Mon.Jan 27, 2025

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How Clinicians Can Lead with an Entrepreneurial Spirit

EvidenceCare

Clinical leaders of hospitals and health systems face unique challenges in an industry that requires balancing care delivery, operational excellence, and innovative thinking. In a recent episode of The Better Care Podcast , EvidenceCare CEO, Bo Bartholomew, interviewed Scott Becker of Beckers Healthcare to discuss key strategies for leading at the intersection of healthcare and business.

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UnitedHealth hikes number of Change cyberattack breach victims to 190 million

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

The new estimate nearly doubles the company’s previous report of 100 million affected individuals, already the largest healthcare data breach ever reported to federal regulators.

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Creative Counting Can’t Fix The Inflation Reduction Act's Flaws

Forbes Healthcare

Millions of Part D patients who rely on price-controlled drugs will see their out-of-pocket medication costs increase.

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When Trials Find Implausible Results—The SCOT-HEART trial

Sensible Medicine

Doctors seek therapies that reduce the chance of bad outcomes. When treating patients with suspected coronary disease, typical bad outcomes to prevent are myocardial infarction (MI) and death due to heart disease. This usually requires drugs or interventions, such as urgent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with stents during an acute MI. (PCI in stable disease does not reduce events.

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What DEI Bans In Colleges Might Look Like For Health Care Providers

Forbes Healthcare

There's a recent trend of states to include health care exemptions in DEI bans, but not all states have done so. The lack of exemptions could impact campus health.

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Beyond Stigma: Why Addressing Maternal Mental Health Means Confronting Systemic Failures

The Healthcare Blog

By EMILY JOHNSON Imagine you’re an executive at a large health system in a major metropolitan area. One morning, you wake up to a missed call and a voicemail from your PR leader. Its urgent: one of your employees–who was also a patient and a member of the organization–has unexpectedly died by suicide. Their family is furious. You follow up and learn that this wasnt just any employee.

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Building Your Path to Medicine By Taking the Right Stepping Stones

We Care Online

Entering the medical field can be both rewarding and challenging, with demand for healthcare professionals increasing. Many aspiring doctors, nurses, and healthcare specialists are looking for entry wondering where they should start their journeys. Unfortunately there’s no single route into medicine, but by finding suitable stepping stones you can build a fulfilling and impactful career in medicine.

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The US Halt In Foreign Aid ‘Could Mean Life Or Death For Millions’

Forbes Healthcare

Those "experiencing some of the most urgent humanitarian crises, who rely on aid to access food, clean water, health care and more, could feel this cut immediately.

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The enterprise AI crossroads: Why your next move matters

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

Research shows leading healthcare providers combine multiple types of AI to transform patient care. Is this best? See the research results.

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Women Belong In Space—But Should Avoid Pregnancy For Now, Say Experts

Forbes Healthcare

Experts explore the effects of spaceflight on women's reproductive health, citing numerous advantages and dismissing some often-cited obstacles.

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My totally wrong expert predictions for health care in 2025

KevinMD.com

January In a blistering commentary, the American Medical Association’s flagship journal, JAMA, condemns the corrosive effect on patient care of the profit-seeking practices of health insurers. Separately, the organization announces that it’s selling the 13 journals in its JAMA Network to a private equity firm for $375 million “in order to enhance our mission of Read more My totally wrong expert predictions for health care in 2025 originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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Thinking Innovatively About Your Nursing Career Development

Minority Nurse

Your nursing career is yours to create, and with proper care, your path can be unique, innovative, and idiosyncratic. At the same time, your many obligations and responsibilities can steer you away from your uniqueness and leave you in a rut of choosing the path of least resistance. There are many strategies for choosing a career journey that fits your vision of who you want to be as a healthcare professional, and it’s worth exploring those strategies for the ones that can most readily mov

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What Do Nurses Do?

Unitek College

10 of the Most Common Treatments and Procedures Registered Nurses Perform in Their Daily Work Nursing is an honorable profession and an incredibly rewarding career path. Not only do nurses save lives, but they offer compassion and kindness to those that need it most. They are often a source of comfort, safety, and security. If […] The post What Do Nurses Do?

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The Weight Loss Drug Revolution: Helping patients avoid phony medicine scams

Medical Economics

With high demand but high prices for antiobesity drugs, patients may fall for phony pharmaceuticals.

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Practice tip of the week: Billing tips

Physicians Practice

Your weekly dose of wisdom from the Physicians Practice experts.

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The Weight Loss Drug Revolution: GLP-1 RA drugs inspire new excitement for metabolic bariatric surgeons

Medical Economics

Proponents say the surgical procedures are underutilized and misunderstood in contemporary medicine.

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Incident Reporting Software for Safer Chemotherapy Protocols

Performance Health

Every year, 1 in 4 cancer patients undergoes chemotherapy, a complex treatment where even minor errors can lead to severe harm. To minimize these risks and ensure patient safety, healthcare organizations are increasingly adopting incident reporting software healthcare solutions.

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Medical school applicant trends 2024-2025

Medical Economics

According to new AAMC data, the 2024-2025 academic year has seen the fewest medical school applicants in seven years, among other findings.

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Balancing Justice and Compassion: Ethical Challenges in Criminal Justice

Northwest Career College

Criminal justice professionals, including police officers, judges, and correctional officers, ensure that societies function appropriately under the rule of law, with justice served and due regard given to individuals’ needs and rights. However, this can be quite an uphill task because these professionals usually face ethical dilemmas where they must balance justice and mercy.

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Are EHRs holding back alcohol-related care?

Medical Economics

Only 3% and 7% of primary care practices EHRs, respectively, were able to report widely recommended quality measures required for alcohol-related prevention and treatment.

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How A Possible Mifepristone Substitute May Affect Women And Abortion

Forbes Healthcare

A new study shows a possible new abortion drug to replace mifepristone. But will these results increase abortion accessor restrict women's reproductive health options down the line?

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Firearm-related hospitalizations rose sharply during covid-19 pandemic, study finds

Medical Economics

Did an increase in gun purchases lead to the increase in firearm-related injuries?

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NIH Director Tries To Calm Health Researchers’ Nerves After Trump Directives

Forbes Healthcare

A new memo by NIH Acting Director Matthew Memoli, obtained by Forbes, clarifies what can and cant be done with regard to clinical trials, purchasing, research and the like.

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App that uses iPhone to monitor vital signs receives FDA clearance

Medical Economics

PanopticAI Vital Signs is the first FDA-cleared mobile application for contactless pulse rate measurement using the built-in camera of iPhones and iPads

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The attack on the NIH has begun

Science Based Medicine

Donald Trump has been sworn in, and his new administration has immediately turned its sites on the NIH. The danger to US biomedical research has never been more acute. The post The attack on the NIH has begun first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

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2025: Innovations in health care software development

Medical Economics

What to watch as software shapes the future of medicine, starting now.

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Can the Private Sector Serve Up Sufficient Health Media to Compensate for Public Sector Gaps?

Health Populi

In researching several.gov websites from last Monday 20th January 2025, I had an ongoing frustrating user experience in being faced with 404 Error messages like this one from WhiteHouse.gov. “President Trump’s First Week Hammered Public Health,” Dr. Arthur Kellerman, an ER doc, public health researcher, and patient advocate asserted in Forbes yesterday: “For now, the only health communications Americans receive will come from sources outside the government, such as profes

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Exercise may reduce dementia risk; biased language in EHRs of birthing patients; seven charged in $600 million COVID-19 tax fraud scheme – Morning Medical Update

Medical Economics

The top news stories in medicine today.

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Ep. 49: Washington update with Anders Gilberg, MGMA

Physicians Practice

Anders Gilberg, senior vice president for government affairs with MGMA, joins us to discuss the second Trump administration and MGMA's policy wishlist.

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Ep. 49: Washington update with Anders Gilberg, MGMA

Medical Economics

Anders Gilberg, senior vice president for government affairs with MGMA, joins us to discuss the second Trump administration and MGMA's policy wishlist.

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Preparing for Trump's HHS nominees

Physicians Practice

Anders Gilberg, senior vice president for government affairs at MGMA, discusses how the organization looks to approach some of the personalities being named to lead roles at HHS.

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