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 you’re just trying to enjoy your sandwich, but your co-worker won’t stop talking.

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Sensible Medicine

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

It’s been a few years since I first heard about the Galleri test produced by the Menlo Park startup Grail. Galleri is a blood-based screening test for cancer. For a couple of reasons, I didn’t work very hard to learn about the Galleri test. Second, I was worried that this test might have real promise.

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Sensible Medicine

JUNE 28, 2024

What there was -- courtesy of colleagues from across the country – were cases illustrating needless excess, careless follow-up, poor commitment to clinical care, and the devaluation of primary care that undermines our entire system. They also repeated all the tests that the community hospital had done.

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Sensible Medicine

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Last week I wrote about Grail’s Galleri test; a test marketed as a single blood test that screens for 50 cancers. Last week’s article outlined my pretty dim view of the test. As a nation, we have embraced mammography, colonoscopy, and PSA testing as part of routine healthcare. for Grail’s test.

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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. Thus, 38% of people would delay an elective procedure and 27% would delay a diagnostic test in a hospital setting for at least six months.

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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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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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Sensible Medicine

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

After evaluation showed no cancer beyond the nodule, he underwent surgery followed by four rounds of chemotherapy (cisplatin and etoposide). Following the chemotherapy, mediastinal lymphadenopathy was detected. Mr. Arroyo died a year after diagnosis but was grateful that the screening test had given him a chance to fight the cancer.

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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

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

MAY 22, 2023

“The Newcastle team involved in carrying out the procedures are cautious and will have wanted to include at least some follow-up data on the babies, while also protecting the privacy of the families,” Lovell-Badge explained. “This is a challenge in itself.

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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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Sensible Medicine

MAY 28, 2024

The USPSTF claims "screening interventions" decrease the prevalence of depression at six-month follow-up by an odds ratio of 0.60. This number is surprising when we consider the following: A meta-analysis of six RCTs found the benefit of SSRIs, compared to placebo, to be small and statistically insignificant at six months.

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Sensible Medicine

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Then read what follows, I hope this will make my point more clear. She goes back for a follow-up exam and there is no remaining cancer. Genetic testing -- she had a maternal aunt with breast cancer -- shows her to have a BRCA-2 mutation. People suffer from anxiety related to the test and the results.

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Health Populi

MAY 14, 2020

Top-line, IQVIA spotted the following key shifts in U.S. Patients’ visits to doctor’s offices and clinical labs for diagnostic tests dramatically declined since the start of the pandemic. Lab tests across all sites of care sharply fell since early March, with fewer office visits and, thus, fewer diagnoses.

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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 1, 2024

He acknowledges that we have little to no data that our currently accepted cancer screening tests reduce all cause mortality. ” Going further, Dr. Attia argues that our studies of screening tests do a poor job of finding the benefit of screening. There is a very small chance this test will save your life.

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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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The HIPAA Journal

OCTOBER 29, 2024

When diagnoses are reported only using enrollees’ HRAs and HRA-linked chart reviews and there are no follow-up visits, procedures, or tests, HHS-OIG is concerned that the diagnoses may be inaccurate and therefore the payments made by the CMS may be improper. HHS-OIG’s analysis of MA encounter data identified 1.7

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MedCerts

APRIL 30, 2024

It follows a structured curriculum that covers the following aspects of Microsoft Office: Word : Ideal word processing application, allowing you to prepare and edit documents easily. Completing the MOS certification program qualifies you to take up to five exams at an authorized testing center.

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Scrubs

MAY 18, 2024

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. These online services are particularly useful for managing chronic conditions or for follow-up consultations.

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Sensible Medicine

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

They spend money on test prep courses and needle their teachers into inflating grades. They were dedicated, followed directions, worked hard, were skilled at the “customer service” side of medicine, and were mature enough to know that medicine was for them.

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Sensible Medicine

JUNE 15, 2024

The medical college admission test contains many irrelevant questions that have nothing to do with being a doctor. There was a follow-up component to the biochemistry question, and it too was a logic puzzle, however, unfortunately it was incorrect. Next up… residency. I recently did some sample MCAT questions.

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Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 4, 2024

I even have a talk, “keeping up on the literature.” All had urea breath tests for Helicobacter pylori , the bacteria that causes most peptic ulcer disease and is closely associated with gastric cancer. People that tested negative were followed. Those who tested positive received either curative H.

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Valant

JULY 24, 2024

The information recorded may include symptoms, medical history, test results, diagnoses, treatment plans, prescription medications, and progress made at appointments. Plan : Further diagnostic tests and other tasks are included here, along with proposed treatment including patient education, medications, further therapy, and so on.

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Trials select their patients, test the drugs in run-in periods and use research coordinators to help patients navigate complex health systems. Actual cardiologists performed these visits, which included up-titration of meds, but, also, as Adam correctly notes, patients had MD-level assessments. But trials are best case scenarios.

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Scrubs

JUNE 16, 2023

In the aftermath of a breach, the focus frequently falls on the risk of confidential patient information being exposed, but these attacks can also leave hospitals hemorrhaging millions of dollars in the months that follow, and also cause disruptions to patient care, potentially putting lives at stake. A few hours after that 3 a.m.

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Sensible Medicine

JULY 28, 2024

In a follow up post , Adam Cifu, my friend and colleague, took me to task. ” Photo via instagram (you can follow me there). Those are the loose, plastic ones that end up in the ocean, strangling turtles and other sea creatures, after being used for armed robberies or college protests. A reduction of 3%.

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Health Populi

JULY 26, 2022

billion investment makes ONEM the third largest acquisition in Amazon’s portfolio, following Whole Foods at $13.7 For the former, Amazon leadership is talking up the company’s expertise in consumer experience and delight, efficiency and engagement (which I addressed in yesterday’s Day 1 post ).

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CareerStep

JULY 19, 2024

Transcribing laboratory data, such as the details found in a Chem 10 blood test, is a routine task for medical transcribers. She points out the importance of a strong knowledge base and up-to-date reference materials for transcriptionists to navigate these challenges effectively. sodium 142, potassium 5.3, magnesium 3.0, ( ) 4.4.

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The HIPAA Journal

MAY 2, 2024

Best HIPAA Compliance Software The best HIPAA compliance software is a comprehensive compliance solution that walks users through setting up, implementing, and maintaining HIPAA policies and procedures, tracks staff training, and ensures all appropriate safeguards are implemented to meet HIPAA Privacy and Security Rule requirements.

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2022

We met up last week at the DIA Europe 2022 meeting (Drug Information Association) in the cool SQUARE Conference Center in Brussels, Belgium (my current home base for work and life). In summing up the patient-centered interoperability goal, Ardy summarized: “We’ve created the Mint.com of health data.”

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Sensible Medicine

JULY 9, 2023

Yet, like most unexpected clinical changes in my career, I ended up learning unexpected truths. A few years before, on a routine visit, they drew a a large battery of blood tests, and recommended colonoscopy. Because this was a non-invasive test (a CT scan), he went ahead with it. One man taught me about lung cancer screening.

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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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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

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. 3 Is a CXR datum or data?

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MedCerts

JUNE 4, 2024

MyCAA Funding: What to Expect One question that’s likely to come up when planning your educational journey is how much MyCAA covers. Additionally, you can receive up to $1,000 for books and supplies for every academic year and up to $2,000 for qualifying licensing test fees.

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Health Populi

JUNE 2, 2021

What caused costs to decline in 2020 were “eliminated and deferred care,” the Milliman analysts write, which offset the direct costs of COVID-19 testing and treatment. These increases range from the highest percentage change for inpatient care, over 10%, followed by professional services (e.g.,

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