Athena Career Academy

MAY 17, 2024

With the constant changes in healthcare, certified medical assistants (CMAs) are playing a more important role. These dedicated healthcare workers are team players who contribute to the overall flow of medical facilities. CMAs are trained to handle a diverse range of clinical and administrative tasks with precision and efficiency. For students aspiring to kickstart a fulfilling healthcare career, becoming a certified medical assistant can open doors to a world of opportunities.

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Emerging RN Leader

MAY 15, 2024

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN During the next three months, health systems nationwide will begin to transition new graduates into their practice settings. This year’s new graduates have had more direct clinical time than nurses who graduated in previous years. Still, their current skills will not be enough for hospitals’ high-acuity and […] The post What Your New Graduates Need From You appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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EvidenceCare

MAY 13, 2024

Originally published on EIN Presswire BRENTWOOD, TN | May 13, 2024 EvidenceCare has been selected by Modern Healthcare as one of the 2024 Best Places to Work in Healthcare. The complete list of this year’s winners, in alphabetical order, is available at ModernHealthcare.com/bestplaceslist. Modern Healthcare will publish a special supplement featuring a ranked list of all the winners along with the October 14, 2024, issue of MH magazine. “With all the economic uncertainty, staffing challeng

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Forbes Healthcare

MAY 16, 2024

The North Carolina State Senate has voted along party lines this week to ban wearing masks in public.

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Athena Career Academy

MAY 15, 2024

People are always seeking career paths that promise stability and growth and accommodate their busy lifestyles and personal responsibilities. If you are one of those people aspiring to enter the healthcare sector, the medical assistant role presents an enticing opportunity. Becoming a medical assistant requires proper training, qualifications, and a supportive learning environment.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

MAY 13, 2024

The stakes, impact and cost of cybercrime is rising and we must employ the right tech to fight back.

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Forbes Healthcare

MAY 15, 2024

Increased humidity, pollution, more extreme weather events and a decrease in sunshine exposure can all lead to worsened health conditions, researchers said.

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The Healthcare Blog

MAY 13, 2024

By MATTHEW HOLT Given that I ran a health technology conference for many years, I tend to run in a circle of people who have some ambition to get rich in health care. After all, billions of dollars of VC money have been dropped in lots of startups over the last decade, and a few prime examples have done very well. For example Jeff Tangey of Doximity, Glen Tullman of Livongo, Chaim Indig of Phressia and many others did fine when their companies IPOed in the late 2010s.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

MAY 13, 2024

All major payers saw elevated utilization but only an unprepared few struggled with the trend, the Change Healthcare cyberattack caused minimal financial fallout and a new D-SNP rule opens the door to a Medicare growth opportunity.

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Medical Economics

MAY 16, 2024

Expert panel discusses advances, declines, and possible future of life longevity in the United States.

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Forbes Healthcare

MAY 16, 2024

Scientists have found several strains of highly pathogenic avian influenza in a small number of NYC’s wild birds.

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The Healthcare Blog

MAY 15, 2024

Chakri Toleti is an occasional Bollywood film producer (you can Google that) and also the CEO of Care.ai–one of the leading companies using sensors and AI to figure out what is going on in that hospital room. They’ve grown very fast in recent years, fundamentally by using technology to monitor patients and help improve their care, improve patient safety and figure out what else is needed to improve the care process.

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KevinMD.com

MAY 13, 2024

“Shoot! Shoot in the heart,” local Miami resident Donald Armstrong screamed while waving around a screwdriver on his front porch during the peak of a mental health episode. Despite pleas from his mother not to kill her son, Armstrong was tased and shot over a dozen times. A 911 call tragically escalated into … Read more… 911 call turned deadly: It’s time we invest in our community originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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Medical Economics

MAY 15, 2024

What are the time sinks taking you away from your patients? Artificial intelligence will assist those on the front lines of medicine.

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Forbes Healthcare

MAY 15, 2024

Livongo cofounder Glen Tullman wants to help employers lower healthcare costs with AI, but it may be just another Band-aid for America's $4.5 billion healthcare bill.

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The Healthcare Blog

MAY 16, 2024

Glen Tullman came on THCB to talk about Transcarent’s new Wayfinding AI service. Transcarent has spent more than $125m (of the some $450m or so it’s raised so far) plugging an AI chatbot called Wayfinding into its various segments–which include the former 98.6 now rebranded as Transcarent Everyday Care. Wayfinding has benefits, clinical guidance and care delivery on one intelligent chatbot platform.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

MAY 17, 2024

Epic was the only vendor to see a net increase in acute care market share last year, while Oracle Health saw its largest net hospital loss on record, according to Klas Research.

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KevinMD.com

MAY 16, 2024

If you are a fan of pharma, you might want to skip this article. Some pharma enthusiasts will call it a rant. By pharma, I mean avaricious pharmaceutical (a pleonasm) companies collectively. On the other hand, those of you who treat acute migraines will learn of a highly effective, innovative, inexpensive, and relatively safe way Read more… Big pharma ignores low-cost migraine solution originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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Forbes Healthcare

MAY 14, 2024

Researchers also found patients taking semaglutide could sustain weight loss of around 10% up to four years.

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The Healthcare Blog

MAY 15, 2024

By MIKE MAGEE If you follow my weekly commentary on HealthCommentary.org or THCB, you may have noticed over the past 6 months that I appear to be obsessed with mAI, or Artificial Intelligence intrusion into the health sector space. So today, let me share a secret. My deep dive has been part of a long preparation for a lecture (“AI Meets Medicine”) I will deliver this Friday, May 17, at 2:30 PM in Hartford, CT.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

MAY 14, 2024

Regulators sued the private equity firm last year for consolidating anesthesiology services in Texas with its portfolio company, U.S. Anesthesia Partners. Now, a judge is holding Welsh Carson blameless while allowing the suit against USAP to continue.

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Science Based Medicine

MAY 17, 2024

The virus massively disrupted schools around the world, and those of us who did nothing more than acknowledge this obvious reality were absurdly blamed for it. The post Pro-Infection Doctors Didn’t Just Want Kids in School. They Wanted Them There Unvaccinated, Untested, and Unmasked. They Wanted Them Infected. first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

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Forbes Healthcare

MAY 17, 2024

A new report developed by the Women’s Sport Foundation determined that sport participation maintains the power to lower mental health conditions in girls.

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The Healthcare Blog

MAY 14, 2024

By KIM BELLARD Universities are having a hard time lately. They’re beset with protests the like of which we’ve not seen since the Vietnam War days, with animated crowds, sit-ins, violent clashes with police or counter protesters, even storming of administration buildings. Classes and commencements have been cancelled. Presidents of some leading universities seemed unable to clearly denounce antisemitism or calls for genocide when asked to do so in Congressional hearings.

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Medical Economics

MAY 17, 2024

How getting fired from my job was the best thing that ever happened to me.

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Physicians Practice

MAY 17, 2024

Less than 1 in 5 physicians and approximately 1 in ten residents were able to provide a price estimate within ±25% of true values across all surveyed costs, charges, and reimbursements.

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Forbes Healthcare

MAY 15, 2024

Despite supply shortages, the GLP-1 drugs by the two companies saw their sales surge in the first quarter of the year, and competitors are still trying to catch up.

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Sensible Medicine

MAY 17, 2024

MM is 94 years old. Her only active medical issues are hypertension and vitamin D deficiency. She takes only 20 mg of lisinopril and 1000 units of vitamin D3 each day. She has no cognitive decline and gardens every day if the Chicago weather allows. Her Friday afternoon appointment is the doctor’s last of the week. Sensible Medicine is a reader-supported publication.

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Pulmonology Advisor - Practice Management

MAY 17, 2024

An update to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule is now underway with new cybersecurity requirements. In addition, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is issuing new guidance for health care providers to help better prepare them on how best to respond to cyber threats. The update is designed to help the health care sector build a more resilient system.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

MAY 14, 2024

Hospitals with larger market shares were among the worst offenders, the RAND Corporation found.

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Forbes Healthcare

MAY 12, 2024

Reclassifying marijuana as a lower-risk drug will have public health consequences. Although its potential for abuse is less than alcohol, it is not insignificant.

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