Cincinnati Children’s Is A Unicorn, But It Should Be A Role Model
Forbes Healthcare
JUNE 25, 2024
Cincinnati Children’s is a patient safety unicorn, a place where achieving zero patient harm is a genuine cornerstone of the corporate culture.
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Arkansas sues Optum, Express Scripts over role in opioid epidemic
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
JUNE 25, 2024
Pharmacy benefit managers have largely avoided the brunt of public blame for the deadly opioid crisis. Arkansas’ lawsuit brings the drug middlemen back to the forefront of the controversy.
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Cosmetic Surgery Trends: Weight Loss Drugs Drove Spike In Fillers And Facelifts Last Year, Report Suggests
Forbes Healthcare
JUNE 25, 2024
The popularity of drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and Zepbound led to sagging skin in some patients who experienced rapid weight loss, causing them to seek out a fix in cosmetic procedures.
Cyber attacks on health care up 136% last year
Medical Economics
JUNE 25, 2024
Recent data confirms over 353 million victims were impacted across the US by cyberattacks last year.
Wegovy Approved In China—But Novo Nordisk Promises Existing Patients Priority Amid Shortages
Forbes Healthcare
JUNE 25, 2024
Novo Nordisk’s obesity drug Wegovy was approved in China on Tuesday, though the company has not announced launch plans and starter doses in the U.S. have been in short supply for months.
Health Care Consolidation Part 3: Will corporations and private equity continue to buy medical practices?
Medical Economics
JUNE 25, 2024
Major retailers tried to remake health care, but most have already abandoned their attempts. Will these setbacks deter other corporations and private equity firms from continuing to consolidate health care?
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MedPAC weighs in on Medicare physician reimbursement, site-neutral payment, alternative payment model incentives
Medical Economics
JUNE 25, 2024
Report to Congress this month debates aspects of how Medicare will pay doctors in coming years.
Did I Lie About My Conference Invitation? How Bad Faith Engagement Functions As A Distraction and Silencing Technique.
Science Based Medicine
JUNE 25, 2024
It's important to honestly and explicitly call out bad faith engagement for what it is and recognize how it functions as a common, but powerful rhetorical device. The post Did I Lie About My Conference Invitation? How Bad Faith Engagement Functions As A Distraction and Silencing Technique. first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.
Debunking four health care myths
Medical Economics
JUNE 25, 2024
Patients aren't blameless in the current state of health care in America.
Clinical Trial Of Ketamine Tablets Shows Promising Results For Treatment-Resistant Depression
Forbes Healthcare
JUNE 25, 2024
A phase 2 clinical trial of 231 patients with treatment-resistant depression found that the oral use of an extended-release tablet of ketamine could help prevent another depressive episode.
The four things Americans can't afford in health care
Medical Economics
JUNE 25, 2024
A survey of 2,100 Americans by Weiss & Paarz on American health care spending found some disturbing trends about affordability. It turns out that some common services are out of reach of the average patient.
Generating patient testimonials
Physicians Practice
JUNE 25, 2024
Patient testimonials play a crucial role in marketing as they allow past and current patients to share their experiences.
Check out Summer 2024 Practice Academy, now available on-demand
Medical Economics
JUNE 25, 2024
Watch three educational sessions on coding and billing, retirement planning, and group disability insurance.
What It Will Take To End The Battle Over 340B
Forbes Healthcare
JUNE 25, 2024
Divisions over 340B are a cacophony of noise that keeps us from dealing with the fundamental issue: how to get to better health outcomes with lower total cost of care.
Got lower back pain? Walk it off!; Oncogenes aid neural-circuit growth; Six subtypes of depression, anxiety identified – Morning Medical Update
Medical Economics
JUNE 25, 2024
The top news stories in medicine today.
For-profits performed worse on ‘most socially responsible’ hospital rankings
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
JUNE 25, 2024
For-profit hospitals represented an outsized potion of low grades on an index from the Lown Institute measuring equity, care value and patient outcomes.
Impella, Mammograms and Med School Fails Students
Sensible Medicine
JUNE 25, 2024
Common sense and original thinking in bio-medicine
HHS finalizes info blocking penalties for providers
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
JUNE 25, 2024
Providers pushed back against the disincentives, with the Medical Group Management Association calling them “unnecessarily punitive.
Is SEO for Dentists a Scam?
Open Dental
JUNE 25, 2024
Is SEO a scam for dental practices? If you go with the wrong provider, SEO can absolutely be a scam and a complete waste of time and resources. If you go with the right one, it can be a sustainable way for your practice to attract new patients. Let's get into it. The post Is SEO for Dentists a Scam? appeared first on Open Dental Blog.
Novant hires cyber exec from CommonSpirit
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
JUNE 25, 2024
Sanjeev Sah will take on the chief information security officer role at the North Carolina-based health system after more than three years at CommonSpirit Health.
Health Care Consolidation Part 2: Can independent physicians survive?
Medical Economics
JUNE 25, 2024
Can independent physicians survive in a market where consolidation is taking place all around them?
Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors heads to Supreme Court
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
JUNE 25, 2024
The case could have ripple effects across the country, where 25 states have similar laws on the books, according to the Human Rights Campaign.
MedBridge Becomes the First Organization to Receive ACHC Certification for Home Health and Hospice Onboarding and Annual Training
Medbridge
JUNE 25, 2024
SEATTLE – June 25, 2024 – With reimbursement always on the line and a continuous need to hire and train new nurses and other clinical staff, home health and hospice agencies need a trusted and reliable way to educate new staff quickly and efficiently. As part of an ongoing commitment to create the highest quality […] The post MedBridge Becomes the First Organization to Receive ACHC Certification for Home Health and Hospice Onboarding and Annual Training appeared first on MedBridge Blog.
Health Care Consolidation Part 1: Is it living up to its promises?
Medical Economics
JUNE 25, 2024
Is consolidation in health care living up to the promises to doctors and patients?
How Epic Direct Integration Helps Improve Patient Care
Medbridge
JUNE 25, 2024
Electronic health records (EHRs) play an essential role in efficient care delivery by improving patient management, enhancing coordination between care providers, streamlining workflows, and empowering patients. Of these systems, Epic is the top EHR vendor by market share, with 70 percent of all health network EHR implementations in 2022 and 2023.1 Because so many MedBridge […] The post How Epic Direct Integration Helps Improve Patient Care appeared first on MedBridge Blog.
Mastering Prior Authorization Roles: Responsibilities and Training Demands Explored
ACMA Blog
JUNE 25, 2024
Engagement in Prior Authorization: Duties and Training INTRODUCTION: The prior authorization (PA) process is critical in providing some patients with their medically necessary products. It is the insurance or payers’ way of controlling costs by approving or denying certain medications, procedures, or devices that may not usually be covered or is on a higher tier on the formulary.
Sex, Gender, and Language in Public Health Communication
Sensible Medicine
JUNE 25, 2024
It is probably not surprising that Sensible Medicine gets a lot of submissions about transgender issues. It is a part of medicine that is actively evolving, that is mixed up in the culture wars, and that stimulates a lot of “insensible” proclamations from across the spectrum. We have passed on all the submissions. Until today. I found Elizabeth Barnes’ essay thought provoking.
Health Information Security – My Interview with Richard Kaufmann, CISO of Amedisys, Part 3: The Futures of Cybersecurity in Healthcare
Health Populi
JUNE 25, 2024
At least one-half of U.S. health care organizations have experienced a data breach, one-third in the last 3 years, according to Software Advice’s 2024 Healthcare Data Security Survey released in May 2024. Of the health care organizations who experienced ransomware attacks, one-third did not recover patient data from the cyber-attackers, Software Advice learned.
Artificial Intelligence Plus Data Democratization Requires New Health Care Framework
The Healthcare Blog
JUNE 25, 2024
By MICHAEL MILLENSON The latest draft government strategic plan for health information technology pledges to support health information sharing among individuals, health care providers and others “so that they can make informed decisions and create better health outcomes.” Those good intentions notwithstanding, the current health data landscape is dramatically different from when the organizational author of the plan, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, formed two decades ago.
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