Legal Eye on Medical Assisting

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

I recently received the following question from an Indiana medical assistant: I am looking into getting my surgical technologist degree, but I am wondering if I can use my medical assisting degree in the [operating room]. I don’t know… Continue reading Indiana Medical Assistants as Surgical Technologists

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Forbes Healthcare

APRIL 15, 2024

More than 40% of American adults have medical debt. It’s tempting to provide medical debt relief. Has medical debt relief actually helped individuals who received it?

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Legal Eye on Medical Assisting

AUGUST 14, 2024

I recently received the following email: I have moved to Georgia, and I am encountering medical assistants being called nurses at almost all levels in this clinic. Medical assistants refer to themselves as nurses. The providers state, “My nurse will be back in to speak with you.”

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Forbes Healthcare

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

CMS’s debt relief approach, devoid of accountability to taxpayers and riddled with harmful incentives, will worsen medical debt. It’s time to focus on fixing root causes.

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Legal Eye on Medical Assisting

MARCH 6, 2024

A medical assistant recently sent me the following email: I was curious about my scope of practice under the law of my state and went to your “State Scope of Practice Laws” webpage. I could not find anything in my state’s section that mentioned “medical assistants.”

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Forbes Healthcare

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Medical students should consider how AI could change the work physicians do (and get paid for) when choosing specialties.

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Forbes Healthcare

MARCH 18, 2025

DispatchHealth and Medically Home - startups that work with health systems to provide hospital-level care at home have agreed to merge.

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Health Prime

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Reasons why medical practices should support Movember Men’s health issues often don’t receive the attention they deserve. Therefore, medical practices can act as subject matter experts in raising awareness about these issues. The post Why medical practices should support Movember appeared first on Health Prime.

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We Care Online

DECEMBER 11, 2024

As a Medication Aide, you play a crucial role in ensuring that residents and patients receive the right medications safely and effectively. Staying up-to-date with the latest practices, regulations, and medication management techniques is essential to providing the highest quality of care.

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Sensible Medicine

MAY 15, 2024

The best people who go to medical school are better than the students I trained with (circa 2005-09). There are so many things students are not learning instead — like how to read a paper or how to take care of heart failure (well). Your answer cannot be to walk out.

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Forbes Healthcare

JULY 15, 2024

medical schools now offer AI coursework. Look closer and you’ll find that none of it will prepare future physicians to improve medical care and save lives.

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Forbes Healthcare

MARCH 28, 2024

Who do you sue if the medical AI makes a mistake?

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Forbes Healthcare

JUNE 23, 2024

Also, medications which have surprising risks during excess heat. Tips on surviving the brutal heat waves and staying hydrated. Learn what to watch for to stay safe!

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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 12, 2024

The first is from Nihar Rama, a medical student at the University of Chicago. I still remember the email notifying me I was accepted to medical school. Several years later, now deep into my medical education, I often reflect on my path. This feeling is not unique to medical trainees.

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Forbes Healthcare

MARCH 28, 2024

When an individual files a medical insurance claim, they expect swift processing, approval, and treatment from the stakeholders involved.

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Unitek College

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Medical Assistants play a crucial role in the healthcare industry. They act as the backbone of medical practices and ensure that both clinical and administrative tasks are executed seamlessly. To excel […] The post 15 Key Medical Assistant Skills appeared first on Unitek College.

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Forbes Healthcare

OCTOBER 22, 2024

In medical offices, there’s a real anachronism that illustrates what we can modernize with LLMs.

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Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 27, 2024

We’ve had a number of articles on Sensible Medicine about medical education. It is probably not surprising as many of our writers and readers have had personal experience with medical education and/or work with trainees everyday. While transparency is good, it leads to gaming the system by medical schools and students.

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Forbes Healthcare

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Amazon One Medical, the provider of physician-staffed clinics and virtual care is partnering with the Cleveland Clinic and its specialized network of medical providers.

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Unitek College

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Explore the essential role of Medical Assistants through opportunities, challenges, and future trends. As the healthcare landscape continues to evolve, the role of Medical Assistants (MAs) is expanding and adapting to meet new demands and challenges. The digital age has brought us countless innovations in technology.

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Forbes Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Under EMTALA, emergency rooms are required to medically screen and stabilize all patients. Some patients withhold their identity to avoid the medical bills.

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Forbes Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The Dictionary.com Summer Word Drop of new words added to the online dictionary included 3 brain-related medical and 5 climate change and warm weather-related terms.

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Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 19, 2024

This winter I showed the seminal trials comparing coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) vs medical therapy. The main hypothesis was that CABG would outperform medical therapy in patients with severe coronary disease and impaired ventricular function. We now had disease-modifying medications. These were done in the 1970s and 80s.

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Forbes Healthcare

DECEMBER 13, 2024

He first turns to his pocket handbook, the Washington Manual of Medical Therapeutics. Imagine a 1950s doctor treating a patient with a perplexing constellation of symptoms. Next, he consults Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, the lengthy reference text he keeps in his office.

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 11, 2025

Cyberattacks and data breaches have been announced by Sunflower Medical Group, The Center for Digestive Health, NVW Newco, Endless Mountains Health Systems, and the Department of Veterans Affairs Eastern Colorado Health Care System. It is currently unclear which hacking group is behind the attack, and if patient data was compromised.

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CollaborateMD

DECEMBER 6, 2024

If medical claims management is such a vital part of the healthcare ecosystem, why is it so frustrating? Don’t worry; we’ll also recommend actionable strategies for quick wins and long-term solutions, improving medical claims processing for better results and happier staff. It’s also a big part of accounts receivable.

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Sensible Medicine

JULY 22, 2024

I call it therapeutic fashion. Practice patterns. Ways of doing things. Examples: patients with new heart failure get coronary angiography; patients with chest pain without evidence of heart attack get stress tests; certain drugs and devices become favored over generics.

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Medical Terminology Blog

JANUARY 21, 2025

Medical TerminologyQuiz on the Urinary System Urinary System The urinary system comprisestwo kidneys , which remove waste from the blood; the bladder , a muscular sac used to store urine; and two ureters and urethra , tubes for urine drainage from the body to the outside. Like this post? Share it with your friends, or leave a comment!

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Health Prime

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In this stage of the medical billing process, your front-end staff ensures proper collection and recording of valuable data essential to provide proper services to the patient and ensure their coverage. However, errors in this data are common and have consequences for your practice. Main issues in the check-in process 1.

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Forbes Healthcare

APRIL 27, 2024

With Baby Boomers aging and nursing home care costs climbing, obscure old sleeper laws could come back to haunt the children of seniors who can’t pay for their own care.

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Sensible Medicine

OCTOBER 20, 2024

In a world where doctors are increasingly treated like cogs in a machine, the question arises: Would you recommend your son or daughter pursue the field? Recently, I saw this poll: I said ‘unsure’, but that is just a fragment of what I think. Here is my answer (leave yours in the comments). My answer is: it depends on who is asking.

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 26, 2025

Sunflower Medical Group is facing a class action lawsuit over its recently disclosed data breach involving the protected health information of almost 221,000 current and former patients. Sunflower Medical Group is a private multi-specialty medical practice with four locations in Kansas. Sunflower Medical Group, P.A. ,

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Forbes Healthcare

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

healthcare provider Community Health Center has confirmed the breach of 1 million patient records. Heres what you need to know.

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The Healthcare Blog

MARCH 17, 2025

This often-overlooked connection between routine medical care and opioid dependence demands urgent attention. How Physicians and Hospitals Sustain the Opioid Epidemic For decades, the pharmaceutical industry has shaped medical education, ingraining the belief that opioids are the best first-line treatment for acute pain.

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Forbes Healthcare

DECEMBER 19, 2024

From reprogrammed stem cells to next-generation gene editing, 2024 has seen some incredible developments with the potential to become new treatments.

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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 11, 2025

Share In his recent book, " Blind Spots ," Dr. Marty Makary details several instances in which the medical establishment has clung to medical dogma, to the detriment of patients’ health. One chapter examines the medicalization of childbirth, including the overuse of C-sections. This post is public so feel free to share it.

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Sensible Medicine

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Last week the FDA approved a novel non-opioid pain medication. Second, a new pain medication would serve a huge unmet need, because many people begin opioid addition from a post-op opioid. “The second and third authors and the medical writers were employed by the sponsor, and medical illustrators who were paid by the sponsor.”

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