Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

I begin with this semantic point about causal language because it ends up being one of my two main criticisms of the analysis. This occurs because older patients have more drug-drug interactions, decreased drug clearance, and less robust reflex mechanisms to maintain blood pressure when standing up. These were the treatment arm.

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Long Term Care Follow-Up Medication Hospital 334

Scrubs

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Beggs shared the videos on TikTok where she quickly racked up hundreds of thousands of views. She now has over 600k followers on the app. She said she feels a responsibility to show up for her audience now that she’s built such a devoted following. In fact, it’s enhancing her knowledge and experience.

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Follow-Up Scheduling Documentation Collaboration 278

The HIPAA Journal

APRIL 29, 2025

Verisource Services, an employee benefits administration service provider, has determined that a previously announced data breach was far worse than initially thought and has affected up to 4 million individuals.The Houston, Texas-based company detected a hacking incident on February 28, 2024, that disrupted access to some of its systems.

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HIPAA Follow-Up Best Practices Billing 110

Doximity

MARCH 21, 2025

She estimates that this prompt saves her up to two hours per week , and sometimes even more when demand is high. She estimates that this prompt saves her about an hour daily , adding up to 7 hours weekly and nearly 28 hours monthly. Follow-up in three months with repeat labs. GPT helps me generate them efficiently."

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Documentation Tests Insurance Follow-Up 98

Scrubs

MARCH 6, 2023

Palmer reached out to the Mount Pleasant Police Department for a follow up,” the department said. The no-driving period can last up to a year or more, but the length depends on the type of tumor and the treatment they received. On February 19, 2023, Ms. The officers wrote that she is now doing well and in recovery.

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Follow-Up Hospital Medication 246

Scrubs

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Her six-year-old daughter Lorette had a fever and needed to be picked up. The nurse quickly set up a birthing area in her office using a low pediatric cot, the same place where she normally treats kids for tummy aches. They wound up in Costa Rica but she struggled to find work in a foreign country.

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Practice Index

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

By midday, they had responded, expressing interest in meeting us to discuss a follow-up piece incorporating our views and experiences. Well, yes try shutting us up, if you dare! By 10:45 AM, we had gathered comments from our members, compiled them and sent them to the articles author.

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Sensible Medicine

DECEMBER 20, 2023

I’ve been following the general conversations and have been particularly interested in AI’s potential to improve diagnostic performance. I started with a steroid two years ago, but the pain was too severe and I ended up with an injection in my back. What follows is the suggested reply to the partner of a patient of mine.

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Appointments Diagnostics Scheduling Follow-Up 283

Health Prime

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This disease management includes everything from regular check-ups to specialist appointments. Our team will set up a meeting to discuss how Health Prime can maximize your revenue by cutting costs, saving you time, and collecting more! Subscribe to our Health Prime blog. Contact us at sales@hpiinc.com.

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Billing Follow-Up Administrative Work Best Practices 98

Scrubs

APRIL 5, 2023

Dereck Paul is the co-founder of Glass Health, a start-up in San Francisco that offers artificial intelligence chatbot services to doctors looking to ease the burden of routine processes, such as patient documentation. And now doctors are using it to answer routine clinical questions.

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Documentation Follow-Up Medication Hospital 355

EvidenceCare

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

CMS Policy Changes to Reduce Costs Financial pressures are rising as CMS implements the updated Version 28 Hierarchical Condition Category (HCC) model , which introduces changes aimed at limiting types of codes that are most used for up-coding or over-coding to help rein in spending. We call them CMS 4201 violations.

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Hospital Discharges Documentation Follow-Up 130

Sensible Medicine

MAY 16, 2025

Following up with another 35 “diseases just learned.” ” Please look back to last week’s intro if you are just coming to this series. Like Part I, this is a gift to our paid subscribers. This Substack is reader-supported. If you appreciate our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Read more

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Sensible Medicine

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

This week will be a straight up critical appraisal (with a bit of a critique of Wall Street Journalism Churnalism thrown in). The studies leading up to the Annals of Oncology study demonstrated that the most effective assay targeted specific methylated, cell-free DNA. We then work up every positive test.

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Tests Follow-Up Diagnostics Medication 363

We Care Online

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Staying up-to-date with the latest practices, regulations, and medication management techniques is essential to providing the highest quality of care. Our update class ensures that youre up-to-date with state and federal regulations, helping you stay compliant and avoid potential legal issues.

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Medication Best Practices Patient Safety Documentation 96

Sensible Medicine

MARCH 25, 2025

Traditionally, NIH (and science in general) identifies priorities by looking at historical burdens of diseases or by following the leads of existing research. Perhaps the starkest change AI can bring to NIH is a shift from a reactive, research model to a proactive one.

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Scrubs

JULY 21, 2023

The doc in question might act as though you’ve whapped him or her across the nose with a rolled-up newspaper, but it’s still your right to call him or her out. Sometimes the doc will follow you and keep going, but mostly he or she will give you your space. Simply saying, “That behavior is unacceptable” is totally within your rights.

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Scrubs

JULY 28, 2023

Physician: “Emphasize proper follow-up care.” Physician: “The patient has a good fund of general knowledge” Translation: ”She reads more than I do.” Physician: “Every four hours around the clock.” Translation: ”This person won’t take pain medicine and needs to be encouraged to do so.” Physician: “There will be moderate discomfort.”

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Medical History Follow-Up Medication 246

Scrubs

JULY 27, 2023

The following exercises can bolster your core, legs, and back strength, which are essential for a psychiatric nurse. To do a squat, stand with feet hip-width apart, bend at the knees and hips as if sitting back into a chair, keeping the chest upright and the back straight, before standing back up to the initial position.

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Transfers Follow-Up Teamwork Communication 232

Scrubs

MARCH 13, 2023

She called the police and started following the woman from a safe distance. “I I just kind of followed her where she was walking, and they were there very, very quickly.” I thought for sure when it was him calling me that he was going to say, thank you for calling, it didn’t end up being her, if you see anything else, give us a call.”

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Hospice Follow-Up Collaboration 264

Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 7, 2024

For example, Bergman reports a 2002 study in which ventilated premature babies were placed to sleep on either their tummies or backs, and the following states were measured: quiet sleep, active sleep (which is less restorative than quiet sleep), crying time, number of stress responses (startle, tremor, and twitch), and oxygen saturation.

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Practice Index

JANUARY 30, 2025

More patient-initiated follow-ups, greater use of the NHS App, and GPs to support patients activating choice of treatment provider are also included. Well have to wait and see what follows with the new GP contract, the expected urgent care plan and the 10-Year Plan, but its fair to say this has been an inauspicious start.

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Follow-Up Care Plan Documentation Hospital 90

Sensible Medicine

DECEMBER 11, 2023

During the follow-up period, 9 patients (8%) in the AVATAR arm had a redo procedure following a primary endpoint compared to 15 patients (15%) in the conventional ablation arm. You would think not checking for the quality of PV isolation would lead to more patients in the “Avatar arm” requiring redo ablation.

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Follow-Up Medication Hospital 303

Scrubs

MAY 7, 2023

When you call a patient to follow up and they don’t pick up. When you realize that you’re basically paying to work as a nurse. When you’re just trying to enjoy your sandwich, but your co-worker won’t stop talking.

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Follow-Up Tests Scheduling Hospital 246

Scrubs

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

A 15-second clip of her dancing at a soul club recently went viral on TikTok, racking up over 7.5 Some of Hodkin’s followers have donated money to get the club up and running. Amy Hodkin knows how to bust a move. million views. I salute everyone and everyone who comes onto this dance floor.

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Follow-Up Hospital 264

Health Populi

DECEMBER 16, 2024

adults plans to purchase at least one health and wellness digital health technology product to gift during the winter 2024 holiday season, according to the 2024 Consumer Technology Holiday Purchase Patterns study served up by CTA, the Consumer Technology Association — aka the annual host of CES. One in two U.S. CTA assessed U.S.

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Follow-Up Medication Patient Experience Hospital 62

Scrubs

MAY 9, 2023

He’s been chronicling the journey on social media to show his followers what it means to give back to the community. For his next act of kindness, Tsiliacos teamed up with Good Morning America to surprise a group of 167 nurses at Shriners Children’s Hospital/Northern California for Nurses’ Week 2023.

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Scrubs

JULY 20, 2023

This poor young woman had been in a car accident and had undergone multiple surgeries on her leg in the last few weeks, necessitating lots of narcotic pain medications, which had backed her up something awful. Needless to say, it was smelly and messy, but I quickly cleaned up and put the woman and her partner at ease.

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Scrubs

APRIL 26, 2023

“If that ballot is successful, it will mean further strike action right up until Christmas,” Cullen said. She added, “The only way to deal with bullies is to stand up to them … including in court.” After the upcoming demonstrations, Cullen said the members will vote on their next move.

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We Care Online

JANUARY 22, 2025

There are limits, however, that every caregiver or caretaker has to follow in the interest of the profession, the clients safety and for the sake of legality and ethics. Not showing up for scheduled duties or being late to the job without prior notice to the client or employer. Unacceptable or inappropriate language towards the client.

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Sterilization Follow-Up Certification Scheduling 98

Scrubs

MARCH 21, 2023

MaineHealth recently announced it is using AI to automatically record conversations between doctors and their patients during a check-up or follow-up visit. We end up doing what we went into medicine for,” she said. But a new artificial intelligence program could do away with this practice for good.

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Hospital Follow-Up Appointments Documentation 264

Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 3, 2024

We must conclude that emailing people instructing them to mask has a much greater effect on responding to follow-up surveys than on admitting cold symptoms. The p-value associated with the difference in reporting is less than 0.00000000001. That is, less than 1 in one hundred billion. We’ll never know.

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Scrubs

AUGUST 6, 2023

This new sense of self helped her stay focused on the end goal as opposed to getting hung up on the daily challenges of dieting. Nurses can also talk about the benefits of keeping up with regular checkups, cancer screenings and other important preventative measures.

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Follow-Up Appointments Medication 246

Scrubs

JULY 27, 2023

So, if you’re sensing a vacation is on the horizon, dedicate a few free hours to trolling the Internet and study up on some of the latest travel hacks. Breaking up your vacation time, if it proves limiting, may be the best way to get the most bang for your nurse’s-salary buck. Not sure where to start?

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Scrubs

AUGUST 11, 2023

Patients around the country are getting stuck with enormous medical bills as hospitals continue to mark up the cost of their services, including those for routine medical procedures and advanced surgeries. He ended up staying in the hospital for four days and came out with a bill for over $100,000. Total healthcare spending in the U.S.

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Scrubs

MARCH 27, 2023

Linda Pegg and Becky Meadows may be done with nursing after hanging up their scrubs, but they aren’t done helping people in need. Each sponsorship group works with up to 15 individuals who are responsible for some part of the transition process. “In (the United States), you can follow your own ideas and beliefs.

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The HIPAA Journal

APRIL 16, 2025

The cash payment may be higher or lower depending on the number of valid claims received.Class members wishing to submit a claim for reimbursement of losses may claim up to $300 for documented unreimbursed ordinary losses, including up to 4 hours of lost time at $25 per hour.

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Follow-Up HIPAA Documentation Scheduling 68

Health Prime

DECEMBER 4, 2024

It also allows patients to schedule appointments, make bill payments, and access medical records through online portals.

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Billing Scheduling Appointments Patient Satisfaction 98