Forbes Healthcare
AUGUST 7, 2024
By bringing together top doctors, scientists and engineers, Terry Ragon believes he can succeed where major governments have failed and cure one of the world’s wiliest viruses.
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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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 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 7, 2024
CAR T cell therapy is showing promise in treating glioblastomas and autoimmune diseases. New tools like base editing may help T cell therapy address solid cancer tumors.
Sensible Medicine
AUGUST 7, 2024
In Post #1 last Wednesday, Elizabeth Fama introduced her critical appraisal series on the Back to Sleep recommendation. This week, she explores the downsides of sleeping babies on their backs. JMM Sensible Medicine is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Possible Downsides of Back Sleeping Sleep Quality For adults, it’s fairly interchangeable to sleep on the stomach, side, or back.
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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
AUGUST 7, 2024
On Wednesday, CVS slashed its earnings guidance for the third time this year, announced a plan to cut $2 billion in costs and fired the head of its insurance division Aetna, which continues to struggle with high medical utilization.
Forbes Healthcare
AUGUST 5, 2024
Pfizer and Moderna’s updated vaccines will be available for people six months and older, while Novavax’s vaccine will be aimed at people 12 years and older.
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.
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.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
AUGUST 8, 2024
The decision, disclosed Wednesday in a securities filing, is a sharp reversal to the pharmacy behemoth’s past commitment to building out its healthcare delivery offerings.
Forbes Healthcare
AUGUST 4, 2024
Pharmacy benefit managers have been under constant pressure for years for their alleged role in raising patient out-of-pocket costs and squeezing independent pharmacies.
KevinMD.com
AUGUST 9, 2024
Despite the evening hour, the sun beats down on our group as we gather to orient new participants to the street run. It’s a typical Spring day in Florida, with temperatures already in the upper 80s. We stand in a circle on a downtown sidewalk in our green t-shirts. In the center of our circle Read more… Street medicine: a lifeline for Florida’s homeless amidst new public sleeping ban originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
Medical Economics
AUGUST 8, 2024
The top news stories in medicine today.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
AUGUST 7, 2024
The slide in the nation’s uninsured rate could become steeper if subsidies in the Affordable Care Act exchanges expire on schedule next year, according to health policy experts.
Forbes Healthcare
AUGUST 7, 2024
Novo and Lilly have struggled to keep up with demand for semaglutide and tirzepatide—generic names for Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and Zepbound—and there have been reports people with diabetes have struggled to access the drugs as more people use them to lose weight.
Physicians Practice
AUGUST 9, 2024
Each practice should learn from the result of this HIPAA case.
Medical Economics
AUGUST 6, 2024
Watchdog group praises CMS rule with ‘groundbreaking’ measures of patient safety in hospitals.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
AUGUST 8, 2024
The latest attack on the Grand Blanc, Michigan-based health system comes less than a year after it was hit by a ransomware attack.
Forbes Healthcare
AUGUST 7, 2024
CVS Health CEO Karen Lynch is taking over “day-to-day management” of the company’s Aetna health insurance business after its latest poor performance.
Health Prime
AUGUST 8, 2024
In today’s digital age, medical practices rely extensively on electronic systems like Electronic Health Records (EHR) , Practice Management Software (PMS), and online billing platforms to manage patient information and billing processes. These technologies streamline operations, enabling quicker data retrieval, accurate billing, and efficient claims processing.
Medical Economics
AUGUST 9, 2024
Steven P. Furr, MD, FAAFP, president of AAFP, joins the podcast for a wide-ranging conversation covering the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, rural health care access, and cybersecurity.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
AUGUST 5, 2024
The struggling drugstore chain has been chipping away at its stake in Cencora, formerly known as AmerisourceBergen, since last summer.
Forbes Healthcare
AUGUST 5, 2024
Olympic swimming competitors are not yet out of the woods from swimming in polluted water. Many infections could still be incubating.
Valant
AUGUST 5, 2024
The field of behavioral health has seen a shift toward value-based care. This transition is part of a broader movement across all of healthcare to improve patient outcomes while reducing costs. Value-based care models incentivize providers to deliver high-quality and efficient care by linking payment to patient health outcomes. This approach is a departure from traditional fee-for-service models , which pay providers based on the volume of services they deliver.
Medical Economics
AUGUST 9, 2024
Flexible care models, including remote patient monitoring, can help support clinicians and patients as care environments and acuity levels shift.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
AUGUST 5, 2024
The bankrupt health system will lay off workers at the end of the month as it prepares to close two hospitals in the state, according to notices filed with regulators last week.
Forbes Healthcare
AUGUST 7, 2024
Novo Nordisk’s growth has slowed in recent weeks as the company struggles to produce enough semaglutide to meet stellar demand for Wegovy and Ozempic.
Practice Index
AUGUST 8, 2024
Persistent staff absence can be a huge drain on practices. It’s not necessarily about believing your staff are ‘at it’ (though you might suspect this on occasion!), but even the most genuine and sympathetic of cases can challenge organisational ability to provide efficient patient services. For managers, it may feel like the hardest of problems to solve.
Medical Economics
AUGUST 8, 2024
Study examines costs that build up when health care workers go to school or get sick.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
AUGUST 7, 2024
Insurers cited workforce shortages, hospital consolidation and growing demand for pricey GLP-1 drugs as reasons driving the premium increases for 2025.
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