Arkenea

JANUARY 25, 2025

The CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) has posted the latest standards for e-prescribing which are as follows: In 2020, the CMS published the 2021 PFS (Physician Fee Schedule) final rule which requires prescribers to use the NCPDP SCRIPT standard version 2017071 for EPCS (Electronic Prescribing of Controlled Drugs) transactions.

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Setting Sights

MAY 7, 2021

For those eight weeks, I witnessed more patients slip away right beside me than I’ve ever seen in all my admissions collectively – lying next to a stale blue curtain that was closed around a still body was an uncomfortable thought and presence. Just half an hour later, they would test my blood sugars to find they were 3.2.

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Setting Sights

DECEMBER 31, 2022

It was my first outing unaided since the Spring of 2020, far away from the bubble of the hospital ward corridor or rehabilitation room besides the physiotherapist’s gym, or the netting of using crutches or the wheelchair; both of which I had purposely tucked away in the garage. It will seem insignificant to most, but for me, this was big.

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Accepted Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

If you want to know how much of BU medical school’s recent $100 million gift it intends to use for scholarships, or what happens to applications to ensure a genuinely holistic process, or what its associate dean of admissions wants to see in students read on! Welcome to the 541st episode of Admissions Straight Talk.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Alissa Knight , an expert on hacking and cybersecurity, conducted this research by first downloading 30 mHealth apps in collaboration with the companies, to do penetration testing of their apps and APIs. The test was conducted over two weeks with six months of static code analysis. Sidebar on “what is an ‘API?

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Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The nurse in the Medical-Surgical Unit suspects worsening respiratory distress, noticing that Mr. Salzo has become increasingly anxious and is moving about restlessly in bed during the admission assessment. Further diagnostic tests reveal that the mass is a malignant neoplasm. Mr. Salzo was diagnosed with lung cancer adenocarcinoma.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2020

The findings were published in a May 2020 report , detailing study findings among 2,533 U.S. adults polled in early April 2020. 23% skipped recommended lab tests or screenings. 32% of people with one chronic condition were adjusting spending on health care visits due to COVID-19. 21% skipped elective procedures.

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Setting Sights

AUGUST 11, 2021

What I am sharing in this blog takes on an alternative approach to my usual form of writing, for this is a particularly raw, personal account and summary of what I have experienced in the last fourteen months of my hospital admission, and more specifically, how it has largely impacted my mental health. The virus destroyed me.

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Setting Sights

MAY 2, 2022

2020 marked the start of my hellish journey, and a hellish journey it was for so many , but for me it meant a bunch of new, life-changing diagnoses, a kind of sentence that would mean everything changing, nothing ever being the same again.

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Medication Follow-Up Hospital Huddles/Rounds 52

Accepted Blog

JULY 2, 2024

Show Summary In this episode of Admissions Straight Talk , host Linda Abraham interviews Yael Bruk, a recent graduate from Binghamton University who was accepted to multiple medical schools. Show Notes Thanks for joining me for this, the 583rd episode of Admissions Straight Talk. Yael, welcome to Admissions Straight Talk. [1:57]

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

While nurses were in short supply before 2020, the coronavirus pandemic and stress on front-line health care workers exacerbated the shortage of nursing staff globally. One of the biggest benefits for those of us involved in hackathons is the community we continue to build through participating in them.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2020

Rates of hospital admissions for uncontrolled diabetes are higher for Black women than for women in other racial/ethnic groups. The rate of hospital admissions for lower extremity amputations due to uncontrolled diabetes is higher for Black women than White women. Last year’s U.S. s, birthday. .

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

Rates of hospital admissions for uncontrolled diabetes are higher for Black women than for women in other racial/ethnic groups. The rate of hospital admissions for lower extremity amputations due to uncontrolled diabetes is higher for Black women than White women. Last year’s U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 16, 2023

Rates of hospital admissions for uncontrolled diabetes are higher for Black women than for women in other racial/ethnic groups. The rate of hospital admissions for lower extremity amputations due to uncontrolled diabetes is higher for Black women than White women. A recent U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2019

Rates of hospital admissions for uncontrolled diabetes are higher for Black women than for women in other racial/ethnic groups. The rate of hospital admissions for lower extremity amputations due to uncontrolled diabetes is higher for Black women than White women. This week’s news covering a U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2024

District judge ruling against the Trump administration’s decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 U.S. Underneath that statistic is a shameful state of health affairs: that people of color and the LGBTQ communities in the U.S. A recent U.S.

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The HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 14, 2022

OCR issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on December 10, 2020, that proposed a slew of changes to the HIPAA Privacy Rule, and a Final Rule is expected to be issued in 2022; however, no date has yet been provided on when the 2022 HIPAA changes will take effect and become enforceable. How are New HIPAA Regulations Introduced?

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