pleased to see me. He is not only happy for the company but touched that I made the effort to come.

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AI Can Helped Fallible Human Physicians In Diagnosing Prostate Cancer

Forbes Healthcare

Human physicians make more mistakes as they get tired; AIs do not. AIs can serve a a valuable in helping physicians the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer.

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The interaction model vs. the holistic model in telehealth

Medical Economics

True primary care is possible through a holistic model to telehealth. So why aren’t more companies embracing it?

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Independent medical practices are in critical condition amid Medicare reimbursement cuts

Medical Economics

Physicians and their staff are dealing with an overlapping set of pressures that are making the practice of medicine harder than ever.

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Steward closer to finalizing Massachusetts hospital sales

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

The bankrupt health system has signed definitive agreements to divest four facilities and is hoping to finalize others soon, according to documents filed in U.S. federal bankruptcy court on Thursday.

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Physician politicians: Why doctors choose to serve -- and how you can too

Medical Economics

Understanding the process of campaigning and why more doctors need to get involved in politics.

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Nursing CEU Requirements By State

Beacon

Navigating state-specific nursing CEU requirements can be daunting. Find comprehensive information, deadlines, and resources to ensure your license stays active and up-to-date.

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Social Isolation and IDD: How to Help Your Clients Make Meaningful Connections

Relias

Social isolation due to a disability is an all-too-common occurrence. Myriad social forces create an environment in which individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) are unable to connect with their peers. This can have lasting and severe consequences for their holistic health. To help you better serve your clients, we’ll delve into this problem and offer some guidance on how to address it.

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Trafft vs. Calendly: A Comprehensive Scheduling Tool Comparison

Trafft

In a world where time is more valuable than ever, efficient scheduling can make all the difference in staying organized and productive. This goes for both your personal and professional obligations. However, with a substantial number of scheduling tools available, choosing the right one can take a lot of time and effort. To help in your endeavor, we chose two prominent names in the industry – Trafft and Calendly – which both offer distinctive features and benefits.

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5 issues to consider before selling a medical practice

Medical Economics

Many of these items should be addressed in advance of going to market or accepting indications of interest from potential buyers.

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Trafft Hacks: How to Create and Manage Employees with Trafft

Trafft

If you are a business owner handling multiple employees’ schedules, you know how overwhelming it can be to keep everything organized. Whether you’re coordinating appointments, managing shifts, or navigating time-off requests, the complexity of making a schedule that works can quickly become a major headache. That’s where Trafft comes in – a powerful scheduling tool designed to simplify these tasks and help you stay on top of your business.

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Value-based payment contracts come with dozens of quality measures

Medical Economics

Study examines quality measures per contract and finds there are a lot of them.

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Mastering Beneficence in Nursing Ethics

Beacon

Exploring the Core of Nursing Ethics Ethics in nursing, as outlined by the American Nurses Association (ANA), serve as a vital guide for fulfilling nursing responsibilities with quality and integrity.

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Countdown Checklist L9, T-minus 63: Get Ready for Patient Movement

Connect Care Bytes Blog

Continuing a list of essential actions for Connect Care Launch 9 prescribers readying for launch November 2, 2024. (Optional) Register for the Patient Movement Fundamentals Patient movement, or how to move a patient from one location to another using Connect Care as a tool, is cited as one of the most confusing concepts to grasp at launch. The week of September 16 –20 includes 1-hour Patient Movement Fundamentals readiness sessions on Facility Living workflows.

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Expert Spotlight: Renu Gehring – AI “A Set Of Russian Dolls”

Arkenea

Renu Gehring, a technology leader with 20 years of experience in creating healthcare solutions that solve healthcare problems, talks about data science and technology in healthcare, leading from the front and 5 key skills for succeeding as a healthcare CTO. Connect with Renu on LinkedIn here. 1. How do you see the role of technology evolving in patient care over the next decade?

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

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How To Stay Organized as a Busy Medical Assistant

Northwest Career College

Being a medical assistant who helps doctors, cares for patients, and runs the clinic smoothly is demanding and busy. Staying on top of priorities by being organized enables you to do your job well and ensures the smooth running of things. Here’s how you can stay organized even when things get busy! What is a Medical Assistant? A medical assistant works in a doctor’s office or clinic.

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Retirement planning secrets for physicians

Medical Economics

What you need to know to realize your financial dreams

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Beating mid-career blahs

Physicians Practice

How can we combat the dullness and tedium of our workday lives?

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Managing patient messages

Medical Economics

How one practice experimented with a new workflow

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“Moral Distress” Has Arrived On Health Care’s Stoop

The Healthcare Blog

By MIKE MAGEE When Andrew Jameton, a Nursing Professor at the Department of Mental Health and Community Nursing at UCSF in 1984 published “Nursing Practice: The Ethical Issues” , the term “Moral Distress” was a novel term in clinical health care. It focused primarily on “care that they were expected to provide but ethically opposed.” Over the past four decades, the definition has expanded and now encompasses the “inability to provide the care that one feels morally compelled to provide.

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Meet ABIM’s new leader: AI and advancing technology

Medical Economics

A conversation with Furman S. McDonald, MD, MPH.

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Thinking about running for office?

Medical Economics

Here’s what to know if you want to run for a government position

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Should you handle your own retirement planning or work with a pro?

Medical Economics

There are pros and cons to either approach

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Meet ABIM’s new leader: The future is bright for internal medicine

Medical Economics

A conversation with Furman S. McDonald, MD, MPH.

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Language for gender and sex; yoga vs. exercise benefits; dangerously high temperatures – Morning Medical Update

Medical Economics

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