Practice Index

APRIL 3, 2025

The case is backed by United Medical Associate Professionals, a trade union formed earlier this year. The country was hoping for improvements following the signing of a new GP contract in 2018, but seven years later, the deal has failed to deliver in several ways, according to Government auditors. The majority are women.

Huddles/Rounds

Medical Economics

JULY 31, 2025

We've heard these promises before, like in 2018, when insurers and medical groups agreed on new PA practices, yet little progress was made. Yes, even for end-stage cancer patients, under a specialist’s care, for generic pain medication.

Insurance

We Care Online

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Community Volunteer, Shining Light Food Bank, Dallas, TX, July 2015 December 2018 Organized 200+ food parcels for registered clients, liaising with local referral services and managing collection schedules. Supported care home staff with meal preparation, room cleaning, and basic patient care, including personal hygiene.

Hospice

Arkenea

JUNE 8, 2025

physicians has surged from 18 percent in 2001 to 92 percent in 2018. It consists of information that is listed on a patients’ medical sheet. EHR includes vital signs, medical history, medications, diagnosis, progress reports, allergies, immunizations, imaging reports, and laboratory data.

Discharges

Minority Nurse

JUNE 16, 2025

However, the lines blur when patients don’t quite meet ICU criteria and still require advanced monitoring, titrating medications, or frequent assessments. Critical Care Nurses’ Work Environment: 2008–2018. Every shift feels like you’re navigating between life and death with precision. That’s when they often end up in progressive care.

Shared Governance

Health Populi

JANUARY 15, 2025

Tariffs usually have unwanted or unintended side effects — typically, raising prices on goods and services that use the tariffed products in the production or delivery of their finished goods (such as pharmaceutical products or medical devices) — or services, as would be the case for health care providers and systems.

Hospital

Health Prime

JANUARY 22, 2025

From 2018-2023, reports of significant breaches increased by 102%. Read more about how to protect your business from data breaches in our blog 4 steps to reduce HIPAA breaches within your medical practice. The proposed modifications aim to update existing standards to strengthen the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of ePHI.

HIPAA

Medical Economics

JUNE 17, 2025

The co-authors The former ACIP members and co-authors of the article were: Chair Helen Keipp Talbot, MD, MPH, an ACIP member from 2018 to 2023. Oliver Brooks, MD, FAAP, chief medical officer of Watts HealthCare Corp. Sybli Cineas, MD, FAAP, FACP, associate professor at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

Medication

The Healthcare Blog

JUNE 6, 2025

Nursing practice and medical practice often get blurred or lumped together. I am not a medical doctor, I am a nurse practitioner,” is repeated by me multiples of times per day. The last updates made to the guidelines were in 2018. Pointing fingers now at the past changes nothing.

Tests

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

JUNE 30, 2025

Planned Parenthood ends a legal dispute over a 2018 South Carolina policy that sought to block clinics that provide abortions from receiving Medicaid reimbursements. Daily Dive M-F Payer Weekly Every Wednesday IT Weekly Every Thursday By signing up to receive our newsletter, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

Medical Coding

Sensible Medicine

JANUARY 27, 2025

The Edinburgh-based team presented their 5-year results in 2018, and their 10-year results last week. In the discussion of the trial, the authors propose that CT scans better identify coronary disease (you can see it) and that led to more medical therapy, which then reduced outcomes. Both were positive.

Tests

Forbes Healthcare

JULY 2, 2025

Follow Author Jul 02, 2025, 08:22am EDT Share Save Comment Insurers designate certain prescription drugs with prior authorization to ensure safe and medically. Here, a healthcare provider must obtain approval from a health insurer before prescribing a medication. More appropriate use but also to contain costs.

Insurance

Forbes Healthcare

JUNE 24, 2025

C ataract surgery is one of the world’s most common medical procedures, with more than 4 million of them done each year in the United States alone, but there simply aren’t enough doctors available to meet the demand for everyone who needs the surgery. What if a robot could do it better than humans?

Insurance

Northwest Career College

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

million adult Americans reported considering massage therapy in 2018. This is the time to ask if they have any medical history or injury you need to know before initiating the massage. An indicator of massage therapy’s popularity may be that, according to the National Holistic Institute estimate, about 47.5

Medical History

Medical Economics

AUGUST 8, 2025

In the period 2017-2018, UPFs made up 65.6% Newsletter Stay informed and empowered with Medical Economics enewsletter, delivering expert insights, financial strategies, practice management tips and technology trends — tailored for today’s physicians. of their calories from UPFs. of their calories from UPFs. of their calories from UPFs.

Follow-Up

Forbes Healthcare

JUNE 11, 2025

In 2018, they co-founded Mirvie, a company that uses RNA technology to anticipate and prevent preeclampsia , a condition that affects one in 12 pregnancies and can lead to seizures, organ failure, and even death. Preeclampsia-related medical costs in the U.S. alone total an estimated $2.18 billion in the first year after birth—$1.03

Insurance

The Healthcare Blog

JULY 18, 2025

In the opening sentence he shares the 2018 warning of a CIA case officer who states with confidence, that “computer algorithms would soon be able to identify people not just by their faces, or fingerprints, or DNA — but by the unique ways they walked.” Mike Magee MD is a Medical Historian and regular correspondent to THCB.

Communication

The Healthcare Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

While nephrologists are, of course, specialists, they often coordinate care for their patients, serving as a sort of medical home for people experiencing chronic kidney disease. Department of Health and Human Services from 2018-2021 and is currently a member of the board of directors atInterwell Health

Patient Experience

Sensible Medicine

MARCH 27, 2025

Thorough review of the medical literature shows that there is no strong evidence to support the existence of NSE for DTP, MMR, BGC, or polio. In an overview article published in the Danish Medical Journal , I reviewed the largest and the most recent studies. This has gone on for decades.

Follow-Up

Sensible Medicine

APRIL 27, 2025

It was the summer of 2018, and I had gotten sick after a trip with my family. Hassaballa, MD is a medical intensivist and an Associate Regional Medical Director at Sound Physicians. And so, I never really was afraid of death.until I faced it head on. After five days, the fever broke, and the chest pain began.

Medication

Electronic Health Reporter

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Technological innovations are helping medical experts advance and improve the healthcare industry. Through technology and science, medical researchers are creating innovations that are improving, expanding and transforming the healthcare industry. This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter.

Medication

The Healthcare Blog

AUGUST 8, 2025

By 2018, he was re-elected but this time with Democratic support and declaring himself a “socialist.” Mike Magee MD is a Medical Historian and regular correspondent for THCB. He is the author of CODE BLUE: Inside America’s Medical Industrial Complex. Congress as a Republican, losing to the Tammany Hall’s Democratic candidate.

Follow-Up

Health Populi

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Nearly one-half of Americans are quite concerned they won’t have enough money to pay for medical care, according to the latest Gallup poll. Health insurance in-security is mainstream as of November 2018, when Gallup polled U.S. The post Americans End 2018 Worried About Healthcare Costs appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

Insurance

Electronic Health Reporter

AUGUST 28, 2019

Data from AMGA’s 2019 Medical Group Compensation and Productivity Survey shows physician compensation increased in 2018, while changes in work relative value unit (wRVU) productivity remained low. This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Productivity […].

Medication

Health Populi

MAY 29, 2018

“Do no harm” has been the professional and ethical mantra of physicians since the Hippocratic Oath was first uttered by medical students. Finally, the Internet of Thinking rounds out Accenture’s five themes in the 2018 Health Tech Vision. Accenture’s vision this year is built on five pillars: Citizen AI. Extended Reality.

Collaboration

Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2018

The study, Adjuvant Chemotherapy Guided by a 21-Gene Expression Assay in Breast Cancer, was published in The New England Journal of Medicine on June 3, 2018, coinciding with the researchers’ ASCO presentation of the results. ” A genetic test that costs $3,000 helps to identify women who could benefit from avoiding chemo.

De-Escalation

Health Populi

MARCH 7, 2018

This week at the 2018 annual HIMSS conference, telehealth is playing a mainstream role in discussions about right-sizing and right-placing healthcare. The evidence for telehealth’s tipping point is rooted in new research published today by Accenture on Patients + Doctors + Machines, Accentures’ 2018 Consumer Survey on Digital Health.

Discharges

Health Populi

DECEMBER 11, 2018

As the CVS + Aetna merger crosses its last regulatory hurdle at the close of 2018, we enter 2019 facing a fast-growing and -morphing retail health landscape. Another grocery, Giant Eagle, is moving its pharmacies further into medical services through an agreement to channel DarioHealth’s Digital Diabetes Education and Rewards Program.

Huddles/Rounds

Health Populi

MARCH 8, 2018

Privacy and cybersecurity ranked the second highest priority to hospitals and healthcare providers polled in HIMSS 2018 Healthcare Leadership Survey. In January 2018, over 400,000 patient records were breached. The second bar chart shows records breached by month from August 2017 through January 2018.

Patient Safety

Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

In 2018, consumers’ tracking of at least one health metric crossed over from an analog method to digital tracking, illustrated in the line chart. The proportion of people tracking at least one health metric digitally was 38% in 2018 and grew to over one-half, 54%, in 2020. Why do people use wearable tech for health?

Follow-Up

Health Populi

OCTOBER 31, 2018

This concerning finding was confirmed in recent observations from Gartner, which wrote in a market trends report that, “generally, medical devices are not replaced for at least ten years, with many running old software that has not been updated or patched.” based healthcare IT leaders for the survey in October 2018.

Medication

Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 14, 2019

The 22-page report summarized nationwide trends in health information exchange in 2018, including the adoption of EHRs and other technologies that support electronic access to patient information. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) filed its annual year-end report to Congress at the start of 2019.

Medication

Health Populi

JULY 26, 2022

Today we review the various viewpoints on Amazon’s announced acquisition of One Medical (ONEM, aka 1life Healthcare) which has been a huge story in both health care trade publications, business news, and mainstream media outlets. With PillPack, I wrote here in June 2018 that Amazon got 50 U.S.

Medication

Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2018

but one issue is on the mind of most American voters where there is evidence of some agreements: health care, as evidenced in the June 2018 Health Tracking Poll from Kaiser Family Foundation. Top-line, health care is one of the most important issues that voters want addressed in the 2018 mid-term elections, tied with the economy.

Medical History

Health Populi

APRIL 8, 2019

The average 65-year old couple retiring in 2019 will need to have a cash nest-egg of $285,000 to cover health care and medical expenses through retirement years, Fidelity Investments calculated. Fidelity estimates the average retiree will allocate 15% of their annual spending in retirement on medical costs.

Long Term Care

Electronic Health Reporter

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

As of 2019, the voters in 33 American states have passed some form of legislation allowing the use of medical marijuana. In late 2018, the U.S. The article The Importance of Protecting Medical Cannabis Patient Records appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

Patient Records

Health Populi

APRIL 9, 2018

consumers rank supermarkets, fast food chains, retailers, and banks as their top performing industries for experience according to the 2018 Temkin Experience Ratings. The post What Would Healthcare Feel Like If It Acted Like Supermarkets – the 2018 Temkin Experience Ratings appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. Postal Service.

Medication