Mon.Mar 10, 2025

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VA And CDC Will Terminate Thousands Of Health Workers. Here Are The Unintended Consequences

Forbes Healthcare

The CDC and VA will terminate thousands of health workers. Many unintended consequences could threaten public health and safety.

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Coronary Artery Calcium Trial Fails to Impress

Sensible Medicine

The Journal of the American Medical Association published an actual randomized controlled trial for coronary artery calcium (CAC). As a skeptic of this imaging test, I saw the headline and thought: finally, we will learn whether patients who have their chest radiated have better outcomes. Better outcomes, such as fewer heart attacks or strokes, or longer life, is why we interact with healthcare.

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Is Dave Weldon The Best Candidate To Head CDC?

Forbes Healthcare

Dave Weldon is up to head CDC. He's a critic of the FDA and CDC, and believes vaccines cause autism. As we face measles, flu, bird flu outbreaks, is he the best choice?

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The Top Patient Safety Risks in 2025 Are Mostly About the “Human OS” – Reading ECRI’s Annual Report

Health Populi

Each year, ECRI (the ECRI Institute) publishes an annual report on the Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for the year. The 2025 list was published today. My read of it is that most of these risks have to do with what I’ve been referring to as the Human OS, the Human Operating System, in my talks and teachings. In this post, I’ll focus on 2 of the 10 most top-of-mind in my current workflow with clients and speaking: #1 and #3.

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The Mental Health Benefits Of Social Prescribing The Arts For Students

Forbes Healthcare

An emerging innovation in college mental health is providing students opportunities to engage in arts related programs, either on campus or in the local community.

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Trust in Health Care 5 Years After COVID Began – an Edelman Trust Barometer Update

Health Populi

On March 11, 2020, The World Health Organization announced that the coronavirus was deemed a pandemic. WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus asserted, “We have called every day for countries to take urgent and aggressive action.We have rung the alarm bell loud and clear.” Five years later, Edelman has fielded a survey to determine what some 4,000 health citizens living in 4 countries (Brazil, India, the UK, and the U.S.) are thinking and feeling about life after COVID-1

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This healthcare AI use case will grow 320% by 2026, survey finds

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

Learn more about how this next generation of AI use cases could add new value in the nick of time.

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Why Women Have More Difficulty With Sleep—and What To Do

Forbes Healthcare

Women face unique sleep challenges due to hormones, sleep cycles, and health risks. Learn why and how to improve sleep quality for better health.

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Cano Health CEO Mark Kent steps down

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

Kent, who took on the chief executive role in 2023, shepherded the primary care chain through its bankruptcy restructuring.

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KKR Nears $2.08 Billion Deal To Acquire British Landlord Assura

Forbes Healthcare

The bidding war for Assura has swung in favor of KKR and Stonepeak Partners after the U.S.-based consortium raised its bid for the British healthcare landlord.

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House proposed budget would not restore Medicare reimbursement cuts to physicians

Medical Economics

Restoring pay had majority support, but medical associations blast federal budget for ignoring that, jeopardizing patient access.

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Five Years Later: Lessons Learned From The Pandemic

Forbes Healthcare

As the world ground to a halt, public health professionals mobilized, shifting into high gear to address the crisis.

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The importance of maintaining commercial foodservice equipment and ice machines

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

Faulty foodservice equipment can risk patient safety. Regular maintenance ensures quality, safety and patient satisfaction.

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How GenAI Plus Telemedicine Could Save Millions Of Lives

Forbes Healthcare

Telemedicine eliminates geographic and scheduling barriers. Generative AI ensures smarter, faster care. Here's how, together, they could transform American healthcare.

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Preparing for a Secure Retirement as a Minority Nurse

Minority Nurse

Planning for a financially secure retirement is essential for all nurses, but minority nurses face unique challenges that require special attention. For example, according to a study released by the National Library of Medicine , Black nurses reported higher job dissatisfaction and intent to leave their positions within a year compared to White nurses.

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AI-powered mammography screening shows promise in new study

Medical Economics

South Korean researchers find that AI-assisted mammography interpretation significantly improves breast cancer detection rates without increasing recall rates

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Choosing risk assessment tools

Physicians Practice

Andrea Greco, SVP of healthcare safety at CENTEGIX, talks about common risk assessment tools.

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Ep. 55: Selling your practice with Ericka Adler of Roetzel & Andress

Medical Economics

Ericka Adler, JD, of Roetzel & Andress, joins the show to discuss factors you should consider before selling your practice.

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Ep. 55: Selling your practice with Ericka Adler of Roetzel & Andress

Physicians Practice

Ericka Adler, JD, of Roetzel & Andress, joins the show to discuss factors you should consider before selling your practice.

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Top 10 Health IT Challenges in 2025

Performance Health

While healthcare technology continues to advance and improve patient care, new concerns in patient safety, data security, and the usability of medical technology also emerge. Understanding these health IT challenges is critical for healthcare providers, administrators, and policymakers to effectively manage risks and ensure healthcare safety.

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Practice tip of the week: Malpractice landmines

Physicians Practice

Your weekly dose of wisdom from the Physicians Practice experts.

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Top 10 Patient Safety Issues 2025

Performance Health

Patient safety issues are continuously evolving, with new challenges emerging alongside technological advances and societal shifts. In its annual report, Emergency Care Research Institute (ECRI) and the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) have identified the ten most critical patient safety issues for 2025. This report highlights the need for proactive approaches to mitigate risks and enhance patient outcomes across the healthcare spectrum.

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NPO After Midnight: Egg Freezing Cycle as a Medical Resident

A Young Doctor's Journey

I am sharing my journey going through a cycle of elective egg freezing as a young woman in medicine with the hopes that it will inspire other women to do the same, if it's something they've been considering. Remember, I am sharing this as a patient, not a specialist doctor – nothing is medical advice: just my experiences and what I've been told by my fertility team.

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Rhode Island Human Services Agency Announced 114K-Record Data Breach

The HIPAA Journal

Cyberattacks have recently been announced by Community Care Alliance in Rhode Island, Central Texas Pediatric Orthopedics, and Whitman Hospital and Medical Clinics in Washington. At least 204,000 individuals have had their personal and health data exposed. Community Care Alliance A major data breach has been announced by the Woonsocket, Rhode Island-based human services agency Community Care Alliance.

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House spending plan includes some telehealth allowances, but more work is needed

Medical Economics

ATA praises continuing resolution, but there remains work to be done, ATA leader says.

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CareFirst BCBS Sues Change Healthcare Over February 2024 Ransomware Attack

The HIPAA Journal

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield has filed a lawsuit against Change Healthcare in response to the February 2024 ransomware attack that caused extensive disruption to Change Healthcares services.CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield provides health plans to 3.5 million individuals and groups in Maryland and the Washington D.C. metropolitan area and has a 75% share in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, which has more than 626,000 members.

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Bill would improve mental health in underserved communities; USPSTF draft research plan for screening cognitive impairment; anxiety, depression in adults with chronic pain – Morning Medical Update

Medical Economics

The top news stories in medicine today.

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How Collaborative, Value-based Care Oncology Solutions Can Improve Patient Outcomes

Healthcare Leadership Council

It is hard to find anyone in this country whose life hasnt been affected by cancer either directly or when someone they know has been stricken with the disease. The numbers are staggering more than 2 million new cancer cases projected for 2025 in the U.S. and costs for cancer care estimated to amount to $246 billion in 2030. The question is: how do we tackle this escalating challenge?

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Republicans can’t meet budget target without Medicaid cuts: CBO

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

Excluding large health insurance programs, spending under the House Energy and Commerce Committee's purview falls far short of the budget blueprint’s $880 billion goal for cuts.

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Misinformed refusal: What antivaxxers really mean when they invoke “informed consent”

Science Based Medicine

Our new Secretary of Health and Human Services wants to change CDC messaging about vaccines to emphasize "informed consent." What he really means is misinformed refusal. The post Misinformed refusal: What antivaxxers really mean when they invoke informed consent first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

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Healthcare tackles AI oversight with no aid from Trump administration

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

The president’s deregulatory bent means more responsibility rests on the shoulders of healthcare stakeholders to get artificial intelligence right, experts say.

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