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Medicare finalizes higher 2.9% inpatient payment rate for 2025

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

Hospitals still weren’t happy with the final rule despite the bump from the CMS’ proposed rates, citing cuts to long-term and disproportionate share facilities.

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Addressing the rise in chronic illnesses with connected medical devices

Medical Economics

Connected medical devices will be essential to help monitor and manage chronic diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cardiac arrhythmia, and respiratory diseases, as well as other conditions like sleep apnea, obesity and diabetes.

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Revenue cycle management firm R1 RCM to go private in $8.9B acquisition

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

The deal with private equity firms TowerBrook and Clayton, Dubilier and Rice comes months after New Mountain Capital announced its own takeover bid, which some analysts thought undervalued the company.

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Short Vs. Long Term Memory: Why You Remember Your Birthday But Not Where You Left Your Keys

Forbes Healthcare

According to a recent study from the Salk Institute in California, the brain’s storage capacity may be 10x greater than initially thought.

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Meeting Psychiatrists’ Technical Needs: A Practice Owner’s Guide to EHR

Valant

An electronic health record (EHR) system is a critical tool for successful, patient-centered psychiatric practices. There are a number of specific technical requirements for an EHR system that meets psychiatrists’ needs. These translate to core functions of an EHR. Whether you are shopping for a psychiatry EHR to start a practice, or looking to bring prescribers into an established therapy practice, you’ll want to gain an understanding of how the software needs to support your practice.

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Simone Biles Shakes Off Calf Injury To Win All-Around Gold At Olympics

Forbes Healthcare

Simone Biles showed only a few signs that her calf was bothering her on her way to winning gold in the women's gymnastics all-around competition at the Paris Olympics.

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Newly Discovered Genetic Variant Protects Against Alzheimer's Disease

Forbes Healthcare

Researchers at Columbia University found that this gene can reduce one’s risk by 70%.

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Unemployment report for July shows 55K new health care jobs

Medical Economics

Is the U.S. in early stages of recession? Reports cite economic indicator tied to jobless figures.

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The practice marketing minute

Physicians Practice

Marketing can be more than fancy campaigns and social media strategies.

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Cancer risk in younger people; of hormones and bones; stress relievers you can do anywhere – Morning Medical Update

Medical Economics

The top news stories in medicine today.

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What Matters is How You Use it

Sensible Medicine

At risk of sounding like a broken record (and sounding old by using this cliché), little about Sensible Medicine makes me happier than when a reader disagrees with one of us and writes a cogent retort. It is best when the reader disagrees with Vinay or John rather than me. Adam Cifu On July 14 th , Dr. Vinay Prasad published an opinion piece titled “ When the Patient is in the Room, Stop Typing Your Note ” He argued that it disconnects the doctor from the visit, and keeps the do

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CMOM Training Class Starts in October:  Here's How to Prepare Now

Practice Management Institute

If you've been thinking about earning certification, PMI can help you slay your goals. The next live online training series beginning on October 9th. Review some of our most frequently-asked questions below, and start your journey learning new skills for career advancement.

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Generative AI in Health Care: How Can We Protect Health Information?

Pulmonology Advisor - Practice Management

Generative artificial intelligence (Gen-AI) has gradually produced changes in the health care system. The technology has redesigned clinicians’ workflow, patient interactions, and the management of patient data in a way that may prove beneficial but also raise concerns. “We want generative artificial intelligence to fulfill the promise of the electronic health record (EHR),” said Dr Ali Soroush, assistant professor in the Divisions of Gastroenterology and Data-Driven and Digital Medi

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How to write clinical notes faster

Mobius MD

Most doctors wish they could spend less time on paperwork and charting. One of the best ways to save documentation time is to write your clinical notes faster. “But I already write my clinical notes very quickly!” you say. It’s true that you probably take notes quickly if you’ve made it this far in medicine. But could you complete EHR documentation 10% faster?

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Practice Academy: New on-demand learning for physicians

Medical Economics

The latest on risk management, reimbursement, and finance & wealth

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The Relationship Between Poverty and Crime

Northwest Career College

For many years, sociologists, economists, and criminologists have conducted extensive research and debates on the connection between crime and poverty. Although numerous factors play a role, there is a consensus based on evidence that poverty significantly increases the risk of criminal behavior. Understanding this relationship is crucial for creating effective policies and intervention strategies aimed at reducing crime rates and alleviating poverty at the same time.

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Countdown Checklist L9, T-minus 91: Consider Training Options

Connect Care Bytes Blog

Continuing a list of essential actions for Connect Care Launch 9 prescribers readying for launch November 2, 2024. Consider Connect Care Launch 9 Training Options Depending on track, virtual as well as in-person classes may be available. Contingency plans are in place in the event of facility-level outbreaks. If required, all in-person training can be converted to virtual training.

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Trump Touts Right To Try Law That Expands Drug Access For Terminally Ill, But Uptake Is Slow

Forbes Healthcare

The Right to Try Act expands drug access for terminally ill patients. But uptake has been slow. The law seems superfluous, as an FDA program does nearly the same thing.

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My Trip To Paris This Week

The Healthcare Blog

By MIKE MAGEE While others regale in the accomplishments of quirky pommel horse specialist , Stephen Nedoroscik, from Worcester, MA, or Celine Dion’s remarkable performance at the closing of the Olympics Opening Ceremonies in Paris this week, I time-traveled to Paris this week on a different mission. I was there to visit Germaine de Staël. The French writer, who in 1803 tangled with Napoleon at the height of his power and asked him, “Who is the greatest woman in the world?

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