Athena Career Academy
APRIL 16, 2024
When deciding on a career, few are more fulfilling than early childhood education. When working with young children, you know you are setting a generation of students up for future success. Preschoolers learn best when actively involved in their learning, making hands-on activities one of the best ways to engage their minds and allow concepts to sink in fully.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
APRIL 15, 2024
Chronic disinvestment and inadequate training have created a shortage of primary care workers. Leaders at the Milbank Memorial Fund, National Association of Community Health Centers and the American Academy of Family Physicians argue for solutions.
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Sensible Medicine
APRIL 14, 2024
Last week, the US FDA held a meeting to decide if a new surrogate endpoint (Minimal Residual Disease or MRD negativity) could be used to give more & faster drug approvals for patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma. Multiple myeloma drugs can cost $600,000 per year of treatment, but if MRD is permitted for drug approval, I suspect we will see a deluge of uncertain drugs added to the roster, and the costs per year per patient will swell to a million dollars or more.
Forbes Healthcare
APRIL 17, 2024
While the artificial intelligence revolution has just being, it is transforming healthcare, speeding drug discovery, improving both diagnosis and patient communication.
KevinMD.com
APRIL 16, 2024
Measles is on the rise in more than a dozen states, an alarming surge for a vaccine-preventable disease eliminated in the United States nearly 25 years ago. Meanwhile, young women exposed to relentless unscientific deception by social media algorithms are abandoning hormonal contraception in favor of significantly less effective methods that result in more unwanted Read more… The Supreme Court must consider science, not pseudo-science, in public health rulings originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
APRIL 16, 2024
Steward Health Care’s forbearance period ends in less than 15 days. Analysts say this time, creditors are unlikely to extend the embattled company another lifeline.
Healthcare Support Central brings together the best content for healthcare support professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Forbes Healthcare
APRIL 18, 2024
The World Health Organization’s chief scientist warned bird flu may evolve and transmit from human to human after an outbreak among cattle and goats in the U.S. led to the infection of a Texas man.
Medical Economics
APRIL 19, 2024
Primary care physicians are essential in combating the HIV epidemic by normalizing HIV testing and prescribing preventive medications. This approach not only enhances health equity and literacy among particularly underserved populations, but also expands their practice by attracting and retaining a broader patient base.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
APRIL 17, 2024
Independent practices have clearer financial incentives to lower medical spending than hospitals participating in accountable care organizations, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Practice Index
APRIL 18, 2024
Stress Awareness Month has been running since 1992, each year with a different theme. This year the theme is ‘little by little’, based on the concept that our overall wellbeing can be transformed with small, consistent, positive actions. The Stress Management Society [1] “…want to emphasise how even the smallest steps taken each day towards self-care and stress reduction can yield significant improvements in mental health over time”.
Forbes Healthcare
APRIL 17, 2024
A new study in JAMA shows the cost of semaglutide would need to drop 3-fold to equal ESG, a quick procedure that helps patients lose up to 18-20% of their weight.
KevinMD.com
APRIL 16, 2024
A recent New York Times opinion piece detailed a lack of available pain medications. While the DEA claims that it is not purposefully restricting legitimate medication availability, even the names of its own operations belie this statement. On Halloween 2023, the DEA launched Operation “Bottleneck,” serving immediate suspension orders to six large pharmaceutical supply companies.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
APRIL 16, 2024
Investors on Tuesday got a clearer picture of the cyberattack's financial fallout on the healthcare juggernaut. Some said it wasn't as bad as they'd feared.
Practice Index
APRIL 18, 2024
Another funding storm is on the horizon with the recently announced rise in national practice contract funding for England. For all the people working in general practice, a rise is a rise, but when it amounts to about 2% in the context of an overstretched service, in which some doctors working in other parts of the health service have been awarded double-digit pay rises, it’s easy to feel underwhelmed.
Forbes Healthcare
APRIL 14, 2024
While focus in the U.S. has been on rising numbers of measles cases domestically, it’s Europe and Central Asia where the situation is at crisis level.
Physicians Practice
APRIL 17, 2024
Although AI shows promise in streamlining administrative tasks like documentation and billing, its integration into clinical decision-making processes sparks some challenges.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
APRIL 15, 2024
Meanwhile, Centene, Elevance and Humana held onto statewide contracts. The reprocurement was especially positive for Centene, which had been expected to lose market share, analysts said.
KevinMD.com
APRIL 17, 2024
Lizzie is a 13-year-old with a great sense of humor. She tells it like it is, especially to her Mom, Jackie, who admits to being a bit of an Almond Mom (the parent who is stuck in a weight-focused diet culture). Jackie leads a very healthy lifestyle and has never had to deal with being Read more… GLP-1 medications like Wegovy are effective metabolic health tools for teens with insulin resistance originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
Forbes Healthcare
APRIL 18, 2024
GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic, Mounjaro, Zepbound and Wegovy are being explored for treating an array of conditions including sleep apnea, kidney disease, addiction, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.
Valant
APRIL 17, 2024
The counseling treatment plan is a core component of effective mental health treatment. Not only is it a map for treating a client, it is necessary for compliance with insurance and governmental mandates. However, managing these plans at scale is a complex task that often creates headaches for clinicians and directors in large outpatient behavioral health practices.
Minority Nurse
APRIL 16, 2024
Wound, Ostomy, and Continence (WOC) Nurse Week runs from April 14-20 and brings attention to this nursing specialty and the expertise WOC nurses bring to patient care. As a member of the Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nurses Society™ (WOCN®) for 31 years and now its president, Vicky Pontieri-Lewis, MS, RN, ACNS-BC-CWOCN, says the field is exciting and ever changing.
Sensible Medicine
APRIL 17, 2024
If you can’t believe we are still talking about this, that is sort of the point of the post. Personally, I could not wait to put mask wearing behind me, but I still find the issue of masking in healthcare facilities interesting. I have written my own essays about it on Sensible Medicine on September 28 th , 2022 , and January 11 th , 2024. The parallels to universal precautions, the balance of comfort, communication, and patient safety, and the issues of power in the doctor patient relatio
Forbes Healthcare
APRIL 17, 2024
The chip maker claims its generative AI “agents” surpass human nurses in performing a variety of tasks, all at a markedly reduced cost. Here are three implications.
Performance Health
APRIL 17, 2024
First used in healthcare in a 2001 report by David Marx, the definition of just culture is a system of shared accountability in which organizations are responsible for the systems they have designed and for responding to the behaviors of their employees in a fair and just manner. Employees are accountable for the quality of their choices and for reporting incidents and system vulnerabilities.
Medical Economics
APRIL 19, 2024
By managing chronic conditions and offering preventive screenings, they are able to keep patients out of high-cost care settings
KevinMD.com
APRIL 14, 2024
A recent investigation in Quebec uncovered a concerning trend: benzodiazepines — medications commonly used for sleep or anxiety — are being overprescribed. This investigation has prompted the Quebec College of Physicians to closely examine the usage of these medications. But this issue extends beyond Quebec’s borders; across Canada, these medications are being prescribed at alarming rates.
Forbes Healthcare
APRIL 18, 2024
Veradigm's interim CEO Yin Ho has an audacious plan to reinvent what was formerly Allscripts with the $140 million acquisition of AI startup ScienceIO.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
APRIL 16, 2024
The payer has inked a deal with Clayton, Dubilier and Rice to join their primary care assets as Elevance looks to catch up with peers like UnitedHealth and CVS in care delivery.
Medical Economics
APRIL 18, 2024
‘Unfair methods of competition and monopolistic practices may be depriving Americans of access to affordable, high-quality health care,’ FTC leader says.
The Healthcare Blog
APRIL 15, 2024
By KIM BELLARD The most interesting story I read in the past week doesn’t come from the more usual worlds of health and/or technology, but from sports. It’s not even really news, since it was announced last fall; it’s just that it wasn’t until last week that a U.S. publication ( The New York Times ) reported on it. In a nutshell, a Paris football (a.k.a. soccer) club is not charging its fans admission during the current season.
Forbes Healthcare
APRIL 18, 2024
Elevance Health reported a first quarter profit of $2.2 billion as commercial health insurance and healthcare services offset a big decrease in Medicaid enrollment.
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