The Prototype: Study Suggests AI Tools Decrease Critical Thinking Skills
Forbes Healthcare
JANUARY 10, 2025
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Private equity firms got rich while shirking obligations to hospitals, Senate report finds
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
JANUARY 9, 2025
The year-long inquiry into hospitals managed by Apollo Global Management and Leonard Green & Partners comes amid growing calls for increased oversight of private equity in healthcare.
The Semmelweis gambit: A red flag for defending bad science and quackery
Science Based Medicine
JANUARY 6, 2025
A proponent of the Great Barrington Declaration is comparing rejection of its "natural herd immunity" approach to the pandemic to the rejection of Ignaz Semmelweis and his findings. It's a deceptive comparison beloved of all manner of scientific cranks. The post The Semmelweis gambit: A red flag for defending bad science and quackery first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.
Making your website compliant for patients with disabilities
Physicians Practice
JANUARY 10, 2025
This is the best way to see that your website is continually up-to-date and complies with the ever-evolving ADA regulations and guidelines.
Why The U.S. Could Be Making The Same Mistakes With Bird Flu As It Did With COVID-19
Forbes Healthcare
JANUARY 6, 2025
The first severe human case of bird flu was recently reported in the U.S. Here are some ways the U.S. may be repeating the same mistakes as from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Healthcare venture capital investment amplified by AI in 2024: report
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
JANUARY 9, 2025
Nearly 30% of the funding poured into healthcare startups last year went to companies leveraging artificial intelligence, according to Silicon Valley Bank.
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America’s frustration with the health care industry
Medical Economics
JANUARY 9, 2025
The health care industry must start addressing high costs, low accessibility, lack of personalization, and complexity that are keeping Americans from getting the care they need.
How To Protect Yourself From LA's Wildfire Smoke
Forbes Healthcare
JANUARY 8, 2025
Wildfire smoke causes immediate health problems like asthma and heart attacks. N-95 Masks are critical.
Aetna sues drugmakers over alleged price-fixing scheme
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
JANUARY 7, 2025
The complaint alleges nearly two dozen pharmaceutical companies colluded to limit competition, causing costs for certain generic medications to skyrocket.
What Is The Hardest Nursing Class To Take?
We Care Online
JANUARY 8, 2025
What Is the Hardest Nursing Class to Take? What Is The Hardest Nursing Class To Take? There are no easy ways into nursing education, no matter where you begin. Whether it is from courses for Nurse Aide or from more advanced Registered Nurse (RN) programs, each class has its own level of difficulty. What Is the Hardest Class on a College Campus? Hardest class on a college campus usually depends on students strengths, learning style and material.
From challenge to change: Best practices for value-based care in physician practices
Medical Economics
JANUARY 7, 2025
Adopting a value-based approach to clinical, financial and administrative operations can help physician practices thrive in both FFS and VBC worlds
A Path Forward For The US Health Insurance Industry
Forbes Healthcare
JANUARY 6, 2025
A path forward for the US health insurance industry following the mixed public reaction to United Healthgroup CEO Brian Thompsons tragic murder.
CVS successfully converts commercial pharmacy contracts to “cost plus” model
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
JANUARY 8, 2025
CVS’ efforts to reform how its pharmacies are paid have reached a significant milestone that should stabilize flagging margins.
Best Cities for Healthcare Startups in the USA
Arkenea
JANUARY 4, 2025
The HealthTech landscape is currently witnessing an era of tremendous advancements. HealthTech startups in the US are harnessing the power of technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, cloud computing, blockchain, robotics, telemedicine and connected medical devices to further the advancement of data driven healthcare delivery. While Silicon Valley is the first thought of somebody thinking of startup hubs in the USA, the MedTech landscape in the country is quite diverse.
Addressing health-related social needs can lead to more burnout in primary care physicians
Medical Economics
JANUARY 6, 2025
But other medical specialties dont have same association, according to a new study.
What Is The HMPV Virus Surging In China?
Forbes Healthcare
JANUARY 6, 2025
Plenty of viruses are having their strongest season for years. But experts have urged calm about HMPV, which is not a new disease even if you've never heard about it.
Blue Shield of California restructures, launches health services business and names first female CEO
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
JANUARY 9, 2025
The bevy of changes for the massive California nonprofit is meant to improve operations, but should also give Blue Shield a financial leg-up as it competes with well-funded for-profit peers.
Drug-eluting coronary stents: a masterclass in (broken) evidence translation?
Sensible Medicine
JANUARY 6, 2025
When I was at Indiana back in the 1990s, we called an ICD by a company’s brand name. At IU, all ICDs were “PCDs” PCD was Medtronic’s brand name. I didn’t realize it at the time, but this was pro-level marketing. A similar thing has happened with coronary stents—at least in my neighborhood. Now it is Xience, a brand of drug-eluting stent (DES) from Abbott.
Patients are confused and overwhelmed by medical test results
Medical Economics
JANUARY 6, 2025
Most people struggle to pull basic information out of standard pathology reportslike whether or not they have cancer.
How Queen Zulu, Dr. Macias, Lost Her Home, Then Built A Cannabis Empire And Inspired Brittney Griner
Forbes Healthcare
JANUARY 6, 2025
The journey of Queen Zulu, Dr. Chanda Macias, from losing her home to pioneering a cannabis empire and inspiring Brittney Griner to embrace the power of the plant.
New rule wipes medical debt from consumer credit reports
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
JANUARY 8, 2025
The rule will remove an estimated $49 billion in medical bills from about 15 million Americans' credit reports and bars lenders from using medical information in their lending decisions.
Friday Reflection 47: Patients Make the Hardest Decisions
Sensible Medicine
JANUARY 10, 2025
MM is a 55-year-old man with recurrent pneumonia. He initially presented with a fever, chills and a lobar infiltrate. Symptoms resolved with antibiotics but recurred a week later. During his second course of treatment, further evaluation with a CT scan showed the infection to be post-obstructive, occurring distal to compression of a secondary bronchus by severe scoliosis.
Negotiating physician salaries: Addressing compensation misconceptions
Medical Economics
JANUARY 9, 2025
Whats fueling salary increases for primary care physicians? Talent shortages, increased burnout and rising administrative burdens not greed.
2025 Will Be A Huge Year For The $220 Billion Dollar Cybersecurity Industry
Forbes Healthcare
JANUARY 10, 2025
Cybersecurity has become of the most important topics for healthcare leaders.
After Steward crisis, new Massachusetts law aims to strengthen oversight of hospitals
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
JANUARY 10, 2025
The law aims to close loopholes that officials say Steward Health Care exploited to keep regulators in the dark about its finances leading up to its bankruptcy.
How to Become an Urgent Care Medical Assistant
Unitek College
JANUARY 6, 2025
Learn About the Rewarding World of Urgent Care Medical Assisting. Urgent Care Medical Assistants (MAs) work in many facilities across the country. Every year, over 200 million people go to urgent care in the United States. Thanks to physicians, nurses, and Medical Assistants, these people can receive the treatment they need to thrive. As the […] The post How to Become an Urgent Care Medical Assistant appeared first on Unitek College.
Private equity investors put ‘profits over patients,’ according to new Senate report
Medical Economics
JANUARY 9, 2025
Two companies highlighted in bipartisan review of detrimental effects of PE ownership on hospitals and their patients.
Unlocking The Potential Of Women's Healthcare In 2025
Forbes Healthcare
JANUARY 6, 2025
Venture capitalists have an investment opportunity and a challenge: Transform the landscape of women's healthcare by fueling innovation.
Transcarent to acquire fellow health benefits navigator Accolade for $621M
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
JANUARY 8, 2025
The deal expected to close in the second quarter will take Accolade private and create a single firm with more than 1,400 employer and payer clients.
The Hidden Toll of Prior Authorization Challenges on Healthcare Access
Electronic Health Reporter
JANUARY 5, 2025
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Andrew Mignatti, co-founder and CEO, Careviso. Healthcare access in the United States remains fraught with barriers, none as pervasive as the issues surrounding prior authorizations (PAs). Originally designed as a mechanism to ensure that […] The article The Hidden Toll of Prior Authorization Challenges on Healthcare Access appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.
The implementation of brief geriatric assessments into primary care settings
Medical Economics
JANUARY 8, 2025
A recent systematic review analyzed the use of Brief Geriatric Assessments (BGAs) as a tool for screening older adults in primary care settings.
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