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
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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.
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.
Medical Economics
AUGUST 16, 2024
Study shows regional disparities in dementia diagnoses across the U.S.
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.
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Physicians Practice
AUGUST 15, 2024
Patient engagement should go beyond just administrative work and scheduling appointments.
Medical Economics
AUGUST 14, 2024
Providing behavioral health services through primary care can help solve the mental health crisis.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
AUGUST 15, 2024
Shiv Rao, CEO and co-founder of AI notetaking company Abridge, discusses the company’s product geared toward nurses and what’s next for the documentation market.
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.
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?
Medical Economics
AUGUST 14, 2024
Our 95th annual Physician Report covers the latest data on practicing physicians, including salaries, practice financial health, productivity, malpractice rates, the state of the profession and more. Free regisration required to view.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
AUGUST 14, 2024
More than 80% of denied requests were overturned when appealed, but few beneficiaries formally questioned the decisions.
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.
The Healthcare Blog
AUGUST 14, 2024
By KIM BELLARD I understand that states are “ racing ” to pass laws designed to help protect school-aged kids against something that has been a danger to their mental and physical health for a generation now, as well as adversely impacting their education. Certainly I’m talking about reasonable gun control laws, right? Just kidding. This is America.
Medical Economics
AUGUST 15, 2024
Beneficiaries are projected to save $1.5 billion in out-of-pocket spending next year.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
AUGUST 15, 2024
The product, which uses AI to summarize medical information from conversations between patients and clinicians, is now available across Kaiser’s 40 hospitals and more than 600 medical offices.
Forbes Healthcare
AUGUST 15, 2024
Insurers like UnitedHealthcare, Aetna and Cigna pay for Equip's specialized virtual eating disorder therapy for kids and adults.
Sensible Medicine
AUGUST 12, 2024
I would like to live a long life. Surely you do as well. You can improve your chances by eating well, exercising, avoiding smoking and too much alcohol. There is also the matter of luck. The question today is whether modern medical screening can improve on those basic lifestyle choices. People believe it can, obviously. The screening industry is a money-making machine.
The Healthcare Blog
AUGUST 15, 2024
By MICHAEL L. MILLENSON Long before ChatGPT, whose question-answering choices still remain somewhat of a black box, there was an equally mysterious, question-answering black ball. I decided to ask them each of them how to solve the cost, quality and access issues labeled for more than half a century as “the healthcare crisis.” The hard, plastic Magic 8 Ball was invented in 1946 , two years before a landmark Supreme Court decision spurred a boom in employer-sponsored health insurance.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
AUGUST 13, 2024
It’s a major win for bankrupt Steward, which has sought to offload its physician group since December.
Forbes Healthcare
AUGUST 14, 2024
Cases of the highly contagious seasonal respiratory infection fell during the COVID-19 pandemic as people reduced contact and implemented safeguards.
Medical Economics
AUGUST 14, 2024
Virtual nursing has emerged as a promising solution that can provide much-needed support to on-site nursing teams
KevinMD.com
AUGUST 14, 2024
A doctor in Virginia named Joel Smithers was serving a 40-year sentence in an Atlanta prison when he won his appeal to the 4th Circuit. No, he didn’t shoot someone. That’s probably 25 years. He treated patients in pain. Now, he will get a new trial where he will be bludgeoned again with false metrics Read more… From conviction to appeal: a doctor’s opioid case sparks debate originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
AUGUST 12, 2024
S&P Global also found no "meaningful" improvement in cash flow for providers between 2022 and 2023.
Forbes Healthcare
AUGUST 10, 2024
So far, at least 40 Olympic athletes have tested positive for the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). But is it the tip of the Covid-19 iceberg?
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.
Medical Economics
AUGUST 13, 2024
To take advantage of new accelerated prior authorization timelines, providers must step up their internal processes to ensure they can scale while maintaining quality control over prior auth requests and denial appeals
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
AUGUST 14, 2024
New details are emerging about the joint care delivery platform first teased earlier this spring.
Forbes Healthcare
AUGUST 14, 2024
A deadlier form of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, has been spreading across Africa, sparking fears of a more dangerous pandemic than when the virus spread globally in 2022.
KevinMD.com
AUGUST 12, 2024
A gummy candy shimmies on stage, dancing to Flashdance. The music swells; it pulls a chain and is showered in multi-colored candies. The ad, for Nerds Gummy Clusters, was one of dozens of food ads that 123 million people saw during the 2024 Super Bowl. While the nostalgic soundtrack entertained adults, the cartoon candies were engineered to Read more… From Super Bowl to supermarket: How candy ads shape kids’ diets originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
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