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Amazon Restructures Healthcare Division and Renews Commitment To The Trillion Dollar Industry

Forbes Healthcare

Nevertheless, Amazon has made some innovative efforts, including its acquisition of PillPack in 2018, its various telehealth service offerings, and its more formal movement into primary care with the acquisition of One Medical in 2023.

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Post #2 Back-to-Sleep Series

Sensible Medicine

Research by Collett et al (2018) shows that, despite some improvement in PP by 18 months, the deformations persist beyond 36 months. Rather than investigate the potential health implications of delayed milestones, medical authorities seem to have pushed back expectations of those skills.

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Morgue Manager Accused of Selling Stolen “Heads, Brains, Skin and Bones”

Scrubs

Cedric Lodge, the former manager of the Harvard Medical School morgue, and his wife Denise were among five people arrested on Wednesday in a case that’s sure to keep you up at night. They transferred them using USPS to people who wanted the parts for all kinds of reasons, including one person who intended to tan the skin into leather.

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How Volunteer Work Can Enhance Your Resume

We Care Online

Voluntary positions can be a useful way of showcasing these skills and in particular soft, transferable skills. These are perfect conditions for developing the sort of transferable skills you can put to use in the healthcare sector.

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Optum: Testing Time for an Invisible Empire

The Healthcare Blog

However, Optum Health’s profit margin declined from more than 10% in 2018 to about 6.6% If true, this would still be between double and triple the size of Permanente Medical Groups. Optum’s medical group acquisition strategy to date has targeted independent (e.g. non-hospital) medical groups with significant at-risk (e.g.

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HIPAA Violation Cases

The HIPAA Journal

Since then, OCR has been cracking down on entities that have failed to provide individuals with timely access to their medical records. In December 2020, the practice fell victim to a ransomware attack that saw hackers encrypt medical records and gain access to the electronic protected health information of 6,800 individuals.

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It’s a Long Way From Here to There: Advanced Healthcare Practitioners, EMTALA’s Call Coverage Requirements, and Rural Hospitals

Healthcare Law Insights blog

A 2018 study found it took rural Americans, on average, 17 minutes to get to a hospital, but only 10 minutes in an urban center. [i] Distances in rural health care can be hard to fathom.