Scrubs
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
If Robert F. Kennedy Jr. were to assume leadership of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), it could signal significant changes in healthcare policy, regulation, and public health priorities. Known for his controversial views on vaccines and a vocal critic of many public health policies, Kennedy’s potential appointment raises questions about the direction of the FDA and the future of healthcare in the United States.
EvidenceCare
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
In an era where healthcare leaders must balance financial sustainability with care quality, scale with personalization, and innovation with operational stability, finding the right path forward can be challenging. At the Nashville Healthcare Sessions conference , healthcare executives at the forefront of addressing these challenges shared their real-world strategies and insights.
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Emerging RN Leader
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN During a webinar, a nurse manager recently noted that the new graduates they hired in June already seemed restless and just finished their residency program. She observed that “recent graduates enter her health system, complete their residency program, and then want to leave to travel or return […] The post Retaining New Graduates appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.
Forbes Healthcare
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
There is a tendency to overlook the multiple factors and stakeholders that contributed to the Rx opioid crisis. This includes the role of payers as enablers of access.
Scrubs
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
On November 1, 2024, federal authorities charged 38-year-old Rebecca Fadanelli, owner of Skin Beaute Med Spa in Randolph and South Easton, Massachusetts, with illegally importing counterfeit cosmetic products and administering them without proper medical credentials. The charges include one count each of illegally importing merchandise contrary to law, selling or dispensing a counterfeit drug, and selling or dispensing a counterfeit device.
Science Based Medicine
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
Doctors who are concerned about members of our profession enabling powerful anti-vaxx disinformation agents should speak up before it's too late. But its probably too late already. The post Robert Kennedy Jr. & His Doctor Friends May Just Be Getting Started first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.
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Forbes Healthcare
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Sometimes at the end of a dental appointment, the dentist shows you a X-ray, points to an unremarkable spot on it and explains why it means you need a particular proce.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Physicians will see their Medicare reimbursement fall 2.9% next year if Congress doesn’t stop the cuts. Meanwhile, reimbursement for hospital outpatient departments is rising 2.9%.
KevinMD.com
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Voting is one of the most fundamental rights in our democracy, and yet it can be incredibly challenging. Getting to your polling station, waiting in line, remembering to request your absentee ballot, checking your voter registration status—it is not a straightforward process. If you suffer from an unexpected illness or injury and find yourself hospitalized, Read more… Voting from the hospital: How emergency ballots give patients a voice originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
Sensible Medicine
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Nearly a thousand news outlets covered the recent publication of the positive results of the STEP-9 trial of semaglutide vs placebo for the treatment of knee pain due to osteoarthritis in patients with obesity. Twitter overflowed with positive messages after the New England Journal of Medicine publication. I am not sold on the trial. STEP-9 had many flaws but one fatal flaw.
Forbes Healthcare
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
Summary of Mount Sinai's New York BCI Symposium, by Synchron and Precision Neuroscience. Market Trends and forecast for brain-computer interface startups.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Last week, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the federal government’s original interpretation of the No Surprises Act in determining how a key metric in billing disputes is calculated.
The Healthcare Blog
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
Joining Matthew Holt ( @boltyboy ) on #THCBGang on Friday November 8 are THCB regular writer and ponderer of odd juxtapositions Kim Bellard ( @kimbbellard ); Principal of Worksite Health Advisors Brian Klepper ( @bklepper1 ); patient safety expert and all around wit Michael Millenson ( @mlmillenson ); and digital health investment banker Steven Wardell ( @StevenWardell ).
Electronic Health Reporter
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Rahul Ajmera, SVP of Provider Market, CitiusTech. Over three years since U.S. healthcare providers and payers adopted new cost transparency regulations designed to make healthcare costs more accessible. While the intent behind these regulations […] The article Putting Price Transparency Rules to Advantage for Better Care Outcomes appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.
Forbes Healthcare
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
Plus: Expanding bone marrow transplants, a potential replacement for silicon in processors, Apple takes a stake in satellites.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
During a meeting Thursday, commissioners debated different solutions to lackluster physician pay with one theme in common: linking doctors’ annual payment update to the Medicare Economic Index.
Open Dental
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
Customizing colors can provide more than fun and flair - it can help improve function by allowing easy identification of different types of information. Learn more about where and how you can customize colors in Open Dental. The post Fun (and Function) with Colors appeared first on Open Dental Blog.
Sensible Medicine
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
A few month ago, we were pleased to publish a critical appraisal written by a group of students at the Wayne State University School of Medicine. The group is back with another piece about a recent article. I am enjoying this way of encouraging critical appraisal in undergraduate medical education and generating good content for Sensible Medicine. As below, please take this opportunity to appraise the appraisers.
Forbes Healthcare
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
In announcing RFK Jr. as having a significant role in healthcare in his administration, he has targeted healthcare in America as a prime candidate for major change.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Dramatic growth in an opaque Medicaid funding mechanism is exacerbating concerns about the program’s fiscal integrity — while spurring financial gains for the hospital industry.
Medical Economics
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
Jay W. Lee, MD, MPH, FAAFP, advises family physicians to continue offering vaccines, explaining the benefits compared to alternatives.
Medbridge
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
Digital healthcare use is on the rise, and patient preferences for digital care are also growing. For example, 80 percent of patients say that they want to interact with their healthcare providers using a smartphone. It’s not that patients no longer value in-person care; on the contrary—they simply want the fast connection and engagement that […] The post What Do Patients Want from Digital Care?
Forbes Healthcare
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
The healthcare industry is increasingly turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to meet rising demand from an aging population and strained resources.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
The payer joins several other insurers suing federal regulators over the 2025 quality ratings, which Elevance argues will cost it at least $375 million in bonus payments and rebates.
Medical Economics
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
Who should coordinate care transitions? The doctors with the best picture of care through touchpoints with patients and their families.
Sensible Medicine
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
I was pretty proud of my post last Friday, Screening Can Do Silent Harm. I described five cases that demonstrated the silent harms of screening. Unfortunately, unless you were both REALLY clued into the potential harms of screening AND basically live inside my head, the post left something to be desired. Reactions on twitter and in the comments were well-represented by these two: “It’s an odd article as people not already in the know won’t realise what it’s about !
Forbes Healthcare
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
A clinical trial of 52 people with long Covid who were prescribed low doses of lithium aspartate revealed that it failed to treat symptoms like fatigue and brain fog.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
The health system will offer up to five weeks of back pay to staff that were denied religious exemptions for COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
KevinMD.com
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
If you think the labyrinth of U.S. government agencies and congressional subcommittees is complicated, be grateful you are not a pharmacy owner! Just to get your drugs reimbursed, you must navigate a river of upstream, midstream, and downstream suppliers, health plans and insurers, employers and other payers (including federal and state governments), rebate aggregators, “white Read more… Are you taking FDA-approved drugs without knowing it?
Emerging RN Leader
NOVEMBER 3, 2024
By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN How many of you have seriously considered leaving your role? I recently asked this question during a session with nurse managers, and I was not surprised to see 80% of the hands in the audience go up. While we are not seeing massive turnover in the nurse manager […] The post Strategies to Improve Nurse Manager Retention appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.
Forbes Healthcare
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Medical students should consider how AI could change the work physicians do (and get paid for) when choosing specialties.
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