Mon.Jul 22, 2024

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Money in Medical Education Makes Me Sad

Sensible Medicine

I call it therapeutic fashion. Practice patterns. Beliefs. Ways of doing things. Examples: patients with new heart failure get coronary angiography; patients with chest pain without evidence of heart attack get stress tests; certain drugs and devices become favored over generics. The curious thing about many therapeutic fashions is their lack of evidentiary support.

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What To Know About The Deadly Nipah Virus As India Races To Contain Another Outbreak

Forbes Healthcare

Feared as a potential cause of another pandemic, Nipah has no treatments or vaccines, and the virus kills as many as three out of every four people it infects.

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CMS cracks down on ACA brokers to prevent plan switching

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

Agents and brokers connecting consumers with Affordable Care Act plans now have to jump new hurdles to change their coverage, following mounting complaints about unauthorized plan switching.

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GLP-1s Are Growing In Popularity As Weight Loss Drugs But Losing Steam Among Diabetics, Study Suggests

Forbes Healthcare

Semaglutide—the brand name for Ozempic and Wegovy—was the most prescribed GLP-1 in 2023, and accounted for over 88% of all new prescriptions.

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Healthcare costs could grow up to 8% next year: PwC

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

The growth is driven by inflationary pressures, prescription drug spending and rising utilization of behavioral healthcare, according to the consultancy.

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The Workout Value Of Pickleball Compared To Other Racquet Sports

Forbes Healthcare

Is Pickleball Good exercise? Here's a data-driven analysis of the sport comparing it to racquetball, tennis, and squash to see just how good a workout Pickleball really is.

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Big Insurers UnitedHealth, Elevance Ride Out Medicare Advantage Storm

Forbes Healthcare

Second quarter profits of the largest health insurers - Elevance Health and UnitedHealth Group - are an indication the industry is weathering Medicare Advantage issues.

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Commure to acquire AI scribe Augmedix in $139M deal

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

The take-private deal would help the firm scale its documentation products to more providers and health systems, CEO Manny Krakaris said.

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Artists, Scientists Collaborate In Art Exhibition Focused On HIV

Forbes Healthcare

As scientists gather in Munich for the International AIDS Conference, an art exhibition highlights the intersection of art and science.

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Steward fails to spark competitive auction during first round of hospital sales

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

The bankrupt health system did not receive any qualified bidders in Ohio and Pennsylvania.

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Accountable care organizations need better engagement with patients

Medical Economics

ACO advocates outline steps for CMS to communicate and change rules regarding patient engagement.

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Florida awards additional Medicaid contracts to CVS, UnitedHealth, Molina

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

The three payers were cut out of the state’s first round of contracts divvied out in April.

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How Cancer Immunotherapy Checkpoint Inhibitors Work

Forbes Healthcare

Checkpoint inhibitors can treat many different types of cancer. Its key to success lies in blocking one of cancer’s main defenses: checkpoint proteins.

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2024 MGMA DataDive: Unveiling key trends in physician compensation

KevinMD.com

The wait is over! The highly anticipated 2024 MGMA DataDive, a federally recognized gold standard for physician compensation data, has finally arrived. This comprehensive analysis offers unparalleled insights into physician and advanced practice provider (APP) compensation, making it a crucial resource for staying informed in today’s health care landscape.

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Mindfulness Game: Case Kenny’s Impact On Athlete Mental Health

Forbes Healthcare

Explore Case Kenny's journey into mindfulness and journaling. Discover how his techniques are empowering athletes to achieve peak performance and mental resilience.

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Statement from Patients Rising Founder Terry Wilcox Regarding Predatory PBM Practices

Patients Rising

Patients face surprise out-of-pocket expenses and limited medication options due to opaque Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBM) practices.

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Practice tip of the week: Seven sins of communication

Physicians Practice

Your weekly dose of wisdom from the Physicians Practice experts.

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Typing vs. Dictation – Which is faster?

Mobius MD

Many providers are looking for ways to save time and speed up charting. If you type clinical notes but are considering switching to medical dictation, you’re probably wondering, “Which is faster?” We did the math to help you decide between typing vs. dictation for your EMR workflow. Whether you type or dictate patient notes, it is ultimately a matter of minutes.

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How to Improve Incident Reporting

Performance Health

Improving patient safety relies on the effective management of incident reporting in healthcare. By carefully documenting errors, healthcare leaders can reduce the chance of future incidents in their facilities. One in 20 patients suffer from preventable medical harm a year , so strategic use of incident reporting in healthcare is imperative. The effectiveness of incident reporting in healthcare depends on its design and implementation.

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MUSE and ECG Web Scheduled Outage (North, Central, Calgary and South Zones) - Tuesday July 23, 2024, 20:00-21:00

Connect Care Bytes Blog

The Marquette Universal System for Electrocardiology (MUSE) receives patient tests from ECG carts, monitors, the Holter system, and the Exercise Stress system, and ECG Web is used to view and print data from MUSE. There will be a scheduled outage for MUSE and ECG Web, on Tuesday, July 23, 2024, from 20:00 to 21:00, affecting North, Central, Calgary and South Zone Connect Care users only.

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The double-edged sword of QHINs

Medical Economics

Navigating the promise and perils of health data interoperability

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The Lens of the Nurse Observer

Minority Nurse

Every human being sees the world through a variety of lenses. There are lenses of family roles (e.g., mother, father, child, grandparent), lenses of identity (e.g., gender, sexual orientation, race, citizenship, religion), and many others, including lenses of profession and career. How we see the world is filtered through the lenses we wear, most of which we wear simultaneously.

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What Kamala Harris thinks about health care

Medical Economics

A look at the vice president’s positions and accomplishments in office.

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How COVID Out-Voted Both Biden And Trump’s Presidential Runs

Forbes Healthcare

COVID has now defeated two second-term presidential campaigns. A cautionary reminder of the pathogen’s staying power over two presidencies.

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Vote, for Health Sake

The Healthcare Blog

By KIM BELLARD If you had on your political bingo card that our former President Trump would survive an assignation attempt, or that President Biden would drop out of the race a few weeks before being renominated for 2024, then you’re playing a more advanced game than I was (on the other hand, the chances that Trump would get convicted of felonies or that Biden would have a bad debate almost seemed inevitable).

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Donald Trump bragged that “right-to-try” has saved thousands of lives. It hasn’t.

Science Based Medicine

Former President Donald Trump bragged in his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention that "right-to-try" had saved "thousands of lives"? What's the real story? (Hint: Nowhere near that.) The post Donald Trump bragged that “right-to-try” has saved thousands of lives. It hasn’t. first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

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