Scrubs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The tragic story of Melissa Jubane, a 32-year-old nurse from Beaverton, Oregon, took a heartbreaking turn when she was found dead on September 7, 2024, just days after returning from her wedding in Hawaii. Jubane, a nurse at St. Vincent Hospital, had gone missing on September 4 when she failed to show up for her morning shift. Concerned coworkers and family immediately contacted the police, who initiated a welfare check at her apartment.

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Hospital 265

Open Dental

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The Treatment Plan is vital for presenting your patients with recommended treatment, determining insurance estimates, and estimated patient responsibility. In this post, we'll cover preauthorizations, saving and signing treatment plans, and more! The post Taking on the Treatment Plan appeared first on Open Dental Blog.

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Insurance 96

Forbes Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Public health experts are sounding the alarm as whooping cough cases increase nationwide. Numbers of cases of the vaccine-preventable disease have quadrupled this year.

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Doximity

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

As healthcare continues to evolve, digital health is playing a crucial role in transforming how we deliver and receive care. Meet some of the top clinicians who are at the forefront of this change, using technology to enhance patient care, improve access, and develop innovative solutions. These professionals are making strides in fields like oncology, mental health, and population health, while also sharing their expertise on social media.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Iowa Total Care, a subsidiary of the St. Louis-based payer, can continue doing business in Iowa’s managed care program, which paid it $2.8 billion in the last fiscal year.

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KevinMD.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

In today’s financial landscape, it is imperative for women in medicine to take charge of investing their own money. Physicians face a myriad of disadvantages when it comes to wealth building. The average medical student will be saddled with an average of $200,000 in student loan debt. The nature of prolonged medical training puts physicians Read more… Empowering female doctors: How investment education can combat burnout and build wealth originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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Medication 122

Forbes Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

At least eight people have been hospitalized with valley fever—a potentially lethal fungal infection—after attending or working at a music festival in California, state health officials said.

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Hospital 133

Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The lay media is abuzz with stories about Elle Macpherson, who admits in a new memoir to declining chemotherapy seven years ago. Although precise details are not provided, it sounds like Ms. Macpherson had localized or regional breast cancer and underwent surgery. We learned something about the risks of commenting on the health of celebrities over a decade ago when an OpEd we published in Washington Post about former president George W.

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Science Based Medicine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Bhattacharya, Atlas, and Makary are also set to speak at Stanford next month The post Hopkins Business School to Platform COVID-19 Contrarians at Health Policy Symposium first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

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Scrubs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Hawaii’s healthcare industry is facing significant turbulence as the Hawaii Nurses’ Association (HNA) and Kapi‘olani Medical Center continue their contentious contract negotiations. At the heart of this dispute are issues that have long plagued the nursing profession nationwide: unsafe staffing levels, worker burnout, and retaliatory practices. The potential fallout is a looming strike that could leave the hospital scrambling to fill critical care gaps, with the nurses alleging unfair labor prac

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Forbes Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The International Day of Clean Air is an opportunity to learn about a growing global threat with severe negative effects on human health, economy and the environment.

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Practice Index

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

In early 2023, I read the tragic news of the death of Ruth Perry, a primary school headteacher from Berkshire. It struck a particular chord with me, being the husband of someone who does a similar job to Ruth. Over the past 30 years, my wife has had an absolute passion for educating children and giving them the best possible start to their lives. It’s a tough and relentless job with many hours of unseen work, leaving you emotionally drained, but you know that what you’re doing matters to the peo

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Follow-Up 119

Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In his post yesterday, Adam discussed the STRONG-HF trial. I will expand on it because it is a great example of a positive trial that does not add knowledge to the treatment of patients with heart failure. The larger question is: what are trials for? When I think about science classes in high school, I remember experiments as a way to explain nature.

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Medical Economics

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Let’s continue to celebrate women’s advances in medicine, science, law and other fields. But we also must recognize that the shortage of men in health care professions is becoming a critical issue.

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Science Based Medicine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

I suppose it's my turn to be called a fraudster, liar, perjurer, felon, grifter, stooge, imbecile, and maybe even murderer. What I won't get is a reasonable explanation as to why supposedly releasing a deadly virus was mass murder, but intentionally spreading it was a forgivable "policy position". The post Biosafety Now: Releasing The Virus Was Mass Murder.

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Forbes Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Newly updated 2024-2025 Covid-19 vaccines are available across the United States. Vaccines represent the best protection against sever illness and hospitalizations.

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Hospital 129

Emerging RN Leader

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN “I feel like I am walking on eggshells with some of my staff. I try to give them direct feedback, and then they tense up and tell me that I am harsh. If I use the feedback sandwich, all they hear is the good stuff and shut […] The post The Wise Approach to Feedback appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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Communication 78

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Hospitals continued to add workers to payrolls, while annual wage growth rates stabilized. Both are promising signs for nonprofit and for-profit providers.

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Hospital 108

Medical Economics

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Witnesses describe dire hospital conditions created by ‘health care terrorists’ as lawmakers rip private equity investors for massive bankruptcy case.

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Hospital 98

KevinMD.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

As long as you live, you will never hear an article from news media contending that “America Runs On Duncan.” Why? Because the line is a marketing allegation created by the advertising company and designed to sell product. Yet news media repeat medical claims from drug makers found in journals like they are news––which gives Read more… Why isn’t medical advertising regulated like other advertising?

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Medication 105

Forbes Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Bird flu typically spreads among birds, but there have been recent outbreaks among cattle in the U.S., and one Texas man contracted the virus from sick cows. Here’s why so many experts are worried about a possible new pandemic.

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Open Dental

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The Chart Module is at the heart of patient care. Learn about customizing the layout, charting treatment, storing medical info and more. The post Channeling the Chart Module appeared first on Open Dental Blog.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The leaders of Caremark, Optum Rx and Express Scripts had until Wednesday to walk back statements they made in July — or face potential legal action. However, the executives are sticking to their guns.

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Medical Economics

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The proposed meager Medicare reimbursement increase for dialysis providers marks the fifth year in a row that the agency has failed to capture actual increases in labor and treatment costs.

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The Healthcare Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Dr. Sophia Yen is the Chief Medical Officer (and Founder) of Pandia Health. She is about as expert as it comes on the topics contraception, emergency contraception, medication abortion, menopause and lots more. Her PR peeps asked if I’d interview her about Pandia Health, which is a fantastic online clinic & pharmacy for women at basically all ages.

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Medication 102

Forbes Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Almost 50 million people have obtained healthcare coverage through marketplace exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act since its enactment more than a decade ago.

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Emerging RN Leader

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN As we enter the last quarter of 2024, it is good to step back and look at the challenges at the top of nurse leaders’ minds. The following is what is trending as I work with and do focus groups with nurse leaders across the country: There […] The post What’s Trending with Nurse Leaders appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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Communication 78

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The incident was related to a vulnerability in the MOVEit file transfer software, which was linked to data breaches at thousands of organizations last year.

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Medical Economics

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Expect patient care to suffer when physicians face a 2.8% decrease in reimbursement in 2025, even as regulators acknowledge practice costs are going up.

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Patient Care 105

Practice Index

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

With general practice under greater pressure than ever before, we know how important it is to have a clear picture of your own practice’s financial position. To help you manage some of the key finance functions in your practice, we’re delighted to launch our Finance Package. Accessed in the Practice Index HUB , this new package integrates with our existing PPA Manager and offers you a new way to take control of your finances, from stock and PPA claims to expenses and ARRS roles.

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Documentation 98

Forbes Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Wyoming’s last reported anthrax infection in wildlife was in 1956 and the state’s last confirmed cattle outbreak was in the 1970s.

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