Forbes Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
Paxlovid comes with a host of contraindications and costs $1561 for a 5- day course. Metformin costs $1/day and reduces viral load. Which should you take?
Sensible Medicine
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
A great irony of Twitter/X, a site that epitomizes 21 st century ephemerality, is that it can also engender the persistence, or rebirth, of a work. On the one hand, studies that authors worked on for years, or essays that were wrestled with for weeks, are only tweeted for a day or two before disappearing into our collective amnesia. On the other, articles will sometimes find second life on the site.
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Scrubs
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
The ongoing labor dispute at Kapi‘olani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu has escalated, leading to the arrest of 10 demonstrators on September 23, 2024. The demonstrators were protesting the lockout of about 600 nurses, which followed a one-day strike earlier in the month. The protests were aimed at drawing attention to the nurses’ demands for safer staffing levels and improved patient care conditions.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
Nearly three in four providers surveyed by Experian Health said the number of claims denied by payers shot up between 2022 and 2024.
Forbes Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
A public health expert says Florida's guidance advising residents to not get vaccinated against COVID-19 is misleading and puts lives at risk.
Sensible Medicine
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
This debate stems from a long running conversation between Vinay and Adam. The conversation was provoked by tweets in which doctors shared their mental health struggles. We have seen tweets about anxiety disorders, suicide attempts, and psychiatric drug dosing. What underlies the conversation is a simple question: Should Doctors Voice Their Own Mental Illness?
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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
Regulators say Medicare needs more data and oversight to avoid fraud and misuse. Digital health advocates argue the service is still crucial for managing chronic conditions.
Forbes Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
Primary care appointment wait times currently average about 20.6 days nationwide, according to some studies.
Sensible Medicine
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
We are incredibly grateful for our subscribers and readers. We are humbled by the numbers of subscribers and for the intelligent, thought-provoking, and (overwhelmingly) kind and good humored comments on the posts. More and more people are submitting essays to us and the site seems to be evolving into the resource and community that we had hoped it would.
The Healthcare Blog
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
By ALISTER MARTIN and TARA MENON If a friend were to ask you which state, Massachusetts or Texas, has a more streamlined federal benefits enrollment program, what would your guess be? Having screened over 17,000 families and helped them obtain more than $1.8M in federal and state aid through our work in both Massachusetts and Texas, our experiences doing federal benefit enrollment have led us to a surprising conclusion: Texas is leading the way.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
The legislation, sponsored by Sens. Ron Wyden and Mark Warner, would direct the HHS to develop minimum cybersecurity standards for providers, health plans, claims clearinghouses and business associates.
Forbes Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
Harvard Zitnik lab released TxGNN, AI model to speed drug repurposing for unmet conditions
Medical Economics
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Five specialties examined in review commissioned by American Independent Medical Practice Association.
The Healthcare Blog
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
Bringing the Tools of Accountable Care to Maternity Care is a Great Idea – But This Sure Ain’t It By VICTORIA ADEWALE & J.D. KLEINKE How desperate are we to find some kind of good news about the sorry state of maternity care in America? To find out, look no further than the current cover of no less venerable a health policy journal than Health Affairs.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
If the enhanced tax credits expire, healthcare costs for millions of Americans will suddenly increase, and some could become uninsured, Democrats say. But Republicans argue the subsidies are costly and create opportunities for fraud.
Forbes Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
Health insurance companies are expanding coverage of more prescriptions written by pharmacists as more states ease prescribing rules.
KevinMD.com
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Suppose you are looking for multivitamin supplements. You pick up two containers of multivitamins and wonder which one you should get. At first glance, they have similar labels, but then you notice that one has a comment indicating that the supplement was manufactured in a registered GMP-compliant facility, and the other does not. Then you Read more… GMP vs. non-GMP: the hidden truth about your supplements originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
Medical Economics
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
A consumer survey found the real reasons consumers prefer telehealth, and they may not be what you think.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton alleged Pieces Technologies made deceptive claims about the accuracy of its documentation products. Pieces denied any wrongdoing.
Forbes Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
This began to feel like a turning point in the power of the patient voice in federal health policy related to patient safety, medical AI and patient empowerment.
Valant
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
Telehealth has become an integral part of behavioral healthcare delivery, but regulatory changes may shape how providers can use telehealth to prescribe medications. Current telehealth prescribing flexibilities allow providers to prescribe controlled substances without an initial in-person evaluation. These flexibilities, extended by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) , are set to expire December 31, 2024.
Practice Index
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
There is nothing more stressful than creating rotas for your team. Just when you think you've tweaked and moved around a few people, you realise you've got a clinician without a room or you're short on admin staff! Now you can delete those spreadsheets and save yourself time and effort, with the Rota Package from Practice Index. With one simple click of a button, you can create easy to follow rotas for your entire practice team, both clinical and admin staf f, across all sites.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
Aberrant billing for urinary catheters last year could have made it harder for ACOs in Medicare to bring in shared savings. That’s no longer the case under a new final rule.
Forbes Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 22, 2024
One of the biggest predictors of how much time adolescents spend on screens and if that use is problematic is how much their own parents use screens.
Medbridge
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
76 percent of patients using the MedBridge Pathways platform report improved physical function. SEATTLE – September 25, 2024 – After just a few weeks in the market, MedBridge Pathways is already yielding positive results for hospital systems and patients. Pathways is the first hybrid MSK solution designed to help health systems provide easier access to […] The post Hospitals Already Seeing Striking Improvements in Patient Engagement and Satisfaction with MedBridge Pathways appe
Medical Economics
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
Private equity investment or hospital ownership can offer management advantages. Yet doctors are opting for something else: autonomy.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
Particle alleges electronic health record vendor Epic used its position as a “monopolist” to prevent competition in the payer market.
Forbes Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
Longevity is becoming increasingly popular to elongate health-span. We turn to estrogen to understand its impact on women's long-term well-being.
Valant
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
If your behavioral health practice is seeking ways to streamline your workflows without compromising care quality, tools such as Wiley Treatment Planners can offer advantages. Wiley Treatment planners are evidence-based templates that simplify the treatment planning process , reducing time spent on documentation while maintaining high standards of care.
Medical Economics
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Senate HELP Committee grills Novo Nordisk CEO over prices of Ozempic, Wegovy. He says patients not getting needed medicines is ‘terrifying.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
CEO Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen told lawmakers the company would consider new talks with insurers about the list prices of Wegovy and Ozempic if they pledge to keep the medicines on their formularies.
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