Phlebotomy Careers

JUNE 18, 2025

Phlebotomists play ‌a vital role in medical laboratories and hospitals by collecting ⁣blood samples necessary for diagnostic tests, research,⁣ and patient care. Foundation ⁤for further education: An ‌associate degree ‌can⁤ serve as a stepping stone to nursing or other ‌medical careers.

Certification

Walker Info - Patient Experience

JANUARY 20, 2025

Once perceived as a healthcare nicety compared to service satisfaction scores, patient experience (PX) management now is a must-have when it comes to maximizing healthcare performance and improving medical outcomes. 1] A good patient experience correlates to a lower medical malpractice risk.

Patient Experience

Accepted Blog

MARCH 11, 2025

Piraino also discusses the role of secondary essays in evaluating applicants and explores why teamwork, resilience, and cultural awareness are important in the admissions process. Show Notes: Our guest today is Dr. Beth Perino, Associate Dean for admissions at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Well, thank you.

Medication

Guideway Care

JANUARY 14, 2025

Advancing these efforts, the BPCI Advanced model introduces a consolidated retrospective payment system that addresses services within a 90-day period following discharge or outpatient procedures. It enhances coordination between providers while motivating them toward comprehensive management strategies focused on complete patient care.

Patient Experience

Arkenea

JULY 23, 2025

Charge capture and coding modules represent the technical heart of billing systems, translating clinical activities into billable charges using appropriate medical coding standards. Patients should be able to view statements, make payments, set up payment plans, and communicate with billing staff through the portal.

Billing

Health Populi

MARCH 20, 2025

First, I asked Harm about the origin story for Unvendor : I note that Harm has worn many professional hats in health care in his career, including those of a physician, a chief medical information officer, a healthcare informaticist, and a software developer. With this background, how did the idea for authoring the book gel?

Follow-Up

The Healthcare Blog

JUNE 16, 2025

Wonks like me believe that if you introduce such a relationship patients will receive preventative care, will get on the right meds and take them, will avoid the emergency room, and have fewer hospital admissions—as well as costing a whole lot less. So why are they kept around by the bigger systems?

Hospital

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.

Insurance

Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 1, 2025

As students at medical schools across the country begin medical school, I thought I’d take the opportunity to repost it. One of the many privileges of being a physician and a professor of medicine at a “prestigious” medical school is getting to talk to young people who are considering a career in medicine.

Medication

Medical Economics

AUGUST 13, 2025

The off-the-shelf vaccine, ELI-002 2P, targets KRAS mutations and showed especially durable benefit among patients with high immune responses — many of whom remained disease-free at nearly 20 months of follow-up. SHOW MORE The top news stories in medicine today.

Medication

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

JUNE 9, 2025

Daily Dive M-F Payer Weekly Every Wednesday IT Weekly Every Thursday By signing up to receive our newsletter, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Responsible AI developers recognize that these tools cannot (and more importantly, should not ) replace humans in a medical setting. You can unsubscribe at anytime.

Follow-Up

Sensible Medicine

JANUARY 19, 2025

Up to 70 years of age, the all-cause mortality rate is ≈4 times higher in the US versus comparable countries of the Western hemisphere. For one thing, he has teamed up with public health champions Bhattacharya to lead the NIH and Marty Makary to lead the FDA. Yet there is a very high, unexplained excess mortality among Americans.

Scheduling

Sensible Medicine

JUNE 16, 2025

This differs from the normal frequentist analysis in which authors describe how surprising the data are given the made-up assumption that there is no difference in the treatments. Trial Results About 40% of patients were considered “medical” patients, 42% were “surgical” and 17% were Ob-Gyn.

Hospital

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

JULY 28, 2025

Daily Dive M-F Payer Weekly Every Wednesday IT Weekly Every Thursday By signing up to receive our newsletter, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. The operator downwardly revised predictions for equivalent admissions this year, from growth of 3% to 4% to growth of 2% to 3%. Sign up A valid email address is required.

Follow-Up

Sensible Medicine

JUNE 15, 2024

Let me discuss the ways in which medical school fails students. These essays will be about how institutions, particularly academic medical leaders, fail doctors in training. The pre-medical curriculum is tangential to medicine at best. Once students get to medical school we make them memorize loads of irrelevant trivia.

Medication

Accepted Blog

MARCH 6, 2024

If you’re writing a recommendation for someone, or you’re drafting your own recommendation for your recommender to edit, these elements will help you structure your letter effectively and highlight the information the admissions committees want to see. this is valuable information that the admissions committee needs.

Admissions

EvidenceCare

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

In other words, the MA plan may focus its medical reviews on stays of any length in order to ensure compliance with the Two-Midnight Rule. This also means that the medical record must support the reasonableness of the clinician’s admission decision regardless of the total time spent in the facility.

Admissions

Accepted Blog

APRIL 11, 2024

For this section of our Med School Admissions: What You Need to Know To Get Accepted series, I’ll provide a brief rundown of what happens after you graduate from medical school. There will always be new procedures, new medications, and new lab tests to learn about. The rest is up to you. The rest is up to you.

Medication

EvidenceCare

APRIL 16, 2024

From understanding the audit requirements to implementing technology for streamlined admission documentation , this article offers actionable strategies to ensure hospitals are well-prepared for the rigorous evaluation process. Proper documentation helps demonstrate services were ordered based on medical necessity, not financial gain.

Documentation

The Healthcare Blog

MAY 6, 2024

By RICHARD FRANK Demand for GLP-1 medications soared last year and shows no signs of stopping in 2024. Some solutions are cropping up to pave the way. But one-size-fits-all solutions centered on medication as a silver bullet to obesity are only setting up patients and payers for failure.

Medication

Accepted Blog

JUNE 12, 2024

The most reliable source of information about allopathic medical schools is the Medical School Admission Requirements ( MSAR ) website, offered by the AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges). Follow these steps: Step #1: Calculate your stats and be kind to yourself. Review the medical schools in your state.

Medication

Accepted Blog

AUGUST 28, 2024

Be sure to get feedback, either from your medical school or a medical school admissions expert. The MSPE (Medical Student Performance Evaluation) Many medical schools have switched over to a P/NP grading system, so the MSPE was created as a way to rank and recommend students without a GPA.

Admissions

Accepted Blog

JUNE 3, 2024

If you have been placed on a medical school’s waiting list , you can send the admissions committee a letter to reiterate your interest in the school. Some medical schools share this number with you, while others do not. The dates of the school’s revisit events are an indication that its admissions process is coming to an end.

Admissions

Accepted Blog

JUNE 7, 2024

Mike knew that an intern on his team was struggling with speaking up on client projects, so he mentored the individual throughout the summer and encouraged them to take on a key role on a final presentation. Generic writing is uninteresting, and dull writing can hurt your admissions chances. A tight client deadline?

Admissions

Accepted Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Show Summary In this episode of Admission Straight Talk, host Linda Abraham addresses the concerns of medical school applicants who have not yet received interview invitations. She debunks the myth that not receiving an invitation by Thanksgiving means rejection and shares insights from several admissions directors.

Admissions

Accepted Blog

MAY 22, 2024

Each year, I talk to applicants who say they don’t want their ethnic or racial identity to be part of their medical school application. However, from the general perspective of the medical profession, it’s important to look at why having underrepresented groups in medicine is desirable. This is a noble principle that I respect.

Admissions

Accepted Blog

MARCH 11, 2024

These are not convincing if they’re not backed up with evidence. If you are writing about a goal you achieved or a project you completed, spell out the process you followed. Admissions committee readers are just like you and me: they love a good story. Schedule a free consultation with an Accepted admissions expert.

Admissions

Accepted Blog

JANUARY 7, 2025

Show Summary Welcome to the 600th episode of Admissions Straight Talk ! In this milestone episode, host Linda Abraham sits down with Dr. Michelle Schmude, Vice Provost for Enrollment Management and Professor of Medical Education at Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, to explore the innovative and comprehensive Total Health Curriculum.

Admissions

Accepted Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Show Summary Dr. Linton Yee, Associate Dean for Admissions at Duke University School of Medicine joins us to discuss how applicants can earn a spot in this highly competitive program. Show Notes Welcome to the 593rd episode of Admissions Straight Talk. Are you ready to apply to your dream medical schools? Thanks for tuning in.

Admissions

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Three in four nurses working in hospitals care about the success of their institution — “they show up and gown up…yet only 57% feel a sense of ownership in their hospitals, leaving leaders to expect 100% quality to be delivered by about half of the nursing workforce.” They responded with one word: “Trust.”

Follow-Up

Accepted Blog

MARCH 7, 2024

Whether you picked the book up in a store or library, or downloaded free sample online, you probably made a pretty speedy decision about whether it would hold your interest. Admissions committee members are human. In every case, the lead begins a story that makes the reader sit up and say, “Ah!

Admissions

Accepted Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Sadly, the frustrating fact is that there’s no rule governing how much time a medical school has to respond to your application. However, we’ll try to answer some of the big questions on med school applicants’ minds, including: How long does a medical school have to invite an applicant to submit a secondary application?

Admissions

Minority Nurse

AUGUST 24, 2022

It was not long before I started picking up per diem job opportunities to explore and broaden my horizons as a nurse. I also noticed that some patients lacked a basic understanding of their medical history and medication. Prisca Benson, MSN, RN is a a nurse navigator for the neuroscience department at The Valley Hospital.

Medical History

Accepted Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Letters of evaluation are critical elements of a competitive medical school application. A strong letter will complement your essays and experience descriptions, giving admissions committee members a valuable outside perspective on your potential in the field of medicine. Keep track of deadlines so you don’t miss anything.

Admissions

Accepted Blog

MAY 8, 2024

For example, maybe one of your siblings has a rare disability, or you grew up in a town with fewer than 500 inhabitants. Admissions officers believe that diversity in the classroom improves the educational experience of all the students involved. For example, perhaps you’re part of the 0.2% Deeds What have you done?

Unit Organization and Environment

A Young Doctor's Journey

OCTOBER 6, 2021

A lot of people considering attending medical school are curious about what the process is like in various countries, so I’d like to talk about two regions that I get a lot of questions about. I will only be discussing medical degree programs that teach in English. This surprised a lot of my American followers. Wow, right?

Medication

Prism Career Institute

JULY 23, 2024

Medical assistants play a crucial role in improving a patient’s experience. Whether by greeting patients at the front desk, assisting with paperwork, or helping doctors during exams, medical assistants ensure that treatment runs smoothly. Where Do OB/GYN Medical Assistants Work?

Medical Assistant