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The Most Expensive Medical Condition Is Not What You Think

Forbes Healthcare

On the other hand, many people with back and neck pain receive X-rays and MRI tests, even when those tests are not helpful. In 2021 the budget for the national cancer institute (NCI) was over $7 billion. In addition, many receive surgery, and about half of those procedures are unnecessary.

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Tracking Bird Flu Through Poop In Places No One’s Looking

Forbes Healthcare

Of the more than 27,000 guano samples analyzed, just over 1% tested positive for avian influenza RNA. More positive samples collected in guano from 2021 to 2023. Whether in remote island roosts or along migratory corridors near commercial farms, bird droppings may offer a scalable substrate for global influenza surveillance.

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Outsourced Software Product Development: A Comprehensive Guide

Arkenea

Rather than building and maintaining a large inhouse team, businesses partner with specialized vendors to handle design, development, testing, and deployment. Quality assurance: Manual and automated testing, security audits, compliance checks. Conduct unit, integration, system, and user acceptance testing.

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Risks Facing Nurse Practitioners Today

Minority Nurse

Nurses Service Organization (NSO) and CNA have published the new edition of the Nurse Practitioner Professional Liability Exposure Claim Report analyzing 232 closed professional liability claims against NPs, student NPs, and NPs covered through a CNA-insured healthcare business over five years (2017-2021).

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Advocating for Critical Care Transport Nurses

Minority Nurse

Feedback from that study resulted in changes that went into effect in 2021 for the CFRN and 2022 for the CTRN. And now there are separate test item banks, too.” The separate CFRN and CTRN exam content outlines and separate test item banks, underline the distinctions between the ground and air transport settings.

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ePrescription Software Development – Detailed Outlook

Arkenea

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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A Comprehensive Comparison Between HL7 vs. FHIR

Arkenea

HL7 promotes data sharing of records, lab reports, test results, etc., One of the uses of FHIR: In 2021, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center inducted FHIR to increase interoperability across the organization, with an aim to connect hospital-based EHR with ambulatory EHR systems. through clinical applications.