Scrubs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The tragic story of Melissa Jubane, a 32-year-old nurse from Beaverton, Oregon, took a heartbreaking turn when she was found dead on September 7, 2024, just days after returning from her wedding in Hawaii. Jubane, a nurse at St. Vincent Hospital, had gone missing on September 4 when she failed to show up for her morning shift. Concerned coworkers and family immediately contacted the police, who initiated a welfare check at her apartment.

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Forbes Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Under EMTALA, emergency rooms are required to medically screen and stabilize all patients. Some patients withhold their identity to avoid the medical bills.

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Medical Economics

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Let’s continue to celebrate women’s advances in medicine, science, law and other fields. But we also must recognize that the shortage of men in health care professions is becoming a critical issue.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The incident was related to a vulnerability in the MOVEit file transfer software, which was linked to data breaches at thousands of organizations last year.

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In his post yesterday, Adam discussed the STRONG-HF trial. I will expand on it because it is a great example of a positive trial that does not add knowledge to the treatment of patients with heart failure. The larger question is: what are trials for? When I think about science classes in high school, I remember experiments as a way to explain nature.

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Forbes Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Organizations have invested massively in AI with visions of it saving healthcare. But AI's net impact has been limited so far. Are we expecting too much too soon?

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Forbes Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Katie Ledecky, who just won 2 more swimming Gold medals at the Paris 2024 Olympics and wrote a book Just Add Water, wants to inspire more kids, especially girls, to swim

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In healthcare, serving people is the real Job 1. But we can only do that job effectively through a relentless focus on quality.

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Forbes Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Officials used numerous questionable procurement processes to purchase more than $20 billion of goods and services linked to Covid-19, research suggests.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The fate of Steward’s 31-hospital portfolio is up for grabs in one of the largest provider restructurings in recent history. Here’s which hospitals are selling at auction — and which are closing.

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Forbes Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Sept. 9, 2024 is the first National Hot Flash Day, launched by Stripes Beauty. Here, founder Naomi Watts shares the impetus behind and significance of this campaign.

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Medical Economics

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

For any patient dealing with illness, whether acute or chronic, taking medications as directed is essential to achieving the best health outcomes.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Explore the new WAIS-5’s advanced features and applications across various settings.

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Performance Health

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Every year, an estimated 1.2 million individuals are harmed by preventable medical errors in U.S. hospitals—a stark reminder of the critical need for effective incident tracking systems. These systems play a crucial role in healthcare by helping organizations track and manage these adverse events, along with other types of safety events and near misses.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The insurer’s Wellpoint subsidiary is expanding its ACA footprint for the 2025 coverage year, likely in a bid to capture enrollees who recently lost Medicaid coverage.

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UVM Larner College of Medicine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Javier Rincon is a fourth-year medical student at the University of Vermont's Larner College of Medicine. In the following blog post, he reflects on his experiences since helping to establish the Youth Academy for Latinx Leaders (YALL) in Danbury, Connecticut, last year.

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Mobius MD

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

More physicians are turning to AI-generated clinical notes to assist with documentation. AI scribes can save providers significant time and improve practice efficiency. But are clinical notes produced by large language models like ChatGPT-4 accurate enough to be trusted? A 2024 study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research sought to answer this question.

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Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

While much of the world has moved forward from the pandemic, the healthcare industry grapples with a significant shortage. The growing and less discussed shortage of nurse educators extends beyond the well-known nursing shortage. This critical gap threatens the future of nursing itself. As burnout, chronic stress, and compassion fatigue from the pandemic have led more nurses to exit the workforce, the pool of those nurses seeking to advance into educational roles becomes increasingly limited.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Realize the potential of medical imaging data: how Enlitic's data quality solutions drive optimization.

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Medication 59

Medical Economics

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

A cognitive psychologist discusses causal beliefs, patient decisions and disclosures, and how those affect health care.

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DrChrono

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Healthcare financial performance has grown more complex. With so many players, rules, and processes, optimizing the revenue cycle involves many pieces. Each stage has intricacies. There are also constant code and reimbursement changes. Practices must be proactive in their workflows and solutions surrounding claim submissions. Integrated revenue management is key to solving challenges and boosting finances.

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Medical Economics

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

A cognitive psychologist discusses causal beliefs, patient decisions and disclosures, and how those affect health care.

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Continuing a list of essential actions for Connect Care Launch 9 prescribers readying for launch November 2, 2024. Get Ready for Billing with Connect Care In getting ready to launch, you have likely heard that Connect Care can do billing. While true, access to full billing management in Connect Care, i.e., Resolute Professional Billing, is limited to the cohort of physicians who have a pre-existing billing arrangement, as well as all nurse practitioners (NPs), once their site launches Connect Ca

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Medical Economics

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

A cognitive psychologist discusses causal beliefs, patient decisions and disclosures, and how those affect health care.

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

As previously posted , the Consult Order Optimization Project seeks to ensure that inpatient consult orders only exist in facilities where that service is provided using the consult order process. The last phase of the project goes live Tuesday, September 10, 2024 , and focuses on Adult Medical (part 2) and Critical Care consult orders. Where a consult order does not exist within a facility: For non-urgent consults or those for telephone advice only, consider calling/paging directly using the Re

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Medical Economics

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

A cognitive psychologist discusses causal beliefs, patient decisions and disclosures, and how those affect health care.

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

What you need to know The Connect Care clinical information system needs periodic maintenance. The next scheduled update will occur during downtime on Thursday, September 12, 2024, between 00:30 and 04:30. On this occasion, all Connect Care production systems are affected, including Hyperdrive, Transfusion (WellSky), Content (Quanum), Dictation (Dragon Medical One), OBIX, MUSE and ECG Web, MyAHS Connect, and the Link Provider Portal.

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Physicians Practice

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Your weekly dose of wisdom from the Physicians Practice experts.

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Medical Economics

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Optimism on how AI is going to affect health care is rising.

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Science Based Medicine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Shortly after endorsing Donald Trump for President, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed he and Trump will "make America healthy again." His proposals to do that range from semi-reasonable to outright quackery. The post RFK Jr.’s MAHA manifesto: How not to “make America healthy again” first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

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Medical Economics

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The top news stories in medicine today.

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