Forbes Healthcare

JUNE 20, 2025

" In 2020, cigarette sales rose for the first time in decades — though still far below the 1981 peak of 636.5 The medical evidence caught up with the image. The 2020 Surgeon General's report marked a historic milestone: adult cigarette smoking in the U.S. Others need medication like varenicline or bupropion.

Insurance

The HIPAA Journal

APRIL 23, 2024

The last time more than 90 data breaches were reported in a single month was September 2020. Across the 93 reported data breaches, the protected health information of 2,971, 249 individuals was exposed or impermissibly disclosed – the lowest total for March since 2020. of all records compromised in March.

Business Associate

The Healthcare Blog

APRIL 2, 2024

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. An educated guess would be that Optum employs from 45 to 60 thousand physicians.

Tests

The HIPAA Journal

APRIL 27, 2025

The following three years saw similar numbers of financial penalties; however, there was another major increase in HIPAA fines in 2020 when 19 HIPAA violation cases were settled with OCR. The 2020 increase is largely due to OCR’s HIPAA Right of Access enforcement initiative, which was launched in late 2019.

HIPAA

Arkenea

JANUARY 25, 2025

Key Takeaways A need to control substance usage and reduce medication errors is driving the e-prescribing market growth during the 2023-2030 timeframe. Online medication orders, refills, and reminders help such patients to keep a track of their health care. Around 75 percent of medication errors have occurred due to distraction.

Transfers

Mildred Elley

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Apart from medical procedures, patients often need help with day-to-day activities, which is where you could play a big role. Many medical professionals, including physician assistants and doctors, get their start with CNA training because of the hands-on experience the nurse aide classes offer. What Are Nurse Aide Classes Like?

Certification

Mildred Elley

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Apart from medical procedures, patients often need help with day-to-day activities, which is where you could play a big role. Many medical professionals, including physician assistants and doctors, get their start with CNA training because of the hands-on experience the nurse aide classes offer. What Are Nurse Aide Classes Like?

Certification

Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Critical care transport nurses provide medical care to ill or injured patients as they are transported by flight or ground to facilities where they will receive additional care. The number of CTRN-certified nurses surged 19 percent in 2020, 29 percent in 2021, and 24 percent in 2022.

Certification

Relias

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

A recent Relias webinar on HHVBP indicated that the total Medicare spending reduction in the program’s first five years (2016-2020) resulted in a $942.2 When determining improvement scores, the baseline year will be 2019 as opposed to 2020 due to the potential effects of COVID-19 distorting the data. Toilet transferring.

Acute Care

Minority Nurse

MARCH 19, 2024

million from March 2020 to February 2021. Today, she is an assistant professor at UMass Chan Medical School and its Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing in Worcester, Massachusetts , and a senior telehealth consultant with Blue Cirrus Consulting, Greenville, South Carolina. Numbers skyrocketed from 2.1

Admissions

Arkenea

JANUARY 3, 2025

Robotics and automation technologies are transforming nursing workflows and patient care delivery, such as medication administration, wound care, and rehabilitation. Both doctors and patients can benefit from the conveniences offered by cutting-edge medical technology. What technologies do nurses use?

Patient Care

Accepted Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2024

They discuss the unique aspects of the Colorado Medical curriculum, including the new Trek curriculum, the importance of longitudinal integrated clerkships, and the various tracks available for students. Dr. SooHoo emphasizes the competitive nature of medical school admissions and the holistic review process used to evaluate applicants.

Admissions

Healthcare Law Insights blog

AUGUST 8, 2023

The transaction involves the sale, transfer, lease, exchange, option, encumbrance, or other disposition of 20% or more of the assets of any health care entity in the transaction. For purposes of this subsection, a clinical affiliation does not include a collaboration on clinical trials or graduate medical education programs.

Documentation

Setting Sights

MAY 7, 2021

They tried to convince us, sucked into this bullying blackmail that thankfully, I remained mostly shielded from in that year, mostly due to the concoction of medications I was put on. It was when I was finally diagnosed with a rare disease In November 2020, 10.5 And I know I am not the only one to feel this either.

Admissions

Health Populi

MAY 1, 2020

economy would decline in 2020 by 5.9%, shown in the bar chart. By April 10th, four in ten working people age 18 to 64 had felt one or more of these impacts in the past 30 days; those hardships included food security, medical care, ability to pay for energy (gas, oil or electric bills), or pay for housing (rent or mortgage).

Medication

Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

History and Assessment Mr. Salzo’s medical history is significant for childhood asthma and hypertension. Mr. Salzo is triaged, assessed by an ED nurse, examined by an ED provider, and admitted to a Medical-Surgical Unit. Conclusion Mr. Salzo, transferred to an oncology unit, begins cancer treatment.

Triage

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! Are you ready to apply to your dream medical schools? 2:03] Sure.

Admissions

Setting Sights

MAY 2, 2022

I can still remember my last day of Medical School, though it was never meant to be the last. All medical students were sent home. That was the last time I saw the hospital, where I lived and learnt as a medical student, for a very long time. The honest truth ? It was early March 2022. And I had to believe.

Medication

Arkenea

DECEMBER 2, 2024

According to a report published by Chime, 83 percent of acute care organizations stated high use of patient portals by users in 2021, as compared to 74 percent in 2020. A patient portal is a mobile and/or web-based solution that offers access to healthcare and medical data (health records, personal profiles, payments, etc.)

HIPAA

Setting Sights

DECEMBER 30, 2021

And 2020-2021 has been no exception. We’ll find her”, as she shivered in the shadows, not knowing that in this stillness this soon would be her last hour. I have seen more death as a patient in one year than as a working medical student training to be a Doctor. Nor was 2020. We’ve all fallen to our knees and crumbled.

Follow-Up

Setting Sights

AUGUST 11, 2021

Yet, even when I was a medical student, working busy days on the wards and in clinics, with even the petty things still lingering from my past, the PTSD from my own hospital experiences, I thought it was all okay, because I spoke about it, and wrote about it openly, on different platforms. Did anyone sit down and explain any of these to me?

Admissions

Health Populi

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Then, COVID-19 emerged as a pandemic the world over, and the move to Brussels in January 2020 was quite short-lived. Even passengers transferring from the Brussels airport to other planes and destination had to complete this form. My family’s plan was to, soon thereafter, split time for work and life between the U.S. and the E.U.

Tests

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. voice tech, smart medication dispensers, and remote health monitors).

Hospital

Minority Nurse

JANUARY 17, 2024

Gilles has strong community advocacy and a passion for global health; currently working with organizations aimed to serve the underprivileged and underserved communities in Haiti, Ghana, and Nigeria and has been on six medical missions. I double majored in college because I didn’t come from money and knew medical school was expensive.

Collaboration

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. 21 st Century Cures Act.

HIPAA

Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

First, Sensible Medicine is a place dedicated to medical reasoning, which cannot be unwound from science. He famously said we would be done with COVID once warm weather arrived in 2020 – that’s what we wanted to hear. The question for this column is which candidate for US president is more anti-science?

Tests

The HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 9, 2023

Updates to HIPAA are long overdue but steps were finally made to update HIPAA in December 2020, when the HHS issued a notice of Proposed Rulemaking that detailed several proposed changes to the HIPAA Privacy Rule, and a Final Rule is now due which will likely see those HIPAA changes implemented in 2023.

HIPAA

Health Populi

JANUARY 5, 2021

Dr. Saini and his colleague Shannon Brownlee released the annual Lown Institute 2020 Shkreli Awards this week, highlighting their ten most egregious examples of the worst events in U.S. health care that happened in the past year — 2020, the year the coronavirus changed our lives and livelihoods. health care. health care system.

Tests

The Healthcare Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

These include computer scientists, software developers, information technology professionals, physicists, medical doctors, and many others. In 1921, a Hopkins medical student, Claude Beck , took notice. Will Mark Kroll and his medical science collaborators carry the day? Grove/2020) It is potentially deadly.

Collaboration