Forbes Healthcare
AUGUST 21, 2024
Although fruit pouches were the fastest-growing products—with sales jumping 900% between 2010 and 2023—the researchers found they were the most unhealthy food items tested.
Sensible Medicine
AUGUST 3, 2024
Last week Adam Cifu and Vinay Prasad offered dueling interpretations of a randomized trial of masking. These posts were read by nearly a hundred thousand readers, and you can read them below. One reader, Ben Recht, a Berkeley Professor, thinks both of them are wrong. This is his column. Sensible Medicine Adam Cifu is Wrong About Masking In a recent post on Sensible Medicine, written on my phone while traveling, I criticized a randomized trial of masking in the BMJ that found Norweigans told to w
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Legal Eye on Medical Assisting
AUGUST 14, 2024
I recently received the following email: I have moved to Georgia, and I am encountering medical assistants being called nurses at almost all levels in this clinic. Medical assistants refer to themselves as nurses. The providers state, “My nurse will be back in to speak with you.
EvidenceCare
AUGUST 12, 2024
Originally published on EIN Presswire BRENTWOOD, TN | August 13, 2024 Inc. revealed today that EvidenceCare , the innovative provider of EHR-integrated clinical decision support software, continues its impressive growth trajectory by landing on the INC. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in America for the third consecutive year. The prestigious ranking provides a data-driven look at the most successful companies within the economy’s most dynamic segment—its independent, entrepreneur
Emerging RN Leader
AUGUST 18, 2024
By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN We are living in interesting times. Ethicists have commented that there has been a change in the willingness of individuals to accept responsibility. for their behavior. The culture has instead become one of blame. Recently, nurse leaders have talked with me about professional nurses who don’t document […] The post Accountability for Documentation appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.
KevinMD.com
AUGUST 12, 2024
Anyone reading health care news today must be aware that American medicine – particularly pain medicine – is in crisis. Doctors are experiencing high levels of burnout due to administrative burdens, prior authorization demands, and a health care system that often prioritizes efficiency over patient care. This burnout is leading to mental health issues and, Read more… The truth behind opioid use disorder originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
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Sensible Medicine
AUGUST 17, 2024
A few years ago, a colleague of mine was applying for, and eventually received, a grant to study lung cancer screening in a vulnerable population. One day, we were having coffee, and she mused. “Look at these 20 year old tech start up people. 8 of them living in a house. Spending day and night coding. All dreaming that they will make it big. It’s sad to watch, knowing how few will succeed.
Legal Eye on Medical Assisting
AUGUST 29, 2024
The U.S. Department of Education (USDE) issued final regulations for the Financial Value Transparency and the Gainful Employment requirements that must be met for a program to participate in financial assistance programs for students under Title IV of the Higher Education Act. These regulations went into effect July 1, 2024.
EvidenceCare
AUGUST 28, 2024
Originally published on EIN Presswire BRENTWOOD, TN | August 29, 2024 EvidenceCare , a leading healthcare technology platform for hospitals, today announced the promotion of Amy Deaton to President & Chief Operating Officer. In her expanded role, Deaton will continue to oversee the company’s operations while assuming additional responsibilities in strategic leadership and product-led company growth.
Emerging RN Leader
AUGUST 7, 2024
By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Some of the most troubling conversations I have with leaders today concern a growing number of nurses who seem to lack empathy. Caring for patients in a way that projects concern and empathy has always been a core value in nursing. Leaders see an increasing number of […] The post Teaching Empathy appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
AUGUST 29, 2024
Testimony from the heads of Express Scripts, Optum Rx and Caremark in July defending pharmacy benefit managers’ business practices could be coming back to bite them.
Forbes Healthcare
AUGUST 16, 2024
Masks could provide good protection against Covid-19, avian flu, influenza, and mpox. Yet nationally, there is a move to ban masks, as Nassau county just did.
Sensible Medicine
AUGUST 16, 2024
I’d been certain that all would be well in medicine in the age of AI. I had been telling myself that the addition of AI to medical practice would be a net positive. AI would assist with some of the drudgery that is part of every doctor’s job. We would also incorporate AI into our decision making. AI would help us read X-rays or pathology specimens.
Medical Economics
AUGUST 14, 2024
Providing behavioral health services through primary care can help solve the mental health crisis.
The Healthcare Blog
AUGUST 20, 2024
By KIM BELLARD I am a fanboy for AI; I don’t really understand the technical aspects, but I sure am excited about its potential. I’m also a sucker for a catchy phrase. So when I (belatedly) learned about TinyAI, I was hooked. Now, as it turns out, TinyAI (also know as Tiny AI) has been around for a few years, but with the general surge of interest in AI it is now getting more attention.
KevinMD.com
AUGUST 10, 2024
According to some academics, in 2019, a ban on junk food advertising across London’s entire public transport network—foods and drinks high in fat and salt and ads for foods–resulted in the prevention of 100,000 obesity cases. Yet the U.S. love affair with the new semaglutide-based weight loss drugs like Ozempic gives junk food advertising and Read more… Are rapid weight loss drugs hiding the real obesity problem?
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
AUGUST 7, 2024
One challenge hospitals face is reimbursement from private payers, which doesn’t cover the higher costs of care in rural areas, according to a report by the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform.
Forbes Healthcare
AUGUST 15, 2024
Danish firm Bavarian Nordic, which manufactures the preferred vaccine for use against mpox, has said it can meet booming demand for its shot after the WHO declared an emergency.
Sensible Medicine
AUGUST 11, 2024
When I was a resident, I worked 7 nights of 12 hour shifts alternating with 7 days of 14 hour shifts. The jet lag was like flying to Moscow. I also worked 28 hour shifts Q4 (on paper), which actually ran as high as 32-36 hours (in reality). Often, I was tired. Whether or not residents need to work long hours, and what they do during that time is an open debate.
Medical Economics
AUGUST 23, 2024
Generative AI has a large number of health care use cases, but the road to maturity is a long one. Here is an analysis on AI’s near-term potential in chronic condition management, with thoughts on bias and regulation.
The Healthcare Blog
AUGUST 29, 2024
By GEORGE HALVORSON Special Needs Plans Change Lives for The Lowest Income and Highest Need Patients The people who benefit the most from Medicare Advantage are clearly the very low-income and high health-need people who are eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid as programs and who enroll as members in the Medicare Advantage Special Needs Plan programs.
KevinMD.com
AUGUST 18, 2024
A new, concerning trend in society has emerged online and across social media: money dysmorphia. It’s the latest version of the comparison trap and aims to describe a distorted view of one’s financial situation and how one is doing financially. What is money dysmorphia? Money dysmorphia is a psychological condition where individuals have distorted perceptions Read more… Money dysmorphia: the new financial disorder affecting millions originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
AUGUST 14, 2024
The documents, released Tuesday, say Prospect is under federal investigation for possible False Claim Act violations, as well as state investigations for failing to safeguard patients’ personal data before a ransomware attack last year.
Forbes Healthcare
AUGUST 16, 2024
There are several vaccines approved to use against mpox and stock for the favored shot have risen more than 40% this week.
Sensible Medicine
AUGUST 27, 2024
We’ve had a number of articles on Sensible Medicine about medical education. It is probably not surprising as many of our writers and readers have had personal experience with medical education and/or work with trainees everyday. One of our early series (fall 2022) featured these two pieces. Today we have a current trainee extending Dr. Prasad’s most recent critique.
Medical Economics
AUGUST 5, 2024
New rules outline how websites must be accessible to patients with disabilities. Here’s how to comply while improving patient care.
The Healthcare Blog
AUGUST 19, 2024
Phil Fasano is CEO of Recuro Health. Phil was CIO at Kaiser Permanente in the glory years when it rolled out Epic/Health Connect, which was at the time the biggest roll out of an EMR and was instrumental in creating Kaiser’s system of virtual care. A decade+ later the concept of telehealth and virtual care has been battered around, notably in the stock price of Teladoc and others.
Emerging RN Leader
AUGUST 11, 2024
By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC The Good News There is some very good news as we look at the future of the healthcare workforce. Generation Z high schoolers now indicate that they want a career in medicine or health-related fields (46%) compared to science and engineering now coming in at a distant second […] The post Generation Z Want Careers in Healthcare appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
AUGUST 1, 2024
Though expenses declined since last year, healthcare is still the costliest industry for data breaches — a spot the sector has held since 2011.
Forbes Healthcare
AUGUST 13, 2024
This Forbes list highlights 25 venture-backed companies likely to become unicorns. Learn more about the founders and investors behind these fast-growing tech startups.
Sensible Medicine
AUGUST 5, 2024
First some background from my clinic. Here is how the conversation goes: Patient: “Doc, should I take this cholesterol drug that my primary care doctor prescribed?” Me: “What did your risk score come out as?” Patient: “What?” It stuns me how few doctors use the pooled cohort equation to guide use of primary prevention treatments.
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