Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 11, 2024

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Usman Choudhary, general manager, VIPRE Security Email remains a cornerstone communication tool for healthcare entities, yet the communication channel also presents formidable cybersecurity hurdles. The sensitive nature of patient data and the open nature […] The article Fortifying Healthcare Email Security: Advanced Solutions and Mitigation Strategies appeared first on electronichealthre

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Emerging RN Leader

MARCH 20, 2024

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN To economize, many health systems are eliminating nursing leadership roles, impacting numerous loyal, hard-working nurse leaders. How do you leave a difficult job situation without conveying anger? I recently talked with a leader who found herself in this situation. She understood that the decision was not personal […] The post Planning a Graceful Exit appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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Forbes Healthcare

MARCH 18, 2024

Yet another large study finds that supplemental vitamin D and calcium aren't helpful. Cancer deaths did go down, very slightly, but deaths from heart disease went up slightly more.

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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 18, 2024

Dear Readers, I publish the following opinion piece regarding the use of statin drugs in low-risk individuals without heart disease even though I disagree with most of the authors’ arguments. Since this is a rebuttal to an editorial I wrote, it would be helpful to first read the linked article in the lead sentence. I do like the authors’ conclusions.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

MARCH 14, 2024

The program aims alleviate the cost and difficulty digital health companies face in selling to hospitals, while making it easier for hospitals to find and integrate useful tools.

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KevinMD.com

MARCH 19, 2024

Today, doctors’ liberty and property are at risk when they choose to treat a patient. Not because of some new law but because of the misapplication of old ones. The current opioid panic has essentially given the DEA free rein to target any physician whose medical practice they disagree with. This has created a serious Read more… DEA overreach: a threat to doctors’ freedom in American medicine originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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Emerging RN Leader

MARCH 24, 2024

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN A troubling trend is emerging from my discussions with nurse managers. Not only have the managers’ spans of control continued to grow, but so has their role scope. With shortages across all disciplines and departments, nursing is the default for tasks needing reassignment, and the responsibility for […] The post Nurse Manager Span of Control and Role Scope appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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Forbes Healthcare

MARCH 27, 2024

Biotech startup eGenesis developed a gene-edited kidney that was successfully transplanted into a living patient last week. Its CEO says the company is just getting started.

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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 13, 2024

Martin Kulldorff was a professor at Harvard Medical School who argued during the pandemic that school closure was misguided policy, lockdowns were inappropriate and draconian, vaccine mandates were unjust, natural immunity conferred protection against subsequent severe disease, kids did not need to be vaccinated, and that two year old children should not wear cloth masks in daycare.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

MARCH 26, 2024

Nonprofits’ cumulative “fair share” deficit is enough to pay off the medical debt of everyone in California, Texas, New York and Pennsylvania combined, according to the Lown Institute.

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Science Based Medicine

MARCH 29, 2024

A new analysis of 2023 MIS-C cases reveals that the COVID-19 vaccine significantly reduces the risk of this dreaded complication. The post COVID-19 Vaccination Significantly Reduces Risk of Severe Inflammatory Syndrome in Kids first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

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The Healthcare Blog

MARCH 18, 2024

By MATTHEW HOLT Okay, I can’t do it any longer. As much as I tried to resist, it is time to write about ambient scribing. But I’m going to do it in a slightly odd way If you have met me, you know that I have a strange English-American accent, and I speak in a garbled manner. Yet I’m using the inbuilt voice recognition that Google supplies to write this story now.

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Doximity

MARCH 19, 2024

This Women's History Month, we honor the collective journey of women in medicine, emphasizing their resilience, achievements, and the challenges they continue to overcome. The narrative of women physicians is marked by groundbreaking achievements against the backdrop of systemic barriers, underscoring the need for mentorship, flexible working conditions, and strong advocacy for gender equity.

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Forbes Healthcare

MARCH 28, 2024

Calmara, an app from startup HeHealth, encourages women to submit photos of their sexual partners’ genitalia, and claims its AI “wizardry” can detect the presence of STIs.

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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 25, 2024

You may have heard the ruckus about the study showing that intermittent fasting was associated with a 91% higher rate of dying of heart disease. I call it a ruckus because after the AHA sent out a press release about the study, two things happened: The mainstream health press covered it as they do (breathlessly) for any clickable story. The Top People of cardiology and health went ballistic in their criticism of the paper.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

MARCH 22, 2024

Two weeks after the FDA updated Wegovy’s label, Medicare changed its stance to allow people with a history of heart disease to receive treatment, a shift that could further boost access to the fast-selling medicine.

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Science Based Medicine

MARCH 12, 2024

"Science cannot survive in a society that does not value truth and strive to discover it." The post Dr. Martin Kulldorff, Who Posted Pictures of Guillotines and Promised Herd Immunity Would Arrive 3-6 Months After Lockdowns Ended, Fired for “Clinging to the Truth”. first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

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The Healthcare Blog

MARCH 28, 2024

Ami Parekh is the to Chief Health Officer of Included Health. It provides navigation services & expert medical opinions (the original Grand Rounds) and virtual care (the old Doctors on Demand) and it then bought a smaller company called Included Health. Ami explains why navigation exists (clue: health plans have been terrible at it) and how it works, and what money it saves on trend (about 2%).

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

“Clinical transformation with AI is easier without patients.” When Dr. Grace Cordovano heard this statement on a panel of physicians convening to share perspectives on the future of AI in health care held in early March 2024, the board-certified patient advocate felt, in her words, “insulted on behalf of the patient communities I know that are working tirelessly to advance AI that works for them.” “The healthcare ecosystem and policy landscape must formally recognize patients as end-

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Forbes Healthcare

MARCH 13, 2024

As language models like ChatGPT and Gemini have ushered in a new age of AI in Silicon Valley, powerful tech companies are looking to drug discovery and digital biology.

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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 19, 2024

One of the aspects of editing Sensible Medicine that I have truly enjoyed is receiving excellent, unsolicited manuscripts. 1 We published one of these a couple of weeks ago by Aleksi Raudasoja titled From Guideline Recommendations to Articulated Harms and Benefits. Even better is when one unsolicited manuscript leads to another. What follows is one of those written by Mariana Barosa.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

MARCH 18, 2024

Regulators seeking to erect guardrails around AI are facing a Sisyphean task, experts said at HIMSS. How do you oversee something that is constantly changing?

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Science Based Medicine

MARCH 17, 2024

Doctors portrayed those who tried to avoid the virus as pathetic, disordered weaklings, afflicted by irrational panic, fear, and anxiety. It only makes sense if you remember one thing, they wanted you infected. The post Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, April 2021: “The Central Problem Right Now I Think Is The Fear That People Still Feel About COVID.” first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

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Practice Index

MARCH 31, 2024

With several documents related to the contract being released on Thursday (28th April) afternoon, we've taken a look at the contract updates to give you a head start on the requirements of the contract so you're up and running quickly. Contract highlights From 1st April, there will be changes to the GMS contract with equivalent changes applied to PMS and APMS contracts.

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The Healthcare Blog

MARCH 26, 2024

By KIM BELLARD These are not happy times in America. Now, I’m not thinking about the increasing cultural wars, the endless political bickering, the troubles in the Med-East or Ukraine, the looming threat of climate crisis, or the omnipresent campaigning for the November 2024 elections, although all those play a part. I’m talking about quantifiable data, from the latest World Happiness Report.

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Forbes Healthcare

MARCH 23, 2024

A new TV series about public health's achievements and challenges is called "The Invisible Shield" and will be making its PBS debut this Tuesday on March 26 at 10 pm.

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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 4, 2024

Studies that tempt me to change my mind are worth telling you about. The story this week centers on the use of aspirin for prevention of cardiac events in people without heart disease. I used italics because this story ONLY applies to people without heart disease—so called primary prevention. In 2018, the NEJM and the Lancet published three trials that randomized tens of thousands of patients without heart disease to either low-dose aspirin or a placebo.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

MARCH 18, 2024

The CMS doesn’t require states to report data on outcomes or care denials, and has made “delayed” progress on plans to analyze the information and make it public, according to the Government Accountability Office.

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Science Based Medicine

MARCH 31, 2024

Part 1: Doctors who said the pandemic ended 3-years ago now have the audacity to lament the "damaged public trust in the medical profession." The post Dr. Marty Makary: “We’ll Have Herd Immunity by April” & “It’s Okay To Have an Incorrect Scientific Hypothesis. But When New Data Proves It Wrong, You Have To Adapt.” first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

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KevinMD.com

MARCH 18, 2024

I was faced with a stark question—one that, though I have spoken openly about women’s rights, somehow I had not distilled into the succinct question posed by a coming-of-age woman living and attempting to digest our country’s policies. Simply put: “Mom, so they don’t care if women die?” Oof! For a person who has a Read more… Do they care if women die?

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The Healthcare Blog

MARCH 31, 2024

Bevey Miner runs health care for Consensus Cloud Solutions. I’ve known Bevey since she was at Allscripts in the 2000s where she was one of the first building online prescribing. She’s been at lots of places and is now at Consensus which is taking unstructured data via cloud fax and assessing it, structuring it and delivering it–especially to places like skilled nursing facilities.

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