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‘Blue Monday’ Falls On January 20 In 2025. What Does This Mean?

Forbes Healthcare

The third Monday of each January has been dubbed "Blue Monday," known as the most depressing day of the year. But is this actually the case?

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States have the power to influence health care

KevinMD.com

Individual states in the United States can significantly shape key health care areas through policy. In early 2024, aKKF analysis indicated that Americans collectively held around $220 billion in medical debt. North Carolina has one of thehighest percentages of adults facing medical debt, at 13.4 percent. On July 1, 2024, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper Read more States have the power to influence health care originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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PBMs Under Fire Again, But Despite Bipartisan Pressure Reforms May Be Elusive

Forbes Healthcare

As Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission, ends her tenure this week the FTC posted a second report in six months critical of pharmacy benefit managers.

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Why Nurse Leader Engagement Matters

Emerging RN Leader

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC A nurse leader recently told me how nurse engagement in her units had plummeted. She needed to put together an action plan, but she was wise enough to see the link between what was happening with her units and her behavior. She shared the following story: I feel […] The post Why Nurse Leader Engagement Matters appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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How to Start Virtual Care the Right Way: A Proven Roadmap for 2025 and Beyond

Speaker: Dr. Christine Gall, DrPH, MS, BSN, RN

The promise of virtual care is no longer theoretical and is now a critical solution to many of healthcare’s most urgent challenges. Yet many healthcare leaders remain unsure how to build a business case for investment and launching the right program at the right time can be the difference between value and failure. For organizations seeking a financially sound, clinically effective entry point, Virtual Patient Observation (VPO) offers a compelling case to lead with.

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Trust and Grievance in 2025: The Edelman Trust Barometer on MLK Jr. Day Converging with the World Economic Forum Kick-Off and the Next U.S. President’s Inauguration

Health Populi

At the start of each new year comes the World Economic Forum meet-up in Davos , Switzerland and with that conference start today, 20 January 2025, the publication of the Edelman Trust Barometer. Now in the study’s 25th annual edition, the Edelman Trust Barometer this year finds us, globally, in a Crisis of Grievance which is eroding trust. Edelman surveyed 1,150 residents (plus or minus) in each of 28 countries around the world, yielding over 33,000 citizens’ voices sharing perspecti