EvidenceCare

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Healthcare executives today are at the crossroads of managing rising costs, improving patient care, and navigating digital transformation. In a recent episode of The Better Care Podcast digital health and economics expert, Adam Kaufman, currently the Interim Category Lead of Products at Baylor Scott & White Health , provided valuable insights into how these challenges overlap and how healthcare leaders can strategically address them.

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Forbes Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Throughout modern medical history, Americans have underestimated or dismissed emerging health threats until the consequences became impossible to ignore.

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Scrubs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

In a bold move, Kapi‘olani Medical Center has locked out its nurses amidst a heated labor dispute. This aggressive tactic comes after the Hawaii Nurses’ Association (HNA) threatened a strike over inadequate staffing ratios and alleged unsafe working conditions. The hospital is using a legal maneuver to preemptively strike back, bringing in temporary staff to replace the locked-out nurses, signaling their readiness to maintain operations without conceding to the union’s demands.

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Few things interest my writing brain more than when a common practice gets overturned. That’s why I was drawn to Paula Span’s column in the New York Times titled, Three Medical Practices That Older Patients Should Question. One of these practices is the prescription of thickened liquids to older patients with swallowing problems. The idea goes like this: aspiration pneumonia is a common cause of death in the frail and elderly.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

How resilient and redundant systems keep health data flowing during a crisis (like cyber-attacks).

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Performance Health

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Fostering a culture of psychological safety in healthcare settings is imperative, yet it’s often overlooked as part of an organization’s efforts to support the mental health of its employees. Often, employers fail to fully grasp what psychological safety truly means or to recognize its role in mental health and achieving organizational objectives.

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Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The nursing field is expansive, with opportunities to work in various settings, including hospitals, clinics, elementary and high schools, colleges/universities, etc. Nurses can work in many settings, and there are numerous opportunities to advance their careers through degree advancement. One option that many nurses pursue is a Master of Science (MSN) in nursing.

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Medical Economics

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Countering apathy with encouragement, and a message for primary care and all physicians from the founder of the advocacy group Vot-ER.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Learn how mentorship drives success in healthcare. Dr. Theo Koury shares his personal journey and insights.

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Medical Economics

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

How pharmacist-led medication support could ease physician burden and unlock patient outcomes to drive value-based care performance

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Continuing our list of essential actions for Connect Care Launch 9 prescribers readying for launch November 2, 2024. Get Ready for Mobility and Speech Recognition Connect Care mobile apps (Haiku, Limerick and Canto) allow access to the patient chart on personal devices anywhere there is Internet access. Dragon Medical One transforms Android or Apple smartphones into transcription devices for dictation directly into the medical record.

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Medical Economics

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Which physicians spend the most time inputting patient data into electronic health records?

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Physicians Practice

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Your weekly dose of wisdom from the Physicians Practice experts.

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Medical Economics

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Two studies show the negative health effects of food insecurity on obesity and hospital visits – and how physicians can make a difference

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Science Based Medicine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The Florida Department of Health, run by Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo, just released guidance on COVID-19 vaccines based on antivax tropes. Is the federal government next? The post Dr. Joseph Ladapo’s assault on public health in Florida: Will it be coming to the federal government next year? first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

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Medical Economics

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The top news stories in medicine today.

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