Forbes Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
Paxlovid comes with a host of contraindications and costs $1561 for a 5- day course. Metformin costs $1/day and reduces viral load. Which should you take?
Sensible Medicine
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
Dr. Marty Makary has a powerful new book, BLIND SPOTS: When medicine gets it wrong and what it means for our health , that came out on Tuesday and instantly hit #2 bestselling book on Amazon. I loved the book and highly recommend it. In this piece, he discusses one of those blind spots of the modern medical establishment—America is getting sicker right before our eyes.
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Scrubs
SEPTEMBER 8, 2024
Being a nurse means you are in one of the most demanding professions that exist today. Undoubtedly, the field is challenging, even more so for night-shift nurses. The irregular hours, lack of natural daylight, and disrupted sleep cycles make it difficult to maintain a balanced lifestyle. For night-shift nurses, finding effective strategies to care for both their physical and mental health is essential for personal well-being and to provide quality patient care.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
The leaders of Caremark, Optum Rx and Express Scripts had until Wednesday to walk back statements they made in July — or face potential legal action. However, the executives are sticking to their guns.
EvidenceCare
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
Healthcare executives today are at the crossroads of managing rising costs, improving patient care, and navigating digital transformation. In a recent episode of The Better Care Podcast digital health and economics expert, Adam Kaufman, currently the Interim Category Lead of Products at Baylor Scott & White Health , provided valuable insights into how these challenges overlap and how healthcare leaders can strategically address them.
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 22, 2024
The clinical evidence base continues to grow making the case that art and creativity can be drivers for health and well-being — as it’s proven to me in my own life. Most recently, cases have been made by Emily Peters, documented in her book Remaking Medicine ; by Robin Strongin, advocate for arts, medicine, and well-being from her base in Washington, DC; and, by my Belgium-based colleague and friend Koen Kas whose book addressing themes of art and health will soon be published.
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Sensible Medicine
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
JAMA-IM has published an observational study that sought causal effects from stopping blood-pressure-lowering drugs in older adults who were in long-term care. The UCSF-led team asked a specific question: did deprescribing of BP-lowering meds lessen cognitive decline? They didn’t write their question that specifically; instead they wrote that their purpose was to investigate the association of deprescribing antihypertensive medication with changes in cognitive function in nursing home resi
Scrubs
SEPTEMBER 2, 2024
Nursing is one of the hardest jobs in the country, and the first few years can be a wake-up call to aspiring providers trying to find their place in the healthcare industry. Many new nurses quickly realize that nursing isn’t for them, while others wind up in jobs that make them want to quit. Studies show 33% of new nurses leave the workforce within the first two years largely due to poor work-life balance, unsafe working conditions, and the emotional strain that comes with caring for patients a
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
Just over 5% of companies selling AI to health systems have matured beyond seed and early-stage funding rounds, according to an analysis by Flare Capital Partners.
EvidenceCare
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
The CMS Two-Midnight Rule has been in full effect for Medicare Advantage (MA) plans for about nine months as of this writing. In case you aren’t familiar, the Two-Midnight Rule mandates that a patient’s hospital stay must span at least two midnights to qualify for inpatient status, directly influencing reimbursement rates and compliance requirements.
KevinMD.com
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024
In today’s financial landscape, it is imperative for women in medicine to take charge of investing their own money. Physicians face a myriad of disadvantages when it comes to wealth building. The average medical student will be saddled with an average of $200,000 in student loan debt. The nature of prolonged medical training puts physicians Read more… Empowering female doctors: How investment education can combat burnout and build wealth originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
Forbes Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Wyoming’s last reported anthrax infection in wildlife was in 1956 and the state’s last confirmed cattle outbreak was in the 1970s.
Sensible Medicine
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
The lay media is abuzz with stories about Elle Macpherson, who admits in a new memoir to declining chemotherapy seven years ago. Although precise details are not provided, it sounds like Ms. Macpherson had localized or regional breast cancer and underwent surgery. We learned something about the risks of commenting on the health of celebrities over a decade ago when an OpEd we published in Washington Post about former president George W.
Scrubs
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
In a bold move, Kapi‘olani Medical Center has locked out its nurses amidst a heated labor dispute. This aggressive tactic comes after the Hawaii Nurses’ Association (HNA) threatened a strike over inadequate staffing ratios and alleged unsafe working conditions. The hospital is using a legal maneuver to preemptively strike back, bringing in temporary staff to replace the locked-out nurses, signaling their readiness to maintain operations without conceding to the union’s demands.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
The Commonwealth Fund analyzed the healthcare systems of 10 nations and found the U.S. ranked last in access to care, health outcomes and overall. The U.S. “really is in a class by itself,” one researcher said.
Doximity
SEPTEMBER 8, 2024
As healthcare continues to evolve, digital health is playing a crucial role in transforming how we deliver and receive care. Meet some of the top clinicians who are at the forefront of this change, using technology to enhance patient care, improve access, and develop innovative solutions. These professionals are making strides in fields like oncology, mental health, and population health, while also sharing their expertise on social media.
The Healthcare Blog
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
By ALISTER MARTIN and TARA MENON If a friend were to ask you which state, Massachusetts or Texas, has a more streamlined federal benefits enrollment program, what would your guess be? Having screened over 17,000 families and helped them obtain more than $1.8M in federal and state aid through our work in both Massachusetts and Texas, our experiences doing federal benefit enrollment have led us to a surprising conclusion: Texas is leading the way.
Forbes Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
The COVID XEC variant, a recombinant of the KS.1.1 and KP.3.3 COVID-19 variants has been been spreading and has already appeared in 27 different countries.
Sensible Medicine
SEPTEMBER 1, 2024
As seems to be the norm on Sensible Medicine these days, whenever John, Vinay, or I publicly disagree with one another, one of our readers chimes in to explain how all of us are off the mark. Today I am happy to post the latest comeuppance, this one by Dr. Thomas Huddle. Adam Cifu Sensible Medicine is a reader-supported publication. If you appreciate our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
Scrubs
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
The ongoing labor dispute at Kapi‘olani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu has escalated, leading to the arrest of 10 demonstrators on September 23, 2024. The demonstrators were protesting the lockout of about 600 nurses, which followed a one-day strike earlier in the month. The protests were aimed at drawing attention to the nurses’ demands for safer staffing levels and improved patient care conditions.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
Nearly three in four providers surveyed by Experian Health said the number of claims denied by payers shot up between 2022 and 2024.
KevinMD.com
SEPTEMBER 7, 2024
As long as you live, you will never hear an article from news media contending that “America Runs On Duncan.” Why? Because the line is a marketing allegation created by the advertising company and designed to sell product. Yet news media repeat medical claims from drug makers found in journals like they are news––which gives Read more… Why isn’t medical advertising regulated like other advertising?
The Healthcare Blog
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
By TREVOR VAN MIERLO Let’s face it: for the past 25 years, digital behavioral health has struggled. Yet, we keep reinventing (and funding) the same models over and over again. How It All Started In the beginning (mid-1990s), a handful of developers, researchers, and investors envisioned high reach, lower-cost, highly tailored, anonymous interventions reaching millions of people with limited healthcare access.
Forbes Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
Italy didn't allow field trials for genetically modified crops for twenty years — until this year. But anti-GMO activists destroyed it, repeating echoes of history.
Sensible Medicine
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
A great irony of Twitter/X, a site that epitomizes 21 st century ephemerality, is that it can also engender the persistence, or rebirth, of a work. On the one hand, studies that authors worked on for years, or essays that were wrestled with for weeks, are only tweeted for a day or two before disappearing into our collective amnesia. On the other, articles will sometimes find second life on the site.
Medical Economics
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
To transform the promise of value-based care into reality, the health care industry must truly work together and accelerate the implementation and adoption of this impactful care model
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
The bill would extend pandemic-era telehealth flexibilities in Medicare for another two years, averting a looming year-end deadline.
KevinMD.com
SEPTEMBER 15, 2024
America has a systemic and pernicious problem: health care without primary care. Just a century ago, primary care physicians were the trusted cornerstone of the U.S. health care system, providing the first point of entry into health care, addressing most ailments, and managing patients across a lifespan. This primary care “first” system has gradually eroded Read more… America’s “sick” secret and the need for a primary care czar originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
The Healthcare Blog
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
By KIM BELLARD For several years now, my North Star for thinking about innovation has been Steven Johnson’s great quote (in his delightful Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World ): “You will find the future where people are having the most fun.” No, no, no, naysayers argue, inventing the future is serious business, and certainly fun is not the point of business.
Forbes Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
Researchers at Stanford University made the skin of mice transparent using the yellow no. 5 food dye otherwise known as tartrazine that's typically found on Doritos.
Sensible Medicine
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
Dr. Milyavsky submitted this piece in response to my most recent Friday Reflection. It looks at similar issues from a different angle -- the ground floor ER rather than the 3 rd floor medicine clinic -- and comes to subtly different conclusions. Adam Cifu Sensible Medicine is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
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