Sensible Medicine
OCTOBER 28, 2024
The study of the week will take a short break. I head to Curitiba Brazil tomorrow for the Brazilian EP society meeting. I have five lectures. I will be back next week. And there will be plenty of studies to choose from because we are entering the fall season of medical meetings. This week, Sensible Medicine features a guest column from Zachary R. Caverley, a Cardiology Physician Assistant working in the Northwest coast of Oregon.
Forbes Healthcare
OCTOBER 25, 2024
The CDC is moving towards a risk-based strategy, allowing patient input as to the frequency of COVID-19 vaccine boosters.
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Practice Index
OCTOBER 31, 2024
I’ve just taken some time, in peace and quiet, to listen to the Budget speech in full. At a time when every penny counts for our primary care, I really needed to know what this would mean for the practice, and my team. What do I think? I’m pretty irked if I’m honest. On a personal level, I’ll see some tax implications coming down the line, but honestly, I know that those who can afford to pay it need to pay it.
Emerging RN Leader
OCTOBER 27, 2024
By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN I had a mentor who often said that the “soft skills” are frequently the “hard skills” to master. Communication is undoubtedly at the top of that hard skills list. Poor communication skills in healthcare environments can lead to medical errors, fragmented care, poor team coordination, and incivility. […] The post Teaching Nurses to Become More Effective Communicators appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.
Health Prime
OCTOBER 31, 2024
Patient feedback plays an important role in the quest to achieve process improvement in medical practices. An article in the BMJ said that feedback on the patient’s experience, with the encouragement of the healthcare team to address identified problems, improves quality. It said that “this is the best guarantee that services meet the set objectives.” The pursuit of excellence in patient care is an ongoing journey.
We Care Online
OCTOBER 31, 2024
Running a health centre is not an easy task. From patient safety to avoiding medical errors, you have to be efficient in all aspects of efficiency. Millions of people visit hospitals or health centres for medical help every day. To ensure quality, many people wonder how to keep patients safe in hospitals. According to the World Health Organization, medical errors or inefficient staff harm thousands of patients annually.
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Forbes Healthcare
OCTOBER 19, 2024
Led by her youngest daughter Shana Dall’Osto, the Epic founder and CEO’s family foundation Roots & Wings will soon be granting around $100 million to hundreds of nonprofits each year.
Scrubs
OCTOBER 1, 2024
The months-long nurses’ strike at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) in New Brunswick, New Jersey, has come to a potential resolution after a tentative agreement was reached between the hospital and the United Steelworkers Local 4-200, which represents approximately 1,700 nurses. The strike, which began in early August, centered around key issues such as nurse-to-patient ratios, wage increases, and benefits, with both parties struggling to reach a compromise.
Practice Index
OCTOBER 31, 2024
I have impostor syndrome: never thinking I’m good enough, always imagining that everyone else is doing a better, safer, stronger job than me. That everyone else is more organised, prepared and together, and I’m just about managing. You’d think that in conferences I’d be hiding in a corner, but you’d be surprised to hear that I actually love being there, speaking and chairing, but most of all, meeting all of you and knowing that we all feel exactly the same way!
Health Populi
OCTOBER 30, 2024
Most consumers using digital health devices felt more trust in the technology when coupled with doctors’ office reviews — another lens on the importance of trust-equity between patients and physicians. This insight came out of a report on How Consumers Purchase, Use and Trust Medical Devices based on market research sponsored by Propel Software.
We Care Online
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Telehealth, the practice of delivering healthcare services remotely through digital platforms, has grown tremendously in recent years. This technology-driven approach has opened new doors for both patients and healthcare providers, allowing greater access to care, especially in underserved areas. Telehealth saw a significant surge during the COVID-19 pandemic, it remains a vital option in modern medicine and one of the handful of places nurses can work.
Sensible Medicine
OCTOBER 15, 2024
It is my pleasure to introduce this article by Joseph Marine, MD in response to mandatory masking policies in a number of California hospitals. There is simply no randomized evidence to support these policies, and they make little sense in 2024. I worry about the mental abilities of the public health officers who instituted these policies, and that their actions will further erode trust in public health.
Forbes Healthcare
OCTOBER 15, 2024
The implications of this sale are significant, raising concerns over data privacy and the potential misuse of sensitive genetic information.
Scrubs
OCTOBER 16, 2024
The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to a record-breaking settlement of over $880 million in response to numerous claims of sexual abuse by clergy members, bringing its cumulative payouts to more than $1.5 billion. This marks one of the largest financial settlements related to clerical abuse in the U.S. and highlights the extent of the crisis that has plagued the Catholic Church for decades.
Legal Eye on Medical Assisting
OCTOBER 23, 2024
I received the following interesting and important question from a CMA (AAMA): I graduated from an accredited medical assisting program and am a current CMA (AAMA).
Electronic Health Reporter
OCTOBER 23, 2024
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. MDaudit, an award-winning cloud-based continuous risk monitoring platform for RCM that enables the nation’s premier healthcare organizations to minimize billing risks and maximize revenues, announced today that its MDaudit billing compliance and revenue integrity platform […] The article MDaudit Honored as a Finalist in the Fierce Healthcare Innovation Awards appeared first on electron
The Healthcare Blog
OCTOBER 31, 2024
Andrea Ippolito has combined her personal experience as a mum struggling with breast feeding, and her professional career as an entrepreneur and engineer at Athenahealth building integrations with EMRs. She’s now the CEO of Simplifed which has built a network of lactation consultants, and much more, and has placed it in the workflow of that most important part of health care — pre and post partum.
Sensible Medicine
OCTOBER 16, 2024
Dr. Satel is a bit of a regular here on Sensible Medicine. Today she returns to a topic that she wrote about in January 2023 , changing our organ donation laws to increase organ availability. Adam Cifu Sensible Medicine is a reader-supported publication. If you support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. What if we could solve the organ donor shortage with a simple tax credit?
Forbes Healthcare
OCTOBER 26, 2024
Undergrads and recent grads—young, healthy, and debt burdened—are offered five figures to donate their eggs to other women undergoing IVF. Cofertility has a more grown-up model.
Scrubs
OCTOBER 11, 2024
A Louisiana nursing home owner has agreed to pay $8.2 million in a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice after being accused of misusing assets from four nursing home facilities. The settlement stems from allegations that Bob Dean Jr. violated the National Housing Act of 1934 by embezzling funds intended for the care and well-being of nursing home residents.
Legal Eye on Medical Assisting
OCTOBER 16, 2024
I recently received the following question: [I am located] in Ohio. [I was] wondering if you have any knowledge/experience with medical assistants being permitted to compound medications (mixing 2–3 different medications together under the direction of a provider).
Minority Nurse
OCTOBER 30, 2024
Bedside nurses can spend hours moving and standing on their feet for hours on end. One 2023 study reported that nurses who’ve worked 12-hour shifts walk an estimated distance of four to five miles. The increase in steps can also come with severe foot pain and aches. This type of pain can even extend to the legs and ankles, leaving plenty of nurses disgruntled and leaving their workplace for an environment where they can rest more and stay on their feet less.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
OCTOBER 10, 2024
The products include a service that helps healthcare organizations build their own AI agents that could be used for appointment scheduling, clinical trial matching and patient triage.
Sensible Medicine
OCTOBER 2, 2024
This post continues yesterday’s. If you have not read Part I, I suggest you read it first. Adam Cifu Sensible Medicine is a reader-supported publication. Please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. There was a time when, right or wrong, there was a consensus within medicine regarding what kind of person would make a good doctor. It was believed that being a doctor meant you had to remember a great number of obscure things, and so we designed tests that heavily weighted memorization
Forbes Healthcare
OCTOBER 4, 2024
In the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, AI generative deepfake images of destruction and human suffering flooded social media, and this hurts real people now and in the future.
Relias
OCTOBER 12, 2024
When a natural disaster happens, there may be little or no time to prepare. Areas across the U.S. know this all too well. With only a few days’ notice of an incoming hurricane, a few minutes for a deadly tornado — or no notice at all for a fire, earthquake, active shooter, or other sudden calamity — advance planning is the only way to mitigate potentially deadly impacts.
Scrubs
OCTOBER 14, 2024
A nurse recalled the moment serial killer Lucy Letby told her she “just wanted to get her first death out of the way”. The woman, granted anonymity and referred to as Nurse ZC, told the Thirlwall Inquiry into Letby’s crimes that she started as a newly qualified nurse at the Countess of Chester Hospital in 2012 on the same day as Letby. Nurse ZC left the Countess of Chester to work elsewhere but returned in 2015, when Letby’s killing spree began, the inquiry at Liverpool Town Hall heard.
Minority Nurse
OCTOBER 29, 2024
The American Nurses Foundation has made a significant stride in promoting diversity in nursing education by awarding one of its prestigious nursing research grants, Diversify Nursing Research through Support of Minority Institutions. This initiative aims to boost the number of ethnic minority nurse researchers while broadening the diversity of research topics and perspectives.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
OCTOBER 21, 2024
UnitedHealth, CVS and Humana used technology to increase MA prior authorization denials for post-acute services, boosting profits, according to a report from a Senate subcommittee.
Sensible Medicine
OCTOBER 10, 2024
I appreciate this essay for its reframing of our debates about cancer screening; viewing them through an ethical lens. The speculation that we might eventually be able to identify individuals harmed by radiographic screening and how this would alter our approach is both intriguing and alarming. Adam Cifu Sensible Medicine is a reader-supported publication.
Forbes Healthcare
OCTOBER 7, 2024
The United States has few rules governing egg and sperm donation, a Wild West being supercharged by influencers peddling it as a cash-cow to millions of young followers.
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