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Covid-19 Linked To Higher Risk Of Developing Autoimmune Inflammatory Rheumatic Diseases

Forbes Healthcare

An acute Covid-19 infection could be linked to a higher risk of developing autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic diseases up to 12 months after getting infected.

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Life My Way!

Sensible Medicine

There may be a shortage of primary care doctors, but there is no shortage of celebrity doctors. I have tried fighting them , I have tried rationally engaging them, now I have decided to join them. This post marks the launch of my health and wellness empire. I call it: Life My Way! The Science and Art of Outhealthing your Friends and Enemies. I will refer to the strategy as OhFE, pronounced “Ooof” (my creative team is still working on that). 1 Sensible Medicine is a reader-supported p

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Essential Skills for New Preschool Teachers

Athena Career Academy

Unlocking the potential of young minds is a complex and rewarding endeavor. This requires a diverse set of skills that go beyond mere passion. As an aspiring Early Childhood Educator , your success hinges on mastering certain core competencies. These skills are not only crucial for your professional development but also for fostering holistic growth in your young learners.

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Nurse Manager Span of Control and Role Scope

Emerging RN Leader

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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Chemicals Found In Popular Household Products Potentially Linked To Autism, Multiple Sclerosis, Study Suggests

Forbes Healthcare

That’s how many people globally have multiple sclerosis, according to the World Health Organization.

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Tax breaks exceed community care spending at large majority of nonprofit hospitals: report

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

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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Health misinformation is killing patients. Here’s what physicians can do.

Medical Economics

The problem calls for systemic changes and individual actions

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‘The Invisible Shield’ Aims To Makes Public Health More Visible

Forbes Healthcare

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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Senior lawmaker questions UnitedHealth over Change cyberattack

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., said UnitedHealth’s “rapid consolidation and vertical integration” has major consequences for the healthcare sector, including increased control of the health IT market.

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Ami Parekh, Included Health

The Healthcare Blog

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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Antitrust trends and considerations for physician mergers

Medical Economics

Physician practices looking to engage in merger & acquisition activity should be cognizant of the government antitrust risks

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The Era Of Healthier Produce Thanks To Science Is Just Getting Started

Forbes Healthcare

Fruits and veggies are nature’s gift to humanity. With new genomic techniques, we can make them even tastier, healthier, more accessible, and longer lasting.

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Steward to sell physician group to UnitedHealth’s Optum Care

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

The proposed deal could face regulatory scrutiny, Massachusetts officials say.

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How Enhanced Recovery After Surgery solves our opioid problems

KevinMD.com

In retrospect, we were an addicted nation waiting to happen. Not from a self-indulgent culture, not from an unwillingness to suffer hardship, nor any of the generational criticisms of lack of grit. Our opioid crisis derives from an impatient culture that fears loss of health more than health care profit. With pain as most people’s Read more… How Enhanced Recovery After Surgery solves our opioid problems originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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Rising threat of cyberattacks on health care organizations puts physicians, patients at risk

Medical Economics

Strengthening cyber defenses in health care can mitigate the growing threat of computer attacks.

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The Startup Behind The First Pig-Human Kidney Transplant Is Targeting Hearts And Livers Next

Forbes Healthcare

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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Medicare’s GLP-1 spending is skyrocketing, even without weight loss coverage: KFF

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

Gross Medicare spending on the pricey drugs rose from $57 million in 2018 to $5.7 billion in 2022, according to a new analysis from the health policy group.

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Gen Z’s Mid-Life Crisis

The Healthcare Blog

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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What primary care physicians can do to prevent and screen for dementia

Medical Economics

Providing education about dementia is important tool for helping patients avoid it

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Molecule Found In Coffee Helps Aging Muscles, Says New Study

Forbes Healthcare

The molecule trigonelline has also been linked with improvements in memory and learning as well as anti-inflammatory effects.

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Novant’s proposed purchase of CHS hospitals ‘irreversibly’ harms competition, FTC says

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

The FTC filed for a preliminary injunction this week to block the deal, but an expert says the antitrust agency’s efforts to regulate such deals are akin to trying to stop a “ball that’s already rolling downhill.

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Introducing the MedBridge Digital Health Academy

Medbridge

Digital care has the potential to revolutionize the way care is delivered, but even positive changes can be difficult without the right plan and resources in place. That’s why we’re excited to introduce our Digital Health Academy—an expansion of our content library that includes all the digital health education and training needed to prepare your […] The post Introducing the MedBridge Digital Health Academy appeared first on MedBridge Blog.

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The Change Healthcare cyberattack: lessons for data security

Medical Economics

How health care organizations can mitigate threats

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An AI App Claiming To Detect STIs From Photos Of Genitals Is A Privacy ‘Disaster’

Forbes Healthcare

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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Advocate offloads senior home care business to private equity firm

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

The health system is selling Senior Helpers to Waud Capital Partners just three years after it acquired the home care group.

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3 strategies to improve your credit balances management 

Health Prime

Credit balances are the amount of improper payments or adjustments made to the practice that exceed the related posted charges. This means these credits are the amount of the balance in the encounter that consists of the excess of what is being sent out for that encounter for the payer. Effective credit balance management is crucial for the financial health of any medical practice.

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Maternal mortality; brain implant research; $30M in phony claims for COVID-19 tests – Morning Medical Update

Medical Economics

The top news stories in medicine today.

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Who Pays The Bill When Medical Artificial Intelligence Harms Patients?

Forbes Healthcare

Who do you sue if the medical AI makes a mistake?

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Ascension will outsource Illinois hospitalist functions to PE-backed staffing firm

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

Beginning June 1, the Catholic health system will cede responsibility of hospitalist functions to staffing firm SCP Health.

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Topoisomerase inhibitors and chronic pain

KevinMD.com

Topoisomerase inhibitors emerged in the American medical landscape in 1971, thanks to the discovery by Dr. Jim Wang of the E. coli omega protein. Topoisomerase I, an enzyme identified by Dr. Wang, plays a crucial role in DNA unwrapping from supercoiling. Supercoiling involves tightly wrapping DNA for storage and protection, requiring unwrapping for reading, a Read more… Topoisomerase inhibitors and chronic pain originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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Which nonprofit hospitals give back the most, and least, to their communities?

Medical Economics

Nonprofit are exempt from paying taxes and in return are expected to invest in their communities. But most hospitals aren't meeting their obligation.

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