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Project Stargate: A $500 Billion Venture Between Oracle, Open AI, Nvidia & Softbank That Will Revolutionize Healthcare

Forbes Healthcare

Per the project leaders, Stargate will be critical to "maintain American leadership in AI.

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Providers to target efficiency, supply chain resilience in 2025

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

Health systems will seek to expand their supply chains and partnerships in 2025, while trimming excessive AI programs and nonclinical staff.

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Are Women More Prone To Long Covid Than Men?

Forbes Healthcare

Women are at a higher risk of developing long Covid than men although men are more likely to suffer from severe Covid-19 infections and have higher mortality rates.

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Why health systems must renegotiate contracts to survive

KevinMD.com

Providers must stop subsidizing payors’ profit margins. Consider United Health Care, which boasts a 6 percent margin on revenue (equivalent to $22 billion), while hospitals manage a slim 3 percent margin, and physician practices often struggle to stay financially viable. This imbalance underscores the urgent need for hospitals, health systems, and physicians to negotiate rates Read more Why health systems must renegotiate contracts to survive originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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From Leadership To Isolation: Trump’s WHO Exit Reshapes Global Health

Forbes Healthcare

The withdrawal means the WHO will lose both a significant percentage of its funding but also the expertise of U.S. health professionals.

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AAFP’s prescription for primary care success in 2025

Medical Economics

By helping family physicians, the new Congress and administration would bolster health care across the nation.

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Ensuring safety and compliance when prescribing GLP-1 drugs in online health care

Medical Economics

How telehealth organizations, med spas and other nontraditional providers can lead the charge on GLP-1 medications.

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6 Things To Know About Stimulant Medications For ADHD

Forbes Healthcare

Stimulant medications are considered the first-line treatment for ADHD for some very good reasons. Here are 6 things to know about stimulant medications in ADHD.

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What Are The Things I’m Not Allowed To Do As A Caregiver?

We Care Online

Caregivers are vital for helping people with daily living tasks and supporting them to be comfortable and safe. There are limits, however, that every caregiver or caretaker has to follow in the interest of the profession, the clients safety and for the sake of legality and ethics. Caregivers need to understand what is not permitted, so they know how to carry out their tasks effectively without getting into trouble.

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Paying Too Much For Healthcare? Your Boss Might Be To Blame

Forbes Healthcare

Self-insured employers pay more for medical care because they do not negotiate successfully with insurers.

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Aniq Rahman, Fabric Health

The Healthcare Blog

Aniq Rahman is the CEO of Fabric Health. In basically two years Fabric has changed its name (nee Florence) bought some health tech standouts in the fields of symptom checking and asynchronous care (Gyant, Zipnosis), a medical group (Team Health’s virtual care) and the telehealth part of Walmart (MeMD). In the 2010’s Aniq built an analytics company acquired by Oracle & turned to health care after seeing his father go through the system.

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The miracle of immune checkpoint inhibitors: a physician’s unforgettable journey

KevinMD.com

Even a half-century later, a physician cannot forget the first death of a patient under their care. It happened for me during my postgraduate medical training in the 1970s in an academic medical center hospital in the western half of the United States. She was a delightful young married woman who was the mother of Read more The miracle of immune checkpoint inhibitors: a physicians unforgettable journey originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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HHS updates HIPAA rule to enhance ePHI security

Health Prime

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to modify the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule of 1996. This update intends to strengthen cybersecurity protections for electronic protected health information (ePHI). According to the HHS, the Security Rule establishes a national set of security standards to protect certain health information maintained or transmitted in electronic form.

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Why sharing your personal number with patients isn’t a great idea and what to do instead

Medical Economics

Prioritizing physician well-being while keeping patient care top of mind.

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Save the date for the 2025 KSMGMA Annual Conference

Physicians Practice

April 9-11 in Wichita, Kansas.

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9 payroll tips to start 2025 on a High Note

Medical Economics

Rising costs can put financial pressure on medical practices, potentially resulting in challenges like payroll delays and operational setbacks. These tips can help.

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Using an AI prompt generator

Physicians Practice

Neil Baum, MD, walks through how to use AI prompt generators in your practice.

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Most patients use devices to self-monitor their heart health but don’t share the information with their doctor

Medical Economics

Just 25% of patients who self-monitor their heart health discuss the data with their doctors.

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5 Challenges in Medical Incident Reporting & How to Overcome Them

Performance Health

Almost 86% of all hospital errors go unreported, according to a recent U.S. Department of Health and Human Services report. This significant gap in data underscores a crucial question: How can healthcare organizations improve patient safety without an effective system to report, analyze, and learn from these errors? The answer lies in robust medical incident reporting systems.

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How health care providers can stay compliant with HIPAA audit changes

Medical Economics

HHS-OIGs recommended changes to the audit program aim to strengthen data protections.

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Health care’s 2025 revenue cycle imperative: Reduce administrative waste

Physicians Practice

Given that so much of the high costs associated with running a healthcare business remains outside of the organizations control, financial leaders will have to consider how they can impact the one area that is in their control in 2025: reducing administrative waste.

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Intensive blood pressure control reduces risk of cognitive impairment; less than 1% of clinical drug trials enroll pregnant participants; researchers develop at-home test for bladder cancer – Morning Medical Update

Medical Economics

The top news stories in medicine today.

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InnovationRx: The Impact Of Trump’s Withdrawal From The WHO And His Other Healthcare Orders

Forbes Healthcare

Plus: Modernas bird flu vaccine, Obamacare enrollment breaks records, and AstraZenecas new breast cancer treatment is FDA approved.

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Administration orders ‘immediate pause’ on HHS communications: reports

Medical Economics

AP, Washington Post say order came down during President Donald Trumps first full day in office.

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President Trump: Time For Change On Daylight Saving?

Forbes Healthcare

The article covers Daylight Saving Time's history, health impact, remedies like light therapy, sleep hygiene, gradual adjustments in light of President Trump's quote.

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Trump anti-DEI order targets medical associations and businesses in the health care sector

Medical Economics

Order goes far beyond removing DEI from the government, but is reaching into the private sector, as well

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Americans mixed on potential Trump healthcare priorities: KFF poll

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

About half of respondents said the nation should spend more on Medicaid and Medicare — a potential challenge for the Trump administration looking to cut costs.

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Why Did the FDA Ban Red Dye #3

Science Based Medicine

The FDA recently removed FD&C Red No. 3 from the list of approved food additives. This was not based on any new data or interpretation of the data, but rather was a response to a petition from food safety and environmental groups. Their argument was in turn based on the Delaney Clause, a 1960 law saying that the FDA must ban any […] The post Why Did the FDA Ban Red Dye #3 first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

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