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We’re Releasing Millions Of Birds. The Ticks Are Thriving

Forbes Healthcare

Each year, millions of pheasants are released into woods and fields in the U.K. for recreational shooting. As a result the bacteria that cause Lyme disease are increasing.

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Providence freezes nonclinical hiring amid financial ‘perfect storm’

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

“We were on track to finally break even this year. But just as we were nearing that goal, the external economic conditions in 2025 took a sudden turn,” CEO Erik Wexler said in a memo to staff.

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Elevance Health Overcomes Rising Costs, Reports $2 Billion Profit

Forbes Healthcare

Despite rising costs in its health insurance plans, Elevance Health reported more than $2 billion in first quarter net income thanks to growth in enrollment.

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Power Up Your Appointments Module

Open Dental

The Appointments Module is a critical part of managing patient flow and scheduling. Read this post for the tools you need to power it up to its full potential. The post Power Up Your Appointments Module appeared first on Open Dental Blog.

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Behavioral Health Is Breaking The Bank — Here’s How To Invest Wisely

Forbes Healthcare

It does require a new mindset: treating behavioral health not as a crisis to survive but as a chronic condition to manage and invest in wisely.

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Value-based care is a team sport: How to optimize roles for better outcomes

Medical Economics

Discover how effective teamwork in health care enhances patient outcomes, optimizes care management and boosts staff satisfaction in value-based care settings.

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Healthcare AI adoption accelerates, but few pilots reach implementation: report

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

Healthcare leaders are excited about AI, but projects are often held up by security, data and other challenges, according to analysis by Bessemer Venture Partners, Amazon Web Services and Bain & Company.

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Playing The Long Game: Reclaiming America’s Biotech Edge Before It’s Too Late

Forbes Healthcare

The global marketplace is here to stay. But global competition must take place on fair, transparent and enforceable terms, including strong protections for IP.

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Telehealth visits quietly slashed carbon emissions in 2023, UCLA study finds

Medical Economics

Telemedicine had an impact equivalent to 130,000 less car trips each month. Researchers say this climate impact should factor into policy decisions regarding the future of virtual care.

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Are Trade Schools Better Options than Colleges?

Prism Career Institute

When considering continuing your education, you might think that college is the only way to go. While college offers aspiring students many opportunities, trade schools (also known as vocational schools) are becoming more and more popular for good reason. At Prism Career Institute, we are proud to offer practical nursing and medical assistant training programs in New Jersey and Pennsylvania that help prepare you for the workforce.

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Walgreens to pay up to $350M in DOJ opioid settlement

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

The Justice Department alleged the pharmacy chain knowingly provided prescriptions for large amounts of opioids, filled prescriptions early and completed prescriptions for dangerous combinations of drugs.

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Rural health is losing doctors: An overview of consolidation in U.S. health care

Medical Economics

Reviewing the state of rural health care with the Physicians Advocacy Institute CEO Kelly Kenney, JD.

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Measuring practice staff performance: 8 key metrics to boost productivity

Physicians Practice

Learn eight datadriven metrics, from patient satisfaction, productivity and revenue cycle, to measure medical practice staff performance and boost efficiency and care quality.

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Elevance brushes off fears of spiking Medicare Advantage costs

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

Investors balked last week after UnitedHealth reported first-quarter MA utilization grew at twice its expected rate. Yet Elevance said spending was in line with expectations, a development one analyst called surprising.

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Rural health is losing doctors: Physician employment raises concerns about patient care

Medical Economics

Reviewing the state of rural health care with the Physicians Advocacy Institute CEO Kelly Kenney, JD.

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How strategic planning led to real change in this medical practice

Physicians Practice

Stephen A. Dickens, JD, MAEd, FACMPE, VP of medical practice services at SVMIC, shares a success story of strategic planning in action.

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AAFP, Ardmore Institute of Health partner on whole health to treat chronic conditions

Medical Economics

$1M grant includes scholarships for physician training in lifestyle medicine.

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Coplin Health Systems Deploys 19Labs’ Advanced Telemedicine Kits in School Health Centers Across West Virginia

19 Labs

Deployment is one of the states first Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) to go live, in response to generous grant from Expanding Access to Care to West Virginias Children and Communities Grant, in partnership with West Virginia Primary Care Association (WVPCA) and 19Labs.

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Rural health is losing doctors: An effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, or something more?

Medical Economics

Reviewing the state of rural health care with the Physicians Advocacy Institute CEO Kelly Kenney, JD.

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Ask Us Anything: Chapter 2

Sensible Medicine

In the coming weeks Vinay, John, and I (Adam) will be getting together in person. We are meeting to work on what we think will be some really valuable Sensible Medicine content. Since we will have some time together, we thought it would be a good time to gather some more questions to answer. Same rules as last time: the comments are open to all paid subscribers to pose questions.

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Orchestra BioMed receives Breakthrough Device Designation for its hypertension therapy

Medical Economics

The company received the designation for its atrioventricular interval modulation therapy, a novel pacemaker-based treatment aimed at reducing blood pressure in patients with uncontrolled hypertension and elevated cardiovascular risk.

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Residency and Parenting Are Incompatible

The Healthcare Blog

By EMILY JOHNSON Being a parent during residency requires one or more of the following: Family and/or friends nearby who are willing and able to provide free childcare A stay-at-home spouse/co-parent A spouse/co-parent who is willing to let their own career to be a distant second priority beneath family responsibilities and the residents career Significant amounts of generational wealth that allow you to outsource household and childcare obligations with money you didnt personally earn High

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FDA approves Medtronic’s Simplera Sync Sensor for use with MiniMed 780G Insulin System

Medical Economics

Device uses an adaptive algorithm to automatically adjust and correct glucose levels every five minutes around the clock.

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Understanding the Impact of Substance Abuse on College Students

MedQuest College

Substance abuse among college students is a significant concern, affecting academic performance, mental health, and future career opportunities. College life brings newfound freedom, social pressures, and educational challenges, all of which can contribute to experimenting with or regularly using substances such as alcohol, marijuana, prescription medications, and illicit drugs.

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Rural health is losing doctors: Dramatic results over a five-year period

Medical Economics

Reviewing the state of rural health care with the Physicians Advocacy Institute CEO Kelly Kenney, JD.

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Functional precision oncology: a game changer in cancer therapy

KevinMD.com

Functional precision oncology is taking precision medicine to the next level. It is changing the way we fight cancer by testing a patient’s live tumor outside the body to determine the treatments most likely to work. This approach promises to double cancer response rates, improve survival, and reduce costs. It’s personal, data-driven, and long overdue, Read more Functional precision oncology: a game changer in cancer therapy originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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Why a Medicare pay cut to physicians should matter to everyone

Medical Economics

With burnout, worker shortages and razor-thin margins, primary care doctors are in trouble in the United States, and Medicare is not helping.

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Best Podcast Recommendations for Medical Students & Residents

A Young Doctor's Journey

Whether you’re in the hustle and bustle of medical school, getting ready for Match day, or going through hell (I mean, residency), lifelong learning is going to be a major part of your journey.  Discover some of the best podcasts for med students and residents, organized by specialty. At the end, I included some recommended must-listens for everyone navigating medical school or residency life, as well as a few bonus ones that you guys recommended.

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Earth Day 2025: How health care can help heal our environment

Medical Economics

Earth Day and any day is a great day to analyze environmental waste in health care and possible solutions for it.

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Rural health care is losing doctors: An introduction to PAI

Medical Economics

Reviewing the state of rural health care with the Physicians Advocacy Institute CEO Kelly Kenney, JD.

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Walgreens to pay up to $350M for illegal opioid fills, Medicare fraud; COVID-19 vaccine slashes long COVID risk in children; high-fat, high-sugar diet and your memory – Morning Medical Update

Medical Economics

The top news stories in medicine today.