Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

We so desperately need RCT data for our screening tests. Safety, tolerability and efficacy of up-titration of guideline-directed medical therapies for acute heart failure (STRONG-HF): a multinational, open-label, randomised, trial I’ve come out pretty strongly against GDMT. It also shows us how hard it is to up-titrate GDMT.

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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. “So, what tests they would order and what treatments they would order.”

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Sensible Medicine

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

If applicants are more impressive on paper, but no more impressive in the clinics and hospitals, aren’t we doing something wrong? They spend money on test prep courses and needle their teachers into inflating grades. One could also follow the lead of the tech industry and invest in the selection process.

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Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 25, 2023

We read about diseases and their associated diagnostic tests and treatments. Clinical findings and blood tests hint at the diagnosis, but the only truly confirmatory test is a biopsy of the temporal artery – a small procedure but a procedure all the same. Diagnostic tests give you more than just a diagnosis.

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Sensible Medicine

JANUARY 15, 2024

Doctors and hospitals incur penalties if a patient with an MI is not on a beta-blocker—unless there is a darn good reason put down in the chart. A place where a learner can go to look up the seminal trials that established modern day cardiology practice. About 16,000 patients were randomized from more than 200 hospitals.

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Sensible Medicine

APRIL 16, 2024

The idea was that interventions could then be tested in the high-risk groups. I admit that I do not follow the Medical AI literature closely. I imagined that the tool was picking up more than just vascular calcifications and heart size. This was long ago enough that I was awed by the potential.

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Sensible Medicine

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Don’t get hung up on the specific medical problem. The medical question comes up pretty often: What to do with moderate anemia (low red blood cell counts) in a patient recovering from a heart attack (myocardial infarction = MI)? (We The MINT trial tested these two strategies. No drug companies. No devices. with CI to 0.99-1.7

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Scrubs

MAY 7, 2023

When you call a patient to follow up and they don’t pick up. When you’re just trying to do your job, but the universe decides to test your patience with a ripped glove. When the hospital refuses to hire anyone new and all the trouble falls on you and your one friend who hasn’t quit yet.

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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. The test characteristics of most data from the history is poor. I started with a steroid two years ago, but the pain was too severe and I ended up with an injection in my back.

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Sensible Medicine

JUNE 8, 2024

I asked Anupam Jena if he could run the Medicare analysis on docs with R01s vs those without, but he felt it would be limited by thin data, and also pointed out that what they lost in clinical skills, they might make up for in intelligence. Most have given up the lab, and are largely clinicians or work in other sectors.

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Sensible Medicine

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Even though my practice is made up of about 750, overwhelmingly older people, mostly with chronic medical conditions, I only attend to the death of a patient a few times a month.   I usually see people who die alone in the hospital. Some of these patients die alone in the hospital, with nobody at their bedside.

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The Healthcare Blog

APRIL 2, 2024

Then someone discovered that the largest living thing in the world was actually the 106 acre, 47 thousand tree Pando aspen grove in central Utah, which genetic testing revealed to be a single organism. United channeled almost $52 billion of that cash into buying health-related businesses, nearly all of which end up housed inside Optum.

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Sensible Medicine

JUNE 30, 2023

Patients present with troublesome symptoms that they “just want checked out before the weekend” and I’m left either worrying about them all weekend or admitting them to the hospital where I know little will happen for the next two days. He had also had had a normal stress test a couple of years before.

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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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Sensible Medicine

MAY 31, 2023

Her outpatient follow-up appointments were scheduled; we had reviewed her safety plan; she felt well and ready to leave the hospital. Her hospital course was uneventful, and she made good therapeutic use of her time on the unit. ” As the conversation wrapped up, I started putting the papers back on her bed.

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Sensible Medicine

OCTOBER 21, 2024

It was a small study at one hospital. Our lorcainide study faithfully followed all the rules of clinical trials as they were then understood. Some things will surely hold up: PCI for MI, fixing displaced fractures, antibiotics for bacterial infection, and of course, caring and empathy. The story begins in Nottingham UK in 1980.

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Health Populi

MAY 21, 2020

Patients’ concerns of COVID-19 risks have led them to self-ration care in the following ways: 41% have delayed health care services. 42% felt uncomfortable going to a hospital for any medical treatment.

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Scrubs

JUNE 16, 2023

They were just coming out of a weeks-long surge of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths, fueled by the delta variant. a Friday, the hospital CEO’s phone rang with an urgent call. “My The hackers left a ransom note on every server, demanding the hospital pay $3 million in bitcoin within a few days. But on Oct. 1 at 3 a.m.,

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Relias

MARCH 18, 2025

Winter storms and blizzards can bring extreme cold, heavy snowfall, ice accumulation, and dangerous winds that disrupt essential services, transportation, and hospital operations. Ensuring a hospitals readiness for severe winter weather is critical to maintaining patient care and staff safety.

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Mobius MD

MARCH 14, 2025

A recent study found that primary care physicians in a Massachusetts hospital spent an average of 36 minutes per visit using the EHR , with nearly 8 minutes dedicated to the EHR inbox. For the average PCP seeing 20 patients per day, that adds up to over 13 hours per week. Use Message Templates Dont type the same response over and over.

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We Care Online

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Telehealth allows these patients to receive timely care without the added burden of physically getting to a clinic or hospital. Improved Patient Engagement and Follow-Up Telehealth can improve patient engagement by making it easier for individuals to follow up with their healthcare providers.

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Scrubs

MAY 18, 2024

Nurses can be crucial navigators by providing information on hospital financial assistance programs and flexible payment plans. Nurses can advocate for policy changes within their institutions that directly benefit the uninsured, such as more transparent pricing structures and reducing non-essential medical tests that inflate costs.

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Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2021

Wherever you live in the world touched by the coronavirus pandemic, you felt (and were) stress-tested. In this year’s 2021 annual report by Deloitte into Connectivity & Mobile Trends, their report details How the pandemic has stress-tested the crowded digital home. Both you were, and your home was as well. ” In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 28, 2021

By casting my eyeballs in different directions across the health/care ecosystem, I came up with the following data-driven plotline for your 2022 strategic and scenario planning toolkit… The pandemic persists. Mortality will be up in the U.S. > consumers are “shrugging off” Omicron.

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The HIPAA Journal

MAY 6, 2024

Continuum then worked to verify the information and obtain up-to-date address information, and notification letters were mailed on April 29, 2024. The file review was completed on March 8, 2024, when it was confirmed that the exposed data included patients’ names and Social Security numbers.

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Scrubs

JANUARY 4, 2024

It is also especially crucial nowadays, as technology further advances and more comprehensive eye tests are becoming more common. On top of this, traditional eye tests often focus solely on visual acuity, which measures the ability to see details at a distance.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

People who skipped care were most likely to avoid dental care (25%), visit to a GP or specialist (21%), preventive health screening or medical test (16%), treatment or follow-up care (12%), or a hospital visit (10%). About one in four people who avoided care reported that their chronic health condition worsened.

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Sensible Medicine

JULY 14, 2023

What reliably follows is a conversation with a smart, earnest, mature, and absurdly accomplished young adult. 1] I want to take physics over the summer to free up time in my schedule. ” I thought I could easily come up with something inspiring. I’ve never said no. Should I do research this summer or get a job? [1]

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Arkenea

MARCH 9, 2025

In recent years, hospital mobile app development has emerged as a critical tool in the healthcare industry, providing patients with convenient and accessible healthcare services. In this blog, we will explore the benefits, development process, hospital mobile app technology trends, challenges, and more.

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ACI Medical & Dental School

JANUARY 9, 2025

The day-to-day responsibilities of a Pediatric Medical Assistant can vary depending on the specific medical office or clinic, but typically include: Clinical Tasks: These involve taking vital signs, administering medications and vaccines, assisting with medical examinations, and performing simple laboratory tests.

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EvidenceCare

APRIL 16, 2024

This comprehensive guide provides hospital and revenue cycle leadership with vital insights on preparing for CERT audits and establishing processes for compliant documentation. Hospitals need to be aware of these state-specific rules as well. Think of your documentation as the ironclad defense for your hospital admissions.

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Health Populi

MAY 14, 2020

Top-line, IQVIA spotted the following key shifts in U.S. The top chart illustrates several health care delivery segments that COVID-19 disrupted starting January 3, 2020: research, hospital treatments, and prescription drugs. health care since the start of the coronavirus pandemic: Patients’ use of health services.

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ACI Medical & Dental School

JANUARY 14, 2025

Medical Assistants in certain settings, such as hospitals or clinics with extended hours, might work evening or weekend shifts. Extended Hours and Weekends: Settings: Hospitals, urgent care centers, and clinics with extended hours. Shift Work: Settings: Larger hospitals or 24-hour facilities.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

There’s a gap between the supply of digital health tools that hospitals and health systems offer patients, and what patients-as-consumers need for overall health and wellbeing. Key challenges to adopting digital health tools are first and foremost cost, following by interoperability and operational barriers.

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The Healthcare Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Following the surge, investment plummeted. What were left with entering into 2025 are a smorgasbord of solutions clamoring to attach themselves to traditional enterprise incumbents (Health Insurance Providers, Electronic Health Records, Hospital Systems). Those regions are ripe for follow-on expansion and digital scale.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

JANUARY 9, 2025

On January 8, 2025, a federal grand jury in Virginia returned an indictment against a hospital. Hospitals are almost never criminally charged, as federal investigations into hospitals are nearly always civil proceedings under the False Claims Act. So how did a Virginia hospital find itself criminally charged?

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We Care Online

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Improved Patient Engagement Platforms such as patient portals and mobile apps enable patients to actively participate in their healthcare by providing access to test results, appointment schedules, and health records. Healthcare providers can use digital tools to offer follow-up care, monitor patients’ progress, and check in periodically.

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