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Engaging Physicians in Quality Improvement: Strategies for Driving Practice Change

EvidenceCare

This blog outlines practical ways to harness those levers, align clinical and financial goals and, most importantly, build momentum for lasting change. For example, real-time analytics can reveal when certain tests or procedures exceed local benchmarks. to “How do we improve?”

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I Am Afraid of Early Cancer Detection

Sensible Medicine

It’s been a few years since I first heard about the Galleri test produced by the Menlo Park startup Grail. Galleri is a blood-based screening test for cancer. For a couple of reasons, I didn’t work very hard to learn about the Galleri test. Second, I was worried that this test might have real promise.

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How Denver Health Reduced Length of Stay: A Step-by-Step Guide

EvidenceCare

This blog highlights the journey of Denver Health a public safety-net system in Coloradoas a leading example of how hospitals can move the needle on LOS. Read our blog for a deeper dive on GMLOS and ALOS. DRG (Diagnosis-Related Group) : A classification that groups patients with similar clinical conditions and resource needs.

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Should Doctors Use Chat-GPT to Practice Medicine?

Scrubs

Dereck Paul is the co-founder of Glass Health, a start-up in San Francisco that offers artificial intelligence chatbot services to doctors looking to ease the burden of routine processes, such as patient documentation. “So, what tests they would order and what treatments they would order.”

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Hundreds of Patients Wrongly Diagnosed with Cancer Due to Software Mix-up

Scrubs

The biotech firm known as Grail made headlines earlier this year thanks to its signature Galleri blood tests, which can detect up to 50 different kinds of cancer early on to improve patient outcomes. The tests were hailed as the “first of its kind” when it hit the market in 2023. It’s that they simply didn’t exist.

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Optum: Testing Time for an Invisible Empire

The Healthcare Blog

Then someone discovered that the largest living thing in the world was actually the 106 acre, 47 thousand tree Pando aspen grove in central Utah, which genetic testing revealed to be a single organism. United channeled almost $52 billion of that cash into buying health-related businesses, nearly all of which end up housed inside Optum.

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5 Risk Control Considerations as Nurse Practitioners’ Scope of Practice Expands

Minority Nurse

This means NPs can evaluate patients, diagnose, order, and interpret diagnostic tests, and initiate and manage treatments (including prescribing medications) under the licensing authority of the State Board of Nursing. Since 2023, 27 states and the District of Columbia have granted NPs full practice authority (AANP, 2023).