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It’s Nearly Impossible To Get A Job in Artificial Intelligence Right Now

Forbes Healthcare

This is one of the most competitive fields to date.

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How Trauma-Informed Design Principles Can Be Health-Ful for All of Us – Learning from IKEA

Health Populi

As a long-time fan and customer of IKEA, I receive daily Google Alerts about the company, from business finances to design trends. When I read this piece on IKEA’s work on a home designed for people who were homeless , I paid special attention to learn about the concept of trauma-informed design. Thanks to the publication Retail TouchPoints and the author of the story, Adan Blair, for covering this project.

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Price Transparency: A Catalyst For Affordable Healthcare

Forbes Healthcare

Price transparency is a necessary catalyst to jumpstart the transformation of our healthcare system into a competitive, fair, and patient-oriented one.

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Industry condolences, social media vitriol follow UnitedHealthcare CEO’s killing

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

Brian Thompson’s death on Wednesday set off a flood of darkly celebratory social media posts offset by solemn remembrances from his peers and other healthcare leaders.

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Amazon-Abarca Pharmacy Venture With Blue Shield Of California Readies January Launch

Forbes Healthcare

The much-anticipated launch of Blue Shield of California’s pharmacy venture with Amazon Pharmacy and the pharmacy benefit manager Abarca will debut in January.

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New Employee Training

Open Dental

Learn about employee training resources, and our Certifications tool to help you manage your employees' training progress in Open Dental. The post New Employee Training appeared first on Open Dental Blog.

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Fixing health care starts with primary care

Medical Economics

Community-based primary care has been hollowed out over the past 25 years, starting with the advent of electronic health records.

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How Powerade Is Redefining Athlete Self-Care

Forbes Healthcare

In a move poised to redefine sports sponsorships, Powerade has unveiled The Athletes Code—a groundbreaking initiative that puts athletes' mental health at the forefront.

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Why Checklists in Healthcare Are Important

Performance Health

Checklists provide a wealth of positive impacts within healthcare organizations. Whether you are looking to effectively report incidents , prevent falls , or reduce overall risk, it all starts with a list. Here are the top reasons why checklists are so important in healthcare.

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Navigating payer relationships to boost urgent care revenue

Medical Economics

As patient expectations shift toward an expectation of on-demand health care, urgent care centers must adapt their revenue cycle processes to stay competitive and ensure financial stability.

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What’s Trending Now for Nurse Leaders

Emerging RN Leader

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN As we approach the end of 2024, the trending topics that nurse leaders are talking about right now include the following: The work of nurses, especially in acute care environments, is increasingly complex due to higher patient acuity, sustained patient volumes, and documentation requirements to achieve full […] The post What’s Trending Now for Nurse Leaders appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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GLP-1 RA drugs and primary care: What do physicians need to know?

Medical Economics

Robert Kushner, MD, an expert in overweight, obesity, nutrition, diet and exercise, discusses the effects of the new antiobesity medications.

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Corewell Health to adopt Abridge’s AI documentation tool

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

The deployment is one of Abridge’s largest health system partnerships, said CEO Shiv Rao. The product will be available to 4,000 employed physicians and advanced practice providers.

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Is It Time to Quit Your Nursing Job? 

Minority Nurse

There comes a time in every nurse’s career when it may be time to quit a nursing job. It’s rarely a fun decision, but we all must go through it, even when it’s uncomfortable or scary. Uncertainty can throw us off balance, personally or professionally, and life can feel a little less safe when we lose that sense of security. It’s often said that the devil you know is better than the devil you don’t, but then again, there are times when you know it’s time to go,

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What will primary care look like in 2030?

Medical Economics

As a result of shifts in the primary care landscape, Bain & Company has made important adjustments to their 2030 market share forecast from two years ago.

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How to stop Practice Managers from leaving

Practice Index

A recent blog detailed a huge response to the question of why so many Practice Managers are thinking of leaving their jobs. But what would make them stay and what needs to happen in order to change the minds of the potential 39% of PMs who said in a survey earlier this year that they were giving serious thought to quitting the job? Responses to a thread on this issue show there are many ways of tackling the problem, albeit with no guarantees that they will work.

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Estate planning is the physician's first line of defense against wealth loss

Medical Economics

Relying solely on traditional methods for estate planning can leave your assets vulnerable.

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You Can’t Spell Fair Pay Without AI

The Healthcare Blog

By KIM BELLARD Everything’s about AI these days. Everything is going to be about AI for a while. Everyone’s talking about it, and most of them know more about it than I do. But there is one thing about AI that I don’t think is getting enough attention. I’m old enough that the mantra “follow the money” resonates, and, when it comes to AI, I don’t like where I think the money is ending up.

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Welcome to Emergency Medicine: A Resource Masterpost

A Young Doctor's Journey

Welcome to the emergency department. A place of chaos, excitement, and lots of learning opportunities. I hope this blog post will serve as a mini introduction, so you can go into your new rotation armed with the resources you need to succeed. It's broken down by training levels, from medical student to graduating resident, as well as "EM" and "non-EM" folks.

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CVD, drugs, guns, crashes – hazards hinder life expectancy care for Americans

Medical Economics

How is life different across the pond? UK babies can expect to live longer than newborn Americans.

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Primary care news round-up (28th November to 4th December 2024)

Practice Index

Appointments reach record high Practice appointments reached a record high in October. Practices delivered 41.3 million appointments in the month, three million more than 12 months earlier, itself a record, according to new NHS England data. At the same time, data showed general practice working in England with fewer fully qualified GPs than a decade earlier.

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Tirzepatide tops semaglutide for patient weight loss, study finds

Medical Economics

The regulatory battle over compounded semaglutide and health effects on the heart are among latest developments involving GLP-1 RA drugs.

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The season of gratitude extends beyond Thanksgiving

Physicians Practice

Gratitude, if it is genuine, can organically lead to greater reimbursement.

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AI-enhanced heart failure screening: Is it worth it?

Medical Economics

The cost-effectiveness of using AI-ECG is $27,858 per quality-adjusted life year, and it’s particularly cost-effective in outpatient settings.

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Cancer’s Juvenescence: An Incoming Tide and the Urgent Need for a Paradigm Shift

The Healthcare Blog

By GEORGE BEAUREGARD During my years in a bustling metropolitan primary care practice from 1992 to 2010, I recall only a handful of patients under 50 who developed cancer. Not surprisingly, these were mostly cases of Hodgkins and Non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas, myeloma, skin, and breast cancer. Fortunately, those few patients were wearing the mantle of cancer survivor by the time I left clinical practice.

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UnitedHealthcare CEO killed in NYC; $54.3 million Medicare fraud scheme; Lil Jon promotes colon cancer screening – Morning Medical Update

Medical Economics

The top news stories in medicine today.

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UnitedHealthcare Denies More Claims Than Other Insurers — Angering Patients And Health Systems

Forbes Healthcare

According to the most recent available data, the insurer refused an estimated one-third of claims submitted, prompting an outpouring of frustration after its CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed this week.

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Will Lawmakers Ban DEI in medical schools?

Sensible Medicine

A new bill in the US House aims to ban DEI in medical schools. It raises the questions: What specifically is banned? Are the points valid? and Can medical education be legislated? Let’s consider these points What specifically is banned? & Are the Points Valid? I hate when I read lay press articles that summarize what a bill does. Almost always it doesn’t accurately summarize the language.

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Uniforms and dress codes: considerations to keep in mind

Practice Index

Most GP practices have a uniform or dress code policy. It’s such an ordinary part of working life that we rarely consider what, if any, legal rules or principles apply to the way we dress. Every now and again, though, it’s good to have a reminder of topics like this, so today’s blog will run through several common issues relating to uniforms and dress.

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RFK Jr is NOT the Contrarian We Need

Sensible Medicine

At Sensible Medicine, there is nothing we like better than spirited debate. It is even better when it happens without me having to respond to one of Dr. Prasad’s prompts. We welcome pieces arguing with anything we publish. We would much rather people submit robust responses to columns that appear here than attack us for publishing pieces they disagree with.

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Pycnogenol – Does maritime pine bark extract live up to the hype?

Science Based Medicine

Prescribed medicines are somewhat resistant to fads. Marketing can certainly drive demand and use, but long-term use tends to be driven by effectiveness. Some medicines used routinely today are decades old (e.g., penicillin for strep throat), because nothing better has been identified. Other drugs may be used for decades, only to largely disappear as newer, more effective treatments are introduced (I’m thinking […] The post Pycnogenol – Does maritime pine bark extract live up to the

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