Legal Eye on Medical Assisting
AUGUST 29, 2024
The U.S. Department of Education (USDE) issued final regulations for the Financial Value Transparency and the Gainful Employment requirements that must be met for a program to participate in financial assistance programs for students under Title IV of the Higher Education Act. These regulations went into effect July 1, 2024.
EvidenceCare
AUGUST 28, 2024
Originally published on EIN Presswire BRENTWOOD, TN | August 29, 2024 EvidenceCare , a leading healthcare technology platform for hospitals, today announced the promotion of Amy Deaton to President & Chief Operating Officer. In her expanded role, Deaton will continue to oversee the company’s operations while assuming additional responsibilities in strategic leadership and product-led company growth.
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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
AUGUST 29, 2024
Testimony from the heads of Express Scripts, Optum Rx and Caremark in July defending pharmacy benefit managers’ business practices could be coming back to bite them.
Science Based Medicine
AUGUST 26, 2024
This week, Stanford University announced a conference on pandemic policy that features several of the usual suspects who spread misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Truly, Stanford has become the "respectable" academic face of efforts to undermine public health. The post Stanford University will host a conference on pandemic planning featuring the usual (COVID-19) suspects first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.
Forbes Healthcare
AUGUST 29, 2024
Bird flu typically spreads among birds, but there have been recent outbreaks among cattle in the U.S., and one Texas man contracted the virus from sick cows. Here’s why so many experts are worried about a possible new pandemic.
KevinMD.com
AUGUST 24, 2024
A patient recently came to my office seeking antibiotics for her viral URI symptoms. After a shared decision-making discussion on using Echinacea (an immunostimulant with antiviral, anti-inflammatory, and antimicrobial effects) instead, we were able to forgo the unnecessary antibiotic. Approximately 25 percent of U.S. adults report concurrently taking a dietary supplement with a prescription medicine.
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Science Based Medicine
AUGUST 25, 2024
Dr. Vinay Prasad started treating vaccine side effects as a fate worse than death in February 2021, before these was a COVID vaccine for children. The post Dr. Vinay Prasad Opposed The Pediatric COVID Vaccine Before There Was A Pediatric COVID Vaccine first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.
Forbes Healthcare
AUGUST 26, 2024
Honghao Deng and Jiani Zeng already count the Ubers and Walmarts of the world as clients for their people-detecting sensor startup. Now they’re going all in on a different industry.
Trafft
AUGUST 29, 2024
One of the challenges every salon owner faces is client management. This includes cancellations. And when clients cancel the appointment for whatever reason, they may not be aware of the consequences. You want to accommodate clients and provide the best services possible to make them feel fantastic at your salon. This, though, is not always achievable, especially if you don’t want your salon revenue to suffer.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
AUGUST 27, 2024
If all newly eligible patients received semaglutide, Medicare Part D spending could increase by $34 billion to $145 billion each year, according to new research.
Science Based Medicine
AUGUST 30, 2024
Vaccines save lives and money according to a recently published CDC report. This shouldn't come as a surprise, but it's still nice to see. The post Vaccines: Saving Lives and Money for Over 200 Years first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.
Forbes Healthcare
AUGUST 30, 2024
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends everyone six years and older receive the updated shots.
Sensible Medicine
AUGUST 27, 2024
We’ve had a number of articles on Sensible Medicine about medical education. It is probably not surprising as many of our writers and readers have had personal experience with medical education and/or work with trainees everyday. One of our early series (fall 2022) featured these two pieces. Today we have a current trainee extending Dr. Prasad’s most recent critique.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
AUGUST 28, 2024
The advocacy group comprised of physician firms like TeamHealth and Envision has issued the provider industry’s latest salvo against insurers over surprise billing.
Science Based Medicine
AUGUST 24, 2024
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and the merging of political pandemic narratives The post Great Barrington Declaration Author Joins COVID-19 Lab Leak-Pushing Group first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.
Forbes Healthcare
AUGUST 26, 2024
Ambient intelligence, or ambient AI, has increasingly become more pervasive across industries and especially become more relevant in healthcare.
Sensible Medicine
AUGUST 30, 2024
KN is a 90-year-old man I visit at an inpatient hospice. His son warned me that my visit might “be a waste of time” because he sleeps much of the day and “can’t even get out of bed.” When I arrive, however, I find him in good spirits. He is pain free, cognitively intact, and genuinely pleased to see me. He is not only happy for the company but touched that I made the effort to come.
Medical Economics
AUGUST 29, 2024
Why does childbirth in the United States make a woman two times more likely to be in medical debt? Here’s why alternative health plans could be a solution for maternal care and much more.
Science Based Medicine
AUGUST 29, 2024
A new paper that looks at homeopathy in pharmacy education raises more questions than answers. The post Homeopathy in Pharmacist Education first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.
Forbes Healthcare
AUGUST 26, 2024
PBMs have come to dominate the prescription drug market. They've leveraged that power to enrich not just themselves but those that have hired them—including the cities and states now suing them.
Practice Index
AUGUST 29, 2024
Making sense of the practice accounts doesn’t require a degree in economics. But you do need to grasp the basic principles of accounting and how they apply to GP practices. Written by the Association of Independent Specialist Medical Accountants (AISMA) , this essential guide, Explaining the GP practice accounts , has been fully revised and updated for 2024.
Minority Nurse
AUGUST 27, 2024
As the new school year kicks in, nursing students everywhere are bracing themselves for another round of intense lectures, clinical rotations, hours of reading, skills lab, and study marathons. Balancing coursework, long clinical hours, and possibly even a job or family responsibilities can make it feel like you barely have time to breathe, let alone think about what you’re eating.
Medical Economics
AUGUST 26, 2024
DPC improves the physician-patient relationship by reducing administrative tasks, removing insurance company middlemen, and focusing on individualized care.
Forbes Healthcare
AUGUST 27, 2024
A rare, but potentially deadly virus has been detected in an 80 year old man in Massachusetts. This is the first human case of EEE in Massachusetts since 2020.
Top Practices
AUGUST 29, 2024
Maintaining a positive attitude is a choice we make every day, and while it’s easier to stay upbeat when everything is going smoothly, life doesn’t always allow us to travel down smooth roads. We all face bumps in the road—sometimes more than we would like. But the good news is that with a few intentional habits, we can make it down those rough roads with a mindset that keeps us resilient and grounded.
Science Based Medicine
AUGUST 28, 2024
Are we ready for the next potential pandemic? It seems like we are just get over COVID and already we have to worry about the next one. We first covered the monkey pox (now mpox) in 2022. Since then it has continued to be a concern. Where do our efforts to contain this infection stand? To recap, the disease mpox is the […] The post Are We Ready for Mpox first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
AUGUST 26, 2024
Facilities reported challenges hiring and retaining qualified infection prevention personnel, according to the analysis by the HHS’ Office of Inspector General.
Forbes Healthcare
AUGUST 25, 2024
Ozempic, the highly popular GLP-1 agonist drug touted by many celebrities for weight loss, is in short supply, according to its drug maker Novo Nordisk.
Emerging RN Leader
AUGUST 28, 2024
By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN One of the most challenging leadership situations is conflict with your boss. We all experience this at some point in our careers. It has become even more prevalent during turbulent times with high executive turnover. Managing conflict well is challenging for most nurse leaders under the best […] The post When You Are in Conflict with Your Boss appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.
The Healthcare Blog
AUGUST 30, 2024
By MIKE MAGEE When Andrew Jameton, a Nursing Professor at the Department of Mental Health and Community Nursing at UCSF in 1984 published “Nursing Practice: The Ethical Issues” , the term “Moral Distress” was a novel term in clinical health care. It focused primarily on “care that they were expected to provide but ethically opposed.” Over the past four decades, the definition has expanded and now encompasses the “inability to provide the care that one feels morally compelled to provide.
Medical Economics
AUGUST 30, 2024
True primary care is possible through a holistic model to telehealth. So why aren’t more companies embracing it?
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