Covid-19 Brings Down Healthy Life Expectancy In The U.K.
Forbes Healthcare
MARCH 31, 2024
Persistent inequalities are likely driving a significant divide in results across England, with "bolder" action needed to tackle ill-health, experts say.
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Modern Cardiology May Change Next Sunday
Sensible Medicine
APRIL 1, 2024
First of all, Happy April Fools day. I thought about writing a fake-trial post. But thought the better of it. I normally tell you about a single study on Monday. This week, I want to alert you to the potential bigness of next weekend, when the American College of Cardiology meets in Atlanta. Sunday is an especially important day, as we will hear the results of three clinical trials—each of which could change cardiology in major ways.
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Navigating the Medical Assistant Certification Process
Athena Career Academy
APRIL 2, 2024
In the exciting and constantly changing world of healthcare, medical assistants are vital in assisting medical professionals and guaranteeing the efficient functioning of healthcare facilities. As the need for proficient healthcare professionals grows, acquiring appropriate certification as a medical assistant has gained heightened significance. Not only does certification validate your skills and knowledge, but it also opens a world of opportunities for career advancement and job security.
Optum: Testing Time for an Invisible Empire
The Healthcare Blog
APRIL 2, 2024
By Jeff Goldsmith Years ago, the largest living thing in the world was thought to be the blue whale. Then someone discovered that the largest living thing in the world was actually the 106 acre, 47 thousand tree Pando aspen grove in central Utah, which genetic testing revealed to be a single organism. With its enormous network of underground roots and symbiotic relationship with a vast ecosystem of fungi, that aspen grove is a great metaphor for UnitedHealth Group.
Vaping Health Risks: Study Suggests Nearly 20% Increased Threat Of Heart Disease From E-Cigarette Use
Forbes Healthcare
APRIL 2, 2024
Over six million Americans experienced heart failure in 2020, and that number is estimated to increase to 8.5 million by 2030.
Improving Your Critical Appraisal Skills
Sensible Medicine
APRIL 2, 2024
This post introduces an occasional series, available to our paid subscribers, aimed at helping people improve their ability to read and interpret the medical literature. Improving Your Critical Appraisal Skills will be made up of “chapters” dealing with how to read articles about various study types. These chapters are adapted from my former course, Critical Appraisal of the Landmark Literature.
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3 ways prior authorization transformation will change health care
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The recent CMS egulations will truly transform the PA process, both by requiring real-time data exchange and transparency in communication of how a decision was made.
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MARCH 31, 2024
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Improving Your Critical Appraisal Skills 1
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Why start this series with the RCT? RCTs are used to determine if one treatment is better than another. They are clinical experiments that provide medicine’s most reliable data. When there is a good RCT, one that can be generalized to a specific patient’s situation, there is no better guide. However, RCTs are far from perfect. Individually, their design may lead them to include important biases and not be generalizable.
Walmart decelerates health center expansion plans
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APRIL 4, 2024
The retailer previously planned to have more than 75 health centers operational this year. Now, Walmart plans to reach that goal in 2025.
Andy Chu, Providence
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Elon Musk Is Wrong About DEI
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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs are under attack across the country.
Yet Another Excellent Explainer About P-Values in Randomized Trials
Sensible Medicine
APRIL 4, 2024
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Ready or not: How healthcare infrastructure can brace for 5G acceleration
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APRIL 1, 2024
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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Kendra Coles
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Medicare Will Now Cover Weight-Loss Drug Wegovy. Here’s What This Means For Healthcare
Forbes Healthcare
APRIL 1, 2024
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Interoperability: some improvement, but much work remains
Medical Economics
APRIL 1, 2024
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Change cyberattack serves as wake-up call for healthcare cybersecurity
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APRIL 4, 2024
The outage shows why health systems need to plan for inevitable cyberattacks, evaluating risks and putting operational backups in place, experts say.
Bevey Miner, Consensus Cloud Solutions
The Healthcare Blog
MARCH 31, 2024
Bevey Miner runs health care for Consensus Cloud Solutions. I’ve known Bevey since she was at Allscripts in the 2000s where she was one of the first building online prescribing. She’s been at lots of places and is now at Consensus which is taking unstructured data via cloud fax and assessing it, structuring it and delivering it–especially to places like skilled nursing facilities.
Silicon Valley Doesn’t Build The Tools These Hospitals Need. This New Consortium Will
Forbes Healthcare
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With its $100 million fund, Aegis Ventures will help health systems, including Northwell, Stanford, Ochsner and Ohio State, build startups from scratch.
Match 2024: ‘The difference that you can make as a primary care physician’
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AAFP president discusses state of primary care and its future with record number of family medicine slots this year.
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Voters Say Healthcare Not A Top Issue. Covid-19 Explains Why.
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APRIL 1, 2024
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APRIL 1, 2024
‘Finger on the pulse’ study compares four factors that can lead to better outcomes for patients.
Amwell in danger of being booted from NYSE
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Gene Therapy, DNA's Past, RNA's Future: The Lost Years
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Marshfield Clinic to lay off furloughed workers
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