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| 15.05.2024 | News | Medical residents are increasingly avoiding states with abortion restrictions | Since the Supreme Court in 2022 overturned the constitutional right to an abortion, state fights over abortion access have created plenty of uncertainty for pregnant patients and their doctors. But that uncertainty has also bled into the wo... |
| 09.05.2024 | CWRU encampment rallies in support of Rafah | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
On the 10th consecutive day of a pro-Palestinian encampment at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), more than 200 students, faculty and community members rallied in support of Palestinians in Rafah... |
| 09.05.2024 | HEALTHCARE RECORDS MANAGED BY BUSINESS ASSOCIATES SHOW SIGNIFICANT RISK TO BOTH HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS AND PATIENT CARE | This latest cyber attack on Change Healthcare could be the largest in U.S. history, already costing them millions of dollars, but costing their customers much more...their personal information being leaked on the Dark Web. Advizex, a leadin... |
| 07.05.2024 | How AI Is Bringing Patient Experience Back to the Forefront for the Medical Community | Michael Zacharski, CEO of Brand Engagement Network (BEN)
When it comes to the patient experience, time isn’t on our side. U.S. adults spend the equivalent of an entire workday each month coordinating care for themselves and/or their family,... |
| 03.05.2024 | New Tech Uses AI to Detect Artery Blockages, Prevent Heart Attacks | Aldohn Domingo, Tech Times 03 May 2024, 01:05 am
A new artificial intelligence-powered cardiac procedure is reportedly being utilized by Florida-based AdventHealth Zephyrhills.
The new procedure, CathWorks, leverages AI to detect artery blo... |
| 01.05.2024 | Florida's 6-week abortion ban takes effect, draws doctors' criticism | - |
| 30.04.2024 | New brief from The Fenway Institute describes the science behind gender-affirming care for transgender and gender diverse youth | Fenway Health advocates for and delivers innovative, equitable, accessible health care, supportive services, and transformative research and education.
This new publication introduces the basics of Gender Affirming Care for TGD youth. It ou... |
| 26.04.2024 | Menthol cigarette ban delayed due to "immense" feedback, Biden administration says | The Biden administration said Friday it would again delay a decision on a regulation aiming to ban menthol-flavored cigarettes, citing the "historic attention" and "immense amount of feedback" on the controversial propos... |
| 26.04.2024 | Health | He thinks his wife died in an understaffed hospital. Now he’s trying to change the industry | Kate Wells, Michigan Public | (TNS) KFF Health News
For the past year, police Detective Tim Lillard has spent most of his waking hours unofficially investigating his wife’s death.
The question has never been exactly how Ann Picha-Lillard di... |
| 24.04.2024 | How the FTC's noncompete ban will impact health care | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
The Federal Trade Commission's Tuesday vote to ban noncompete agreements could be a big deal for health care professionals.
Why it matters: Sizable shares of doctors and nurses face tight employer res... |
| 24.04.2024 | New ban on noncompetes could have big impact on health care | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
The Federal Trade Commission's vote on Tuesday to ban noncompete agreements could be a big deal for the health care workforce.
Why it matters: While the agreements are often thought of as a concern fo... |
| 24.04.2024 | 5 things workers should know about the new federal ban on noncompete agreements | Employment prospects just got brighter for the estimated 30 million U.S. workers who are currently bound by so-called noncompete agreements. U.S. regulators on Tuesday banned nearly all noncompetes, which restrict about 1 in 5 employees aro... |
| 23.04.2024 | Supreme Court weighs in on when doctors can provide emergency abortions in states with strict bans | - |
| 23.04.2024 | Medixine and Nonin Medical partner to co-develop remote digital monitoring services for more patient-centric diagnosis of chronic conditions | Medixine and Nonin Medical partner to co-develop remote digital monitoring services for more patient-centric diagnosis of chronic conditions
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| 19.04.2024 | Health | States want to make it harder for health insurers to deny care, but firms might evade enforcement | Shalina Chatlani | (TNS) Stateline.org
For decades, Amina Tollin struggled with mysterious, debilitating pain that radiated throughout her body. A few years ago, when a doctor finally diagnosed her with polyneuropathy, a chronic nerve condi... |
| 18.04.2024 | Oregon physician associates ditch "assistant" tag | Physician assistants in Oregon have won the right to rebrand themselves as physician associates and will start using the titles on their licenses starting in June.
Why it matters: PAs are growing in prominence in the health care system amid... |
| 18.04.2024 | HealthPrevent360: An Innovative Approach to Prevention Launches in Washington Heights, Bronx with HDR Healthcare clinics | Dr. Jimenez, founder of HealthPrevent360, Bronx native, Board-Certified in Public Health and Prevention, is on a mission to transform preventive care!
Audubon Primary Care Clinic located in 325 Audubon Ave, Washington Heights NY.
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| 18.04.2024 | HealthPrevent360: An Innovative Approach to Prevention Launches in Washington Heights, Bronx with HDR Healthcare clinics | Dr. Jimenez, founder of HealthPrevent360, Bronx native, Board-Certified in Public Health and Prevention, is on a mission to transform preventive care!
HDR Healthcare Clinics Implement HealthPrevent360, Enhancing Preventive Care with Advance... |
| 17.04.2024 | Taking Action: Become a Health Equity Leader | In a 1955 speech, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously declared that of all forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most “shocking and inhumane.” Yet racial and ethnic health inequities remain pervasive across all state health system... |
| 12.04.2024 | Health | More patients are losing their doctors — and trust in the primary care system | Lynn Arditi, The Public’s Radio | (TNS) KFF Health News
First, her favorite doctor in Providence, Rhode Island, retired. Then her other doctor at a health center a few miles away left the practice. Now, Piedad Fred has developed a new chron... |
| 12.04.2024 | Kansas governor vetoes ban on gender-affirming care for minors, anti-abortion bills | Kansas' governor on Friday vetoed a proposed ban on gender-affirming care for minors, a measure to require more reporting from abortion providers and what she called a "vague" bill making it a crime to coerce someone into having a... |
| 11.04.2024 | Is Universal Healthcare A Solution to U.S. Healthcare Disparities? The Binaytara Foundation Hosts a Debate on this Crucial Topic with Global Leaders | Binaytara Foundation
The debate will take place April 28 at The Summit on Cancer Health Disparities, one of the largest gatherings of cancer care professionals interested in cancer health disparities and achieving health equity
BELLEVUE, Wa... |
| 10.04.2024 | Wyden looks to spur doctor pay overhaul | Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden is seeking to "jumpstart" a discussion of ways to update Medicare doctor fees — and put an end to the yearly ritual of doctors pressing Congress to avert scheduled pay cuts.
Why it matters:... |
| 10.04.2024 | Physician Practices Struggle After Change Healthcare Cyberattack: Unpaid Claims, Staff Strain, and Potential Closures | What You Should Know:
– A recent American Medical Association (AMA) survey reveals the ongoing crippling effects of the Change Healthcare cyberattack on physician practices across the United States.
– The survey was conducted after UnitedHe... |
| 06.04.2024 | The 6 supplements a personal trainer and former bodybuilder takes daily to grow muscle and stay in shape | Health The 6 supplements a personal trainer and former bodybuilder takes daily to grow muscle and stay in shape
Rachel Hosie
2024-04-06T09:37:01Z
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| 01.04.2024 | Should you take supplements? A scientist who researches whether they work explains 3 people who might benefit. | Health Should you take supplements? A scientist who researches whether they work explains 3 people who might benefit.
Kim Schewitz
2024-04-01T11:56:01Z
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| 31.03.2024 | DrugGPT: Oxford's New AI Revolutionizing Medication Prescriptions | Quincy Jon, Tech Times 31 March 2024, 01:03 pm
Oxford University created DrugGPT, an AI tool to solve pharmaceutical prescription issues. By giving quick second views on prescribed drugs and comprehensive information to help patients better... |
| 28.03.2024 | The ‘Holy Grail’ of Coding Automation: Why Inpatient AI is Around The Corner | Andrew Lockhart, CEO, Fathom
Autonomous inpatient coding. This may sound like a pipe dream for revenue cycle leaders, whose hopes were likely raised and crushed in the early aughts. But it’s coming sooner than most think.
Why is true inpati... |
| 26.03.2024 | Starts April 7: A 6 Week Scientific Spiritual Journey to the Center of Consciousness that Transforms Fear & Anger into Limitless, Positive Creative Power | Leonard Perlmutter (Ram Lev) Foundation Course developer and teacher
The trusted guide to countless students seeking the highest spiritual truth, Leonard Perlmutter (Ram Lev), a living link in the world's oldest health and wisdom tradition ... |
| 25.03.2024 | Healthcare Professionals Convene on Who to Blame for AI-Assisted Doctor Malpractices | Aldohn Domingo, Tech Times 25 March 2024, 01:03 am
Liability protection from healthcare malpractices caused by artificial intelligence (AI) is reportedly doctors' latest bid to Congress, as per the American Medical Association.
During a rec... |
| 22.03.2024 | Kokua Line: What’s going on at Kapiolani Park? | Mahalo for supporting Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Enjoy this free story!
Question: Our apartment overlooks Kapiolani Park and we walk there often. Something obviously major is going on, and I think the public should be informed what it is. Re... |
| 18.03.2024 | Docs and DME lose last chance for payment fixes | The absence of health policy riders in the next congressional funding package means some provider groups will likely go without relief until after the election, at earliest.
Why it matters: The minibus was the logical vehicle for additional... |
| 15.03.2024 | Medical school graduates are returning to ERs | Data: The National Resident Matching Program; Chart: Axios Visuals
New doctors' interest in emergency medicine is rebounding after the field became the embodiment of professional burnout during the pandemic.
But the percentage of filled res... |
| 14.03.2024 | Nuance DAX Copilot Enhances WellSpan Health’s Patient Experience | DAX Copilot embedded in Epic builds on WellSpan’s successful DAX deployment, using generative AI to automatically draft clinical notes so patients have their physician’s undivided attention during exam room and virtual visits
Nuance Communi... |
| 13.03.2024 | Children's Hospital Los Angeles partners with AI assistant Nabla | Nabla and CHLA worked together to tailor the solution for a pediatric hospital setting
Despite the pandemic receding, burnout among physicians is still very high, with half of practicing physicians reporting feeling burned out in 2023. This... |
| 13.03.2024 | San Diego Plastic Surgeon Recognized in Castle Connolly’s Top Doctors® List for 20th Consecutive Year | Dr. Scott Miller was named a “Top Doctor 2024” by Castle Connolly, a physician-led research group that identifies high-quality medical providers in La Jolla. LA JOLLA, CA, USA, March 13, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- When it comes to any plast... |
| 12.03.2024 | Readout of Biden-Harris Administration Convening with Health Care Community Concerning Cyberattack on Change Healthcare | Leaders from HHS, White House, DOL, and the health care community convened to discuss ways to mitigate harms to patient and providers caused by the cyberattack.
On Tuesday, March 12, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Se... |
| 12.03.2024 | Health care providers may be losing up to $100 million a day from cyberattack. A doctor shares the latest | Last month's suspected ransomware attack on a major health technology company has sent the health care system reeling — costing providers an estimated $100 million daily as payment disruptions continue, according to an estimate from First H... |
| 09.03.2024 | "Spring forward" Sunday with daylight saving time change | The semiannual changing of the clocks takes place this Sunday when most of the country will "spring forward" into daylight saving time.
Why it matters: The political fight to end the twice-yearly time changes isn't over despite st... |
| 09.03.2024 | As the Change Healthcare outage drags on, fears grow that patient data could spill online | A cyberattack at U.S. health tech giant Change Healthcare has ground much of the U.S. healthcare system to a halt for the second week in a row.
Hospitals have been unable to check insurance benefits of in-patient stays, handle the prior aut... |
| 09.03.2024 | Healthcare Cyberattack Affects Claims Submission and Payment | FEB 28, 2024
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Read the Academy's March 4 Letter to HHS Secretary Becerra (PDF) The Academy has provided information to help you respond to the Feb. 21 cyberattack on UnitedHealth Group, Optum, and Change Healthc... |
| 08.03.2024 | Editorials | Editorial: Expanding access to reproductive health care medications is vital | Two important new avenues have opened up for women to access the reproductive health care medications they need and deserve. Several high-profile retailers merit commendation for their contributing role. Their involvement is an example of c... |
| 07.03.2024 | Answering 7 Key Questions About Change Healthcare’s Cyberattack | It’s been more than two weeks since Change Healthcare discovered it was hit by a cyberattack.
The aftermath remains messy — patients across the country continue to struggle to obtain their prescriptions, as many of the systems that provider... |
| 04.03.2024 | Health | Health care workers push for their own confidential mental health treatment | Katheryn Houghton | KFF Health News (TNS)
States are redefining when medical professionals can get mental health treatment without risking notifying the boards that regulate their licenses.
Too often, health care workers wait to seek counse... |
| 29.02.2024 | 11 mistakes you're making before you go to bed | Health 11 mistakes you're making before you go to bed
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2024-02-29T18:28:35Z
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| 21.02.2024 | US Doctors Struggle to Cope With Burnout, Some Believe AI Is Potential Solution | Joseph Henry, Tech Times 21 February 2024, 09:02 am
Physicians across the United States are facing significant challenges, including burnout, staffing shortages, and excessive administrative tasks. However, a recent survey suggests that art... |
| 16.02.2024 | Health | States target health insurers’ ‘prior authorization’ red tape | By Bram Sable-Smith, KFF Health News
Christopher Marks noticed an immediate improvement when his doctor prescribed him the Type 2 diabetes medication Mounjaro last year. The 40-year-old truck driver from Kansas City, Missouri, said his aver... |
| 06.02.2024 | What Primary Care’s “Barnes & Noble Moment” Means for the Future of Digital Health | Impossibly, it’s already been 25 years since Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks fell in love to the soundtrack of dial-up internet in the movie You’ve Got Mail. At the time, independent bookstores (“Shop Around the Corner” in the film) were under threa... |
| 01.02.2024 | Cohere Health Snags $50M to Speed Up Prior Authorization | The relationship between payers and providers has been historically contentious, with prior authorization being one of the biggest pain points. The process remains a heavily manual and costly burden for both physicians and health plans — an... |
| 01.02.2024 | FDA says 561 deaths tied to recalled Philips sleep apnea machines | The Food and Drug Administration says 561 deaths have been reported in connection to recalled Philips devices to treat obstructive sleep apnea and other breathing disorders.
The FDA said that since April 2021 it has received more than 116,0... |
| 25.01.2024 | Health2047-Backed HEAL Security Emerges from Stealth with $4.6M | What You Should Know:
– Health2047, the American Medical Association’s venture studio dedicated to healthcare innovation, announced its investment in and launch from stealth of HEAL Security, a cognitive cybersecurity platform built specifi... |
| 25.01.2024 | Other states should follow New Jersey’s lead on prior authorization reform | Imagine this scene: You are a cancer patient already navigating fear and uncertainty around your treatment, when you inexplicably cannot access the care recommended by your cancer doctor. This turns out to be because of a perverse hurdle im... |
| 20.01.2024 | Counteract Primary Care Clinician Burnout Through Psychiatric Collaborative Care | Burnout is quickly becoming a health crisis for providers and patients, according to the American Medical Association. A Mayo Clinic study highlighted alarming trends in physician burnout: 62% of physicians had at least one symptom of burno... |
| 18.01.2024 | Ohio Senate vote marks latest battle over transgender rights | Ohio transgender rights advocates are gearing up for a final legislative fight next week — but it's not the only challenge they are facing in the state.
Why it matters: House Bill 68 would keep minors from receiving gender-affirming care, r... |
| 17.01.2024 | The decline and fall of elite multispecialty medical groups | The failure of Geisinger Health System, which lost $842 million in 2022 and disappeared into a new Kaiser subsidiary called Risant, sent shockwaves through the health care community in the spring of 2023. Founded in 1919, Geisinger was in t... |
| 16.01.2024 | Arkansas' gender dysphoria diagnoses rise | Data: Definitive Healthcare; Chart: Axios Visuals
Gender dysphoria diagnoses in Arkansas jumped 42% from 2018 to 2022, Axios' Alex Fitzpatrick and Kavya Beheraj report from a new Definitive Healthcare analysis.
The big picture: Such diagnos... |
| 12.01.2024 | Nabla CEO Alex Lebrun on the company's new funding round and its future | The company recently raised $24 million, bringing it total funding to $43 million
In 2022, 46% of health workers reported feeling burned out often or very often, up from 32% in 2018. A a result, 42% of clinicians are actively considering le... |
| 11.01.2024 | Gender dysphoria diagnoses are rising nationwide | banning gender-affirming care for minors">Reproduced from Definitive Healthcare; Note: Court injunctions in Arkansas, Florida and Indiana are ensuring continued access to care; Map: Axios Visuals
What's happening: It appears that yo... |
| 11.01.2024 | Ohio House overrides DeWine on trans rights bill | Republicans in the Ohio House of Representatives voted Wednesday to override a governor's veto and enact a bill curtailing transgender rights.
Why it matters: The Senate is expected to also vote to override, meaning minors will be prohibite... |
| 08.01.2024 | Will We Close the Medicare Advantage Primary Care Gap in 2024? | The landscape of value-based healthcare in the United States is constantly evolving with Medicare Advantage (MA) playing an increasingly significant role. However, an alarming trend is emerging as greater number of MA members have become co... |
| 05.01.2024 | Health | Cancer patients face frightening delays in treatment approvals | Lauren Sausser | (TNS) KFF Health News
Marine Corps veteran Ron Winters clearly recalls his doctor’s sobering assessment of his bladder cancer diagnosis in August 2022.
“This is bad,” the 66-year-old Durant, Oklahoma, resident remembered hi... |
| 04.01.2024 | Dexios chooses Maverick Medical AI as its AI Medical Coding Solution | Jessel Renolayan, Tech Times 04 January 2024, 09:01 pm
Related Article New Pearson Research Shows Generative AI Will Have Greater Impact on White Collar Jobs Than Blue Collar Jobs in Next 10 Years Maverick Medical AI Partners with RadNet to... |
| 04.01.2024 | Getting hot new weight-loss drugs like Wegovy will still be a struggle in 2024 | Healthcare Getting hot new weight-loss drugs like Wegovy will still be a struggle in 2024
Shelby Livingston
2024-01-04T13:55:01Z
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| 27.12.2023 | BMI is a junk health metric — but there are alternatives that actually work | Health BMI is a junk health metric — but there are alternatives that actually work
Hilary Brueck
2023-12-27T10:00:01Z
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| 21.12.2023 | Why We Cannot Wait Any Longer: The Urgent Case for AI in Healthcare | Charles Aunger, Managing Director, Technology | Health2047
In Handel Jones’ literary alarm, “When AI Rules the World,” we are drawn to envision an age where AI doesn’t merely complement but dominates every strand of our societal fabric. One... |
| 15.12.2023 | AMA Survey Explores Physician Sentiments on AI in Healthcare | What You Should Know:
– Physicians are cautiously optimistic about artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare, according to a new survey by the American Medical Association (AMA). While 41% are equally excited and concerned about its potent... |
| 01.12.2023 | 4 Ways AI Is Enhancing The Patient Experience in 2024 | Jeff Carmichael, Senior Vice President at XiFin
Artificial intelligence (AI) captured the imagination of many in 2023. AI gets a lot of attention but little understanding or appreciation of what it can do to move revenue cycle management (R... |
| 01.12.2023 | How to Improve Coding Quality to Prevent Denials, Reduce Payer Takebacks, and Improve Cash Flow | Quality coding is essential for a healthy revenue stream. Superior coding can reduce denials, improve cash flow, facilitate faster and more accurate reimbursement, and decrease “takebacks” and penalties. It is estimated that 42% of denials ... |
| 27.11.2023 | Health | The ‘doctor of nursing practice’ will see you now | Anna Claire Vollers | (TNS) Stateline.org
When Vernon Langford sees patients, he typically wears a white lab coat with his title — “Dr.” — and his credentials as a nurse practitioner stitched on the front.
“My credentials are on any jackets... |
| 13.11.2023 | AI Empowers Healthcare: Streamlined Data, Supported Workers, Enhanced Patient Experiences | Rick Bryant, Healthcare CTO, Veritas Technologies
The healthcare industry is known for holding on to data – and for good reason. With valuable insights and patterns to be derived from patient information, more is more. Where healthcare IT d... |
| 13.11.2023 | Using Generative AI to Streamline Clinician Workflow and Reduce Burnout | Dr. Ravindra Patil, Sr. Director of Data Science at Tredence
Clinician stress rose significantly during the pandemic but has remained high even as COVID-19-related patient volumes and illness severity have subsided. In 2021, 62.8% of U.S. p... |
| 02.11.2023 | Let’s leverage graduate medical education to increase Medicaid re-enrollment | Lately, we’ve seen two distinct lines at our hospitals. We would all be healthier if we brought the two lines together.
The first line forms every morning before the building opens. Mothers, children, and the disabled clutch passels of docu... |
| 31.10.2023 | New CDC campaign asks health care leaders to take responsibility for reducing burnout | Often, workplace conversations about burnout put the onus on the individual to take care of their mental health while ignoring management’s role in solving the problem. A new anti-burnout campaign from the Centers for Disease Control and Pr... |
| 27.10.2023 | Excited delirium: a deadly term finally laid to rest | George Floyd. Angelo Quinto. Elijah McClain.
All three men were killed by lethal force inflicted by the police, and all three deaths were initially blamed on something called “excited delirium.” For years, law enforcement officers and other... |
| 23.10.2023 | Accelerating Financial Recovery Through Value-Based Care | Cofounder & CEO of PointClickCare, a leading healthcare technology platform enabling meaningful collaboration across the care continuum. |
| 18.10.2023 | Gavin Newsom Could Declare Climate Change A Public Health Emergency | SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 14: California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks to union workers and ... [+] volunteers on election day at the IBEW Local 6 union hall on September 14, 2021 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Justin Sulliv... |
| 12.10.2023 | Digital health tech is about making healthcare more humane | Telehealth and online pharmacies, generative AI for patient records, and supportive games
Whether it’s skipping the line at your pharmacy, getting 24/7 access to virtual support, recapping what the doctor said during a visit, or scoring gam... |
| 05.10.2023 | As its workers strike, Kaiser Permanente strikes a deal for physicians to use an AI copilot from Nabla | Yesterday, 75,000 workers at healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente embarked on a three-day strike to protest understaffing, burnout and low wages — setting a record for the biggest healthcare strike to date in U.S. history. But timing is every... |
| 05.10.2023 | Atalan Tech Raises $2.5 Million to Predict and Prevent Clinician Burnout via Ai | Quincy Jon, Tech Times 05 October 2023, 03:10 pm
(Photo : KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP via Getty Images) A doctor, wearing a white mask and lab coat, lays on the ground holding signs as several physicians stage suicides during an action to denoun... |
| 03.10.2023 | Politics | Abortion rights activists in Colorado look to state constitution to secure access | Colorado abortion-rights advocates so far have succeeded in their efforts to ban a controversial experimental abortion reversal treatment, and now they’re looking ahead to next year’s ballot to further protect the right to an abortion in th... |
| 28.09.2023 | Sentara Expands Deployment of Regard’s AI Copilot Across Enterprise | What You Should Know:
– Sentara Health, one of the largest health systems in the mid-Atlantic and southeast expands its partnership with Regard, an AI-powered copilot that helps clinicians diagnose medical conditions.
– The expansion will p... |
| 08.09.2023 | Addressing The Impacts Of Hospital Mergers | CEO, Atlas Surgical Group, one of the largest private ASC groups in the U.S., Author of "Success in Ambulatory Surgery Centers." |
| 01.09.2023 | A new paper suggests a simple fix to the primary care physician shortage | The U.S. is running low on primary care physicians, with an estimated shortage of between 17,800 and 48,000 predicted by 2034. The dearth of doctors in this area has broad ramifications, ranging from more patients seeking care from specialt... |
| 31.08.2023 | A big insurer decides to cover naloxone for overdose; will others follow? | At long last, naloxone is available over the counter.
But now comes a moment of truth for the overdose-reversal medication: Will increased access help to save lives? And more immediately, can everyone who wants to buy naloxone at a pharmacy... |
| 30.08.2023 | Female surgeons have lower rates of long-term adverse outcomes than their male peers, study finds | A new study published Wednesday in JAMA Surgery suggests that patients treated by female surgeons have lower rates of adverse postoperative long-term outcomes including death compared to similar patients treated by male surgeons. Long-term ... |
| 17.08.2023 | VBC: Improving Healthcare Outcomes With A Strong Payer-Provider Relationship | Jonathan Malek, SVP and General Manager, Provider Business, Veradigm
The last few years have emphasized the need for high-quality healthcare for patients that is accessible and affordable for all. There is tension between stakeholders in th... |
| 09.08.2023 | Doctors all over the US are suffering from burnout — and AI could provide a simple solution | AI could offer the administrative support many doctors need. AleksandarNakic/Getty Images
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| 08.08.2023 | With a virtual care platform, MedSys provides remote patient monitoring for chronic care and more | Facebook
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You may not have heard of MedSys Health – yet. That’s because since 2019, founder Safaquat Khan and his team have been quietly building the South Florida healthtech startup that is on a mi... |
| 03.08.2023 | Rush Launches Program to Scale RPM for Chronic Conditions Management | Providers’ adoption of remote patient monitoring (RPM) technology has accelerated since the pandemic began, driven in part by improved reimbursement rates. Still, many health systems are still figuring out how to deploy these tools at scale... |
| 27.07.2023 | GoodRx Launches Solution To Help Consumers Manage Their Prescriptions | GoodRx’s Medicine Cabinet solution reminds users to take their medications and refill their prescriptions.
Prescription discount company GoodRx unveiled a new solution Thursday called Medicine Cabinet, which will help consumers manage their... |
| 27.07.2023 | Travel time for gender-affirming care sees eightfold increase in Utah | Data: JAMA; Note: Includes U.S. transgender teens ages 13-17; Chart: Tory Lysik/Axios Visuals
State bans on gender-affirming care for youths have left more than a quarter of kids under age 18 with such services at least a 4-hour drive away,... |
| 26.07.2023 | Travel time for gender-affirming care doubles in states with bans | Data: JAMA; Note: Includes U.S. transgender teens ages 13-17; Chart: Tory Lysik/Axios Visuals
State bans on gender-affirming care for youths have left more than a quarter of kids under 18 in need of such services at least a four-hour drive ... |
| 25.07.2023 | The AMA’s new president on medicine’s ‘AI era’ and the uncertain future of telehealth | Much has been made of Jesse Ehrenfeld’s career of firsts. The current president of the American Medical Association, inaugurated in June, has long advocated for safe and equitable care for sexual and gender minorities, leading to an inaugur... |
| 24.07.2023 | The Rise Of The $2 Million Health Insurance Claim | Mehb is Chief Actuary at BCS Financial, and a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries. |
| 19.07.2023 | A Texas town is trying to solve the US physician shortage with 'homegrown' clinicians — a possible answer to the primary-care drought plaguing 100 million Americans | Fernanda Acosta of Clint Early College Academy receives her white coat as part of the University of Texas at El Paso and the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso's MedFuture program. TTUHSC El Paso
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| 14.07.2023 | Medicare doc pay to fall while hospital outpatient departments will rise | Hospital outpatient departments are in line for a Medicare rate increase next year, while program payments for physicians could decline.
Driving the news: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Thursday proposed increasing paymen... |
| 12.07.2023 | Ending racial health disparities hinges on penalties, political will, experts say | The nation’s widespread racial health disparities won’t be erased without changes to how health care systems are funded and accredited, more public and financial accountability for poor patient outcomes, and more work to overturn the income... |
| 02.07.2023 | Hospitals and Health Systems Realize Growth Advantage of a Specialty Pharmacy Partnership | Over the last few years, more hospitals and health systems across the country are realizing the advantage of working with a partner focused on accelerating the growth of their specialty pharmacy. A specialty pharmacy partner helps build or ... |
| 29.06.2023 | What to know about sleep apnea, the condition Biden uses a CPAP machine for | The White House confirmed Wednesday that President Biden has been using a CPAP machine, a device commonly used to address sleep apnea, to improve his sleeping in recent weeks.
Biden, 80, disclosed in 2008 medical reports that he has a histo... |
| 29.06.2023 | Toss the scale: BMI focus causes harm, new study shows | The body mass index (BMI) metric has caused "historical harm," including "racist exclusion," according to a new report by the American Medical Association (AMA) Council on Science and Public Health.
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