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Every 100 Grams Of Ultra Processed Foods Consumed Per Day Increases Risk Of Diseases

Forbes Healthcare

With every 100 grams of ultra-processed foods you consume each day, your risk of developing cardiovascular disease, hypertension, digestive diseases, and cancer increases.

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Underappreciated Harms of the Electronic Medical Record

Sensible Medicine

I did my residency at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. Some people think of it as The House of God , I think of it as the home of Open Notes. 1 Dr. Tom Delbanco was the chief of General Internal Medicine while I was there and was already advocating that patients have access to their medical records. He encouraged me to document clinic visits in notes that I’d be comfortable with my patients reading.

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Being Curious Might Help Keep Alzheimer’s Disease At Bay: Study

Forbes Healthcare

The secret to maintaining your brain health and staying sharp as you age might just be cultivating your sense of curiosity, a recent study found. Being curious during old age could also help in preventing or at least off-setting Alzheimers disease.

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Medical Malpractice: Physician Found Liable by Jury Gets New Trial After Appeal

Pulmonology Advisor - Practice Management

A pulmonologist sued for malpractice, found liable by a jury, and ordered to pay $2.7 million gets a new trial after appealing the decision; why does this happen? The post Medical Malpractice: Physician Found Liable by Jury Gets New Trial After Appeal appeared first on Pulmonology Advisor.

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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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Over 256,000 Pounds Of Canned Beef Stew Recalled Due To Wood Fragments

Forbes Healthcare

Hormel Foods Corporation is voluntarily recalling nationwide around 256,185 pounds of its Dinty Moore canned beef stew product after three consumers found wood fragments.

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Should You Be Worried If Your Doctor Uses ChatGPT?

Forbes Healthcare

I, for one, welcome our future AI-enhanced physicians.

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Best Buy restructures health unit

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

The retailer logged a $109 million charge related to the restructuring in its first quarter. Its home health services have taken longer to develop than expected, CEO Corie Barry said Thursday.

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Set it but check it: Avoiding the hidden risks of ambient listening in health care

Physicians Practice

AI-driven ambient listening tools show promise in health care but require careful oversight to ensure accurate documentation and patient safety.

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Providers could lose $770B in revenue if GOP megabill passes

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

And that’s not counting an almost $200 billion increase in uncompensated care — most of which would fall on hospitals, the Urban Institute and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation project.

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How to Become a Trauma-Informed Organization

Relias

Even when organizations dont directly engage with trauma, they are touched by it. The effects of trauma are present when employees call in sick. They are present when tensions build between staff and clients. And they are present when high turnover occurs and stretches budgets. Trauma-informed organizations change these painful patterns by acknowledging both the far-reaching effects of trauma and the many paths to heal it, becoming more effective in the process.

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[AI Health Leaders] Bill Gibson: Trust Over Tech In Healthcare AI

Arkenea

In our podcast series AI Health Leaders , we bring you exclusive insights from the trailblazers of digital health and AI innovation. Join us as we interview industry leaders, visionary founders, and top tech executives shaping the future of healthcare through artificial intelligence. In this episode, we speak to Bill Gibson , who is an experienced technical leader and has led engineering and product teams across startups and large companies.

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How to build a reasonable long-term investment portfolio

Medical Economics

Creating a plan and sticking to it is the key to investment success

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Practice Resources Agrees to $1.5 Million Data Breach Settlement

The HIPAA Journal

The New York-based management service organization, Practice Resources LLC, has agreed to pay $1.5 million to resolve a class action lawsuit that was filed in response to a 2022 hacking incident that affected more than 942,000 individuals. Syracuse, NY-based Practice Resources provides billing and other professional services to healthcare organizations.

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Health care workers are leaking patient data through AI tools, cloud apps

Medical Economics

Despite rising guardrails, health care workers continue using personal artificial intelligence and cloud apps often in ways that violate HIPAA and put patients trust at risk.

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Bradford Health Services Notifies Patients About 2023 Cyberattack

The HIPAA Journal

Data breaches have recently been announced by Bradford Health Services in Alabama, Doctors Hospital at Renaissance in Texas, and Molecular Testing Labs in Washington. Ransomware groups have claimed responsibility for attacks on Desert Behavioral Health in Nevada and Curewell Specialty Pharmacy & Surgicals in New York. Bradford Health Services, Alabama Bradford Health Services in Birmingham, Alabama, has issued a May 30, 2025, notice about a data security incident that was detected more than

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Autism research breakthroughs spawn innovative pediatric medical and behavioral care models

Medical Economics

Amid growing demand, primary care physicians find themselves on the front lines of autism detection and referral. Heres what they need to know about new developments in care.

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'We'll take care of that' – 5 words patients like to hear

Physicians Practice

Enhance patient satisfaction by prioritizing convenience and eliminating friction points in your practice, ensuring a seamless healthcare experience.

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Covenant Health Cyberattack Affecting New England Hospitals

The HIPAA Journal

Covenant Health, an Andover, ME-based Catholic healthcare provider serving New England and parts of Pennsylvania, is dealing with a cyberattack that has been causing connectivity issues across its network. The health system first started experiencing connectivity issues on May 26, 2025. The decision was taken to shut down data systems across the entire network, including at its hospitals, clinics, and provider practices.

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Independent practice losing ground to hospital, corporate, private equity ownership

Medical Economics

New data from the American Medical Association show percentages of physicians in private practice by specialty.

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High Severity Vulnerability Identified in Santesoft Sante DICOM Viewer Pro

The HIPAA Journal

A high severity vulnerability has been identified in Santesoft Sante DICOM Viewer Pro, a professional DICOM medical image viewer, anonymizer, converter, and DICOM CD/DVD creator. The memory corruption vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2025-5307, and is an out-of-bounds read issue, which means the product reads data before and after the beginning of the intended memory buffer.

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Inflation stabilized in April, but tariff effects have yet to be reflected

Medical Economics

Key inflation gauge increased 0.1% for the month, putting the annual rate at 2.

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OCR Settles HIPAA Investigation with Comstar for $75,000

The HIPAA Journal

The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has announced another settlement to resolve an alleged violation of the risk analysis requirement of the HIPAA Security Rule. This is the 9th enforcement action under its risk analysis enforcement initiative, the 13th ransomware-related enforcement action to result in a financial penalty, and the 16th financial penalty of the year to resolve alleged HIPAA violations.

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FDA grants De Novo Clearance for Reflow Medical's spur stent system

Medical Economics

Reflow Medical's Spur Stent System gains FDA clearance, offering treatment options for chronic limb-threatening ischemia with its retrievable design.

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On Other Channels.

Connect Care Bytes Blog

Below is a digest of new blog posts across all the Connect Care clinician blog channels in the last 2 weeks. For more info on the blogs, click here. General MyHealth.Alberta.

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Women physicians face bigger EHR burdens, study finds

Medical Economics

Women primary care physicians spend more time on portal messages and documentation and report higher levels of burnout and patient hostility than their male counterparts.

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The Prototype: China Tries To Attract The Researchers America Is Turning Away

Forbes Healthcare

In this weeks edition of The Prototype, we look at a 4-D approach to quantum computing, a drug combination that could lead to healthy aging and more.

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Building a strong online presence: 9 website strategies for primary care practices

Medical Economics

Enhancing patient engagement and practice growth through a good first impression online.

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HHS ramps up pressure on providers offering gender-affirming care for children

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

Experts worry the Trump administration is attempting to coerce hospitals into halting gender-affirming care, and that new guidance could have a chilling effect on services.

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President Trump declares May 'National Physical Fitness and Sports Month'; most Americans unaware that alcohol raises cancer risk; the security risks of RPM – Morning Medical Update

Medical Economics

The top news stories in medicine today.

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William Schaffner, M.D.: Our vaccination problem is an education problem

Medical Economics

An expert physician panel discusses how vaccine policy has gone wrong under the Trump administration, why misinformation has flourished and what individual physicians can do to win back patient trust.

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