The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 24, 2025

The file review confirmed that the information likely compromised in the incident includes names, dates of birth, medical information, health insurance information, payment card information, and Social Security numbers. What is not clear at this stage is how many individuals have been affected.

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Phlebotomy Careers

JUNE 30, 2025

Introduction Las‍ Vegas⁤ is not just‌ famous for its entertainment ⁢and hospitality industries-it’s also a growing hub⁣ for healthcare services⁤ and medical facilities. As the demand for qualified phlebotomists continues to rise, many healthcare providers in las Vegas are actively recruiting professionals to join their teams.

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Medical Economics

JUNE 12, 2025

Tragically, Lorna died by suicide in April 2020. Stefanie Simmons, MD, FACEP is the chief medical officer at the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes' Foundation. Like many others, she faced severe exhaustion, moral injury, and trauma that took a toll too heavy to bear. 67: Immigration policy and the physician shortage with Thomas E.

Best Practices

The Healthcare Blog

MARCH 17, 2025

This often-overlooked connection between routine medical care and opioid dependence demands urgent attention. How Physicians and Hospitals Sustain the Opioid Epidemic For decades, the pharmaceutical industry has shaped medical education, ingraining the belief that opioids are the best first-line treatment for acute pain.

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The HIPAA Journal

JULY 22, 2025

Premier Health Partners, a Dayton, OH-based network of three hospitals and two major medical centers, has recently issued a press release about a data breach first identified over two years ago. The only other listing for Premier Health Partners is an October 2, 2020, breach report affecting 254,786 individuals.

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The Healthcare Blog

JULY 11, 2025

The medical version was a “hand-held high resolution scanner” which (in the 24th century version) had a flip out panel with expanded screen, said to have been inspired by the HP-41C scientific calculator.” Mike Magee MD is a Medical Historian and regular contributor to THCB. Grove/2020)

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Accepted Blog

MARCH 11, 2025

At what is now Drexel Medical School. We do have some neighborhoods right around the medical school that are underserved, and there are areas of need. Let’s turn to medical school admissions, which I know is your specialty. So going to medical school is a very big decision to make. So I’m not too sure.

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Sensible Medicine

JULY 17, 2025

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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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2025

The growth of wearable technology, need and desire for real-world evidence and patient feedback, and especially patients’ growing role in paying for health care (think: high deductibles, co-insurance, and the challenge of medical debt) all drive the need to enhance the health care experience for patients in consumer and retail grades.

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Physicians Practice

JUNE 26, 2025

Reynolds Feature Video Introducing Neil Baum, MD, Professor of Clinical Urology at Tulane Medical School in New Orleans, Louisiana, and the author of multiple books. He has also written The Complete Business Guide to a Successful Medical Practice, which was published in 2015. Now is your chance to get to know them.

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Doximity

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

These interviews provide insight into the unique experiences these physicians encounter in today's medical field, as well as the paths they are pioneering. My past work on pulse oximeter inaccuracies in Black patients reflects my broader mission to ensure that medical tools and research are designed to serve all populations.

Patient Care

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.

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The HIPAA Journal

JULY 11, 2025

From the information collected, third parties could infer that a patient was being treated for a specific medical condition, such as cancer, pregnancy, or addiction. The class consists of more than 819,000 consumers who had a MyChart patient portal account between January 1, 2020, and December 31, 2023.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Jay Sanders, CEO of the Global Telemedicine Group and Founder and President Emeritus of the American Telemedicine Association; Dr. Roy Schoenberg, Co-Founder of the (then) start-up American Well (now AmWell); and, Dr. Joseph Kvedar, Professor at Harvard Medical School and long-time leader of Connected Health at Partners HealthCare.

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The Healthcare Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Essentially it took digital health a lot longer to get to 10% of total venture investment than fintech or consumer tech, but it got there after 2020. Although to be fair the health tech exits were when the market was higher after 2020) In fact their analysis is that capital returned was about 10x investment.

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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 14, 2025

The only problem was that the patient population would change over the course of the study – the unscreened population was studied mostly in 2019 and early 2020 while the screened population was mostly late 2020 early 2021. 1 In fact, chapter 5 in Ending Medical Reversal is all about this. (It’s

Vital Signs

The Healthcare Blog

JANUARY 23, 2025

Mike Magee MD is a Medical Historian and regular contributor to THCB. He is the author of CODE BLUE: Inside Americas Medical Industrial Complex. Grove/2020) Trump clearly wants his own Kennedy, if only a junior. But on this 52nd anniversary of his death, Im All The Way With LBJ.

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Sensible Medicine

APRIL 9, 2025

I was a third year medical student and assigned there for pediatric rotation. In fact all the obsessions of a medical student— what will I specialize in? Did I do right by them in the spring of 2020? But in 2020, there were no meetings to resist hospital visitor policies. Where will I match?— Did I do my best?

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Arkenea

JANUARY 28, 2025

trillion dollars in 2020. The first significant technology breakthroughs were centered on keeping track of medications, reducing automating prescription refills, paperwork, and creating a new kind of record keeping. Patients will be able to get their medications and other pharmaceutical care products in the comfort of their own homes.

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Forbes Healthcare

JULY 11, 2025

Sycamore also agreed to “one non-transferable right" to receive up to $3 in cash per Walgreens share “from the future monetization of WBA’s debt and equity interests in VillageMD, which includes the Village Medical, Summit Health and CityMD businesses,” the companies said of Walgreens’ primary care businesses.

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Medical Economics

JULY 18, 2025

© 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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Medical Economics

JUNE 20, 2025

Traditional stand-alone Part D plans also saw a jump: deductibles increased from $425 to $491, the biggest year-over-year increase since at least 2020. While Medicare’s drug price negotiations are set to take effect for select medications in 2026, researchers say those changes might not be enough to reverse current trends.

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The Healthcare Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Mike Magee MD is a Medical Historian and regular contributor to THCB. He is the author of CODE BLUE: Inside Americas Medical Industrial Complex. Grove/2020) But AI generated tools have grown up and demand inclusion and respect if we wish to avoid becoming their servants.

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Medical Economics

JUNE 23, 2025

An increase in the rate of uninsurance may impose greater burdens on the health care system through strain on emergency departments, additional costs to the federal government and to states to provide limited Medicaid coverage for the treatment of an emergency medical condition, and may cause an overall reduction to labor productivity.”

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Medical Economics

AUGUST 1, 2025

To help doctors keep their financial footing , Medical Economics sat down with James M. Medical Economics: The big stock market news in recent months has been about tariffs and market volatility. Dahle, M.D., Dahle, M.D., FACEP, emergency physician and founder of the White Coat Investor, for some insights.

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Northwest Career College

JULY 13, 2025

increase from 2020 to 2023 over the university. Some of the careers you can train for in a trade school include: Dental Assistant Healthcare Administrator IT Technician Medical assistant Pharmacy Technician Affordable Education with Less Debt In the U.S., You learn through hands-on practice in real-life environments.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2024

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. PwC’s 2024 U.S.

Appointments

The Healthcare Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Instead of shopping for care, consumers found themselves saddled with almost $200 billion in medical bills they could not pay, and hospitals and physicians ended up eating most of it. These firms used AI driven machine learning to analyze and process the flow of hundreds of billions of dollars in medical claims.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2025

On March 11, 2020, The World Health Organization announced that the coronavirus was deemed a pandemic. Here’s a good example to make my point: in Drug Store News published yesterday online, you can read an important interview with Dr. Marc Watkins, Chief Medical Officer with Kroger Health. have rung the alarm bell loud and clear.”

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The Healthcare Blog

MARCH 14, 2025

Mike Magee MD is a Medical Historian and regular contributor to THCB. He is the author of CODE BLUE: Inside Americas Medical Industrial Complex. Grove/2020). Circulate and post an online petition to ask your organization to divest of all Tesla holdings. and one more, Copy and Share this post with all your contacts.

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Medical Economics

JULY 25, 2025

The No Surprises Enforcement Act aims to enhance the 2020 No Surprises Act by increasing penalties for non-compliance and closing enforcement gaps. Other legislation, the No Surprises Enforcement Act, would toughen federal actions to ensure patients do not face unexpected medical bills , as outlined in the 2020 No Surprises Act.

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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?

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Health Populi

JULY 24, 2025

As I tracked home-bound consumers’ behaviors from the start of COVID-19 in March 2020, I hunted-and-gathered data from Nielsen, Acosta, Circana, Gallup, Harris, and other sources of consumers @ retail. Across all of these differences, we find most people embracing food as a health input and substitute for prescription medications.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

JULY 9, 2025

Deep Dive Opinion Library Events Press Releases Topics Sign up Search Sign up Search Hospitals Payer Health IT Government Finances Medical Groups Telehealth COVID-19 An article from Deep Dive The Trump administration wants to onshore drug manufacturing. You can unsubscribe at anytime. Technologists are answering the call.

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The Healthcare Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Overall, 76% of Americans express fair or a great deal of confidence in scientists to act in the public’s best interests (versus 87% in April 2020). Some more mainstream experts see the picks as part of the libertarian “medical freedom” movement. A year ago those numbers were flipped. “It

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The Healthcare Blog

JANUARY 5, 2025

Mike Magee MD is a Medical Historian and regular contributor to THCB. He is the author of CODE BLUE: Inside Americas Medical Industrial Complex. Grove/2020) Public Health policy, debating it and formulating it, can help us mange our differences, and make wise choices for our still young nation.

Unit Organization and Environment

Sensible Medicine

JULY 8, 2025

As stated by Sievenpiper in 2020 , “Most of the evidence supporting public health recommendations to limit sugars derives from sugar-sweetened beverages providing excess energy” Keep this history in mind as we delve into the latest food bad actor. Then, in the 2000s, the war shifted, and sugar became our nemesis.

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