Athena Career Academy

MARCH 20, 2024

Medical assistants are vital in healthcare, supporting physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals. Their responsibilities often span clinical and administrative tasks, requiring a diverse skill set and a strong foundation of knowledge. For aspiring medical assistants, embarking on training is the first step towards acquiring these essential skills that are instrumental in building a successful career in healthcare.

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Legal Eye on Medical Assisting

MARCH 20, 2024

I recently received the following request for information from a medical group in South Carolina: We [need] to find out what tasks certified medical assistants can do and what uncertified medical assistants cannot do.

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Emerging RN Leader

MARCH 20, 2024

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN To economize, many health systems are eliminating nursing leadership roles, impacting numerous loyal, hard-working nurse leaders. How do you leave a difficult job situation without conveying anger? I recently talked with a leader who found herself in this situation. She understood that the decision was not personal […] The post Planning a Graceful Exit appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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Forbes Healthcare

MARCH 22, 2024

Given CDC's actions on isolation and masks, we should focus on improving ventilation and the economic impact that would have.

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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 18, 2024

Dear Readers, I publish the following opinion piece regarding the use of statin drugs in low-risk individuals without heart disease even though I disagree with most of the authors’ arguments. Since this is a rebuttal to an editorial I wrote, it would be helpful to first read the linked article in the lead sentence. I do like the authors’ conclusions.

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KevinMD.com

MARCH 19, 2024

Today, doctors’ liberty and property are at risk when they choose to treat a patient. Not because of some new law but because of the misapplication of old ones. The current opioid panic has essentially given the DEA free rein to target any physician whose medical practice they disagree with. This has created a serious Read more… DEA overreach: a threat to doctors’ freedom in American medicine originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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Forbes Healthcare

MARCH 18, 2024

Yet another large study finds that supplemental vitamin D and calcium aren't helpful. Cancer deaths did go down, very slightly, but deaths from heart disease went up slightly more.

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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 19, 2024

One of the aspects of editing Sensible Medicine that I have truly enjoyed is receiving excellent, unsolicited manuscripts. 1 We published one of these a couple of weeks ago by Aleksi Raudasoja titled From Guideline Recommendations to Articulated Harms and Benefits. Even better is when one unsolicited manuscript leads to another. What follows is one of those written by Mariana Barosa.

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Athena Career Academy

MARCH 22, 2024

Pursuing an Early Childhood Education (ECE) degree is a rewarding choice that can lead to a fulfilling career working with young learners. However, balancing the demands of school, work, and personal life can be a challenging task. Whether you're attending Athena Career Academy in Toledo, OH, or any other institution, it's essential to find a balance that allows you to succeed academically while also taking care of your well-being and professional responsibilities.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

MARCH 22, 2024

Two weeks after the FDA updated Wegovy’s label, Medicare changed its stance to allow people with a history of heart disease to receive treatment, a shift that could further boost access to the fast-selling medicine.

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Forbes Healthcare

MARCH 18, 2024

Led by billionaire founder and CEO Judy Faulkner, Epic is building a suite of 60 AI tools it hopes to sell to thousands of U.S. hospitals.

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Medical Economics

MARCH 18, 2024

Leader of the Dr. Lorna Breen Foundation discusses latest efforts to tackle burnout among the health care workforce.

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The Healthcare Blog

MARCH 18, 2024

By MATTHEW HOLT Okay, I can’t do it any longer. As much as I tried to resist, it is time to write about ambient scribing. But I’m going to do it in a slightly odd way If you have met me, you know that I have a strange English-American accent, and I speak in a garbled manner. Yet I’m using the inbuilt voice recognition that Google supplies to write this story now.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

MARCH 20, 2024

The health system has been hit with at least 35 lawsuits in the last year alleging issues ranging from unpaid bills and falsified checks to doctor kickback schemes.

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Billing 125

Forbes Healthcare

MARCH 18, 2024

ChatGPT's expanded memory capabilities will improve clinical outcomes and revolutionize U.S. medicine, writes Robert Pearl, MD. Here are three potential breakthroughs.

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Doximity

MARCH 19, 2024

This Women's History Month, we honor the collective journey of women in medicine, emphasizing their resilience, achievements, and the challenges they continue to overcome. The narrative of women physicians is marked by groundbreaking achievements against the backdrop of systemic barriers, underscoring the need for mentorship, flexible working conditions, and strong advocacy for gender equity.

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Medical Economics

MARCH 19, 2024

The simple mental step of recognizing oneself as a leader begins a virtuous cycle of self-improvement

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

MARCH 20, 2024

Value-based care and physician interest groups said the model should create a more stable cash flow for physician groups.

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Forbes Healthcare

MARCH 20, 2024

Varda Space Industries successfully manufactured a sample of HIV medication on board its spacecraft and returned it safely to Earth.

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Medication 133

KevinMD.com

MARCH 18, 2024

I was faced with a stark question—one that, though I have spoken openly about women’s rights, somehow I had not distilled into the succinct question posed by a coming-of-age woman living and attempting to digest our country’s policies. Simply put: “Mom, so they don’t care if women die?” Oof! For a person who has a Read more… Do they care if women die?

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Science Based Medicine

MARCH 17, 2024

Doctors portrayed those who tried to avoid the virus as pathetic, disordered weaklings, afflicted by irrational panic, fear, and anxiety. It only makes sense if you remember one thing, they wanted you infected. The post Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, April 2021: “The Central Problem Right Now I Think Is The Fear That People Still Feel About COVID.” first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

MARCH 18, 2024

The CMS doesn’t require states to report data on outcomes or care denials, and has made “delayed” progress on plans to analyze the information and make it public, according to the Government Accountability Office.

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Forbes Healthcare

MARCH 18, 2024

Chrysotile asbestos—used in chlorine bleach—is the only form of the chemical still imported and used in the U.S., so this legislation will officially ban all forms of asbestos in the U.S.

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Medical Economics

MARCH 20, 2024

Rajan Kohli, CEO of CitiusTech, shares his thoughts on the health care technology show

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Science Based Medicine

MARCH 22, 2024

The campaign against boosters was just a small part of a pathetic, pandemic-long pattern where doctors expressed grave concern about the mildest harms of measures to limit COVID, even purely theoretical ones, while being totally indifferent to literally anything the virus could do, including the deaths of children and young adults. The post Some Doctors Cared Much More About Sore Arms Than Cold Bodies first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

MARCH 22, 2024

In a Thursday letter, the American Hospital Association urged the HHS’ Office of Civil Rights to reduce possible “duplicative” breach notifications from the Change cyberattack.

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Hospital 120

Forbes Healthcare

MARCH 19, 2024

Ketamine is a hallucinogenic drug used medically as an anesthetic and to treat mental disorders, and illegally for recreational use.

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Medication 126

Medical Economics

MARCH 22, 2024

Primary care physicians and their patients know broad rules for good health, but those can be overwhelming without personal assistance to integrate the principles into daily life.

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Health Prime

MARCH 21, 2024

The revenue cycle in healthcare refers to the entire process of managing the financial aspects of patient care, from the initial appointment scheduling to the final payment received for services rendered. It encompasses all the steps and interactions involved in generating revenue for a healthcare provider. The revenue cycle is a complex and multifaceted system that involves various stakeholders, including healthcare providers, payers (insurance companies), and patients.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

MARCH 18, 2024

The relief comes as 94% of hospitals reported financial impact from the outage, according to a survey from the American Hospital Association.

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Hospital 119

Forbes Healthcare

MARCH 17, 2024

When done judiciously, intermittent fasting can have profound effects on metabolism, cardiovascular health and brain function.

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