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April 2025 Healthcare Data Breach Report

The HIPAA Journal

California was the worst-affected state with 11 data breaches, followed by Illinois with 8 breaches, and Ohio, Tennessee, and Texas, which each had 4 data breaches. Hackers exploited vulnerabilities in its PACS and gained access to sensitive patient data and medical images. states reported large data breaches in April.

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How Practical Nurse Duties Have Evolved

Prism Career Institute

Closely following the evolution of their industry can help these medical professionals have long careers providing effective patient care. Impacts from COVID-19 and New Technology The COVID-19 pandemic forced several changes to healthcare practices, as widespread illnesses strained the medical system.

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Walgreens Shareholders Approve $10 Billion Private Equity Buyout

Forbes Healthcare

Follow Author Jul 11, 2025, 10:10am EDT Jul 11, 2025, 10:26am EDT Share Save Comment Walgreens Boots Alliance shareholders Friday approved private equity firm Sycamore Partners’ $10. In 2020, Walgreens said it planned to open 500 to 700 “Village Medical at Walgreens” physician-led primary care clinics in more than 30 U.S.

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Lung cancer screenings can uncover treatable emphysema in patients

Medical Economics

© Alila Medical Media - stock.adobe.com When patients aged 50 years or older have a significant history of smoking, primary care physicians often order lung cancer screenings with low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) scans. Yet, there has long been a gap in options between noninvasive medical management and more high-risk surgical approaches.

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Inside Pitt Med School: Innovations in Medical Education 

Accepted Blog

At what is now Drexel Medical School. The students are broken up into 16 groups. So it’s been moved up a bit. So the basic science portion goes up to the winter break, and then they start the block system which we had before. It’s very, very much focused on small group learning. That’s great.

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Turn Down the Pressure

Sensible Medicine

JMM Every medical professional knows that controlling blood pressure saves lives. But here's where we've gone wrong: In our crusade against chronic hypertension, we've started treating every blood pressure spike like a medical emergency. The medical establishment fought this idea for decades.

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Closing the Chasm Between Patients and Clinicians With Digital Health Tools – Some Health Consumer Context for #HLTHUSA

Health Populi

Let’s start with the pocketbook of the patient — now a key payer in health systems’ revenue cycle management processes on the health system side, and continuing challenge for medical debt for U.S. And convenience actually mashes up costs for everyday people in the form of time-costs. PwC’s 2024 U.S.