Scrubs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

In a bold move, Kapi‘olani Medical Center has locked out its nurses amidst a heated labor dispute. This aggressive tactic comes after the Hawaii Nurses’ Association (HNA) threatened a strike over inadequate staffing ratios and alleged unsafe working conditions. The hospital is using a legal maneuver to preemptively strike back, bringing in temporary staff to replace the locked-out nurses, signaling their readiness to maintain operations without conceding to the union’s demands.

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EvidenceCare

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Healthcare executives today are at the crossroads of managing rising costs, improving patient care, and navigating digital transformation. In a recent episode of The Better Care Podcast digital health and economics expert, Adam Kaufman, currently the Interim Category Lead of Products at Baylor Scott & White Health , provided valuable insights into how these challenges overlap and how healthcare leaders can strategically address them.

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Dr. Marty Makary has a powerful new book, BLIND SPOTS: When medicine gets it wrong and what it means for our health , that came out on Tuesday and instantly hit #2 bestselling book on Amazon. I loved the book and highly recommend it. In this piece, he discusses one of those blind spots of the modern medical establishment—America is getting sicker right before our eyes.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The Commonwealth Fund analyzed the healthcare systems of 10 nations and found the U.S. ranked last in access to care, health outcomes and overall. The U.S. “really is in a class by itself,” one researcher said.

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Forbes Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The COVID XEC variant, a recombinant of the KS.1.1 and KP.3.3 COVID-19 variants has been been spreading and has already appeared in 27 different countries.

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The Healthcare Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

By TREVOR VAN MIERLO Let’s face it: for the past 25 years, digital behavioral health has struggled. Yet, we keep reinventing (and funding) the same models over and over again. How It All Started In the beginning (mid-1990s), a handful of developers, researchers, and investors envisioned high reach, lower-cost, highly tailored, anonymous interventions reaching millions of people with limited healthcare access.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The major pharmacy benefit manager said its lawsuit is necessary to protect against misinformation about the controversial drug middlemen, while the FTC promised to defend its research.

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Forbes Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Throughout modern medical history, Americans have underestimated or dismissed emerging health threats until the consequences became impossible to ignore.

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The Healthcare Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

David Dyke is the Chief Product Officer of Relatient, which is one of the biggest players in the up and coming area of direct patient scheduling. As anyone who has been stuck in a phone tree or tried to reach a live human just to get an appointment at a doctor’s office knows, scheduling in health care is way behind the eight ball compared to booking a restaurant, massage, or basically anything else online.

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Few things interest my writing brain more than when a common practice gets overturned. That’s why I was drawn to Paula Span’s column in the New York Times titled, Three Medical Practices That Older Patients Should Question. One of these practices is the prescription of thickened liquids to older patients with swallowing problems. The idea goes like this: aspiration pneumonia is a common cause of death in the frail and elderly.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The agency brought action against Caremark, Express Scripts and Optum Rx on Friday, arguing their “anticompetitive and unfair” rebating practices “artificially inflated” the list price of life-saving insulin drugs.

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Forbes Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Plus: The story behind the award-winning science that led to Ozempic, the next astronaut launch and why homework is good for kids.

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Medical Economics

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

To transform the promise of value-based care into reality, the health care industry must truly work together and accelerate the implementation and adoption of this impactful care model

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Practice Index

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

"The broken NHS must reform or die”; “the NHS needs the biggest reimagining since its birth”; “the NHS is in deep trouble” … These are just some of the attention-grabbing headlines that followed the publication of Lord Darzi’s report into the state of the NHS. A week or so on from the publication of the review, which presented a painfully stark analysis of the health service’s current state, what do Practice Managers make of the document?

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

At a Google Cloud panel this week, information security officers from major health systems said the sector needs to assess their vendor risks to prevent disruptive cyberattacks.

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Forbes Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

There continues to be much debate about whether or not social media truly harms the mental health of teens and adolescents, and whether or not it conclusively causes p.

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Emerging RN Leader

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Nurse managers today struggle with boundary and communication issues with their staff. Team turnover is high on many units, and few expert nurses are available to explain unit norms to new staff. Why not make things easier for staff and prepare a user’s guide to working with […] The post A User’s Guide to Working with You appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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Electronic Health Reporter

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Various forms of automation have long been present within healthcare revenue cycle management (RCM). However, advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have brought the industry to a significant inflection point, where the use cases for AI […] The article AI Advances Bring RCM To an Inflection Point appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

About half of employers said they would make cost-cutting changes to their plans next year, like increasing deductibles or other cost-sharing provisions, according to a report from consultancy Mercer.

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Forbes Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Air pollution from wildfires is a growing problem with many health harms, particularly for Blacks and Latinx. You can protect yourself with masks and filters.

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KevinMD.com

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

America has a systemic and pernicious problem: health care without primary care. Just a century ago, primary care physicians were the trusted cornerstone of the U.S. health care system, providing the first point of entry into health care, addressing most ailments, and managing patients across a lifespan. This primary care “first” system has gradually eroded Read more… America’s “sick” secret and the need for a primary care czar originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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Electronic Health Reporter

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By David Sampson, VP of Cyber Risk & Strategy, Thrive. In February, hackers took Change Healthcare offline in one of the most high-profile and wide-reaching cyberattacks to date. Change Healthcare serves hundreds of thousands of […] The article How to Reduce Cyber Risk in Healthcare Organizations appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The Illinois-based pharmacy giant has agreed to pay almost $107 million to settle claims it billed Medicare, Medicaid and other government programs for prescriptions that were never dispensed.

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Forbes Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

By fighting HIV, TB and malaria, UN member states can save millions of lives, billions of dollars, and create a more equitable world.

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Science Based Medicine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

If Drs. Vinay Prasad and Tracy Hoeg want to prove they actually care about routine vaccines, they can do what the should have done a long time ago and openly and unequivocally denounce Mr. Kennedy and his fire hose of anti-vaxx disinformation. The post A Simple Challenge For Drs. Vinay Prasad and Tracy Hoeg: Denounce Robert Kennedy Jr. For Promoting The Movie Vaxxed 3: Authorized to Kill first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Dr. Milyavsky submitted this piece in response to my most recent Friday Reflection. It looks at similar issues from a different angle -- the ground floor ER rather than the 3 rd floor medicine clinic -- and comes to subtly different conclusions. Adam Cifu Sensible Medicine is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Providers using telehealth face an evolving landscape, and they must balance complexities around insurance, regulatory compliance and data privacy, argues one legal expert.

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Forbes Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The Dictionary.com Summer Word Drop of new words added to the online dictionary included 3 brain-related medical and 5 climate change and warm weather-related terms.

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Science Based Medicine

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

Maybe this isn't a drill. The post We Want Them Infected Doctors Sanewashed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Will He Reward Them With Appointments at the CDC, FDA, and NIH? first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

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KevinMD.com

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

When a physician signs on at a new hospital, a signing bonus is often included in the compensation package. This bonus can range from a small perk to a significant percentage of income, and its structure can be either straightforward or confusing. The signing bonus is one of the items in a physician’s compensation contract Read more… The secrets of physician signing bonuses originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The bill would extend pandemic-era telehealth flexibilities in Medicare for another two years, averting a looming year-end deadline.

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